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1928 


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

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


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly  3 

The  President's  Page 

DR.  McCAIN  DISCUSSES  THE  AGNES  SCOTT  CAMPAIGN 

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

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

Administration-Recitation    Building $300,000 

Gaines  Memorial  Chapel '. 125,000 

Steam  Plant  and   Laundry 125,000 

Day  Student  Club  House 25,000 

Land  and  Improvements 115,000 

Paving,  Sewers,  and  Steam  Lines 25,000 

Permanent  Equipment 25,000 

Endowment  and  Scholarships 260,000 


Total $1,000,000 

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

New  Dormitory  and  Dining  Room $100,000 

(Replacing  White  House) 

Fine  Arts  Building  and  Auditorium 100,000 

Additional    Endowment    and    Scholarships 300,000 


Total $500,000 

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

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

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


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4  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

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

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

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

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

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


NEWS  FROM  THE  FRENCH  DEPARTMENT 

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ON  THE  CAMPUS 

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


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

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

Freshmen 157 

Sophomores 99 

Juniors    85 

Seniors 91 

Unclassified 11 

Total 443 

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

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

STUNT  NIGHT 

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

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

FRENCH  STUDENT 

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


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

LECTURE  ASSOCIATION 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


FACULTY  NOTES 

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

From  The  Alumnae  Office 


"The  World  Does  Move" 

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

From    Old    Trunks    and    Mothballs 

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

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

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


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

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

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

Fascinating    Reading 

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


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Mortarboards  and  Robes 

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

"—And  We  Don't  Mean  May-Be!" 

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

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

We  Boast  Alumni 

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


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

Agnes   Scott   at   Montreat 

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


10 


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


NECROLOGY 

Recent  Deaths 

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

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

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

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

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

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


"LOST   SISTERS" 

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

Anna  Daum  (Mrs.  Henshaw),  Atlanta. 

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

Ruth  Harwell  (married),  Mississippi. 

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

Hatty  Mims    (married),  Montana. 

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

College 

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

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

Ex  '24 — Rosalie  Long,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

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

Ex  '15 — Isabel  Norwood,  New  York  City. 

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


ACADEMY  ALUMNAE  NEWS 

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

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

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

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

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

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


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


11 


Concerning  Ourselves 


Graduates: 


1889-1906 


1897 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

1900 

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

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

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

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

1903 

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

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

1907 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

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

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

1908 

Next    class    reunion,    1930. 

Graduates: 

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


ing the  students  of  former  years,  so  often 

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1910 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Graduates: 

Flora    (Crowe)    Whitmire    writes    from 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1912 

Next   class   reunion,   1931. 

Graduates: 

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

yet. 

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

Graduates: 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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


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1914 

Next  class   reunion,   1932. 

Graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

1915 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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


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17 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary  (West)  Thatcher  drives  out  to  the 


Alumnae  House  occasionally  with  her  two 
handsome  little  sons. 

Non-graduates : 

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

1916 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Graduates : 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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into  the  high  fifth  grade. 

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next  class   reunion,   1932. 

Graduates: 

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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Regina  back  to  Georgia  for  the  rest  of 
the  summer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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


Morrow,    Wheeling,    W.   Va. 

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

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

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

Graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

Gi-aduates: 

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

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


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


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

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

Goldie  Ham  visited  Agnes  Scott  during 
the  summer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Hello!  Girls  nineteen-one-nine, 

Are  you  going  to  cause  the  salty  brine 

To  flow  from  these  two  eyes  of  mine? 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

Ruth  Hillhouse  is  studying  to  be  a  mis- 
sionary. • 

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

1920 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eleanor  Carpenter  writes  of  her  sum- 
mer: "In  July  I  had  a  brief  visit  from 
Mary  Barton.  She  has  been  to  a  conven- 
tion in  Indiana  and  stopped  with  me  for 
one  day  on  her  way  back  to  Baltimore. 
Caroline  Agee  came  to  visit,  too,  and  we 
did  have  gorgeous  times  on  the  river — 
swimming,  sailing,  canoeing,  and  motor- 
boating.  Between  swimming  and  practic- 
ing on  my  music  five  hours  a  day  I  am  a 
busy  woman.  Did  you  ever  see  an  Agnes 
Scotter  who  isn't  chronically  busy?  I 
think  we  acquire  both  the  habit  and  the 
taste  for  constant  busyness.  My  profes- 
sion  now    is    would-be   harpist.      I    am   a 


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semi-professional  and  am  fortunate  enough 
to  have  a  really  famous  teacher.  This  work 
takes  all  my  time  and  is  a  constant  joy." 
Could  Eleanor  be  persuaded  to  box  up 
her  precious  harp  and  bring  it  with  her 
to  reunion  next  May? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Rachel  (Rushton)  Upham  is  living  at 
200  9th  Ave.,  N.,  St.  Petersburg,  Fla.  Does 
anybody  ever  hear  from  Rachel  any  more  ? 
Please  send  in  some  news  from  her.  The 
class  secretary  swamps  her  with  letters  in 
vain.  Of  course  a  baby  takes  time,  but 
other  people  have  them  too,  and  still  man- 
age to  write. 


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Margaret  Wade  spent  the  summer  in  the 
valley  of  Virginia.  She  wrote:  "You  have 
perhaps  forgotten  how  nice  it  is  to  be 
at  home  and  not  have  to  live  by  the  ring- 
ing of  a  bell.  All  winter,  nine  o'clock  in 
morning  means  it  is  time  to  begin  the 
Caesar  lesson.  I  won't  tell  you  what  I  am 
usually  doing  at  nine  o'clock  now.  The 
last  of  June  I  helped  teach  in  a  daily  vaca-  ■ 
tion  Bible  school  about  five  miles  from  here 
and  found  it  to  be  interesting  work.  Mr. 
Hanna  is  a  very  energetic  man  (this  is 
Peg  Bell's  husband)  and  keeps  things 
pretty  lively.  I  am  going  to  be  at  the 
Montreat  Normal  School  next  winter  and 
from  all  I  hear  I  think  it  must  be  a  lovely 
place  to  teach.  I  certainly  shall  miss  see- 
ing Fan  every  Sunday,  and  our  visits  dur- 
ing the  week  I  think  I  shall  miss  even 
more.  We  almost  had  a  reunion  at  church 
yesterday.  Margaret  (McLaughlin)  Hogs- 
head, and  Ellen  Wilson  were  there,  besides 
Peg  (Bell)  Hanna  and  me.  I  wish  more  of 
you  lived  in  the  valley." 

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

Julia  McCullough  is  studying  at  Duke 
University  this  winter. 

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

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

1922 

Next  class  reunion,  1929— THIS  MAY! 

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


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

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

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

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

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

Mary  Floding  visited  Elizabeth  Wilson 
in  New  York  in  October. 

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

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

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

Frances  Harper  writes  from  305  St. 
Charles  St.,  Baton  Rouge,  La.:  "I  am  very 
pleasantly  located  here  with  one  of  the 
other  High  School  teachers,  and  enjoying 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laurie  Belle  Stubbs  is  taking  a  year  off 


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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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son,  Melbourne   Hotel,   St.   Louis,   Mo. 

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

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

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

1923 

Next  class  reunion,  1929— THIS  MAY! 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jerry  Goodroe  writes  from  Schenectady, 
N.  Y.:  "I  love  the  aeroplane  view  of  Agnes 
Scott  that  I  received  from  the  alumnae 
office  today.  I  have  thumbtacked  it  up 
in  my  classroom  to  inspii'e  my  ninth  grade 
girls  to  higher  things.  The  north  has  'got' 
me,  I  am  afraid.  I  am  keeping  house  this 
year — have  a  darling  little  apartment,  do 
all  my  cooking,  and  love  it.  Helen  (Bates) 
Law,  '26,  sings  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  choir  here,  next  door  to  where  I 
live,  so  I've  turned  Presbyterian  in  order 


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to  bask  in  reflected  glory.  I  see  her  very 
often.  I  'don't  know  much  class  news 
except  that  Susye  (Minis)  Lazenby  and 
Skinny  (Seagle)  Courtney  both  have 
precious  baby  girls  they  are  raising  for 
Agnes  Scott."  Jerry's  apartment  is  locat- 
ed at  211   Union  Street,   Schenectady. 

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

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

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

Frances  Harwell  is  teaching  again  in 
Atlanta. 

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary  Stone  is  doing  stenographic  work 
in  Danville,  Ky. 

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

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

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

1924 

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

Graduates: 

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Gwynne  Cannon  is  teaching  in  Thomas- 
ville,  Ga. 

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

Beulah  Davidson  is  teaching  again  at 
Tate,  Ga.     She  comes  down  for  frequent 


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week-ends  at  the  Alumnae  House. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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and  is  one  of  the  outstanding  members  of 
her  class. 

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

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

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


right  now." 

Non-graduates: 

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

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

Maude  Boyd  lost  her  mother  this  sum- 
mer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1925 
Next  class  reunion,  1930. 
Graduates: 

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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

Elizabeth  Blalock  is  teaching  in  Alex- 
andria,  Va. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sallie  Horton  traveled  through  the  east 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Frances    (Tennent)    Ellis   and  her  hus- 

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

Anna  Mae  Dieckmann  is  teaching  in 
Douglas,    Ariz. 

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1926 

Next   class   reunion,   1930. 

Graduates: 

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

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

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

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

Margaret    Bull    is    teaching    again    at 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary  Ella  Hammond  was  married  on 
September  29th  at  twilight  to  Mr.  Emmett 
S.  McDowell  at  the  Presbyterian  church 
in  Griffin,   Ga.     The  ceremony   was   very 


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

Gladys  Harbaugh  studied  at  Columbia 
University  during  the  summer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ruth    Liggin   is   teaching   again   at   the 


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

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

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

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

Helen  Clark  Martin  spent  the  summer 
in  Europe. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nellie  Richardson  is  teaching  again  in 
Warrenton,  Ga. 

Susan  Shadburn  was  married  on  August 


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

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

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

Katherine  Speights  is  teaching  at  Mor- 
ristown,  Tenn. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

Eunice  Bird  is  teaching  in  Chattanooga. 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Betty  Malone  has  moved  to  Texas. 

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

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

Susan  Rose  worked  in  the  library  at 
Teachers  College  in  New  York  during  the 
summer.  She  writes:  "It  was  a  wonderful 
experience  and  I  loved  it  all  very  much. 


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We  stayed  in  an  apartment  on  Riverside 
Drive  that  had  a  porch  so  we  could  really 
enjoy  the  Hudson  breezes.  Met  up  with 
Emilie  (Ehrlich)  Strasburger  in  New  York. 
I  shall  be  back  in  Rocky  Mount,  N.  C, 
teaching  this  winter." 

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

Rebekah  Skeen  is  working  in  Atlanta 
and  living  at  home. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next  class   reunion,   1930. 

Graduates : 

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

Evelyn  Albright  is  teaching  again  at 
Chipley,  Ga. 

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Catherine  Mitchell  is  teaching  again  in 
Kissimmee,  Fla. 

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

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

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

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

Stella  Pitman  is  going  to  library  school 
in  Atlanta. 

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

Miriam  Preston  writes  from  Korea  that 
she  has  already  made  definite  plans  for  her 
trip  back  to  the  states  next  summer.  The 
Prestons  spent  the  summer  alternating  be- 
tween the  mountains  and  the  little  Korean 
island  that  they  own.  It  has  a  half  moon 
beach  on  each  side  of  the  island  and  is  a 
perfect  place  for  a  vacation. 


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

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

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

Elizabeth    Sanders    is    teaching    at    Na- 


coochee  Institute  in  the  North  Georgia 
mountains. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth  Vary  is  taking  a  business 
course. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-graduates: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1928 

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

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


diploma  and  departed  for  fresh  fields  and 
pastures    new  ? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack  Anderson  is  church  secretary  for 


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

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

Myrtle  Bledsoe  is  teaching  at  Newnan, 
Georgia. 

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

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

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

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

Patricia  Collins  is  studying  law  at 
Emory  University. 

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louise  Girardeau  lost  her  father  during 
June. 

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mildred  Jennings  is  at  home  in  Augusta, 
Georgia. 

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

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

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

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

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


League's  prizes  for  the  best  one-act  and 
three-act  plays  written  during  the  year 
at  Agnes  Scott.  The  one-act  prize  winner, 
"Slick  Talk,"  was  produced  by  the  Black- 
friars  in  February,  but  the  three-act  one, 
"Mandy's  Mansion,"  has  not  yet  seen  pro- 
duction. 

Anna  Knight  and  Sarah  White  were  in 
New  York  together  for  a  while  during  the 
summer. 

Virginia  May  Love  is  teaching  in  Bar- 
tow, Fla. 

Ruth  Evans  Masengill  is  librarian  at 
Fairmount  School  in  Bristol,  Tenn. 

Alma  Metcalfe  is  teaching  at  Mitchell 
School,  Misenheimer,  N.  C. 

Mary  McAlily  is  teaching  at  Cowpens, 
South   Carolina. 

Anna  Mae  McCollum  is  teaching  all  four 
years  of  high  school  Latin  and  three 
classes  of  English  at  Baconton,  Ga. 

Mary  Bell  McConkey  is  going  to  library 
school  in  St.  Louis.  She  writes:  "I  got 
so  homesick  for  Agnes  Scott  today  that  I 
went  down  in  the  newspaper  room  of  the 
public  library  here  and  read  a  whole  stack 
of  Atlanta  Constitutions.  The  only  familiar 
name  was  Mary  Knox's — she  was  having 
parties  given  for  her  in  every  issue.  I 
can't  wait  to  see  the  first  Quarterly,  with 
news  of  the  '28  girls,  but  our  philosophical 
cook  says  that  the  only  things  that  really 
happen  to  people  are  birth,  marriage  and 
death,  so  we  may  need  a  few  years  to  get 
going!  I  am  excited  over  the  prospect  of 
seeing  a  World  Series  of  baseball  here 
maybe.  We  are  all  hopeless  fans  at  my 
house,  and  I  can  even  compete  with  the 
little  boys  in  the  neighborhood  when  it 
comes  to  giving  the  players'  batting  aver- 
ages, etc.  I  was  at  Agnes  Scott  a  few 
minutes  this  summer  on  my  way  from 
visiting  Nell  and  on  the  way  to  Mary 
Weems." 

Mary  Jane  McCoy  went  to  Canada  in 
October  on  a  big  fishing  and  hunting  trip. 
Many  hip  boots  and  hunting  clothes! 

Janet  MacDonald  writes:  "Mother  has 
been  so  sick  all  summer  that  I  felt  I  could 
not  go  as  far  away  as  Chicago,  where  I 
had  planned  to  study,  so  I  am  working 
here  in  Greensboro,  N.  C,  as  church  host- 
ess at  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the 
Covenant."  Janet  came  to  Agnes  Scott 
to  make  the  Hoasc  announcements  on  Oc- 
tober 6th  and  to  see  the  Freshman-Sopho- 
more stunts  that  night.  Janet  says  she 
lives  only  a  block  from  Isabel  Ferguson, 
'25,  and  sees  her  often. 

Elizabeth  McEntire  is  working  at  the 
State  Board  of  Health  Laboratory  in  At- 
lanta. 

Gwendolyn  McKinnon  is  teaching  the 
3rd  grade  at  Hickory,  N.  C. 

Eliot  May  McLellon  is  doing  secretarial 
work  at  Lansdowne,  Pa.     Her  address  is 


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107   Lansdowne   Avenue. 

Bayliss  McShane  writes:  "No  news  from 
me.  I'm  not  getting  married  or  going 
to  Europe  or  teaching  school — they  seem 
to  be  the  usual  things  for  good  alumnae 
to  do.  Am  spending  most  of  my  time 
being  sick.  Have  lost  ten  pounds  (and 
you  know  I  couldn't  do  that!)  so  I've  de- 
cided to  let  my  family  support  me  this 
fall.  Unemployment  is  so  general  I  can't 
get  a  look-in." 

Julia  Napier  is  working  with  the  Depart- 
ment of  Education  at  the  Georgia  State 
capital.  She  is  specializing  in  plans  for 
rural    schools. 

Virginia  Norris  is  teaching  grammar 
school  in  Greenville,  S.  C. 

Martha  Lou  Overton  is  working  with 
the  Southern  Bell  Telephone  Company  in 
Atlanta. 

Virginia  Owen  is  assistant  manager  of  a 
Huyler's  Candy  Store  and  Tea  Room  in 
Massachusetts. 

Evangeline  Papageorge  is  doing  work 
in  the  laboratory  at  the  Emory  University 
medical    school. 

Mary  Perkinson  is  teaching  Latin  in 
Wadley,  Ga.  Perk  came  back  to  Agnes 
Scott  for  Hoasc  and  stunt  night. 

The  Ramage  twins  write:  "We  have 
crashed  the  gate  of  New  York's  business 
world,  both  found  jobs,  and  have  no  il- 
lusions left."  A  friend  of  theirs  who  is 
wintering  away  from  New  York  turned 
over  her  apartment  at  310  W.  95th  Street 
to  them  and  they  are  enjoying  themselves 
thoroughly — illusions  or  no  illusions. 

Margaret  Rice  has  been  visiting  Mildred 
Greenleaf  and  Polly  Irvine  at  Agnes  Scott 
during  September  and  October  and  realiz- 
ing what  a  heavenly  place  A.  S.  C.  is 
when  you  don't  have  to  rush  and  get  up 
assignments. 

Martha  Riley's  engagement  has  been 
announced  to  Mr.  Morris  Holt  Stephenson, 
of  Atlanta. 

Mary  Riviere  is  studying  music  in  New 
York.  Mary  lives  in  a  French  convent  at 
225  W.  14th  St.,  where  the  conversation 
and  the  cooking  is  all  in  French  and  equal- 
ly divine. 

Elizabeth  Roark  is  teaching  science  in 
the  Junior  High  School  in  Union  City, 
Tenn.     She  has  six  classes  each  day. 

Elizabeth  Ruff  spent  part  of  the  summer 
at  their  lovely  home  in   Montreat,   N.   C. 

Mary  Sayward  is  substituting  in  the 
Decatur  High   School. 

Virginia  Skeen  is  working  in  Atlanta. 
Her  little  sister,  Elizabeth,  is  a  Fresh- 
man this  fall.  "Our  family  motto  seems 
to  be,"  say  Augusta,  '17;  Rebekah,  ex  '27; 
Virginia,  '28,  and  Elizabeth,  '32,  "Never  a 
year  without  a  Skeen  at  Agnes  Scott." 

Florence  Smith  was  married  on  June  12 
at  the  church  of  the  Epiphany  in  Atlanta 


of  which  her  father  is  rector,  to  Mr.  John 
Harrison  Wright.  Her  sister,  Charlotte, 
'25,  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Frances 
Hargis,  and  Martha  Riley  were  brides- 
maids. During  the  summer  the  Wrights 
lived  at  Sautee,  Ga.,  where  Mr.  Wright 
taught  at  Nacoochee,  Institute,  but  in  Oc- 
tober they  passed  through  Atlanta  on 
their  way  to  Mexico,  where  they  will  make 
their  home. 

Ann  Todd  visited  in  California  and 
Alaska  during  the  summer  and  is  spend- 
ing the  winter  with  an  aunt  in  St.  Louis. 

Josephine  Walker  is  at  home  in  Summer- 
ville,  S.  C. 

Georgia  Watson  is  studying  economics 
at  the  University  of  Chicago.  She  came  by 
Agnes  Scott  in  September,  met  Miss  Gay- 
lord  here,  and  the  two  of  them  went  on 
together.  Georgia's  address  is  6030 
Greenwood  Ave.,  Chicago. 

Sarah  White  is  working  in  the  Emory 
University  library. 

Non-graduates: 

Pearl  Corrie  Carter  was  married  Sep- 
tember 8th  to  Mr.  R.  Graham  White.  They 
are  living  at  1270  Willow  Ave.,  Louis- 
ville,   Ky. 

Nancy  Crowther,  who  stayed  with  '28 
almost  to  the  "bitter  end,"  but  deserted 
their  Senior  year  to  study  in  Paris,  is 
at  home  again  and  will  make  her  debut  in 
Savannah  this  winter.  Rowena  Runnette, 
who  was  with  Nancy  in  France  last  year, 
has  returned  to  Agnes  Scott  and  will 
graduate  with  the  class  of  '29. 

Lillian  LeConte  and  her  mother  spent 
the  summer  in  Europe. 

Emily  Watkins  was  married  September 
11th  to  Mr.  Brice  Cain,  of  Jackson,  Miss. 

Florida  Richard  was  married  on  June 
10th  at  the  home  of  her  sister  in  Decatur 
to  Lieut.  Commander  James  Kepler  Davis, 
an  Anapolis  graduate  in  the  class  of  '16. 
They    are    living   in    Bethlehem,    Pa. 

Christine  Wolfle  is  doing  clerical  work  in 
Atlanta. 


AS  THIS  GOES  TO  PRESS— 

We  have  just  received  an  announcement 
that  is  of  such  widespread  interest  to 
alumnae  that  we  must  squeeze  it  in  this 
issue,  even  though  its  importance  merits 
for  it  a  more  prominent  place  than  this 
last-minute  writing  can  give.  Professor 
and  Mrs.  C.  W.  Dieckmann  announce  the 
birth  on  October  29th  at  Wesley  Memorial 
Hospital  of  Adele  Dieckmann,  an  exquisite 
little  dark-haired  daughter,  weighing  six 
and  a  half  pounds.  Mrs.  Dieckmann,  for 
several  years  a  member  of  the  English 
faculty,  is  also  a  member  of  the  class  of 
'13,  and  a  past  president  of  the  Alumnae 
Association. 


"A  liberal  college  succeeds  only  in  so 
far  as  it  develops  in  its  students  some  per- 
manent  intellectual  interest." 

Are  your  lives  as  alumnae  proving  the 
success  of  your  years  as  college  students? 


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Agnes  Scott's  Million  Dollar  Building 
and  Development  Campaign  Goes 
Merrily  On ! 


We  have   raised   by  January  1,  1929, 

$511,000 


We  must  raise   by  May  1,  1929, 

$489,000 


Agnes  Scott9 s  Future 

Is  In    Your  Hands! 


THE  PRESIDENT'S  PAGE 

CAMPAIGN  PROGRESS  AND  AN  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  CAMPUS  CAMPAIGN 

Since  the  last  Quarterly,  we  have  had  some  of  the  most  delightful  "campaigning" 
which  any  college  has  ever  enjoyed.  It  is  always  stimulating  to  see  a  piece  of  work 
done  exceptionally  well,  particularly  if  the  work  lies  very  close  to  your  heart;  and 
lhat  is  what  happened  in  our  Campus  Campaign. 

As  all  the  Alumnae  know,  we  are  in  the  midst  of  a  strenuous  effort  to  secure  ad- 
ditional land,  buildings  and  equipment  for  Agnes  Scott.  We  have  been  working  and 
saving  and  quietly  campaigning  on  this  program  for  more  than  two  years,  but  the 
Trustees  formally  announced  and  opened  the  campaign  last  commencement.  The  whole 
amount  is  for  $1,000,000;  and  we  are  asking  the  General  Education  Board  of  New  York 
to  add  to  this  sum  if  we  are  successful  in  reaching  our  goal. 

The  urgency  of  our  efforts  this  session  was  due  to  the  offer  by  Mr.  J.  T.  Lupton  of 
Chattanooga  of  $50,000  if  we  would  bring  the  total  of  our  pledges  or  improvements 
to  $500,000  by  January  1,  1929.     It  was  too  good  an  offer  to  let  go. 

As  we  have  frequently  heard,  times  are  hard;  and  it  looked  very  much  as  if  we 
could  not  reach  the  half  million  mark,  but  when  the  prospects  seemed  most  gloomy,  the 
Campus  Campaign  turned  the  tide  for  us  with  a  brilliant  victory. 

Under  the  capable  leadership  of  Miss  Llewellyn  Wilburn  ('19)  and  her  committee 
of  faculty  and  students,  plans  were  made  for  taking  the  subscriptions  on  the  campus 
the  latter  part  of  November.  The  selection  of  a  goal  was  the  first  problem.  In  1919 
when  a  similar  effort  was  made,  we  had  chosen  a  quota  of  $15,000  and  and  we  had  ac- 
tually subscribed  $22,000.  This  time  it  was  finally  agreed  to  try  for  $40,000,  hoping 
by  sacrifice  to  reach  that  goal.  It  was  agreed,  however,  that  the  chief  feature  of  the 
effort  would  be  to  have  each  person  take  some  part. 

The  campaign  was  started  with  an  unusual  luncheon  in  the  big  gymnasium.  For  the 
first  time  in  the  history  of  the  College,  all  the  boarders,  day  students,  faculty  and  officers 
— about  600  in  all — took  lunch  together.  It  was  a  very  beautiful  and  impressive  oc- 
casion. The  objects  of  the  campaign  were  explained  and  brief  messages  given  by  trus- 
tees, alumnae,  faculty,  and  students.     This  was  on  November  13. 

The  Faculty  Committee  arranged  for  an  airplane  race  down  the  long  hall  of  Main 
Building  to  indicate  progress  being  made  by  the  four  classes  and  by  the  faculty;  but 
actual  figures  were  not  given  out  until  chapel  time  on  November  22.  I  did  not  even 
know  myself  what  the  totals  would  be,  though  all  of  us  were  aware  that  sacrificial  effort 
was  being  made;  and  students  had  taken  up  with  parents  the  question  as  what  they 
might    properly   give. 

There  was  great  excitement  at  chapel  on  the  morning  when  the  final  tabulations 
were  made,  some  of  the  trustees  and  alumnae  coming  out  to  hear  the  news  as  soon 
as  possible.  Each  group  or  class  made  its  report  to  Miss  Wilburn  in  a  sealed  envelope; 
and  as  she  opened  each  one  and  read  it  in  the  public  meeting  the  atmosphere  was  so  tense 
that  one  scarcely  breathed. 

The  results  were  gratifying  beyond  our  fondest  hopes.  At  the  very  first  summary, 
the  subscriptions  totaled  over  $77,000;  and  when  they  were  finally  tabulated  they  were 
as  follows: 

Campus  organizations $    3,308.00 

Freshmen 7,017.25 

Sophomores   11,555.50 

Juniors    8,501.00 

Seniors 22,691.00 

Faculty    25,463.50 

Total $78,536.25 


4  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

The  best  part  of  it  all  was  that  there  was  absolutely  ONE  HUNDRED  PER 
CENT  pledging  on  the  part  of  students  and  faculty  alike.  It  was  truly  a  wonderful 
victory  for  the  College  and  all  its  friends. 

Encouraged  by  this  fine  achievement,  our  workers  pressed  ahead  and  we  were  able 
to  announce  on  January  1  that  we  have  $511,000  toward  our  Million  Dollar  Goal.  You 
may  be  sure  that  we  are  very  happy. 

We  have  now  reached  the  real  test  of  our  Campaign.  The  "easy  money"  has 
been  gotten  from  trustees,  patrons,  faculty,  students,  and  local  alumnae.  We  are  facing 
the  question,  "Where  can  we  find  $489,000  that  separates  us  from  success — and  opens 
the  way  for  us  to  approach  the  General  Education  Board?"  The  answer  must  in  large 
measure  be,  "Our  loyal  Alumnae  who  are  scattered  everywhere!" 

Even  before  this  Quarterly  comes  to  those  who  are  farthest  away,  we  shall  be  send- 
ing details  of  the  campaign  to  such  as  we  cannot  reach  by  personal  visits.  Alumnae  who 
do  not  live  far  away  or  those  who  are  in  places  with  a  number  of  other  Agnes  Scotters, 
we  hope  to  get  together  in  groups  for  discussion;  but  the  time  is  short  for  much  personal 
work,  as  we  feel  that  we  must  make  our  showing  to  the  General  Education  Board  by 
May  1st.  We  need  the  help  of  every  Alumna  to  the  fullest  extent  possible.  Don't  let 
us  by  any  chance  omit  you.  We  want  100  per  cent  of  Alumnae,  as  of  Trustees,  Faculty, 
Officers,  and  Students.     Please  let  us  know  if  you  do  not  get  the  literature  and  blanks. 

We  also  need  suggestions  as  to  the  mistakes  that  we  may  be  making,  or  as  to 
persons  of  means  whom  we  ought  to  enlist.  We  can  win  in  this  campaign,  but  it  will 
take  the  interest  and  work  and  prayers  of  us  all. 


FOUNDERS'  DAY  CELEBRATION,  FEBRUARY  22 

Our  fourth  annual  radio  program  will  be  broadcast  over  WSB,  the  Atlanta  Journal, 
Atlanta,  Georgia,  on  the  night  of  February  22,  Founders'  Day. 

Our  holiday  and  formal  dinner  and  dance  at  the  college  on  Founders'  Day  were  not 
enough  of  a  celebration,  for  Agnes  Scott  feels  that  only  a  part  of  the  college  is  touched 
unless  we  can  get  the  alumnae  to  take  part,  too.  Every  year  a  large  number  of  alumnae 
come  back  to  the  college  for  Founders'  Day.  It  falls  on  Friday  this  year,  so  the  Alumnae 
House  will  probably  be  full  of  "old  girls"  over  that  week-end.  But  even  with  dozens 
of  the  alumnae  back  on  the  campus,  we  still  felt  that  it  was  not  enough,  for  to  celebrate 
rightly  we  must  have  with  us  all  those  other  alumnae  scattered  so  far.  Four  years  ago 
we  had  our  first  radio  program  on  Founders'  Day,  linking  together  all  over  the  country 
the  alumnae  and  other  friends  of  Agnes  Scott. 

Mr.  Lambdin  Kay,  nationally  known  announcer  at  WSB,  has  always  been  lovely  in 
helping  Agnes  Scott  arrange  an  hour  for  the  broadcast,  and  this  year  he  has  given  us 
the  splendid  hour  of  7  P.  M.  central  time.  Radio  stations  are  so  tied  up  in  the  national 
network,  that  a  reasonable  hour  is  not  so  easy  to  get,  and  we  are  very  grateful  to  Mr.  Kay. 

The  Atlanta  and  Decatur  alumnae  and  their  husbands  will  celebrate  that  evening 
with  a  banquet  at  the  Atlanta  Biltmore  Hotel.  Dr.  McCain,  Miss  Hopkins,  and  other 
members  of  the  faculty  will  be  their  guests  for  the  evening,  and  the  program  of  speeches 
and  music  from  the  college  glee  club  will  be  broadcast  directly  from  the  banquet  hall. 

There  will  be  dinners  and  informal  gatherings  in  practically  every  city  and  town 
in  the  country  where  there  are  a  number  of  Agnes  Scott  alumnae,  and  "singletons"  who 
uphold  alone  the  name  of  Agnes  Scott  in  distant  cities,  many  smaller  towns  and  rural 
communities,  will  be  listening  in  and  singing  "Flottentot"  none  the  less  vigorously  be- 
cause they  sing  it  alone. 

Again  we  ask  you  to  telegraph  to  Miss  Hopkins  or  Dr.  McCain  when  the  program 
begins  coming  in,  for  one  of  the  very  nicest  parts  of  the  programs  on  previous  years  has 
been  hearing  from  the  distant  alumnae  and  having  their  greetings  relayed  over  the 
air.  Address  telegrams  to  WSB  Radio  Station,  Atlanta  Biltmore  Hotel  Studio,  At- 
lanta, Ga. 


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ON  THE  CAMPUS  CALENDAR 

Among  the  interesting  lectures  of  the  year  was  that  on  "University  Life  in  Paris 
in  the  Past  and  Present,"  by  M.  Auguste  Desclos,  a  leader  in  the  French  educational 
movement.  Last  year  M.  Desclos  was  entrusted  with  the  mission  as  special  enjoy  of  the 
Ministry  of  Education  in  Paris.  He  is  a  member  of  the  committee  of  four  Frenchmen 
sent  to  America  for  a  study  of  American  Universities,  and  is  in  charge  of  the  educational 
exchanges  between  France  and  the  United  States.  Introducing  M.  Desclos  at  his  lecture 
at  the  college  was  Mr.  Charles  Loridans,  French  consul  in  Atlanta,  a  Knight  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor,  and  the  husband  of  one  of  our  alumnae — Addie  Arnold. 

Dr.  Pierre  Porohoushikor,  former  state  councillor  of  Russia,  spoke  at  the  college  on 
December  6  on  "Soviet  Russia."  He  brought  out  the  methods  and  results  of  the  Soviet 
rule,  giving  a  clear  and  enlightening  description  of  his  own  experiences.  Dr.  Poro- 
houshikor has  recently  come  from  a  lecture  tour  of  the  larger  eastern  colleges  and 
universities. 

Mr.  Archie  Sinclair,  of  New  York  City,  talked  to  the  college  community  on  No- 
vember 26  on  "The  Making  of  Stained  Glass."  We  are  very  interested  in  the  subject  at 
Agnes  Scott  just  now  as  we  plan  for  our  new  Gaines  Memorial  chapel  and  its  rose 
window. 

Dr.  Alfred  dejonge,  professor  of  German  at  the  college  this  winter,  spoke  to  the 
Atlanta  alumnae  club  on  January  15  in  the  Alumnae  House  on  "The  German  Educational 
System."  This  is  a  mill  through  which  Dr.  dejonge  has  passed  himself,  and  his  talk  was 
intensely  interesting. 

Mrs.  Karl  Wilson  Baker,  Texas  poet,  lectured  and  read  one  evening  in  the  chapel  as 
a  number  on  the  regular  lecture  association  program.  Mrs.  Baker  was  a  guest  at  the 
Alumnae  House  for  several  days,  and  many  of  our  embryo  poets  among  the  students 
had  the  opportunity  of  meeting  her. 

Miss  Florence  Snow,  alumnae  secretary  of  Smith  College  and  president  of  the 
American  Alumni  Council,  was  a  guest  at  the  Alumnae  House  for  a  few  days  during 
January.  On  the  evening  of  January  9  she  spoke  to  a  group  of  college  and  university 
alumni  in  the  Alumnae  House  living  rooms  on  the  alumni's  relation  to  his  college  today. 
("Alumni"  is  used  to  include  "alumnae.")  Alumni  were  present  from  Johns  Hopkins, 
Smith,  Radclifre,  Vassar,  Wellesley,  Harvard,  North  Carolina,  Georgia,  Emory,  Wesleyan, 
Cornell,  Columbia,  Goucher,  Randolph-Macon,  Agnes  Scott,  and  many  other  colleges. 
The  Agnes  Scott  seniors  were  also  guests  for  the  lecture  and  the  informal  reception 
which  followed  Miss  Snow's  talk. 

The  Agnes  Scott  Choral  Society  presented  the  oratorio,  Handel's  "Messiah,"  on 
Sunday  afternoon,  January  13,  in  the  college  chapel.  It  is  customary  to  give  this  on 
the  Sunday  afternoon  before  the  Christmas  holidays,  but  on  account  of  the  early  closing 
of  the  college  with  flu,  the  date  was  changed. 

Cecil  Roberts,  brilliant  young  English  dramatist  and  novelist,  will  speak  at  the 
college  February  4,  at  8:30  P.  M.,  on  the  subject,  "What  Europe  Is  Thinking." 

Mr.  Roberts'  experiences  and  achievements  qualify  him  to  speak  with  authority  upon 
current  European  problems  and  their  bearing  upon  American  relations.  He  served  as 
official  war  correspondent  with  the  Grand  Fleet  and  the  British  Armies;  he  was  Director 
of  Overseas  Transport  in  the  War  Ministry;  he  held  for  five  years  the  editorship  of  the 
Nottingham  Journal,  when  he  was  the  youngest  editor  of  England's  oldest  daily  news- 
paper. As  fellow  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society  and  as  novelist  in  search  of  color 
and  material,  he  has  travelled  extensively.  He  has  at  various  times  conferred  with  the 
leading  politicians  of  Europe. 

Among  his  novels  are  "Scissors,"  "Sails  of  Sunset,"  "The  Love  Marriage,"  "Sagusto," 
and  "David  and  Diana."  His  plays  include  "A  Tale  of  Young  Lovers"  and  "The  Right 
to  Kiss." 

For  the  entire  week  of  February  4th,  the  college  will  have  as  its  guest  Dr.  Frank 


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Crossley  Morgan,  of  Augusta,  Ga.,  who  will  deliver  a  series  of  sermons  in  the  college 
chapel.  Dr.  Morgan,  son  of  Dr.  Campbell  Morgan,  has  been  at  Agnes  Scott  on  numerous 
other  occasions  and  has  won  a  warm  place  in  the  hearts  of  the  entire  college  community. 
Alumnae  from  Atlanta  and  Decatur  are  invited  to  come  out  to  hear  Dr.  Morgan  during 
the  week. 

Mrs.  Percy  V.  Pennybacker,  prominent  American  clubwoman,  historian,  and  press 
correspondent,  will  speak  on  "International  Relations  Viewed  From  the  Press  Gallery," 
on  February  11  in  the  gym-auditorium. 

The  last  number  on  the  season's  lecture  program  will  be  an  illustrated  talk  on  "Fly- 
ing Over  Pike's  Peak,"  by  Gilbert  McClurg,  on  March  7. 


CURRICULUM  CHANGES 

ALUMNAE,  READ  THIS  AND  WEEP! 

Can  you  hark  back  to  a  day  when  you  gnashed  your  teeth  over  Freshman  Latin? 
Did  you  ever  weep  miserably  over  Horner's  Method  and  the  irritating  intricacies  of 
logarithms  and  cosines?  Have  you  despairing  memories  of  bleak  hours  in  lab,  amid  fumes 
of  formaldehyde  or  the  mysterious  dinguses  sacred  to  experiments  in  physics?  Did  you 
ever  moan,  as  you  struggled  with  English  211,  "How  long,  O  Lord,  how  long?" 

To  one  of  these  questions,  at  least,  you  answer  a  heartfelt  "Yes."  Whether  you 
humbly  gave  thanks  for  D's,  or  nonchalantly  achieved  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  there  were  some 
courses  you  took  only  because  they  were  "required." 

Well,  hear  the  bitter  truth:  We  were  all  born  out  of  time.  If  only  we  had  lingered 
along  and  come  to  college  in  the  year  of  enlightenment  1929,  we'd  have  gnashed  fewer 
teeth  and  torn  less  hair.  As  it  is,  there  is  nothing  to  do  but  shed  a  rueful  tear  and 
rejoice  in  the  fortune  of  our  lucky  little  sisters. 

A  new  system  of  requirements  has  recently  been  approved  by  the  Curriculum  Com- 
mittee— a  system  which  will  allow  the  student  far  more  choice  in  the  arrangement  of 
courses  than  ever  before.  A  girl  who  has  a  bent  for  science  may  take  more  scientific 
studies  and  fewer  linguistic  ones.  A  girl  who,  on  the  other  hand,  finds  no  pleasure  in 
science  and  delights  in  language  and  literature,  may  avoid  math  and  escape  with 
only  one  laboratory  science.  Yet,  while  the  new  requirements  are  more  flexible, 
they  make  it  impossible  for  a  student  to  over-specialize,  and  provide  that  the  degree 
represent  a  varied  and  liberal  course  of  study. 

Some  of  the  more  important  features  of  the  new  system  (which  will  be  set  forth 
in  full  in  the  Bulletin  for  192  8-29,  off  the  press  in  March)   are  as  follows: 

Specific  requirements: 

English  101-102 — 6  semester  hours. 

Modern  language — 6  semester  hours. 

Bible — 6  semester  hours. 

Physiology  and  Hygiene — 2  semester  hours. 

Requirement  with  option  (5  out  of  the  7  groups  must  be  elected.  Six  or  8  hours 
must  be  a  laboratory  science) : 

Group  1 — Biology,  Physics,  or  Chemistry — 6  or  8  semester  hours. 

Group  II — English  Literature — 6  semester  hours. 

Group  III — History  or  Economics — 6  semester  hours. 

Group  IV — Mathematics — 6  semester  hours. 

Group  V — Psychology — 6  semester  hours. 

Group  VI — Greek  or  Latin — 6  semester  hours. 

Group  VII — Science  (not  elected  in  Group  I) — 6  semester  hours. 

In  general  the  changes  in  the  requirements  for  the  degree  will  reduce  the  number  of 
required  hours,  and  provide  more  options,  in  order  to  offer  to  each  student  a  course  suited 
as  nearly  as  possible  to  her  individual  aptitudes  and  tastes.  The  changes,  as  Mr.  Stukes 
stated  in  explaining  the  new  system  to  the  students,  are  in  line  with  the  tendencies  in 
the  leading  colleges  in  the  country. 


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SIGHTSEEING  WITH  A  DUCHESS 

By  ADELAIDE  CUNNINGHAM,   1911 

Last  summer  while  studying  at  Oxford  University,  I  came  up  to  London  to  do  a 
little  sightseeing.  Parliament  was  then  in  session  and  I  asked  a  bobby  how  to  get  to 
the  House  of  Commons. 

"You  cawn't  go  thar  until  Saturday — visitors'  day,"  he  informed  me.. 

It  was  Wednesday,  and  I  knew  that  parliament  was  to  be  prorogued  on  Friday.  I 
wanted  very  much  to  see  the  commons  in  sessions,  but  the  guide  book  declared  in  no 
uncertain  terms:  "Permission  to  be  present  at  the  debates  of  the  lower  house  can  be  ob- 
tained only  from  a  member  of  Parliament." 

A  bold  idea  seized  me.  I  dropped  into  the  mailbox  a  letter  special  delivery,  or  as 
they  say,  "express,"  to  Lady  Astor,  English  patron  saint  of  southern  girls. 

"Dear  Lady  Astor,"  it  read,  "I  am  an  American  girl  who  has  been  attending  summer 
school  at  Oxford,  and  inasmuch  as  I  am  a  teacher  of  English  and  history  (in  Atlanta, 
Ga.),  I  am  eager  to  see  Parliament  in  session.  I  should  appreciate  it  greatly  if  you  would 
secure  me  a  ticket  for  Friday." 

The  answer  came  early  Thursday  morning — a  penciled  note  bearing  the  seal  of 
the  House  of  Commons:  "Alas!  I  shall  not  be  here  Friday,  but  if  you  will  come  to  the 
house  at  11:30  and  ask  for  the  Duchess  of  Atholl — she  has  kindly  consented  to  get  you 
a  ticket  for  a  very  dull  debate.  I  am  really  sorry  to  miss  a  Georgia  girl.  Sincerely, 
Nancy  Astor." 

Now,  my  acquaintance  with  duchesses  was  limited  to  the  one  in  "Alice  in  Wonder- 
land," but  everyone  has  heard  of  the  Duchess  of  Atholl,  known  all  over  the  world  for 
her  Red  Cross  work  during  the  war,  and  now  parliamentary  secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Education.  Her  husband  is  one  of  the  leading  peers  of  Scotland,  and  is  descended  from 
Lord  George  Murray,  who  was  chief  general  to  Bonnie  Prince  Charlie. 

Friday  morning  I  came  again  to  Parliament  Square  with  its  roar  of  traffic  pouring 
from  Westminster  Bridge,  from  Whitehall,  and  from  the  exits  of  the  London  "Under- 
ground."    Again  I  asked  the  policemen  to  direct  me  to  the  House  of  Commons. 

"You  cawn't  go — "  he  began. 

"But  I  have  a  letter,"  I  said  quickly. 

That  seemed  to  change  the  face  of  the  matter,  and  he  pointed  to  St.  Stephen's  gate. 
Not  once  did  I  have  to  show  my  credentials,  for  the  magic  word  "letter"  seemed  to  be 
the  open  sesame,  and  the  guards  with  gleaming  halberds  and  swords  let  me  by. 

As  I  entered  St.  Stephen's  porch,  the  great  Westminster  hall  was  on  my  left  and 
before  me  was  St.  Stephen's  hall  through  which  I  passed  to  Central  Hall.  Here  an 
attendant  handed  me  a  card  on  which  I  wrote  my  own  name,  the  name  of  the  member 
I  wished  to  see,  and  the  purpose  of  my  visit. 

Central  Hall  is  octagonal  in  shape,  with  four  entrances  and  above  these  are  depicted 
in  mosaics  St.  George  of  England,  St.  David  of  Wales,  St.  Andrew  of  Scotland,  and  St. 
Patrick  of  Ireland. 

Soon  the  Duchess  of  Atholl  arrived.  After  filling  out  my  application  for  ad- 
mittance to  Parliament,  we  went  into  the  famous  lobby  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
which,  it  is  said,  in  times  of  political  excitement  is  more  interesting  than  the  house 
itself.  This  hall  was  filled  with  gentlemen  in  animated  conversation.  The  Duchess 
led  me  to  the  "lift"  which  took  us  to  the  ladies  gallery.  The  famous  "grille,"  or  screen, 
hiding  the  women  onlookers  had  been  removed  in  1917,  but  there  was  a  picture  of 
it  on  the  wall  in  the  corridor,  and  the  Duchess  declared  that  as  a  girl  she,  who  was  now 
a  member  of  that  august  body,  had  been  forced  to  listen  to  the  sessions  of  Parliament 
from  behind  that  barrier. 

The  ladies'  gallery  is  above  the  press  gallery  and  above  the  speaker,  facing  the 
entrance  of  the  long  rectangular  hall.  A  few  members  had  remained  for  the  closing 
day,  and  as  we  came  in  Major  Tryon,   the  Minister  of  Pensions,  was  speaking.     The 


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Duchess  explained  who  he  was,  where  the  Conservative  cabinet  seats  were,  and  pointed 
out  her  own  seat  which  she  occupied  as  Under  Minister  of  Education.  The  Liberals  sit 
together,  and  behind  them  are  seated  the  Laborites  and  Socialists.  She  also  pointed  out 
the  be-wigged  clerks  at  the  table  in  front  of  the  speaker,  and  the  Sergeant-at-Arms 
with  his  sword. 

We  left  the  Minister  of  Pensions  to  his  debate  for  a  while,  and  she  took  me  down 
to  a  lower  corridor,  where  on  the  panelled  walls  were  paintings  of  England's  early  kings 
and  their  courtiers.  There  was  one  which  showed  Sir  Thomas  More,  the  speaker,  refus- 
ing to  grant  a  subsidy  to  Henry  VIII  without  due  debate  in  the  house.  Another  paint- 
ing represents  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  being  commissioned  by  Queen  Elizabeth  to  sail  for 
America,  and  still  a  third  shows  King  John  granting  the  Magna  Charta.  Alfred  is  there, 
too,  fighting  the  Danes. 

The  Duchess  then  conducted  me  to  her  private  office,  through  the  libraries  of 
parliament,  and  out  on  the  river  terrace,  from  which  we  had  a  magnificent  view  of 
the  Thames,  and  on  to  Westminster  Hall.  After  visiting  this  hall,  where  so  many 
episodes  of  English  history  have  taken  place,  we  returned  to  the  ladies'  gallery,  and 
found  the  minister  of  pensions  still  trying  to  convince  his  opponents  that  the  pension 
system  was  "second  to  none,  not  even  excepting  that  of  the  United  States  of  America." 

The  Duchess  told  me  that  last  year  she  was  in  our  country,  and  she  particularly 
commented  on  the  beauty  and  impressiveness  of  our  colonial  architecture  as  typified  by 
Mount  Vernon.  After  a  few  minutes  she  went  out  in  search  of  tea,  which  we  had  in 
a  little  room  quite  near  the  ladies'  gallery.  We  talked  about  educational  methods,  and 
she  expressed  regret  that  more  English  history  was  not  taught  in  the  American  schools, 
since  English  history,  she  said,  was  really  our  own  up  to  the  seventeenth  century.  She  asked 
me  about  my  work  at  Oxford,  and  then  told  me  of  some  interesting  spots  in  London 
which  I  should  visit.  One  of  them  was  St.  Bartholomew's,  in  Smithfield,  the  oldest 
church  in  London  with  the  exception  of  the  chapel  in  the  tower. 

At  1:301  said  good-by  to  the  duchess.  Parliament  was  to  be  prorogued  at  2  o'clock, 
and  she  entered  the  House  of  Commons  to  take  her  place  on  the  floor,  while  I  returned 
to  the  ladies'  gallery  to  watch.  Just  as  the  clock  hands  pointed  to  the  hour  at  which 
the  house  was  to  adjourn  a  Scotch  member  raised  his  voice  from  the  Socialist  bench: 

"Your  sacred  hour  of  2  o'clock  and  nothing  is  done!  I  tell  you  these  people  did  not 
receive  their  pensions!" 

Amid  the  confusion  the  loud  cry  of  the  king's  herald  was  heard  in  the  corridor 
without.  Down  the  center  of  the  House  of  Commons  he  marched  and  stopped  before 
the  speaker.  Here  he  delivered  his  formal  speech  of  prorogation  in  the  king's  name. 
Solemnly  the  members  filed  out.  They  went  into  the  House  of  Lords  to  hear  the  "king's 
speech,"  which  I  understood  afterwards,  was  written  by  Premier  Stanley  Baldwin,  and 
read  by  the  Lord  Chancellor  before  the  assembled  Lords  and  Commons. 

Visitors  are  never  admitted  to  the  House  of  Lords  while  in  session,  but  I  came  back 
the  next  day  when  the  buildings  were  open  to  the  public  and  viewed  the  historic 
room,  with  its  red  leather  benches  and  the  famous  woolsack,  upon  which  the  Chancellor 
sits.  And  as  I  wended  my  way  about  among  the  crowds  of  sightseers,  how  I  missed  the 
duchess! 


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LETTERS  FROM  FAR-AWAY  ALUMNAE 

NO.  4— CUBA 

(Louise  (McCorkle)  Kloor,  ex  '22,  and  her  husband  have  been  living  on  a  sugarcane 
plantation  in  Cuba  for  the  past  five  years.) 

"I  wish  I  could  write  something  very  novel  or  exciting  about  life  in  Cuba,  but  after 
five  years  here  I  can't  think  somehow  of  the  things  that  most  impressed  me  at  first  as 
being  so  different. 

"Americans  at  a  Cuban  sugar  central  live  much  the  same  as  Americans  in  any 
foreign  country,  I  believe.  That  means  they  stay  together  and  keep  up  their  own  customs 
and  standards  of  living.  They  are  only  slightly  influenced  by  outside  conditions — only 
as  necessity  demands,  in  fact.  For  instance,  I  never  heard  of  eggs  selling  in  any  quantity 
but  dozens.  Prices  for  eggs  in  Cuba,  however,  are  quoted  by  the  dollar's  worth,  and  no 
amount  of  Yankee  reasoning  can  convince  a  Cuban  that  our  dealing  in  dozens  is  the 
better  way. 

"My  husband  and  I  are  very  happily  situated  at  Chaparra  in  Oriente  province — 
the  extreme  eastern  end  of  the  island,  as  the  name,  Oriente,  implies.  We  are  only  about 
five  miles  from  the  sea,  so  enjoy  the  year  around  the  balmy  breezes  for  which  Cuba  is 
noted. 

"There  are  quite  a  number  of  states  represented  in  our  American  colony,  with 
Louisiana  leading  in  numbers.  That  is  explained  by  Louisiana's  culture  of  cane,  and 
the  splendid  courses  in  sugar  chemistry  offered  at  both  the  state  university  and  at  Tulane. 

"As  a  general  rule  the  grinding  season  begins  the  first  of  January.  The  mills  operate 
day  and  night  for  a  period  of  six  months  or  longer.  They  are  models  of  American  con- 
struction and  management.  When  one  sees  the  tremendous  output  of  just  one  mill,  one 
wonders  if  the  world's  diet  is  made  up  principally  of  sugar. 

"I  left  my  husband  at  the  mercy  of  a  Chinese  cook  this  year  and  came  home  for 
a  real  visit  to  make  up  for  the  very  short  month  of  last  year.  A  month  in  the  States  with 
worlds  of  shopping  to  do  and  all  one's  friends  to  see  can  just  fly  by! 

"I  have  yet  to  meet  an  Agnes  Scott  girl  in  Cuba,  but  alumnae  travel  there  occasion- 
ally, I  know,  and  I  hear  that  one  of  the  '28  graduates  lives  in  Havana,  so  we  may  have 
an  Agnes  Scott  alumnae  club  there  yet!" 

No.  5 — Havana,  Panama  and  the  Canal  Zone 

(By  the  time  this  is  published,  Ivylyn  Girardeau,  '22,  will  be  back  in  Louisiana,  but 
it  is  such  an  interesting  account  of  her  summer's  trip,  and  so  few  of  our  alumnae  travel 
down  this  way,  that  we  are  glad  to  give  them  this  glimpse  of  our  interesting  neighbors.) 

"I  left  New  Orleans  in  August  on  the  'Cartago,'  a  boat  of  the  United  Fruit  Com- 
pany's line,  which  at  that  season  carried  very  few  cruise  passengers.  Two  days  later 
we  were  in  Havana.  It  is  a  lovely  city  and  from  the  number  of  limestone  buildings  we 
judged  that  only  millionaires  must  live  there.  If  there  was  a  slum  we  never  saw  it. 
Everything  is  beautifully  kept  and  so  clean  that  no  flies  or  mosquitoes  were  in  evidence, 
therefore  screens  were  unnecessary  and  all  hotel  dining  rooms,  restaurants,  etc.,  opened 
right  out  on  the  street. 

"Our  drive  the  first  afternoon  took  us  along  the  new  seawall,  out  through  the  lovely 
Miramar  residential  section,  by  banana  and  pineapple  plantations,  through  the  Tropical 
Gardens  and  included  trips  to  the  famous  old  churches  and  monuments.  The  night  trip 
included  a  visit  to  the  largest  men's  clubs,  to  the  Chinese  theatre,  where  a  play  was  in 
progress,  and  to  the  Casino  where  we  looked  on  for  a  while  at  the  gambling. 

"The  next  day  we  went  by  launch  over  to  Morro  Castle  which  is  now  utilitzcd  as 
a  military  training  school  for  Cuban  boys.  It  is  known  as  the  'West  Point'  of  Cuba. 
Here  a  lighthouse  is  also  located  and  the  view  from  it  was  splendid.     The  afternoon  was 


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spent  in  shopping  and  to  get  from  one  place  to  another  we  had  to  make  use  of  taxis. 
As  the  drivers  understood  very  little  English  and  we  no  Spanish  the  confusion  in  direc- 
tions was  sometimes  comical.  It  was  rather  disconcerting  to  be  dropped  in  front  of 
Woolworth's  (yes  they  have  several)  when  you  had  specified  the  National  Theatre. 

"Most  of  the  passengers  having  disembarked  at  Havana,  the  few  of  us  who  were 
left  felt  like  one  large  family  the  last  four  days  of  the  trip.  Captain  McBride  was  a 
dear,  and  gave  us  the  run  of  the  ship,  so  we  learned  all  about  navigation,  from  the  work 
of  the  engine  room  to  the  actual  steering  of  the  ship.  The  biggest  thrill  was  to  have  my 
hands  on  the  wheel  for  about  five  minutes. 

"About  this  time  the  flying  fish  put  in  their  appearance,  and  it  was  most  fascinating 
to  watch  them  sail  through  the  air,  sometimes  for  a  distance  of  several  hundred  yards. 
They  always  brought  to  mind  the  'road  to  Mandalay.' 

"We  docked  at  Cristobal  Saturday  night,  and  the  next  morning  the  party  left  by 
auto  for  Gatun  locks.  We  had  the  good  fortune  of  seeing  two  large  ships  go  through 
the  locks  and  everything  was  explained  in  detail.  We  then  boarded  the  train  for  Panama 
City,  which  is  on  the  Pacific  side  of  the  Isthmus.  The  view  from  the  observation  car  was 
beautiful  but  it  was  blotted  out  for  a  large  part  of  the  time  by  a  typical  tropical  down- 
pour. 

"I  stayed  for  a  week  with  my  brother  who  is  the  English  editor  of  'El  Tiempo — 
The  Evening  Times,'  a  Spanish-English  paper  published  in  Panama  City.  The  Hotel 
Tivoli  is  in  the  Zone  but  is  just  across  the  street  from  Panama  City,  which  is  not  United 
States  property.  Balboa  is  also  a  close  neighbor  so  the  geography  is  more  or  less  con- 
fusing. During  the  week  we  made  trips  out  to  the  ruins  of  Old  Panama,  and  also 
through  Balboa  and  out  to  the  fortified  islands  which  guard  the  Pacific  entrance  to  the 
Canal.  One  day  we  went  for  a  swim  in  the  Pacific  and  were  chased  out  by  stingarees. 
The  queerest  part  about  the  geography  is  that  the  sun  rises  from  the  Pacific  Ocean  and 
sets  in  the  Atlantic! 

"On  September  10  I  boarded  the  'Parismina'  for  my  trip  home.  We  followed  the 
coast  of  Central  America,  staying  within  sight  of  land  for  two  days  and  stopping  at 
Puerto  Castillio  in  Honduras  for  a  load  of  bananas.  Then  back  by  Havana  to  pick  up 
passengers  and  on  to  New  Orleans.  There  were  a  number  of  aliens  on  board,  including 
quite  a  few  young  people  coming  up  to  school  in  the  States. 

"No,  this  isn't  an  ad  for  them,  but  I  must  say  it.  The  United  Fruit  Company 
does  everything  in  its  power  to  add  to  the  comfort  and  pleasure  of  its  passengers,  and  if 
I  ever  go  to  Panama  again,  I  shall  certainly  book  passage  on  a  boat  of  the  Great 
White  Fleet." 


COLLEGE  OR  KINDERGARTEN? 

How  to  educate  and  why,  is  a  question  agitating  many  of  our  thinkers  these  days. 
One  may  read  in  the  public  prints  almost  anything  he  wants  to  about  mass  education, 
co-education,  the  inner  college,  the  outer  urge,  the  new  freedom,  the  old  bondage.  The 
radicals  talk  learnedly  of  the  new  education;  the  conservatives  say  it's  old  stuff  with  new 
names. 

Dean  Max  McConn  of  Lehigh  University,  seems  to  be  gradually  winning  his  spurs 
these  days  as  a  modern  critic  of  university  education,  as  witness  his  magazine  articles, 
and  especially  a  new  book  he  has  written,  "College  or  Kindergarten?"  published  by  the 
New  Republic  in  its  "dollar  book"  series. 

Mr.  McConn,  as  he  observes  higher  education,  does  not  sink  into  deep  despair.  He 
takes  it  as  it  is,  then  proposes  to  divide  all  colleges  and  universities  into  three  general 
classes — the  real  colleges,  the  "superkindergartens"  or  "gentlemen's"  colleges,  and  the 
professional  schools.  The  latter  class  is  already  distinct  but  is  included  as  a  matter  of 
form. 


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The  real  college  he  defines  as  an  institution  of  learning  where  only  real  students 
tvould  be  admitted;  where  scholarship  instead  of  "activities"  would  reign. 

The  "gentleman's"  college  or  superkindergarten  as  Mr.  McConn  calls  it,  would  ac- 
commodate the  great  average  level  of  youngsters  with  no  great  aptitude  for  the  academic, 
the  average  boys  and  girls  who  go  to  college  because  most  everyone  else  does,  who  enjoy 
the  luxurious  country  club  atmosphere  of  fraternity  and  sorority  houses.  The  group 
would  naturally  include  some  dumb  bells,  the  nice  sons  of  wealthy  parents  who  will 
be  set  up  handsomely  in  papa's  business  no  matter  what  happens  in  college,  the  boy  with 
every  qualification  for  real  college  work  except  brains. 

The  professional  schools  such  as  law,  medicine,  journalism,  and  the  like  would  go 
on  much  as  they  do  now. 

Though  there  is  nothing  particularly  new  in  Mr.  McConn's  general  views  on  educa- 
tion, he  takes  decidedly  advanced  ground  when  he  proposes  to  set  aside  the  general  run 
of  youngsters  in  "superkindergartens,"  where  they  would  get  just  what  they  came  for — 
a  good  time,  some  additional  social  polish,  and  four  years  of  such  mild  learning  as  they 
are  able  to  take  in  without  too  much  trouble. 

Whether  any  college  or  university  would  be  willing  to  take  this  feeble-minded 
classification  or  whether  any  parents  would  be  willing  to  send  their  children  to  such  a 
place  if  they  knew  about  it  beforehand,  is  a  question.  On  the  other  hand,  the  "real 
college"  classification  would  probably  be  welcomed  by  many  educational  institutions. 


MORE  AND  MORE   STUDENTS 

The  number  of  students  who  go  to  college  continues  to  increase,  though  the  gain 
this  year  is  only  two  per  cent,  as  compared  with  a  25  per  cent  increase  for  the  last  five 
years.  The  enrollment  of  full-time  students  this  year  from  216  colleges  and  universities 
in  the  United  States  and  Canada  is  47,526.  (Part-time,  233,425;  grand  total  650,951.) 
These  and  the  following  facts  are  taken  from  an  article  by  Dean  Raymond  Walters  in 
School  and  Society. 

The  University  of  California,  as  last  year,  leads  in  the  number  of  regular,  full-time 
students  (17,337),  with  Columbia  University  second  (13,691),  the  University  of  Illinois 
third  (12,150),  University  of  Minnesota  fourth  (11,815),  then  Michigan  (10,954), 
New  York  University  (10,711),  and  Ohio  State  (10,293). 

Speaking  again  of  Columbia  University,  it  has  a  "super  grand  total"  enrollment  of 
42,742  when  we  count  in  the  summer  session  students,  the  part-time  students,  and 
those  in  home  study  and  other  extension  courses.  This  total  breaks  all  records  at  Colum- 
bia and  elsewhere. 

The  largest  liberal  arts  college  is  in  the  University  of  California  (9,783).  Wisconsin 
is  second,  Michigan  third,  then  New  York  University,  Minnesota,  College  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  Illinois,  Texas,  Columbia,  Harvard. 

The  largest  law  school  is  in  New  York  University  (1,785).  Harvard  is  second,  then 
comes  Fordham,  Columbia,  Michigan. 

Michigan  has  the  largest  medical  school  (668).  Minnesota,  Pennsylvania,  Harvard, 
and  Chicago  follow  in  the  order  named. 

The  ten  largest  exclusively  women's  colleges  are  Hunter  (4,918),  then  Smith, 
Wellesley,  Florida  State,  Vassar,  Mount  Holyoke,  Goucher,  Radcliffc,  Randolph-Macon, 
Elmira. 

Columbia  has  the  largest  summer  school  (14,007);  then  come  California,  Chicago, 
Minnesota,  Wisconsin. 

The  largest  faculty  reported  is  Columbia's  (2,075).  Others  in  the  four-figure  class 
are  California  (1,387),  New  York  University  (1,383),  Pennsylvania  (1,362),  Harvard 
(1,244),  Illinois  (1,135). 


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AGNES  SCOTT  DEFEATS  VASSAR 

The  victory  of  Agnes  Scott  over  Vassar 
in  debate  on  December  15,  1928,  is  doubly 
gratifying  because  it  marks  the  second 
time  our  team  has  defeated  the  northern 
college,  and  because  it  took  place  in  "the 
enemy's    territory." 

The  subject  for  debate  was,  "Resolved: 
That  the  publicly  owned  resources  of  the 
United  States  should  be  developed  and 
operated  by  federal  and  state  govern- 
ments." The  negative  was  upheld  for 
Agnes  Scott  by  Esther  Nisbet,  Eleanor 
Lee  Norris,  with  Martha  Stackhouse  as 
alternate.  The  judges  were  Norman  Hap- 
good,  Dr.  Henry  Moskowitz,  and  Charles 
H.  Tuttle. 

The  debaters  report  that  the  trip  to 
Poughkeepsie  was  in  every  respect  a 
memorable  one.  In  New  York  they  were 
met  by  Quenelle  Harrold,  '23,  and  had 
tea  with  Martha  Crowe,  '27;  Kenneth 
Maner,  '27,  and  other  Alumnae.  As  guests 
of  Vassar,  they  were  cordially  entertained 
at  tea,  luncheon,  and  a  reception,  and  en- 
joyed the  unusual  privilege  of  hearing  the 
Vassar  Christmas  music. 


BUT  THAT'S  NOT  ALL 

Some  girls  would  consider  themselves 
sufficiently  distinguished  if  they  had  help- 
ed win  a  debate  against  Vassar  and  spent 
a  week  in  the  Vassar  infirmary  with  flu. 
But  not  so  Esther  Nisbet.  She  dashed 
over  to  Boston;  in  a  manner  sudden  and 
romantic,  married,  and  returned  to  college 
Mrs.  Newton  Thomas  Anderson,  Jr. 


PRESIDENT  AND  REGISTRAR 
ATTEND  MEETING 

Dr.  McCain  and  Mr.  Stukes  were  recent- 
ly in  Chattanooga  to  attend  the  first  meet- 
ing held  in  the  South  of  the  Association 
of  American  Colleges,  composed  of  over 
five  hundred  colleges  from  all  over  the 
United  States.  Among  the  topics  for  dis- 
cussion were:  "What  Constitutes  a  Good 
College  Teacher,"  "The  Place  of  Religion 
in  Higher  Education,"  "The  Training  of 
College  Teachers  as  Graduate  Students," 
and  "The  New  College  Curriculum." 


'28  HOLDS  FIRST  REUNION 

The  first  called  meeting  of  the  last 
year's  graduating  class  always  occurs  dur- 
ing Thanksgiving  week-end.  On  that  Sat- 
urday night  the  newest  alumnae  of  them 
all  gather  in  the  tea  room  of  the  Alumnae 
House  for  a  class  dinner.  '28's  president, 
Mary  Bell  McConkey,  of  St.  Louis,  could 
not  be  present  at  this  time,  so  the  class 
secretary,   Huda   Dement,   presided. 

Since  college  opened  in  September,  fifty- 
one  members  of  '28  have  visited  Agnes 
Scott.  North  and  South  Carolina,  Florida, 
Alabama,  Georgia,  West  Virginia,  Ten- 
nessee and  Virginia,  have  been  represent- 
ed by  these  homesick  Agnes  Scott  daugh- 
ters who  just  had  to  run  back  for  a  week- 
end or  only  a  few  hours,  in  some  cases,  to 
see  to  it  that  Ella  was  still  keeping  the 
college   going. 


FACULTY   NOTES 


After  another  summer  abroad  Miss  Les- 
lie Gaylord  is  working  on  her  Ph.  D.  at 
Chicago.  Miss  Annie  Mae  Baker,  of  Ran- 
dolph-Macon Womans  College  is  supplying 
for  her  this  year. 

Miss  Jean  Davis  is  at  Wells  College,  N. 
Y.  She  was  one  of  the  speakers  brought 
to  Atlanta  by  the  Economics  Conference 
in   November. 

Miss  Isabel  Randolph  is  teaching  at 
Miss   Sayward's   School,  Overbrook,  Pa. 

Although  none  of  them  were  seriously 
ill,  the  flu  played  havoc  with  many  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty  during  December.  Miss 
Wilburn,  Miss  Sinclair,  Miss  McKinney, 
Miss  Dexter,  Miss  White,  Mrs.  Syden- 
stricker,  Mr.  Holt,  Miss  Freed,  Dr.  Hayes, 
Dr.  Davidson,  Miss  Preston,  were  all  too 
ill  to  meet  their  classes. 

Miss  Jane  B.  Brown  of  Columbia  Uni- 
versity is  the  newest  addition  to  the  de- 
partment of  psychology.  Before  coming 
to  Agnes  Scott,  Miss  Brown  taught  at 
Winthrop    College. 

"Mary  Gude  Coleman,  wife  of  Profes- 
sor Algernon  Coleman,  died  in  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  on  December  6,  1928.  Fu- 
neral services  were  held  there  the  fol- 
lowing day.  Her  ashes  will  be  interred 
in  Halifax  County,  Virginia.  A  memorial 
service  for  Mrs.  Coleman  will  be  held  at 
the  University  of  Chicago  at  a  later  date, 
of  which  announcement  will  be  made  in 
due  season." 

"The  above  card  came  to  me  at  Christ- 


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mas  time,"  writes  Martha  (Brenner) 
Shryock,  '15,  "and  of  course  caused  me 
much  sadness.  I  am  sending  it  on  for 
the  many  girls  who  were  at  Agnes  Scott 
in  my  day  will  remember  with  love  dear 
Miss  Mary  Gude.  In  those  days  there 
was  a  member  of  the  faculty  at  each  table 
in  the  dining  room,  and  I  had  the  pleasure 
of  being  at  Miss  Gude's  table  for  two 
years.  She  was  always  a  dear  friend,  and 
when  I  came  to  Chicago  as  a  bride  nine 
years  ago,  she  welcomed  me  and  was  our 
first  hostess.  She  was  always  interested 
in  Agnes  Scott."  Mrs.  Coleman  contracted 
a  case  of  influenza  while  attending  a  fam- 
ily reunion  at  New  Haven,  and  was  rushed 
to  her  home,  but  died  within  a  few  days. 


AGNES    SCOTT    STUDENT    HONORED 
BY  N.  S.  F.  A. 

Elinore  Morgan,  '29,  president  of  student 
government  on  the  campus,  was  recently 
elected  Southern  Regional  Representative 
to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Na- 
tional Students'  Federation  of  America  at 
the  meeting  held  December  12-15,  at  the 
University  of  Missouri.  Other  officers  of 
the  Federation  come  from  the  Oregon 
State  College,  Wellesley,  Oberlin,  Uni- 
versity of  Akron,  Southern  California,  New 
York  University,  University  of  Missouri, 
Bryn  Mawr,  Harvard  and  Carleton. 


ALUMNAE  HOME-COMING  TEA 

On  Thanksgiving  week-end,  Agnes  Scott 
alumnae  the  country  over  think  of  return- 
ing to  their  college  if  it  is  at  all  possible. 
Several  years  ago  the  annual  alumnae 
home-coming  date  was  set  for  this  time, 
embracing  as  it  always  does,  that  especial- 
ly significant  date,  November  25,  the  birth- 
day of  our  beloved  Miss  Anna  Irwin 
Young.  Every  year  at  this  time  all  old 
Agnes  Scott  girls  are  asked  to  come  back 
to  the  campus,  to  meet  old  friends  among 
alumnae  and  faculty,  to  see  the  students 
of  today  and  learn  of  the  changes  taking 
place  in  the  college,  to  see  the  college  in 
action  on  Friday  and  Saturday  of  that 
week,  visiting  any  classes  they  choose,  and 
on  Friday  afternoon  to  gather  in  the  Anna 
Young  Alumnae  House  for  the  annual 
alumnae  tea.  Any  alumnae  desiring  to 
make  a  gift  to  the  silver,  linen,  etc.,  of  the 
house  is  asked  to  do  it  at  this  time.  Many 
lovely    gifts   were    received    this    year. 

The  tea  this  year  was  very  beautiful, 
and  a  larger  number  of  alumnae  than  ever 
before  called  during  the  afternoon.  The 
reception  rooms  of  the  Alumnae  House, 
recently  refurnished  in  lovely  early  Ameri- 
can reproductions  by  the  Atlanta  Alumnae 
Club,  were  decorated  with  chrysanthemums 
in  shades  of  gold  and  bronze.  Those  in 
the  receiving  line  were  Mrs.  Frances  Gilli- 


land  Stukes,  chairman  of  the  House  Com- 
mittee; Mrs.  Claire  Louise  Scott  Beall; 
Mrs.  Samuel  Young,  mother  of  Miss  Anna; 
Mrs.  Susan  Young  Eagan  and  Mrs.  Bessie 
Young  Brown,  Miss  Anna's  sisters;  Miss 
Nannette  Hopkins,  dean;  and  Miss  Lucille 
Alexander.  Miss  Louise  McKinney  poured 
tea  in  the  dining  room,  and  little  Miss 
Anna  Young  Eagan  received  the  cards  of 
the  guests. 

During  the  afternoon  more  than  a  hun- 
dred and  fifty  guests  called.  These  in- 
cluded local  and  out-of-town  alumne,  rep- 
resentatives of  student  organizations  and 
presidents  of  classes,  students  now  in  col- 
lege whose  mothers  were  Agnes  Scott 
alumnae,  and  other  friends  of  the  college. 


AMONG  THE  NEW  BOOKS 

We  suggest  (not  recommend,  mind!): 

For  the  home-maker: 

"Children  in  the  Nursery  School,"  by 
Harriet  M.  Johnson.  (John  Day  Company, 
25  W.  45th  St.,  New  York.    $3.00.) 

"Beauty  in  Home  Furnishing,"  by  Wal- 
ter Rendell  Storev.  (Rae  D.  Henkle  Com- 
pany,  New  York.     $3.50.) 

Novels  (we  are  specially  intei'ested  in 
these  since  all  three  of  the  authors  have 
been  guests  and  lecturers  at  Agnes  Scott): 

"A  Brood  of  Ducklings,"  by  Frank  Swin- 
nerton.    $2.50. 

"The  Silver  Thorn,"  by  Hugh  Walpole. 
$2.50. 

"Mamba's  Daughters,"  by  DuBose  Hey- 
ward.  $2.50.  (All  three  of  these  books 
are  published  by  Doubleday-Doran  Com- 
pany. ) 

General : 

"American  Negro  Folk-Songs, "  by  New- 
man I.  White.  (Cambridge-Harvard  Uni- 
versity Press.     $5.00.) 

"Woman  in  the  Making  of  America," 
by  H.  Addington  Bruce.  (Little  Brown  and 
Company.      $2.50.) 

"Leonardo  the  Florentine,"  by  Rachel 
Annand  Taylor.     (Harpers.) 

"Witchcraft  in  Old  and  New  England," 
by  George  Lyman  Kittredge.  (Harvai-d 
University  Press.) 

"Whither  Mankind?"  compilation  edited 
by  Charles  A.  Beard.  (Longmans,  Green 
Company.) 

"Ladies  Third,  oi<  Six  Weeks  in  Europe 
on  $600,"  by  Marv  Lena  Wilson.  (Duf- 
field   and    Company.     New   York.     $2.50.) 

"The  House  at  Pooh  Comer,"  by  A.  A. 
Milne.  (E.  P.  Dutton  and  Company,  300 
4th    Ave.,    New    York.      $2.00.) 

"John  Brown's  Body,"  by  Stephen  Vin- 
cent Benet.      (Doubleday-Doran.) 

"The  Cock's  Feather,"  a  novel  by 
Katherine  Newlin  Burt. 

"Elizabeth  and  Essex,"  by  Lytton 
Strachey.  (Harcourt,  Brace  and  Co.  $3.75.) 


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Poetry: 

"The  Buck  in  the  Snow,"  by  Edna  St. 
Vincent  Millay.      (Harper.) 

"Trivial  Breath,"  by  Eleanor  Wylie.  This 
is  her  last  book.     (Knopf.) 

"West  Running  Brook,"  by  Robert  Frost. 
(Holt.) 

Magazine  articles: 

"Religion  Goes  to  College,"  by  Herbert 
Parrish.      Century    for   January. 

"The  Woman  Goes  to  College,"  by  Bes- 
sie Bunzel.     Century  for  November. 

"Are  the  Colleges  Playing  Poor?"  by 
William  B.  Munro  in  Atlantic  Monthly  for 
October. 

"The  Women's  Colleges  Reply,"  by  Wil- 
liam Allan  Neilson,  and  "A  Brief  Re- 
joinder," by  Mr.  Munro  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  for  January. 

A  LETTER  FROM  ORA  MAST  (GLENN) 
ROBERTS,  '16 

"My   Dear   Fellow- Alumnae: 

"I  have  been  in  the  good  old  U.  S.  A. 
since  the  last  of  June  and  expect  to  be 
here  until  about  the  middle  of  this  month, 
when  my  husband  and  I  shall  return  to  our 
work  in  Brazil.  It  goes  without  saying 
that  we  are  having  a  wonderful  furlough. 

"I  have  seen  quite  a  number  of  A.  S.  C. 
friends:  Anne  (Kyle)  McLaughlin,  Claire 
(Elliott)  McKay,  Charlotte  (Jackson) 
Mitchell,  Margaret  Fain,  and  others.  I  en- 
joyed attending  a  meeting  of  the  Char- 
lotte branch  of  University  Women  and 
there  I  met  many  of  the  younger  gener- 
ation of  Agnes  Scott  daughters. 

"When  I  go  back  to  Lavras  I  hope  to 
take  a  new  piano  for  the  Charlotte  Kem- 
per Seminary.  Our  music  department  has 
grown  so  much  that  we  must  have  better 
equipment  and  the  beautiful  Auxiliary  gift 
building  cries  out  for  a  new  piano  in  its 
auditorium.  I  am  wondering  if  there  are 
not  several  alumnae  who  would  like  to 
feel  that  they  are  helping  spread  the 
gospel  musically  in  Brazil?  Please  send 
any  donations  to  this  address:  Mrs.  G.  A. 
Roberts,  Rock  Hill,  S.  C." 


Emory    University,    Georgia    Tech,    Ogle- 
thorpe, and  Spellman. 


CAMPUS  VISITORS 

Mr.  Trevor  Arnett,  chairman  of  the  Gen- 
eral Education  Board  of  New  York,  two 
members  of  the  board,  Mr.  Leo  Favrot, 
and  Mr.  Jackson  Davis;  Mrs.  Arnett,  and 
Miss  Ruth  D.  Evans  were  visitors  on  the 
campus  on  January  17.  They  attended 
chapel  services,  made  a  short  tour  of  the 
campus,  and  were  guests  of  the  students 
in  Rebekah  Scott  dining  room  for  lunch. 

Mr.  Archie  M.  Palmer,  assistant  director 
of  the  Institute  of  International  Education 
in  New  York,  was  a  guest  at  the  Alumnae 
House  January  12-15.  Mr.  Palmer  is  mak- 
ing a  survey  of  colleges  in  the  southeast, 
and    from     the     Alumnae     House    visited 


AH,   FLU—! 

Agnes  Scott  had  her  fair  share  of  the 
flu  during  December,  and  although  there 
were  no  serious  cases,  it  was  thought  best 
to  close  the  college  a  few  days  early  so 
that  none  of  the  girls  should  miss  Christ- 
mas holidays  at  home. 

Since  returning  to  the  campus  after  the 
holidays  Dr.  Sweet  has  had  the  students 
under  partial  quarantine,  allowing  them  to 
go  on  the  street  cars  and  to  Atlanta  only  for 
necessary  errands,  and  forbidding  theatres 
and  picture  shows.  The  wisdom  of  this 
measure  has  been  proved  by  the  fact  that 
although  the  flu  is  still  raging  in  Atlanta 
and  Decatur,  there  is  not  one  single  case 
in  the  college  infirmary  as  this  Quarterly 
goes  to  press.  Picture  shows  and  dances 
in  the  gym  furnish  entertainment  for  Wed- 
nesday and  Saturday  evenings,  and  the 
student  body  is  both  well  and  happy. 


BACK  TO  AGNES  SCOTT! 

Among  the  out-of-town  alumnae  who 
were  guests  at  the  Alumnae  House  during 
the  Thanksgiving  holidays  were  the  fol- 
lowing: Virginia  Carrier,  '28,  and  Cather- 
ine Carrier,  '25,  of  Asheville,  N.  C;  Beu- 
lah  Davidson,  '24,  Tate,  Ga.;  Mae  Erskine 
Irvine,  '27,  Florence,  Ala.;  Mary  Heath, 
'27,  Augusta,  Ga.;  Louise  (Pfeiffer)  Ringel, 
'26,  Brunswick,  Ga.;  Ruth  Evans  Masen- 
gill,  '28,  Bristol,  Va.;  Edith  Gilchrist  and 
Eleanor  Gresham,  both  of  the  class  of  '26, 
and  both  of  Birmingham,  Ala.;  Annie  Wil- 
son Terry,  '24,  Montgomery,  Ala.;  Louisa 
White  and  Maurine  Bledsoe,  '27,  of  Ashe- 
ville, N.  C;  Virginia  Norris  and  Margaret 
Keith,  '28,  of  Greenville,  S.  C;  Roberta 
Winter,  '27,  Athens,  Tenn.;  Marcia  Green, 
'27,  Lafayette,  Ala.;  Nellie  Richardson,  '26, 
Warrenton,  Ga.;  Cleo  McLaurine,  '27, 
Charlotte,  N.  C;  Rachel  Henderlite,  '27, 
Gastonia,  N.  C;  Marion  Daniel,  '27, 
Charlottesville,  Va.;  Anne  McCollum,  '28, 
Baconton,  Ga.;  Ladie  Suse  Wallace,  '26, 
Rutledge,  Ga.;  Annie  Lee  (Gray)  Lind- 
gren,  ex  '19,  Birmingham,  Ala.;  Ellen  Fain, 
'26,  Hendersonville,  N.  C;  Catherine 
(Mock)  Hodgin,  '26,  Thomasville,  N.  C; 
Mary  Ray  Dobyns,  '28,  Birmingham,  Ala.; 
Nell  Hillhouse,  '28,  Waynesboro,  Ga.; 
Mary  Perkinson,  '28,  Wadley,  Ga. 

Alumnae  are  welcome  at  the  college  at 
any  time  during  the  year,  but  it  is  especial- 
ly satisfying  to  return  at  Thanksgiving 
when  there  are  numbers  of  other  alumnae 
on  hand,  too. 


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Concerning  Ourselves 


1896 

Mary  Ethel  Davis  is  working  at  the  Vet- 
erans Bureau  in  Atlanta. 

Olive  (Laing)  Hoggins  sends  her  new 
address  (3914  Walnut  Street),  and  a  folder, 
describing  the  book  on  which  she  has  been 
working  for  the  past  five  years  with  the 
very  splendid  help  of  her  husband.  It  is 
the  "Centenary  History  of  Kansas  City 
Churches— 1828-1928,"  and  is  now  being 
published  serially  in  the  Kansas  City  Post. 
"This  history  was  obtained  by  most  care- 
ful and  painstaking  research  into  church 
records,  minutes  of  official  meetings,  pub- 
lished and  unpublished  memoirs,  statistical 
reports,  newspaper  files  enlivened  and 
colored  and  made  real  by  the  word  of  liv- 
ing witnesses.  It  begins  with  the  arrival 
of  the  first  white  man  to  set  up  resi- 
dence on  Kansas  City  soil,  and  presents  a 
colorful  picture  of  a  cross  section  of  Amer- 
ican religious  life,  showing  the  history  of 
one  typical  American  city  from  the  angle 
of  its  religious  development.  For  five  years 
Mrs.  Hoggins  has  been  at  work  on  this 
volume,  sparing  no  expense  or  pains, 
searching  through  libraries  in  Kansas  City, 
St.  Louis,  Topeka,  compiling  statistical 
data  for  a  correct  framework  from  hun- 
dreds of  published  minute  books,  going 
through  page  after  page  of  old  scrap 
books.  She  has  had  to  decipher  many 
pages  of  difficult  handwriting  in  old  min- 
ute books,  to  spend  days  and  days  compar- 
ing, studying,  evaluating,  ironing  out  in- 
consistencies, weeding  out  published  and 
traditional  error.  She  has  had  the  earnest 
cooperation  of  thousands  of  ministers  and 
laymen." 

1897 

Lillie  Wade  (Little)  Ryals  and  her  hus- 
band have  recently  returned  from  a  Euro- 
pean  trip. 

1899 

Lucile  Alexander  visited  her  sisters  in 
Asheville  during  the   Christmas  holidays. 

Rose  B.  Knox  was  a  visitor  at  the  col- 
lege during  November.  After  an  absence 
of  several  years,  she  returned  at  one  of  the 
most  exciting  occasions  in  college  history — 
the  campaign  luncheon  in  the  gym,  when 
the  entire  student  body,  faculty,  and  ad- 
ministrative officers  gathered  at  a  mam- 
moth launching  of  the  campus  campaign. 
1902 

Annie  (Dowdell)  Turner  was  a  visitor 
at  the  college  early  in  January  when  she 


attended  the   meeting   in   Decatur   of  the 
Presbyterian  women  of  the  Synod. 
1905 

Lulie  (Morrow)  Croft  has  moved  from 
West  Point  to  256  Mathews  Ave.,  N.  E., 
Atlanta,  Ga. 

Sallie  Stribling  has  bought  a  partly 
furnished  cottage  in  the  North  Carolina 
mountains  not  very  far  from  Brevard  for 
a  summer  home.  It  boasts  a  diminutive 
lake  (christened  "the  bathtub")  and  a 
real  antique  in  the  walnut  sideboard  once 
belonging  to  General  Andrew  Pickens  of 
Revolutionary  fame. 

1889-1906 

Annie  E.  Aunspaugh  visited  Agnes  Scott 
during  November. 

The  new  president  of  the  U.  D.  C.  for 
the  state  of  California  is  Stella  (Austin) 
Stannard.    This  is  a  big  job  in  a  big  state! 

Essie  (Baker)  Etheredge  lives  at  914 
Heard  Ave.,  Augusta,  Ga.  Last  summer 
she  visited  her  daughter,  Grace,  ex  '27,  in 
New  York  City.  Grace  has  been  study- 
ing voice  there  for  several  years. 

Lillian  May  (Baker)  Griggs  is  secretary 
and  director  of  the  North  Carolina  state 
library  commission,  with  headquarters  in 
Raleigh. 

Lallie  Calhoun  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Wil- 
liam B.  Kent,  an  attorney  in  Alamo,  Ga. 
She  writes:  "We  have  one  son,  Billie,  Jr., 
who  was  sixteen  years  old  this  month.  I 
shall  give  him  to  an  Agnes  Scott  girl  some 
day.  He  is  nearly  six  feet  tall  and  hopes 
to  follow  in  his  father's  footsteps  and  be 
a  great  athlete  at  the  University  of  Geor- 
gia. I  love  Agnes  Seott  devotedly  and 
want  to  keep  up  with  her  progress." 

Adelaide  (Cannon)  Blair  lives  at  the 
Wardman  Park  Hotel,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  Blair  is  U.  S.  Commissioner  of  In- 
ternal Revenue.  She  has  two  children  by 
her  first  marriage — J.  B.  Douglas,  Jr.,  of 
Washington,  and  Mrs.  Allen  Rushton,  Bir- 
mingham, Ala.,  and  a  nine-year-old  son, 
David  Hunt  Blair,  Jr. 

Blanche  (Christian)  Fagan,  her  hus- 
band and  son,  Harold,  live  at  149  Laurel 
Ave.,  Atlanta.     Mr.  Fagan  is  an  auditor. 

The  Atlanta  Constitution  says  of  Emma 
Belle  (DuBose)  Johnson's  new  home: 
"The  charming  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Palmer  Johnson,  recognized  as  one  of  the 
loveliest  of  Atlanta's  many  beautiful  resi- 
dences, is  situated  on  winding  Rivers  road 
in  Peachtree  Heights  Park.  It  is  con- 
structed   after   the   fashion    of   an    Italian 


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farmhouse,  and  is  built  on  the  side  of  a 
hill,  the  various  rooms  following  the  levels 
of  the  site,  descending  and  ascending  with 
the  nature  of  the  slope.  Many  Italian 
homes  are  built  in  this  way,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  hilly  country  made  it  im- 
possible to  level  the  land,  and  the  John- 
son dwelling  is  a  reproduction  of  such  old 
buildings  as  dot  the  Italian  countryside. 
Visitors  are  enthusiastic  in  their  admir- 
ation of  its  lovely  furnishings.  Mr.  John- 
son, who  for  many  years  has  been  foreign 
buyer  for  one  of  Atlanta's  leading  firms, 
is  considered  an  authority  on  furnishings, 
and  during  his  European  travels  has  added 
to  the  collection  which  makes  his  home  so 
unique  in  its  charm." 

To  quote  again  from  the  Atlanta  Consti- 
tution: "Georgia's  executive  mansion  was 
opened  on  Tuesday  evening,  November  27, 
at  a  brilliant  social  affair  complimenting 
Mrs.  Boyce  Ficklen,  president  of  the  na- 
tional auxiliary  to  the  American  Legion. 
Governor  and  Mrs.  Hardman  stood  at  the 
head  of  the  receiving  line  to  greet  the 
numerous  guests  who  called  during  the 
evening."  Mrs.  Ficklen  was  Lucy  Dillard 
who  once  came  up  from  Washington,  Ga., 
to  be  a  student  at  Agnes  Scott.  She  has 
won  for  herself  a  distinguished  place  in 
the  national  life  of  today.  American  Legion 
headquarters  are  in  Indianapolis,  and 
Lucy  is  kept  busy  traveling  over  the  coun- 
try. On  Jan.  29-31  she  presided  over  the 
fourth  annual  women's  patriotic  conference 
on  national  defense,  held  in  Memorial 
Continental  Hall  in  Washington,  D.  C.  This 
conference  was  composed  of  representa- 
tives from  thirty-three  national  women's 
patriotic  societies,  and  over  five  hundred 
women  attended. 

Nell  (Goodwin)  Parrish's  husband  is  in 
the  stocks  and  real  estate  business  in 
Greenville,  S.  C.  They  have  two  daugh- 
ters— Lily,  eighteen,  and  Mary,  nine. 

Alma  (Greene)  Carleton  is  a  widow  with 
one  small  daughter,  Katharine,  aged  three. 
They  still  live  in  Tallapoosa,  Ga.  Alma 
studied  at  a  number  of  other  schools  and 
colleges  after  leaving  Agnes  Scott.  She 
was  graduated  from  the  Georgia  State 
Normal  in  1908,  from  the  University  Hos- 
pital in  Augusta  in  1922,  and  has  done 
additional  work  at  Columbia  University 
in  New  York. 

Charlotte  (Gunby)  Rule's  husband  is 
cashier  of  the  East  Tennessee  National 
Bank  in  Knoxville.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren— William  Rule  III,  aged  seventeen; 
F.    Gunby,    fifteen,    and    Barbara,    ten. 

Vera  Hightower  is  Mrs.  Luscome  Simp- 
son, Jamaica,  N.  Y.  She  has  a  beautiful 
little   thirteen-year-old   daughter. 

Mary  (Jarnigan)  Rodman's  present  ad- 
dress is  Pennsylvania  and  13th  St.,  Oak- 
mont,    Pa. 


Belle  (Jones)  Horton  will  always  be 
known  at  Agnes  Scott  as  the  alumna  who 
had  a  year-old  son  in  the  Alumnae  Baby 
Show  and  a  daughter  in  the  graduating 
class  the  same  commencement.  "I  have 
them  all  sizes,  ages  and  dispositions^" 
Bell  writes  from  the  Horton  plantation  at 
Aliceville,  Ala.  "Sallie,  who  was  grad- 
uated from  Agnes  Scott  in  '25  and  who 
is  teaching  now  in  Birmingham;  Alice, 
graduate  of  the  Cincinnati  Conservatory  of 
Music  and  our  housekeeper  at  present; 
Charles,  a  student  at  the  University  of 
Alabama;  Amos,  in  the  military  academy 
at  Greensboro,  Ala.;  Isabel  in  High  School, 
Catherine  in  Junior  High;  Clifford  in  gram- 
mar school,  and  Thomas,  who  is  four  and 
at   home   with   me    still." 

Maggie  Mable  is  teaching  and  doing  gov- 
ernment work  in  Cedartown,  Ga. 

Marjorie  (Menefee)  Drought  has  be- 
come intensely  interested  in  antiques 
both  as  a  collector  and  a  dealer.  At  pres- 
ent she  is  visiting  in  Shenandoah  County, 
Virginia,  where  countless  old  Virginia 
homes    shelter    valuable    heirlooms. 

Another  travelor  and  collector  is  Nellie 
(Pendleton)  Armstrong's  husband.  Nellie 
and  her  eight-year-old  son  live  in  Decatur, 
Georgia. 

Ruth  (Prescott)  Whitsitt's  husband  is 
president  of  the  Carolina  Company  (steam- 
ship agents),  and  president  and  manager 
of  the  Charleston  Literage  and  Transfer 
Company.  Ruth,  her  husband  and  only 
son  live  in  beautiful  old  Charleston. 

From  East  Orange,  N.  J.,  comes  a  note 
from  Annie  Marsh  Ragsdale.  She  lives  at 
31  N.  Arlington  Ave.,  and  is  doing  book- 
keeping in  her  brother's  office. 

Ida  (Sherwood)  Bettis  lives  in  Morris- 
town,  Tenn.  She  has  two  sons,  Edward 
and  Charles,  both  almost  grown. 

Anna  Skinner's  mother  and  father,  with 
whom  she  lives  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  have 
both  been  very  ill  this  winter,  but  she 
has  been  able  to  continue  her  work  as 
caterer. 

Henrietta  (Smith)  Bradley's  husband  is 
district  manager  for  the  Atlanta  Georgian. 
She  has  three  step-children:  Louise,  in 
junior  high;  M.  L.,  five,  and  Dot,  three. 

Mary  (Stribling)  Dendy  has  a  daughter 
who  is  a  senior  at  Flora  Macdonald  Col- 
lege, and  a  son,  Jack,  at  the  Presbyterian 
College  in  Clinton,  S.  C.  Jack  spent  the 
summer  working  in  the  wheat  fields  of  the 
west  and  sight-seeing  in  Yellowstone  Park, 
etc. 

Janie  (Strickler)  Denny's  husband  is  the 
president  of  the  University  of  Alabama. 
They  have  three  children — Frances,  a 
teacher,  George,  studying  at  the  Universi- 
ty, and  Margaret,  in  junior  high. 

Lallie  Tipton  is  Mrs.  J.  Franklin  Rogers, 
of  807  Packwood  Ave.,  Tampa,  Fla.     They 


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have  two  children — Lallie,  aged  two,  and 
Betty,  born  last  May.  Mr.  Rogers  is  an 
accountant. 

Myra  (Trawick)  Barganier  is  a  widow, 
teaching  this  year  at  Greenville,  Ala.  She 
has  no  children. 

Mary  Loretta  Virgin  is  teaching  in  Nor- 
man, Okla.  Her  address  is  230  W.  Gray 
Street. 

Lois  (Wilson)  Perry  has  two  girls  and 
one  son.  Her  husband  is  a  farmer  with  a 
home  at  Lawrenceville,  Ga. 

Virginia  Woolley's  address  is  Box  663, 
Laguna  Beach,   Calif. 

Amelia  Worthington  was  married  in  1920 
to  Mr.  Brenton  K.  Fisk,  counsel  for  the 
United  Drug  Company  of  Boston.  Their 
children  are  Charles,  aged  four,  and  Amelia 
Josephine,  born  May,  1928.  The  Fisks  live 
at  82   Irving   St.,   Cambridge,   Mass. 

1906 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

On  January  9  Miss  Florence  Snow, 
alumnae  secretary  of  Smith  College,  spoke 
to  a  group  of  college  and  university  alumni 
and  alumnae  from  Atlanta  at  the  Anna 
Young  Alumnae  House.  As  an  alumna  of 
both  Agnes  Scott  and  Smith,  Alice  Cum- 
mings  Green  was  the  moving  spirit  be- 
hind the  meeting  and  was  largely  re- 
sponsible for  getting  in  touch  with  the 
numerous  group  of  alumni  represented. 
1907 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Sarah  (Boals)  Spinks  writes:  "I  have 
just  read  the  November  Quarterly  and  find 
it  intensely  interesting — even  the  items 
about  people  I  never  heard  of  before!  How 
I  should  like  to  be  within  week-end  dis- 
tance of  the  Alumnae  House,  as  so  many 
girls  seem  to  be!  Those  happy  days  there 
at  commencement  last  May  are  still  green 
in  my  memory.  I  have  heard  of  how  glor- 
iously the  campus  campaign  went  over  the 
top  and  I  hope  the  alumnae  can  do  as  well." 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of 
Lenore  Gardner,  '29,  to  Gilbert  Field,  of 
Atlanta.  Lenore  is  the  step-daughter  of 
Rachel  (Young)  Gardner.  Mr.  Field  is  the 
son  of  Dean  Floyd  Field,  of  Georgia  Tech. 

Hattie  Lee  (West)  Candler  and  her  hus- 
band have  returned  to  Atlanta  after  sev- 
eral weeks  in  Europe.  Mr.  Candler  has 
been  ill  all  fall,  and  it  was  hoped  that  the 
vacation  and  rest  would  benefit  him. 
1908 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 
1909 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Margaret  McCallie  and  Miss  Bright,  of 
the  Bright  School  in  Chattanooga  where 
Margaret  teaches,  were  at  Agnes  Scott  for 


a  short  while  during  Christmas.  They  were 
on  the  trail  of  some  early  American  furni- 
ture and  stopped  in  Decatur  long  enough 
to  call  on  Miss  McKinney  and  Dr.  Sweet. 
Margaret  will  go  back  to  Europe  this  sum- 
mer. 

1910 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Eloise  (Oliver)  Ellis'  husband  is  a  law- 
yer in  Atlanta.  They  have  three  children: 
Frampton,  Jr.,  John  Oliver,  and  Eloise 
Oliver. 

Margaret  Sienknecht  is  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Lutz,  553  Wellington  Ave.,  Chicago. 

Dorothea  (Snodgrass)  Townsend  is  liv- 
ing in  Porto  Rico  now.    Will  some  one  send 
her  full  address  to  the  alumnae  office? 
1911 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Adelaide  Cunningham  has  an  interest- 
ing article  in  another  part  of  this  Quar- 
terly describing  her  visit  to  the  English 
Parliament  last   summer. 

Gladys  (Lee)  Kelly  lost  her  mother  dur- 
ing last  October.  Gladys  has  sent  a  charm- 
ing picture  of  herself  and  husband,  her 
home,  and  her  three  little  girls:  Dorothy 
Lee  (aged  eleven),  Martha  (eight),  and 
Caroline  (four).  She  writes:  "I  enjoyed  a 
short  visit  recently  to  Bessie  (Powell) 
Stubbs  in  Atlanta." 

Marie  Parry  was  married  on  July  14, 
1928,  to  Mr.  Edwin  Howell  Blanchard,  edi- 
torial writer  on  the  New  York  "Sun."  They 
are  living  at  121  30th  St.,  Jackson  Hts., 
Long  Island,  New  York. 

Rebe  (Standifer)  Strickland,  her  army 
captain  husband,  and  small  son,  Harold, 
spent  the  Christmas  holidays  at  her  former 
home  in  Blakely,  Ga.  Bess  (Standifer) 
Gammon,  ex  '13,  and  her  husband  and  son 
were  in  Blakely  also. 

1912 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Annie  Chapin  McLane  writes  from 
Pensacola,  Fla.:  "You  should  see  what  a 
hardworking  woman  I  am  this  winter  as 
secretary  at  high  school.  I'm  enjoying  the 
work  a  lot  and  find  I  have  about  as  much 
time  as  when  I  was  doing  Social  Service, 
Red  Cross,  etc.  Also  there  is  a  pay  check 
every  month,  a  consideration  not  to  be 
sneezed  at!" 

Carol  (Steams)  Wey  was  unanimously 
elected  head  of  the  Home  for  the  Friend- 
less in  Atlanta  at  the  board  meeting  in 
January.  This  is  one  of  Atlanta's  great 
charitable  institutions  which  at  present 
is  erecting  an  entirely  new  plant  to  house 
its  many  boys  and  girls.  Carol's  election 
to  the  presidency  carried  great  responsi- 
bility and  great  honor  with  it. 

Jess     (Williams)     Irvine    is    buyer    for 


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Irvine's  Jewelry  store  in  LaCrosse,  Wis. 
Her  children  are  Williams  Westbrook, 
fifteen,  and  George  Gurney  Irvine,  Jr., 
aged  eleven. 

1913 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Lina  (Andrews)  Rauschenberg  has  been 
in  Nashville  to  attend  a  conference  of 
Methodist  Sunday  School  workers. 

Agnes  (Kendrick)  Jarvis  lives  in  Har- 
riman,  Tenn.,  where  her  husband  is  super- 
intendent of  schools.  She  has  seven  step- 
children. 

Sarah  (Skinner)  Starr's  daughter, 
Lillian,  is  a  senior  at  North  Avenue 
Presbyterian  School  in  Atlanta.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  school  dramatic  club,  and 
takes  leads  in  their  productions. 

Sara  Williams  is  a  social  worker  in 
Fayetteville,  N.  C. 

1914 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Bertha  Adams  writes:  "In  October  I  lost 
the  aunt  who  reared  me,  and  with  whom  I 
have  always  made  my  home.  She  took  the 
place  of  a  mother,  and  I  feel  her  loss 
keenly." 

From  Savannah  comes  this  note  from 
Ruth  (Blue)  Barnes:  "We  have  another 
son,  William  Albright,  born  May  9,  1928. 
My  family  now  consists  of  three  sons,  and 
hopes  of  sending  a  daughter  to  Agnes 
Scott  have  vanished." 

Charlotte  (Jackson)  Mitchell  writes: 
"We  have  moved  in  September  back  to 
Tuscumbia,  Ala.,  where  Colonel  Mitchell  is 
now  practicing  law.  Incidentally  it  is  my 
old  home,  so,  of  course,  I  am  delighted 
to  be  back  among  the  many  friends.  We 
have  quite  a  few  A.  S.  C.  girls  in  the 
tri-cities,  and  when  Dr.  McCain  came  to 
Tuscumbia  to  the  meeting  of  the  Synod  of 
Alabama  last  fall  we  had  a  very  delightful 
little  get-together  and  heard  all  about  the 
plans  for  greater  Agnes  Scott." 

Marguerite  (Wells)  Bishop  writes  of  her 
dissapointment  in  not  getting  to  the  New 
York  meeting  of  alumnae  in  October  when 
Dr.  McCain  was  there,  "but  my  husband 
was  out  of  town  and  I  couldn't  leave  my 
two  youngsters.  They  are  very  young 
youngsters,  you  see." 

1915 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Martha  (Brenner)  Shryock  writes:  "We 
didn't  get  south  for  Christmas  as  we  had 
hoped,  but  expect  to  come  as  soon  as  the 
flu  epidemic  gets  better.  We  shall  go  to 
Pensacola  for  a  week  to  visit  Chapin  Mc- 
Lane  and  then  on  to  Augusta.  If  I  can 
manage  it,  I  shall  come  by  the  Alumnae 
House  and  bring  my  husband  along  if  only 


to  glimpse  things  on  that  dear  campus." 

Lucy  Naive  was  married  on  December 
eighth  to  Mr.  Charles  Stanley  Swain  in 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

Jean  (Ashcraft)  Huske's  husband  is  in 
the  insurance  business  in  Fayetteville,  N. 
C.     They  have  one  daughter,  aged  three. 

Margaret  (Houser)  Woodruff's  husband 
is  the  physician  in  charge  of  the  home  for 
the  feeble-minded  children  of  Alabama. 

Virginia  (Lee)  McRae  has  two  little 
girls,  aged  four  and  five.  Mr.  McRae  is  a 
banker  and  farmer  at  Rockingham,  N.  C. 

Hattie  Earle  Montgomery  is  instructor 
in  history  at  the  Phillips  High  School  in 
Birmingham.  Since  leaving  Agnes  Scott 
she  has  studied  at  Columbia  University, 
the  University  of  Virginia,  and  Birming- 
ham Southern  College. 

Zoe  (Norris)  Rodman  is  the  wife  of  a 
farmer  at  Hoopeston,  111. 

'15's  class  news  seems  to  be  more  about 
the  husbands  than  about  the  girls  them- 
selves! But  here  is  an  item  "that  isn't 
about  my  husband,  for  I  haven't  got  one," 
writes  Isabel  Norwood.  "Take  me  out  of 
the  lost  column,  for  I  have  a  perfectly  good 
address.  This  is  it:  257  W.  86th  St.,  care 
Dixon,  New  York  City."  Isabel  is  a  pro- 
fessional singer. 

Almedia  (Sadler)  Duncan  has  moved  to 
Hampton,  Va.  Her  husband  is  a  captain  in 
the  air  service,  stationed  at  Langley  Field. 

Mary  (Slade)  Pope  is  another  captain's 
wife.  Her  husband  is  with  the  27th  In- 
fantry, on  National  Guard  duty  at  present, 
stationed  at  Carbondale,  111.  The  Popes 
have  two  children:  a  boy  seven  and  a 
girl  five. 

1916 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

1916  has  two  new  babies!  "The  arrival 
of  Nell  Frye  on  May  7th,  1928,  was  a  big 
event  for  us,"  writes  Nell  (Frye)  Johnston. 
"We  add  her  with  great  joy  to  her  three 
brothers.  She  has  brown  eyes  and  red 
hair.  We  plan  to  make  her  a  valuable  ad- 
dition to  the  class  of  1946  at  Agnes  Scott." 
The  other  new  baby  is  Thomas  Glenn 
Roberts,  born  December  11th  at  Rock 
Hill,  S.  C,  to  Ora  (Glen)  Roberts.  Ora 
writes:  "After  seven  years  of  waiting  I 
now  know  the  joy  of  having  a  son  of  my 
own!  He  came  on  his  father's  birthday 
and  just  two  weeks  before  Christmas,  so 
we  had  a  real  celebration  this  holiday  sea- 
son. Before  returning  to  Brazil  we  expect 
to  spend  a  few  months  in  Porto  Rico. 
Early  in  April,  however,  we  hope  to  be 
back  at  home  in  Lavras." 

Evelyn  (Goode)  Brock's  new  address  is 
21  Rockledge  Rd.,  Newton  Highlands, 
Mass. 


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Maryellen  (Harvey)  Newton  writes: 
"Wish  I  could  show  off  my  new  daughter, 
Martha  Reese,  at  Agnes  Scott.  She  is  very 
much  of  a  Hottentot  already.  You  know  the 
Martha  of  her  name  comes  from  her  aunt 
Mattie  (Newton)  Traylor,  and  she  was  bom 
on  her  cousin  Jan  Newton's  birthday.  I 
plan  that  both  my  daughters  will  be  at 
A.  S.  C.  in  1945  and  that  Adele  Pope 
Dieckmann  will  be  Martha  Reese's  room- 
mate ...  Of  course  I  eagerly  devoured 
the  November  Quarterly;  stopped  my  cake 
baking  on  Saturday  morning  to  read  it 
from  cover  to  cover." 

From  Des  Plaines,  111.,  comes  a  nice  let- 
ter from  Charis  (Hood)  Barwick:  "Prob- 
ably you  will  be  interested  to  hear  about 
a  little  Agnes  Scott  reunion  here  last  night. 
I  invited  Martha  (Brenner)  Shryock  and 
her  husband  and  Rebecca  (Green)  Hinds 
and  her  husband  to  dinner,  and  a  jolly  time 
we  three  college  sisters  had  talking  over 
old  times  .  .  .  We  have  laid  the  corner- 
stone for  our  new  church  and  parish  house 
and  as  the  minister's  wife,  of  course  I  am 
intensely  interested  in  the  progress  of  the 
building." 

Leila  (Johnson)  Moore's  fruitcake  and 
candy  have  acquired  such  a  reputation 
throughout  Atlanta  that  all  her  spare  mo- 
ments in  December  were  occupied  with 
measuring  and  stirring  and  baking.  The 
number  of  pounds  of  sugar  which  she  made 
into  Christmas  candies  sounds  so  fabulous 
and  we  won't  even  quote  it. 

Lula  Hester  McMurray  is  working  with 
the  Southern  Bell  Telephone  Company  in 
Atlanta. 

Mai"garet  Phythian  writes  from  Paris: 
"I  am  having  the  novel  experience  of  find- 
ing out  how  the  far  away  sisters  feel  when 
the  Alumnae  Quarterly  arrives.  I've  always 
been  right  there  on  the  campus  before,  and 
too  near  really  to  appreciate  it,  but  I  can 
tell  you  it  gives  a  thrill  at  this  distance. 
I  am  intensely  interested  in  the  campaign 
plans.  If  only  I  could  give  some  rummage 
sales  over  here!  Those  rummage  sales  for 
the  colored  sistren  in  Decatur  were  my 
strong  points!  ...  I  am  finally  settled 
in  my  plans  for  the  winter  and  am  hard 
at  work  at  the  Sorbonne.  I  had  planned 
to  work  at  the  University  of  Grenoble  and 
went  down  there  about  ten  days  ago  in 
order  to  get  settled  before  work  began  on 
November  5th.  I  spent  several  days  in  a 
vain  search  for  a  comfortable  room.  Gren- 
oble is  beautifully  located,  but  it  is  very 
old  and  there  are  very  few  apartments 
which  have  steam  heat.  In  most  cases  my 
question  called  forth  an  expression  of  pain- 
ed surprise,  behind  which  I  could  clearly 
read  disdain  for  the  luxury-loving  Ameri- 
can. I  finally  chose  a  room  in  a  private 
home — and  spent  almost  one  whole  night 
there!     I  was  up  at  4  A.  M.  consulting  the 


train  schedule,  and  before  noon  was  packed 
and  on  my  way  back  to  Paris.  I  got  back 
in  time  to  register  early  at  the  Sorbonne, 
and  am  only  number  2080,  so  I'll  certainly 
get  a  front  seat.  I  stood  in  line  exactly 
three  and  a  half  hours  to  get  registered! 
.  .  .  Tomorrow  is  armistice  day.  The  Arc 
de  Triomphe  and  all  the  buildings  and 
statues  about  the  Place  de  la  Concorde  are 
to  be  beautifully  illuminated  from  6  P.  M. 
till  midnight.  There  is  a  big  parade  before 
dark,  and  a  ceremony  under  the  Arc." 

Anna  (Sykes)  Bryars  lives  in  the  native 
section  of  Shanghai.  Her  mother  is  with 
her.  Anna's  little  daughter  who  was  born 
there  last  year  is  a  beautiful  child,  say 
other  Agnes  Scott  alumnae  in  Shanghai 
who  have  seen  her. 

As  vice  president  of  the  Womans  Auxil- 
iary of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Atlanta,  Clara  (Whips)  Dunn  was  a  splen- 
did and  efficient  worker  in  their  drive  for 
funds   during   November. 

Louisa  Faucette  is  studying  at  Dr. 
White's  Bible  School  in  New  York  City. 

Aileen  (Fisher)  Freels'  husband  is  the 
owner  of  Freels  Drug  Store  in  Morris- 
town,  Tenn.  She  has  three  girls — Char- 
lotte, Mary  Nelson,  and  Julia. 

Ruth      (Waddell)       Cantrell      lives      in 
Smyrna,  Ga.,  where  her  husband  is  an  elec- 
trician.    They  have  two  children — Cather- 
ine Louise,  eight,  and  Lucy  Harrold,  five. 
1917 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Four  new  addresses  seem  to  constitute 
the  whole  of  '17's  news  for  this  issue. 
Martha  Dennison  is  living  at  155  3rd  St., 
N.  E.,  Atlanta. 

Georgiana  (White)  Miller  has  moved  to 
1216  N.  Dixie  Ave.,  Orlando,  Fla. 

Annie  Louise  Barker  is  Mrs.  Rosson 
Morrow,  Birch  Lynn,  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 
Her  husband  is  a  tobacconist. 

Florence   (Ellis)    Henderson  has  moved 
from    Charleston    to    3608    Rosedale    Rd., 
Ashburton,  Baltimore,  Md. 
1918 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

Hallie  (Alexander)  Turner  is  the  presi- 
dent of  the  recently  organized  Columbus, 
Ga.,  Agnes  Scott  Alumnae  Club. 

Lois  Grier  is  teaching  mathematics  again 
in  the  Statesville,  N.  C,  High  School. 

Helen  (Hood)  Coleman's  new  address  is 
704  Sunset  Ave.,  Dallas,  Tex.  She  has  two 
children:  Jessie  Joy,  five,  and  Robert 
Emerson,  who  will  be  one  in  April.  Mr. 
Coleman    is   a   broker. 

Samille  (Lowe)  Skeen  and  her  electrical 
engineer  husband  do  move!  The  new  ad- 
dress given  in  the  November  Quarterly  is 
the  old  address  now.  They  may  be  found 
(until  the  April  Quarterly)  at  724  Custer 
St.,  Brush,  Colo. 

Evamaie    (Willingham)    Park    is    doing 


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substituting     teaching     in     the     Atlanta 
schools. 

1919 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

For  about  two  years  we  have  called  up 
and  down  over  the  width  and  breadth  of 
the  land  in  the  blackest  of  capitals  and  the 
most  emaciated  italics,  "Can  ANYbody 
furnish  Blanche  (Copeland)  Gifford's  ad- 
dress?" Issue  after  issue  we  published 
this  plea,  and  sent  private  search  cards  out 
too:  No  results!  Then  one  day  in  Novem- 
ber while  looking  up  a  G  in  the  Atlanta 
phone  book,  we  find  a  phone  listed  for 
"Mrs.  H.  H.  Gifford,  2814  Peachtree  Road," 
within  "hollerin'  distance"  of  the  Alumnae 
House,    almost! 

Lulu  (Smith)  Westcott  continues  to  be 
an  energetic  and  news-getting  secretary. 
She  sends  in  the  following:  "Lois  Eve  has 
been  doing  a  lot  of  interesting  things,  so  I 
wrote  and  finally  persuaded  her  to  'tell 
the  story  of  her  life.'  Here  it  is:  'For 
eight  long  weary  years  I've  been  teaching 
at  Tubman  High  School  here  in  Augusta. 
It's  been  many  subjects,  but  I  usually 
teach  general  science  in  its  concentrated 
essence.  I'm  not  wedded  to  the  job,  but 
'tis  most  convenient  in  the  summer  days, 
for  I'm  infected  with  wanderlust,  and  a 
three  months  vacation  is  wonderful.  I've 
forgotten  what  I  did  in  '19,  '20  and  '21,  ex- 
cept indulge  in  a  few  houseparties.  The 
summer  of  '22  was  spent  in  New  York, 
'23  in  Europe,  '25  in  California.  I  worked 
for  professional  credit  at  the  University 
of  Georgia  and  ended  at  Beaufort  and 
Paris  Island  for  a  rest  in  '26.  The  sum- 
mer of  '27  Elizabeth  Henry,  '24,  and  I 
cruised  around  the  Mediterranean  and  up 
to  Norway  and  Sweden.  The  summer  of 
'28  found  me  back  in  New  York  at- 
tempting to  take  a  serious  view  of  the 
work  I  hope  to  see  bloom  into  an  MA.  in 
English.  The  winters  are  spent  doing 
various  stunts,  such  as  helping  direct  the 
Tubman  Dramatic  Club,  putting  on  a  Little 
Theatre  play,  helping  publish  'Public 
School  News.'  I  really  like  bridge,  swim- 
ming, eating,  dancing,  and  driving  Lizzie 
Eve.'  " 

Mary  Dwight  (Ford)  Kennerly  an- 
nounced the  birth  on  December  27th  of  a 
new  daughter.  Her  other  child,  Mary 
Jeanne,  is  now  three  years  old. 

Bess  (Ham)  Harmon  and  her  professor 
husband  are  settled  in  Yazoo  City,  Miss., 
for   the   winter. 

Mary  Katherine  Parks  started  out  Janu- 
ary 1st  on  her  new  job,  traveling  for  Camp 
Nakanawa,  located  at  Mayland,  Tenn. 

Dorothy  (Thigpen)  Shea  is  in  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.,  for  a  few  months  to  recuper- 
ate  from   pneumonia. 

Llewellyn  Wilburn  spent  the  Christmas 
holidays  visiting  in  Nashville  and  playing 


golf.  Llewellyn  has  introduced  many  new 
stunts  into  the  gym  department  at  Agnes 
Scott;  archery  and  tumbling  classes  are 
her  latest. 

Helen  Ewing  has  been  teaching  in  Bir- 
mingham at  the  Lulie  Compton  Seminary 
for  several  years,  but  she  is  at  home  in 
Lewisbux-g,   Tenn.,  this  winter. 

Annie  Lee  (Gray)  Lindgren  was  visiting 
her  sister  in  Atlanta  during  November  and 
was  one  of  the  alumnae  who  was  a  guest 
at  the  Anna  Young  birthday  tea  in  the 
Alumnae  House. 

Rosa  Haynes  is  living  at  103  S.  Mt. 
Vernon,  Prescott,  Ariz. 

Dorothy  (Mitchell)  Ellis  writes  from 
New  York:  "I  wish  I  had  a  good  snapshot 
of  my  three  months  old  son  to  send  for  the 
scrapbook,  but  we  have  not  had  a  bit  of 
luck  in  taking  pictui-es  of  him.  ...  I 
wanted  to  go  to  Poughkeepsie  for  the 
Vassar-Agnes  Scott  debate  and  lend  my 
voice  in  cheering  our  victorious  team,  but 
my  son  had  not  attempted  that  long  a 
trip  yet,  and  he  would  not  have  been 
very  happy  if  I  went  off  and  left  him." 

After  leaving  Agnes  Scott,  Tilla  (Plow- 
den)  Parkins  studied  at  the  University 
of  Georgia,  and  at  Union  College  in  Ne- 
braska. She  has  one  child,  Jean  Chase 
Parkins,  aged  two.  Tilla's  husband  is  an 
engineer  with  the  Ford  Motor  Company 
in  Shellman,  Ga. 

Rosalie  (Scharff)  Simon  is  living  in 
Montgomery,  Ala.  Her  husband  is  travel- 
ing salesman  for  the  Whitney  National 
Bank  of  New  Orleans. 

Clema  (Wootten)  Talley's  clear  soprano 
voice  was  one  of  the  loveliest  features  of 
the  alumnae  vesper  service  held  in  the 
college  chapel  in  November.  Clema  is 
studying  with  Mrs.  Eunice  Curry  Prescott, 
of  Atlanta,  who  will  be  remembered  by 
many  A.  S.  C.  alumnae  as  voice  teacher  at 
the  college  before  her  marriage  in  1923. 
1920 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

"No  news  is  good  news"  sometimes  may  be 
true. 

Much  news  is  good  news  when  it  comes 
from  you. 

A  Thanksgiving  tale — a  Christmas  greet- 
ing bright, 

And  Happy  New  Year — fill  this  card  up 
right. 

Add  personal  news,  and  then  send  it  back, 

By  December  8th,  to  Secretary  Crip  Slack. 

Secretary  Crip's  double  postal  with  its 
fetching  verse  brought  in  a  nice  crop  of 
replies,  quoted  below.  Those  of  you  who 
didn't  return  yours,  can  do  so  now  and 
we'll  hear  from  you  in  the  April  Quarterly. 

Margaret  Bland  says:  "There  is  little 
news  to  write  about  myself.     I  am  saving 


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money  and  studying  German  with  the 
hope  that  I  can  do  more  graduate  work 
next  year.  My  little  play  'Pink  and 
Patches'  is  just  off  the  press  (Samuel 
French  Company),  and  the  play  'Lighted 
Candles'  is  in  the  new  volume  of  Carolina 
Folk  Plays  that  Henry  Holt  is  publishing 
this  fall.  But  news  of  other  folks'  plays 
like  other  folks'  babies  is  generally  boring 
to  all  except  those  especially  concerned." 
Since  writing  that  card  Margaret  has  had 
still  another  play  accepted  for  publication. 

Mary  (Burnett)  Thorington  has  a  third 
daughter  born  during  the  Christmas  holi- 
days, and  "probably  named  Helen." 

"There  is  absolutely  no  news  about  me," 
says  Alice  Cooper.  "I'm  still  writing  ad- 
vertising, and  enjoying  life  about  as  usual. 
But  I  enjoyed  so  much  hearing  about 
everyone  else  in  the  last  Quarterly.  It 
makes  me  want  to  do  something  odd  or 
exciting,  just  to  give  you  some  news  to 
write  up!  During  the  past  six  months 
I've  been  interested  in  moving;  our  family 
moved  to  another  house  and  another  part 
of  town,  and  that  was  absorbing  for 
awhile.  For  five  months  I  worked  just 
half  time,  to  have  a  little  vacation,  but  now 
am  back  in  the  office  with  the  8:30  to 
5:30  schedule  on  again." 

Romola  Davis  is  very  busy  writing  in- 
surance in  Clearwater,  Fla. 

Sarah  (Davis)  Murphy's  husband  is  dis- 
tributor for  Ford  motor  cars  in  Jackson- 
ville, Fla.     Sarah  has  two  children. 

Juliet  (Foster)  Spear's  card  reads: 
"Your  noble  efforts  deserve  more  news 
than  they  have  henceforth  produced  from 
me.  My  excuse  for  not  answering  the 
first  card  was  a  sick  husband.  He  was  in 
bed  five  weeks.  Add  to  a  sick  husband  a 
sick  child  and  a  six  months  old  baby 
and  your  hands  are  certainly  full.  And  by 
the  way,  I  don't  think  William  Andrew 
Speer's  birth  was  announced  in  the  Quar- 
terly.     His    birthday   is    March    24." 

Julia  (Hagood)  Cuthbertson  and  Ger- 
trude (Manly)  McFax'land  have  sent  some 
adorable  pictures  of  Marie  and  little  Ger- 
trude for  the  class  scrapbook.  Surely  the 
rest  of  you  '20  mothers  aren't  going  to 
let  them  get  ahead  of  you? 

Lulie  (Harris)  Henderson  writes:  "My 
visit  to  Agnes  Scott  last  May  was  wonder- 
ful. Never  have  enjoyed  anything  quite 
as  much.  I  had  dreaded  it  in  a  way,  be- 
cause of  the  many  changes  that  had  taken 
place.  There  was  no  need  of  that  dread, 
for  so  many  friends  were  back  too  that 
they  took  away  any  sad  feeling  I  might 
have  had.  .  .  .  My  oldest  child  started 
to  school  in  the  fall.  She  is  delighted  with 
it,  and  already  talks  of  going  to  college. 
If  I  have  my  way,  of  course  that  college 
will    be    dear   old    Agnes    Scott." 


"Tip"  (Holtzclaw)  Blanks  and  her  hus- 
band spent  Christmas  in  Cochran,  Ga. 

Louise  (Johnson)  Blalock  says  that  her 
nine  months  old  baby  keeps  her  so  busy 
that  she  has  no  time  even  to  write  postal 
cards. 

Emilie  Keyes  is  still  fascinated  with  her 
job  as  reporter  with  the  Palm  Beach  Post. 
She  writes:  "The  last  request  for  news  for 
the  Quarterly  hit  me  just  at  the  time  the 
storm  did,  and  for  two  solid  weeks  I  did 
nothing  but  'cover'  the  storm  and  try  to 
repair  damages.  The  hurricane  is  too 
ancient  history  for  it  to  be  interesting  now, 
but  I  could  write  a  volume  on  it.  I  came 
through  wonderfully  well  personally.  I 
don't  know  if  anyone  would  have  recog- 
nized me  on  Monday,  September  17,  clad 
in  a  bathing  suit,  alternately  typewriting 
furiously  and  stirring  the  soup  on  my  pet 
oil  stove  which  I  had  moved  up  to  the  edi- 
torial offices,  and  on  which  I  ran  a  can- 
teen for  reporters.  But  Floi'ida  has  al- 
ready come  back,  and  I  wish  more  of  you 
could  enjoy  this  gorgeous  weather  with 
me." 

Elizabeth  Lovett's  new  address  is  969  St. 
Charles  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Atlanta. 

Marian  (McCamy)  Sims  writes:  "I  can't 
imagine  anything  exciting  happening  to 
me,  but  my  Scotch  ancestry  won't  let  me 
ignore  a  stamped  postcard,  so  here  is  a 
line  from  me  just  to  fill  it  up." 

A  new  son,  born  January  14  to  Lois 
(Maclntyre)  Beall,  has  been  named  Dan 
Maclntyre  Beall. 

Virginia  McLaughlin  says  that  Mc  in 
her  name  means  she  is  Scotch  too.  She 
writes:  "Was  so  glad  to  hear  from  you, 
Crip,  in  characteristic  style.  Will  you  go 
on  whooping-her-up  until  the  end  of  time? 
Good!  In  my  case  no  news  is  good  news 
more  or  less.  I'm  still  in  the  library  sys- 
tem here  and  like  it.  I'd  surely  like  to 
see  some  of  the  class.  If  any  of  them 
come  through  Washington,  my  address  is 
1622  29th  St.,  N.  W.,  and  my  phone  is 
North  1270." 

"School  teachers  are  almost  too  busy 
writing  'merit,  pass,  fail'  to  have  time  to 
write  postcards,"  says  Elizabeth  Marsh. 
"I  have  been  working  with  tests  for  school 
report  time  and  preparing  to  spend  the 
week-end  in  Chattanooga  with  Sarah  Stan- 
sell,  '21.  This  summer  I  was  director  of 
chorus  music  at  the  Balsam  Mountain  Fine 
Arts  Colony  at  Balsam,  N.  C,  of  which 
Mis.  W.  M.  Hutchinson  is  head.  You  know 
I  had  a  good  time  when  I  tell  you  that 
Mrs.  Askew  and  Betty,  '24,  were  also  di- 
rectors there.  We  had  lovely  horseback 
rides  along  those  North  Carolina  trails! 
I  also  visited  my  aunt  in  Asheville,  and 
now  I  am  at  home  and  in  my  same  old 
place  at  North  Avenue  Presbyterian 
School,   which   to   my  way  of   thinking   is 


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the  best  prep  school  in  the  world  for  the 
best  college  in  the  world — A.  S.  C." 

Laura  Stockton  (Molloy)  Dowling  says: 
"No  news  from  me  either.  Sorry  to  be 
late  writing,  but  my  young  son  has  been 
such  a  handful  until  quite  recently  that  I 
have  been  even  more  absent-minded  than 
usual." 

Margery  (Moore)  McAulay  writes: 
"This  is  one  occasion  when  I  have  plenty 
of  time.  I  had  to  keep  up  with  Gertrude 
Manly  and  had  an  operation.  While  I'm 
convalescing  I'm  catching  up  with  my  cor- 
respondence. I've  the  time,  but  nothing  to 
write!  Only  that  from  now  on  I  can 
preface  every  remark  on  any  subject  at 
all  with  'now,  when  I  had  my  oper- 
ation—!' " 

Margaret  (Sanders)  Brannon  has  moved 
to  San  Marcos,  Texas.  She  writes:  "We 
came  down  here  last  May  when  Bruce 
finished  his  course  in  the  Seminary  in 
Austin.  We  like  the  town,  the  people,  the 
new  manse  they  built  for  us,  and  the 
fact  that  it  is  a  college  town.  Just  wish 
it  were  closer  to  Agnes  Scott  when  com- 
mencement and  reunions  roll  'round!  My 
one  and  only  son,  Bobby  by  name,  is  twen- 
ty months  old  now  and  I'll  sure  match  him 
against  any  other  Agnes  Scott  'grandson' 
his  age." 

Margaret  (Shive)  Bellingrath  voices  the 
sentiment  of  us  all  when  she  says:  "It 
does  seem  that  the  rest  of  us  could  do  our 
part  towairls  contributing  news  for  the 
Quarterly,  when  the  secretary  is  so  faith- 
ful! .  .  .  But  I  haven't  a  thing  exciting 
to  tell.  We  moved  from  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  last  may — came  away  with  a  big 
rake-off.  The  church  there  was  so  re- 
lieved to  see  us  go  that  they  gave  us 
everything  but  their  heads:  a  portable 
typewriter,  a  white  gold  watch  and  chain 
to  George,  while  gold  wrist  watch  to  me, 
and  a  bank  account  to  the  baby.  And 
they  gave  us  a  Ford  car  to  drive  to  Geor- 
gia! Talk  about  Yankees  not  being  grand 
folks!  .  .  .  We  are  living  in  my  old  home 
place  on  Sycamore  Street  in  Decatur.  I 
have  a  cute  little  toddler  named  Jean  who 
is  impish  and  who  takes  up  all  my  time." 

A  letter  from  Crip  herself  dated  Decem- 
ber 14  says:  "At  present  I  am  turning 
around  at  a  rapid  rate  of  speed  in  order  to 
spend  Christmas  in  Decatur  with  the  little 
Slacks,  have  a  day  in  Mobile,  two  in  New 
Orleans,  and  then  take  a  sixteen-day 
cruise  on  a  United  Fruit  Company  Ship. 
What  could  sound  better  than  New  Year's 
eve  and  the  two  following  days  in  Cuba, 
four  or  five  in  Panama,  one  in  Central 
America,  and  then  back  again?  I  am  all 
for  a  vacation  in  the  winter  time!  .  .  . 
I  was  ever  so  thrilled  over  the  news  in 
the  last  Quarterly,  especially  the  Junior 
year  abroad  plan.     I  am  simply  convinced 


that  I  was  born  about  fifteen  years  too 
soon,  as  I  seem  to  be  missing  so  many 
added  attractions  at  Agnes  Scott." 

A  bit  about  Margaret  Winslett  appears 
in  a  letter  (quoted  more  fully  in  the  '21 
class  news)  from  Frances  Charlotte 
(Markley)  Roberts,  '21:  "Margaret  had 
dinner  with  us  when  she  was  in  Shanghai 
this  summer;  now  she  has  gone  inland  to 
her  missionary  station.  I  read  an  inter- 
esting account  of  her  trip  there  on  boat 
and  wheel-barrow  and  on  foot.  Those  who 
have  gone  to  such  remote  spots  in  these 
troublous  days  are  certainly  full  of  high 
courage." 

There  are  several  new  addresses  and 
other  news  items  from  '20's  non-gradaute 
members: 

Formerly  lost,  Nell  Gene  Caldwell  has 
been  found  at  309  N.  Hull  St.,  Montgom- 
ery, Ala. 

Alice  Slater  (Cannon)  Guille's  new  ad- 
dress is  425  N.  Fisher  St.,  Salisbury,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  Rubye  Rothwell  Carroll  is  the  wife 
of  Roosevelt  Walker,  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar young  professors  at  the  University  of 
Georgia. 

Julia  Cohen  is  Mrs.  Ralph  Wolfe,  372 
Sterling  Place,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Her  hus- 
band is  a  physician. 

Elise  Hay  Currell  teaches  music  in  Co- 
lumbia, S.  C. 

Marguerite  (Davis)  Velte  is  home  from 
the  Punjab  for  a  visit  with  her  family  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.  She  plans  to  remain  in 
America  until  next  August. 

Lillian  (Jenkins)  Middleton  has  moved 
to  the  Okhart  Arms,  Okhart,  111.  Her  hus- 
band is  a  lawyer. 

Mary  (Jones)  Ryley  has  moved  to  Lark- 
spur, Colo. 

Victoria  Miller  is  helping  her  sister 
manage  The  Irene  Hat  Shop  in  Decatur. 

Frances  Sibyl  (Nunnellee)  Wells  lives  at 
1225  S.  Court  St.,  Montgomery,  Ala.  Her 
husband  is  teaching  in  the  city  schools. 
They  have  one  son  seven  years  old. 

Mildred  Louise  (Steele)  Anderson's  hus- 
band has  a  men's  clothing  store  in  Hunts- 
ville,  Ala.  Their  two  sons  are  Harvey 
Gordon,  Jr.,  nine,  and  Jack  Wilfred,  four. 

Velma  Louise  (Walker)  Hale's  new  ad- 
dress is  303  N.  13th  St.,  Ballinger,  Tex. 

Chloie  Walling  was  married  in  the  fall 
to  Mr.  John  O'Neal,  a  traveling  man  with 
headquarters   in   Huntsville,  Ala. 

Martha  (Webb)  Shepard's  husband  is  a 
lawyer  in  Mobile,  Ala.  They  have  two 
children — Mary,  ten,  and  Tazewell,  eight. 

Hortense  Zacharias  teaches  Latin  in  the 
Columbus,    Ga.,    high    school. 
1921 

Next  class  reunion,  this  May! 

Dot  (Allen)  Tucker's  baby,  Mary  Allen 
Tucker,  was  born  on  November  1.  She 
has  blue  eyes,  and  red  hair,  of  course! 


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Class  reunion  in  May. 

Peg  (Bell)  Hanna  writes  from  Virginia: 
"Please  don't  let  the  next  Quarterly  come 
out  without  announcing  my  daughter, 
Elizabeth  (Betty)  Massie  Hanna,  born  De- 
cember 1." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Myrtle  Blackmon  is  librarian  at  the  Co- 
lumbus, Ga.,  High  School. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Eleanor  Carpenter,  harpist,  was  one  of 
the  chief  entertainers  at  the  reception 
given  by  the  Democratic  ladies  of  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  to  Mrs.  Alfred  Smith  during 
October. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Lois  (Compton)  Jennings  was  called 
home  to  Atlanta  in  December  by  the  death 
of  her  mother. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Mary  Robb  (Finney)  Bass  has  two  chil- 
dren: a  three-year-old  daughter  and  a 
son,  one.  Her  husband  is  a  railroad  chem- 
ist in  Ensley,  Ala. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Louise  Fluker  is  not  teaching  this  win- 
ter, but  is  spending  her  time  at  home 
and  visiting  in  Atlanta. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Sarah  Fulton  is  teaching  again  at  the 
Girls  High  School  in  Atlanta.  She  lives 
at  home. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Helen  (Hall)  Hopkins  writes  from  San 
Francisco:  "In  spite  of  my  fondness  for 
Georgia  and  Decatur,  when  my  husband 
was  suddenly  transferred  out  here  in  De- 
cember, I  felt  I'd  better  come  along  too. 
I  get  furious  every  time  I  think  of  how 
many  extended  visits  I  was  planning  to 
make  to  the  Alumnae  House  and  to  all  the 
plays  and  other  Agnes  Scott  events  which 
I  had  to  miss  during  my  school  teaching 
spinsterhood  days!  ...  I  am  looking 
forward  to  the  next  Quarterly.  I  read  the 
last  one  between  cactuses,  so  to  speak,  as 
we  came  across  the  desert.  If  any  alumnae 
wander  out  this  way  I  wish  they  would 
look  me  up.  I'd  love  to  have  them  out 
at  my  apartment,  or  go  rambling  in 
Chinatown  with  them."  Helen's  address  is 
180  Mallorca  Way,  Apt.  201. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Mariwil  (Hanes)  Hulsey's  address  is 
21  S.  10th  St.,  Griffin,  Ga.  Her  husband 
is  executive  secretary  of  one  of  Griffin's 
big  cotton  mills. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Sarah  Harrison  and  Amy  Twitty  are 
teaching  in  Miami,  Fla.,  again  this  winter. 
Sarah's  address  is  1236  S.  W.  7th  St.,  and 
Twitty  lives  at  B-ll,  Granada  Apartments. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Anne  (Hart)  Equen  has  had  Lula  Groves 
(Campbell)  Ivy,  ex  '22,  as  her  visitor  early 
in  December.     Anne  works  at  the  Junior 


League  Tea  Room  occasionally,  and  keeps 
busy  with  league  work  and  with  her  two 
children,    Anne    and    Carol. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Peg  (Hedrick)  Nichols  and  her  husband 
drove  down  from  Virginia  to  Atlanta  for 
the  Tech-Vanderbilt  game  in  October  and 
Peg  came  out  to  Agnes  Scott  for  a  few 
minutes.  She  has  two  chlidren — ages  four 
and  two.  Her  husband  is  manager  of  the 
Nickles    Manufacturing   Company. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Emily  (Hutter)  Stewart  is  teaching 
English  in  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

When  candidate  Al  Smith  visited  Stone 
Mountain  in  October,  young  Bill  Evans 
McCurdy,  aged  five,  "did  the  honors." 
Among  other  things  he  informed  Al  that 
he  had  named  his  fox  hound  for  him,  and 
that  if  Al  could  run  as  good  a  race  as 
that  hound  could,  he  would  certainly  be 
elected.  Bill  is  the  son  of  Sarah  (Mc- 
Curdy)   Evans. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

In  a  letter  from  Shanghai  we  leam  that 
Frances  Charlotte  (Markley)  Roberts'  son 
has  been  named  Harley  McNair,  for  his 
father's  best  friend,  a  professor  at  the 
University  of  Chicago.  His  mother  writes 
that  "he  is  a  good  baby  who  sleeps  and 
surveys  the  world  alternately.  Fortunately 
in  China  it  is  possible  to  get  a  nurse  to 
help,  or  perhaps  my  mother's  worst  fears 
would  be  realized!  The  amah  keeps  an 
eye  on  him  while  I  teach,  when  I  play 
my  daily  round  of  golf,  and  when  I  go 
out.  Now  he  is  so  young  that  he  only 
wants  to  eat  and  sleep  and  be  amused  a 
little  in  the  late  afternoon.  I  think  he 
would  be  content  without  this  amusement, 
but  I  understand  that  babies  need  some 
daily  conversation  in  order  to  be  intelli- 
gent! Since  he  was  a  month  old  he  has 
moved  around  the  bed  with  much  agility, 
frightening  me  into  fits  by  poking  his  head 
through  the  bars.  ...  I  have  become  in- 
tensely interested  in  far  eastern  questions, 
have  done  a  fair  amount  of  study  in  the 
School  of  Chinese  Studies,  and  I've  kepi 
up  my  reading.  The  language  difficulty  is 
so  great  that  it  is  going  to  be  almost  im- 
possible for  any  westerners  to  approach 
China  in  that  way.  Even  those  who  have 
spent  most  of  their  lives  here  still  do 
their  work,  in  most  cases,  with  the  aid 
of  a  Chinese  teacher.  I  find  that  with  my 
other  work  I  do  not  get  much  language 
study.  I  am  teaching  six  hours  a  week  in 
the  University  in  the  history  department. 
I  have  two  sections  in  European  history 
from  the  French  revolution,  with  more 
than  sixty  students.  I  am  making  a 
syllabus,  so  if  I  teach  next  year  I'll  be 
able  to  d.i  it  with  less  work  in  preparation 
for  the  students.     We  are  trying  to  keep 


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in  very  close  touch  with  our  student  body, 
which  is  smaller  this  year  than  formerly, 
due  to  the  strict  entrance  requirements 
(academic,  but  chiefly  non-academic)  by 
which  we  have  tried  to  eliminate  all  who 
might  prove  disturbing.  The  students  in 
other  schools  have  tried  to  break  us  up, 
too.  For  academic  excitement,  China  is 
the  place  to  come.  .  .  .  One  of  Donald's 
students  comes  to  me  to  borrow  my  baby 
books,  which  he  takes  home  and  reads  to 
him  wife.  He  seems  to  be  grieved  that 
he  cannot  convert  his  parents  to  the  "scien- 
tific" methods  of  child-rearing.  He  told 
Donald  he  feared  his  wife  was  a  "weak 
chai'acter"  because  she  gave  in  to  her 
mother-in-law!  Imagine  a  Chinese  son 
praising  that  most  un-daughter-in-law 
quality — non-obedience!  Surely  China  is 
changing.  It  is  truly  difficult  to  realize 
the  position  of  the  Chinese  student  just 
now — there  is  so  little  opportunity  for  him 
after  he  is  educated.  A  country  in  the 
midst  of  civil  war  is  not  kind  to  its  young 
people." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Theressa  Newton  is  at  home  this  win- 
ter, working  with  her  father  on  the 
"Madisonian."  She  is  in  charge  of  the 
society    column. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Lina  Parry  writes:  "I  am  tremendously 
interested  in  my  stamp  collection  right 
now.  It  has  been  about  five  years  since  I 
took  this  for  a  hobby,  and  now  I  have 
about  fifteen  hundred  stamps  and  three 
albums.  .  .  .  Lillian  (Johnson)  Ramsey, 
ex  '16,  works  in  the  same  office  that  I 
do.  I  also  see  Alice  Cooper,  '20,  occasion- 
ally, and  Edna  ('24)  and  Hester  ('16)  Mc- 
Murray.  Hester  has  lunch  with  Lillian 
and  me  quite  often." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Janef  Preston  spent  the  Christmas  holi- 
days at  Agnes  Scott  completing  her 
master's  thesis.  She  moved  from  Boyd 
cottage,  her  regular  habitat,  over  to  Main 
Building  and  set  up  the  thesis-writing 
machinery.  She  slept  in  one  room,  ate  in 
another,  wrote  in  another,  re-wrote  in  an- 
other, corrected  in  another,  typed  in  still 
another — in  fact  there  was  scarcely  a  room 
on  second  floor  Main  in  which  Author 
Janef  did  not  strew  manuscript.  "For  once 
in  my  life,"  says  Janef,  "I  had  enough 
room  in  which  to  spread  out  things,  but  it 
certainly  took  in  practically  the  whole 
building!" 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Martha  Stansfield  spent  the  Christmas 
holidays  in  Tampa,  Fla.,  with  her  parents. 
Martha  is  teaching  Latin  at  Agnes  Scott 
this  year,  and  chaperoning  Sturgiss  cot- 
tage. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Marguerite    (Watkins)    Goodman's   hus- 


band is  a  bank  teller  in  Jackson  ,Miss. 
Their  daughter,  aged  two,  is  named  Julia 
Watkins  Goodman. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Helen  Wayt  enjoyed  her  planned  two 
weeks  visit  in  New  York  in  the  fall  so 
much  that  she  stretched  them  out  into 
practically  as  many  months,  and  visited 
in  Richmond  and  with  Jule  (Hagood) 
Cuthbertson  in  Charlotte  on  the  way  home. 
She  saw  Louise  Payne  and  her  attractive 
shop,  "The  Green  Gate";  Jeannette 
(Archer)  Neal;  Ruth  (dwell)  Choate 
and   baby;    "and   others." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Frances  (Whitfield)  Elliott  has  moved 
to  1521  Astor  St.,  Norristown,  Pa. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Ellen  Wilson  is  teaching  in  a  Training 
School  for  Christian  Workers  in  Philadel- 
phia.   Her  address  is  1122  Spruce  Street. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Margaret  Anderson  is  a  post  office  clerk 
at   Bristol,   Tenn. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Elise  (Bohannon)  Maier  lives  at  2217 
Alta  Ave.,  Louisville,  Ky.  Her  husband 
is  in  the  real  estate  business.  They  have 
two  children — Julia  Anne,  three  and  a  half, 
and  George,  aged  one.  Julia  Anne  was 
badly  burned  in  an  accident  this  past  sum- 
mer and  has  been  very  ill  during  the 
fall. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Ethel  (Bookhammer)  Mason's  new  ad- 
dress is  6  Walnut  PL,  Great  Neck,  Long 
Island,   N.   Y. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Dorothy  Breese  lives  at  40  E.  Coloveros 
St.,  Altadena,  Calif. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Augusta  Benning  Crawford  was  recently 
married  to  Mr.  H.  P.  Burgard,  II.  Their 
address  is  714  Auburn  Ave.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Louise  (Jones)  McGibbert  is  living  at 
Fort  Sill,  Okla. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Martha  Mcintosh  (Brantley)  Ball's  hus- 
band is  in  the  hardware  business  at 
Thomasville,  Ga.  They  have  a  three-year 
old  daughter. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Isabel  Pope  is  assistant  manager  of  the 
Commercial  Transportation  Company  in 
Mobile,  Ala. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Olive  Berry  (Pringle)  Brown  has  moved 
to  Montezuma,  Ga.  She  has  one  child — 
Bobby,  Jr.,  aged  two. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Margaret  Roach  was  married  on  Oc- 
tober 23  to  Mr.  Kennedy  Allen,  of  Tunica, 
Miss.  Mr.  Allen  is  a  graduate  of  Georgia 
Tech. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 


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Katherine  (Still)  Kirk's  husband  is  a 
surgeon  in  Tupelo,  Miss.  They  have  one 
son,  Robert  Dixon  Kirk,  III,  born  October 
24,   1928. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Julia  (Tomlinson)  Ingram  lives  at  Apt. 
101,  2726  Girard  St.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Her  husband  sells  securities.  They  have 
no  children. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Evelyn  Wade,  who  will  alwyas  be  re- 
membered as  the  member  of  '21  who  ran 
away  from  college  during  her  freshman 
year  to  marry  Bob  Harwood,  is  living  in 
Trenton,  Tenn.  She  and  Bob  have  two 
sons  and  one  daughter. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Eliza  Bennett  (Young)  Heavey  graduat- 
ed from  Goucher  College  after  leaving 
Agnes  Scott.  She  has  one  child — Nancy, 
aged  two.  Her  husband  sells  life  insurance 
in    Louisville,    Ky. 

1922 

Next  class  reunion,  this   May! 

Secretary  S.  K.  T.  Davis  hasn't  let  Sec- 
retary Crip  Slack,  '20,  get  ahead  of  her! 
Her  letters  to  her  flock  have  brought  in 
the   following  replies: 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Mary  Barton  is  still  delighted  with  her 
library  work  in  Baltimore.  She  spent 
half  of  her  summer  vacation  in  Florida 
with  Helen,  the  other  half  in  Sewanee, 
Tenn.,  and  Thanksgiving  holidays  in  New 
York. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Liz  Brown  writes:  "I  am  here  in  Albany, 
Ga.,  as  executive  secretary  of  the  Dough- 
erty County  Welfare  Society.  Been  here 
two  years.  Spent  month  in  New  York 
recently  during  which  I  saw  fifteen  shows 
and  every  inch  of  New  York  city.  Visited 
Democratic  headquarters  (this  was  be- 
fore the  election)  and  was  invited  to  a 
reception  at  the  Astor  Hotel  given  to  Mrs. 
Alfred  E.  Smith,  Mrs.  Joe  Robinson,  and 
Governor  Nellie  T.  Ross.  Was  a  strong 
supporter  of  Al  Smith  and  can't  under- 
stand why  the  country  will  let  religion 
blind  all  other  issues  and  defeat  the  best 
equipped  man  we  or  the  Republicans  have 
ever  offered  for  the  Presidency.  That  is 
what  defeated  him.  But  that's  over,  and 
we  shall  see  what  we  shall  see.  ...  I 
keep  busy  here  in  Albany,  but  there  is 
no  news  much  that  '22  would  be  inter- 
ested  to   read." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Nell  Buchanan  writes:  "Saw  Mary 
Catherine  (McKinney)  Barker  in  Bristol 
not  long  ago.  She  was  starting  down  into 
Tennessee  on  a  shopping  trip  with  her 
husband.  Saw  Harriet  (Scott)  Bowen  also, 
down  there  buying  out  the  town.  ...  I 
am  in  a  wedding  next  week,  which  will 
offer    a    bit    of    excitement."      Nell    spent 


Thanksgiving  in  Washington  with  her 
sister,  and  is  planning  the  usual  spring 
and  summer  trips  to  Europe. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Eunice  (Dean)  Major  says  she  spends 
much  time  "supervising  the  sandpile  in  my 
front  yard  where  from  ten  to  fifteen  little 
children  congregate  every  morning  and 
afternoon,  my  three  being  among  the  nois- 
iest. This  winter  bids  fair  to  become  the 
busiest  I've  spent  yet.  I  am  six  months 
behind  with  Hal's  and  the  twins'  sewing, 
and  apparently  I  shan't  have  a  chance  to 
catch  up  before  spring.  My  trio  are  a 
veritable  rag-bag!  The  task  of  keeping 
three  small  children,  the  oldest  three  and 
a  half  and  the  twins  two  this  month,  busily 
occupied  each  in  his  own  corner  is  no  small 
achievement." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Otto  (Gilbert)  Williams  writes  that 
Jessie  (Watts)  Rustin  is  on  the  eastern 
shore  of  Maryland  this  year,  and  they  ex- 
pect to  see  each  other  often. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Ivylyn  Girardeau  will  complete  her  work 
for  an  M.  D.  at  Tulane  University  next 
year.  This  year  she  is  traveling  in  the 
south  as  a  saleswoman.  Mail  will  be  for- 
warded to  her  from  1412  Grand  Ave., 
Jackson,  Miss.  Ivylyn's  trip  to  Panama 
this  summer  is  written  up  in  another  part 
of    the    Quarterly. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Flora  Bryant  celebrated  her  first  birth- 
day on  November  26.  "She  is  a  darling," 
writes  Mamma  Ruth  (Hall)  Bryant.  "I 
do  want  to  bring  my  two  children  to  the 
alumnae  baby  party  next  commencement." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Frances  Harper  is  still  pursuing  his- 
torical knowledge  in  spite  of  having 
achieved  that  M.  A.  last  June.  She  has 
added  unto  herself  this  fall  a  new  type- 
writer and  a  new  Ford,  and  boasts  that 
she  is  an  expert  in  running  them  both. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

The  two  Agnes  Scott  girls  who  attended 
the  N.  S.  F.  A.  conference  in  Columbia, 
Mo.,  in  December,  came  back  telling  of  the 
hospitality  of  our  two  alumnae  there — 
Theodosia  (Cobbs)  Hogan,  '14,  and 
Catherine  Haugh,  who  is  teaching  at 
Stephens  College.  Catherine  had  planned 
a  dinner  party,  but  the  college  was  closed 
early  on  account  of  flu,  and  social  en- 
gagements had  to  be  cancelled. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Julia  Jameson  writes:  "Just  two  days 
before  I  was  to  leave  for  the  University 
of  Colorado  last  summer,  I  was  taken  ill 
and  of  course  I  didn't  get  to  go.  When 
fall  came  I  wasn't  any  too  strong,  so  I  am 
loafing  this  winter  at  home.  I  hope  to 
,  ome  to  our  reunion  in  May." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 


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Mary  Knight  has  the  loving  sympathy  of 
Agnes  Scott  alumnae  in  the  death  of  her 
mother      just      before      Christmas.      Mrs. 
Knight,  who  as  Edith  Nelson,  was  herself 
an  Agnes  Scott  alumna,  had  been  an  in- 
valid for  a  number  of  years. 
Class  reunion  in  May. 
Roberta  (Love)  Brower  writes  that  her 
son,  Gene,  Jr.,  was  born  August  17.     He 
has  curly  red  hair  and  blue  eyes.     Roberta 
and    family    are    moving    from    Richmond 
to    Winston-Salem,    N.    C. 
Class  reunion  in  May. 
Susan   Malone's   new    address    is    3311 
Montrose  Blvd.,  Houston,  Texas. 
Class  reunion  in  May. 
Lucia  Murchison  writes:  "I  came  on  the 
staff  of  the  Social  Science  Department  of 
the    Johns    Hopkins    Hospital    in    August, 
1927.      I   am    in   the    medical   department, 
and  needless  to  say,  I  am  very  much  in- 
terested in  my  work.     I  had  the  pleasure 
of    seeing    Sue    Cureton    when    she    was 
here  for  treatment.     I  should  love  to  come 
to  reunion  this  May,  and  shall  try  to  work 
toward  that  end." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 
Frances  Oliver  was  married  on  Decem- 
ber 15  at  the  home  of  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Jeter,  in  Decatur,  to  Mr.  "Waldo  C.  York, 
of  Boston.  The  ceremony  took  place  at 
6:30  in  the  evening,  and  Frances  wore  a 
lovely  white  satin  wedding  gown  and  lace 
veil.  Her  beautiful  wedding  ring  was  a 
circle  of  diamonds.  Frances'  wedding 
will  take  her  away  from  the  South  to  live, 
as  Mr.  York  is  connected  with  the  New 
England  Park  Construction  Company.  Her 
new  address  is  39  Gladstone  St.,  Squan- 
tum,  Mass. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 
Ruth  Scandrett  writes  from  Province- 
town,  Mass.:  "I  have  the  very  pleasant 
job  of  doing  half  a  day's  work  with  Mrs. 
Mary  Heaton  Vorse  each  day,  taking  dic- 
tation and  typing  manuscript,  and  walking 
or  riding  almost  every  afternoon.  The 
beach  at  the  tip  end  of  Cape  Cod  is  just 
across  the  street,  and  I  can  see  the  glit- 
tering water  and  anchored  fishing  boats 
through  my  window  every  morning.  The 
house  belonged  formerly  to  an  old  sea 
captain,  but  Mrs.  Vorse  has  been  living 
here  for  twenty  years." 
Class  reunion  in  May. 
"Nothing  exciting  happens  to  me," 
writes  Harriet  (Scott)  Bowen,  "just  the 
same  three  meals  a  day,  circle  meeting 
every  month,  bridge  club  every  two  weeks," 
but  Harriet's  two  saddle  horses  took  some 
blue  ribbons  at  two  county  fairs  this  fall, 
she  rides  a  great  deal,  she  drives  all  over 
the  state  of  Virginia  attending  football 
games  and  weddings,  and  she  is  coming  to 
class   reunion! 

Class  reunion  in  May. 


Last  summer  Althea  Stephens  studied 
violin  at  Chautauqua,  N.  Y.,  where  she 
talked  Agnes  Scott  with  Mrs.  Syden- 
stricker,  visited  friends  in  Springfield,  Ohio, 
and  Louisville,  Ky.  Now  she  is  teacher  of 
piano  and  organ  at  National  Park  Sem- 
inary, Forest  Glen,  Md.,  a  beautiful  prep 
school  just  a  few  minutes  drive  from 
Washington. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 
Louie   Dean    (Stephens)    Hays'  new  ad- 
dress is  3200  Elgin  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Laurie  Belle  Stubbs  is  a  Co-ed  at  Emory 
University,  and  she  says  she  has  broken 
into  "another  firmament" — the  first  dra- 
matic club  play.  She  comments  on  that 
"excrutiating  tryout  for  Blackfriars  long 
ago."  A  second  note  from  Laurie  Belle 
says  she  passed  her  master's  exams  suc- 
cessfully and  received  her  degree  just  be- 
fore Christmas. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Martha  Lee  (Taliaferro)  Donovan 
writes:  "You  '22-ers  should  see  my  daugh- 
ter. She  is  the  sweetest  young  thing  in 
the  world.  So  far  she  hasn't  but  one 
tooth,  but  her  anxious  mother  certainly 
hopes  she'll  improve  on  that." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Two  weeks  after  Sarah  (Till)  Davis  and 
her  husband  had  that  happy  glimpse  of 
Agnes  Scott  last  April,  her  grandmother 
fell,  and  a  broken  hip  keeps  her  an  invalid 
to  date.  Sarah  kept  house  for  ten  people 
all  summer,  and  since  September  first  she 
has  been  attempting  to  recover  from  (in 
order)  ptomaine  poisoning,  flu,  and  an 
operation  for  the  removal  of  tonsils.  She 
wrote  those  carbons  to  '22  between  the 
flu  and  the  tonsilectomy.  At  this  writing 
she  is  just  three  days  out  of  the  hospital, 
not  yet  out  of  her  room,  and  very  wobbly! 
She  plans  to  come  to  reunion. 

Ruth  Virden's  answer  to  the  secretary's 
call  for  news  ran  thusly:  "I  am  working 
this  winter  at  the  same  job.  I  haven't  had 
a  trip  in  four  years.  If  I  can  save  the 
money,  and  leave  my  job  for  a  few  days, 
I'll  come  to  the  reunion.  As  you  can  see, 
your  letter  reached  me  on  one  of  my  most 
sparkless  days.  Well,  Sal,  how  are  you? 
I  am  glad  to  get  even  a  fifth  carbon 
from  you,  and  I  AM  coming  to  reunion  if 
it  is   humanly  possible." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Ethel  Ware  spent  Christmas  in  New 
York  City,  visiting  her  sister,  Louise,  '17. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Alice  Whipple  II  is  just  at  the  investi- 
gating age.  She  has  caused  Mamma  Alice 
(Whipple)  Lyons  and  "Bill"  to  move  into 
a  duplex  this  fall  to  provide  more  room  for 
her  explorations. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 


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Frances  (White)  Weems  has  moved  into 
a  new  home  at  1173  St.  Chax-les  Place, 
N.  E.,  Atlanta.  "We  have  bought  this 
house,  so  expect  there  will  be  no  more 
changes  of  address  from  now  on." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Lucy  (Wootten)  Wiegand  and  her  small 
daughter  are  spending  the  winter  with 
Lucy's  mother  in  Covington,  Ga.  Lucy 
was  a  guest  at  the  Alumnae  House  just 
before    Christmas. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Sarah  (Alston)  Lawton  has  moved  to 
545  Highland  Ave.,  Aliquippa,  Pa. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

"Curv"  Farquhar  writes  from  her  home 
in  Easton,  Pa.:  "I  have  at  last  attained 
unto  that  perfect  state — the  independent 
wage-earner." 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

The  very  last  of  October  there  was  a 
terrible  explosion  in  the  Birmingham,  Ala., 
courthouse  which  caused  quite  a  bit  of 
havoc.  A  number  of  the  court-house  em- 
ployees and  lawyers  were  hurt — among 
them  Grey  Tate,  husband  of  Myrtle  (Mc- 
Laughlin)   Tate. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Anne  Ruth  (Moore)  Crawford  is  now 
registrar  for  the  division  of  extension  at 
the  University  of  Georgia.  Her  address 
is  227  Waddell  St.,  Athens,  Ga.  Mr.  Craw- 
ford is  a  poultryman. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Dorothy  Speake  is  spending  the  winter 
in  southern  California. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Georgia  (Weaver)  Wigginton  is  living 
in  the  Albemarle  Apartments,  Nashville, 
Tennessee. 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

A  letter  from  Rosa  Wilkins  at  Augusta, 
Ga.,  gives  an  account  of  her  life  since  she 
left  Agnes  Scott.  "I  was  graduated  from 
the  Wilhenford  Hospital  here  in  May,  led 
the  Georgia  nurses  in  the  state  board  ex- 
amination-— which  honor  I  owe  in  part  to 
my  Agnes  Scott  days— and  returned  in 
June  as  night  supervisor  of  my  'home 
hospital.'  " 

Class  reunion  in  May. 

Katherine    Wolcott    is    teaching    in    the 
Griffin,  Ga.,  public  schools. 
1923 

Next  class  reunion,  this  May!  We  mean 
it  after  every  single  item  too,  although  our 
secretary  says  she  has  writer's  cramp  now 
and  cannot  write  it  out  thirty-nine  times. 

Jessie  Dean  (Cooper)  Young  writes: 
"My  daughter  Peggy  is  almost  two  years 
old  now  and  keeps  her  mother's  time  well 
occupied.  She  adores  open  fires  and  thinks 
everything  should  be  thrown  in.  Mary 
Key  Dolvin  came  over  last  spring  for  a 
week's  visit  with  us,  and  Mary  Harris 
stopped  by  for  a  week-end  in  September 


on  her  way  to  Florida.  We  are  making 
great  plans  for  the  class  reunion  in  May, 
and  with  Peggy's  permisison  I'll  surely  be 
there." 

Helen  (Faw)  Mull  writes  from  Cleve- 
land: "I  had  a  succession  of  house  guests 
that  filled  September  and  October — the 
last  one  was  Elizabeth  Smith  who  roomed 
with  me  a  year  and  a  half  at  Agnes  Scott. 
It  would  have  been  like  renewing  my  youth 
to  see  her  again,  if  my  dependable  maid 
had  not  quit  about  that  time  and  I  had 
to  take  over  the  mechanics  of  housekeep- 
ing. ...  I  have  been  taking  two  courses 
in  the  University  this  fall,  but  have  my 
hands  too  full  right  now  to  continue  them 
into    the    spring    term." 

"You  ask  for  news  of  Mary  (Goodrich) 
Meredith,"  writes  a  Florida  alumna,  "and 
since  she  won't  send  in  any  herself,  I'll 
contribute  a  bit  about  her.  Last  summer 
at  a  perfectly  lovely  luncheon  which  she, 
along  with  some  other  Jacksonville  alum- 
nae, seemed  to  be  engineering,  she  made 
a  dandy  speech  about  Agnes  Scott's  im- 
mediate needs  and  inspired  us  all  to  work 
for   the   development  fund." 

Quenelle  Harrold  was  the  guardian 
angel  of  our  debating  team  when  the  girls 
arrived  in  New  York  on  their  way  up  to 
debate  Vassar  in  December.  Quenelle  is 
enjoying  her  winter  at  Columbia,  but  she 
admits  that  one  of  the  nicest  things  about 
it  so  far  was  the  trip  home  to  Georgia  for 
Christmas. 

Mary  Stewart  Hewlett  is  living  at  Con- 
yers,  Ga. 

The  Texas  girl  who  was  Eleanor  (Hyde) 
White's  maid  of  honor  last  May,  was  mar- 
ried in  November,  and  the  Dallas  papers 
carried  lovely  pictures  of  the  bride  and 
Eleanor,  who  was  matron  of  honor.  Eleanor 
writes  that  her  new  step-daughter  will  be 
ready  for  Agnes  Scott  in  a  few  years. 

Charlotte  (Keesler)  Everett's  husband 
is  secretary  of  a  cotton  mill  at  Rocking- 
ham, N.  C.  They  have  one  child — a  boy 
two    years    old. 

Eloise  (Knight)  Jones,  Lucile  (Little) 
Morgan,  Nell  Esslinger,  Valeria  (Posey) 
Brown,  and  Mary  Stewart  McLeod  have 
a  round  robin  which  they  started  the  sum- 
mer they  left  Agnes  Scott.  It  is  a  husky 
bird  now,  and  still  makes  its  regular 
rounds. 

A  cable  from  Japan  just  before  Christ- 
mas brought  the  sad  news  of  the  death 
from  pneumonia  of  Josephine  (Logan) 
Hamilton's   mother. 

Beth  (McClure)  McGeachy's  husband 
brought  back  with  him  from  Scotland 
some  bagpipes  upon  which  (or  is  it  into 
which?)  he  will  blow  when  asked  very 
politely.  We  have  an  idea  that  our  ptdanky 
song  would  suit  bagpipes  to  a  tee,  and 
hero    and     now    we    speak     for    Dan    Mc- 


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Geachy  as  the  official  musician  at  '23's 
class   reunion   this    May. 

With  two  cars  in  a  family  of  two,  and 
a  husband  who  works  with  the  Pan-Am 
Company,  Hilda  (McConnell)  Adams 
drives  often  to  Atlanta  and  on  to  her  old 
home  at  Royston,  Ga. 

Martha  (Mcintosh)  Nail's  husband  died 
very  suddenly  early  in  November  at  their 
home  in  Albany,  Ga.  He  had  undergone 
a  slight  nasal  operation,  but  had  come 
heme  from  the  hospital  and  was  thought 
to  be  recovering.  Martha  and  her  little 
three-year-old  daughter,  Alice,  have  given 
up  their  home  and  are  staying  with 
Martha's    parents. 

Ruth  Sanders  is  teaching  again  this 
winter  in  Hollister,  Mo.,  at  the  School  of 
the  Ozarks. 

Pearl  Smith  is  teaching  in  Thomasville, 
Ga.  She  was  at  home  in  Rome  for  the 
Christmas   holidays. 

Mary  White  Caldwell  is  resident  nurse 
at  the  Scottdale  Cotton  Mills,  Scottdale, 
Georgia. 

Mary  (Cooper)  Gilbert  and  her  son  and 
daughter,  botli  of  pre-schooi  age,  are  liv- 
ing  in   Thomasville,   Ga. 

Nell  Esslinger  is  teaching  voice  in  Bir- 
mingham, Ala.  She  and  Frances  Turner 
live  together  at  403  Ridgely  Apartments. 
Nell  often  sings  over  WBR,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  popular  young  entertainers  in 
Birmingham. 

"Pete"  (Farmer)  Teague's  husband  is  a 
banker  in  Sanford,  Fla.,  and  incidentally 
an  alumnus  of  Georgia  Tech.  They  have 
no    children. 

Mart  Hay  may  be  reached  at  181  W. 
87th  St.,  New  York  City,  in  care  of  Miss 
M.    L.    Thomas. 

Clara  (Johns)  Stevenson  has  moved  to 
Corinth,  Miss. 

Myrtle  (Johnson)  Naff's  new  address  is 
915  Unavilla  St.,  Shreveport,  La. 

Christine  Lawrence  is  private  secre- 
tary for  Mr.  William  Candler  in  Atlanta. 

Marguerite  Martin  is  teaching  in  Bir- 
mingham, Ala.  Her  address  is  1117  6th 
Court. 

Janet  (Maultsby)  Waller  lives  in  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.,  where  her  husband  is  a  law- 
yer. She  has  two  sons,  ages  four  and 
two. 

Sarah  Olive  (Moore)  Robinson's  new  ad- 
dress is  2983  Remington  St.,  Jacksonville, 
Fla.  Her  husband  is  manager  of  lamps 
and  fixtures  for  the  General  Electric  Sup- 
ply Corporation.  They  have  two  small 
sons. 

Susie  Reid  (Morton)  Pow's  second  baby 
was  born  in  December.  She  is  a  girl  for 
big  brother  Adam  Pow,  Jr.,  to  take  care  of. 

Dolores  (Moragues)  Williams  writes 
from  Mobile,  Ala.:  "We  have  no  children 
so  I  teach  a  half  day  at  the   Girls'  Pre- 


paratory School.  Mary  Harris,  ex  '14,  is 
teaching  here  too,  and  we  often  swap 
Agnes   Scott  stories." 

Alex  Morrison's  wedding  on  November 
21  to  the  Venerable  Charles  Colcock  Jones 
Carpenter  took  place  at  Grace  Episcopal 
Church  in  Waycross.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  Bishop  of  Georgia,  as- 
sisted by  the  Bishop  of  Florida  and  the 
curate  of  the  church. 

Eugenia  (Pou)  Harris  now  has  a  baby 
daughter  and  a  son.  Her  husband  is  pas- 
tor of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Seneca,  S.  C. 

Mary  Frances  (Reed)  Allison's  husband 
is  an  oil  operator  in  El  Paso,  Tex.  They 
have  no  children. 

Rosalie  Robinson's  engagement  has  been 
announced  to  Mr.  Daniel  Benjamin  San- 
ford. 

Angelyn  Sassnet  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
Emory  University  library.  She  has  moved 
to  906  Arlington  PL,  N.  E.,  Atlanta. 

Dorothy  Scott  is  doing  home  mission 
work  at  Jewell  Ridge,  Va. 

Christine  (Sinclair)  Parsons  is  teach- 
ing in  Atlanta.  Her  husband  is  an  archi- 
tect. 

Eunice  (Tomlinson)  Owens'  husband  is 
manager  of  a  dry  cleaning  establishment 
in  Albany,  Ga.  They  have  three  children — 
a  boy   of  six,  and  twins,  aged  two. 

Margaret  (Walker)  Sellers  has  one  little 
six-year-old  girl.  Her  husband  is  with  the 
Ford  Motor  Company  in  Waynesboro,  Ga. 

Catherine  (Waterfield)  Haskin  has 
moved  from  Mexico  to  Santa  Rita,  New 
Mexico,  where  her  husband  is  with  the 
Asarco    Mining    Company. 

Jessie  (Watts)  Rustin  has  moved  to 
93  N.  Division  St.,  Salisbury,  Md.  It  is 
on  the  eastern  shore,  and  she  can  see  the 
bay  and  the  ocean  from  her  windows. 
Jessie's  little  daughter,  Mary  Virginia, 
was  born  on  May  26. 

Margaretta  (Womelsdorf)  Lumpkin  has 

moved  into  a  new  apartment  on  Thornton 

Ave.,   Dalton,   Ga.,   just  across   the   street 

from   Gertrude    (Manly)    McFarland,   '20. 

1924 

Next  class  reunion,  this  May,  and  we 
don't  mean  May-be! 

Mabel  Akers  is  teaching  at  Register,  Ga. 

Elizabeth  Askew's  mother  spent  Christ- 
mas   in    New   York    with    her. 

Grace  Bargeron  is  teaching  mathematics 
in  the  senior  high  school  at  Orlando,  Fla. 
Her  address  is  Jefferson  Court  Apart- 
ments. 

The  past  few  weeks  have  brought  both 
sadness  and  joy  to  Dell  (Bernhardt)  Wil- 
son. Several  days  before  Christmas  her 
brother,  Douglas,  who  was  a  young  lawyer 
in  Lenoir,  died  as  the  result  of  injuries 
received  in  a  fall.  Dell's  little  son,  Thomas 
Henry  Wilson,  Jr.,  was  born  on  January  2. 


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Will  some  member  of  '24  who  has  re- 
ceived an  interesting  letter  fi'om  Helen 
Lane  Comfort  in  Heidelberg  send  it  on  to 
the  Quarterly? 

Beulah  Davidson  spent  the  Christmas 
holidays   in   Fort  Valley  with  her  father. 

Martha  (Eakes)  Matthews  has  returned 
to  Chicago  after  a  month  spent  in  Decatur 
visiting   her   mother   and   sisters. 

Emmie  (Ficklen)  Harper's  Christmas 
cards  carried  a  lovely  picture  of  the  Taj 
Mahal  above  her  "greeting  from  India." 
Emmie  is  already  an  old  hand  at  timing 
mail  to  the  states,  for  her  cards  reached 
their  destinations  only  a  few  days  before 
Christmas. 

Frances  (Gilliland)  Stukes  and  Mr. 
Stukes  went  to  Greensboro,  N.  C,  for 
the  Christmas  holidays  with  Mrs.  Gilliland. 
Frances  enjoyed  herself  so  thoroughly 
that  when  the  time  came  to  go  home,  she 
came  down  with  flu  and  so  prolonged  her 
visit  a  week. 

Elizabeth  Henry  motored  down  the 
east  and  west  coasts  of  Florida  during 
Christmas  holidays,  and  sailed  across  to 
Cuba  for  a  few  days. 

Kate  Higgs  has  written  an  interesting 
letter  about  the  western  trip  which  she 
and  Charlotte,  '26,  took  together.  "We 
first  went  over  the  Apache  Trail  to  Roose- 
velt Dam.  From  there  we  visited  the 
Petrified  Forest,  the  Painted  Desert,  and 
the  Grand  Canyon.  As  we  went  down  the 
Bright  Angel  Trail  into  the  canyon,  the 
guide  kept  on  giving  the  cowboy  yell. 
Charlotte  started  practicing  it,  and  now 
she  makes  it  exactly  like  a  cowboy,  and 
makes  it  all  the  time!  We  stayed  some 
time  in  Los  Angeles,  returning  by  way  of 
San  Diego.  Of  course  we  had  to  go  over 
into  Mexico  to  see  the  much  talked  of  Tia 
Juana.  We  were  both  rather  disappointed 
in  it  after  having  been  in  Nogales,  Sonora. 
Tia  Juana  is  an  American  town  for  tour- 
ists who  go  to  San  Diego.  The  main  street 
is  just  one  bar  after  another.  Nogales, 
Sonora,  is  a  regular  Mexican  city.  We  came 
on  to  Tucson  from  San  Diego  and  pre- 
pared to  get  back  to  work.  Just  the  Tues- 
day before  school  was  to  open  in  Ajo,  the 
Tucson  City  Superintendent  of  Schools 
came  out  to  the  tennis  court  where  Char- 
lotte and  I  were  playing  and  offered  me 
the  position  I  now  have.  It  is  teaching 
arithmetic  from  the  beginning  of  the  sec- 
ond grade  through  the  sixth  on  platoon 
system.  Believe  me  or  not,  I  have  all 
the  work  I  want."  Kate's  address  is 
Palomar  Court  1,  621  N.  6th  Ave.,  Tucson, 
Arizona. 

Vic  Howie  has  had  flu  twice  and  a 
broken  arm.  "Otherwise  I'm  quite  as  good 
as  new,"  writes  Vic,  "am  working  hai'd 
here  in  Union,  and  planning  to  be  back 
for  '24's  reunion.     I  want  to  sing  'Vive  la 


compagnie'  again  in  the  tea  room,  and  I 
can't  wait  to  hear  those  '24  girls  sing- 
ing 'Hail  Agnes  Scott!'" 

"Speedy"  (King)  Wilkins  has  moved  to 
Baltimore,  Md.  Her  address  is  2512  Tal- 
bot Rd.,  Windsor  Hills. 

Sarah  Kinman  writes  from  Bartow,  Ga.: 
"There  is  nothing  monotonous  in  the  life  of 
an  English  teacher,  even  when  she  stays  in 
the  same  high  school  for  five  consecutive 
years." 

Margaret  (McDow)  MacDougall  lives  at 
301  10th  St.,  N.  E.,  Atlanta.  Mr.  MacDou- 
gall is  in  the  lumber  business.  Margaret 
comes  out  to  Agnes  Scott  often,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Atlanta  Alumnae  Club. 

Edna  McMurray  is  doing  secretarial 
work  in  Atlanta. 

Mary  Mobberly's  address  is  about  as 
lost  as  a  thing  can  be!  Will  somebody  in 
'24  volunteer  to  do  a  little  detective  work 
and    discover    her? 

Cora  (Morton)  Durrett  and  her  husband 
spent  Christmas  with  her  family  near 
Athens,  Ga.  She  has  a  new  radio  for 
Christmas,  and  plans  not  to  let  a  single 
prize  fight,  presidential  election,  or  new 
year's   football   game   escape   her. 

Fran  (Myers)  Dickley  and  her  mother 
came  to  Agnes  Scott  in  November  to  visit 
the  Logans  and  the  Knights — little  sisters 
of  Josephine  (Logan)  Hamilton  and  Eloise 
(Knight)  Jones.  Fran  stoutly  maintains 
her  republican  principles,  but  she  wore  a 
little  brown  hat  very  suspiciously  like  a 
certain  brown  derby  which  recently  has 
received  a  lot  of  publicity.  Mrs.  Myers 
returned  to  Japan  for  Christmas. 

Catherine  (Nash)  Goff  spent  September 
and  October  in  Atlanta  with  her  family. 
She  writes  from  Washington:  "My  hus- 
band and  I  had  planned  to  return  here  by 
boat,  so  we  went  to  Savannah  to  catch 
said  craft.  But  of  course  we  would  get 
the  worst  of  the  Porto  Rican  hurricane  in 
Savannah  so  could  not  sail.  A  special 
train  was  made  up  for  a  group  of  people 
in  the  same  fix  we  were  and  after  a  hectic 
two  days  and  nights  we  finally  reached 
Washington.  I  have  never  seen  so  much 
water  where  water  was  not  supposed  to 
be — over  the  railroad  bed,  up  to  front 
doors,  for  miles  and  miles  through  for- 
ests as  far  as  one  could  see,  all  over  the 
highways  in  North  Carolina,  etc.  There 
were  trees  washed  across  the  tracks  so 
that  the  train  crew  would  have  to  spend 
an  hour  or  so  getting  them  cleared  off, 
while  the  train  stood  with  water  on  every 
side  and  passengers  had  to  listen  to  the 
shrieking  of  the  wind  as  it  blew  through 
the  trees  and  over  the  water.  We  were 
quite  glad  to  arrive  here  without  drowning 
or  other  mishap." 

Margaret  (Powell)  Gay's  new  address  is 
18   Bretton   Rd.,   Hartford,   Conn. 


30  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Dick  Scandrett  spent  Christmas  with 
Cora  (Morton)  Durrett  at  Athens,  Ga. 

Polly  Stone  was  with  her  brother  in 
south  Georgia  for  Christmas.  "One  day 
when  he  had  business  in  Cuthbert,  he  took 
me  along,  and  I  had  a  nice  visit  with 
Daisy  Frances  Smith  at  Andrew  Junior 
College  there.  D.  F.  says  she  is  working 
hard,  teaching  all  the  English  for  the  prep 
and  college  classes,  and  helping  them  get 
up  their  annual  too." 

Annie  Wilson  Terry  came  over  to  Agnes 
Scott  just  before  college  closed  to  travel 
home  with  her  junior  sister,  Mary,  who 
had  been  one  of  the  flu  patients. 

Augusta  (Thomas)  Lanier  is  enjoying 
housekeeping  at  her  new  apartment  in  At- 
lanta. She  has  a  young  domestic  named 
"Plum,"  and  between  them  she  says  they 
are  learning  in  the  hard  school  of  ex- 
perience that  five  pounds  of  steak  is  a 
little  too  much  to  buy  when  you  have 
only  two  people  for  dinner. 

Clara  Waldrop  is  teaching  in  the  New- 
nan,  Ga.,  high  school. 

Does  someone  have  Annadawn  (Wat- 
son) Edwards'  address?  She  has  folded 
up  her  tents  once  more  and  the  alumnae 
office  has  so  far  failed  to  locate  her.  This 
gal  has  certainly  earned  her  title  of  "the 
elusive   Annadawn." 

Pauline  Wheeler  is  at  home  in  Cordele, 
Ga.,  this  winter. 

Louise  (Adams)  Oberholtzer  was  mar- 
ried on  December  23  to  Mr.  John  C. 
Wright,  assistant  cashier  of  the  Farmers 
and  Traders  Bank  of  Weaverville,  N.  C. 

Minnie  Allen  is  now  Mrs.  John  Wilkes 
Coleman,  Belvoir  Rd.,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

Josephine  Beason  is  doing  stenographic 
work  in  Atlanta.  Her  address  is  999  Austin 
Ave.,  N.  E. 

Mary  Brown  has  moved  to  724  Sycamore 
St.,  Decatur,  Ga.  She  teaches  music. 
Mary  visited  Romola  Davis,  '20,  in  Clear- 
water Fla.,  during  the  summer. 

Alice  Carr's  lovely  church  wedding  to 
Mr.  Charles  Moore  McCaskill  took  place 
in  December  in  Bainbridge,  Ga.  Her  sister, 
Grace,  '27,  maid  of  honor,  and  Betty  Sue 
(Lane)  Ray,  ex  '24,  matron  of  honor,  wore 
ivory  velvet.  Mr.  McCaskill  is  connected 
with  Dodge  Brothers  Motor  Company  in 
Shreveport,  La. 

Mary  Colley  has  been  working  in  a  book 
shop  in  Nashville  this  winter.  "It  is  a 
good  place  to  meet  up  with  old  friends, 
for  before  the  holidays  everybody  in  Nash- 
ville came  in  at  one  time  or  another  to. 
get  books  for  Christmas  presents.  I  en- 
joyed seeing  Anna  Marie  (Landress)  Cate 
one  morning." 

Ruth  Craig  has  moved  to  Boston,  Mass. 

Mary  (Denny)  Pearce's  baby  will  be  a 
year  old  in  April.  Mary  lives  in  Milan, 
Tenn. 


Mary  Hobgood  still  lives  in  Fairburn, 
Ga.  She  teaches  in  the  Atlanta  public 
school  system. 

Frances  Jones  is  studying  chemistry  at 
Vanderbilt  University. 

Grace  Milliken  was  married  on  December 
12  in  the  Episcopal  Church  of  Toronto  to 
Mr.  Richard  Gurth  Wace,  of  Toronto, 
Canada,  formerly  of  London.  Mr.  Wace 
is  the  son  of  Brigadier  General  E.  G.  Wace, 
C.  B.,  D.  S.  0.,  R.  E.,  of  the  British  army. 
He  is  the  English  representative  of  the 
Colas  Products,  Ltd. 

Exa  (Mills)  Lamonde  is  employment 
manager  at  Davison-Paxon  Company,  affil- 
iated with  Macy's. 

Peggy  (Murphy)  Gradick  lives  at  387 
Mills  Ave.,  Spartanburg,  S.  C.  Her  hus- 
band is  a  civil  engineer.  They  have  a  baby 
a  year  and  a  half  old. 

Elizabeth  Perry  is  teaching  in  Mobile, 
Alabama. 

Ella  Joe  Powell  is  now  Mrs.  Albert 
Nichols,  of  Auburn,  Ala.  She  is  doing  sec- 
retarial work  at  Auburn  University. 

Ruth  Rickarby  works  in  a  finance  office 
in   Mobile,   Ala. 

Ruth  Spence  is  at  home  in  St.  Peters- 
burg, Fla.,  this  winter,  taking  a  rest  from 
directing   public   school   music. 

Hester    (Stephenson)    Phillips    lives    at 
5137  Woodlawn  Ave.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.    Her 
son  is  almost  four  years  old. 
1925 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Mary  Bess  Bowdoin  is  at  home  in 
Adairsville,  Ga.,  for  the  winter. 

Lucile  Caldwell  spent  the  Christmas 
holidays  at  home  in  LaGrange,  Ga.,  get- 
ting acquainted  with  her  new  nephew. 

Mary  Palmer  (Caldwell)  McFarland  and 
her  husband  were  in  El  Paso,  Texas,  for 
the  Christmas  holidays. 

Catherine  Carrier's  family,  Catherine  in- 
cluded, are  at  their  winter  home  in  Albany, 
Georgia. 

Ruth  (Drane)  Tatum  is  teaching  at  Co- 
lumbus, Ga.  She  is  a  busy  woman,  keep- 
ing house,  teaching,  doing  a  great  deal 
of  club  and  church  work.  Ruth's  husband 
is  at  present  a  patient  in  the  U.  S.  Veter- 
ans' Hospital  in  Atlanta. 

Isabel  Ferguson  has  an  apartment  at  309 
Tate  St.,  Greensboro,  N.  C,  where  she 
keeps  house  all  alone  and  loves  doing  it! 

Sarah  Fullbright  is  head  of  the  mathe- 
matics department  at  the  Methodist  Junior 
College  at  Ferrum,  Va.,  forty  miles  from 
Roanoke. 

Lit  Griffin  writes:  "I  am  still  helping 
uphold  the  profession  by  teaching  the 
young  'uns.  After  three  years,  I  have  be- 
come more  or  less  hardened  to  the  vicissi- 
tudes of  said  occupation  and  can  peace- 
fully revel  in  its  blessings,  such  as  Satur- 
days off  and  also  afternoons."     Lit  is  at 


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31 


Monroe,  N.  C,  again  this  year. 

Ruth  (Guff in)  Griffin  writes  from  Flor- 
ida: "I  spent  the  summer  in  Asheville,  and 
of  course  stopped  over  in  Atlanta  on  the 
way  back.  Good  old  Agnes  Scott  was 
certainly  a  'vision  of  delight,'  even  if  it 
did  almost  make  me  cry  from  sheer  home- 
sickness for  all  the  girls  of  '25.  I  shall 
certainly  be  on  hand  for  our  next  reunion." 

Gertrude  Henry  was  married  on  Decem- 
ber 13th  to  Mr.  P.  Louie  Wall.  They  will 
live  in  an  apartment  in  South  Jackson- 
ville, Fla. 

Will  someone  who  hears  from  Margaret 
Hines  send  interesting  extracts  from  the 
letters  to  the   alumnae   office? 

Ruth  Johnston  and  Frances  Buchanan, 
'27,  spent  a  week-end  at  the  Alumnae 
House  in  January. 

And  now  we  know  Dot  Keith's  married 
name  and  address!  She  is  Mrs.  Nick 
Hunter,  Apt.  16,  Myrtle  Terrace,  755  Oak 
St.,    Chattanooga,    Tenn. 

"My  new  husband's  name  is  Donald 
Jackson  Simmons,"  writes  Eunice  Kell 
from  Ocean  Springs,  Miss.  "We  were 
married  very  quietly  at  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Pascagoula  on  August  28th.  Don 
is  a  construction  engineer,  so  we'll  have 
to  move  often.  We  expect  to  leave  Ocean 
Springs  in  February.  And  here  is  another 
bit  of  news  about  me  that  you  might 
broadcast  through  the  Quarterly  columns, 
too:  I  had  my  tonsils  out  last  summer  and 
am  now  a  chubby  girl." 

Theta  Manly  writes  that  the  roster  of 
the  new  evening  bridge  club  organized  in 
Dalton  sounds  like  a  page  from  the  Agnes 
Scott  Alumnae  Register.  For  instance: 
Gertrude  (Manly)  McFarland,  '20,  and 
husband;  Margaretta  (Womelsdorf)  Lump- 
kin, ex  '23,  and  husband;  "Squint"  (Sims) 
McCamy,  ex  '25,  and  husband;  Marian 
(McCamy)  Sims,  '20,  and  husband;  Martha 
Lin  Manly,  '25.  "As  you  see,"  writes  Theta, 
"I  am  the  only  forlorn  husbandless  critter 
in  the  whole  bunch.  I  have  the  privilege 
of  choosing  an  escort  each  week.  We  do 
have  lots  of  fun — the  bridge  is  the  least  of 
it.  Dalton  has  been  awfully  gay  in  spite 
of  flu  in  nearly  every  household,  but  I 
must  admit  some  of  the  gaiety  is  dimmed 
when  one's  cook  is  at  home  with  flu.  .  .  . 
We  gave  Milne's  'Romantic  Age'  recently — 
all  home  talent.  It  was  really  a  good  show. 
I  had  a  terribly  difficult  part — that  of 
Alice,  the  maid,  whose  only  real  action 
was  bringing  in  the  whisky." 

Larsen  Mattox  visited  in  Chicago  be- 
fore Christmas.  "Having  much  fun  loafing, 
sightseeing,  etc.,"  says  a  postal  card. 

Frances  Moore  is  teaching  in  Athens, 
Georgia. 

Martha  Pennington  is  teaching  again  in 
Perry,  Fla.  Mrs.  Finnell  said  she  and 
Martha  rode  several  hours  together  on  the 


way  home  Christmas. 

Lucille  (Phippen)  Shingler  and  her 
daughter  have  been  visiting  her  parents  in 
Decatur.  Lucille  is  a  busy  minister's  wife, 
but  she  keeps  in  close  touch  with  Agnes 
Scott. 

Mildred  Pitner  teaches  History  and 
French  at  Tate,  Ga. 

Floy  Sadler  spent  the  summer  in  the 
North  Carolina  mountains  and  is  back  in 
Florida  now,  and  her  job  as  librarian 
there  goes  merrily  on. 

Emmie  Saxon's  address  is  177  Waverly 
Place,  New  York  City.  She  is  working  in 
the  children's  department  of  the  New  York 
Public    Library. 

Charlotte  Smith  is  teaching  at  the 
Middle   Georgia  College  in  Cochran. 

A  note  to  Ella  (Smith)  Hayes  asking  if 
she  had  any  news  for  the  Quarterly 
brought  this  response:  "My  'news'  is  sleep- 
ing right  now  so  I  have  a  minute  to  write. 
Mary  Elizabeth  Hayes  arrived  December 
15,  and  although  the  smallest,  she  is  the 
most  important  object  on  the  farm.  .  .  . 
I  haven't  seen  an  Agnes  Scotter  in  six 
months,  and  my  best  correspondent  is  Dot 
(Keith)  Hunter,  who  can  combine  bridge 
and  housekeeping  and  do  well  at  both, 
which  proves  she  is  versatile,  to  say  the 
least.  The  Hayes  family  hopes  to  make 
the  trip  to  Atlanta  in  the  spring,  and  we'll 
come   out  to   Agnes   Scott   if  we   do." 

On  the  way  back  to  Savannah  after 
spending  Christmas  holidays  at  home  in 
Alabama,  Margery  Speake  called  the 
Alumnae  House  and  chatted  a  few  minutes 
with  Polly. 

Emily  Spivey  says — "and  last  summer  I 
tried  to  catch  up  on  teaching — as  if  I 
don't  get  enough  during  the  winter!  and 
went  back  to  Monroe  A.  and  M.  summer 
school  to  teach  teachers.  I  am  strug- 
gling now  at  Hartwell,  Ga.,  again.  I  have 
a  new  set  of  children  who  insist  that  the 
best  place  in  the  United  States  for  oyster 
production  is  on  the  coasts  of  India  and 
Germany!" 

Eugenia  (Thompson)  Aiken's  second 
baby  was  born  in  October,  just  too  late 
to  be  announced  in  the  November  Quarter- 
ly.    His  name  is  John,  Jr. 

Ellen  Walker  has  been  spending  a  month 
with  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Axson,  in  Asheville. 

Elizabeth  (Woltz)  Currie's  husband  is 
the  mayor  of  Carthage,  N.  C,  and  Cather- 
ine Carrier  and  Catherine  Randolph  were 
presented  with  the  keys  of  the  city  when 
they  visited  Elizabeth  in  the  early  fall. 

Frances  (Alston)  Everett  has  moved 
back  to  Atlanta.  She  has  a  son  several 
months  old. 

Edith  (Camp)  McLendon's  new  address 
is  1605  41st  St.,  Central  Park,  Birmingham, 
Alabama. 

Ruth  Fleming  is  teaching  in  the  Atlanta 


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public   school   system. 

After  leaving  Agnes  Scott,  Frances 
Formby  got  her  B.  A.  from  Birmingham 
Southern  College.  She  has  been  teaching 
in  the  Bush  school  in  Ensley  for  several 
years. 

Rebekah  (Harmon)  Lindsay  is  working 
in  the  gift  and  art  department  at  Davison- 
Paxon's  in  Atlanta. 

Irma  Heaton  is  teaching  music  in  Paco- 
let,   S.   C. 

Mary  Jarmon  is  director  of  music  at 
the  junior  high  school  in  Columbia,  S.  C. 

Helen  (Faw)  Mull,  '23,  writes:  "Did  you 
know  that  Olivia  (Liebheit)  Ure  has  re- 
turned from  Honolulu?  Her  address  is 
918  Bellevue,  South  Bend,  Ind.  She  has  a 
son  and  daughter.  Her  husband  is  in  Y 
work.  Her  sister,  Minnie  (Liebheit)  Segur, 
is  living  near  Chicago,  at  42  S.  Waiola, 
LaGrange,   111.     She   has   three   sons." 

Margaret  (McDade)  Dugins'  husband 
has  a  shoe  store  in  Tuscaloosa,  Ala. 

Harriet  (Payne)  Johnson's  son  was  two 
years  old  on  the  3rd  of  December.  Mr. 
Johnson  is  a  salesman  in  Springfield,  Tenn. 

Louise  Sanders  is  with  the  vital  statis- 
tics bureau  of  the  state  health  department 
at  Richmond,  Va. 

Adelaide  (Schofield)  Hudson  has  three 
children.  Her  husband  is  the  owner  and 
manager  of  the  Hudson  Letter  Shop  in 
Macon,  Ga. 

Montie  (Sewell)  Burns  is  teaching  at 
the  Brookhaven  School  near  Atlanta. 

Frances  (Singletary)  LeSueur  works  at 
Ludden  and  Bates  music  store  in  Atlanta 
and  teaches  piano  in  the  evenings.  She 
has  no  children. 

Susie  (Stokes)  Taylor  has  sent  an  ador- 
able snapshot  of  her  two  small  boys  in 
their  sun-suits,  taken  on  the  shore.  Archie, 
the  younger,  has  a  mop  of  curls  very  like 
his    mother's. 

Florra  Parks  Wheeler  was  married  No- 
vember 19,  1927,  to  Mr.  Jack  Coleman  An- 
derson. He  is  district  representative  for 
the  International  Harvester  Company. 
They  are  living  temporarily  at  Mullins 
Court,  Texarkana,  Ark. 

Virginia  Williams  is  Mrs.  T.  B.  Wight, 
Buena  Vista,  Ga.     Mr.  Wight  is  the  Ford 
dealer  there.     They  have  no  children. 
1926 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Eleanor  (Berger)  Blumenthal's  new  ad- 
dress is  2905  N.  Charles  St.,  Del  Verne 
Apts.,  Baltimore,  Md.  Her  husband  is  pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  at  Johns  Hopkins 
University. 

Mary  Dudley  Brown  spent  Christmas  in 
Winston-Salem,  N.  C.  They  will  leave 
very  soon  for  Miami  Beach. 

Elizabeth  Callen  is  teaching  in  Birming- 
ham, Ala.  Her  address  is  1124  S.  33rd 
Street. 


Edyth  (Carpenter)  Shuey  writes:  "I 
have  been  moving  into  my  new  house  for 
the  past  few  days.  We  have  a  precious 
little  place,  and  I  am  quite  intrigued  with 
it."  Carp's  address  is  721  Majorca  Ave., 
Coral  Gables,  Fla. 

Edythe  Coleman  is  the  president  of  the 
girls    cotillion    club    of    Atlanta. 

Dora  (Ferrell)  Gentry's  new  address  is 
73    14th    St.,    N.    E.,    Atlanta. 

Mary  Ella  (Hammond)  McDowell  and 
her  husband  spent  Christmas  with  their 
families  in  Griffin,  Ga. 

Gladys  Harbaugh  is  working  for  her 
master's  degree  at  Cornell  University. 

Sterling  Johnson  writes  from  Philadel- 
phia: "I  spend  all  my  days  keeping  house 
and  teaching  school.  Our  apartment  is  a 
dear,  we  think,  even  though  it  is  furnished 
by  ingenuity  only.  Our  guests  have  helped 
a  lot,  too.  'Toya'  Junkin  painted  some 
furniture  and  helped  make  curtains,  Sarah 
Slaughter  contributed  a  rolling  pin  (we  had 
been  rolling  biscuits  with  a  milk  bottle), 
others  have  left  behind  them  potted  flow- 
ers, pillows,  sugar  scoops,  soap  shakers 
and  such.  Sarah  spent  Thanksgiving  with 
us.  Barron  Hyatt,  '24,  spent  one  week-end 
here  in  November.  She  is  getting  on 
beautifully  with  her  work  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia  Hospital,  and  has  only  one 
more  year  there.  ...  I  see  Miss  Ran- 
dolph, who  teaches  a  mile  or  so  from  me, 
occasionally." 

Helen  Clark  Martin  writes:  "After  that 
good  trip  abroad,  I  am  back  in  Charles- 
ton, S.  C.,  teaching  in  one  of  our  county 
schools.  I  have  thirty-seven  squirming 
second  grade  children." 

Virginia  Peeler  made  the  trip  from  New 
Orleans  to  Pasadena,  California,  to  spend 
Christmas  at  home  with  "Aunt  Grace." 

Louise  (Pfieffer)  Ringel  and  Nellie 
Richardson  were  two  of  the  alumnae  who 
visited  the  college  at  Thanksgiving. 

Sarah  Slaughter  spent  Christmas  holi- 
days with  her  family  in  Atlanta.  Sarah 
is  interested  in  her  work  in  Physical  Ed 
at  Teachers  College.  She  sees  Eleanore 
Albright  every  day,  Martha  Crowe  often, 
and  Willie  White  Smith  occasionally. 

Sarah  Smith  has  been  doing  substitute 
teaching  in  the  Latin  department  of  the 
Atlanta  Girls  High   School. 

Fanny  Swann  writes:  "I  am  teaching 
Math  this  year  in  Mobile,  Ala.,  High 
School.  It  is  much  more  interesting  than 
grade  work.  I  see  Grace  Augusta  Ogden 
very  often,  and  have  met  Dick  Scandrett's 
sister  who  lives  here." 

Ladie  Sue  Wallace  met  Ruth  Evans 
Masengill,  '28,  at  the  Alumnae  House  for 
Thanksgiving    week-end. 

Fannie  Brown  came  home  to  Georgia 
for  several  weeks  Christmas.  She  is  doing 
kindergarten  work  in  Cincinnati. 


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33 


Catherine  Cannaday  is  her  father's  sec- 
retary in  his  New  York  City  office.  Her 
home  address  is  115  E.  89th  Street. 

Anne  Hubbard  is  a  commercial  artist  in 
Atlanta. 

Betty   Malone's    new    address    is    3311 
Montrose    Blvd.,    Houston,    Tex. 
1927 

Next   class    reunion,    1930. 

Louise  Bansley  spent  Christmas  in  New 
York  with  Martha  Crowe.  She  writes: 
"During  one  short  week  there  I  saw  more 
Agnes  Scott  girls  than  I  see  in  Atlanta  in 
a  month!  Why,  in  Columbia  University 
alone  there  is  a  whole  colony  of  them! 
It  did  make  me  feel  at  home  to  run  into 
Ida  Landau  coming  out  of  the  subway,  and 
to  meet  up  with  Mary  Ramage  at  "Cy- 
rano.' " 

Blanche  Berry  writes  that  she  caused 
a  disturbance  in  the  New  York  public 
library  lately  when  she  quite  accidentally 
ran  into  the  Agnes  Scott  debating  team 
there. 

Maurine  Bledsoe  and  Louisa  White  spent 
Thanksgiving  week-end  at  the  Alumnae 
House,  and  then  Maurine  visited  Louisa 
at  her  apartment  in  Atlanta  before  re- 
turning  to   Asheville. 

Josephine  Bridgman  and  Miss  Hopkins 
came  from  Charlottesville,  Va.,  to  Gas- 
tonia  together  on  the  train  after  the 
Christmas    holidays. 

Louise  (Capen)  Baker  is  keeping  house 
at  Apt.  68,  520  W.  124th  St.,  New  York, 
and  doing  lab  work  in  the  Natui-al  History 
Museum. 

Annette  (Carter)  Colwell's  husband  is 
at  the  University  of  Chicago  where  he  has 
a  fellowship  in  the  New  Testament  de- 
partment. Annette  is  taking  care  of  Eliz- 
abeth Anne  Colwell,  and  keeping  house 
at  5552  University  Ave.,  Chicago. 

Announcement  has  just  been  made  of 
the  marriage  on  May  19th  in  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  of  Frances  Chambers  to  Mr.  Bartow 
Wing,  brother  of  Virginia  (Wing)  Power, 
'26.  Mr.  Wing  travels  for  the  Timkin  Rol- 
ler Bearings  Service  Sales  Company. 

Lib  (Clark)  Young  and  her  husband 
spent  Christmas  at  Lib's  home  in  West 
Point. 

Lillian  Clement  is  working  in  the  adjust- 
ment department  of  the  Southern  Bell 
Telephone  Company  in  Atlanta. 

Martha  Crowe  still  insists  that  she  is 
homesick  for  Atlanta  and  Agnes  Scott, 
although  she  admits  that  New  York  is 
just  the  place  for  Agnes  Scott  people  who 
think  the  world  has  gone  all  wrong  and 
that  the  only  thing  that  will  make  it 
right  again  is  the  sight  of  a  few  good  old 
Hottentots.  There  are  plenty  there! 
Martha  and  her  mother  entertained  the 
Agnes  Scott  debating  team  and  the  New 
York  alumnae  at  tea  on  the  day  before  the 


Vassar  debate.     Martha  has  begun  work 
on  her  M.  A.  at  Columbia. 

Marian  Daniel  and  Rachel  Henderlite 
spent  Thanksgiving  at  Agnes  Scott  with 
Huda  Dement. 

Frances  Freeborn's  mother  died  on  No- 
vember 27.  The  class  members  sympathize 
with  Frances  in  her  loss. 

Elsa  Jacobsen  spent  the  Christmas  holi- 
days with  her  mother  and  Elaine,  '29,  in 
Decatur.  Elsa  loves  her  work  with  the 
Indianapolis    girl   reserves. 

Pearl  Kunnes  is  working  in  New  York 
City.  She  lives  not  far  from  Willie  White 
Smith  and  sees  her  very  often. 

When  Ida  Landau  and  Louise  Bansley 
unexpectedly  confronted  each  other  in  a 
New  York  subway  Christmas,  they  both 
exclaimed  in  one  breath:  "Why,  I  thought 
you  were  in  Atlanta!" 

Well,  some  go  up,  and  some  come  down. 
Ida  and  Louise  go  to  New  York,  and  Ellen 
Douglas  Leyburn  comes  down  to  Georgia 
from  Massachusetts  for  the  Christmas 
holidays  with  her  family  in  Rome.  She 
spent  a  day  in  Decatur  with  Janef  Preston, 
'21,  and  they  settled  the  affairs  of  the 
world  over  the  luncheon  table  in  the  Dec 
hotel. 

Louise  Lovejoy  is  doing  lab  work  at 
Grady  Hospital  in  Atlanta.  She  lives  at 
home. 

Elizabeth  Lynn  went  home  for  the  holi- 
days and  tells  of  the  joy  of  Christmas 
in  the  orphanage  baby  cottage,  where  Dr. 
Lynn   is   caring   for   twenty   babies. 

Carolina  McCall  has  had  sinus  trouble 
for  several  weeks.  Margaret  Rice,  '28, 
been  substituting  for  her  in  her  school  in 
Lafayette  while  C'nina  recuperated  at 
home. 

Caroline  McKinney  has  a  new  position 
with  the  Southern  Bell  Telephone  Company 
in  Atlanta.     She  lives  at  home. 

Ruth  McMillan  was  married  on  January 
12  at  high  noon  at  the  North  Avenue  • 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Atlanta  to  Mr. 
Roy  Sexton  Jones,  of  New  York  City. 
There  were  no  attendants,  but  Sarah 
Smith,  '26,  played  the  organ.  Mr.  Jones 
received  his  degree  in  law  at  the  Universi- 
ty of  Georgia,  where  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Phi  Delta  Theta  fraternity.  He  is  now 
connected  with  Coca-Cola  Company  in  New 
York. 

Hulda  McNeel  was  presented  to  Bir- 
mingham, Ala.,  society  at  a  lovely  debut 
tea  given  by  her  parents   in   November. 

Kenneth  Maner  is  thriving  on  life  at  Co- 
lumbia University.  She  is  getting  not 
only  an  M.  A.  but  a  thorugh  acquaintance 
with  New  York  City. 

Evalyn  Powell  drove  from  Little  Rock  to 
Atlanta  for  the  Tech-Vanderbilt  game  in 
November.  The  Arkansas  traveler  came 
out  to  Agnes  Scott,  of  course. 


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Miriam  Preston  writes  from  Soonchun, 
Korea:  "We  certainly  do  enjoy  the  Quai"- 
terly  out  here.  I  am  having  a  good  time 
at  home  this  winter.  There  are  numerous 
excitements;  tomorrow  morning,  for  in- 
stance, we  are  leaving  at  daylight  for  a 
big  game  hunt."  Miriam  is  returning  to 
America   this   summer. 

Frances  Rainey's  family  met  her  in  New 
Orleans  for  Thanksgiving,  but  when 
Christmas  came  'round,  she  was  homesick 
for  Georgia,  so  she  spent  the  holidays 
in  Norcross. 

Elizabeth  Sanders  visited  Elizabeth  Lynn 
at  Agnes  Scott  in  December.  She  has  been 
ill  and  will  be  at  home  in  Arkansas  this 
spring  instead  of  continuing  her  teaching. 

Willie  White  Smith  is  studying,  teach- 
ing, and  keeping  house  for  an  apartment 
full  in  New  York.  Her  address  is  560  W. 
165th  St.,  Apt.  3-A. 

Ro  Winter  and  Marcia  Green  visited 
Agnes  Scott  Thanksgiving. 

Judith  Wilson  writes:  "I  took  special 
training  last  summer  in  social  work,  and 
now  I  have  the  dandiest  job  ever,  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Child  Welfare  Board  in 
Dale  County,  Ala.  The  work  is  delightful. 
I  really  have  three  jobs  in  one:  1,  School 
attendance  officer,  in  which  I  have  to  keep 
all  the  children  of  school  age  in  school. 
If  they  are  poor  and  unable  to  buy  clothes, 
I  have  to  get  them  some  anyway  I  can. 
I  have  had  only  one  court  case  since  I 
have  been  in  the  work,  for  which  I  am 
duly  thankful.  2,  Probation  officer,  in 
which  I  supervise  any  case  in  which  a  child 
is  involved  that  may  come  into  court.  I 
also  have  all  the  desertion  and  non-sup- 
port cases  that  come  up.  I  get  out  and 
try  to  get  these  people  back  together  when 
I  think  it  advisable.  I  have  had  ten  cases 
since  September  and  succeeded  in  settling 
them  without  having  a  big  court  case  of  it. 
3,  general  family  welfare  worker,  in  which 
J  try  to  improve  home  life  in  homes 
where  it  is  needed.  I  find  quite  a  bit  of 
this  to  do,  too.  ...  I  have  fifty-four  white 
schools  which  I  visit  every  month.  And 
it's  quite  a  job  to  get  to  all  these  with  all 
the  other  work  I  have  to  do.  But  the 
beauty  of  the  work  is  when  you  leave  the 
office  at  five  o'clock  you  are  through  until 
the  next  morning  at  eight!  That  is  why 
I  like  this  so  much  more  than  teaching. 
I  have  been  on  this  job  since  September 
and  like  it  more  each  day.  I  have  a 
Chrysler  coupe  and  the  two  of  us  manage 
to  get  over  a  lot  of  ground!" 

Grace  (Zachry)  McCreery's  address  is 
1886  Lampson  Rd.,  S.  E.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
She  writes:  "I  really  like  housekeeping, 
but  it  is  comic  how  long  it  takes  me  to 
do  things.  Some  people  ventured  a  desire 
to  call  on  us  and  Ray  said  to  them  in  giv- 
ing directions  for  finding  us:  'You  can't 
miss  the  house;  it  is  the  only  place  in  the 


neighborhood   that   hasn't    a    single    cur- 
tain!'" 

Frances  Boyd  is  at  home  in  Sweetwater, 
Tennessee. 

Adelaide  Cannaday  is  secretary  to  the 
assistant  manager  of  the  Butterick  Com- 
pany in  New  York  City. 

Jo-Ann  Cox  was  married  on  December 
29  in  the  gardens  of  the  Plymouth  Church 
in  Cocoanut  Grove,  Fla.,  to  Mr.  Doremus 
Windsor  Dixon,  of  Jacksonville.  Mr.  Dixon 
is  an  alumnus  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  where  he  was  president  of  his 
class  in  1922.  He  is  at  present  district 
manager  for  the  International  Accountants 
Society  with  the  state  of  Florida  under  his 
direct    supervision. 

Louise  Gaines  is  Mrs.  J.  C.  Oates, 
Sweetwater,    Tenn. 

Martha  Evelyn  Harris  is  doing  sten- 
ographic work  in  West  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 

Louise  Lewis  is  taking  a  secretarial 
course  at  Miss  Conklins  School  in  New 
York  City. 

Mary  Martha  (Lybrook)  Neal  has 
moved  into  her  new  home  and  is  spend- 
ing the  post-holiday  days  deciding  where 
furniture   and   pictures   shall   go. 

Mrs.  Alma  Lee  Rowe  writes  from  Con- 
stantinople: "Thank  you  for  the  airplane 
view  of  Agnes  Scott.  It  certainly  looked 
good  to  me  way  off  in  these  foreign  parts. 
Life  in  the  east,  however,  is  very  fascinat- 
ing, and  I  know  I  shall  enjoy  every  minute 
of  my  three  years  here."  Mrs.  Rowe's  ad- 
dress is  40  rue  Sira  Selvi,  Taksim  Square, 
Constantinople,  Turkey. 

Myra  Sadler  is  dietitian  in  the  Children's 
Village,    Hartford,    Conn. 

Mary  Shive  has  been  ill  for  some  months 
at  Dr.  Erdman's  Sanitarium  in  Philadel- 
phia. 

1928 

Sallie  Abernathy  visited  Agnes  Scott 
during  November  and  was  on  hand  with 
refreshments  for  the  crowd  that  got 
presidential  election  returns  in  the  Physics 
lecture   room   that  night. 

Mamie  Shaw,  '27,  writes  from  Balti- 
more: "I  see  Frances  Brown  and  Peggy 
Rankin,  '27,  occasionally.  Frances'  mother 
is  with  her,  and  her  sister,  Laura,  '31,  was 
up  from  Agnes  Scott  for  the  Christmas 
holidays." 

Martha  Brown  visited  at  Agnes  Scott 
just  before  the  Christmas  holidays. 

Estelle  Bryan  is  working  in  the  informa- 
tion department  at  Davison-Paxon  Com- 
pany in  Atlanta. 

While  she  was  at  the  Alumnae  House 
Thanksgiving,  "Ginger"  Carrier  told  of  her 
audience  with  the  Pope  last  summer.  Helen 
Lane  Comfort,  '24;  Virginia  Cameron,  '29; 
Helen  Sisson,  '29;  Virginia  Sears,  '30,  and 
Kathryn  Craighead,  ex  '30,  were  in  the 
same  group.     The  audience  was  arranged 


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35 


by  Countess  Ramberg  with  whom  they 
stayed  while  in  Rome.  (As  this  goes  to 
press,  word  has  just  been  received  of  the 
death  of  the  Countess  from  septic  poison- 
ing.) 

Elizabeth  Cole  had  Jo  Houston  as  her 
guest   during    December. 

Sarah  Currie  has  just  completed  in  four 
months  a  regular  six  months  course  in 
Medical  Technology.  That  is  the  way 
Miss  MacDougalPs  Biology  majors  tackle 
the  world! 

Hattie  Gershcow  is  in  the  educational 
department  and  Frances  Hargis  doing  ads 
for   Rich's   Department   Store   in   Atlanta. 

Louise  Girardeau's  father  died  during 
the  fall. 

Sarah  Glenn  and  her  little  sister,  who 
is  a  freshman  at  Agnes  Scott,  took  a  de- 
lightful cruise  through  the  Caribbean  and 
to  Cuba  during  the  Christmas  holidays. 

When  asked  for  news  of  herself,  Eu- 
genia Gobere  writes:  "There  really  isn't 
so  terribly  much  to  tell  about  my  work 
except  that  medicine  is  marvelous  and 
hard.  I  have  to  work  in  lab  from  eight 
until  five-thirty,  and  then  study  almost 
every  night  for  four  or  five  hours.  There 
are  fifty  boys  in  the  freshman  class,  and 
only  two  girls.  Emily  Kingsbery  and  I 
have  an  adorable  four-room  apartment. 
We  spend  most  of  our  time  between  study- 
ing and  working  at  school  cooking  south- 
ern dishes  and  fixing  up  our  'home.'  It 
is  quite  complete  and  comfortable  now.  We 
play  entirely  on  the  week-ends,  and  have 
met  quite  a  few  Yale  men.  Now  that  the 
big  football  games  are  over,  we  see  ice 
hockey  games.  Yale  is  the  most  beautiful 
place!  And  we  have  met  some  of  the  well- 
known  professors  such  as  Dr.  Osborne,  Dr. 
Mendel,  and  Dr.  Harvey,  etc.  We  enjoyed 
the  alumnae  Quarterly  immensely  and 
realized  how  much  it  means  to  know  what 
the  members  of  '28  are  doing  now."  Mail 
will  reach  Eugenia  sent  to  Box  221,  Yale 
Medical  School,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Do  you  remember  the  bear  story  James 
Whitcomb  Riley  puts  into  the  mouth  of  a 
very  little  boy?  He  makes  all  sorts  of 
fabulous  statements  and  then  when  con- 
fronted with  the  real  truth,  he  back-tracks 
and  says  airily,  "Aw,  that  ain't  so;  I  thes 
said  that."  The  editor  finds  herself  in  that 
same  predicament.  In  the  November 
Quarterly  she  registered  Pete  Grier  at  the 
Assembly's  Training  School,  tucked  her 
books  under  her  arm,  and  started  Pete 
off  on  her  year's  work.  And  in  this 
January  issue,  she  is  forced  to  admit  that 
"she  thes  said  that";  Pete  isn't  in  Rich- 
mond at  all,  but  is  teaching  Latin  and 
business  English  in  Statesville,  N.  C. 

Nell  Hillhouse  returned  to  Agnes  Scott 
Thanksgiving  and  called  another  error  on 
the  poor  editor.  She  is  teaching  not  in 
the   grammar   school   in   Waynesboro,   but 


in  High  School.  There  is  not  only  a  dis- 
tinction but  a  decided  difference,  Nell 
says. 

"Bee"  Keith  and  Ann  McCollum  breezed 
in  together  for  the  Thanksgiving  holidays 
at  Agnes  Scott.  They  spent  all  the  first 
morning  at  an  Atlanta  hotel  calling  up 
their  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  all 
the  first  afternoon  counting  up  how  many 
nickels  they  had  spent  on  phone  calls. 
"Bee"  has  forsaken  her  masculine  roles, 
and  is  doing  feminine  leads  with  the  Little 
Theatre  in  Greenville,  S.  C.  She  says  the 
men  in  the  cast  aren't  half  as  manish 
as  she  and  Chugga  and  Ro  Winter  used 
to  be  in  Blackfriar  productions.  "Yes,  I'm 
a  big  business  woman,  too,  and  crazy 
about  it.  I  don't  think  I  could  possibly 
work  for  anybody  but  my  daddy:  I  can 
arrange  so  many  holidays  this  way." 

Announcement  has  been  received  of  the 
marriage  of  Emily  Kingsbery  to  Mr.  John 
D.  Serrar,  on  Saturday  noon,  January  12, 
in  New  York  City.  Mr.  Serrar  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Villa  Nova  College,  Pennsylvania, 
and  is  now  studying  medicine  at  Yale. 
Emily  and  her  fiance  and  a  few  close 
friends  motored  down  from  New  Haven  to 
New  York  for  the  ceremony,  which  took 
place  at  the  Little  Church  Around  the 
Corner.  The  Serrars  will  both  continue 
their  studies  at  Yale,  and  are  at  home  at 
36  Park  St.,  New  Haven. 

Irene  Lowrance  writes  from  Charlotte, 
N.  C:  "I  am  teaching  Latin  and  Mathe- 
matics at  the  Piedmont  Junior  High  School 
here.  I  enjoy  the  teaching  part,  but  not 
the  red  tape  of  records  and  grades.  We 
had  district  teachers'  conference  here  last 
week-end.  "Pete'  Grier,  Jo  Bridgman,  who 
has  the  fifth  grade  at  Gastonia,  were  with 
me  for  the  week-end.  Gwen  McKinnon, 
who  has  the  third  grade  at  Hickory,  came 
over  for  Friday  night.  We  did  have  a  ses- 
sion! We  are  all  crazy  to  come  back  to 
Agnes  Scott  for  a  visit,  and  may  just  up 
and  do  it!" 

Bayliss  McShane  writes:  "I  am  sitting 
here  listening  to  Mrs.  Stukes  sing  for 
WSB.  Was  awfully  excited  when  they  an- 
nounced her  name,  for  I  was  just  idly 
going  from  station  to  station  to  see  what 
I  could  pick  up.  I  hear  from  several  Agnes 
Scott  correspondents  that  the  back  south 
corner  second  floor  room  in  Inman  is 
much  neater  this  year  than  it  was  last. 
This  is  slander  some  enemy  is  putting  out 
against  Georgia  and  me,  I  feel  sure.  For 
Miss  Calhoun's  sake,  I  hope  there  is  some 
truth   in   the   report." 

Ermine  Malone's  father  died  this  fall. 

Ruth  Evans  Masengill  visited  Agnes 
Scott  during  Thanksgiving. 

Alma  Metcalf  was  at  home  in  Decatur 
for  the  Christmas  holidays  from  her 
North   Carolina  school.     She   brought  her 


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roommate,  who  lives  in  Michigan,  with 
her,  and  they  came  over  to  Agnes  Scott 
for  a  morning  ramble. 

Virginia  Miller  is  teaching  piano  and 
voice  in  Gates,  W.  Va. 

Virginia  Owen  is  fashion  advisor  with  a 
department  store  in  Boston,  Mass.  Her 
addres  is  72  Peterboro  Street. 

Mary  Perkinson  writes  from  Wadley, 
Ga.:  "Flu,  instead  of  love,  is  about  to  con- 
quor  all  here — at  least  in  the  matter  of 
strength  and  school  attendance.  And  those 
who  were  physically  able  to  come  back 
after  Christmas  had  forgotten  all  that 
we  of  the  faculty  had  nattered  ourselves 
that  we  had  taught  them  in  the  fall. 
School-teaching  still  gives  me  the  same 
old  thrill  and  I  love  my  six-foot  high  school 
boys  as  much  as  ever,  yet  I'd  give  any- 
thing in  the  world  to  drop  in  at  Agnes 
Scott,  be  a  senior  again,  and  find  old  '28 
there." 

"Marked  by  quiet  dignity  and  simplicity 
was  the  wedding  of  Miss  Martha  Doane 
Riley  to  Morris  Holt  Stephenson  which 
took  place  Saturday,  December  8,  at  St. 
Luke's  Episcopal  Church  in  Atlanta.  .  .  . 
Mr.  Stephenson  has  been  connected  with 
the  Citizens  and  Southern  Bank  for  several 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stephenson  will 
make  their  home  in  Atlanta,  following  a 
motor  trip  through  Florida."  A  lovely 
picture  of  Martha  accompanied  this  write- 
up  in  the  Atlanta  Constitution. 

Elizabeth  Roark  writes:  "I  surely  miss 
Agnes  Scott  and  all  the  girls,  but  some 
day  I'll  be  back  again.  In  the  mean- 
time, I  look  forward  eagerly  for  the 
Quarterlies." 

When  "Skid"  Mogran,  '29,  and  Dorothy 
Smith,  '30,  attended  a  student  conference 
in  Missouri  in  December,  they  stopped  by 
in  Memphis  for  a  visit  with  Mary  Shew- 
maker,  who  is  enjoying  life  at  home  this 
winter. 

Florence  (Smith)  Wright  was  at  Agnes 
Scott  Thanksgiving.  She  says  that  the 
Wright  plans  have  changed  and  they  will 
live  in  Atlanta  instead  of  Mexico. 

Ted  Wallace  is  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Tennessee.  Sarah  Marsh,  ex  '30, 
writes  from  Knoxville:  "Eleanor  Castles, 
ex  '30;  Mary  Stokely,  ex  '30;  Ted  Wallace, 
and  I  get  together  regularly  and  discuss 
Agnes   Scott   affairs." 

Lillian  White  is  teaching  English  and 
dramatics  in  the  high  school  at  Fort 
Pierce,  Fla.  She  writes:  "I  am  keeping  up 
with  all  of  you  there  on  the  campus  and 
the  wonderful  new  campaign  plans 
through  the  Aggie.  I  only  wish  my  college 
days  were  in  the  future!  And  I  simply  de- 
vour the  Quarterly.  Hadn't  realized  how 
hungry  I  was  for  Agnes  Scott — why  I 
even  read  the  news  of  the  Institute  girls 
who  left  Agnes  Scott  long  before  I  ap- 
peared on  the  campus.    I  am  doing  my  best 


to  send  you  some  worthy  material  next 
year,  but  the  rumors  of  the  stiff  work  at 
Agnes  Scott  have  reached  even  the  coast 
of  Florida.  ...  I  have  my  first  play 
Friday  night,  and  it  is  with  fear  and 
trembling  that  I  let  the  curtain  go  up.  At- 
tended the  state  teachers'  meeting  re- 
cently over  at  Orlando,  where  I  met  up 
with  Kitty  Mitchell,  '27,  and  Sarah  Tate, 
'25.  I  do  wish  we  had  more  of  our  alumnae 
down  here.  It's  a  fine  state  and  the 
schools  are  good."  Lillian's  address  is  822 
Atlantic  Avenue. 

Elizabeth  Williams  is  teaching  high 
school  mathematics  at  Carbon  Hill,  Ala. 

Muriel  Mathilde  Bultman  is  studying 
this  winter  in  Paris.  Her  address  is  7 
rue  Yvon  Villarceau,  care  Mme.  Denis, 
Paris,   France. 

Grace  Chay  has  returned  to  her  home  in 
Korea  to  take  up  her  life  work  there. 

Alice  Ferrell  is  teaching  kindergarten  in 
LaGrange,  Ga. 

Louise  Geeslin  was  married  in  Novem- 
ber, 1927,  to  Mr.  D.  W.  Brosnan,  Jr.,  a 
civil  engineer.     They  live  in  Macon,  Ga. 

"Toya"  Junkin  will  finish  her  art  course 
this  spring.  She  hopes  to  get  a  job  in 
Boston.  "Toya"  visited  Sterling  Johnson, 
'26,  in  Philadelphia  in  September  and 
again  in  January. 

Margaret  Mixson  writes  from  Dunnellon, 
Fla.:  "I  have  spent  the  entire  afternoon 
and  evening  reading  the  November  issue  of 
the  Alumnae  Quarterly.  Even  though  I 
could  not  gradaute  in  our  class,  I  still  have 
a  great  love  for  Agnes  Scott  and  especially 
the  class  of  '28.  If  any  of  the  girls  pass 
through  Dunnellon  on  their  way  to  points 
south,  I  shall  be  very  glad  if  they  will 
call  me  up.  We  are  right  on  the  Tamiami 
Trail,  over  which  thousands  of  people 
travel  daily.  Since  finishing  a  business 
course  in  '27  at  the  Jacksonville  Business 
College,  I  have  been  working  in  the  new 
Atlantic  Coast  Line  Railroad  Superintend- 
ent's offices,  which  opened  soon  after  I 
came  home.  I  find  that  being  an  'efficient 
secretary'  is  very  pleasant  work,  especial- 
ly so  since  I  can  live  at  home,  have  two 
weeks  vacation  with  pay  in  the  summer, 
and  ride  on  passes.  This  summer  I  am 
planning  a  trip  to  Chicago,  where  I  shall 
visit  Miss  Catherine  Gault  (now  Mrs.  Ed  P. 
Harrison),  who  was  Spanish  teacher  at 
Agnes   Scott  during  1924-'26." 

Katherine  Rickards  was  married  this 
fall  to  Mr.  J.  Arthur  Keil,  a  member  of 
the  reporting  staff  of  the  Palm  Beach  Post, 
where  Kay  was  society  editor. 

Rowena  Runnette  and  Adah  Knight  are 
back  at  Agnes  Scott  as  members  of  the 
class  of  '29.  They  hated  to  give  up  the 
numerals  '28,  but  they  both  said  a  dip 
from  Agnes  Scott  was  worth  a  little  sacri- 
fice.    Rowena  studied  in  Paris  last  year, 


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and    Adah    taught   in   the    north    Georgia 
mountains. 

Ex  '29 

Miriam  Arrington  sailed  on  October  2 
for  a  year  of  study  and  travel  abroad.  This 
winter  she  is  studying  voice  and  German 
in  Vienna.  Her  address  is  Josefstadter 
str.  919  Wien  VIII,  Osterreich. 

Grace  St.  Clair  Ball  will  graduate  in 
June  from  the  Woman's  College  of  Ala- 
bama. 

Pauline  Brown  is  studying  at  the  Cin- 
cinnati Conservatory  of  Music. 

Bettina  Bush  is  back  at  the  University 
of  Michigan,  and  will  receive  her  degree 
in  June. 

Elmina  (Caldwell)  Wade  announces  the 
birth  on  December  16  in  LaGrange,  Ga., 
of  her  son,  Dudley  Bradstreet  Wade,  III. 

Mary  Donna  Crawford  works  with  her 
father  in  the  advertising  business.  She  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Mobile,  Ala., 
Little    Theatre    group. 

Sarah  Mildred  Farris  is  doing  sten- 
ographic work  in  Atlanta. 

Elizabeth  Fleidner  is  studying  at  Win- 
throp  College,  specializing  in  kindergarten. 

Ella  Mae  Hollingsworth  was  graduated 
from  Emory  University  in  December.  Co- 
eds are  a  very  new  thing  in  the  liberal 
arts  college  at  Emory,  and  Ella  Mae  was 
the  first  girl  to  receive  official  recognition 
in  student  activities  there.  She  was  as- 
sistant editor  of  the  Emory  Phoenix, 
quarterly  literary  magazine  of  the  student 
body. 

Mary  Clift  Hughes  is  assistant  buyer  at 
Davison-Paxon's  department  store  in  At- 
lanta. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Hutchinson  is  a  student 
at  the  National  Academy  of  Design  in 
New  York  City.  Her  address  is  518  W. 
111th  St.,  Apt.  65.  She  has  won  quite  a 
bit  of  recognition  at  the  school. 

Eugenia  Kirk,  Evelyn  Wood,  and  Clara 
Stone  are  seniors  at  the  University  of  Ala- 
bama. Clara  is  president  of  the  Tri- 
Deltas. 

Gilberta  Knight  is  back  at  Farmville, 
Va.,  at  the  State  Teachers  College.  Clarkie 
Davis,  '26,  visited  her  last  summer. 

Louisa  (Kochtitzky)  Crawford  lives  in 
Elkin,  N.  S.  Her  husband  is  with  the 
shoe   factory   there. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Lewis  is  employed  in 
the  bookkeeping  department  of  the  At- 
lanta Georgian. 

Sally  Lindsay  and  Rachel  Maddox,  ex 
'23,  are  at  the  Assembly's  Training  School 
in    Richmond,    Va. 

Susan  Pierce  is  a  student  at  Emory  Uni- 
versity   this    year. 

Josephine  Pou  is  working  with  the  Co- 
lumbus, Ga.,  Power  Company. 

Alden  Rowland  is  studying  at  Peabody 
Teachers  College  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 


Lena  Slemp  is  at  home  in  Big  Stone 
Gap,  Va.  After  leaving  Agnes  Scott  she 
attended  William  and  Mary  College  for 
a  while. 

Gulie  McLean  Stephenson  was  married 
in  December  to  Mr.  Harry  Arnold  Cassady. 

Elizabeth  Tyson  studied  last  summer  at 
the  University  of  Virginia.  This  winter 
she  is  at  the  Curry  School  of  Expression  in 
Boston. 

Isabel  Wilson  is  attending  school  in 
Washington,    D.    C. 

Katherine  Woodberry  is  a  senior  at  Bir- 
mingham Southern  College  in  Alabama. 
Academy  Alumnae  News 

Bertha  (Adams)  Hosale  is  teaching  at 
Riverdale,  Ga. 

Clara  Addy  is  teaching  again  in  Green- 
ville, S.  C. 

Ellie  Mae  (Archibald)  Haley's  husband 
is  traveling  salesman  for  the  O'Brien  Com- 
pany, manufacturers  of  overalls,  etc.  They 
have  two  children,  a  son  fifteen  and  a 
daughter  six.  Their  home  is  in  Louis- 
ville, Ky. 

Ellie  (Ayers)  Burns  is  living  in  Talla- 
dega, Ala.,  where  her  husband  is  in  busi- 
ness. They  have  three  children,  Ellie 
Ayres,    Billy,    and   Jack. 

The  arrival  of  Constance  (Berry)  Cur- 
rie's  son  has  never  been  announced  in  the 
Quarterly.  His  name  is  Charles  James 
Currie,  Jr.,  and  he  was  born  the  14th 
of  last  July. 

Patty  Howard  Blair  is  studying  at  Pea- 
body  Teachers  College  in  Nashville. 

Martha  (Brooks)  Cowan  is  living  in 
Buchanan,  Ga.,  where  her  husband  is  coun- 
ty   superintendent    of    schools. 

Ruth  Lynn  (Brown)  McPhaul's  husband 
is  a  planter  at  Doerun,  Ga.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Mary  Virginia,  ten,  and  Betty 
Brown,  who  was  four  this  month. 

May  (Cooper)  Trice  has  a  son  who  en- 
tered college  this  past  fall,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Julia,  almost  ready  to  be  graduated 
from  high  school.  Mav  lives  in  Thomas- 
ville,  Ga. 

Julia  (Costen)  Handley  lives  on  the 
Whitesville  Road,  LaGrange,  Ga.  Since 
her  husband's  death,  she  has  run  their 
farm  and  dairy  herself.  She  has  several 
children. 

Cynthie  Farie  lives  at  48  W.  84th  St., 
New  York  City. 

Lillian  (Fulcher)  BraswelPs  husband  is 
a  planter  at  Waynesboro,  Ga.  They  have 
two  boys,  ages  seven  and  three. 

Frances  Dolores  (.Gill)  Brown's  home  in 
Marietta,  Ga.,  is  called  "Roseland,"  and 
a  visitor  in  the  spring  and  summer  can 
readily  see  why.  She  has  two  daugh- 
ters,  nine   and   eleven. 

Bertha  Johnston  is  Mrs.  J.  J.  Moeb.  She 
has  one  little  boy.  They  live  first  in  one 
city  and  then  in  another,  but  at  present 


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


the  address  is  Mayflower  Hotel,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

Margeurite  (Knight)  Rolards'  address  is 
943  E.  Mistletoe,  San  Antonio,  Tex. 

Frankie  (McCrory)  Armistead's  husband 
is  in  the  insurance  and  coal  business.  They 
have  a  girl  ten  and  a  son  six. 

Rosie  Bell  Newton  does  a  great  deal  of 
church  work  in  her  old  home  at  Griffin,  Ga. 

Lucia  (Norris)  Davis'  husband  is  vice- 
president  and  cashier  of  the  Exchange 
National  Bank  of  Albany,  Ga.  She  has 
two  boys  eight  and  eleven,  and  a  girl  who 
is   seven. 

Julia  (Pace)  Burt's  husband  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Emory  University,  and  prominent 
lawyer  in  Albany,  Ga.  They  have  two 
sons,  eight  and  two,  and  a  daughter, 
five. 

Mary  (Pharr)  Williams'  husband  is  con- 
nected with  the  Goodyear  Tire  Company  in 
LaGrange,  Ga.  Her  two  sons  are  ten  and 
fifteen. 

Corinne  Rich  is  Mrs.  A.  P.  Johnson,  36 
S.  Barksdale  St.,  Memphis,  Tenn.  Mr. 
Johnson  is  a  traveling  salesman.  They  have 
one  child,  Jeanne  Rice,  aged  eleven. 

Lydie  (Sherard)  Brackett's  husband  is 
an  eye,  throat  and  nose  specialist  in  Hen- 
dersonville,  N.   C.      They   have   two   boys. 

Ruby  (Smith)  Glover's  two  daughters 
are  aged  fourteen  and  seven.  Mr.  Glover 
is  a  cotton  exporter  in  Savannah,  Ga. 

Elizabeth  Stewart  is  a  stenographer  in 
Milton,  Fla. 

Mary  Storey  (Powell)  Davis'  husband  is 
with  Manget  Brothers,  cotton  buyers  in 
Newnan,  Ga.  Their  three  children  are 
three,  five   and  seven. 

Ruth  (Taylor)  Burney  and  her  four  chil- 
dren live  in  Dublin,  Ga.  They  are  Eliz- 
abeth, fifteen;  Martha  Ann,  twelve;  Glover, 
Jr.,  ten,  and  Hairy,  six. 

Edna  Earle  (Trade)  Rosier's  address  is 
401  Powell  St.,  Birmingham,  Ala.  She  has 
three   daughters   and   one    son. 

Miriam  Elizabeth  (Tribble)  McGahee's 
husband  is  an  operator  for  the  Seaboard 
Railway,  with  headquarters  in  Atlanta. 
Their  children  are  Joseph,  sixteen;  Louise, 
nine,  and  Thomas,  four. 

Margaret  Wehler  is  employed  in  the  Cen- 
tral branch  of  the  New  York  Public 
Library. 

Evelyn  (Wilkinson)  Lowndes'  husband 
is  in  the  real  estate  business  in  San  An- 
tonio, Tex.  Their  two  children  are  Evelyn 
W.  Lowndes,  and  Holland  B.,  Jr. 


Mrs.  Phil  Pomeroy  (Marian  Atkinson, 
ex  '21),  at  Miami  Beach,  Fla. 

Mrs.  Herner  R.  Johnson  (Ruth  McDou- 
gall,  ex  '22),  in  Memphis,  Tenn.  She 
was  a  sister  of  Hall  (McDougall)  Terry, 
'23. 


NECROLOGY 


Mrs.  Lucian  Lamar  Knight  (Edith  Nel- 
son, Institute),  at  her  home  in  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  during  December.  Mrs.  Knight  had 
been  an  invalid  for  many  years.  She  was 
a  sister  of  Adelaide  Nelson,  '09,  and 
mother  of  Mary  Lamar  Knight,  '22. 


Additional  Institute   News 

Carrie  Louise  (Calloway)  Spence's  hus- 
band is  a  bookkeeper  with  the  Steele 
Furniture  Company  in  Albany,  Ga.  She 
teaches  in  the  grammar  school.  They  have 
three  sons — one  at  Annapolis,  one  work- 
ing in  LaGrange,  Ga.,  and  the  youngest 
still  in  High  School  in  Albany. 

Lillian  (Carter)  Riley  runs  a  big  board- 
ing house  in  Macon,  Ga.,  at  353  First 
Street.  She  has  five  very  charming  and 
talented  daughters:  a  teacher,  a  trained 
nurse,  a  mother,  a  business  woman  in 
New  York  City,  and  her  youngest,  who  is 
still  at  home  with  Lillian. 

Lucy  Childress  is  teaching  in  Bristol, 
Tennessee. 

After  losing  her  for  a  number  of  years, 
we  have  succeeded  in  tracing  Eleanor 
Cloud.  After  leaving  Agnes  Scott,  she 
was  graduated  at  the  LaGrange  Female 
College  and  taught  school  for  several  years 
till  her  marriage  to  Ben  Latham  Bryan, 
then  of  Union  Point,  Ga.  Mr.  Bryan  has 
been  dead  some  ten  years,  leaving  her 
with  three  small  boys.  She  then  began 
teaching  again  and  has  for  the  past  six 
years  taught  Latin  and  French  in  the 
Greensboro,  Ga.,  High  School,  where  she 
is  this  winter.  Her  oldest  son  is  a  junior 
at  the  University  of  Georgia,  and  her  sec- 
ond son  a  Sophomore  there.  The  youngest 
is  a  Senior  in  the  Greensboro  High  School. 

Levis  Colev  is  Mrs.  Marvin  F.  Owens, 
229   E.   St.,   N.   W.,   Miami,   Okla. 

Maude  Collins  is  Mrs.  W.  Lawtey  Inglis, 
Blackstone  Apts.,  749  Peachtree  St.,  At- 
lanta. Her  husband  is  with  the  Cathcart 
Van  and  Storage  Company.  They  have 
one  daughter  who  is  sixteen  years  old. 

Eugenia  Connally  is  Mrs.  J.  Prince  Mor- 
ris,  4207   Cole   Ave.,   Dallas,   Texas. 

Annie  Mae  Cothran  works  at  311  Jeffer- 
son Standard  Bldg.,  Greensboro,  N.  C.  She 
is  a  trained  nurse  connected  with  the 
Greensboro  Clinic. 

Arabella  (Crane)  des  Champs  spent  the 
summer  on  the  coast  of  Monterey  Bay  and 
in  the  California  hills.  She  writes:  "It 
is  wonderful  to  see  the  progress  of  Agnes 
Scott.  I  want  to  subscribe  to  the  'Alum- 
nae Quarterly'  in  January.  Just  now  I  am 
full  up  with  pamphlets,  papers,  and  mag- 
azines on  every  subject  from  the  heathen 
to  prunes,  but  I  am  starting  all  over  again 
in  January  and  will  take  only  two  things: 
let  the  'Quarterly'  be  one  of  the  two!  It  has 
been  so  long  since  I  have  had  any  news 


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39 


of  Agnes  Scott."  Bell  receives  her  mail 
addressed  to  Mrs.  Arabella  Farr  Crane-des 
Champs,  308  S.  9th  St.,  San  Jose,  Calif. 
She  has  no  children. 

Georgia  (Crane)  Clarke  moved  in  Sep- 
tember to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  her  hus- 
band is  manager  of  the  Pittsburgh  Plate 
Glass  Company.  They  have  two  children: 
Harriet,  3;  and  Margaret,  almost  2. 

Virginia  (Crane)  Reeves  lives  at  806 
S.    Success,   Lakeland,   Fla. 

Elva  Crenshaw  works  with  the  Ameri- 
can Surety  Company  in  Atlanta.  She 
lives  with  Mary  Louise  (Crenshaw) 
Palmour  in  College  Park,  Ga. 

Angie  (Cubbedge)  Steger's  husband  is 
an  army  officer.  They  have  two  daugh- 
ters, ages  20  and  18.  At  present  the 
Stegers  are  stationed  in  Honolulu. 

Mary  (Danner)  Frazer's  husband  is  a 
lawyer  in  Mobile,  Ala.  They  have  two 
children:  Danner,  11,  and  Ann,  8. 

Venetia  (Danner)  McClure's  husband  is 
an  instructor  and  composer  of  music.  By 
her  first  marriage  to  Mr.  Bacon  in  -1906, 
Venetia  has  three  children:  Robert,  21; 
Venetia,  19,  and  Mary  13.  The  McClures 
live  in  Mobile,  Ala. 

Ellie  (Dargan)  Hanger  lives  at  40  Edge- 
mont  Road,  Asheville,  N.  C.  She  is  a 
widow  with  one  little  six-year-old  girl. 

Marie  (Davis)  Douglas'  husband  is  in 
the  banana  importing  business  in  Mobile, 
Ala.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Mobile 
Baseball  Association.  They  have  three 
girls,  Marion,  Katherine,  and  Marie,  and 
one  son,  William,  Jr. 

Willibert  Davis  is  Mrs.  L.  B.  Morton, 
311  Brainard  St.,  Houston,  Texas. 

Carrie  (Denmark)  Tillman  lives  in  Quit- 
man, Ga.  She  is  a  widow  with  one  daugh- 
ter, Evelyn  Joe  (Mrs.  A.  D.  Mallory). 

Mamie  (Dobbins)  Shaw's  husband  is  a 
cotton  exporter  in  Albany,  Ga.  They  have 
one   thirteen-year-old  daughter. 

Mary  (Draper)  North's  husband  is  the 
president  of  the  Manufacturers'  National 
Bank  in  Newnan,  Ga.  Their  oldest  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth,  is  now  Mrs.  Roy  Cole;  the 
second  daughter,  Emma,  is  at  home;  and 
their  son  is  a  physician  in  Washington, 
D.   C. 

Louise  DuBose  is  director  of  Education 
and  Religious  Activities  for  the  Moultrie, 
Ga.,  cotton  mill. 

Louise  Strong  Falligant  is  teaching  in 
Savannah,   Ga. 

Mathilda  (Fleming)  O'Donald  lives  in 
the  Ambassador  Apts.,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
She  is  woman's  editor  of  the  "Florida 
Times-Union,"  and  her  daughter  is  also 
connected  with  the  society  editorial  staff. 

Georgia  Freeman  works  at  the  Y.  W.  C. 
A.  in  Savannah,  Ga. 


Mamie  Lou  (Fulcher)  Chandler's  hus- 
band is  teaching  in  Waynesboro,  Ga.  They 
have  four  children:  girls,  20  and  14,  and 
boys,  18  and  16. 

Eulalie  Gamble  is  Mrs.  A.  G.  Guerard, 
care  National  City  Bank  of  New  York, 
41  Blvd.  Haussman,  Paris,  France.  Eula- 
lie is  a  widow  with  no  children  and  has 
been   living   abroad   a  number  of  years. 

Nannie  Gilmore  is  connected  with  the 
administration  at  the  Duval  County  Hos- 
pital  in   Jacksonville,   Fla. 

Lucia  (Goddard)  Halliburton  teaches 
the  5th  grade  in  the  Griffin,  Ga.,  public 
school.  Her  husband  is  dead.  She  has 
one  daughter,  Emily,  just  graduated  from 
finishing  school. 

Gussie  Mae  Goldsmith  is  an  operator  at 
the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  in  the  Transit 
Department  in  Atlanta.  She  lives  at  Apt. 
15,  817  Ponce  de  Leon  Ave.,   N.  E. 

Marie  (Gower)  Conyers  and  her  husband 
are  completing  work  on  their  new  country 
estate  just  out  of  Greenville,  S.  C.  Mr. 
Conyers  is  a  lawyer.  Their  three  chil- 
dren, all  grown  now,  are  Mrs.  Melville 
Westervelt  (who  came  to  Agnes  Scott  in 
'14  as  Sarah  Conyers);  Priestley,  and 
Mary- 

Hattie  (Grace)  Bellinger's  husband  is  a 
banker  at  Waycross,  Ga.  They  have  three 
daughters:  Grace,  now  married;  Mary 
Wayne,  20,  and  Louise,  15. 

Pauline  Gramling  is  Mrs.  J.  H.  Miles, 
5251  Washington  Blvd.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Elise  (Guerard)  Bond's  husband  is  in 
the  i-eal  estate  business  in  Savannah,  Ga. 
They  have  two  sons,  both  grown,  and  a 
married  daughter. 

Charlotte  Gunby  is  Mrs.  William  Rule, 
Jr.,  1604  W.  Clinch  Ave.,  Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Mr.  Rule  is  cashier  of  the  East  Tennes- 
see National  Bank.  Their  children  are 
William  Rule,  III,  16;  F.  Gunby  Rule,  14, 
and  Barbara  Gunby  Rule,  9.  Charlotte 
writes:  "Thank  you  so  very  much  for 
the  'Alumnae  Quarterly,'  which  arrived 
today.  I  wonder  how  it  found  me  for  I 
am  still  listed  in  it  as  Charlotte  Gunby 
of  Jacksonville,  Fla.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
I  am  very  much  married;  we  are  sending 
our  oldest  son  off  to  college  this  fall. 
Please  don't  think  from  that  that  I  am  from 
the  dark  ages,  though,  for  I  assure  you  it 
was  only  mid-victorian.  But  I  am  still 
interested,  and  there  are  several  of  us  I 
happen  to  know  that  are  still  pretty  lively. 
I  am  hoping  to  work  up  interest  enough 
to  bring  quite  a  few  of  us  back  in  1930." 

Louise  (Hansell)  Whittle  is  a  business 
woman  in  Atlanta.  Her  husband  is  dead, 
and  her  only  child  is  a  daughter,.  Mrs.  I. 
H.  Joffee,  of  Fort  McPherson,  Ga. 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Edith  May  (Hardy)  Harvey  has  been 
ill  during  the  summer  at  St.  Luke's  Hos- 
pital in  Kansas  City,  Mo.  She  has  re- 
turned to  her  home  now  in  Lexington,  Mo. 
Her  children  are  Katherine,  Jack,  Eliz- 
abeth, and  Mary  Ellen.  Mr.  Harvey  is 
a  Ford  dealer. 

Lizzie  Harmon  is  a  nurse,  living  at  16 
E.  39th  St.,  Savannah,  Ga. 

Blanche  (Harper)  Warde's  husband  is  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Warde-Harper  Live 
Stock  Company  in  Albany,  Ga.  They 
have  one  daughter,  aged  eleven. 

Annie  Louise  (Harrison)  Waterman's 
son,  Carol  B.  Waterman,  is  nineteen  this 
year.  Mr.  Waterman  is  president  of  a 
steamship   company  in   Mobile,   Ala. 

Myra  Haygood's  address  is  Box  1815, 
Capetown,  South  Africa. 

Mary  Allen  (Henderson)  Schilling  has 
a  son  at  the  University  of  Georgia,  and 
three  younger  daughters.  Her  husband 
is  cashier  of  the  Merchants  and  Farm- 
ers   Bank   in    Marietta,    Ga. 

Ellerbe  (Holt)  Fowler  is  living  at  1019 
Terry  Ave.,  Seattle,  Wash. 

Mary  (Holt)  McAloney  lives  in  Colorado 
Springs,   Colo. 

Joseph  Walker,  son  of  the  late  Vennie 
(Holt)  Walker,  is  pastor  of  the  West 
Raleigh  Presbyterian  Church  in  Raleigh, 
N.  C.  Vennie's  husband  is  preaching  in 
Hamlet,  N.  C. 

Harriet  Houston  is  Mrs.  C.  A.  Kerr, 
1014  Milledge  Rd.,  Augusta,  Ga.  She  has 
been  abroad  all  summer  touring  England 
and  the  continent. 

Rosalie  Howell  landed  on  October  26th 
on  the  S.  S.  President  Harding  from  a 
summer  spent  in  European  travel. 

Lulie  (Hurst)  Howald  will  teach  again 
this  winter  in  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico. 

Addie  (Jones)  Cunningham's  husband 
has  retired  from  an  active  business  life. 
For  many  years  he  was  connected  with 
the  Central  Railroad.  They  have  two 
grown   children. 

Julia  (Judge)  Harkness,  of  Eutaw,  Ala., 
is  an  active  alumna.  Her  only  child  is  a 
daughter,  Sadie  Martha  Harkness,  aged 
19.     Julia  is   a  widow. 

Saidee  Hull  (King)  Harrison  has  a 
daughter,  19,  and  two  sons,  ages  16  and 
17.     They  live  in  Richmond,  Va. 

Elizabeth  May  (Laing)  Smith  lives  at 
the  Washington  Hotel,  Shreveprt,  La.  Her 
husband  is  an  automobile  salesman.  They 
have    no    children. 

Berta  Leckey's  address  is  Hollenbeck 
Home,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.  She  taught 
until  recently  at  the  Westlake  School  for 
Girls  in  Los  Angeles,  but  has  retired 
from  the  profession  now  on  account  of 
disability. 

Jessie  (Litchfield)  Kerley  is  a  business 
woman  in  Atlanta.  Her  three  children 
are  all  grown  and  married. 


Mattie  (Loyd)  Kimbrough's  husband  is 
a  farmer.  Their  only  child,  Frances,  was 
graduated  from  High  School  last  May. 

Stella  McClelland  is  Mrs.  James  A. 
Clotfelter,  the  wife  of  the  Presbyterian 
minister  at  Townville,  S.  C.  Their  only 
child  is  a  daughter,  Dorris  Josephine, 
born  in  1907. 

Margaret  (McCormack)  Lawrence's 
children  are  a  daughter,  14,  and  sons,  16 
and  18.  Mr.  Lawrence  is  in  the  insurance 
business  in  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Ruth  McGaughey  is  Mrs.  F.  L.  Jack, 
2704  Scott  Ave.,  Fort  Worth,  Texas.  Her 
husband  is  superintendent  of  a  lumber  and 
mill  company.  They  have  four  daughters, 
one  of  whom  finished  C.  I.  A.  in  Denton, 
Texas,  in  May. 

Lila  McMahon  is  teaching  at  C.  I.  A.  in 
Denton,  Texas. 

Mamie  (Mayson)  Smith's  children  are 
Paul,  Cozart,  and  Dorothy  Elizabeth.  Mr. 
Smith  is  in  the  fire  insurance  business. 

Maud  (Medlock)  Christian's  three  sons 
are  all  in  High  School  and  college  this 
fall.  Mr.  Christian  is  a  printer  with  the 
Atlanta  Journal.  They  have  a  country 
home  out  from  Marietta,  Ga. 

Harriet  (Milledge)  Salley's  husband  is 
state  historian  for  South  Carolina.  They 
have  no  children. 

Adelaide  Montgomery  was  married  in 
1912  to  Harry  Gasque  Lewis.  They  are 
living  now  at  2016  Louisiana  St.,  Little 
Rock,  Ark.,  and  have  one  son,  Harry  Lewis, 
Jr.,  born  in  1916.    Mr.  Lewis  is  a  chemist. 

Maggie  Peabody  is  teaching  music  in 
Adel,  Ga. 

Millie  Posey  is  teaching  in  the  Atlanta 
public   schools. 

Jennie  Lou  Powell  is  Mrs.  John  C. 
Grice,  329  Belt  Ave.,  Washington  Apts., 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Emma  (Price)  Pillans'  husband  is  a 
lawyer  in  Mobile,  Ala.  They  have  one 
daughter,  Martha,  aged  17. 

Stella  Puleston  is  Mrs.  Stella  Arrington, 
Sanford,  Fla.  She  is  a  widow  with  one 
son,  Briggs  Arrington,  aged  19.  Stella  is 
supervising  principal  of  the  Sanford  Pri- 
mary Schools.  She  has  studied  recently  at 
the  University  of  California  and  at  Flor- 
ida State  College. 

Annie  Ramsey  is  the  proprietor  of  a 
tea  room  on  Peachtree  Street  in  Atlanta. 

Augusta  Randall  is  buyer  for  the  Ladies' 
Ready-to-Wear  Department  at  Chamber- 
lin-Johnson-DuBose  Company  in  Atlanta. 

Helen  Clark  Rowland  was  in  New  York 
during  the  summer.  Her  permanent  ad- 
dress is  still  Savannah,  Ga. 

Mary  Carter  Schaefer  is  Mrs.  John  Wil- 
liam Marks,  Toccoa,  Ga.  Mr.  Marks  is 
a  construction  engineer.  Their  one  child 
is  a  boy,  Edward  Schaefer,  now  nine  years 
old. 


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Reunions  This  Year  of  the  Following 
Classes : 

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Institute  Reunion  of  all  girls  attending 
Agnes  Scott  from  1889  to  1906. 


THE  PRESIDENT'S  PAGE 

IS  AGNES  SCOTT  UNIQUE? 

When  we  recently  approached  the  General  Education  Board  for  a  large  gift,  they 
asked:  "On  what  ground  would  we  be  justified  in  helping  Agnes  Scott  when  we  have 
gone  out  of  the  college  field?  Are  you  unique  in  any  way?"  Several  other  friends  of 
the  college  have  made  similar  inquiries.  Perhaps  it  may  be  helpful  to  recount  some  of 
the  grounds  on  which  we  make  our  plea,  and  it  is  likely  that  Alumnae  may  help  us  by 
giving  other  bases  or  facts  on  which  we  may  further  press  our  case. 

There  are  approximately  800  "colleges  for  women"  in  the  United  States.  Some  of 
them  are  weak  sisters,  and  some  of  them  could  scarcely  qualify  as  high  schools;  but  how 
is  any  distinction  to  be  made? 

Recognition 

Agnes  Scott  has  an  unusual  record  for  prompt  and  almost  spontaneous  recogni- 
tion by  classifying  agencies.  The  first  step  any  college  can  take  in  real  classification 
is  get  on  the  membership  list  of  its  Regional  Association.  In  the  South,  this  is  the 
Association  of  Colleges  and  Secondary  Schools  of  the  Southern  States,  commonly  known 
as  the  "Southern  Association".  In  1906  Agnes  Scott  was  chartered  as  a  college  and 
began  giving  degrees;  the  very  next  year,  1907,  it  was  promptly  admitted  to  the  Asso- 
ciation— the  first  college  or  university  in  Georgia  to  get  this  coveted  honor. 

In  1912  we  applied  for  membership  in  the  Southern  Association  of  College  Women, 
and  we  were  admitted  just  as  quickly  as  a  meeting  could  be  held  to  consider  our  case. 

In  1920  we  applied  to  the  Association  of  American  Universities  for  recognition  on 
their  Approved  List,  which  gives  to  our  graduates  recognition  by  foreign  universities 
or  countries.  Our  application  was  granted  at  the  very  next  meeting  of  the  executive 
committee  without  even  the  requirement  of  inspection  or  of  a  formal  detailed  report 
to  them. 

In  1920  also  we  applied  for  membership  in  the  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae 
— which  was  a  kind  of  highbrow  national  sister  of  the  S.  A.  C.  W.  mentioned  above. 
There  again  our  application  was  accepted  at  the  first  meeting  after  it  was  made.  When 
this  Association  and  the  Southern  Association  of  College  Women  were  merged  to  make 
the  present  organization  known  as  American  Association  of  University  Women,  Agnes 
Scott  was  one  of  the  very  few  Southern  colleges  to  have  unconditional  membership  in 
the  new  Association. 

The  most  significant  recognition  which  has  come  to  us,  however,  was  in  the  giving  to 
us  of  a  chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  In  former  days,  colleges  applied  for  this  honor, 
and  Agnes  Scott  had  been  too  humble  to  venture  to  ask  for  it.  In  1922  the  plan  was 
changed,  and  it  was  decided  to  invite  institutions  to  make  applications.  On  this  new 
plan  in  1925,  Agnes  Scott  was  the  first  institution  in  the  United  States,  either  college 
or  university,  for  men  or  for  women  or  coeducational,  to  be  voted  a  chapter,  receiving 
the  bid  even  before  such  colleges  as  Bryn  Mawr  or  Wells. 

When  these  recognition  tests  are  applied,  the  800  colleges  for  women  dwindle  to 
only  about  10.  This  is  still  too  large  a  number  for  the  General  Education  Board  to 
help,  and  the  question  is  whether  Agnes  Scott  is  unique  in  this  group. 

Location 

Our  College  is  located  at  almost  the  geographical  center  of  the  seven  southeastern 
states — N.  C,  S.  C,  Ga.,  Fla.,  Ala.,  Miss.,  and  Tenn.  The  per  capita  income  of  these 
states  averages  $270  per  year,  while  the  average  for  all  the  United  States  is  $513 — 
nearly  twice  as  much;  and  the  average  income  in  the  states  where  other  Phi  Beta  Kappa 


4  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

colleges  for  women  are  located  is  approximately  $900.     We  are  in  a  section  where  times 
are  hard  and  where  there  is  comparatively  little  accumulated  wealth. 

The  fact  that  we  are  an  Atlanta  institution  has  great  weight.  It  is  noted  as  a 
center  for  music,  art,  dramatic  interest,  education,  and  other  similar  activities.  There 
is  an  opportunity  here  to  touch  the  life  of  other  great  institutions  for  white  people, 
and  to  lend  a  helping  hand  to  seven  negro  institutions.  "We  are  on  a  great  national 
highway  of  transportation  so  that  thousands  of  people  have  a  chance  to  come  to  see 
us  en  route  who  would  never  think  of  going  to  Vassar,  for  example,  which  is  off  the 
beaten  paths  of  travel. 

Cosmopolitan  Character 

While  we  cannot  claim  this  to  an  extent  greater  than  most  other  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
colleges  for  women,  yet  it  is  remarkable  in  comparison  with  most  other  Southern  col- 
leges either  for  men  or  women.  We  have  drawn  our  students  from  every  state  in 
the  Union  and  from  13  foreign  countries.  Our  faculty  live  in  26  different  states  or 
countries  and  have  degrees  from  41  first-class  universities  or  colleges.  Our  Alumnae 
are  scattered  over  all  the  earth. 

The  general  support  which  we  have  received  in  previous  campaigns  also  is  of  in- 
terest. In  the  last  effort  we  received  subscriptions  from  about  4,900  people  besides 
our  own  alumnae  and  students  in  raising  $870,000,  while  recently  Yale  got  subscrip- 
tions from  only  709  people  outside  her  alumni  and  students  in  raising  $21,000,000.  Our 
subscribers  gave  small  amounts,  but  we  do  show  a  generality  of  interest. 

Alumnae 
The  General  Education  Board  has  been  particular  about  facts  concerning  our 
Alumnae,  and  especially  concerning  the  B.A.  graduates.  Who  would  think  that  over 
half  of  our  degree  graduates  have  finished  within  the  last  six  years?  Yet  this  is  a  fact. 
We  are  a  young  college,  and  this  must  be  taken  into  account  in  estimating  what  our 
Alumnae  have  accomplished.  We  have  been  able  to  make  a  good  showing.  In  educa- 
tion, in  social  service,  in  religious  work,  and  in  some  fifty  other  lines  of  endeavor, 
Agnes  Scott  girls  have  made  excellent  records.  We  have  not  sent  as  large  proportion 
of  students  into  graduate  work  as  we  would  like  to  have  done,  but  the  average  has 
been  about  17  per  cent  for  the  last  six  classes.  It  is  impressive  that  about  75  per  cent 
of  our  new  students  give  as  a  major  reason  for  selecting  Agnes  Scott  the  fact  that  they 
know  and  admire  our  Alumnae. 

Our  Relations  tvith  General  Education  Board  in  the  Past 

Our  first  application  to  the  Board  was  in  our  20th  year — 1909 — when  we  had 
assets  of  $262,43  3,  and  their  help  gave  us  our  first  start  in  growth. 

Our  second  application  was  in  our  30th  year — 1919 — when  we  had  assets  of 
$664,90  5;  and  the  help  they  gave  enabled  us  to  develop  splendidly. 

Now  when  we  are  making  our  application  in  the  40th  year — 1929 — we  can  show 
assets  of  $2,131,301.  We  have  made  twice  as  much  progress  during  the  last  decade 
as  during  the  first  thirty  years  put  together.  Without  the  help  of  the  General  Educa- 
tion Board  we  could  not  have  accomplished  so  much,  and  we  need  their  assistance  now. 

Present  Status 
On  February  26th,  we  consulted  officers  of  the  Board,  and  they  have  agreed  to 
recommend  us  to  their  Board  at  the  annual  meeting  the  latter  part  of  May.  No  one 
can  tell  what  the  result  may  be,  but  we  are  most  encouraged  at  the  progress  we 
have  made  in  the  matter.  President  Arnett  frankly  says  that  our  chances  will  be 
greatly  improved  if  we  can  show  at  least  $100,000  more  subscribed  before  the  May 
meeting.     We  are  going  to  have  to  trust  to  the  Alumnae  to  help  us  get  it. 

J.  R.  McCAIN. 


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INTELLECTUAL  AMBASSADORS  OF  GOOD  WILL 

By  ARCHIE  M.  PALMER 

Assistant  Director  of  the  Institute  of  International  Education 

This  summer  Elizabeth  Cheatham  of  the  class  of  192  5  will  sail  for  France  to 
represent  Agnes  Scott  College  and  American  higher  education  generally  as  a  Franco- 
American  Scholar  at  the  University  of  Toulouse.     She  is  one  of  eighteen  graduates  of 

American  colleges  and  universities  who  have  been  se- 
lected to  represent  the  youth  of  America  at  the  French 
universities  next  year.  For  the  past  two  years  Miss 
Cheatham  has  been  a  member  of  the  College  instruc- 
tional staff,  having  previously  spent  two  years  teach- 
ing in  the  Athens   (Georgia)   High  School. 

Marguerite  Gerard  from  the  Pensionnat  la  Provi- 
dence was  selected  last  summer  by  the  Office  National 
des  Universites  et  Ecoles  Francaises  in  Paris  and  the 
Institute  of  International  Education  in  New  York,  to 
accept  the  generous  invitation  extended  by  President 
McCain  for  a  French  girl  to  enjoy  the  hospitality  and 
facilities  of  Agnes  Scott  College  as  an  exchange  student. 
She  has  been  there  all  this  year  and  has  been  very  happy  in  her  work  and  in  the  congenial 
social  atmosphere  of  the  College. 

During  the  school  year  1924-2  5  Vivian  Little  of  the  class  of  1924  who  is  now 
instructing  in  French  at  the  College,  was  in  France  on  a  Franco-American  scholarship 
at  the  Lycee  Victor  Durtty  in  Paris.     While  there  she  also  studied  at  the  Sorbonne. 

Two  hundred  and  eleven  graduate  students  are  this  year  engaged  in  advanced  study 
in  American  colleges  and  universities  and  in  foreign  universities  on  the  exchange  fellow- 
ships and  other  foreign  study  opportunities  administered  by  the  Institute  of  International 
Education.  The  fundamental  idea  behind  these  foreign  study  opportunities  for  Ameri- 
can students  is  to  make  it  possible  for  America  to  broaden  her  horizon  and  to  promote 
international  goodwill  through  a  better  mutual  understanding  between  the  United 
States  and  foreign  countries.  That  the  furtherance  of  this  ideal  is  being  realized  is 
clearly  manifest  in  the  activities  of  those  who  have  returned  after  an  enjoyment  of  these 
opportunities  and  the  increasing  breadth  of  vision  and  of  interest  in  international  affairs 
on  the  part  of  our  people  generally  and  of  our  youth  particularly.  The  same  results 
accrue  from  the  opportunities  offered  the  young  intellectuals  of  the  different  foreign 
countries  to  come  to  the  United  States  and  to  observe  and  learn  at  first  hand  American 
culture  and  university  methods.  It  is  hoped  that  through  such  exchanges  not  merely 
the  beneficiaries  themselves  may  profit  but  that  better  understanding  and  better  rela- 
tions may  be  fostered  and  established  among  the  nations  they  represent. 

Some  years  ago  at  a  meeting  of  international  societies  the  late  Andrew  Carnegie 
remarked  that  in  time  there  would  be  no  place  in  the  world  for  the  peace  societies  which 
he  had  founded,  but  that  there  would  always  be  need  for  organizations  which  would 
bring  different  countries  together  in  points  of  intellectual  contact. 

Whether  one  is  a  foe  or  a  friend  of  internationalism,  whether  one  believes  in  a 
society  of  nations  or  thinks  that  the  human  race  will  prosper  best  when  parcelled  into 
small,  assertive  nationalities,  one  must  admit  that  in  the  future,  as  in  the  past,  nations 
will  be  stimulated  by  the  contact  of  one  civilization  with  another.  The  understanding 
and  appreciation  of  one's  neighbors  can  be  best  realized  through  a  comprehension  of 
their  culture,  of  their  social  life,  and  of  their  psychology.  In  what  more  effective  way 
can  this  end  be  attained  than  through  the  interchange  of  students  and  teachers,  thereby 
effecting  the  interpretation  through  the  observing  eyes  of  youth.'' 


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Shortly  after  the  close  of  the  World  War  the  Institute  of  International  Educa- 
tion was  founded  to  "develop  mutually  helpful  relations  between  the  United  States  and 
foreign  countries  through  educational  agencies."  Its  general  aim  of  developing  in- 
ternational education,  understanding  and  good  will  is  accomplished  through  such  ac- 
tivities as  the  interchange  of  professors  and  other  intellectual  leaders,  the  establishment 
of  international  student  fellowships,  the  holding  of  conferences  on  international  educa- 
tion and  the  publication  of  books  and  pamphlets  on  the  systems  of  education  of  the 
different  countries,  including  many  of  great  value  to  students  and  scholars. 

It  is  quite  natural  that  as  an  agency  for  bringing  different  countries  together  in 
points  of  intellectual  contact,  one  of  the  earliest  and  perhaps  one  of  the  outstanding 
achievements  of  the  Institute  of  International  Education  has  been  the  establishment  and 
administration  of  a  series  of  permanent  student  exchanges  between  the  United  States 
and  the  countries  of  Europe.  With  the  inauguration  this  year  of  the  Austro-American 
Exchange,  the  Institute  now  maintains  such  exchanges  with  seven  European  countries: 
Austria,  Czechoslovakia,  France,  Germany,  Hungary,  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

Through  these  international  student  exchanges  the  Institute  has  for  a  number 
of  years  been  making  it  possible  for  a  fine  body  of  worthy  students  to  come  to  the 
United  States  on  fellowships  and  scholarships  for  study  in  their  special  fields  in  Ameri- 
can colleges  and  universities,  and  for  an  equally  fine  group  of  American  students  to 
go  abroad  on  reciprocal  opportunities  for  study  in  European  universities.  These  ex- 
change fellowship  opportunities  are  all  for  graduate  study. 

This  year  eighty-five  American  college  graduates — intellectual  ambassadors  of 
good  will — will  spend  the  year  abroad  on  exchange  fellowships:  one  in  Austria,  five  in 
Czechoslovakia,  twenty-five  in  France,  forty-four  in  Germany,  four  in  Hungary,  and 
six  in  Switzerland.  Of  the  one  hundred  and  four  nationals  of  these  countries  who  are 
attending  the  institutions  of  higher  learning  in  the  United  States,  one  is  from  Austria, 
eight  from  Czechoslovakia,  nineteen  from  France,  forty-seven  from  Germany,  nine 
from  Hungary,  two  from  Italy  and  eighteen  from  Switzerland. 

In  addition  to  its  international  student  exchange  activities,  the  Institute  of  Inter- 
national Education  administers  the  American  Field  Service  Fellowships,  a  group  of 
fine  opportunities  for  advanced  study  in  France  established  shortly  after  the  war  in 
order  to  develop  a  more  complete  realization  and  consideration  of  the  contributions 
made  to  science  and  learning  by  the  great  minds  of  France,  and  also  to  commemorate 
the  sacrifice  of  "the  one  hundred  twenty-seven  Field  Service  men  who  gave  their  lives 
to  the  cause  and  to  perpetuate  among  future  generations  the  mutual  understanding  and 
fraternity  of  spirit  which  marked  their  relations  during  the  war."  During  the  decade 
that  those  fellowships  have  been  in  existence  one  hundred  and  forty-seven  have  been 
sent  to  France  to  study  as  Fellows.  Twelve  of  them  are  abroad  this  year  enjoying  these 
opportunities. 

Each  year  new  foreign  study  opportunities  are  being  entrusted  to  the  Institute  for 
administration.  Last  year  the  Germanistic  Society  of  America  decided  to  establish  a 
fellowship  for  an  American  student  who  contemplated  studying  some  phase  of  German 
civilization  at  a  German  university,  provided  the  Institute  would  take  charge  of  the 
administration.  The  invitation  was  accepted  and  after  a  very  keen  competition  a  fine 
young  American  scholar,  an  instructor  in  German  language  and  literature  at  one  of 
the  midwestern  universities,  was  selected.  He  is  now  in  Germany  studying  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Berlin. 

For  the  past  few  years  the  French  Ministry  of  Public  Instruction  has  offered  to 
American  men  through  the  Institute  of  International  Education  a  number  of  teaching 
positions  in  French  lycees  and  ecoles  normales,  known  as  "postes  dAssistant  dAnglais" 
if  in  the  former,  or  as  "postes  de  Repetiteur  dAnglais"  if  in  the  latter.     This  year 


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nine  American  college  graduates  are  in  France  enjoying  these  opportunities.  Efforts 
are  now  being  made  to  extend  these  opportunities  to  American  women,  and  it  is  hoped 
that  this  end  may  soon  be  realized. 

In  general,  graduate  students  profit  most  from  such  foreign  study  opportunities  as 
those  mentioned  above.  The  organization  of  education  in  the  European  countries  and 
the  methods  employed  are  so  different  from  those  under  which  American  students  pursue 
their  work  at  home  that  a  certain  amount  of  intellectual  as  well  as  chronological  ma^ 
turity  and  development  are  paramount  to  the  full  enjoyment  of  these  advantages  of- 
fered through  study  in  a  foreign  university.  Nevertheless,  the  movement  described  by 
the  term  "Junior  Year  Abroad",  when  participated  in  by  organized  groups  under  well- 
defined  supervision,  has  won  the  hearty  approval  of  all  the  factors  concerned  in  its 
operation,  the  foreign  educational  authorities,  the  American  college  faculties,  and 
students  themselves.  It  has  passed  out  of  the  experimental  stage  and  has  now  apparently 
become  a  permanent  factor  in  international  education. 

As  a  means  of  enhancing  and  spreading  the  Junior  Year  Abroad  idea  and  also  of 
providing  the  opportunity  for  American  undergraduates  to  spend  the  junior  year  abroad 
studying  at  some  foreign  university,  the  Institute  administers  a  series  of  undergraduate 
scholarships  under  which  this  year  twenty-five  Americans  are  studying  in  France,  two 
in  Germany,  and  two  in  England.  Last  year  one  of  these  scholarship  holders  studied 
in  Madrid  and  another  at  St.  Andrews  in  Scotland. 

The  American  student  abroad,  be  he  graduate  or  undergraduate,  enjoys  the  op- 
portunity to  study  a  "civilization  other  than  his  own"  in  the  making,  and  is  enabled 
to  interpret  and  compare  his  own  nation  and  its  institutions  with  another  nation  and 
its  institutions. 


COMMENCEMENT  SPEAKERS  NAMED 
Dr.  McCain  and  Dr.  Sweets  to  Speak 

On  Sunday  morning,  May  26,  Dr.  Henry  H.  Sweets,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  will  give 
the  baccalaureate  sermon.  Dr.  Sweets  has  received  degrees  from  Center  College,  Pres- 
byterian College,  and  Davidson.  A  Presbyterian  minister,  he  has  been  secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Christian  Education  and  Ministerial  Relief  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  a 
trustee  of  the  General  Assembly,  president  of  the  Presbyterian  Educational  Associa- 
tion of  the  South,  and  a  member  of  various  important  boards. 

On  Tuesday,  May  28,  Dr.  C.  S.  McCain,  of  Greenwich,  Conn.,  will  deliver  the 
commencement  address.  Dr.  McCain  is  a  graduate  of  Erskine  College  and  Yale  Uni- 
versity, and  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  He  is  president  of  the  Bankers'  Trust  Com- 
pany and  vice-president  of  the  National  Park  Bank.  Among  other  important  positions, 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  American  Red  Cross  and 
Liberty  Loan  drives. 

Agnes  Scott  is  fortunate  in  being  able  to  secure  two  such  men  as  speakers,  and  the 
1929  commencement  program  will  doubtless  prove  of  extreme  interest. 


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COMMENCEMENT    AND    REUNIONS    MAY    24-28. 
"Will  Ye  No  Come  Back  Again?" 

Two  by  two  they  come,  winding  across  the  campus  underneath  those  great  oak 
trees,  seniors  in  cap  and  gown  marching  with  the  white-clad  sophomores,  bearing  the 
daisy-chain  on  their  shoulders.  Across  Inman  verandah,  singing,  past  Gaines  cottage, 
down  the  little  elm-bordered  walk  to  the  gym,  and,  still  singing,  circle  around  to  the 
May  Day  glen. 

Don't  you  remember?  Doesn't  it  all  come  back?  Thronging  memories  of  the 
late  May  afternoon  when  you  walked  beside  your  senior  sister  bearing  the  daisy-chain 
oh,  so  proudly!  or  two  years  later,  when  you  wore  the  cap  and  gown,  and  your  feeling 
of  happiness  was  tinged  with  just  a  shade  of  regret  because  it  was  the  last  time — when 
your  throat  was  unexpectedly  tight  as  the  class  poem  was  read — when  you  happened  to 
catch  your  family's  eye,  sitting  out  there  so  proudly  in  that  audience  of  mothers  and 
fathers  and  small  brothers  and  sisters,  and  realized  that  only  the  next  day  it  would  all 
be  over,  and  your  family  would  carry  you  off  with  them  away  from  Agnes  Scott. 
Student  days  over  forever!  How  still  and  sweet  and  green  the  campus  was  that  day! 
And  you  were  leaving,  never  to  come  back  again! 

"Never  to  come  back  again?"  Never?  There  ain't  no  sech  word!  The  alum- 
na who  doesn't  come  back  to  Agnes  Scott  simply  doesn't  exist. 

All  through  the  year  you'll  find  them  there:  driving  through  during  the  summer 
on  their  way  to  mountain  or  seashore  homes,  walking  the  husband  across  the  deserted 
campus,  calling  back  old  memories;  they  come  in  throngs  for  the  opening  every  Sep- 
tember, singing  the  alma  mater  lustily,  showing  little  freshmen  sisters  or  nieces  or 
daughters  their  old  dormitory  rooms,  introducing  them  to  favorite  professors;  back 
for  Homecoming  Week-end  at  Thanksgiving,  when  the  Alumnae  House  bulges  out  with 
returned  daughters  in  their  new  fur  coats,  arms  full  of  yellow  and  white  chrysanthe- 
mums, telephones  frantically  ringing,  football  dates  cluttering  up  Candler  street  with 
their  roadsters;  back  for  Founder's  Day  to  toast  George  and  Martha  Washington  in  the 
dining  rooms,  and  to  dance  afterward  in  a  glorified  gym;  back  for  May  day  and  Senior 
Opera;  back  for  Grand  Opera  week  in  Atlanta;  and  ah,  when  commencement  and  re- 
union time  comes,  how  they  throng  back  again!  Every  bedroom  in  the  Alumnae 
House  full,  cots  down  in  the  sewing  room,  cots  down  in  the  hall,  Lupton  and  Sturgiss 
cottages  full  of  alumnae!  Alumnae  with  husbands  in  tow;  alumnae  leading  children 
by  the  hand;  alumnae  who  ran  away  from  such  "encumbrances"  to  spend  some  care- 
free days  at  the  college  again;  new  alumnae  spending  their  first  checks  for  railroad  fare 
back;  older  alumnae  coming  to  see  daughters  graduated! 

Leaving  at  graduation  "never  to  come  back?"  Why,  the  alumna  doesn't  live  who 
doesn't  heed  the  call  of  Agnes  Scott  and  come  back  again  to  "the  sheltering  arms!" 

And  this  commencement  when  all  the  Institute  Alumnae  are  asked  to  return, 
when  reunions  of  '21,  '22,  '23,  '24,  and  '2  8  are  called — do  you  realize  that  on  account 
of  the  size  of  those  later  classes,  the  reunions  this  May  will  bring  back  to  the  college 
more  than  half  of  the  total  number  of  graduates? 

From  every  nook  and  corner  of  Georgia  they  are  coming,  from  every  Southern 
state,  from  faraway  states  of  the  union — one  alumna  is  coming  back  from  Europe 
especially  early  just  to  be  present  at  her  class  reunion. 

By  train,  by  automobile,  by  street  car,  on  foot — from  far  and  near  the  clan  is 
gathering!  Agnes  Scott  alumnae  are  "coming  home"  for  reunions  the  last  week-end 
in  May! 

Come  back,  old  girl!     Come  see  the  splendid  new  buildings  and  plans  for  future 


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development  of  your  college;  come  see  the  dear  old  well-remembered  places — your  fa- 
vorite walk;  your  own  old  room;  the  library  corner  that  was  always  especially  yours. 
Come  back  and  meet  some  of  the  present  student  body — the  little  sisters  of  your  old 
classmates,  the  girls  who  are  carrying  on  with  love  and  pride  our  own  Agnes  Scott 
traditions,  and  best  of  all,  come  back  and  meet  with  your  old  college  classmates  once 
again! 

There  is  nothing  else  in  the  world  quite  comparable  to  a  college  reunion,  and  you 
who  are  privileged  to  take  part  in  one  are  fortunate  indeed. 

May  24-2  8  is  the  date.  Lock  up  your  office  desk,  give  your  classes  a  cut,  send  the 
children  to  mother's  and  come  you  back  to  Agnes  Scott! 


Albany  Alumnae 


On  March  13,  Dr.  McCain  met  with  the  Albany,  Ga.,  alumnae  to  tell  them  of  recent 
developments  at  the  college  and  of  the  progress  of  the  campaign.  Before  the  meeting 
broke  up  a  local  photographer  made  the  accompanying  picture  of  the  group.  Those 
present  were  (front  row,  left  to  right):  Mrs.  George  Royal  (Lillie  Pearl  McElwaney), 
ex  '28;  Mrs.  Jock  Cooper  (Leila  Joiner),  '27;  Catherine  Carrier,  '25;  Mrs.  J.  W.  Greena- 
walt  (Amelia  Alexander),  '17;  (back  row)  DeCourcy  Jones,  ex  '26;  Elizabeth  Brown, 
'22;  Dr.  McCain;  Mrs.  George  Nail  (Martha  Mcintosh),  '23,  and  Mrs.  C.  Inman  Owens 
(Eunice  Tomlinson),  ex  '23.  We  are  always  glad  to  get  these  alumnae  group  pictures, 
and  the  Quarterly  will  gladly  publish  any  that  are  sent  in. 


10  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

LUCY  DILLARD  FICKLEN,  OUTSTANDING  ALUMNA 

AND  CITIZEN 

When  the  Eighth  National  Convention  of  the  American  Legion  Auxiliary,  con- 
vened at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  last  October,  set  itself  to  the  important  task  of  choosing 
a  national  president  for  the  organization  for  the  coming  year,  its  unanimous  selection 
was  Mrs.  Boyce  Ficklen,  Jr.,  of  Washington,  Ga.  Mrs.  Ficklen,  known  at  Agnes  Scott 
College  as  Lucy  Dillard  not  so  many  years  ago,  had  been  holding  important  positions 
in  the  Auxiliary  ever  since  the  formation  of  the  organization  after  the  close  of  the 
World  War  and  her  elevation  to  the  Auxiliary's  highest  office  did  not  come  as  a  sur- 
prise to  her  friends  among  the  Agnes  Scott  Alumnae. 

Mrs.  Ficklen  entered  the  Auxiliary  as  a  charter  member  of  the  Jerome  A.  Wooten 
Unit  in  her  home  city.  She  was  elected  President  of  the  Unit  in  1923  and  served  as 
chairman  of  several  important  committees  of  the  Georgia  Department  of  the  Auxiliary. 
At  the  close  of  her  term  as  Unit  President  she  was  elected  President  of  the  Department 
of  Georgia  and  her  success  in  this  office  led  to  an  insistent  demand  for  her  re-election. 
She  refused  to  succeed  herself,  however,  but  in  1926  she  consented  to  serve  again  and 
was  elected  State  President  for  the  second  time. 

A  striking  tribute  was  paid  to  Mrs.  Ficklen's  service  during  her  second  term  as 
State  President,  when  the  Georgia  Department  of  The  American  Legion  sponsored  a 
State-wide  "Appreciation  Week."  During  this  week  the  members  of  the  Legion  through- 
out Georgia  devoted  their  efforts  to  enrolling  new  members  in  the  Auxiliary  in  token 
of  their  appreciation  of  Mrs.  Ficklen's  work  and  the  aid  which  the  Auxiliary  had  been 
to  the  Legion  during  her  administrations. 

The  national  organization  of  the  Auxiliary  early  called  for  Mrs.  Ficklen's  services. 
In  1924  she  was  appointed  to  the  National  Finance  Committee  and  served  on  this  com- 
mittee four  years,  being  its  chairman  in  1927.  In  1928  she  served  as  chairman  of  the 
National  Legislative  Committee,  one  of  the  most  important  committees  in  the  organiza- 
tion, and  did  an  outstanding  work  in  bringing  the  influence  of  the  women  of  the 
country  to  the  support  of  legislation  beneficial  to  the  disabled  veterans  and  to  patriotic 
measures. 

By  the  time  of  the  192  8  national  convention,  Mrs.  Ficklen's  record  had  made  her 
so  much  the  logical  choice  for  National  President  that  she  was  unopposed.  Her  nomi- 
nation was  greeted  by  an  enthusiastic  demonstration  and  her  election  followed  by 
acclamation. 

As  National  President  of  the  American  Legion  Auxiliary,  which  is  the  largest  dues- 
paying  organization  of  women  in  the  world,  Mrs.  Ficklen  has  heavy  responsibilities. 
All  of  the  Auxiliary's  extensive  activity  for  the  disabled  veterans,  the  families  of  the 
dead  and  disabled,  the  promotion  of  better  American  citizenship,  the  supporting  of  an 
adequate  national  defense  and  similar  work,  falls  under  her  supervision.  The  adminis- 
tration of  the  huge  organization  is  in  itself  a  tremendous  task  and  requires  travel  to  all 
parts  of  the  country. 

The  question  of  national  defense  has  had  unusual  importance  to  the  Auxiliary  this 
year  because  of  the  consideration  of  the  naval  construction  bill  in  Congress  and  the 
pacifistic  attacks  on  all  defensive  movements.  The  last  three  days  of  January  Mrs. 
Ficklen  presided  at  the  Fourth  Women's  Patriotic  Conference  on  National  Defense  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  attended  by  hundreds  of  women  from  every  State  in  the  Union. 
The  conference  was  sponsored  by  the  Auxiliary  and  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  was  participated  in  by  3  8  national  women's  organizations. 

As  chairman  of  the  conference,  Mrs.  Ficklen  gave  the  key-note  address  at  the 
opening  session.  She  headed  a  group  of  distinguished  women  who  took  the  conference's 
resolution  in  support  of  the  naval  construction  bill   to  the  Senate,  and  also  led  a  pil- 


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grimage  of  the  conference  delegates  to  the  Tomb  of  the  Unknown  Soldier  at  Arlington. 
The  arrangement  and  management  of  the  conference  were  in  her  hands  and  she  had  the 
satisfaction  of  hearing  the  conference  hailed  as  the  most  successful  event  of  its  kind 
which  has  ever  been  held. 

The  Auxiliary's  wide  program  of  aid  to  the  disabled  veterans  and  their  dependents 
is  supported  largely  through  the  sale  of  memorial  poppies  and  one  of  the  endeavors  of 
Mrs.  Ficklen's  administration  is  to  increase  the  volume  of  this  sale.  Plans  have  been 
developed  whereby  ten  million  poppies  are  expected  to  be  sold  this  year.  Disabled  vet- 
erans in  government  hospitals  and  convalescent  workshops  have  been  given  employment 
all  winter  manufacturing  the  little  red  memorial  flowers  and  will  earn  $100,000  through 
their  work.  Last  year  the  poppy  sale  brought  the  Auxiliary  approximately  $900,000 
for  its  welfare  activities  and  this  year  Mrs.  Ficklen  hopes  to  make  the  sum  more  than 
one  million  dollars. 

Another  important  activity  of  Mrs.  Ficklen's  administration  is  the  obtaining  of 
educational  advantages  for  World  War  orphans.  Congress  granted  these  orphans  an 
extension  of  conspensation  beyond  the  age  of  eighteen  if  they  remain  in  school,  but  as 
the  compensation  payments  are  not  large  enough  to  meet  school  expenses  the  Auxiliary, 
in  co-operation  with  the  Legion,  is  seeking  additional  funds  for  them  from  the  State 
Legislatures.  Scholarships  in  state  institutions  of  higher  education  and  vocational  train- 
ing are  also  being  sought  for  the  orphans  so  that  they  will  not  suffer  educational  handi- 
caps because  of  their  fathers'  sacrifice  for  the  country. 

Mrs.  Ficklen  is  making  her  headquarters  this  year  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  where 
national  hedaquarters  of  the  Legion  and  Auxiliary  are  located.  She  is  continually  in 
demand  at  Legion  and  Auxiliary  meetings,  conferences  and  ceremonies  and  at  public 
events  in  all  parts  of  the  country  and  is  traveling  extensively.  In  addition  to  her 
Auxiliary  affiliation,  Mrs.  Ficklen  is  a  member  of  the  Georgia  Society  of  the  Colonial 
Dames  of  America,  the  United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  the  French  Huguenot 
Society  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Georgia 
Parent-Teacher  Association. 

When  asked  to  describe  her  activities  since  she  left  Agnes  Scott  College,  Mrs. 
Ficklen  said  that  she  has  devoted  most  of  her  time  to  rearing  her  family.  She  has  two 
sons,  one  sixteen  years  old  and  the  other  eleven.  Her  husband  is  a  leading  banker  of 
Washington. 


VACATION— WHAT  THEN? 


Before  a  number  of  us  stretch  now  three  vacation  months,  and  even  those  who 
are  not  so  bountifully  blessed  with  idleness  can  claim  two  weeks  or  so  away  from  the 
regular  routine.  What  to  do  with  it  now  that  we  have  it  is  the  burning  question. 
Travel?  Study?  At  home?  Abroad?  A  rest?  A  playtime?  A  supplementary 
job?  Several  alumnae  tell  here  of  the  way  they  have  spent  past  vacations  or  intend 
to  spend  future  ones. 

Travel 
"Come  out  of  your  cage, 
Come  out  of  your  cage, 
And  take  your  soul  on  a  pilgrimage!" 

Travel!  What  do  we  Americans  know  about  travel?  We  arc  expert  on  arriving 
but  we  confuse  our  practical  attainment  with  the  leisurely  process.  Our  minds  arc 
too  intent  upon  proper  baggage,  comfort,   clothes   and   the   schedule   of    trains    in    and 


12  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

out.  Money  is  a  pleasant  commodity  but  most  American  tourists  have  too  much  of 
it.  One  meal  at  the  Negresco  is  a  memory  but  to  stay  there  would  deaden  the  senses. 
(This  is  surmise;  I  have  only  the  memory.)      Many  experiences  evade  the  full  purse. 

The  conducted  tourist  cannot  help  himself  and  for  the  most  part  we  all  go  through 
this  ugly  stage  of  travel  as  surely  as  a  child  must  succumb  to  chicken-pox.  But  once 
having  had  the  disease,  why  can  he  not  at  once  enjoy  his  immunity? 

To  travel  alone  is  not  a  handicap  if  one  seeks  sharp  impressions.  Contacts  are 
then  more  imperative.  But  personally  I  prefer  a  companion  or  two  to  whom  I  may 
say,  "This  is  unique  This  is  not  like  Chattanooga  or  Knoxville!"  I  do  not  want  a 
companion  whose  practicality  can  foresee  an  entire  itinerary.  The  unexpected  is  the 
best  of  the  journey.  I  cannot  have  the  disappointment  of  a  preconceived  impression 
because  by  mistake  I  am  landing  on  Majorca  where  I  never  hoped  to  come. 

Of  course  you  may  miss  your  club  sandwich  or  frozen  salad  but  you  will  never 
roam  so  far  afield  that  Chattanooga  and  Atlanta  will  not  bring  you  back  to  a  home 
thought.  It  may  be  in  the  Rue  de  la  Paix  or  on  the  highest  peak  of  the  Pyrenees  but 
inevitably  you  will  meet  an  acquaintance  and  likely  enough  one  you  have  avoided  on 
Market  or  Peachtree,  but  you  will  feel  mysteriously  drawn  to  him  now  and  will  rush  to 
show  him  where  he  may  eat  a  delectable  filet  of  sole. 

But  the  contact  is  not  long.  They  have  more  money  than  you  and  so  move  faster. 
They  have  worlds  to  conquer.  They  can  count  out  ten  countries  to  your  one.  But 
you  have  the  satisfaction  of  asking  yourself 

"What  is  this  life,  if,  full  of  care, 
We  have  no  time  to  stand  and  stare?" 

M.   McC. 

TO  CAMP! 
Is  the  summer  "just  another  season  passing  by"  or  is  it  the  glorious  time  when 
you  can  break  away  from  everything  and  everybody  and  hasten  off  to  camp?  Camp 
holds  a  definite  place  for  everyone — not  our  athletic  friends  alone.  If  you  are  com- 
pletely worn  out  physically  and  mentally,  go  to  camp.  There  you  "will  find  the  time 
for  a  most  perfect  leisure — reading,  sleeping,  or  loafing.  If  you  are  a  lover  of  nature, 
go  to  camp.  There  collect  your  butterflies,  study  local  flora,  or  write  your  poetry. 
No  place  could  be  more  ideal.  If  you  like  athletics  but  are  unskilled  and  desire  instruc- 
tion, go  to  camp.  How  much  easier  it  is  to  learn  anything  when  taught  by  a  com- 
petent, interested  instructor!  (I,  even  I,  learned  to  ride  horseback  at  camp.)  If  you 
are  a  good  athlete  and  enjoy  competing  with  other  athletes,  go  to  camp.  There  you 
will  find  the  best  equipment  and  advantages  in  every  sport.  Then  too,  maybe  you 
would  like  a  bit  of  constructive  criticism  and  excellent  instruction. 

"Everybody  happy  and  having  a  good  time."  That's  just  the  way  it  is  at  a  camp. 
That  is  one  place  where  grouchers  and  calamity  Anns  are  missing  quantities.  You 
can  develop  your  body,  your  smile,  your  good  nature,  and  anything  else  you  want  to. 
It's  a  jolly  good  place  to  be. 

There  is  a  recent  devolpment  in  the  south  of  summer  camps  for  people  above  the 
usual  campers  age.  These  camps  last  for  periods  of  one  or  two  weeks,  sometimes  longer. 
These  should  be  especially  attractive  to  those  who  have  been  closely  confined  to  their 
work  during  the  winter  and  to  those  who  have  never  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  spending 
the  summer  in  an  organized  girls  camp. 

Register  for  a  place  in  some  such  camp,  or  apply  for  a  position  as  counsellor  in 
some  good  camp.  You'll  feel  years  younger  and  you  will  store  up  enough  energy  to 
carry  you  sailing  through  next  year.  By  all  means,  spend  some  part  of  this  summer 
camping!  E.  L. 


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UNIVERSITIES  CALL 

Why  able-bodied  Americans  should  work  energetically  for  nine  months  of  the 
year,  and  then  call  a  complete  halt  and  let  themselves  stagnate  mentally  during  three 
months,  undoing  so  much  that  the  past  nine  months'  work  have  accomplished,  is  some- 
thing I  could  never  understand.  I  am  one  person  who  is  heartily  in  favor  of  the  sum- 
mer school  idea. 

Surely,  no  one  can  make  a  mistake  in  attending  Harvard  Summer  School,  for  ex- 
ample. Aside  from  the  instruction  and  charm  of  the  University  itself,  there  are  any 
number  of  trips  to  be  taken  in  and  around  Cambridge  and  Boston.  These  excursions 
are  arranged  by  the  University  for  Wednesday  afternoons  and  Saturdays  and  at  a  very 
low  cost. 

To  the  lover  of  American  literature,  what  could  be  more  inspiring  than  a  glimpse 
of  the  study  of  Henry  W.  Longfellow,  a  visit  to  the  home  of  Louisa  M.  Alcott,  and 
an  afternoon  spent  at  The  House  of  Seven  Gables?  Then  too,  the  interesting  boat 
trips  to  Plymouth,  Provincetown,  Marblehead,  etc.,  offer  the  most  delightful  of  recrea- 
tions. 

The  dormitory  life  and  its  spirit  of  friendliness  are  unusually  attractive.  In  the 
common  room  of  each  dormitory,  there  are  frequent  gatherings  and  you  are  made  to 
feel  that  you  are  a  member  of  a  big,  happy  summer  family.  The  women  students,  dur- 
ing the  summer  months,  occupy  the  Freshman  dormitories — Gore,  McKinlock,  and 
Standish  on  the  banks  of  the  Charles  river.  These  buildings  are  immaculate,  and  a 
suite  consisting  of  study,  bedroom  and  bath  may  be  had  at  a  very  reasonable  rate. 

Everything  considered,  I  believe  that  a  summer  spent  at  a  university  may  prove 
to  be  one  of  the  most  satisfactory  methods  of  refreshing  the  mind,  restoring  the  energy, 
and  giving  to  the  spirit  that  which  it  needs  to  "carry  on."  S.  W. 

TRY  A  NEW  JOB! 

"Now,  this  summer  we  want  you  to  take  a  complete  rest,"  say  the  family.  "For- 
get all  about  school  and  come  down  and  spend  the  entire  summer  doing  absolutely 
nothing  at  home." 

How  wonderful  that  sounds,  but  tired  school  teacher,  beware!  There  is  a  trick 
in  it.  "Doing  absolutely  nothing"  is  so  apt  to  mean  taking  complete  charge  of  the 
children  while  the  rest  of  the  household  has  a  breathing  spell,  getting  the  family  sewing 
caught  up — and  just  wait  till  the  study  club  and  the  Sunday  school  and  Missionary 
Society  and  Wednesday  Afternoon  bridge  club  learns  that  you  are  in  town!  They  will 
pounce  on  you  with  such  tenacious  claws  that  you  will  find  yourself  trekking  wearily 
from  one  meeting  to  another  all  summer  long,  reading  papers,  leading  discussions,  plan- 
ning programs,  teaching  classes,  taking  your  turn  at  entertaining,  etc. 

"Complete  rest?"  There  ain't  no  sech  animal,  and  in  planning  your  three  months' 
vacation  you  might  as  well  face  the  fact  June  1st  and  plan  accordingly  as  to  admit  it 
to  your  sorrow  and  disappointment  on  the  fifteenth  of  September  when  familiar  school 
bells  are  calling  again. 

May  I  suggest  a  vacation  that  is  frankly  busy,  but  remunerative  (sometimes)  and 
a  splendid  rest  because  it  is  so  very  different  from  your  regular  job?  Try  another  sort 
of  work  for  three  months.  If  you.  work  ordinarily  with  small  children  during  the 
year,  get  something  to  do  with  grown-ups;  if  you  work  with  women,  get  a  job  where 
you'll  see  a  man  occasionally;  if  you  teach  in  a  country  town,  come  to  a  city  to  work; 
if  you  associate  with  a  rich  or  even  comfortably  fixed  class  of  people  usually,  find 
work  for  the  summer  among  the  very  poor;  if  you  are  in  a  place  of  responsibility,  it 
will  rest  you  wonderfully  to  take  a  small  job  where  the  work  is  cut  and  laid  out  for 
you — where  you  close  up  your  desk  at  5  o'clock  and  arc  through  until  8:30  the  next 
day;  and  the  corollary:  if  you  have  a  stereotyped  laid-out  job  during  the  year,  find  a 
position  for  vacation  months  where  you  can  lead — as  councillor  in  a  camp,  for  in- 
stance. 


14  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

Try  to  get  something  as  different  as  possible  from  your  regular  work.  Do  a  little 
manual  labor  during  vacation  if  brain-work  is  your  usual  diet.  Work,  even  hard  work, 
will  be  a  decided  rest  if  it  is  a  change  from  your  regular  occupation.  And  the  dif- 
ferent point  of  view  you'll  gain  by  stepping  around  to  another  angle  of  this  making- 
a-living  picture,  the  broadening  influences  thus  brought  to  bear  on  your  general  at- 
titude, are,  I  believe,  worth  more  to  a  vacation-seeking  worker  than  three  months  of 
determined  and  labored  idleness.  I  have  tried  both;  idleness  once  (but  never  again!), 
work  often,  and  I'll  cast  my  vote  for  a  gainfully  busy  vacation  every  time  as  a  time 
of  real  rest. 

How  to  get  the  jobs?     Ah,  that  is  a  horse  of  another  color.     There  are  not  enough 
summer  jobs  to  go  around,  of  course,  but  a  number  do  exist,  and  determination  to  se- 
cure one,  and  wire-pulling,  will  often  turn  the  trick.  F.  S. 
THE  BLISS  OF  DOING  ABSOLUTELY  NOTHING 

Last  summer  Elinor  wanted  me  to  go  to  our  state  university  to  study,  and  Alma 
was  equally  insistent  that  I  accompany  her  on  a  jaunt  through  Europe.  For  some  rea- 
son, however,  I  had  temporarily  lost  that  "upward  and  onward"  urge  which  had  been 
instilled  in  so  many  of  us  with  the  presentation  of  our  diplomas.  I  informed  both 
friends  that  my  plans  were  already  made — that  I  was  going  to  stay  at  home  and  do 
absolutely  nothing — that  is,  unless  I  found  something  easier  and  lazier  to  do. 

Behold,  me,  then,  on  two  typical  occasions.  It  is  nine  o'clock  on  a  dull,  rainy  morn- 
ing. I  experimentally  open  one  eye  and  see  nothing  more  interesting  than  one  of 
Alma's  foreign  letters  on  my  desk.  Somehow,  it  strikes  me  as  most  amusing  that  poor 
Alma  must  rise  early  each  morning  to  chase  European  culture,  to  "do"  three  churches 
before  lunchtime.  And  one  hears  so  much  about  the  discomforts  of  foreign  trains 
and  tubless  hotels.  With  a  contented  grin,  I  sink  deeper  into  my  pillows  and  sleep 
again. 

It  is  12:30,  exactly  the  time  that  Elinor  is  clutching  her  fountain  pen  preparatory 
to  a  frantic  dash  after  Professor  Highbrow's  remarks  on  the  fauna  of  the  eocene  era. 
I  am  ensconced  calmly  in  a  corner  of  the  front  porch  swing.  Smilingly  I  sip  a  bit  of 
my  cool  lemonade  and  open  my  magazine.  It  contains  the  latest  installment  of  one  of 
the  best  murder  tales  out  in  years.  Culture?  No.  Intellectual  stimulation?  Per- 
haps not,  unless  random  guessing  of  the  murderer's  identity  can  be  called  that. 

What  if  Alma  does  visit  all  the  picture  galleries  and  churches  in  Europe?  She 
comes  home  weary  unto  death.  What  if  Elinor  does  complete  a  course  of  study  and 
come  off  victorious  with  three  A's  and  a  certificate  to  prove  it?  Can  these  brief  mo- 
ments of  triumph  compare  with  the  calm  feeling  of  peace  which  pervades  my  smug 
self,  after  a  blissful  summer  spent  in  doing  absolutely  nothing?  E.  McC. 


FOUNDER'S  DAY  RADIO  PROGRAM 

On  February  22  we  celebrated  Founders'  Day  with  our  fourth  annual  radio  pro- 
gram, broadcast  over  WSB,  from  the  Atlanta  Biltmore  Hotel.  At  the  college  were 
held  the  customary  formal  dinner  (with  the  seniors  in  colonial  costumes),  and  the 
dance  in  the  gym  afterwards.  In  the  Pompeian  room  of  the  Atlanta  Biltmore  Hotel, 
the  "home  group"  of  Agnes  Scott  alumnae — those  from  Atlanta  and  Decatur  and 
nearby — and  their  husbands  were  gathered  for  their  second  Founders'  Day  Banquet. 
They  had  as  their  guests  Miss  Hopkins,  Dr.  McCain,  Mrs.  Hilda  McConnell  Adams 
of  Columbus,  Ga.,  president  of  the  Alumnae  Association;  Miss  Polly  Stone,  alumnae 
secretary;  several  of  the  trustees  and  their  wives;  several  members  of  the  Agnes  Scott 
faculty  and  a  special  chorus  from  the  college  glee  club.  With  Mrs.  Clara  Whips  Dunn 
and  Miss  Polly  Stone  as  toastmistresses,  the  program  progressed  easily  and  with  occasional 
whoops  of  delight  from  the  husbands,  who  either  thoroughly  enjoyed  themselves,  or 
gave  a  splendid  imitation  of  doing  so. 


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly  15 

The  radio  program  was  arranged  by  Miss  Stone  and  Mrs.  Gussie  O'Neal  Johnson, 
who  has  planned  the  music  for  this  event  on  each  of  our  three  former  broadcasts. 
There  were  inspiring  talks  by  Miss  Hopkins  and  Dr.  McCain,  and  the  dear  old  familiar 
college  songs  brought  tears  of  happy  remembrance  to  the  eyes  of  many  an  alumna  who 
was  listening,  "far  from  the  reach  of  the  sheltering  arms." 

We  have  not  space  to  tell  of  all  the  messages  we  have  received  telling  of  the  joy 
the  program  brought,  but  we  do  want  to  mention  a  few  here: 

Messages  of  "program  coming  in  fine"  were  received  from  Margaret  Mixon, 
Florida;  Ted  Wallace,  Tennessee;  Martha  Pennington,  Florida;  Julia  (Watkins)  Huber, 
Louisiana;  Margaret  (Watts)  Cooper,  Rome,  Georgia;  Cornelia  Cooper,  Alabama;  Mary 
(Hyer)  Vick,  Florida;  Carolina  McCall,  Alabama;  Sarah  (Shields)  Pfeiffer,  North 
Carolina;  Clyde  White  and  Elizabeth  (Harris)  Holmes,  North  Carolina;  Evelyn  (Walker) 
Reep,  Kentucky;  Belle  (Jones)  Horton,  Alabama;  Mildred  Jennings,  Augusta,  Georgia; 
Elizabeth  Roark,  Tennessee;  Clara  Waldrop,  Newnan,  Georgia;  Margaret  Tufts,  North 
Carolina;  Nellie  Scott  Candler,  Florida;  Mary  Phlegar  Brown,  North  Carolina;  Mary 
Ann  McKinney,  Texas;  Anna  (Harrell)  Ballard,  Alabama;  Alma  (Downing)  Blodgett, 
Gainesville,  Georgia;  Georgia  Mae  (Burns)  Bristow,  Alabama;  Leila  (Joiner)  Cooper, 
Albany,  Georgia;  Ladie  Sue  Wallace,  Rutledge,  Georgia;  Frances  Rainey,  Louisiana; 
Mabel   (Dumas)   Crenshaw,  Tennessee,  Ruth  Evans  Masengill,  Tennessee. 

Telegrams  of  disappointment  were  received  from  several  individuals  and  groups 
of  alumnae  who,  in  spite  of  the  fine  clear  night  (there  was  a  disturbing  electrical  storm 
last  year) ,  were  prevented  by  a  stronger  station  or  some  other  circumstance  from  get- 
ting WSB.  Some  of  the  disappointed  ones  who  twisted  dials  frantically,  but  in  vain, 
were  the  group  of  Savannah,  Georgia,  alumnae;  Grace  (Zachry)  McCreery  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  (Detroit  drowned  out  WSB)  ;  the  Jacksonville,  Florida,  alumnae  club;  and 
the  Richmond,  Virginia,  club. 

Groups  of  alumnae  who  were  successful  in  getting  the  program  met  in  Gastonia, 
North  Carolina;  Winter  Haven,  Florida,  Athens,  Georgia;  Decatur,  Alabama;  Greens- 
boro, North  Carolina;  Carroll  ton,  Georgia;  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  seven  alumnae 
met  with  Mary  Bell  McConkey;  Greenville,  South  Carolina;  Nashville,  Tennessee; 
Columbia,  South  Carolina;  Charlotte,  North  Carolina;  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  Green- 
wood, South  Carolina;  Memphis,  Tennessee;  Cartersville,  Georgia,  and  Mobile,  Alabama. 

The  Birmingham  alumnae  club  had  a  banquet  that  night  at  the  Old  Mill  in  Moun- 
tain Brooks  Estates.  Louise  (Buchanan)  Proctor  presided  as  president,  and  Sallie  Hor- 
ton as  toastmistress.  Miniature  George  and  Martha  Washington  dolls  made  by  Pat 
Turner  held  the  place  cards  for  each  cover.  Those  present  were:  Mrs.  J.  Tate,  Vallie 
Young  (White)  Archibald,  Grace  Carr,  Laura  (Oliver)  Fuller,  Eleanor  Gresham,  Eliza- 
beth (Ransom)  Hahn,  Sallie  Horton,  Frances  Bitzer,  Susie  Reid  (Morton)  Pow,  Louise 
(Buchanan)  Proctor,  Pat  Turner,  Annabel  Stitli,  Annie  Lee  (Gray)  Lindgren,  Eugenia 
(Thompson)  Aiken,  Dorothy  (Bowron)  Collins,  Margaret  (Griffin)  Williams,  Mary 
(Bryan)  Winn,  Mary  Ray  Dobyns,  Olivia  Swan,  Fannie  (Burwell)  Chisolm,  and 
others. 

As  a  special  treat,  Laura  (Candler)  Wilds  in  Hendersonville,  North  Carolina,  let 
her  two  small  daughters  sit  up  past  their  usual  early  bedtime  "to  hear  the  program  of 
their  future  alma  mater." 

"I  am  listening  in  from  the  heart  of  the  snowcapped  Rocky  Mountains,"  wired 
Louise  (Hurst)  Howald,  from  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico.  This  message  was  the  furthest 
received  from  the  west. 

Waycross,  Georgia,  alumnae  celebrated  royally,  and  thoroughly  enjoyed  an  Agnes 
Scott  evening,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  WSB  failed  to  come  through.  One  of  them  de- 
scribed the  evening:  "Winifred  Quarterman  invited  all  of  the  Agnes  Scott  girls  for  dinner 
in  a  private  dining  room  at  the  Georgian  Grill.  The  table  was  beautifully  decorated 
in  purple  and  white  flowers,  the  place  cards  were  telegrams  carrying  messages  from 
Agnes  Scott,  and  each  of  us  received  a  corsage  of  purple  and  white  flowers  as  favors. 
After  the  dinner  we  were  joined  by  Mrs.  Dan  Lott,  mother  of  Katharine  Lott,  '29,  and 


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two  or  three  girls  whom  we  are  hoping  will  go  to  Agnes  Scott.  There  was  a  lot  of 
good  fellowship  and  we  felt  that  we  were  a  part  of  Founders'  Day  celebration  just 
the  same." 

"Some  ten  or  twelve  of  the  daughters  roamed  to  the  radio  party  on  Founders' 
Day  in  spite  of  eight  inches  of  snow — and  then  not  a  single  note  came  through!  We 
kept  our  ears  to  the  radio,  but  in  vain.  So  we  each  turned  in  and  became  a  local 
broadcasting  station;  many  were  the  tales  that  were  told."  This  from  Richmond, 
Virginia. 

"I  grew  so  homesick  I  wept  all  the  time  they  were  singing  the  alma  mater,"  wrote 
one  North  Carolina  alumna.  "The  reference  to  Tuesday  night  sings  and  yards  of 
daisy  chain  was  just  too  much  to  bear." 

"Georgia  Watson,  Nan  Lingle,  and  I  strained  our  ears  to  hear  the  program,"  wrote 
Miss  Leslie  Gaylord,  from  Chicago,  "but  got  nothing  but  static,  much  to  our  grief. 
We  were  clutching  our  coins  with  which  to  wire  you,  and  had  already  composed  the 
original  sentence  'program  coming  in  fine',  but  it  never  did!" 

The  Savannah,  Georgia,  alumnae  met  for  dinner  at  the  DeSoto  hotel,  and  were 
deeply  chagrined  to  find  the  hotel  radio  out  of  whack  on  that  one  night  of  all  others! 

"Baltimore,  Maryland,  alumnae  having  first  reunion,  and  are  listening  in,"  wired 
Helen   (McCormick)   Kirk. 

"We  had  a  very  merry  time  here  Founders'  Day,"  wrote  Eleanore  Albright  from 
New  York  City.  "Knowing  that  it  would  be  almost  impossible  to  get  in  on  the  radio 
program,  we  had  an  Agnes  Scott  celebration  in  the  form  of  a  tea  that  afternoon.  Quite 
a  group  were  collected:  Blanche  Berry,  Willie  White  Smith,  Martha  Crowe,  the 
Ramage  twins,  Pearl  Kunnes,  Kenneth  Maner,  Quenelle  Harrold,  Pauline  Smathers,  Miss 
Mary  Campbell;  and  at  the  last  minute  we  got  hold  of  Ruth  Scandrett.  On  Saturday, 
the  23  rd,  Miss  Randolph  came  to  visit  Sarah  Slaughter  and  me,  and  Ruth  invited  her 
and  Quennelle  and  Sarah  and  me  to  tea  at  her  apartment  in  the  village  on  Sunday.  So 
you  see,  even  when  the  'daughters'  are  in  the  big  city,  it  is  still  a  holiday  event  to  plan 
a  gathering." 

Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  alumnae  met  with  Lula  Groves  (Campbell)  Ivey.  The 
following  were  present:  Mary  (Keesler)  Dalton,  Mildred  (Shepherd)  McMillan,  Eddie 
(Hunter)  Pease,  Clyde  (McDaniel)  Jackson,  Anne  (Kyle)  McLaughlin,  Marion 
(Symmes)  Candler,  Alice  (Cowles)  Barringer,  Anne  (Gilleylen)  Quarles,  Cama  (Bur- 
gess) Clarkson,  Jeannette  (Archer)  Neal,  Julia  (Hagood)  Cuthbertson,  Ruth  (Crowell) 
Choate,  Groves  (Campbell)  Ivey,  Louise  (Crosland)  Huske,  Rosa  (Milledge)  Pattillo, 
Cleo  McLaurine,  Elsie  Fairley,  Evelyn  Josephs,  Louisa  Duls,  and  Maria  Rose. 

Lucile  (Smith)  Bishop  and  Sarah  Tate  were  responsible  for  the  splendid  meeting 
of  the  Florida  alumnae  in  Orlando  for  Founders'  Day.  Lucile  writes:  "We  gathered 
them  in  from  the  surrounding  territory.  Mrs.  Williams  (Lou  Ella  Griffin),  a  'daughter' 
of  thirty-seven  years  ago,  came  and  brought  her  son — brave  young  man!  He,  with  Mr. 
Webster  Bishop  (Wilmer  Daniel's  husband)  had  to  hold  down  these  fourteen  women. 
My  husband  would  have  been  handcuffed  and  dragged  to  the  party  if  he  had  not  been 
in  South  Carolina  on  business.  Even  the  host,  W.  I.  Miller,  forsook  us;  his  excuse  was 
serving  hot  dogs  at  the  fair!  Ten  of  us  met  for  dinner  at  the  Latch-String  Tea  House 
and  Agnes  Scott  colors  were  visible  in  the  table  decorations.  Then  we  went  to  Georg- 
iana  (White)  Miller's  house  where  the  rest  of  the  gang  had  gathered.  The  radio  pro- 
gram came  in  quite  well.  Georgiana  had  some  of  her  old  annuals,  and  we  enjoyed 
ourselves  thoroughly  in  looking  them  over.  We  enjoyed  the  written  messages  from 
the  faculty  immensely.  Ruth  (Guff in)  Griffin  almost  hit  the  ceiling  when  I  began 
with  Mr.  Holt's  familiar:  'Now,  my  good  children.' '  Those  present  were:  Mary 
(Hyer)  Vick,  Winter  Garden;  Georgiana  (White)  Miller;  Sarah  Tate;  Grace  Bargeron; 
Mae  (Curry)  Rockwell;  Wilmer  (Daniel)  Bishop;  Faustelle  (Williams)  Kennedy,  Lou 
Ella  (Griffin)  Williams,  Floy  and  Myra  Sadler,  Oakland;  Catherine  Mitchell  and  Ruth 
(Guffin)  Griffin,  Kissimmee;  Mary  Stewart  McLeod,  Bartow,  and  Lucile  (Smith) 
Bishop. 


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NOTES  ON  NEW  BOOKS 

Poetry. 

Incomparably  the  best  book  we  have  read  of  late  is  John  Brown's  Body,  by  Stephen 
Vincent  Benet  (Doubleday  Doran) .  As  an  impartial,  accurate,  and  imaginative  history 
of  the  American  Civil  "War;  as  a  study  of  the  spirit  of  a  bygone  day,  especially  of  the 

Old  South;  as  a  moving  novel;  as  a  poem  of  amazing  power  and  beauty — as  all  of  these 
it  surely  has  not  its  equal  in  American  letters.  From  the  invocation  to  the  American 
muse  to  the  last  page — and  there  are  nearly  four  hundred  pages — there  is  not  a  dull 
line.  The  incisive  words,  the  color,  the  sharp  beauty — beauty  of  memorable  rhythms, 
beauty  of  negro  harmonies,  beauty  of  harsh  cannon  crashing — make  well-nigh  irresistable 
the  urge  to  quote. 

Remembering  Tristram,  with  its  "white  sunlight  flashing  on  the  sea",  its  "bells 
of  singing  gold",  we  are  glad,  to  learn  that  a  new  narrative  poem  by  Edwin  Arlington 
Robinson,  Cavendar's  House,  is  to  be  published  by  Macmillan  in  May. 

Lovers  of  Emily  Dickinson,  that  irredescent  shy  spirit  among  poets,  will  value 
Further  Poems  of  Emily  Dickinson,  edited  by  Martha  Dickinson  Bianchi  and  Alfred 
Little  Hampson  (Little,  Brown) .  Among  these  poems,  withheld  by  her  sister  Lavinia, 
are  some  of  the  most  exquisite  Emily  ever  wrote — some  of  the  finest  expressions  of 
mysticism  in  the  language.  Here  is  a  book  to  own,  for  it  is  silver  and  air  and  sing- 
ing birds. 

Letters: 

Of  The  Letters  of  Katherine  Mansfield,  edited  by  J.  Middleton  Murray 
(Knopf),  a  reviewer  in  The  New  York  Times  writes:  "Very  seldom  do  letters,  par- 
ticularly letters  which  comprise  an  edited  selection,  prove  so  varied,  so  stimulating,  so 
genuine,  so  moving.  They  have  about  them  at  times  an  intolerable  beauty  compounded 
of  many  elements — suffering,  gay  courage,  the  inner  loneliness  of  the  heart,  apprecia- 
tion of  the  visible  and  tactile  world,  and  love." 
Fiction: 

The  last  S.  S.  Van  Dine  novel  to  date  is  The  Bishop  Murder  Case  (Scribners). 
Before  the  Quarterly  goes  to  press  the  detective  story  addicts  will  all  have  devoured  it, 
and  the  rest  will  wish  they  had;  for  pitiful  indeed  in  these  days  (we  speak  feelingly)  is 
the  plight  of  one  ignorant  of  the  current  mysterious  murders  and  murderous  mysteries. 
We  have  just  read  in  "The  Atlantic  Monthly"  for  April  an  essay  by  Marjorie  Nicholson 
of  the  English  faculty  of  Smith,  and  learned  therein  that  detective  stories  are  the  chosen 
food  of  all  true  intellectuals.  Among  the  more  eminent  of  the  enthusiasts  she  cites 
are  Kittredge  and  Lowes  of  Harvard,  and  Lovejoy  of  Hopkins. 

Dodsworth  (Harcourt  Brace)  is  the  worst  that  we  have  read  among  the  opera 
of  Sinclair  Lewis — though  we  admit  to  having  escaped  Mantrap.  Mr.  Mencken  metes 
out  to  the  author  the  following  high  praise:      "He  is,  by  long  odds,  the  best  reporter 

ever  heard  of Babbitt  shaving,  Dr.  Kennicott  operating,  Gantry  drunk — these  are 

little  masterpieces  that  no  rival   has  ever  matched  There  are  plenty  of  things  of 

the  same  kind  in  Dodsworth."  We  recommend  it  to  those  who  can  grow  ecstatic 
over  such  little  masterpieces.  We  cannot.  Yet,  despite  deliberate  prejudice,  we  must 
admire  certain  undoubted  excellences  in  the  book.  Fran  and  Sam  Dodsworth  abroad 
furnish  Mr.  Lewis  an  excellent  opportunity  for  contrasting  the  European  and  American 
civilization;  and  he  does  this  skilfully  and  tellingly. 

Dark  Hester  (Houghton  Mifflin)  is  the  new  novel  by  Anne  Douglas  Sedgwick, 
the  author  of  the  memorable  Little  French  Girl. 


18  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

A   ROMANTIC   INSTITUTION 
The  Allison-James  School  in  New  Mexico 

By  LOUISE  HURSE  HOWALD,  Dean 

Before  the  settlement  of  our  colonies  there  came  into  this  western  country  a  group 
of  Spanish  conquerors,  whose  love  of  the  Catholic  faith  spurred  them  on  to  new  con- 
quests, new  adventures.  The  descendants  of  these  conqtiistadorcs  pushed  their  way  up 
the  narrow  mountain  canyons  following  the  little  snow-fed  streams  whose  small  store 
of  water  aided  them  in  their  fight  against  drought  and  barren  soil  to  raise  enough  on 
which  to  live.  And  here,  during  the  passing  of  the  centuries,  when  civilization  has 
made  such  wonderful  strides  forward,  they  have  been  hidden  away  and  forgotten  like 
those  early  settlers  in  our  own  southern  mountains. 

From  these  straggling,  poverty-stricken  little  settlements,  or  plazas,  as  they  are 
called  by  the  Spanish  speaking  people,  come  our  Allison-James  girls.  It  is  a  long  step 
forward  for  them,  for  in  their  home  surroundings  it  is  possible  for  you  to  think  that 
you  are  in  some  foreign  land.  They  live  in  small  adobe  houses  with  only  a  tiny  window 
or  two  for  light  and  air.  Poverty  is  evident  on  every  side  and  expressed  in  many  ways. 
There  are  stunted,  undernourished  and  diseased  children.  There  are  women  draped  in 
black  dresses  which  sweep  the  ground,  who  draw  across  their  faces  the  black  shawls, 
a  relic  of  old  Spain  which  still  survives  here,  to  hide  their  sad  eyes  and  dark  parched 
skins  which  speak  so  eloquently  of  their  lives  of  hardship.  There  are  men  whose  bent 
backs  and  weathered  faces  tell  plainly  the  tragic  struggle  they  have  to  provide  the  little 
they  have  for  their  loved  ones.  These  are  the  pitiable  descendants  of  those  proud  ad- 
venturers from  old  Spain. 

But  the  girlhood  of  New  Mexico  is  awakening  and  within  a  very  short  time  after 
these  girls  come  to  our  school  a  great  change  is  apparent.  They  have  learned  many 
new  things,  their  days  are  full  of  new  experiences.  They  have  broader  contacts  than 
ever  before.  They  learn  how  to  work  systematically,  and,  what  is  just  as  important, 
they  learn  how  to  play.  They  have  debates  and  contests,  play  tennis  and  basketball, 
they  have  concerts  and  parties,  an  orchestra  and  a  glee  club.  Everything  possible  is 
done  to  make  them  happy,  normal  girls  who  will  develop  into  happy,  normal  women. 
They  have  their  own  Sunday  school,  Christian  Endeavor  societies  and  Life  Service  Band. 
Allison-James  School  is  about  sixty-five  years  old  and  has  grown  from  a  very  small 
day  school  into  a  boarding  school  whose  four  years  of  high  school  work  is  accredited. 
The  school  has  thoroughly  up-to-date  and  splendidly  equipped  departments  in  music, 
domestic  art,  domestic  science,  and  a  commercial  department.  Our  Sage  Memorial,  an 
administration  building  which  ranks  second  to  none  in  New  Mexico,  and  three  large 
dormitory  buildings  equipped  with  all  the  conveniences  that  make  life  pleasant  and 
comfortable,  add  to  the  efficiency  and  enjoyment  of  our  work  and  the  leaven  that  goes 
out  from  Allison-James  into  all  parts  of  New  Mexico,  who  can  estimate? 

It  almost  fills  my  heart  to  the  bursting  point  when  I  hear  our  one  hundred  and 
twenty  girls  sing: 

"From  the  snow-capped  Rocky  Mountains, 
To  the  winding  Rio  Grande, 
From  the  valley  of  the  Pecos 
To  the  desert's  burning  sand, 
In  all  sections  of  our  southwest 
Arched  by  skies  of  turquoise  blue, 
May  the  honored  name  of  Allison 
Stand  for  girlhood  staunch  and  true." 

Do  you  wonder  that  I  love  my  work?  It  is  the  most  absorbingly  interesting  school 
imaginable,  to  students,  teachers,  and  administration. 


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19 


ALUMNAE  GROUPS  MEET 
Washington,  D.  C. 

On  February  15,  Marguerite  Russell,  '27, 
had  a  get-together  tea  for  Agnes  Scotters 
in  Washington. 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

Louise  (Buchanan)  Proctor,  '25,  is  the 
president  of  this  group;  Frances  Bitzer, 
'25,  vice  president,  and  Pat  Turner,  ex  '24, 
secretary  and  treasurer.  "We  have  changed 
into  a  luncheon  club,  meeting  once  a 
month." 

Jacksonville,  Fla. 

This  group  meets  the  fourth  Monday  in 
every  month,  having  every  other  meeting 
at  night  and  every  other  one  in  the  after- 
noon, so  that  teachers,  married  alumnae, 
and  business  women  can  all  attend  some 
of  the  meetings. 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

The  "home  group"  of  alumnae  is  one  of 
the  regular  outstanding  organizations  of 
Atlanta  club  life.  Their  monthly  meetings 
on  Tuesday  afternoons  are  largely  attended 
and  they  are  doing  splendid  work.  Their 
latest  feat  was  to  entertain  the  college 
preparatory  seniors  of  the  Atlanta  high 
schools  at  the  college.  The  girls  were  in- 
vited for  a  program  of  games  and  contests 
in  the  afternoon,  stayed  for  dinner  in  the 
two  college  dining  halls,  and  were  enter- 
tained by  the  student  body  at  a  dance  in 
the  gym  in  the  evening.  Atlanta  alum- 
nae and  their  husbands  (all  praise  to 
them,  too,  noble  creatures!)  drove  out  at 
nine  and  carried  the  high  school  girls 
home  in  cars. 

Decatur,   Ga. 

The  Decatur  alumnae,  though  fewer  in 
number,  do  not  propose  to  let  the  Atlanta 
alumnae  get  ahead  of  them!  They  will 
entertain  the  Decatur  High  school  seniors 
as  their  guests  for  May  Day  and  Senior 
Opera  at  the  college. 

Greenville,  S.  C. 

A  group  of  alumnae  met  at  the  home  of 
Virginia  Norris,  '28,  on  the  evening  of 
April  16  to  hear  recent  news  and  plans 
for  the  development  campaign.  Those 
present  were  Louise  (Sloan)  Thomas,  Eliz- 
abeth (Curry)  Winn,  Margery  (Moore) 
McAulay,  Ruth  Carpenter,  Susie  (Stokes) 
Taylor,  Betty  Allgood  and  Virginia  Norris. 


MAY  DAY  ON  MAY  4 

The  annual  May  Day  fete  will  be  held 
this  spring  on  Saturday  afternoon,  May 
4,  with  the  Senior  Opera  Company  enter- 
taining the  college  community  in  the  eve- 
ning. 

Charlotte  Hunter,  of  Davidson,  N.  C,  a 
lovely  brunette,  who  for  the  past  two  years 
has  been  a  maid  in  the  May  queen's  court, 
was  elected  queen  of  festivities  for  this 
year.     Charlotte  is  a  most  representative 


student,  being  president  of  the  Athletic 
Association  and  president  of  Hoasc. 

The  theme  for  May  Day  this  year  will 
be  taken  from  the  story  Paris  and 
the  Golden  Apple,  "and  from  the  original 
story,"  the  May  Day  committee  hastens  to 
add,  "not  from  Mr.  Erskine's  version." 

Reservations  for  the  night  in  the  Alum- 
nae House  may  be  made  now  through  the 
Alumnae  secretary.  May  Day  always 
draws  out  to  the  college  throngs  of  vis- 
itors from  Atlanta  and  out  of  town  and 
many  alumnae. 

The  title  of  senior  opera  this  year  has 
not  yet  been  made  public,  but  remember- 
ing past  successes  of  "Madame  Butter- 
milk," "Car  Men,"  "Lo,  He  Grins,"  "Lucy 
the  Lawn  Mower,"  "Tan  Trousers," 
"Dora's  Good  Enough,"  etc.,  we  predict  a 
brilliant  performance  on  the  evening  of 
May  fourth. 


CAMBRIDGE  SUMMER  SESSION 

The  University  of  Cambridge,  England, 
is  offering  this  summer  a  session  from 
July  23  to  August  20.  The  session  has 
been  especially  designed  for  graduates  of 
American  colleges  and  universities  and 
should  prove  a  most  attractive  opportunity 
for  Americans  to  gain  a  real  understand- 
ing of  English  life  and  institutions  while 
following  interesting  courses  in  either 
English  History  or  Literature.  Besides 
the  x-egular  courses,  there  will  be  the  gain 
by  residence  in  Cambridge  arid  by  visits 
to  neighboring  places  of  interest.  There 
will  also  be  opportunities  of  meeting  a 
number  of  students  from  European  coun- 
tries who  will  be  in  Cambridge  during  the 
same  weeks.  The  courses  offered  are  His- 
tory of  Great  Britain,  at  home  and  over- 
seas from  1688  to  1914;  History  of  Europe, 
1789  to  1914;  Some  Problems  of  Govern- 
ment Today;  International  Organization 
for  Peace  Since  1919;  Shakespeare  and  his 
Contemporaries;  The  English  Novel;  Some 
English  Essayists  and  Prose-writers;  Some 
Modern  English  Poets.  Tuition  for  the 
whole  session  will  amount  to  about  $30.00, 
and  board  and  room  may  be  secured  for 
$15.00  per  week.  No  summer  courses  are 
offered  to  foreigners  at  Oxford  this  sum- 
mer. 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA  ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Three  members  of  the  class  of  '29  were 
initiated  into  the  Agnes  Scott  chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  in  February.  They  are 
Eleanor  Lee  Norris,  Greenville,  S.  C; 
Genevieve  Knight,  Safety  Harbor,  Fla.,  and 
Elizabeth  Hatchett,  Glasgow,   Ky. 

Alumnae  members  elected  in  February 
Kathleen  Kennedy,  Ona,  W.  Va.;  Marguer- 
ite (Wells)  Bishop,  Rutherford,  N.  J.; 
Louise  McNulty,  Dawson,  Ga.;  Annie  Tait 
Jenkins,  Crystal  Springs,  Miss.;  and  R. 
Florence   Brinkley,  Baltimore,  Md. 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


OUR  CONTRIBUTORS 

"Vacation— What  Then?"  has  a  num- 
ber of  contributors,  some  of  whom  have 
said  in  no  uncertain  terms  that  they  would 
turn  editor-murderers  if  their  names  were 
disclosed.  A  few,  however,  are  not  so  vio- 
lent. Margaret  McCallie,  1909,  who  ad- 
vocates travel,  has  done  quite  a  bit  of 
trekking  over  Europe  in  the  usual  and  out 
of  the  way  places  too.  During  term-time, 
she  teaches  in  the  Bright  School  in  Chat- 
tanooga, Tennessee.  The  author  of  "Try  a 
New  Job"  is  one  divine  who  follows  her 
own  instructions.  Her  regular,  nine 
months'  a  year  job  is  with  the  idle  rich, 
and  for  four  summers  past  she  has  spent 
the  entire  summer  resting  up  from  work 
by  giving  her  services  to  the  Family  Wel- 
fare Society.  Sarah  Webster,  who  tells 
of  her  summer  at  Harvard  University  is 
a  graduate  in  the  class  of  1917.  She 
teaches  in  the  High  School  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 
The  advocate  of  summer  camps  is  Eliza- 
beth Lynn,  '27,  who  for  the  past  few 
summers  has  been  councillor  at  Rockbrook 
Camp,  Brevard,  N.  C.  Elizabeth  is  in- 
structor in  Physics  at  Agnes  Scott. 

Elizabeth  Cheatham,  '25,  is  the  new  book 
editor  of  the  Quarterly.  We  chose  her  for 
this  office  before  she  won  the  scholarship 
to  study  at  Toulouse  next  year,  and  al- 
though the  staff  hates  to  lose  her  so  soon, 
our  vanity  is  vastly  flattered  that  the  In- 
stitute of  International  Education  chose 
just  as  we  did.  "Notes  on  New  Books"  is 
the  name  of  Miss  Cheatham's  department. 

In  his  "President's  Page"  messages,  Dr. 
McCain  lays  before  the  alumnae  in  each 
issue  of  the  Quarterly  the  most  important 
matters  confronting  the  college  at  that 
time.  One  great  advantage  of  the  small 
college  is  the  contact  between  administra- 
tion and  student  body;  the  "President's 
Page"  furnishes  this  contact  between  pres- 
ident and  alumnae  body. 

Until  a  few  weeks  ago,  Archie  M.  Pal- 
mer was  assistant  director  of  the  Institute 
of  International  Education,  and  it  was 
while  still  at  that  post  that  he  wrote  for 
this  issue  of  the  Quarterly,  "Intellectual 
Ambassadors  of  Good  Will."  Mr.  Palmer 
was  a  visitor  at  the  Agnes  Scott  Alumnae 
House  in  January.  On  August  1,  Mr. 
Palmer  will  take  up  his  new  duties  as 
Associate  Secretary  of  the  Association  of 
American  Colleges,  in  charge  of  educa- 
tional research  on  college  administrative 
problems. 


A  FEW  FACULTY  NOTES 

Miss  Jean  Davis  writes  from  Wells  Col- 
lege, where  she  is  teaching  this  winter: 
"Last  week  I  was  in  New  York.  One  nice 
thing  which  happened  was  that  Miss 
Campbell  (formerly  of  the  Agnes  Scott 
Greek  faculty)   gave  a  tea  for  me  in  her 


apartment  near  Columbia.  The  alumnae 
present  were  Quenelle  Harrold,  Mary  Ri- 
viere, Kenneth  Maner,  Willie  White  Smith, 
Martha  Crowe,  Blanche  Berry,  Eleanor  Al- 
bright, and  Sarah  Slaughter.  They  all 
seemed  to  be  happy  and  were  doing  such 
interesting  things.  The  next  morning 
Blanche  Berry  went  with  me  and  a  group 
of  Wells  students  to  visit  the  Stock  Ex- 
change. When  we  left  the  Exchange, 
there  was  a  panic  among  the  brokers — 
read  the  New  York  Times  of  April  2  if 
you  don't  believe  me!" 

Miss  Ella  Young  suffered  both  a  very 
painful  accident  and  a  heart-breaking  dis- 
appointment in  falling  and  breaking  her 
hip  just  as  she  was  boarding  an  ocean 
liner  for  a  long-looked-forward-to  trip 
abroad.  She  was  carried  to  a  New  York 
Hospital. 

Randolph-Macon  Womans  College  has 
elected  to  membership  in  its  chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Miss  Mary  Westall,  one 
of  their  alumnae,  who  is  a  member  of 
Agnes  Scott's  Biology  faculty. 

Miss  Louise  Lewis,  Miss  Mary  Stuart 
MacDougall,  and  Mrs.  George  P.  Hayes, 
wife  of  Dr.  Hayes,  head  of  the  English 
department,  will  sail  on  May  18  for  a 
summer  abroad.  Miss  Lewis  and  Miss 
MacDougall  will  join  Miss  Harn  in  Ger- 
many for  a  few  weeks.  Mrs.  Hayes, 
whose  home  is  in  Lyons,  France,  is  taking 
her  two  little  girls,  Ellen  and  Anne  Flor- 
inne,  for  several  months'  visit  to  their 
grandmother. 

LOST  ALUMNAE 

You  have  helped  locate  lost  alumnae 
in  the  past;  don't  "weary  in  well-doing," 
but  look  over  this  list  and  help  us  out 
again! 

Anne  DuPre  Choate,  ex  '28,  Orlando, 
Fla. 

Mrs.  B.  W.  Claunch  (Pauline  Van  Pelt), 
'20,  New  Braunfels,  Texas. 

Mrs.  A.  B.  Cummings  (Annie  B.  Con- 
nell),  academy,  Orlando,  Fla. 

Mrs.  Robert  C.  Edwards  (Annadawn 
Watson),  '24,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

Willie  Mae  Elkins,  ex  '15,  Fitzgerald, 
Ga. 

Katherine  Hadley,  ex  '25,  Ocean  Springs, 
Miss. 

Mrs.  G.  D.  Howell,  (Georgia  Gaston), 
Institute,  Bristol,  Va. 

Mrs.  A.  C.  Kelly  (Gertrude  Ausley),  In- 
stitute, Thomasville,  Ga. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Lichty  (Ruth  Herndon  Mur- 
ray)  ex  '15,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Mrs.  Willoughby  Middleton  (Lillian  Jen- 
kins)  ex  '20,  Okhart,  111. 

Mrs.  James  G.  Patton,  jr.  (Katherine 
Jones)   ex  '18,  Blacksburg,  Va. 

Mrs.  Luscome  Simpson  (Vera  High- 
tower)   Jamaica,  N.  Y. 

Louise  Schimelpfenig,  ex  '15. 


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Concerning  Ourselves 


Institute  reunion  this  May! 
1893 

Mary  (Barnett)  Martin's  son,  Edward, 
will  be  graduated  from  the  Presbyterian 
College  in  June. 

1899 

Annie  Jean  Gash  writes  from  New 
York:  "Your  letter  in  regard  to  the  Agnes 
Scott- Vassar  debaters  found  me  back  home 
in  Carolina,  after  I  had  been  side-tracked 
in  a  hospital  in  Richmond.  So  I  missed 
out  on  that,  but  I  ran  into  Bell  (Dunning- 
ton)  Sloan  in  the  Metropolitan  museum 
last  Saturday  and  she  told  me  she  attended 
the  tea  for  the  debaters,  her  first  'alumnae 
meeting.'  We  had  not  seen  each  other  for 
twenty-five  years,  but  I  am  hoping  we  can 
make  up  for  lost  time.  Her  husband,  Dr. 
T.  D.  Sloan,  is  at  the  Post  Graduate  Hos- 
pital. I  have  had  a  little  tilt  with  flu 
but  am  fast  getting  well  enough  to  enjoy 
New  York  again." 

1903 

Annie  Aunspaugh  visited  Agnes  Scott 
in  October.  "Miss  Hopkins  showed  me  all 
through  the  beautiful  Anna  Young  Alum- 
nae House.  I  wish  I  could  have  stayed 
long  enough  to  have  enjoyed  its  hospitality. 
It  was  a  joy  to  see  the  growth  of  Agnes 
Scott." 

1904 

Laura  (Candler)  Wilds  writes  from  Hen- 
dersonville,  N.  C:  "As  a  special  treat  my 
two  little  girls  sat  up  on  the  night  of 
February  22  to  enjoy  the  Agnes  Scott  ra- 
dio program.  They  are  already  talking 
about  going  to  Agnes  Scott  themselves, 
and  even  my  boy  says  he  thinks  he  will, 
too!  I  had  hoped  to  get  to  the  class  re- 
union this  May,  but  things  are  very  un- 
settled here  now,  since  the  schools  closed 
for  flu  and  will  have  to  run  on  into  June 
to  make  up  the  time." 

A  card  from  Clifford  Hunter  reads:  "In 
May,  1926,  I  returned  from  Shantung, 
China,  to  help  my  mother  with  the  care 
of  the  children  left  by  my  sister,  Jule. 
These  three  years  have  been  spent  in  Fort 
Valley,  Ga.,  acting  as  home-maker  for  four 
fine  children  who  have  grown  very  dear 
to  me.  The  heart  has  yearned  for  the 
adopted  home  in  China  and  the  Chinese 
friends  and  co-workers  during  the  distress- 
ing times  there,  but  I  have  found  com- 
pensations in  the  task  at  home." 

Kathleen  (Kirkpatrick)  Daniel  writes: 
"I  am  living  in  the  same  old  home  place 
here  in  Decatur,  keeping  house  and  trying 


to  bring  up  my  two  girls  in  the  way  they 
should  go.  This  commencement  is  the  time 
for  the  reunion  of  the  class  of  '04.  I  do 
hope  we  can  get  together,  as  we  have  had 
no  reunion  since  we  left  school." 
1906 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Annette  Crocheron  is  teaching  at  the 
High  School  in  Gadsden,  Ala.,  where  her 
niece    is   preparing   for   Agnes    Scott. 

Ida  Lee  (Hill)  Irvin  writes  that  she 
and  "the  girls"  are  planning  their  annual 
lark  at  the  Alumnae  House  this  spring. 
"The  girls"  are  a  group  of  her  married 
friends  in  Washington  who  each  spring 
run  away  from  children  and  husbands  and 
household  cares  for  a  lazy,  hilarious  week- 
end together  at  Agnes  Scott  and  Atlanta. 
A  later  letter  from  Ida  Lee  says:  "My 
young  musician,  Charles,  aged  nine,  has 
been  entered  by  his  teacher  in  the  con- 
test to  be  held  by  the  Georgia  Federation 
of  Music  Clubs  at  their  convention  in  De- 
catur April  18  and  19.  I  am  bringing  him 
up  for  the  entire  week-end  for  I  want  to 
show  him  the  sights  of  Atlanta  all  down 
the  line  from  the  huge  pipe  organs  to  the 
Grant  Park  zoo." 

Each  year  as  Agnes  Scott  alumnae  flock 
by  the  hundreds  to  see  the  famous  Mag- 
nolia and  Middleton  Gardens,  we  envy 
those  favored  mortals  who  make  their 
homes  in  beautiful  Charleston.  One  of 
these  is  Mary  (Kelly)  Van  de  Erve,  who 
has  recently  moved  from  Summerville  to 
Riverview  Terrace.  Dr.  Van  de  Erve  is 
minister  at  the  old  French  Hugenot  church, 
one  of  the  most  interesting  buildings  in 
old    Charleston. 

1907 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Died. — In  February,  Asa  Warren  Cand- 
ler, husband  of  Hattie  Lee  (West)  Cand- 
ler, and  brother  of  Allie  (Candler)  Guy, 
'13.  Mr.  Candler  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  lawyers  and  citizens  of  Atlanta, 
and  is  mourned  by  a  host  of  friends 
throughout  the  south  and  the  entire  coun- 
try. 

1908 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Katherine  (Dean)  Stewart,  her  mother, 
and  sister,  Miriam,  ex  '20,  will  be  guests 
at  the  Alumnae  House  during  grand  opera 
week  in  Atlanta. 

1909 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Edith    (Lott)    Dimmock   is   president  of 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


the  Savannah  Presbyterial. 

Annie  (Ludlow)  Cannon  returned  in 
March  to  her  home  in  Concord,  N.  C,  after 
a  trip  to  New  York. 

Rosa  (Milledge)  Patillo  is  selling  insur- 
ance in  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Jean  (Powel)  McCroskey  writes:  "I  do 
enjoy  the  Quarterly.  It  usually  arrives  on 
Saturday  in  the  midst  of  cleaning  or  some 
other  such  auspicious  time,  and  I  sit  me 
down  with  the  dustcloth  in  my  hand  and 
am  utterly  oblivious  to  everything  until 
possibly  two  or  three  hours  later  when 
the  children  become  too  insistent  about 
lunch." 

1910 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

"I  am  just  as  busy  as  ever  traveling  to 
and  fro  between  Decatur  and  East  Point," 
writes  Jennie  Anderson,  "teaching  Latin 
and  French  in  the  South  Fulton  High 
School,  Russell  High." 

Eleanor  Frierson  writes:  "I  too  am  still 
doing  the  same  old  things,  and  it  isn't  even 
hard  to  keep  up  with  my  address,  as  it 
never  changes.  I  did  have  a  lovely  trip 
west  last  summer  by  motor.  We  went 
the  northern  route,  included  Yellowstone 
Park,  crossed  all  the  desert  lands  of  Wyo- 
ming and  Nevada,  followed  the  Coast 
Route  through  California  and  returned 
through  Arizona,  (the  hottest  place  on 
earth!)  and  Texas.  It  was  very  interest- 
ing really  to  go  through  the  almost  un- 
inhabited regions  along  the  routes  taken 
by  the  early  settlers.  We  felt  almost  like 
pioneers  ourselves:  by  exercising  a  little 
imagination  our  car  became  a  covered 
wagon  and  hostile  Indians  waited  behind 
every  clump  of  sagebrush." 

Lucy  (Reagan)  Redwine  has  just  moved 
into  a  lovely  new  home  where  she  says 
she  "has  room  for  all  1910  at  once.  They'd 
be  welcomed  most  heartily  too!  I  expect 
my  daughter,  Martha,  to  enter  Agnes  Scott 
in  the  fall  of  1931.  She  is  much  smarter 
than  her  mother, — really  a  good  student, 
fine  material  for  Agnes  Scott.  Two  others 
complete  the  family:  Jeanne,  ten,  a  little 
dreamer;  and  Hill  Reagan,  almost  five. 
I  am  contemplating  a  visit  to  the  Alumnae 
House  very  soon  with  Susie  (Gunn)  Allen, 
ex  '10,  who  lives  in  Macon  now." 

Elizabeth  (Harris)  Holmes,  ex  '10,  is 
living  at  135  Tacoma  Circle,  Asheville, 
N.  C. 

On  Saturday  morning,  February  23,  the 
Alumnae  House  was  the  scene  of  another 
lovely  wedding.  The  bride  was  Marion 
Newell,  daughter  of  Camilla  (Mandeville) 
Newell,  ex  '10,  and  the  groom  was  Hiram 
R.  Cannon,  jr.,  of  Atlanta.  Camilla's  son, 
who  is  a  freshman  at  Georgia  Tech,  gave 
his  sister  away.  Nellie  (Mandeville)  Hen- 
derson, '99,  came  up  from  her  home  in  Car- 
rollton  for  the  wedding. 


1911 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Theodosia  (Willingham)  Anderson  has 
been  spending  part  of  the  winter  in  Flor- 
ida. 

Dorothea  (Snodgrass)  Townsend's  hus- 
band is  stationed  in  Porto  Rico  for  three 
years  at  the  Post  of  San  Juan. 

Edith    (Waddill)    Smith,   ex   '11,   has   a 
niece,   Mary  Page   Waddill,   in   the  fresh- 
man class  at  Agnes  Scott  this  year. 
1912 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

Cornelia  Cooper  spent  her  spring  vaca- 
tion from  Judson  College  visiting  her 
family  in  Atlanta.  Laura  (Cooper)  Chris- 
topher and  her  two  small  sons  were  at 
home  at  the  same  time. 

Eddie  (Hunter)  Pease  and  her  husband 
have  just  completed  a  beautiful  new  home 
in  Charlotte  in  the  style  of  an  English 
manor  house.  Mr.  Pease  is  manager  for 
the  firm  of  Lockwood  Green,  Engineers, 
Inc. 

In  reply  to  a  card  asking  for  news  for 
this  issue  of  the  Quarterly  Janette  (New- 
ton) Hart  writes:  "I  openly  acknowledge 
that  I  am  as  pleased  as  punch  that  any 
interest  in  me  is  strong  enough  for  you 
to  be  asking  for  information,  for  I  do 
the  same  thing  over  so  often  that  writing 
with  me  runs  into  dittoes.  Should  you  be 
in  search  of  the  strenuous  life,  let  me 
recommend  a  farm  and  four  small  chil- 
dren, especially  when  flu,  whooping  cough, 
and  pink-eye  are  in  the  air.  The  game  is 
worth  the  candle,  however." 
1913 

Next  class  reunion,  1931. 

We  sympathize  with  Allie  (Candler) 
Guy  in  the  loss  of  her  only  brother  (  Asa 
Warren   Candler,   during   February. 

The  first  death  to  occur  in  1913's  little 
circle  of  graduates  was  that  of  Louise 
(Maness)  Robarts,  on  February  8,  1929, 
after  an  illness  of  only  a  few  days.  No 
alumna  was  ever  more  loyal  to  her  alma 
mater  and  especially  to  her  classmates  and 
college  friends,  all  of  whom  feel  deep  sor- 
row in  her  passing.  For  a  few  years  after 
her  marriage,  Louise  lived  in  Florida,  but 
returned  to  Decatur  and  very  promptly 
renewed  her  activities  in  many  lines.  She 
was  a  member  of  the  Decatur  Woman's 
club,  the  D.  A.  R.,  U.  D.  C,  League  of 
Women  Voters,  and  other  civic  organiza- 
tions, and  a  devoted  worker  in  the  church. 
She  had  held  many  offices,  and  always 
gave  of  her  time  generously  and  faithfully. 
Many  beautiful  tributes  have  been  paid  to 
her  by  all  those  with  whom  she  worked. 
The  class  of  1913  will  miss  her,  especially 
at  reunion  time,  for  the  class  reunions 
were  particularly  dear  to  her.  Her  cordial 
interest  in  her  friends,  her  hospitality  in 
her  home,  and  her  zeal  for  Agnes   Scott 


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23 


are  beautiful  memories  for  us  all. 

Mary  (Enzor)  Bynum  writes:  "The 
campaign  there  at  Agnes  Scott  is  so  much 
more  interesting  than  anything  else  to  all 
of  us  right  now,  so  why  write  about  my- 
self? I  am  teaching  and  keeping  house 
as  usual  and  enjoying  it  all,  but  that  is 
no  news!  One  week-end  recently  I  had  a 
flying  trip  to  Pensacola  and  saw  Annie 
Chapin  McLane  for  a  little  while.  Martha 
(Brenner)  Shryock  had  been  there  just  the 
week  before;  I  was  so  sorry  to  miss  her. 
The  death  of  Louise  (Maness)  Robarts 
was  the  saddest  shock  I  have  had  in  a  long 
time.  She  was  a  dear  friend,  and  this  is 
the  first  break  in  our  class  circle." 

"I  am  still  teaching  Latin  at  Lanier 
High  School  in  Montgomery,"  writes  Kate 
Clark.  "I  have  lost  count  of  the  number 
of  years  I  have  been  there  and  do  not 
wish  to  be  reminded  of  it.  I  can  think  of 
no  more  pleasant  place,  however,  and  shall 
be  there  as  long  as  I  can  hold  in  my  mem- 
ory the  wise  teachings  of  Miss  Lillian 
Smith." 

The  article  by  Emma  Pope  (Moss) 
Dieckmann  in  "Modern  Philology"  for 
February  is  part  of  the  fruit  of  her  work 
with  Chaucer's  Canterbury  Tales  last 
spring.  This  spring  Emma  Pope  says  she 
has  very  little  time  to  spend  on  Anglo- 
Saxon  since  her  new  little  daughter,  Adele, 
is  so  much  more  fascinating. 

Eleanor  (Pinkston)  Stokes  accompanied 
Major  Stokes  on  a  tour  of  Ohio  on  an 
army  inspection  detail.  "Moving,  as  usual!" 
writes  Eleanor.  "We  poor  army  folks  sim- 
ply don't  do  anything  but  move.  We  shall 
be  back  in  Charleston  April  1." 

Louise  (Sloan)  Thomas  writes  from 
Greenville,  S.  C:  "I  am  planning  to 
come  to  Atlanta  within  the  next  few 
months  and  would  love  so  much  to  stay 
a  few  nights  at  the  Alumnae  House  with 
my  little  daughter  who  is  looking  forward 
to  the  day  when  she  will  be  a  student  there. 
She  is  only  ten,  but  says  she  wants  to 
pick  out  her  room  now.  I  have  not  seen 
Agnes  Scott  for  eighteen  years,  so  you 
can  imagine  how  eager  I  am  to  get  back." 

Can  some  member  of  '13  locate  Florence 
Smith?     Mail  has  been  returned  from  her 
Berkeley,  California,  address. 
1914 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Martha  (Rogers)  Noble  is  a  dandy  class 
secretary!  She  mailed  out  postals  to  all 
her  flock  and  (to  mix  metaphors)  has 
reaped  a  real  harvest  of  news. 

Lottie  May  (Blair)  Lawton's  answer  to 
the  postal  comes  first.  "A  letter  received 
today  from  Martha  (Rogers)  Noble  in- 
structs me  to  write  without  fail  something 
to  go  in  the  1914  column  of  the  next 
Quarterly.  This  is  my  very  obedient  an- 
swer.    Our  house  and  yard  have  occupied 


me  a  good  deal  this  winter;  particularly 
planting.  Which  reminds  me  of  the  time 
I  was  doing  a  little  free  (very  free!)  trans- 
lating in  Miss  Smith's  Latin  class.  The 
passage  concerned  the  burial  of  some  re- 
nowned Roman,  and  I  blithely  sang  out, 
'they  planted  him — !'  Miss  Smith  con- 
gratulated me  on  gathering  so  aptly  the 
general  idea.  This  winter  I  have  put  out 
two  pecan  trees,  some  raspberry  plants, 
a  brown  turkey  fig,  three  grape-vines, 
some  cannas,  abelia  and  chei'ry  laurel.  By 
this  list  one  would  gather  that  my  mind 
runs  to  food.  Perhaps  it  will  assure  any 
Agnes  Scott  friend  who  may  visit  me  that 
she  stands  some  chance  of  being  fed.  The 
only  other  thing  that  I  can  think  of  to 
write  is  that  I  am  chairman  of  the  Busi- 
ness Woman's  Circle  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian   Church    here.     Yet,    paradoxically, 

I  am  not  a  business  woman! Please  let 

me  add  that  I  am  still  and  forever  burst- 
ing with  pride  in  Agnes  Scott,  all  she  has 
been,  is,  and  is  to  be!" 

"Spurred  by  Martha  (Rogers)  Noble's 
reminder,"  writes  Theodosia  (Cobbs)  Ho- 
gan,  "I  enclose  replies  to  her  suggested 
topics  for  Quarterly  news:  My  husband 
is  working  on  nutrients  required  for  opti- 
mum growth.  He  is  the  author  of  the 
chapter  on  nutrition  in  'Growth',  written 
by  five  men  and  published  last  fall  by  the 
Yale  Press.  Flu?  Nobody  had  it. 
Garden?  Yes,  next  month.  The  package 
of  vegetable  seeds  has  arrived  and  the 
choice  of  flowers  still  under  discussion. 
Summer  plans?  The  customary  trips  to 
see  the  grandparents — the  Hogans  in 
northwest  Missouri  and  the  Cobbs  in  Mo- 
bile, unless  they  come  to  see  us  instead, 
for  which  I  hope.  I  have  not  learned  to 
anticipate  traveling  with  three  children, 
though  the  good  times  come  when  we  are 
started.  Last  summer  I  left  the  two  elder 
in  Mobile,  and  with  the  baby,  ran  up  to 
Atlanta  for  a  few  days  and  rejoiced  in 
peeps  at  Martha  Rogers  and  Essie  Roberts 
and  their  dear  families,  also  at  the  Alum- 
nae House  even  in  its  shut-up  summer 
condition.  Work?  Yes,  always.  Since 
the  children  are  seven,  four  and  two,  I 
emerged  from  the  nursery  enough  to  join 
the  University  of  Missouri  chorus  and 
attend  two  semi-social  clubs  and  my  church 
circle.  One  gets  so  lost  in  the  maelstrom 
of  affairs  and  meetings  if  one  will,  that 
Frances,  the  kindly  old  cook,  offered  real 
advice  when  she  said  a  day  or  two  ago: 
'I  been  hearin'  'em  hollerin'  and  hollerin' 
to  you  over  the  telephone  to  come  do  this 
and  do  that.  Don't  you  know  folks  will 
work  you  to  death  if  you  let  'em?  Now, 
after  this  week,  you  tell  'em  no  and  you 
stay  home  and  get  those  children's  sewing 
done.' " 

Annie  Tait  Jenkins  writes:     "Have  been 


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detained  at  home  almost  a  month  on  ac- 
count of  family  sickness,  but  am  resuming 
my  work  at  Tulane  next  week.  Am  in- 
terested in  alumnae's  plans  for  the  chapel." 

Kathleen  Kennedy  writes:  "Louise  Ash 
and  I  are  still  running  the  Prichard  School, 
a  home  for  orphan  boys  and  girls  at  Ona, 
W.  Va.  We  have  fifteen  children,  all  but 
four  are  under  six.  We  have  a  teacher, 
and  we  do  all  the  other  work,  run  this 
large  home,  cook,  make  all  the  clothes  (ex- 
cept when  friends  have  kindly  sent  us 
out-grown  ones),  wash,  iron,  keep  a  gar- 
den and  chickens.  We  sell  butter  and  eggs 
to  keep  the  children  in  books  and  clothes. 
We  have  organized  a  Sunday  school  which 
meets  here  every  Sunday  afternoon,  and 
we  have  a  club  meeting  here  one  night 
each  week  for  the  young  people  of  the 
community.  We  are  three  miles  from  hard 
roads  and  in  winter  can't  get  out  except 
by  wagon  or  mud  sled.  We  love  our  work 
and  our  babies!" 

A  delightful  letter  from  Martha  Rogers 
herself  gives  news  of  other  members  of 
'14.  "Linda  (Miller)  Summer  has  been  in 
Atlanta  for  the  last  ten  days  tied  up  by 
the  rains  from  going  back  home  to  south 
Georgia.  She  had  a  bad  case  of  flu  and 
came  here  to  visit  her  mother  and  re- 
cuperate. Just  before  Christmas  she 
moved  into  a  little  brick  house  that  they 
built  themselves — just  in  time  to  have  her 
family  down  to  spend  Christmas  with  her. 
Her  two  oldest  girls  take  piano  lessons 
and  Hulda,  the  oldest,  is  being  urged  to 
skip  a  grade  in  school  since  she  is  doing 
such  splendid  work.  Earnest  is  connected 
with  a  lumber  concern  in  Cordele. 

"One  of  the  doctors  in  our  suite  is  from 
Dublin  so  I  hear  quite  frequently  about 
Ruth  (Hicks)  Porter.  She  has  two  chil- 
dren of  her  own  and  her  brother's  chil- 
dren to  raise,  and  no  one  could  have  more 
praise  that  she  has  from  Dublin  people 
who  talk  to  me.  They  say  she  is  one  of 
the  finest  women  that  ever  lived. 

"I  have  had  one  of  the  most  delightful 
winters  I  have  ever  spent.  We  play  ar- 
chery golf  every  pleasant  week-end.  Henry 
makes  our  bows  and  arrows  himself,  and 
the  archery  expert  from  Ashville  says  that 
one  of  those  Henry  made  is  the  finest  he 
has  ever  seen  made  by  an  amateur.  We 
have  gotten  together  quite  a  group  of  peo- 
ple who  love  music,  and  making  music, 
as  much  as  we  do.  I've  got  my  old  man- 
dolin in  tune,  so  with  guitars,  ukeleles,  and 
so  forth,  you  can  imagine  what  a  good  time 
we  have.  Atlanta  has  been  full  of  all 
sorts  of  good  things  this  winter  and  we 
have  managed  to  take  in  most  of  them. 
The  girls  are  looking  forward  to  the  Junior 
League's  production  of  'The  Wizard  of 
Oz.'  Anne  fell  off  her  scooter  a  few  weeks 
ago  and  broke  large  chunks  off  both  her 


new  upper  front  teeth.  We  were  dis- 
tressed to  death  over  them,  but  now  that 
she  has  acquired  a  precious  lisp,  they  don't 
look  as  bad  as  they  did  at  first,  and  every- 
one says  she  looks  much  more  interesting. 

"I  had  a  letter  from  Helen  (Brown) 
Webb  to  Lottie  Mae  via  me  which  I  wish 
I  could  send  on  to  you  complete.  A  lovely 
picture  of  a  beautiful  home  called  'Clinker- 
ledge',  a  story  and  a  half  house,  English 
cottage  type,  brick  and  half  timber.  Also 
one  of  a  plump  adorable  son — the  reason 
that  Helen  is  taking  a  course  on  the  pre- 
school child  given  by  the  college  club." 

Mary  (Pittard)  Salway  spent  Christmas 
in  New  York.  She  is  at  home  in  Athens, 
Georgia,  now,  and  if  there  is  any  lovlier 
place  in  this  world  than  that  little  south- 
ern university  town  in  the  spring  time 
we  should  like  very  much  to  learn  about 
it.  Wordsworth's  "host  of  golden  daffo- 
dils" grow  riotously  along  the  wide  streets 
and   in   old   ante-bellum   gardens. 

The  retrogressive  plan  of  taking  alum- 
nae members  in  Agnes  Scott's  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  chapter,  this  year  reached  1914, 
and  six  members  of  our  class  received 
this  honor  and  will  be  initiated  into  the 
Beta  chapter  at  the  college  this  spring. 
They  are  Kathleen  Kennedy,  Louise  Mc- 
Nulty,  Essie  (Roberts  DuPre,  Marguerite 
(Wells)  Bishop,  Florence  Brinkley  and 
Annie  Tait  Jenkins. 

Lost:  The  address  of  Florence  Munn- 
erlyn  (Mrs.  Bob  Nichols).  Mail  has  been 
returned  from  Orlando,  Fla. 

Margaret  (Brown)  Bachman's  new  ad- 
dress is  526  N.  Royal  St.,  Jackson,  Tenn. 
Her  husband  is  a  boy  scout  executive. 
They  have  two  little  girls,  Margie  and 
Catherine.  1915 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Margaret  (Anderson)  Scott  visited 
Maryellen  (Harvey)  Newton  in  Waycross 
for  the  Executive  Committee  meeting  of 
the  Woman's  Auxiliary  of  the  Savannah 
Presbytery.  Maryellen  writes:  "Margaret 
lives  in  Valdosta,  not  so  many  miles  away, 
and  occasionally  we  exchange  a  visit." 

Martha  Brenner  writes:  "I  did  get 
south  this  January  but  rushed  through 
Atlanta  since  I  had  a  husband  with  me 
one  time,  and  the  other  time  I  spent  with 
my  brother  who  is  working  in  Atlanta.  I 
visited   in   Pensacola   before   returning   to 

Illinois Hope  the  remiss  members   of 

'15  will  turn  over  a  new  leaf  and  send  in 
some  news  of  themselves  for  the  Quarter- 
ly." 

Mary  Evelyn  Hamilton  is  teaching  in 
Columbia,  S.  C. 

From  Winter  Garden,  Fla.,  comes  an 
answer  to  the  secretary's  plea  for  news. 
"I  always  get  one  of  these  cards  from 
Martha  when  nothing  exciting  has  hap- 
pened," writes   Mary    (Hyer)    Vick.     "We 


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have  all  had  flu  and  now  that  the  orange 
trees  are  white  with  bloom  I  am  enjoy- 
ing hay  fever.  Isn't  that  the  irony  of 
fate  ?  You  know  we  live  in  the  middle 
of  the  grove.  I  enjoy  seeing  Agnes  Ball 
every  once  in  so  often.  She  is  in  Kissim- 
mee  during  the  winter.  Georgiana  (White) 
Miller  and  I  spent  the  day  with  her  not 
long  ago." 

Kate  (Richardson)  Wicker's  husband  has 
announced  his  candidacy  for  the  Virginia 
state  senate  and  will  enter  the  Democratic 
primaries   in   August. 

Lost:  The  addresses  of  Annie  Brower, 
Irene  Flegal,  Rosebud  Saye.  These  girls 
are  former  members  of  our  class,  so  it's 
up  to  us  to  find  them.  Surely  some  other 
member  of  '15  has  kept  up  with  them  since 
we  left  college,  or  can  give  the  alumnae 
secretary  some  clue  to  help  in  tracing 
them. 

1916 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Laui'a  (Cooper)  Christopher  writes:  "We 
took  our  rambunctious  little  family  of  two 
small  sons  home  for  Easter  and  had  a 
regular  family  reunion,  as  Cornelia  was 
home,  too,  from  Judson  College,  and  Belle 
and  Alice  both  work  in  Atlanta.  Kent  and 
John  were  the  center  of  attraction,  for 
it  took  the  combined  efforts  of  Grandma, 
Grandpa,  the  uncle  and  aunts  to  keep  them 
off  the  sideboard,  the  dining  table,  out 
of  the  kitchen  cabinet,  or  from  racing 
down  the  steep  drive  right  into  the  street, 
not  to  speak  of  stumping  toes  or  skinning 
knees.  You  wonder  what  kind  of  sons  I 
have?  Perfectly  precious!  Kent  is  three 
and  a  half  and  John  almost  two.  He  is 
at  the  climbing  age  and  can  get  into  more 
things  than  you  ever  dreamed  of.  Kent 
is  older  and  so  more  sedate(!)  but  finds 
plenty  to  keep  him  and  me  busy." 
1917 

Next  class  reunion,  1932. 

Gjertrud  Amundsen  was  married  on 
March  2,  at  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  at 
The  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  to  Mr.  Sverre  Siqueland. 
Gjex*t  said  it  was  all  to  be  very  simple — 
no  "pomp  and  glory,"  but  we  have  it  on 
reliable  authority,  from  an  eye  witness, 
that  she  made  a  lovely  bride  in  her  cream 
moire  wedding  gown,  and  that  together 
with  the  matron  of  honor,  her  only  at- 
tendant, and  the  four  ushers,  and  the 
groom,  it  was  a  fine  looking  wedding  party. 
After  the  wedding  there  was  a  dinner  at 
the  Norwegian  club  in  Brooklyn  with  about 
seventy  guests  present.  Later  in  the  eve- 
ning Mr.  and  Mrs.  Siqueland  left  for  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  to  share  the  honors  of  the 
season  with  the  Hoovers.  They  will  live 
at  147  68th  Street,  Brooklyn. 

Louise  Ashe  is  still  quite  enthusiastic 
about   the   large   family   of   children   that 


she  and  Kathleen  Kennedy  are  looking 
after  in  their  West  Virginia  Orphanage. 
Louise  visited  her  parents  in  Daytona 
Beach,  Fla.,  during  January  and  Jan  New- 
ton saw  her  while  she  was  there.  Jan 
says,  "Louise  is  crazy  about  the  work,  the 
place  and  especially  the  children.  And  it 
all  seems  to  agree  with  her,  for  she  is 
surely  looking  well  and  happy." 

Laurie  (Caldwell)  Tucker  writes  from 
Tampa  that  she  answered  the  secretary's 
wild  plea  because  she,  too,  noticed  the  ab- 
sence of  news  of  '17  in  the  January  Quar- 
terly. She  sent  news  of  others  and  added 
that  for  herself  the  outstanding  event  of 
the  winter  was  a  wonderful  trip  to  Florida 
east  coast.  Miami  and  Palm  Beach  proved 
so  beautiful  and  so  charming  that  her 
visit  was  all  too  short.  She  wants  to  go 
back. 

Agnes  Scott  Donaldson  has  left  Holly- 
wood and  is  back  home  now  in  Colorado 
Springs,  Colo. 

Mary  (Eakes)  Rumble  is  living  in 
Athens,  Ga.,  where  her  husband  is  in 
charge  of  the  First  Methodist  Church. 
Also,  Mary  has  acquired  another  young 
son,  Frank  Eakes  Rumble. 

Gladys  Gaines  says  she  hasn't  anything 
particularly  interesting  to  write,  but  that 
her  days  are  crowded  with  twenty-four 
full  hours.  She  even  has  to  sleep  hard  in 
order  to  meet  her  schedule.  She,  with  the 
rest  of  the  Mobile  club,  enjoyed  Polly's  re- 
cent visit,  and  has  been  homesick  for  A. 
S.  C.  ever  since.  In  lieu  of  more  news  she 
sends  her  quota  of  whoops  and  cheers. 

Anne  (Kyle)  McLaughlin  has  such  cath- 
olic tastes  and  diverse  interests  that  her 
memory  fails  to  reveal  more  than  two 
weeks  of  her  past.  Acting  as  kitchen  help 
during  Charlotte's  $22,000  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
campaign,  church  suppers,  bridge  parties, 
playing  audience  to  the  Drama  League, 
hearing  Miss  Elizabeth  Carfrae,  the  Eng- 
lish authoress,  address  the  A.  A.  U.  W., 
and  listening  in  on  the  Founders'  Day  Pro- 
gram are  some  of  the  things  she  remem- 
bers. She  has  a  vague  recollection  that 
the  week  before  this  the  cook  was  out, 
but  she  happened  to  be  in  an  experimental 
mood  and  rather  enjoyed  her  ill  luck  "in 
spite  of  one  or  two  honest-to-goodness  fail- 
ures." Anne  is  expecting  her  mother  and 
father  to  visit  her  around  Easter  time  and 
plans  a  trip  with  them  to  Charleston  to 
see  Magnolia  Gardens  in  bloom.  Her  own 
garden  is  lovely! 

Annie  (Lee)  Barker  is  employing  her 
time  and  talents  in  the  development  of 
her  new  home  in  Birmingham  and  of  her 
three-year-old  daughter,  Minnie  Lee. 

Jan  Newton  reports  a  most  delightful 
trip  down  to  the  Mountain  Lake  Sanctuary 
and  Singing  Tower  at  Lake  Wales,  Fla. 
"One  of  the  very  nicest  experiences  of  the 


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whole  trip  was  happening  upon  Georgiana 
(White)  Miller  by  the  nightingales  aviary 
pointing  out  one  of  those  lovely  birds  to 
her  young  daughters.  The  first  bit  of 
news  she  gave  me  was  about  Gjertrud — 
said  she  was  supposed  to  be  getting  mar- 
ried that  very  day,  I  believe.  The  Sanc- 
tuary and  Singing  Tower  are  wonderfully 
beautiful  and  are  drawing  many  visitors 
to  that  part  of  the  state.  We  heard  two 
concerts  of  the  Carillon  bells  and  I  should 
love  to  be  near  enough  to  hear  them  every 
day  for  they  must  sound  different  from 
different  distances.  This  is  a  particularly 
delightful  time  of  the  year  to  visit  the 
place,  for  there  are  quantities  of  dwarf 
azaleas  planted  throughout  the  sanctuary 
and  they  are  in  full  bloom.  There  are 
other  flowers  there  too  in  profusion." 

Spott  Payne  writes  that  she  took  a  Uni- 
versity Extension  course  in  "The  Ameri- 
can Short  Story"  during  the  fall.  It 
wasn't  so  hot  as  a  course,  but  she  en- 
joyed the  stories.  Last  month  she  taught 
a  mission  study  class  of  young  people  in 
the  School  of  Missions  at  Westminster 
Church.  She  is  planning  a  motor  trip  at 
Easter  to  Richmond,  Fredericksburg, 
Washington  and  Baltimore.  In  the  mean- 
time Spott  teaches  High  School  English 
in  her  native  Lynchburg.  Still  she  says, 
"If  it  is  true  that  those  people  are  blessed 
whose  annals  are  few,  I  am  thrice  blest," 
and  that  she  was  merely  trying  to  invent 
news  to  inspire  the  cub  class  reporter. 
Spott  also  states  to  the  alumnae  at  large 
that  the  Lynchburg  group  heard  not  a 
word  of  the  Founder's  Day  program, 
though  they  twisted  their  dials  all  night. 

Margaret  Pruden  snatched  a  vacation 
from  her  studies  in  New  York  to  run  down 
to  Washington  and  see  the  Hoovers  in- 
augurated. She  was  properly  thrilled  so 
that  she  didn't  mind  the  rain,  but  not  even 
New  York  subways  had  prepared  her  for 
the  crowds.  Margaret's  sister,  Elizabeth, 
visited  her  in  February  and  they  had  a 
wonderful  time  together. 

Rita  (Schwartz)  Aronstam  has  moved 
into  a  lovely  new  home  in  Druid  Hills  at 
834  Lullwater  Road,  Atlanta. 

Frances  (Thatcher)  Moses  visited  Doro- 
thy Brown  (ex  '17)  last  summer.  She 
says:  "Dorothy,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Bryan 
Jennings,  of  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  still  has 
her  glorious  voice  in  addition  to  three  love- 
ly children — Leila  Mae,  9,  and  twins  Doro- 
thy and  Bryan,  Jr.,  7 — a  grand  husband 
and  a  beautiful  new  really  colonial  home 
on  the  river  front.  The  Chattanooga  club 
had  a  treat  in  January  in  having  Dr.  Mc- 
Cain and  Mr.  Stukes  here,  and  also  Miss 
Markley,  who  was  visiting  Margaret  Mc- 
Callie."  Frances'  ten-year-old  daughter, 
Jane,  has  just  won  her  way  into  the  finals 
in  the  state  music  contest  in  piano. 


Georgiana  (White)  Miller  is  another  one 
of  these  people  who  manage  to  live  sev- 
eral lives  in  one  and  have  a  finger  in 
every  pie.  Of  her  recent  visit  to  the  Bok 
Singing  Tower  and  Bird  Sanctuary  she 
says:  "It  is  an  experience  one  would 
never  care  to  forget.  Words  fail  me,"  and 
further  testifies  to  the  charm  of  the  chimes 
by  stating  that  their  music  silenced  all 
conversation,  even  that  between  herself 
and  Jan  Newton  who  had  not  met  since 
the  1927  reunion. 

Agnes  Ball,  ex  '17,  is  spending  the  win- 
ter at  their  winter  home  in  Kissimme, 
Fla.  While  her  sister-in-law,  Martha 
(Bantley)  Ball,  ex  '21,  was  visiting  them, 
Agnes  had  several  Agnes  Scott  girls  for 
lunch.  Among  those  present  were  Georg- 
iana (White)  Miller,  and  Mary  (Hyer) 
Vick,  '15.     They  had  quite  a  reunion. 

Effie  Doe,  ex  '17,  was  married  October 
8  to  Lieut.  Eugene  C.  Batten  of  the  Army 
Air  Corps.  "We  came  via  transport 
through  the  Panama  Canal  and  to  Rock- 
well Field,  Coronado,  California,  where  we 
shall  be  stationed  for  at  least  a  year.  In 
the  army,  you  never  know  how  long  you 
will  be  in  any  place.  I  certainly  join  with 
all  my  heart  in  wishing  Agnes  Scott  suc- 
cess in  her  latest  undertaking,  and  I  know 
she'll  make  it:  she  has  always  succeeded 
in  everything." 

Celia  Grant's  address  is  lost  from  the 
alumnae  office.  Won't  the  members  of 
'17  bestir  themselves  and  their  memories 
and  see  if  they  can  locate  her? 

Maude  (Shute)  Squires,  ex  '17,  is  com- 
ing to  Agnes  Scott  in  June  when  her  hus- 
band attends  the  National  Civitan  Conven- 
tion in  Atlanta. 

1918 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

Ruth  (Anderson)  O'Neal  writes  that  she 
is  going  through  the  annual  spring  up- 
heaval of  painting  and  papering,  that 
most  of  the  furniture  is  stacked  uncere- 
moniously on  the  front  porch,  and  that 
she  and  her  husband  and  three  children 
long  for  the  time  when  peace  and  order 
will  be  restored. 

We  are  tempted  to  quote  entire  an  in- 
teresting letter  from  Rose  (Harwood) 
Tayor:  "For  two  years  now  and  over, 
my  husband  has  been  with  the  Borden 
Milk  people  of  New  York  and  is  away 
from  home  a  great  deal.  The  first  year 
he  was  gone  I  got  up  a  class  of  children 
for  dancing  lessons  and  gave  a  very  pretty 
recital  at  the  end  of  the  term.  The  rest 
of  the  time  I  have  been  busy  with  his  farm 
interests  here.  He  owns  a  good  deal  of 
land  that  we  can  neither  sell  or  give  away 
and  I've  been  farming  it  with  colored  ten- 
ants. The  latest  bee  in  my  bonnet  is  a 
burning  ambition  for  the  position  of 
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daughter  is  three  years  and  ten  months, 
a  quaint  little  child  with  red  curls,  fair 
skin,  blue  eyes;  dainty  and  graceful.  She 
is  very  precocious,  diabolically  so,  and  I 
stand  in  utter  amazement  before  her,  and 
wonder  where  she  came  from:  she  is  not 
like  me  nor  her  daddy.  He  name  is  Me- 
lissa." 

Emma  (Jones)  Smith  has  bought  a  new 
home  in  Cloverdale,  Montgomery.  There 
is  a  huge  pecan  tree  in  the  back  yard 
under  whose  shade  the  chicken  fancier  of 
the  family,  Emma's  young  son,  aged  three, 
plays  with  his  little  family  of  bantams. 
Emma's  new  address  is  310  1st  Street. 

Caroline  Larendon  was  in  charge  of  an 
Agnes  Scott  hour  at  the  college  prepara- 
tory classes'  assembly  at  the  Atlanta  Girls 
High  School  the  last  of  March.  Caroline 
teaches   French  in  the  High   School. 

Mary  Rogers  (Lyle)  Phillips  writes: 
"We  have  moved  from  Vonore  to  Sale 
Creek,  Tenn.,  where  my  husband  is  the 
pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church." 

Anna  Leigh  McCorkle  is  supervisor  of 
Elementary  Instruction  in  Union  County, 
Monroe,  N.  C. 

Fan  (Oliver)  Pitman  writes  from 
Thomasville:  "Little  Fan  was  quite  sick 
all  fall  and  winter,  but  is  fine  now  and 
the  Pitman  family  is  just  beginning  to 
enjoy  the  real  south  Georgia  climate.  The 
flowers  are  gorgeous  and  we  love  it  here." 

Carolina  Randolph  has  moved  from  Mur- 
freesboro  to  Nashville,  Tenn.  "I  am  glad 
I  don't  have  to  move  any  further,  and 
sorry  to  leave  Murfreesboro.  The  Child 
Health  Demonstration  closed  in  Decem- 
ber and  now  things  are  through  as  to  final 
reports,  etc.,  so  I  am  in  Nashville,  care 
The  State  Dept.  of  Health." 

Catherine  Holtzclaw,  ex  '18,  is  teaching 
the  clothing  division  of  Home  Economics 
at  the  East  Carolina  Teachers  College, 
Greenville,  N.  C.  She  and  two  other 
teachers  have  an  apartment  in  town,  where 
they  are  enjoying  keeping  house. 

Marie  Morris,  ex  '18,  is  an  instructor 
in  the  public  school  system  of  Charlotte, 
N.  C.  Her  address  is  1708  S.  Boulevard. 
1919 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

Lucy  Durr  has  spent  most  of  the  win- 
ter since  Chi-istmas  being  quarantined  on 
account  of  her  nephew's  scarlet  fever  seige. 

Frances  (Glasgow)  Patterson,  who  has 
been  living  in  Lexington,  Va.,  for  the  past 
two  years,  plans  to  sail  for  China  with 
her  family  on  August  18. 

"The  only  thing  new  I  know  about  my- 
self is  that  I  am  examining  physician  for 
the  Houston  Y.  W.  C.  A.,"  writes  Goldie 
Ham  from  Texas.  "I  really  enjoy  being 
associated  with  the  Y  again." 

Anna  (Hai-rell)  Ballard  writes  from 
Gadsden,  Ala.:     "I  had  hoped  that  I  might 


be  able  to  go  to  Agnes  Scott  about  the 
last  of  May,  but  as  the  schools  here  do 
not  close  until  May  31,  the  prospects  be- 
gin to  look  doubtful."  Anna's  address  is 
246  S.  8th  Street. 

Louise  (Marshburn)  Riley  writes  from 
Miami:  "I  haven't  appeared  in  the  Alum- 
nae Quarterly  for  such  a  long  time,  I'd 
better  give  some  information  about  my- 
self right  now.  I  was  so  disappointed 
when  I  coudn't  attend  the  '19  class  re- 
union  last  May.  I  felt  more  than  repaid, 
however,  when  the  stork  left  a  nine-pound 
boy  with  me  in  July.  Since  then  I  have 
been  kept  very,  very  busy.  My  work  at 
Agnes  Scott  was  mere  play  in  comparison 
with  rearing  a  son.  If  nothing  happens 
to  prevent,  I'll  be  there  for  commence- 
ment this  coming  May — class  reunion  or 
not.     I  want  to  come  back!" 

Mary  Kate  Parks  spent  a  few  days  in 
Houston  in  January  and  she  and  Goldie 
Ham  enjoyed  seeing  each  other  again.  She 
writes:  "It  is  almost  impossible  to  real- 
ize that  it  has  been  almost  ten  years  since 
we  saw  each   other  last." 

Sue  Ethel  Rea  writes:  "A  letter  from 
Lulu  (Smith)  Westcott  asks  me  to  tell 
something  about  myself  for  our  class  news. 
I  am  just  a  plain  ordinary  old-maid  school 
teacher  in  Central  High  School,  Charlotte, 
where  I  have  been  ever  since  my  gradua- 
tion. I  like  my  work  ever  so  much — teach- 
ing English  and  directing  the  dramatics 
in  the  High  School.  Louisa  Duls,  '26,  is 
here  too,  and  she  and  I  work  together. 
The  most  interesting  thing  we  have  done 
was  our  entering  the  National  Little  Thea- 
ter Tournament  in  New  York  two  years 
ago.  The  play  we  had  worked  on  won 
first  place  in  North  Carolina  state  dra- 
matic tournament,  so  we  decided  to  enter 
it  in  New  York.  It  was  too  much  for  us; 
we  were  entirely  too  ambitious.  Although 
we  won  no  recognition  in  New  York,  it 
was  a  wonderful  experience  for  the  young- 
sters and  myself.  It  is  a  great  deal  of 
pleasure  to  me  to  advise  my  best  pupils 
to  go  to  Agnes  Scott.  I  am  continually 
being  proud  of  some  of  them;  this  class 
of  '29  contains  some  of  my  former  pupils. 
I  did  not  get  to  come  to  our  reunion  this 
last  time,  for  I  had  to  save  up  to  go  to 
summer  school  last  summer,  but  now  that  I 
have  my  life  certificate  to  teach,  I  have 
already  begun  saving  to  come  next  time 
'19  gets  together." 

Elizabeth  Lawrence,  ex  '19,  is  teaching 
piano  and  accompanying  in  the  Institute 
of  Musical  Art  in  Jacksonville,  Fla.  "I 
have  enjoyed  the  meetings  of  the  Agnes 
Scott  Club  very  much." 

Elizabeth  McConnell,  ex  '19,  who  is  an 
interior  decorator  in  Asheville,  is  spending 
the  winter  studying  in  New  York. 


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1920 

Next  class  reunion,  1933. 

I  wonder  how  many  of  us  ever  look  into 
the  annuals  to  see  the  prophecy  concern- 
ing our  class,  and  how  nearly  it  is  coming 
true.  Nelle  Aycock  writes:  "I  just  hap- 
pened to  look  at  '20's  prophecy  a  few  days 
ago  and  strange  to  say,  Emilie  Keyes' 
prophecy  concerning  me  has  partly  come 
to  pass.  Here  'tis:  'If  you  read  the  At- 
lanta Journal,  look  on  the  very  first  page 
— .'  My  little  poem  'The  Song  of  Eneas' 
came  out  on  the  editorial  page  of  the 
Journal  this  week.  I  do  hope  the  last  of 
the  prophecy  will  come  to  pass,  too! 
My  latest  attempt  is  selling  books!  They 
are  really  fascinating — containing  the  best 
of  classics  such  as  we  used  to  have  in 
English  XI;  I  enjoy  my  own  sales  talk! 
I  also  have  a  class  of  girls  in  Sunday 
school  and  we  enjoy  reading  Crip's  'On- 
ward.' " 

Margaret  Bland  joined  the  migration 
southward  in  January  and  took  a  trip 
down  the  east  coast  of  Florida  as  far  as 
Miami.  Margaret  has  a  leave  of  absence 
from  Agnes  Scott  next  year  and  will  spend 
it  working  on  her  Ph.D. 

We  sent  a  letter  begging  for  news  out 
into  the  wilds  of  Texas  to  Mary  (Burnett) 
Thorington  a  long  time  ago,  and  until  a 
few  days  ago,  nary  an  answer  did  we  re- 
ceive! But  from  the  sheet  that  reached 
our  hands,  we  judge  that  she  is  properly 
penitent  and  really  has  an  excellent  alibi: 
"Humiliation,  apologies,  promises  of  re- 
formation, etc.,  etc.,  etc.  Excuses:  new 
baby — Helen  Guerrant  Thorington.  Am  I 
forgiven?" 

Marion  MacPhail  writes:  "I  am  still  as- 
sociate professor  of  French  at  Hood  Col- 
lege, planning  nothing  more  desperate  than 
a  trip  home  in  the  car  with  a  friend  from 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  We  are  lucky  to  get  a  re- 
spectable spring  vacation,  so  I  think  I'll 
go  down  to  meet  the  spring,  even  may 
venture  to  the  lovely  gardens  at  Charles- 
ton when  I've  picked  up  the  folks  at  Char- 
lotte. Wish  I  could  see  some  Agnes  Scott 
people  once  in  a  while:  they  seem  to  be 
scarce  in  Maryland." 

"There  is  absolutely  nothing  about  me 
to  tell,  either  facts  or  fancies,"  writes 
Gertude  (Manly)  McFarland,  "though  I 
do  fancy  I  should  enjoy  getting  out  of  bed 
long  enough  to  unravel  something  worth 
writing  about.  My  operation  didn't  in- 
stantly make  everything  all  right  as  I  had 
hoped  it  would  and  I  have  been  back  in 
bed  for  three  months  now,  trying  to  get 
well  that  way.  Little  Gertrude  does  her 
best  to  make  up  in  friskiness  what  I  lack, 
and  her  best  is  certainly  good!  She  is  a 
tom-boy  if  one  ever  lived,  and  speaks  a 
perfect   mixture    of    Hindu    and    Choctaw. 


She  is  also  expert  in  the  sand-pile  art. 
At  present  her  object  seems  to  be  to  move 
the  sand-pile  from  outside  to  the  center 
of  the  living  room." 

Margaret  (Sanders)  Brannon  writes 
from  San  Marcos,  Texas:  "Bruce  (my 
husband)  finished  Seminary  in  May.  We 
moved  down  here  to  a  good  church  and 
a  new  manse.  We  like  it  and  the  town 
and  are  all  well  and  busy  all  the  time.  I 
hear  news  of  Mary  (Burnett)  Thorington 
and  her  family  from  friends  who  know 
her.  I  hope  to  see  her  some  time,  but  it 
is  several  miles  to  Taft,  if  we  are  both  in 
Texas!  Bobby  (my  one  and  only)  is  now 
twenty  months  old  and  as  big  as  a  three- 
year-old.  So  well  and  happy;  wish  I  could 
bring  him  to  the  Baby  party  in  May  at 
Agnes  Scott." 

Crip  Slack  writes:  "I  had  intended 
writing  up  my  Panama  trip,  but  Ivylyn 
Girardeau  beat  me  to  it.  It  so  happens 
that  we  sailed  on  the  same  ship — Cartago 
— with  the  same  Captain  McBride  and 
she  and  I  seem  to  be  equally  enthusiastic 

about   it   all Not   much   Agnes    Scott 

news  this  time.  My  wanderings  since  the 
last  Quarterly  have  taken  me  as  far  north 
as  Chicago  and  Cincinnati  and  as  far  south 
as  Chester,  S.  C.  In  Chicago  I  had  lunch 
with  Anna  (Harwell)  Sanders,  ex  '23,  at 
Marshall  Fields.  Since  going  north  to  live 
Anna  has  become  accustomed  to  the  Al- 
pine rays  and  the  ultra  violet  which  Chica- 
go uses  in  place  of  good  old  Sol  as  it  shines 
in  Decatur,  Georgia.  Also  heavy  snows 
and  hard  freezes  in  place  of  cold  rains  and 
frosts.  But  not  me!  Two  degrees  below 
is  about  thirty  degrees  colder  than  I  crave. 
And  even  Richmond  staged  six  or  eight 
inches  of  snow,  heavy  fog,  etc.  Just  pass- 
ing through  Rockingham,  N.  C,  which 
naturally  reminded  me  of  Charlotte  (Kees- 
ler)  Everett.  How  I  wish  it  was  the  style 
to  go  watch  the  train  pass  through,  then 
I  could  catch  lots  more  alumnae  news  for 
you!  Incidentally  in  Chicago  I  cut  one 
meeting  of  the  International  Council  of  Re- 
ligious Education  to  see  Mitzi  play  in 
'Lovely  Lady.'  It  was  great,  and  again,  I 
am  reminded  of  Charlotte  Keesler  and  the 
time  Mitzi  played  in  'Head  Over  Heels' 
at  the  old  Atlanta  theater.  Charlotte 
could  certainly  do  that  about  as  well  as 
Mitzi,  and  it  was  the  request  number  most 
in  demand  in  the  gym  and  at  all  informal 
stunts  for  months  afterward.  Am 
spending  Saturday  with  my  sister,  Ruth 
(Slack)  Smith,  '12,  at  Duke  University, 
then  we  are  driving  to  Richmond  where 
she  is  shopping  a  little  and  visiting  me. 
Only  thing  else  outside  of  hard  woik  that 
I  know  is  that  I  am  representing  the  La- 
Grange  D.  A.  R.  chapter  at  the  Congress 
in  Washington  in  April  so  as  to  vote  for 
Mrs.  Julius  Talmadge  of  Athens." 


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29 


1921 

Next  class  reunion,  this  May!  Members 
of  '21,  as  a  certain  well-known  waldrous 
once  remarked:  The  time  has  come.  Pack 
up  that  hat-box  and  board  a  train  for 
Decatur.  Do  you  remember  how  spring 
used  to  come  to  Agnes  Scott  back  in  the 
days  when  we  were  there  as  students? 
Well,  it's  spring  time  there  now  and  about 
as  lovely  as  a  place  can  be.  Come  back 
and  see  it  all  again,  and  best  of  all,  come 
back  THIS  MAY  because  the  other  girls 
you  used  to  know  will  be  back  too!  '21, 
'22,  '23,  and  '24  all  hold  reunions  this  year 
• — all  the  classes  that  were  in  college  your 
senior  year!  There's  really  no  argument 
on  the  other  side,  so  get  that  hat-box  out 
of  the  store-room  right  now! 

Caroline  Agee  is  teaching  again  at  Saint 
Mary's   School  in  Raleigh,  N.   C. 

Edythe  (Clarke)  Alexander  helps  her 
husband  in  his  real  estate  office  in  Ashe- 
ville,  N.  C.  They  enjoy  working  together, 
and  when  the  weather  is  exceptionally 
fine,  they  close  up  the  office  and  go  fish- 
ing together! 

Marguerite  Cousins  is  a  member  of  the 
Little  Theater  League  in  Augusta,  Ga. 
This  is  an  up  and  coming  group,  visited 
by  many  prominent  eastern  theater  peo- 
ple every  winter,  among  them  being  Daniel 
Frohman,  who  comes  down  annually  and 
directs  a  production. 

Mariwil  (Hanes)  Hulsey  announces  the 
birth  of  her  son,  Ernest,  jr.,  on  February 
25,  at  Griffin,  Ga. 

Genie  (Johnston)  Griffin's  second  son, 
born  in  February,  is  named  Randolph  Page 
Griffin. 

Mary  Anne  (Justice)  Miracle  and  her 
family  are  spending  the  spring  in  the  Ken- 
tucky mountains. 

"Miss  Mary  Markley  was  in  Nashville 
in  January  and  we  enjoyed  seeing  her  and 
hearing  a  great  deal  about  Frances  Char- 
lotte," writes  Anna  Marie  (Landress)  Cate. 

Margaret  (McLaughlin)  Hogshead 
writes:  "I  saw  Nannie  Campbell,  Eloise 
(Knight)  Jones  and  Fan  (McCaa)  Mc- 
Laughlin recently  when  I  was  in  Rich- 
mond. We  had  a  regular  kimona  party 
in  Fan's  room  the  first  night  I  was  there. 
The  visit  to  Richmond  was  short  but 
crowded  with  delights,  not  the  least  of 
which  were  the  operas  that  I  heard.  I 
hastened  back  for  the  week-end  for  I  am 
singing  again  in  the  Lexington  church. 
I  really  enjoy  it  and  am  so  impatient  to 
be  entirely  rid  of  the  flu  effects.  They 
have  been  distressingly  tenacious.  My  new 
daughter's  name  is  not  Cora,  but  Cara 
Fan.  It  is  rather  bad  to  burden  one  so 
young  with  a  double  name,  but  she  can 
fix  that  when  she  is  big  enough  to  choose." 
If  Margaret  will  only  come  back  for  re- 
union this  May  and  sing  us  "Deep  River" 


and  the  old  negro  spirituals  again! 

An  interesting  letter  has  been  received 
from  Fances  Charlotte  (Markley)  Roberts 
from  Shanghai:  "I  remember  so  well  the 
campaign  for  endowment  we  had  when  I 
was  in  college  and  how  thrilling  it  was  to 
be  in  the  midst  of  it  all.  There  is  some- 
thing so  wonderful  about  being  a  close 
and  integral  part  of  a  community  which 
is   making  great   effort;    those   are   lucky 

girls  who  are  in  college  now Our  China 

New  Year  holiday  has  three  more  days, 
and  I  must  stay  up  all  three  nights  if  I 
expect  to  do  all  the  things  I  had  planned. 
Fortunately  I  have  done  many  unplanned 
things,  so  I  can  take  refuge  in  that  if 
necessary.  Shanghai  is  a  strategic  place 
for  guests — all  the  world-tour  boats  come 
here,  and  often  there  are  friends  on  them. 
It  is  amusing  to  see  them  delight  in  a 
corn-beef  hash  after  the  luxury  of  the 
Belgenland  or  some  other  big  steamer! 
Very  early  in  my  housekeeping  days  I  de- 
cided not  to  do  anything  for  my  guests 
which  I  did  not  do  for  ourselves,  and  the 
result  has  been  excellent.  The  cook  never 
objects  to  guests,  and  my  mind  does  not 
whirl  from  too  much  'fixing.'  I  think  the 
simple  life  is  a  much  to  be  desired  thing, 
and  I  try  to  practice  it — plenty  of  books, 
time  to  watch  the  young  son  crawl  and 
cut  teeth,  time  to  enjoy  my  teaching  and 
enough  golf  to  keep  me  thin.  Just  now 
we  want  to  have  more  personal  touch  with 
our  university  students  than  ever  before, 
and  if  we  fill  every  minute  with  rushing 
about  there  is  not  time  to  see  them.  I 
love  China.  The  university  students  are 
intensely  interesting,  and  they  are  good 
to  teach.  Changes  are  bound  to  come  in 
the  next  years,  and  one  cannot  be  a  proph- 
et where  China  is  concerned.  Harley  is 
stuck  in  a  corner  of  his  bed — I  must  res- 
cue him  and  wash  him!  No  more  time  for 
letters!"  "Last  summer  I  had  dinner  with 
Frances  Charlotte,"  writes  Margaret  Wins- 
lett,  '20,  "when  her  fine  son,  Harley  Mac- 
Nair,  was  not  two  weeks  old.  She  looked 
well  and  was  already  planning  his  career. 
Her  husband  is  charming.  I  can't  yet  be- 
lieve the  baby  is  hers,  but  she  claims  it. 
Says  she  hasn't  an  idea  what  to  say  to 
it!" 

Janef  Preston,  Miss  Laney  and  Miss 
Thyrza  Askew  of  North  Avenue  Presby- 
terian School,  drove  over  to  Magnolia  Gar- 
dens and  Charleston  during  Janef's  spring 
vacation. 

Lucile  (Smith)  Bishop's  letter  from  Or- 
lando will  be  found  under  the  radio  write- 
ups. 

Martha  Stansfield  has  a  leave  of  absence 
from  the  Latin  department  at  Agnes  Scott 
and  took  up  her  Ph.D.  work  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago   in   April. 

Julia  (Watkins)  Huber  has  sent  an  ador- 


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able  picture  of  her  little  two  and  a  half- 
year-old  daughter,  which  we  will  publish 
in  the  Quarterly  featuring  "Children  of 
Alumnae." 

"On  February  14,  I  was  at  the  hospital 
welcoming  a  precious  valentine,  William 
Flournoy  Goodman,  jr.,"  writes  Marguerite 
(Watkins)    Goodman. 

Helen  Wayt  continues  to  enjoy  life  and 
to  trip  over  the  country.  Her  latest  was 
to  Columbia,  S.  C,  where  she  was  brides- 
maid in  her  cousin's  wedding. 

Virginia  (Fish)  Tigner,  ex  '21,  has 
moved  from  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  to  Atlanta. 
Her  husband  is  connected  with  the  W.  E. 
Browne  Decorating  Company.  Virginia's 
address  is  1258  Piedmont  Ave.,  N.  E. 

Rebecca  Saunders,  ex  '21,  is  teaching  in 
the  Asheville,  N.  C,  city  school  system. 
1922 

Next  class  reunion,  this  May!  Come 
back  again  to  Agnes  Scott,  '22!  Seven  is 
a  magic  number,  and  seven  years  is  quite 
long  enough  for  our  class  to  stay  away 
from  Agnes  Scott.  President  Mary  Knight 
and  Secretary  Sarah  (Till)  Davis  will  be 
on  hand  to  plan  for  returning  members 
of  '22  a  jolly  time.  Come  back  and  be 
part  of  it!  Here  is  a  message  from  Sec- 
retary Till:  "  '22,  has  the  flu  been  as 
dreadful  everywhere  as  in  Mississippi  dur- 
ing December  and  January?  I  hope  not. 
But  I  am  afraid  it  has  been,  for  my  mail 
box  is  alarmingly  empty  although  I  have 
haunted  it  for  days.  When  this  Quarterly 
appears,  I  hope  we  shall  all  be  getting 
out  the  old  suitcase  and  preparing  to  come 
to  Decatur.  The  secretary  has  a  brand 
new  book  with  a  separate  page  for  each 
of  us,  and  if  your  close  friends  cannot 
possibly  come,  their  pages  will  be  there 
anyway,  with  whatever  I  can  'rake  and 
scrape'  concerning  them.  And  if  you  can't 
come,  please,  please  send  me  news  and  a 
late  snapshot  of  yourself  now." 

Mary  Barton  has  been  very  ill  with 
pneumonia  in  a  Baltimore  hospital,  and  as 
if  that  wasn't  enough  by  itself,  she  had 
pleurisy  along  with  it.  But  Mary  is  the 
sort  of  girl  that  plans  her  sickness  a 
long  time  before  reunion,  so  as  not  to 
let  it  interfere  with  her  attendance. 

Nell  Buchanan  says  that  not  even  a  visit 
in  Washington  can  ease  an  impacted  wis- 
dom tooth.  But  she  has  recovered  her 
usual  sprightliness  and  sailed  for  Europe 
on  March  30,  taking  her  mother  with  her. 
Nellie  will  return  to  New  York  the  first 
of  June,  spend  two  weeks  at  home,  and 
then  sail  again  to  spend  the  rest  of  the 
summer  abroad.  She  adds  that  the  only 
fly  in  the  ointment  is  that  she  won't  pos- 
sibly be  able  to  get  back  to  reunion. 

Cama  (Burgess)  Clarkson's  new  home 
in  Charlotte  is  a  huge  white  colonial  struc- 
ture, and  in  front  she  has  clumps  of  price- 


less old  boxwood,  brought  from  her  hus- 
band's plantation.  Cama  is  the  delegate 
from  the  Charlotte  branch  to  the  A.  A. 
U.  W.  convention  in  New  Orleans  this 
month. 

Gena  (Gallaway)  Merry  reports  a  fall 
that  has  not  been  pleasant:  She  and  her 
husband  have  both  been  ill.  '22  sympa- 
thizes with  her  in  the  death  of  her  aunt 
and  foster  mother,  Miss  Ellen  Callaway. 
Gena  sends  a  picture  which  you  must  wait 
until  May  to  see. 

Edythe  (Davis)  Croley,  who  lives  in 
Dallas,  Texas,  has  another  "mighty  sweet 
little  daughter,"  Martha  Edythe,  aged  four 
months.  There  is  a  picture  of  her  for 
Edythe's  page  in  the  book,  and  one  of  the 
other  little  daughter  too.  Santa  brought 
Edythe  and  the  whole  family  the  flu  for 
Christmas.  Sarah  (Till)  Davis  can  sym- 
pathize, for  she  spent  the  holiday  season 
in  bed  for  the  same  bad  reason.  But  her 
group  of  youngsters,  a  dozen  of  them, 
went  carolling  on  Christmas  Eve,  although 
for  the  first  time  in  four  years  she  could 
not  go  with  them. 

Julia  Jameson  is  teaching  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  in  the  South  Side  High  School.  Her 
address  is  805  N.  McNeil   Street. 

Roberta  (Love)  Brower  will  be  on  hand 
at  Agnes  Scott  for  commencement  when 
'22  holds  its  reunion. 

Susan  Malone  was  married  to  Mr.  Robert 
Scales  in  March.  Susan  lives  in  Hous- 
ton, Texas. 

Frances  (Oliver)  York  writes  that  she 
is  delighted  with  her  new  home  in  Squan- 
tum,  a  suburb  of  Boston. 

"Miss  Pickle"  (Ruth  Pirkle,  of  course) 
announces  that  "I  am  so  busy  thinking 
up  test  questions  and  grading  Biology 
papers  in  the  making  of  future  alumnae 
that  I  have  no  interesting  information  to 
impart  to  readers  of  the  Quarterly.  But 
I  shall  certainly  be  thrilled  to  talk  to 
everyone  who  comes  back  to  reunion." 
Ruth  took  a  character  role  in  the  glee 
club's  program  in  February,  and  acted  with 
Miss  Gooch  in  a  play  for  the  Atlanta 
Drama  League  in  April. 

Virginia  (Pottle)  Riley  writes  that  Ivy- 
lyn  Girardeau's  article  about  the  Canal 
Zone  brought  her  pleasant  memories  of 
her  trip  there.  She  includes  news  of  other 
members  of  '22:  Liz  Brown  is  doing 
splendid  welfare  work  in  Albany,  the  Kal- 
mon  twins,  '28,  are  still  fancy  free,  and 
she  herself  has  "gone  domestic.  Sally 
Riley,  is  the  friskiest,  fattest,  blondest 
one-year-old  you  can  imagine." 

Ruth  Scandrett  is  traveling  through  the 
south  visiting  cotton  mills  and  making  a 
survey  of  working  conditions  there.  She 
saw  Em  Guille  in  Spartanburg,  Mary 
Greene  in  Abbeville,  and  hastens  to  add: 
"They  weren't  working  in  the  cotton  mills, 


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understand;  I  mix  business  with  pleasure." 
Ruth's  address  changes  almost  every  day, 
but  mail  sent  to  Agnes  Scott,  care  Dick 
Scandrett,  will  be  forwarded  to  her. 

Merle  (Sellers)  Faulk  lost  her  father  on 
February  4. 

Emily  (Thomas)  Johnston  says:  "Run- 
ning a  house  and  office  isn't  so  terribly 
much  work  after  all."  Emily  is  still  pro- 
bation officer  of  Dallas  County,  Alabama. 
She  plans  to  come  to  reunion.  Augusta 
(Thomas)  Lanier,  '24,  is  living  in  Atlanta 
now,  so  Emily  can  kill  two  birds  with  one 
stone. 

Louie  Dean  (Stephens)  Hays  says  that 
Baltimore  is  nice,  but  entirely  too  far  from 
Georgia.  We  think  so  too.  Her  address 
is  3200  Elgin  Avenue. 

We  learn  at  last  why  there  has  been 
no  .answer  to  the  many  letter  we  have 
written  Elizabeth  Wilson  during  the  last 
twelve  months:  she  wasn't  where  we  sent 
them  to!  Elizabeth  writes:  "By  some 
miraculous  means  your  letter  dated  March 
1  has  reached  me,  despite  the  fact  that 
it  was  two  addresses  behind  me,  and  one 
of  those  addresses  being  now  a  mere  mat- 
ter of  excavations.  The  Republican  pos- 
tal service  wins.  I  am  now  assistant 
editor,  movie  reviewer  and  club  chat  writer 
for  those  illustrious  screen  classics,  Film 
Fun,  and  Screen  Romances — in  other 
words,  I  am  a  glorious  gift  to  the  morons 
and  a  shining  example  of  why  girls  should 
not  go  to  college.  My  arduous  duties  con- 
sist in  attending  opening  nights,  furnish- 
ings friends  with  passes,  attending  lunch- 
eons given  by  press  agents  for  their  stars, 
and  appearing  at  movie  parties.  There 
seems  to  be  no  end  of  homework  to  this 
job.  I  haven't  seen  anyone  from  Agnes 
Scott  since  last  spring  so  know  no  news 
to  send  for  the  Quarterly;  I  get  mine  from 
its  pages!" 

Lucy  (Wooten)  Wiegand  lives  only  forty 
miles  from  Decatur,  so  she  is  a  frequent 
visitor  at  the  Alumnae   House. 

Ruth  Brown,  ex  '22,  was  married  just 
before  Christmas  to  Mr.  Lawrence.  They 
live  in  the  Fort  Wood  Apartments,  Clark 
Street,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

Wilmer  Daniel,  ex  '22,  is  now  Mrs.  Web- 
ster Bishop,  Amherst  Apts.,  Orlando,  Fla. 

Allie  Louise  Travis,  ex  '22,  was  manned 
on  February  20th  at  her  home  in  Coving- 
ton to  Dr.  William  White  Aiken,  of  Lyons, 
Ga. 

Another  member  of  '22  who  has  moved 
to  Orlando  is  Faustelle  (Williams)  Ken- 
nedy.    She  lives  at  113  Vanderbilt  Avenue. 

May  is  coming,  '22!  There  is  business 
of  importance  to  attend  to  at  that  class 
luncheon,  and  there  are  new  people  to  meet 
and  old  friends  to  greet,  and  one  special 
opportunity  that  is  all  our  own.  Come 
back,  '22! 


1923 

Next  class  reunion  is  just  about  on  us, 
May  24  to  28,  and  anyone  who  hasn't  al- 
ready completed  plans  to  get  back,  had 
certainly  better  do  some  juning  around 
right  now  and  complete  them!  We  have 
been  out  of  college  six  years — long  enough 
to  get  thoroughly  homesick  for  Agnes 
Scott  and  a  sight  of  each  other  again. 
Could  anything  be  nicer  than  another  class 
meeting  out  under  the  trees  on  that  dear 
old  campus,  with  President  Hilda  and  Sec- 
retary Era  Guille  trying  to  be  very  par- 
liamentary, and  all  of  us  privates  talking 
at  once  and  nobody  listening  to  a  word 
anyone  else  is  saying?  Why,  such  a  meet- 
ing sounds  irresistable,  and  besides,  those 
who  stay  away  are  going  to  get  talked 
about!  Come  back  again!  Our  sister 
class  of  '21  will  be  here — do  you  remem- 
ber when  we  hung  May  baskets  on  our 
seniors  sisters  doors  early  May  Day  morn- 
ing?— and  '22,  those  arch  fiends  who 
made  our  lives  miserable  when  we  were 
freshmen;  and  '24,  the  babies  whose  in- 
fant steps  at  Agnes  Scott  were  directed 
by  our  capable  sophomore  commands. 
Come  back  again,  old  '23,  and  we'll  make 
that  campus  echo  and  re-echo  with  our 
Pelanky  war-cry! 

Minnie  Lee  (Clark)  Cordle  writes:  "I 
have  only  one  piece  of  news  and  to  me  it 
is  a  mighty  big  piece:  I  am  coming  back 
to  '23's  reunion,  and  hoping  for  a  great 
time  in  May." 

Eileen  (Dodd)  Sams  and  her  husband 
left  their  two  sons  with  the  grandmother 
and  ran  away  for  a  second  honeymoon 
trip  to  Magnolia  Gardens  and  Charles- 
ton. When  they  caught  the  train  in  De- 
catur there  were  a  crowd  of  Agnes  Scott 
students  waiting  for  the  same  train,  and 
Eileen  said  it  was  just  like  her  first  honey- 
moon, for  the  penalty  she  paid  for  marry- 
ing two  hours  after  graduation  was  going 
north  on  the  same  train  with  practically 
the  entire  Agnes  Scott  student  body! 

Helen  (Faw)  Mull  is  another  member 
of  '23  who  believes  in  the  practice  of  leav- 
ing small  sons  with  the  in-laws  and  trip- 
ping off  with  the  husband.  She  and  her 
husband  are  planning  a  swing  through  the 
east  this  summer,  sans  sons. 

"We  have  moved  again,"  writes  Maud 
(Foster)  Jackson,  "with  all  the  attendant 
joys  and  evils,  the  new  address  being  The 
Riverside,  401,  2145  C  St.,  N.  W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  We  are  so  happy  to  be  in 
Washington.  It  is  such  a  satisfying  place 
to  live;  for  once  there  is  almost  enough 
beauty  to  spare.  Our  apartment  is  lo- 
cated at  the  edge  of  Potomac  Park,  over- 
looking the  Lincoln  Memorial.  The  glory 
of  the  cherry  blossoms  is  at  its  height  and 
right  in  the  front  yard,  so  to  speak.  The 
young    son    gets    an    almost    unnecessary 


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amount  of  airing  with  such  lovely  sur- 
roundings. I  had  one  brief  and  very 
pleasant  reminder  of  Agnes  Scott  the  week 
we  moved  from  Baltimore.  A  young  cou- 
ple came  to  see  our  apartment  which  we 
were  trying  to  sublet.  Who  should  it  be 
but  'Speedy'  (King)  Wilkins  and  her  hus- 
band! We  banished  said  husband  and  had 
a  great  time  until  forcibly  reminded  that 
their  time  was  limited.  It  was  the  most 
thrilling  exchange  of  'Do  you  remember 
—  ?'  and  'What's  happened  to — ?'  Since 
Helen  (Faw)  Mull  and  I  used  to  get  off 
together  for  tea  at  the  faculty  club  of 
Western  Reserve  University  in  Cleveland. 
I  also  saw  Juanita  Greer  and  Mary  Bar- 
ton while   in   Baltimore." 

Mary  (Goodrich)  Meredith's  husband 
works  with  the  Southern  News  Company 
in  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Em  Guille  writes:  "I  am  certainly  com- 
ing to  comencement!  As  for  my  job, 
right  now  I  have  gotten  swamped  by 
work.  I  don't  know  anything,  see  any- 
thing, do  anything  but  church,  and  though 
I  heartily  disapprove  of  such  a  way  of 
living,  I  can't  seem  to  change.  The  last 
time  I  read  a  book  has  been  so  long  ago 
I  can't  remember  when,  nor  the  book! 
Isn't  it  disgraceful?  Where,  oh  where, 
is  the  balanced  life  that  we  '23-ers  all 
swore    we    would    lead    after    graduation? 

I   had   supper   with   Ruth    Scandrett, 

'22,  last  night.  She  is  doing  some  dread- 
fully important-sounding  research  for  the 
'Institute  of  church  and  social  something 
or  other'  and  is  to  be  around  Spartanburg 
surveying  various  mill  villages.  I  marvel 
at  the  variety  of  things  that  girl  has  done 
since  she  finished  college;  there's  an  in- 
teresting life  for  you.  Of  course  it  was 
good  to  see  her,  and  equally  of  course  we 
talked  Agnes  Scott.  I  hope  to  see  her 
again  when  she  comes  back  from  her  first 
mill  sojourn." 

Lib  Hoke  was  in  Charlotte  just  long 
enough  in  March  to  pop  in  on  the  Agnes 
Scott  alumnae  luncheon  at  Ivey's  and  say 
hello  before  her  bus  left  for  Lincolnton. 

"My  life  recently  sounds  like  one  long 
tale  of  woe,"  writes  Viola  (Hollis)  Oak- 
ley, "but  I'm  writing  just  the  same,  for 
members  of  '23  have  always  taken  each 
other  'for  better  or  for  worse'  and  we  are 
interested  in  each  others  lives  even  though 
the  tales  we  have  to  tell  are  not  merry 
ones.  For  about  six  months  I  suffered 
from  appendicitis  which  resulted  in  an 
operation  about  a  year  ago.  Before  I  re- 
covered from  that  my  little  son  spent  two 
weeks  in  the  hospital  with  colitus  and 
had  to  be  carefully  nursed  for  months. 
When  the  flu  was  going  around,  I  came 
down  with  that,  and  so  often  flu  leaves  you 
far  from  well.  The  most  heart-breaking 
thing  occurred  on  January  5th  when  my 


baby  girl  was  born  dead.  We  are,  how- 
ever, blessed  with  a  perfectly  darling  lit- 
tle son  who  will  soon  be  three  years  old. 
He  is  a  smart  little  rascal,  and  has  lovely 
curly  hair  which  is  his  mother's  delight, 
and  which  he  will  one  day  hate  violently 
and  try  to  plaster  down,  I  feel  sure." 

Fredeva  Ogletree  is  teaching  in  Val- 
dosta,   Ga. 

Eva  (Wassum)  Cunningham's  daughter, 
Martha  Elizabeth,  was  born  on  March  22. 
"She  is  named  Martha  Elizabeth  for  her 
two  grandmothers,"  Eva  writes.  ("The 
grandmothers  are  named  Mattie  and  Bes- 
sie!") Eva  and  Martha  Elizabeth  are  both 
coming  to  commencement.  "Aunt  Nannie 
Campbell  is  coming  by  Columbia  and 
bring  us  on  with  her,"  writes  Martha  Eliz- 
abeth. 

Frances  (Arant)  Wilmer,  ex  '23,  has 
moved  to  Atlanta  and  is  living  at  1251 
Peachtree  Street. 

Mart  Hay  is  another  ex  '23  who  is  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  New  York.  "I  am  mess- 
ing around  at  a  hybrid  job  in  a  progressive 
day  school  in  93rd  street,  and  guzzling 
New  York  by  night.  It  is  a  fabulous  city 
and  life  is  thick  here."  Mart's  address  is 
181  W.  87th  Street. 

Laura  Mae  (Hill)  Hughes,  ex  '23,  is 
spending  the  winter  and  spring  in  her  old 
home,  Montgomery,  Ala.  Laura  Mae's 
husband  is  an  Englishman,  and  she  has 
recently  returned  from  a  trip  to  England 
with  him. 

Erskine  (Jarnagin)  Forgy,  ex  '23,  is  liv- 
ing in  New  York  City.  She  comes  south 
often  to  visit  her  mother  in  Atlanta. 

Hazel  (Lamar)  Clarkson,  ex  '23,  has 
moved  into  a  new  home  at  231  Sidonia 
Ave.,  Coral  Gables,  Fla. 

Caroline  (Moody)  Jordan,  ex  '23,  and  her 
husband  and  baby  are  living  in  the  lovely 
new  cream  brick  parsonage  built  by  their 
Methodist  congregation  in  Charlotte,  N. 
C.  The  new  church  right  next  door  is 
Gothic,  of  gray  stone,  and  a  most  impres- 
sive building. 

Eugenie  (Rennie)  Rose,  ex  '23,  is  living 
in  Charlotte,  N.  C,  and  taking  an  active 
part  in  Junior  League  work  there. 

Rosalie  Robinson,  ex  '23,  was  married 
at  her  home  in  Atlanta  on  January  26  to 
Mr.  Dan  Sanford,  of  Milledgeville,  Ga. 
Mr.  Sanford  is  a  graduate  of  both  the 
Georgia  Military  Academy  and  Georgia 
Tech,  a  member  of  the  Phi  Kappa  Sigma 
fraternity,  and  prominent  among  the  civil 
engineers  of  the  state.  The  Sanfords  are 
at  home  at  968  St.  Charles  Ave.,  N.  E., 
Atlanta. 

Frances  Turner,  ex  '23,  is  the  treasurer 
of  the  Birmingham,  Ala.,  Agnes  Scott 
alumnae  club.  She  writes:  "The  alum- 
nae club  here  will  be  tea-ed  up  this  month. 
I  hope  the  damages  will  be  paid  in  even 


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cents,  since  I  have  a  terrible  time  making 
change!" 

1924 

All  you  fifty-seven  varieties  of  '24's  get 
ready  to  come  back  to  our  class  reunion! 
Five  years  out!  And  we've  done  all  sorts 
of  things  to  tell  about,  such  as  get  mar- 
ried, and  go  'round  the  world,  and  have 
babies,  and  teach  other  people's,  and  win 
prizes,  and  write  things — why,  there  is 
practically  nothing  honorable  that  one  of 
our  fifty-seven  hasn't  dabbled  in!  So  far 
our  record  is  perfectly  stainless:  no  peni- 
tentiary offenses,  or  at  least,  they  haven't 
caught  us  if  we've  committed  any!  No 
killings,  no  divorces,  no  embezzlements — 
our  lives  may  have  been  rather  tame,  since 
we  haven't  gone  in  for  any  front-page 
news  material,  but  we  guarantee  that  hap- 
py lives  will  be  just  as  interesting  to  tell 
about  and  listen  to,  and  if  you  will  come 
back  to  Agnes  Scott  this  May  we'll  let  you 
tell  all  about  yours,  and  make  you  lis- 
ten to  all  the  other  fifty-seven  tales!  Once 
more  we'll  gather  around  a  big  table  in 
the  tea-room  and  clink  our  "steins"  on 
the  table  and  roar  out  our  class  song — 
"Hail,  Agnes  Scott,  We  Sing  to  Thee." 
And  Vic  and  Mary  Green  will  dance  an 
apache  dance,  and  Dick  will  choose  her 
partner  and  once  more  "run  fleetly  in  a 
three-legged  race  before  the  astonished 
eyes  of  Mr.  Holt;"  Grace  Bargeron  will  call 
out  her  ballet  for  senior  opera  and  put 
them  through  their  paces;  Frances  and  Lil 
will  sing  for  us;  Speedy  King  and  Daisy 
Frances  will  stage  a  race  across  the  cam- 
pus; of  course  Fran  and  Elma  will  be  found 
in  the  tea-room  consuming  cake  a  la  mode, 
while  Melissa  Smith  will  stick  to  home 
cooking  and  make  her  own  buttered  toast 
on  the  Inman  ironing  board.  Nancy  and 
Nonie  will  be  in  charge  of  athletics  (if 
alumnae  who  have  been  out  five  years  are 
not  too  stiff  in  the  jints  to  indulge  in  any) 
— there'll  be  no  end  of  things  going  on, 
but  the  1925  class  says  we  can't  take  up 
all  the  room  in  the  Quarterly  just  because 
we  are  going  to  have  a  reunion.  Poor 
things,  they  aren't,  so  since  they  have  to 
stay  home  this  year,  we'll  be  generous  and 
save  our  reminiscing  till  May  24-28  and 
give  them  some  space  now  after  our  class 
news.     Come  back,  '24! 

Emily  (Arnold)  Perry  took  her  baby 
and  husband  home  to  Newnan,  Ga.,  for 
Christmas  and  from  all  accounts,  little 
Mary  Frances  is  a  dear.  Emily  says  she 
has  a  time  to  keep  from  spoiling  her,  as 
she  is  such  a  doll  that  she  wants  to  play 
with  her  all  the  time. 

Janice  Brown  is  an  indispensable  part 
of  the  Greensboro,  N.  C,  library.  She 
rides  on  the  truck  which  takes  books  out 
to  the  rural  districts,  pushes  the  little 
book  cart  long  the  aisles  of  the  Greens- 


boro hospital  for  invalid  readers,  advises 
old  ladies  and  college  professors  which 
are  the  latest  and  goryest  murder  tales, 
and  helps  take  care  of  the  priceless  0. 
Henry  originals  which  the  Greensboro  li- 
brary boasts.  Janice  is  coming  to  com- 
mencement. 

Jinks  (Burt)  Evans  is  keeping  house  in 
a  Birmingham  apai'tment  and  seems  crazy 
about  it.  She  says  they  have  a  very  good 
alumnae  chapter  in  Birmingham  and  that 
Agnes  Scotters  there  keep  in  touch  with 
each  other  through  their  meetings.  Jinks 
also  says:  "Really,  I  think  the  Quarterly 
is  a  great  institution,  for  without  it  I 
don't  know  what  I'd  do  for  information 
about  everybody.  It's  like  getting  letters 
from  everybody  without  the  trouble  of  an- 
swering them  all!" 

Helen  Lane  Comfort  writes  from  Ger- 
many: "The  summer  was  all  that  I  hoped 
for,  and  more.  In  the  first  place,  the 
group  of  girls  with  whom  I  was  traveling 
and  the  chaperons  were  a  congenial  group. 
Most  of  us  were  from  the  south  and  a  good- 
ly number  from  Agnes  Scott.  And  then  we 
saw  so  many  wonderful  places  and  things 
— Paris,  Nice,  on  the  southern  Riviera; 
the  leaning  tower  at  Pisa,  Florence,  Swit- 
zerland with  its  gorgeous  mountains  and 
beautiful  lakes,  Bruges  with  its  canals, 
most  of  which  are  now  not  used — and  so 
on  and  on.  I  am  now  living  in  Heidelberg 
with  the  widow  of  a  university  professor. 
And  I  am  doing  my  utmost  to  learn  French 
and  German  through  private  lessons  as 
well  as  conversation.  We  speak  German 
here  in  the  house  always.  I  am  a 
'hearer'  at  the  University,  listening  to  the 
lectures,  but  not  having  to  take  exams 
and  all  that.  Heidelberg  is  a  lovely  old 
town,  part  of  it  dating  back  to  the  Romans. 
And  it  seems  to  me  that  the  mountains 
around  here  and  the  views  affoi'ded  are 
almost  as  lovely  as  those  in  Switzerland. 
To  go  up  the  main  street  one  would  never 
imagine  that  it  is  a  town  of  over  eighty 
thousand.  The  castle,  or  rather  the  ruins 
of  it,  with  its  gardens  and  walks,  is  lovely. 
I  have  had  a  most  enjoyable  winter  here, 
full  both  of  work  and  fun.  I  had  planned 
to  come  back  in  March  and  get  to  Agnes 
Scott  for  our  reunion,  but  now  I  am  to 
ti-avel  during  April  and  May  with  my 
brother  who  arrives  the  first  of  April. 
That  will  be  the  most  wonderful  part  of 
the  whole  year  for  me,  for  I  know  all  you 
'24-ers  remember  how  much  I  talk  about 
this  wonderful  brother!  I  do  hate  to  miss 
reunion,  but  we  won't  land  till  about  the 
first  of  June.  Anyway,  tell  all  the  girls 
for  me  I'll  be  thinking  of  '24  then  and 
wishing  like  thunder  I  were   there." 

Dr.  Warren  Matthews  (Martha  Eakes' 
husband)  has  recently  gone  to  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital  of  Chicago  after  finishing 


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a  three  months'  service  at  the  Durand 
Contagious  Hospital  in  that  city. 

Mary  Greene  writes  from  the  East  Caro- 
lina Teachers  College:  "I  still  like  my 
work  here  very  much.  I  have  had  to  teach 
all  kinds  of  things:  the  worst  was  teach- 
ing English  in  the  grammar  grades. 
Naturally,  I  knew  nothing  about  the  sub- 
ject, but  I  managed  to  get  through  the 
term  and  I  didn't  notice  that  anybody  was 
any  worse  for  having  had  the  course  (un- 
less I  was!)  whether  any  of  the  poor 
girls  were  any  better  I  cannot  say.  Yes- 
terday I  was  looking  through  a  Peabody 
magazine  and  came  across  a  picture  of 
Dr.  Salyer.  He  is  to  teach  in  their  sum- 
mer school  this  year." 

Louise  Hendrix  is  teaching  mathematics 
and  French  in  the  South  Charleston  High 
School,  South  Carleston,  W.  Va. 

Lil  (Mc Alpine)  Butner  writes:  "We 
have  recently  completed  and  moved  into 
our  new  home  at  1005  Angelo.  I  am  not 
altogether  settled  yet,  and  can  still  find 
plenty  to  keep  me  busy.  We  do  love  our 
home — it  is  white  colonial,  and  very  con- 
veniently arranged  inside.  I  hope  our 
present  address  will  be  a  permanent  one, 
so  you  may  expect  to  find  us  here  for  the 
next  twenty  years  at  least.  Gardening  is 
occupying  my  mind  and  hands  to  a  great 
extent  now.  We  plot  and  plan  as  to  what 
will  best  cover  the  broad  expanse  of  red 
clay  that  surrounds  us.  Save  me  a  nook 
at  the  Alumnae  House  the  last  week-end 
in  May;  I'm  certainly  coming  down  for 
that  reunion."  Lil  and  her  husband  are 
both  singing  in  the  Moravian  church  choir, 
where  the  lovely  and  famous  Easter  serv- 
ice is  held  each  year. 

Mary  Mobberly  is  teaching  French  and 
Spanish  in  the  Laurel,  Miss.,  high  school, 
and  living  at  1020  Seventh  Avenue. 

Fran  (Myers)  Dickely  writes  that  she 
enjoys  "poring  over  that  map  of  the 
proposed  lay-out  of  our  new  buildings 
there  on  the  campus.  .  .  .  George  and  I 
have  a  darling  apartment  this  winter  on 
Tenth  Street  (New  York  City)  but  we 
keep  Mt.  Vernon  as  our  permanent  ad- 
dress as  our  whereabouts  are  so  shift- 
ing." 

Cora  (Morton)  Durrett  took  Dick  Scan- 
drett  home  with  her  to  Athens  for  spring 
vacation. 

"Now  that  there  is  a  new  bus  line  from 
Anniston  to  Atlanta,  we'll  all  come  over  to 
commencement  at  Agnes  Scott,"  writes 
Nonie  (Peck)  Booth.  The  '24-ers  in 
Anniston  are  Virginia  Ordway,  Mary 
Evelyn  (Arnold)  Barker,  Diddie  (Peck) 
Mallory.  Lucy  (Little)  Morgan,  '23,  lives 
just  a  few  miles  away  at  Heflin,  and  she 
promises  to  swing  on  board  as  that  bus 
passes  through. 

Margaret   (Powell)   Gay  has  been  visit- 


ing her  family  in  Little  Rock,  and  plans 
to  take  them  back  with  her  to  Connecticut 
for  the  summer. 

Dick  Scandrett  and  Polly  Stone  took  a 
look  at  Magnolia  Gardens  during  April, 
and  in  June  they  will  drive  up  together  to 
New  York  in  Dr.  Sweet's  car.  Dick  will 
study  college  administration  at  Columbia 
during  summer  session,  and  Polly  will  visit 
her  brother  in  Brooklyn  and  attend  the 
American  Alumni  Council  meeting  in  Tor- 
onto. 

Helen  Wright  writes:  "I  was  so  glad  to 
see  news  of  Vic  Howie  in  the  last  Quarter- 
ly. I  hope  to  see  her  when  the  South 
Carolina  Teachers'  Association  meets  here 
in  Columbia  the  last  of  the  month." 

Cornelia  Archer,  ex  '24,  is  teaching 
music  at  the  Montreat  Normal  School, 
Montreat,  N.  C,  and  planning  to  return 
to  New  York  very  soon  to  study  some 
more. 

Martha  Baker,  ex  '24,  is  Mrs.  Francis 
Moore,  Hampton,  Ga. 

Augusta  (Cannon)  Hungerford,  ex  '24, 
has  moved  to  Macon,  Ga.,  where  she  lives 
in  the  Vineville  Court  Apartments.  Mr. 
Hungerford  is  with  the  Southern  Railroad. 
They  have  two  small  sons,  one  of  them  is 
very  small  indeed,  being  only  three 
months  old. 

Mary  Colley,  ex  '24,  is  teaching  in  Ar- 
lington Hall,  a  girls'  school  in  Washing- 
ton. She  writes  that  she  enjoyed  being 
in  Washington  at  the  time  of  the  inaugur- 
ation, but  that  cherry  trees  and  long  horse- 
back rides  there  thrill  her  a  great  deal 
more  than  presidential  inaugurations. 

Lucy  Oliver,  ex  '24,  will  be  married  on 
April  20  at  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church 
in  Montgomery  to  Mr.  Algernon  Sidney 
Coleman. 

1925 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Idelle  Bryant  writes  from  New  York: 
"I  have  enjoyed  reading  every  word  of 
the  January  Quarterly,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  tickly  sensations  my  spinal  cord  under- 
went when  I  glanced  at  that  picture  of 
Main  towers  in  the  front.  When  I  get  my 
vacation  this  spring  I  hope  to  visit  Agnes 
Scott  on  the  way  home  to  Fort  Valley. 
Eleanor  (Bennett)  Warlick,  ex  '28,  and 
I  see  each  other  often  up  here." 

Mary  Palmer  (Caldwell)  McFarland's 
former  roommate  at  National  Cathedral 
has  been  visiting  her  in  Atlanta.  "We 
hadn't  seen  each  other  for  about  eight 
years,  so  you  can  imagine  how  our  tongues 
wagged!" 

We  "point  with  pride"  to  our  fellow 
class  member,  Elizabeth  Cheatham.  Eliz- 
abeth's feat  is  the  winning  of  a  Franco- 
American  exchange  scholarship  foi  a 
year's  study  at  the  University  of  Toulouse, 


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35 


700-year-old  university  in  the  south  of 
France,  which  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  famous  on  the  continent.  She  is  the 
second  girl  in  the  history  of  Agnes  Scott 
to  be  accorded  this  signal  honor — Vivian 
Little,  '24,  having  won  the  first  to  study 
in  Paris  five  years  ago.  The  scholastic 
year  is  from  November  5  to  June  3,  but 
Elizabeth  plans  to  sail  about  the  middle  of 
September  and  begin  her  language  study 
at  the  university  about  a  month  before  the 
term  opens. 

Mary  Key  Dolvin  has  been  spending  the 
winter  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Her  address 
is  221  Eleventh  Street,  S.  E. 

Araminta  (Edwards)  Pate  has  been  ill 
this  spring  and  came  home  to  stay  in  At- 
lanta for  several  months. 

Isabel  Ferguson  has  the  world's  most  at- 
tractive apartment  in  an  old  colonial  home 
in  Greensboro,  N.  C.  A  huge  old  brick 
"befo  de  wah"  house  with  white  columns, 
twisting  wisteria  vines  and  a  long  path 
to  the  street  bordered  with  daffodils  and 
tulips — and  Izzy's  apartment  is  tucked 
away  up  under  the  roof  in  what  was  orig- 
inally meant  for  the  attic.  But  1855  attics 
were  larger  than  1929  living  rooms  are 
now!  Dr.  Dodd,  under  whom  Izzy  studied 
at  the  University  of  Chicago,  lectured  in 
Greensboro  this  winter  and  she  had  the 
pleasure  of  meeting  him  again. 

Sallie  Horton  was  toastmistress  at  the 
Birmingham  Agnes  Scott  alumnae's  ban- 
quet on  Founder's  Day. 

Margaret  (Ladd)  May  says  she  has  had 
quite  as  much  trouble  as  Job  here  lately 
and  not  near  as  much  publicity.  First  she 
fell  down  and  cut  her  foot  so  badly  that 
she  was  unable  to  walk  for  weeks,  then 
she  and  her  husband  went  home  for  the 
holidays  and  both  came  down  with  the 
flu.  "We  are  both  well  again  now,  so  I'll 
let  Job  keep  his  publicity." 

Country  life  agrees  with  Styx  (Lincoln) 
Moss,  for  she  writes  that  she  is  putting  on 
the  avoirdupois.  "I  am  living  way  out  in 
the  wilds,  the  nearest  neighbor  lives  one 
and  a  half  miles  away.  I  have  a  wonder- 
ful horse  to  ride  and  I'm  still  playing 
basketball.  Am  raising  white  Holland 
turkeys  and  you  should  see  me  salting  the 
cattle,  pigs,  sheep,  etc.  I'm  a  regular 
country  girl;  also,  you  see,  I  get  plenty  of 
exercise.  Burke's  Garden  is  a  beautiful 
spot  and  it  really  isn't  so  rural  that  we 
can't  see  the  bright  lights  occasionally. 
It  is  very  close  home  and  we  keep  the  road 
hot  between  here  and  Marion.  Country  air 
and  lots  of  buttermilk  are  having  such  an 
effect  on  me  that  the  nickname  Styx  will 
soon  no  longer  be  appropriate;  Chubby 
would  be  better." 

Genie  (Perkins)  Harlow  writes:  "I 
should  love  to  come  back  to  Agnes  Scott 
and  get  a  peep  at  you  all.     It  looks  as  if 


our  class  never  will  have  a  reunion,  but 
when  it  does — and  it  is  at  last  going  to  be 
next  year! — I  sure  will  be  there  with  the 
bells  on.  I  am  one  of  the  most  domestic 
of  wives;  haven't  even  been  to  Augusta  in 
over  a  year." 

Lucile  (Phippen)  Shingler's  husband  was 
moved  in  November  at  Methodist  confer- 
ence time  to  Andrews,  S.  C,  where  he  is  in 
charge  of  a  lovely  new  brick  church.  Lucile 
is  still  the  perfect  helpmeet,  for  when  her 
husband  came  down  with  flu  in  February, 
she  conducted  Wednesday  and  Sunday 
night  services  in  his  place.  She  has  sent  a 
picture  of  her  little  daughter  which  will  be 
used  in  a  later  issue  of  the  Quarterly. 

Catherine  Randolph  sailed  in  February 
for  an  eight  months  jaunt  in  Europe. 

Elizabeth  Shaw  writes:  "I  have  nothing 
very  thrilling  to  write  except  that  I  have 
just  been  down  to  Mountain  Lake  Park  to 
see  and  hear  the  Bok  bells  and  singing 
tower,  and  the  flowers  and  birds,  all  of 
which  are  lovely  beyond  description.  I'm 
still  teaching  Bible  and  Biology  in  the 
Gainesville  High  School.  My  little  sister, 
Jeannette,  who  is  a  Sophomore  at  Agnes 
Scott,  has  just  been  home  for  spring 
holidays,  bringing  three  girls  with  her,  and 
they  regaled  us  with  the  doings  of  the 
campus   now." 

Carolyn  (Smith)  Whipple  writes:  "I  am 
enclosing  two  snapshots  of  the  enfants 
terribles.  In  another  year  I'll  pass  them 
off  as  twins,  but  not  yet."  (And  the  snap- 
shots are  adorable!)  "Barbara  has  pro- 
gressed from  Mother  Goose  to  bedtime 
stories,  and  if  her  present  supply  of  energy 
keeps  up,  the  piles  of  work  at  Agnes  Scott 
should  be  very  simple.  I  hope  she  acquires 
more  respect  for  the  college  property  than 
she  has  so  far  for  mine.  We  are  on  the 
move  again — to  Waynesboro,  Ga.,  this 
time." 

Sarah  Tate  writes  from  Orlando,  Fla.: 
"Don't  call  me  a  voice  from  the  tomb,  al- 
though flu  has  almost  put  me  there  and 
still  keeps  me  from  instructing  the  coming 
citizens  of  Orlando.  .  .  .  The  Quarterly 
gets  more  and  more  interesting  as  the 
years  roll  round.  I  enjoy  them  thorough- 
ly, even  though  the  printer  got  a  few  lines 
mixed  up  last  time  and  almost  gave  me 
part   of    Frances    Tennent's    husband." 

Frances  (Tennent)  Ellis  was  busy  during 
March  with  the  Atlanta  Junior  League  pro- 
duction of  "The  Wizard  of  Oz." 

Eugenia  (Thompson)  Aiken  writes:  "My 
two  little  blonde  children  are  darlings — 
everyone  says  so,  and  you'd  better  an- 
nounce it  in  the  Quarterly  so  people  who 
haven't  seen  them  will  know.  Sonny-boy's 
birthday  was  November  1 — just  a  little  too 
late  for  Adele  Dieckman,  unless  Mrs. 
Dieckman  will  move  her  date  back  a  few 
days." 


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We  copy  this  item  from  the  Richmond, 
Va.,  Times-Dispatch  of  March  4,  where  it 
accompanied  a  lovely  picture  of  Poky.  "Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Richard  Cunningham  Wight  an- 
nounce the  engagement  of  their  daughter, 
Pocahontas  Wilson,  to  Mr.  Richard  Coles 
Edmunds,  of  Halifax,  Va.  Miss  Wight  is  a 
graduate  of  St.  Catherine's  School  and 
Agnes  Scott  College  and  spent  a  year  with 
Countess  Agnel  de  Bourbon  in  Paris  where 
she  studied  violin  under  Marcel  Chailly. 
Mr.  Edmunds  is  a  graduate  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia  and  a  member  of  the 
Kappa  Sigma  fraternity.  He  is  a  grand- 
son of  the  late  Judge  John  William  Reily 
of  Richmond." 

Elizabeth  (Woltz)  Currie  announces  the 
arrival  on  March  8  of  Mary  Elizabeth 
Currie.  "She  has  golden  hair  and  blue 
eyes  and  looks  exactly  like  her  father." 

Mary  (Breedlove)  Fleetwood,  ex  '25,  has 
moved  to  Charlotte,  N.  C,  and  is  living 
at   304    Queens   Road. 

Sarah  (Dunlap)  Bobbitt,  ex  '25,  writes 
that  she  has  a  house  full  of  children,  a 
yard  full  of  flowers,  and  what  more  could 
any  woman  want  to  make  her  happy?  "My 
lucky  children  have  two  sets  of  grand- 
parents living  right  here  in  Charlotte  so 
there  is  always  a  free  week-end  if  my  hus- 
band and  I  want  to  run  off  alone  for  a 
little  trip  together.  He  is  a  Civitan,  and 
I  am  sending  the  children  to  one  of  the 
grandparents  and  coming  to  Atlanta  with 
him  in  June  for  the  Civitan  national  con- 
vention." 

1926 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Lois  Bolles  writes:  "I  am  still  librarian 
of  the  Theology  Library  at  Emory.  The 
last  of  April  I  am  going  to  the  meeting 
of  the  Georgia  Library  Association  in 
Rome,  where  I  am  to  give  a  book  review. 
In  May  I  shall  probably  go  to  the  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Library  Association 
in   Washington." 

Mary  Dudley  Brown  has  gone  to  Miami 
Beach  for  several  months. 

Isabelle  Clarke  was  married  on  Febru- 
ary 20  to  Mr.  Max  Ernest  Morrison.  They 
are  living  at  58  Lombardy  Way,  Atlanta. 

"There  is  no  news  to  tell  about  myself," 
writes  Catherine  (Graeber)  Crowe.  "I  am 
still  happily  married,  teaching  Latin  in 
the  High  School.  I  did  have  diphtheria 
in  November:  pure  childishness.  Don't  tell 
anbody."     (So  we  publish  it  here.) 

Elise  Gay  writes  that  she  has  just  ac- 
cepted a  place  in  the  San  Antonio  schools, 
teaching  the  second  grade.  "I  like  it  fine 
and  get  lots  of  fun  out  of  my  twenty- 
seven  children  who  can  find  more  trouble 
to  get  into  than  I  could  imagine.  I  teach 
until  two  o'clock,  then  go  to  the  chemical 
laboratory  and  finish  the  day  and  also  on 
Saturdays;   so  one  can  see  I'm  busy." 


Juanita  Greer  will  probably  receive  her 
Ph.D.  this  year.  She  has  been  awarded 
the  A.  A.  U.  W.  scholarship  of  $1,000  to 
continue  her  work  at  Johns  Hopkins. 
Juanita  was  in  an  explosion  in  the  labor- 
atory in  April,  in  which  she  received  some 
very  painful  burns,  but  was  not  seriously 
injured,  although  the  Associated  Press  dis- 
patches in  the  newspapers  alarmed  her 
friends  a  great  deal. 

Gladys  Harbaugh  was  studying  clothing 
design  and  interior  decorating  at  Cornell 
before  Christmas.  She  came  home  for  the 
holidays,  had  flu  and  pneumonia  and  had 
to  stay  south.  She  writes:  "For  a  pas- 
time I  am  now  teaching  English  in  the 
Winter  Haven  High  School.  Expect  to  go 
back  to  Cornell  in  the  summer."  Gladys' 
address  has  changed  to  150  Ave.  O,  N.  E., 
Winter  Haven,  Fla. 

Helena  Hermance  visited  Lib  Lilly  in 
Winston-Salem  during  March.  Helena's 
family  has  moved  to  Washington. 

Sterling  Johnson  was  home  from  Phila- 
delphia for  the  spring  vacation  and  visited 
Agnes  Scott.  Another  Philadelphia  vis- 
itor at  that  time  on  the  campus  was  Miss 
Randolph,  formerly  of  the  gym  depart- 
ment. 

Emily  Jones  writes:  "This  is  my  third 
year  here  in  Palatka,  Fla.,  teaching  mathe- 
matics all  the  while.  I  started  work  on 
an  MA.  at  the  University  of  Florida  last 
summer  and  did  fellowship  teaching  in  the 
English  department  at  the  same  time.  Shall 
go  back  again  this  summer,  but  trans- 
ferred to  the  mathematical  division." 

Mary  (Knox)  Happoldt  is  working  with 
the  Retail  Credit  Company  in  Atlanta. 
They  have  an  iron-clad  rule  not  to  em- 
ploy married  women  and  when  one  of  their 
women  employees  marries  they  are  auto- 
matically dropped  from  the  pay-roll.  But 
not  so  with  Mary!  They  made  one  of 
their  extremely  rare  exceptions  and  begged 
her  to  stay. 

Nan  Lingle  is  studying  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago. 

In  response  to  Ellen  Fain's  plea  foi 
news  for  the  '26  column,  Elizabeth 
(Moore)  Harris  writes:  "I  do  hope  Ellen 
will  deem  homekeeping  as  'interesting,  ex- 
citing, and  beneficial,'  because  if  she  wont, 
then  I'm  not  doing  anything  worth  writ- 
ing about.  But  she  will  be  forced  to  ad- 
mit that  the  variety  of  things  I've  been 
doing  lately  such  as  waxing  floors,  wash- 
ing windows  and  painting  furniture  is 
bound  to  be  interesting;  is  apt  to  be  ex- 
citing, (especially  when  someone  thinks 
that  your  little  'bought'  decorations  on 
said  furniture  were  handpainted) ;  and  is 
certainly  beneficial  to  the  house.  But  I  do 
manage  to  find  time  for  an  almost  too 
active  group  of  eleven-year-old  camp  fire 
girls,  and  a  Sunday  school  class  the  same 


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age,  besides  doing  supply  teaching  in  the 
Decatur  schools  and  enjoying  occasional 
bridge  and  chess  games." 

Virginia  Peeler  writes:  "I  don't  know 
when  anything  has  given  me  as  big  a  thrill 
as  the  news  of  the  way  the  present  stu- 
dent body  'went  over  the  top'  for  the  cam- 
paign. The  alumnae  will  have  to  go  some 
to  keep  up.  Ne  wOrleans  is  rather  an 
interesting  and  thoroughly  unique  old  place 
and  I  really  am  quite  enjoying  my  work 
here.  Wish  it  were  just  a  little  nearer 
Decatur,  or  that  holidays  grew  on  trees, 
for  heaps  of  times  I'd  love  to  pop  in  for 
a  visit  at  the  Alumnae  House."  Virginia 
spent  her  Easter  vacation  in  Huntsville 
with  her  brother.  She  says  that  she  has 
a  month's  vacation  this  summer  and  will 
go  either  to  California  or  to  Massachu- 
setts, depending  on  the  whereabouts  of  her 
family  then. 

Ethel  (Redding)  Niblack's  husband  was 
hurt  in  a  polo  game  some  time  before 
Christmas  but  he  is  back  on  duty  now  at 
Fort  Bragg.  Ethel  writes:  "North  Caro- 
lina seems  to  be  full  of  old  Agnes  Scott 
girls.  I  hope  to  look  up  some  of  them 
soon.  I  actually  would  not  know  where 
any  of  the  alumnae  are  now  if  it  weren't 
for  that  delightful   Quarterly." 

Sarah  Slaughter  and  Eleanor  Albright, 
'27,  live  right  next  door  in  Whittier  Hall 
in  New  York.  Sarah  has  been  enjoying 
(?)  a  rest  in  the  Teachers  College  in- 
firmary on  account  of  a  cold  and  sore 
throat,  and  poor  Eleanore  was  not  even 
allowed  to  peep  at  her.  "Sarah's  germs 
must  have  been  surprisingly  capable  of 
both  broad  and  high  jumping,  because  the 
demon  nurses  of  the  infirmary  wouldn't 
let  me  stand  in  the  door  even.  Their  only 
concession  was  to  let  us  supply  her  with 
ice  cream." 

Virginia  (Wing)  Power  lives  in  the  Fort 
Wood  Apartments,   Chattanooga. 

Mary  Frances  Conner,  ex  '26,  was  mar- 
ried on  October  last  to  Mr.  Dean  Black- 
mon,  a  lumberman  of  Eufaula,  Ala. 

Olive  Hall,  ex  '26,  has  just  been  made 
managing  editor  of  the  monthly  magazine 
of  Civitan  International.  The  national 
Civitan  convention  is  to  be  held  in  Atlanta 
in  June  and  for  the  next  two  months  Olive 
will  probably  be  the  busiest  person  in 
the  United  States  preparing  for  the  vis- 
iting brethren   and   their  wives. 

Elizabeth  Klutz,  ex  '26,  is  now  Mrs.  Bob 
Yowell,  34  Tacoma,  Montford  Hills,  Ashe- 
ville,  N.  C.  Mr.  Yow«ll  is  manager  of 
the  Nu-Grape  company. 

Sarah  McKenzie,  ex  '26,  is  teaching  at 
Ensley  High  School,  Ensley,  Ala. 
1927 

Next  class  reunion,  1930. 

Eleanore  Albright,  Mary  Riviere  and 
Mary  Ray  Dobyns  are  going  to  be  coun- 


cillors at  Camp  Tapawingo  in  Maine  this 
summer.  Eleanore  is  to  be  in  charge  of 
canoeing. 

Evelyn  Albright  writes:  "I  am  still  en- 
joying life  as  a  small  town  school  teacher. 
Am  as  crazy  about  Chipley  as  I  was  last 
year.  My  family  think  I  have  deserted 
them:  I  never  go  home.  Our  basketball 
team  beat  up  the  North  Avenue  Presby- 
terian School  girls  not  long  ago,  and  we 
are  still  very  elated  over  that." 

Reba  (Bayless)  Boyer  is  living  in 
Athens,  Tenn.,  and  finding  housekeeping 
an  all  absorbing  occupation.  Reba  says: 
"You  know  cooking  is  akin  to  chemistry 
anyway.  I  just  pretend  I'm  doing  an  ex- 
periment— and  I  usually  am!" 

Leila  Bell  is  teaching  at  Brunswick,  Ga., 
again  this  year.  Her  address  is  2  Brailey 
Apartment. 

Emma  Bernhardt  says  she  is  leading  the 
life  of  a  poor  working  girl  in  the  catalogu- 
ing department  of  the  Atlanta  Library. 
Just  recently  she  has  catalogued  an  es- 
pecially interesting  collection  of  rather  old 
volumes. 

Blanche  Berry,  who  has  always  lived  in 
beautiful  Virginia  where  flowers  tumble 
all  over  the  fences  and  little  walks,  writes 
with  indignation  that  daffodils  in  New 
York  are  two  for  a  quarter.  "How  much 
cheaper  and  sweeter  is  Decatur!" 

Josephine  Bridgman  says  the  poor  lit- 
tle children  she  teaches  have  no  I.  Q.'s 
and  how  can  she  get  a  proper  curve?  Jo 
writes:  "And  to  think  I  have  been  en- 
couraging all  of  them  to  become  president 
of  these  United  States  and  they  were 
never  intended  for  anything  but  street 
sweepers  and  soda-jerkers,  if  that." 

Georgia  Mae  (Burns)  Bristow  is  quite 
willing  to  recommend  married  life  to  all 
her  friends.  Georgia  Mae  incidentally 
finds  time  for  Red  Cross  work,  some  sub- 
stitute teaching,  Civic  League  activities, 
and  a  regular  part-time  position  as  li- 
brarian, of  which  she  is  particularly  fond. 
She  also  confesses  to  being  a  "small  town 
club  woman"  with  a  Music  Club,  Literary 
Club  and  Bridge  Club  to  occupy  what 
spare  time  she  has.  Who  could  wish  for 
a  busier  program  ? 

Frances  (Chambers)  Wing  lives  at  the 
Wing's  old  colonial  home,  Bulloch  Hall, 
at  Roswell,  Ga. 

Lib  (Clark)  Young  is  the  best  one  on 
scouting  for  alumnae  news  and  Polly  will 
be  interested  in  Lib's  proposed  invention 
of  dynamite  ink,  guaranteed  to  shake  a 
response  out  of  the  class  of  '27.  Lib  is 
at  present  interested  in  collecting  old  coins, 
dabbling  with  paint  brushes  and  bright 
colors,  and  keeping  an  eye  on  interior 
decorating  schemes  for  the  perfect  home 
of  the  future.  Mr.  Young  is  connected 
with  Coca  Cola  business  in  West  Point. 


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Mildred  Cowan  writes:  "I  am  teaching 
French  and  Latin  at  Chamblee  High  School 
near  home.  Paint  on  Saturday  morning, 
teach  Sunday  School,  and  do  Young  Peo- 
ple's work  on  Sunday  night.  Have  been 
keeping  house  for  dad  part  of  the  time. 
Just  now,  I'm  going  to  make  a  flying  trip 
to  Atlanta;  I  have  such  a  little  time  to 
go  there  this  year." 

And  from  Martha  Crowe:  "Registra- 
tion, trying  to  have  high  and  mighty  Co- 
lumbia professors  approve  schedules, 
working  on  my  thesis,  etc.,  have  absorbed 

my  time   lately I   had   such   a   sweet 

note  from  Lila  Porcher  several  weeks  ago 
telling  me  about  her  sister  who  lives  here 
in  New  York.     She  is  an  artist  and  has  a 

studio  on  74th  street The  Ramage  twins 

and  I  are  going  to  see  Lynn  Fontaine  in 
'Caprice'  Saturday.  The  twins  are  plan- 
ning to  go  home  in  a  few  weeks,  and  I 
do  hate  to  see  them  go.  They've  been 
mighty  good  old  Agnes  Scotters  to  bum 
around  with."  The  biggest  and  best  news 
from  Martha  is  that  she  is  to  be  in  the 
French  department  at  Agnes  Scott  next 
year,  taking  Margaret  Bland's  place  while 
she  is  away  on  leave. 

Emilie  (Ehrlich)  Strasburger  writes: 
"Teaching  school  has  just  about  forced 
me  to  give  up  my  friends  in  town,  and 
out  of  town.  Those  in  town,  I  scarcely 
ever  see,  and  those  away,  I  never  have 
time  to  write.  I  received  a  promotion  in 
February,  and  now  I  am  teaching  English 
in  Junior  High  School.  Miss  McKinney's 
influence  is  indelible.  Teaching  morals  to 
that  mob  of  high  school  boys  doesn't  come 
under  the  head  of  English,  but  is  abso- 
lutely and  essentially  a  prerequisite. 
Anne  sends  me  the  Agonistic  every  week 
and  except  for  the  names  that  appear  on 
its  pages,  I  almost  feel  that  I  am  still  at 
Agnes  Scott." 

Valerie  Folts  is  teaching  in  the  high 
school  at  Sale  Creek,  Tenn. 

Marcia  Green,  Mae  Erskine  Irvine,  and 
Mary  Collyer  Johnson,  ex  '27,  are  plan- 
ning that  European  tour  for  this  summer, 
and  in  the  meantime  are  teaching  their 
heads  off  as  a  means  to  an  end.  Both 
Mae  Erskine  and  Mary  Collyer  have  to 
rise  at  dawn  and  be  at  school  by  seven, 
for  the  High  School  in  Tuscumbia  burned 
and  they  must  needs  hold  two  sessions  a 
day  in  the  junior  high. 

Ann  Heys  is  at  home  this  year  in  Ameri- 
cus,  Ga. 

Elsa  Jacobsen  is  still  engaged  in  forty- 
seven  different  projects  in  her  Girl  Reserve 
work,  to  say  nothing  of  her  housekeeping 
duties  these  days  in  the  apartment  which 
she  and  two  other  girls  share. 

Pearl  Kunnes  is  doing  stenographic  work 
with   the   Hauson   Fabrics   people   in  New 


York  City.  Her  business  address  is  110 
Grand  Street. 

Ida  Landau  is  working  in  the  laboratory 
of  the  Knickerbocker  Hospital,  70  Con- 
vent Ave.,  New  York  City. 

Louise  Leonard  is  teaching  in  Spartan- 
burg, S.  C,  her  home  town. 

Carolina  McCall  plans  to  visit  Lib 
(Clark)  Young  in  West  Point  in  April. 
C'nina  spent  part  of  March  in  Florida. 

Polly  McLeod  is  teaching  French  and 
Latin  in  Luverne,  Ala.  She  recently  vis- 
ited Frances  Dobbs  in  Gadsden. 

Lib  (Norfleet)  Miller  has  been  taking 
care  of  her  parents'  home  while  they  were 
on  a  Caribbean  cruise.  Susie  Jones,  ex 
'27,  visited  her  during  March. 

Miriam  Preston  will  sail  the  10th  of 
May  for  America.  She  is  coming  by  Eu- 
rope this  time  and  will  arrive  during  the 
summer  to  begin  work  on  her  master's 
degree  at  an  American  university. 

Frances  Rainey  joined  her  family  in 
New  Orleans  for  spring  vacation.  Frances 
and  her  sister  will  study  in  New  York  this 
summer,  living  with  Willie  White  Smith 
in   her   apartment. 

"My,  but  I'd  like  to  drop  into  the  tea- 
room for  a  cup  of  Laurie's  coffee  once  in 
a  while  and  hear  ye  campus  news,"  writes 
Willie  White  Smith.  "You'll  be  so 
changed,  so  elegant,  so  expanded,  by  the 
time  I  get  back  that  I  shan't  feel  at  home. 
This  winter  I  have  been  having  a  great 
old  time  instructing  ambitious  premeds  in 
the  mysteries  of  earth-worm  digestion, 
and  studying  with  meds  the  same  thing, 
except  in  cats  instead  of  worms.  I'm  not 
making  tremendous  strides  toward  knowl- 
edge, wealth,  or  fame,  but  get  quite  a 
kick  out  of  life  as  is!  It's  good  to  have 
so  many  Agnes  Scott  girls  around,  and 
there  are  hordes  of  southerners  in  New 
York  always." 

Ro  Winter  is  teaching  in  Athens,  Tenn., 
and  has  gained  the  name  of  "Battling 
Roberta."  It  is  a  little  hard  to  imagine 
gentle  Daddy  Longlegs  with  such  a  nick- 
name. Reba  reports  Roberta  to  be  a  very 
popular  young  lady  in  Athens. 

Virginia  Baird,  ex  '27,  is  studying  music 
at  home  in  Asheville. 

Martha  Rose  (Childress)  Ferris,  ex  '27, 
is  still  attending  the  University  of  Ten- 
nessee. She  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Knoxville  Junior  League  and  is  secretary 
of  a  Cotillion  club. 

Mary  Davis  Guerrant,  ex  '27,  is  teach- 
ing this  year. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Hutchison,  ex  '27,  is 
studying  art  in  New  York. 

Mary  Collyer  Johnson's  mother  died  re- 
cently after  years   of  invalidism. 

Nancy  Lou  (Knight)  Narmore's  baby 
has  red  hair  and  is  named  Phyllis  May 
for  her  daddy,  Phil  Narmore. 


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39 


Edith  Richards,  ex  '27,  is  teaching  in 
the  Mobile,  Ala.,  high  school. 

Mary  Speir,  ex  '27,  is  librarian  for  four 
of  the  Charlotte,  N.  C,  public  schools. 

Roberta  (Thomas)  McKeel's  little  son  is 
almost  a  year  old. 

1928 

Next  class  reunion,  this  very  May!  We 
simply  couldn't  wait  any  longer  to  come 
back — some  of  us  haven't  waited  this  long! 
But  put  on  your  bonnet,  '28-ers,  about 
May  24th  and  come  to  our  first  alumnae 
reunion  at  Agnes  Scott.  We  are  going 
to  show  those  old-timers  what  a  reunion 
can  be! 

Sallie  Abernethy  visited  Agnes  Scott  in 
March  and  went  home  to  Arkansas  for 
spring  vacation  with  Hazel  and  Helon 
Brown.  "Skid"  Morgan  and  Jean  Lamont 
went  with  the  Brown  twins,  also.  Sallie 
is  in  Washington  now  as  a  page  at  the 
D.  A.  R.  convention. 

Harriet  Alexander  visited  in  Atlanta 
and  at  Agnes  Scott  in  April. 

Eunice  Ball  has  been  out  of  school  for 
some  time  with  a  bad  case  of  flu. 

Martha  Brown  was  a  page  at  the  North 
Carolina  D.  A.  R.  convention  in  March 
in  Winston-Salem.  Martha  attended  the 
Agnes  Scott  dinner  given  at  the  country 
club  by  the  Winston-Salem   alumnae. 

Frances  Brown  writes  that  she  will  not 
tackle  her  preliminary  oral  exams  until 
the  fall.  She  expects  to  finish  her  work 
in  organic  chemistry  about  Easter,  and 
then  start  on  advanced  work  in  organic. 
Johns  Hopkins  has  again  awarded  the 
Virginia  scholarship  to  Frances  for  the 
excellent  work  she  has  done  in  the  Chem- 
istry department  there  this  past  year. 

Virginia  Carrier  began  her  work  as  Girl 
Reserve  secretary  of  the  High  Point  Y. 
W.  C.  A.  in  February.  "Ginger's"  address 
is  care  Mr.  J.  M.  S.  Salsbury,  Roland  Park, 
High  Point,  N.  C.  She  writes:  "Just  at 
present  I  am  hard  at  work  trying  to  figure 
out  how  I  can  feed  fourteen  people  on 
little  or  nothing.  I  am  afraid  Agnes  Scott 
didn't  give  me  so  much  to  work  on  there. 
And  today  I  have  a  terrible  charley  horse 
from  four  hours  of  baseball  yesterday. 
But  the  work  here  is  coming  fine  and  I 
love  it.  Miss  Randolph  left  yesterday.  It 
was  so  good  to  see  her  again." 

"So  often  I  think  of  dear  old  Aggie  and 
long  to  be  back,"  writes  Sarah  Currie, 
"although  I  am  thoroughly  enjoying  my 
work  here  this  year.  Last  fall  I  took  a 
course  in  laboratory  and  X-ray  technique, 
finishing  a  six-months  course  in  four 
months,  (thanks  to  Miss  Mac's  stiff  re- 
quirements in  the  Agnes  Scott  biology  de- 
partment) and  am  now  working  at  High- 
smith  Hospital,  Fayetteville,  N.  C,  doing 
some  lab  and  X-ray.  I'm  also  illustrative 
artist   of   operations,   all   of  which   I   like 


fine." 

Betsey  Davidson  is  at  home  in  Lexing- 
ton, Va.  Betsey  is  a  splendid  news  gather- 
er and  is  responsible  for  more  than  one 
of  the  news  items  in  this  Quarterly. 

Mary  Ray  Dobyns  writes  that  she  and 
Mary  Riviere  and  Eleanore  Albright  are 
going  to  be  councillors  at  Camp  Tapa- 
wingo  in  Maine  this  summer.  "I  don't 
know  exactly  what  Mary's  job  is — some- 
thing about  singing.  Mine  is  playing  for 
dancing  and  helping  with  swimming.  It's 
quite  a  spiffy  place,  judging  from  what 
Mary  wrote  me  about.  She  met  the  di- 
rector up  there  in  New  York  and  told  me 
to  apply  for  the  job.  I  did,  and  got  it. 
I  am  planning  to  visit  Agnes  Scott  for 
grand  opera  week." 

And  from  Cuba  comes  this  interesting 
letter  from  Betty  Fuller:  "I  am  really 
so  far  out  of  the  world  now  that  I  can 
hardly  realize  that  there  is  one.  I  am 
teaching  school  out  in  a  sugar  central  a 
million  miles  from  nowhere  and  enjoying 
life  immensely,  except  that  I  crave  to 
spend  some  money.  I  haven't  seen  any- 
thing new  in  months  and  some  barbarian 
just  robbed  the  mail  and  took  my  one  and 
only  new  Easter  gown  which  was  coming 
from  Havana.  Contrary  to  popular  opin- 
ion, I  don't  have  to  wear  grass  skirts  with 
palm  leaf  trimmings,  however.  I'd  dearly 
love  to  be  at  Agnes  Scott  and  watch  the 
spring  come,  but  I  fear  it  will  be  years 
before  I  climb  out  of  the  jungle.  I  can't 
come  back  myself  but  I  am  trying  to  send 
you  folks  a  new  pupil.  From  all  I  can 
judge  she  is  just  the  type  that  Agnes  Scott 
wants  and  that  will  be  happy  there." 

Margaret  Gerig  is  off  for  a  trip  to  Eu- 
rope and  the  Holy  Land.  Her  father 
writes  from  Jerusalem:  "Oh,  for  a  nice 
luncheon  as  served  by  your  good  tea  room! 
Margaret  and  I  are  having  a  wonderful 
trip,  but  will  be  glad  to  get  into  Europe 
as  we  do  not  particularly  care  for  this 
heterogenous  mass  of  people  in  the  East." 

Olive  Graves  is  teaching  French  in  the 
Trousdale  County  High  School.  She 
writes:  "Indeed  I  am  planning  to  come 
back  commencement.  Like  several  of  the 
other  Hottentots,  I  have  had  the  flu  since 
Christmas.  I  went  to  bed  as  soon  as  I 
gave  my  last  exam  and  was  out  of  school 
two  weeks,  which  threw  me  very  late  get- 
ting in  grades,  etc.  I  can  certainly  sym- 
pathize with  the  teachers  now — having  to 
grade  papers  and  translate  the  various 
handwritings.  I  teach  all  the  high  school 
pupils  except  the  sophomores,  and  besides 
that  I  have  two  eighth  grade  classes.  My 
subjects  are  French  and  Civics  in  the  high 
school  and  English  and  History  in  the 
eighth  grade.  I've  recently  acquired  horn- 
rimmed specs  and  am  a  true  school  marm. 
I  saw  Elizabeth  Roark  a  few  days  before 


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Christmas  in  Nashville  and  it  certainly  did 
seem  good  to  see  someone  from  Agnes 
Scott.  And  I  ran  into  Miss  Wilburn  on 
a  crowded  street  of  Christmas  shoppers 
in  Nashville." 

Rachel  Henderlite  has  a  part-time  job 
in  the  library  at  Gastonia,  N.  C. 

Josephine  Houston  is  at  home  this  win- 
ter in  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Lillian  LeConte  is  assistant  buyer  in 
the  glove  department  of  Davison-Paxon's 
in  Atlanta. 

Mary  Bell  McConkey  writes  that  she  is 
working  from  nine  to  six  in  the  St.  Louis 
library,  running  all  day  with  her  tongue 
hanging  out,  lugging  out  encyclopedias 
and  what-nots  for  the  general  public,  and 
more  dead  than  alive  when  she  gets  home 
at  night.  "Library  School  closes  June  15 
and  I'm  going  to  Europe  with  my  sister 
in  Nell  Buchanan's  party,  sailing  June 
22nd." 

Ermine  Malone  visited  Agnes  Scott  in 
February. 

Mary  Jane  McCoy  and  her  mother  drove 
down  from  Ohio  before  Christmas  and 
spent  December  and  part  of  January  driv- 
ing through  Florida  and  over  in  Cuba. 
They  stopped  by  Agnes  Scott  on  their 
way  home  with  a  harrowing  tale  of  being 
stopped  by  revenue  officers  outside  of 
Macon,  and  accused  of  being  rum-run- 
ners. 

"My  work  this  year  has  been  delight- 
ful, and  of  course,  my  music  pupils  are 
my  pride  and  joy,"  writes  Virginia  Miller, 
who  is  teaching  piano  and  voice  at  the 
Union  District  High  School  at  Union,  W. 
Va. 

Lila  Porcher's  new  address  is  U.  S. 
Coast  Guard  Depot,   Curtis  Bay,   Md. 

Margaret  Rice  is  making  her  debut  in 
Texas  at  the  home  of  her  army  officer 
uncle. 

Martha  (Rilev)  Stephenson  lives  at  1073 
W.  Peachtree  St.,  Apt.  10,  Atlanta. 

Elizabeth  Ruff  is  cadeting  in  the  public 
school  system  in  St.  Petersburg,  Fla. 

Rosaltha  Sanders  is  doing  splendid  work 
in  the  Biology  department  at  Yale  this 
year.  She  writes:  "The  weather  here  has 
been  extremely  mild,  quite  contrary  to 
what  I  expected.  We  have  had  only  one 
real  fall  of  snow,  and  that  stayed  on  the 
ground  just  a  day  or  two.  I  have  been 
down  to  New  York  for  several  week-ends; 
the  second  one — in  December — was  spent 
very  pleasantly  with  Willie  White  Smith." 

Mary  Shepherd  writes:  "We  have  just 
gotten  back  to  Tennessee  after  five  months 
absence.  We  have  been  in  Mississippi, 
Texas,  and  Colorado.  Now,  wouldn't  you 
think  that  we'd  stay  at  home  for  a  while? 
But  no,  we  are  packing  up  this  very  min- 
ute for  nearly  a  year's  stay  in  the  far 
west."     Mary   will    get   mail    sent   to    532 


Equitable  Bldg.,  Denver,   Colo. 

Mary  Shewmaker  was  a  visitor  at  Agnes 
Scott  this  spring  when  she  came  down  to 
be  in  her  cousin's  wedding  in  Atlanta. 

Eleanor  Bennett  is  Mrs.  Warlick,  and 
is  living  in  New  York  City. 

Helen  Daher's  engagement  has  been  an- 
nounced to  Mr.  Fenton  Wilbur  Williams, 
the  wedding  to  take  place  April  30. 

Josephine  Huntley  is  at  home  in  Wins- 
ton-Salem this  winter. 

Blanche  Guffin  was  married  last  Sep- 
tember to  Mr.  Amos  Alsobrook,  Georgia 
Tech  graduate,  now  connected  with  the 
Proctor  and  Gamble  Company  in  Cincin- 
nati. Blanche  has  enjoyed  her  first  win- 
ter with  snow,  but  she  dropped  out  of 
things  long  enough  at  Christmas  time  to 
have  an  operation  for  appendicitis.  Her 
address  is  6268  Savannah  Ave.,  Cincin- 
nati. 

Eveiyn  Wood  has  done  splendid  work 
at  the  University  of  Alabama,  both  for 
her  degree,  and  in  her  teaching  in  the  gym 
department.  She  is  instructor  in  folk 
dancing  and  in  indoor  athletics,  and  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  girls 
on  the  campus.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Kappa  Delta  fraternity  there. 


CAMP  NIKWASI  FOR  ADULTS 
Franklin,  N.  C. 

Swimming,  riding,  tennis,  canoeing 
and  golf. 

Get  your  old  schoolmates  together 
and  come  to  camp  for  rest  and  play. 

For   further   information   write   to 

Miss  Laura  M.  Jones 

128  Forest  Rd.,  Raleigh,  N.  C, 

or 

Miss  Carrie  Curie  Sinclair, 

Agnes  Scott  College 


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Commencement  and  class  reunions,  will  be 
published  the  middle  of  June.  Where  will 
you  be  then?  Remember,  second  class  mail 
is  not  forwarded!  If  your  June  address  is 
different  from  the  one  on  the  envelope  of 
this  April  Quarterly,  notify  the  alumnae 
office  of  the  change. 


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It's  the  College  That  We  Love  Most! 


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Oh,  Alumna,  we  count  on  you! 


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THE  PRESIDENT'S  PAGE 

OUR  GREATEST  ENDORSEMENT 

The  College  we  love  has  had  many  forms  of  recognition  and  of  endorsement  in  our 
relatively  short  collegiate  history;  but  the  very  best  of  all  came  at  this  commencement. 
It  is  fine  to  have  learned  organizations  and  great  scholars  to  "pat  us  on  the  back," 
figuratively  speaking,  and  we  have  had  our  share  of  such;  but  when  a  very  discriminating 
Board  approves  our  standards,  and  in  addition  votes  an  appropriation  of  a  half  million 
dollars  to  help  us  in  carrying  on,  it  surely  is  news  easy  to  read. 

Wherever  Agnes  Scott  people  meet  President  Trevor  Arnett,  of  the  General  Educa- 
tion Board,  I  hope  we  may  give  him  a  cordial  greeting  and  a  word  of  appreciation,  for 
he  has  done  a  most  unusual  thing  in  getting  an  offer  of  $500,000  for  our  campaign. 
In  the  first  place,  the  Board  has  repeatedly  declared  itself  out  of  the  college  field  of 
philanthropy;  and  Agnes  Scott  was  made  a  clear  exception  to  the  general  policy.  The 
size  of  the  proposed  gift  is  also  unusual,  for  the  largest  sum  ever  given  us  before  was 
$175,000,  and  that  was  above  the  general  average  of  college  grants.  It  is  remarkable 
also  that  we  are  allowed  to  use  the  money  for  building  or  land  or  improvements  of  any 
kind,  for  heretofore  the  Board  has  required  its  gifts  to  be  used  exclusively  for  endowment. 

We  would  appreciate  the  support  from  whatever  source  it  might  come,  but  it  is 
specially  valuable  since  the  General  Education  Board  spends  no  money  without  the  fullest 
investigation.  Agnes  Scott  has  been  scrutinized  and  visited  by  the  best  experts,  and  the 
unqualified  endorsement  and  support  ought  to  make  us  very  thankful.  Also  we  will 
certainly  want  to  do  our  full  part  in  showing  that  we  deserve  the  offer  that  has  been 
made. 

We  were  supposed  to  have  not  less  than  $600,000  pledged  before  the  Board  made  us 
a  grant,  but  we  got  only  $567,500.  We  must  get  pledges  for  the  difference  before  July 
1st  of  this  year.  The  time  is  short,  and  we  must  have  help  in  getting  the  subscriptions. 
If  you  have  suggestions  as  to  good  prospects,  please  let  us  know. 

If  the  $600,000  is  fully  subscribed  on  time,  then  the  Board  will  begin  to  make 
payments  on  half  their  promise,  sending  their  checks  just  as  rapidly  as  we  collect  from 
other  friends.  This  is  another  instance  of  the  generosity  shown  by  the  Board,  for  its 
normal  requirement  would  be  to  have  us  raise  the  entire  $1,000,000  before  it  would 
give  a  single  penny  of  cash. 

j.  r.  McCain. 


We  Must  Meet  This  Generous  Offer 


Oh,  Alumnae,  We  Count  on  You! 


4  The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 

NEW  ORLEANS  CONVENTION  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION  OF  UNIVERSITY  WOMEN— MAY,  1929 

By  LUCILE  ALEXANDER 

Feeling  yourself  an  integral  part  of  a  gathering  of  six  hundred  and  sixty-five  uni- 
versity -women  from  the  four  corners  of  the  earth,  many  of  whom  are  international 
figures,  all  of  whom  are  inspired  by  the  common  purpose  of  advancing  the  intellectual 
and  professional  interests  of  women,  is  a  thrill  that  I  covet  for  every  Agnes  Scott  alumna. 
There  was  first  the  inspiration  that  comes  from  contact  with  women  who  have  achieved: 
Miss  Woolley,  president  of  the  association,  presided  with  that  dignity,  that  tolerant 
spirit,  that  intellectual  grasp  of  an  intricate  problem  that  reassures  as  to  woman's  fitness 
to  moderate  a  meeting;  Mrs.  William  Lamb,  a  charming  English  woman  who  claims  New 
Orleans  as  her  home  and  who  was  the  official  parliamentarian  of  the  meeting,  was  an 
interesting  figure;  Mrs.  Aurelia  Reinhardt,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  International 
Relations,  inspired  even  the  most  apathetic  by  her  dynamic  personality;  Dr.  Agnes 
Rogers  of  Bryn  Mawr,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Fellowship  Awards,  by  putting 
into  all  she  said  and  did  her  impressive  Scotch  personality,  succeeded  in  kindling  new 
enthusiasm  in  the  Million  Dollar  Fellowship  Fund;  Dr.  Ellen  Gleditsch  of  the  University 
of  Oslo,  Norway,  president  of  the  International  Federation  of  University  Women,  who 
was  an  inspiring  example  of  what  a  woman  may  achieve  in  scientific  research. 

Then  there  was  the  inspiration  of  worth-while  things  undertaken  by  thirty-thousand 
college  trained  women:  The  association,  by  an  accredited  list  of  colleges  and  universities 
works  for  the  maintenance  of  high  standards  in  institutions  admitting  women,  requiring 
not  only  academic  excellence  but  recognition  of  women  in  the  faculty  and  in  the 
administration,  as  well  as  adequate  provision  for  health,  housing  and  social  life  of 
women  students;  through  its  Educational  Secretary,  the  association  suggests  and  directs 
educational  work  undertaken  by  the  local  branches,  and  through  the  International  Rela- 
tions Committee  it  supplies  material  for  this  important  study;  as  a  member  of  the  Inter- 
national Federation  of  University  Women,  the  Association  participates  in  a  program 
which  includes  the  creating  of  international  fellowships,  the  exchange  of  professors, 
the  exchange  of  information  and  hospitality,  and  a  triennial  conference. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  and  helpful  features  of  the  New  Orleans  program  was 
the  afternoon  discussion  groups.  The  most  interesting  to  Agnes  Scott  alumnae  was  led 
by  Dr.  Leslie  Marston,  a  young  college  president,  who  discussed  the  crisis  faced  by  the 
liberal  arts  college,  in  danger  of  being  crushed  between  the  upper  and  nether  millstones, 
the  University  and  the  Junior  College.  With  rare  understanding  and  balance,  he  showed 
that  to  the  liberal  arts  college  alone  we  are  to  look  for  leadership,  for  the  realization 
of  the  original  meaning  of  the  word  "school" — leisure,  creative  leisure.  For  this  reason 
he  considers  it  an  ill-advised  policy  to  clog  the  college  curriculum  with  vocational  courses 
or  even  with  "orientation"  courses,  since  the  function  of  the  entire  curriculum  is  orien- 
tation. He  showed  that  there  is  no  necessary  conflict  between  culture  and  vocation  and 
that  it  should  be  the  aim  of  the  college  to  place  vocation  in  the  larger  scheme  of  things. 
The  danger  that  threatens  the  liberal  ideal  of  the  college  is  the  tendency  to  make  of  the 
college  a  university  in  embryo,  is  the  desire  to  train  specialists. 

You  will  be  pleased  to  know  that  Agnes  Scott  was  well  represented  at  the  New 
Orleans  gathering:  Sue  Hill,  now  of  the  University  of  Florida,  represented  the  Gaines- 
ville, Fla.,  branch;  Cora  (Connett)  Ozenberger,  president  of  the  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  branch 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  members,  her  branch;  Louise  (Buchanan)  Proctor  the 
Birmingham,  Ala.,  branch;  Virginia  Peeler,  the  Agnes  Scott  Alumnae  Association.  Two 
former  Agnes  Scott  professors  were  members  of  the  convention:  Mrs.  Brown,  formerly 
Miss  Morrow  of  the  Latin  department,  and  Mrs.  Brannon,  formerly  Miss  Lytle  of  the 
English  department.  But  the  proudest  recognition  of  Agnes  Scott  was  the  award  to 
Juanita  Greer,  '26,  of  the  Boston  Alumnae  Fellowship  to  enable  her  to  continue  her 
research  at  Hopkins  after  she  earns  her  Ph.D.  in  June. 


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In  the  reports  from  the  sections,  however,  the  southeastern  section  did  not  make 
a  good  showing  either  in  membership,  organization,  or  activities.  As  Agnes  Scott  alumnae 
we  can  not  escape  a  large  share  of  the  blame,  for  our  Alma  Mater  is  certainly  one  of  the 
outstanding  colleges  of  the  section.  Your  degree  from  Agnes  Scott  gives  you  many 
privileges:  the  privilege  of  associating  yourself  with  women  from  the  one  hundred 
and  fifty-eight  approved  colleges  in  the  discovery  and  development  of  talent  for  re- 
search and  of  making  possible  for  women  the  opportunities  that  men  have  enjoyed  for 
generations;  of  enjoying  the  advantages  of  the  Washington  Club  House  and,  as  members 
of  the  International  Federation  of  the  European  Club  House;  of  being  eligible  to  graduate 
fellowships;  of  repaying  in  some  measure  your  college  debt  by  using  your  influence  for 
advancing  the  educational  and  professional  interests  of  women.  Your  degree  opens 
wide  the  door.     Won't  you  come  in? 


COMMENCEMENT  WEEK-END.  MAY  25-28 

BY  AN  ALUMNA  WHO  CAME  BACK 

The  40th  commencement  at  Agnes  Scott  was  an  unusually  happy  one,  owing  to  the 
announcement  made  then  by  Dr.  McCain  that  our  efforts  to  interest  the  General  Edu- 
cation Board  of  New  York  in  the  college  development  program  have  been  successful, 
and  that  they  have  promised  us  a  gift  of  half  a  million  dollars,  if  we  ourselves  will  give 
and  raise  a  million.  This  gift  assures  the  future  of  our  college,  and  we  who  love  Agnes 
Scott  so  dearly  are  grateful  and  happy.  All  alumnae  and  friends  of  the  college  present  at 
the  announcement  were  deeply  thrilled  at  the  announcement,  and  resolved  to  redouble 
their  efforts  in  the  raising  of  the  million  dollars. 

Dr.  McCain  reported  our  progress  in  the  development  campaign.  Faculty  and 
students  have  pledged  more  than  $80,000,  and  the  alumnae  have  already  gone  beyond 
the  $70,000  mark.  Future  classes  at  Agnes  Scott  want  to  have  a  hand  in  this  too!  A 
letter  was  read  from  little  Caroline  Orr,  one-year-old  granddaughter  of  Chairman  J.  K. 
Orr,  of  the  trustees,  sending  a  check  for  $100  in  order  that  "her  class  of  1949"  in  which 
she  expects  to  graduate  at  Agnes  Scott  may  be  the  first  one  fully  paid  up.  "Ka'line"  is 
the  mascot  of  the  senior  class  this  year. 

Mr.  Charles  S.  McCain,  president  of  the  National  Park  Bank  of  New  York,  was 
to  deliver  the  commencement  address  on  Tuesday  morning,  but  at  the  last  minute  was 
unavoidably  detained  in  New  York.  Mr.  Arthur  McCain,  vice-president  of  the  same 
bank,  was  sent  to  read  Mr.  McCain's  already  prepared  speech  on  "Women  in  Business." 
He  traced  the  changes  in  attitude  regarding  women  from  the  time  they  were  mere 
butterflies  and  playthings  of  men  through  the  stages  of  development  to  the  present 
position  of  equality.  He  emphasized  the  fact  that  women  are  passing  from  the  level 
of  typists  and  mere  helpers  to  that  of  administrators  and  executives,  citing  the  illustra- 
tion that  recently  the  merging  of  two  railroad  systems,  with  all  the  complications  of 
modern  problems,  was  heard  by  a  woman  examiner  for  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission. 

Alumnae  events  during  commencement  are  always  started  off  "with  a  bang"  by 
the  trustees'  luncheon  to  the  alumnae,  faculty,  and  senior  class  on  Saturday.  The  entire 
morning  before  the  luncheon  was  taken  up  with  the  meeting  of  the  Alumnae  Association 
executive  committee,  executive  council,  and  annual  general  meeting.  (Our  annual 
alumnae  baby  party  on  Friday  had  to  be  called  off  on  account  of  a  whooping-cough 
epidemic    in    Decatur.) 

From  far  and  wide  they  flocked  back!  The  long,  flower-laden,  tables  in  Rcbccka 
Scott  dining  room  were  filled  with  alumnae  from  the  very  first  years  of  the  Institute  to 
the  95  graduates  of  1929.  In  the  absence  of  Mr.  Orr,  Dr.  McCain  acted  as  master 
of  ceremonies  for  the  luncheon.  There  were  speeches  and  more  speeches,  the  reunion 
classes  were  asked  "to  arise  and  display  their  great  size,"  and  then  there  were  more 
speeches.     We  remember  especially  that  of  the  senior  class  president,  Helon  Brown,  who, 


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not  only  was  not  overawed  by  sitting  among  trustees  and  other  dignitaries  at  the  speakers' 
table,  but  arose  quite  happily  when  she  was  called  on,  and  made  a  lovely  speech  in  behalf 
of  the  new  alumnae  class,  pledging  to  the  Alumnae  Association  and  its  undertakings 
the  loyalty  and  whole-hearted  support  which  this  splendid  class  has  ever  given  to  campus 
enterprises  during  its  undergraduate  days. 

Saturday  night  the  Glee  Club  held  forth  in  the  gym-auditorium,  and  our  hearts 
were  delighted  with  vocal  and  instrumental  music,  classical  and  jazz,  with  some  negro 
spirituals  and  a  clog-dance  thrown  in!  Mrs.  Johnson,  director  of  the  glee  club,  was 
kind  enough  to  let  the  "poor  old  decrepit  alumnae"  put  on  some  stunts  after  the  per- 
formance. The  alumnae  secretary,  Polly  Stone,  pretended  to  be  looking  through  some 
old  annuals,  and  as  she  described  each  picture,  it  was  given  as  a  tableau.  Miss  McKinney 
losing  her  favorite  sunbonnet,  1898;  the  three  up  and  coming,  be-bustled  young  students 
who  led  in  the  campaign  for  "another  brick  walk"  back  in  the  '90's;  the  sweet  girl 
graduate  of  1902;  a  fashion  revue  of  1907;  Kittie  (Burress)  Martin  and  Kate  (Logan) 
Good,  roommates  at  the  Institute,  recited  with  dramatic  eloquence  an  ode  to  the  senior 
lamp  back  in  the  days  when  seniors  were  presented  with  such  an  article  and  a  can  of 
kerosene;  a  view  of  the  stage  during  the  outdoor  commencement  play,  "As  You  Like  It" 
(which  we  tried  to  give  for  three  consecutive  years,  and  it  poured  rain  each  year!),  was 
shown,  taken  from  anywhere  in  the  audience:  nothing  but  umbrellas  raised  to  protect 
the  heads  of  the  audience!  The  daring  costumes  worn  by  girls  taking  men's  parts  in 
Blackfriar  plays  back  in  the  teens  and  early  20's  when  a  long,  full,  blue  serge  skirt, 
man's  coat,  collar  and  tie,  and  mustache  (Oh,  never  have  a  man  without  a  mustache!) ,  or 
a  linen  duster  worn  over  a  middy  suit  were  thought  to  be  just  too  daring  and  risque! 
One  brazen  hussy  dared,  on  the  night  of  the  performance,  to  wear,  instead  of  the  pre- 
scribed skirt,  long  serge  bloomers  down  below  the  knee!  Since  it  was  too  late  for  a 
radical  change  to  be  made  in  her  costume,  she  was  made  to  stand  behind  a  table  during 
the  entire  play.  The  awarding  of  the  Shonts  prize  to  the  Mnemosthyneian  Literary 
Society,  while  the  defeated  and  desolate  Propylean  president  prepared  to  blow  out  her 
brains;  these  and  many  other  pictures  from  the  alumnae  scrapbook  were  presented  and 
were  greeted  with  shouts  of  laughter  from  the  audience.  The  hit  of  the  evening  was  the 
bicycle-built-for-two,  with  Miss  Haynes  and  Miss  Alexander,  in  modish  fin  de  siecle 
costumes,  perched  coquettishly  upon  it.  We  wish  to  thank  once  more  the  alumnae  who 
went  through  old  trunks  and  attics  and  produced  the  costumes  worn  in  these  stunts. 

The  Rev.  Henry  H.  Sweets,  D.D.,  L.L.D.,  Louisville,  Ky.,  delivered  the  bacca- 
laureate sermon  on  Sunday,  taking  as  his  subject  "The  Silent  Partner,"  based  on  II 
Corinthians,  13:14,  and  emphasizing  the  fullness  of  life  that  may  be  possible  when  it  is 
under  the  guidance  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

After  the  sermon  and  dinner  on  Sunday,  Miss  Hopkins  was  hostess  to  alumnae  at 
coffee  in  Rebekah  Scott,  and  at  five  there  was  a  short  alumnae  vesper  service  in  the 
old  chapel.  We  had  planned  to  hold  this  service  outdoors,  but  a  sudden  deluge  of  rain 
drove  us  inside.  Charlotte  (Bell)  Linton  led,  and  Nannie  Campbell,  Jo  (Logan) 
Hamilton,  and  Gussie  (O'Neal)  Johnson  assisted.  Frances  (Gilliland)  Stukes  and  Lil 
(McAlpine)  Butner  sang  "Angels  of  Jesus,  Angels  of  Light,"  and  once  again  we  were 
back  in  the  dear  old  college  chapel  as  students — living  again  those  happy  days  so  full  of 
sweetness  and  light,  when  friendships,  seasoned  now  by  the  years,  were  first  formed, 
when  Dr.  Gaines  and  Dr.  Armistead  were  with  us,  and  our  little  world  was  bounded  by 
the  college  campus. 

The  rain  continued  to  pour  so  that  Atlanta  alumnae  could  not  get  out  to  the 
Alumnae  House,  but  a  good  number  of  the  alumnae  who  were  staying  on  the  campus 
came  over  to  the  moving  pictures  taken  at  commencement  two  years  ago.  We  would 
that  we  were  rich  enough  to  take  some  each  commencement!     Does  any  philanthropic 


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alumna  have  $2  5  she  would  like  to  spend  this  way  each  commencement?  It  would  be 
a  priceless  gift.  Miss  Wilburn,  Miss  Torrance  and  Miss  Hale,  faculty  members  of  '21, 
'23,  and  '24,  and  Miss  Hopkins,  braved  the  storm  and  came  over,  too. 

Monday  morning  the  sky  cleared  and  there  was  perfect  weather  for  the  reunion 
class  luncheons  and  class  day  exercises.  '2  3  and  '24  lunched  together  in  the  Tea  Room, 
and  '21  and  '22  in  the  Candler  Hotel.  '28's  many  "working  goil"  members  in  Atlanta 
necessitated  their  lunch  being  a  dinner  at  6  o'clock — and  a  very  jolly  dinner  too!  Class 
day  exercises  and  the  daisy-chain  were  lovely.  Little  Ka'line  Orr  is  a  dear  mascot,  and 
the  class  of  '49  will  have  in  her  a  charming  member. 

Who  won  the  reunion  cup  for  attendance?  '2  3  did!  Since  '2  8's  meeting  did  not 
occur  until  evening,  we  could  not  work  up  the  percentages  until  after  that  time,  but 
the  five  reunion  classes  stood  as  follows: 


Class 

Number  of  Members 

Ni 

amber  Back 

Percentage 

'21 

55 

10 

18 

'22 

58 

14 

24 

'23 

62 

26 

42 

'24 

57 

18 

31.5 

'28 

101 

39 

38.6 

There  was  no  Blackfriar  play  this  commencement  for  the  first  time  since  anyone 
can  remember,  and  to  quote  our  Shakespeare:  "thereby  hangs  a  tale."  But  Sara  Carter, 
'29,  a  Blackfriar,  read  A.  A.  Milne's  "The  Ivory  Door"  on  Monday  evening,  and  there 
was  the  traditional  bookburning  afterwards. 

On  Tuesday  morning  ninety-five  seniors  were  graduated,  and  we  felt  the  same  old 
thrill  to  see  them  kneel  before  Miss  Hopkins  to  have  the  hood  slipped  on  and  the  tassel 
changed.  How  it  carried  each  alumna  back  to  her  own  graduation — in  the  old  chapel 
perhaps. 

And  in  between  times  all  during  commencement  there  were  alumnae  swimming 
parties  in  the  new  pool,  and  Hoasc  reunion  meetings  where  they  discussed  and  re-discussed 
and  re-re-discussed,  I'm  told.  And  there  was  a  meeting  of  old  Blackfriars  and  Play- 
writers,  and  altogether  so  many  things  going  on  on  the  campus  all  the  time  that  we 
old  alums  rushed  around  almost  as  breathlessly  as  we  used  to  do  during  student  days. 

It  was  a  great  week-end!  Whatever  you  do,  or  don't  do  in  this  world,  sisters  don't 
miss  your  next  class  reunion,  and  if  you  live  near  enough,  make  the  trip  back  to  Agnes 
Scott  commencement  an  annual  event. 

"Dear  mem'ries  of  our  years  there  fill 
Every  heart,  and  we  acclaim  her  Fostering  Mother  still." 


1921 

'We  know  we  don't  cut  a  great  figger, 
We  wish  our  reunion  were  bigger — 
But  the  reason  it's  small 
Is  that  our  class  ALL 
Are  running  the  world  with  such  vigor!' 


So  shouted  triumphantly  the  1921  group  at  the  Trustees'  Luncheon  when  called 
upon  to  rise  and  match  their  smiles  and  numbers  with  the  hordes  of  "Institute  girls"  and 
of  1928  children  'fore  and  aft  'em.  Who  did  the  shouting?  Aimee  I).,  Helen  Wayt, 
Charlotte  Bell,  Thelma  Brown,  Betty  Floding,  Lina  Parry,  Myrtle  Blackmon,  Sarah  Fulton, 
and  Janef  Preston;  and  they  looked  as  if  they  were  having  the  time  of  their  lives  serving 
up  delicious  chit-chat  about  all  the  other  1921  alums,  scattered  from  China  to  Peru. 
Some  of  those  present — with  the  addition  of  Ida  (Brittain)  Milner — continued  their  hob- 
nobbing at  the  class  reunion  luncheon  on  Monday  at  the  Candler  Hotel  in  Decatur.     The 


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"festive  board"  was  adorned  with  much  besides  food — sweet  peas,  little  cap-and-gown 
place  cards,  individual  favors,  and  jingles  that  were  read  aloud  with  much  glee;  and 
best  of  all,  at  Janef's  place,  a  pile  of  letters  and  telegrams  from  absent  members.  The 
lucky  few  who  were  present  heard  all  about  Aimee  D.'s  nine  months'  old  Caroline 
(Helen  Wayt  says  she  is  a  perfect  darling)  ;  we  listened  delightedly  to  Charlotte  (Bell) 
Linton's  entertaining  tales  of  her  male  quartet  that  she's  raising  up  as  model  husbands  for 
future  Agnes  Scotters,  and  her  first-hand  account  of  Frances  Charlotte's  honeymoon 
several  years  ago;  and  we  admired  Helen  Wayt's  ring  and  her  composure  under  the  strain 
of  parties,  showers,  trousseau,  etc.  Helen's  little  bride-and-groom  favor,  marked  June 
18,  had  this  rhyme: 

"As  soon  as  He  Her  spied, 
'Oh,  Helen — Wayt!'  he  cried; 

Now  it's  nearly  June 

When  to  Mendelssohn's  tune 

The  thrilling  knot  will  be  tied!" 

The  messages  from  the  absent  ones  warmed  the  cockles  of  our  heart  and  made  us 
long  to  have  1921  present  one  hundred  per  cent.  As  each  message  was  read  aloud 
somebody  exclaimed,  "Wasn't  that  sweet  of  her  to  write  us!  Don't  we  wish  she  could 
be  here!" 

Frances  (Whitfield)  Elliott  wrote  from  Norristown,  Pa.:  "There  isn't  a  chance  of 
my  coming  this  year.  Estelle  Willingham  Elliott,  who  will  be  a  year  old  in  June,  keeps 
me  at  home  these  days.  Maybe  I  can  bring  her  down  when  she  enters  A.  S.  C!  I'm 
crazy  about  Norristown  but  surely  miss  the  South.  Give  all  the  girls  in  '21  my  love. 
Would  give  anything  to  be  at  the  reunion.  Will  think  of  you  while  I'm  washing 
dishes  and  nursing." 

Mariwill  (Hanes)  Hulsey  sent  word  that  her  three  months'  old  son  was  her  reason 
for  not  being  at  the  reunion. 

Margaret  Wade,  Montreat  Normal  School,  Montreat,  N.  C;  Caroline  Agee,  St. 
Mary's  School,  Raleigh,  N.  C;  Mary  Louise  (Green)  Morrow,  Decatur,  Ala.,  and  Sarah 
Stansell,  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  all  sent  their  greetings  to  the  reunion,  and  their  regrets  that 
either  inconvenient  schools  or  suddenly  changed  plans  made  it  impossible  for  them 
to  come. 

Anna  Marie  (Landress)  Cate  wrote  a  long,  interesting  letter  about  her  life  in  Nash- 
ville, where  she  and  Dr.  Cate  have  made  their  home  since  they  returned  from  Korea 
three  years  ago.     They  have  a  son,  and  two  daughters — one  of  them  quite  new. 

Helen  (Hall)  Hopkins  sent  a  lovely  greeting  all  the  way  from  San  Francisco,  and 
a  cordial  invitation  to  any  of  the  class  of_1921  "vacationing"  out  west  to  visit  her 
in  her  home  near  the  Golden  Gate.  We  hope  Helen  won't  regret  her  southern  hospitality, 
because  we  have  all  decided  to  go. 

Genie  (Johnston)  Griffin  wrote  cheerfully  of  the  slings  and  arrows  of  outrageous  for- 
tune that  kept  her  away  from  this  reunion.  Her  little  son,  Clayton,  has  whooping  cough, 
and  the  dormitory  in  which  she  lived  at  the  McCallie  School,  in  Chattanooga,  burned 
down  a  few  months  ago,  with  Genie  and  the  babies  safely  out  but  with  some  of  the 
ancestral  furniture  sadly  in.  But  Genie  has  a  new  three  months'  old  son,  Randolph 
Page  Griffin,  handsome  (so  Janef  testifies)  and  intact.  Genie  sent  this  telegram,  that 
arrived  just  before  the  luncheon:  "Lest  old  acquaintance  be  forgot.  Loving  greetings  to 
you  all.     Wish  I  could  be  with  you." 

Margaret  (McLaughlin)  Hogshead  sent  a  perfect  prize  packet  that  we  gave  little 
squeals  of  delight  over — some  silhouettes  of  her  family,  including  herself,  her  husband, 
and  her  three  adorable  children — Cara  Fan,  cute  and  chubby;  Dickey,  with  his  hair  stand- 
ing up  in  an  aureole,  and  Nell  Brown,  who,  Peg  Bell  says,  is  "a  beautiful  child,  as  graceful 
as  she  is  pretty."     These  prized  silhouettes  will  go  in  the   1921  scrap  book.     And  that 


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reminds  us:  please  all  of  you  send  snapshots,  or  interesting  newspaper  clippings  about 
your  celebrated  SELVES  or  husbands  or  children.  We  want  to  make  the  Scrap  Book 
tell  the  story  of  ourselves  since  college  days.  Think  what  fun  it  will  be  to  look  at  it 
together  next  reunion! 

Peg  (Bell)  Hanna  wrote  us  a  spicy  letter  from  her  country  manse  in  Virginia, 
and  sent  along  attractive  snapshots  of  her  children  playing  with  Margaret  McLaughlin's. 
The  pictures  were  taken  especially  to  be  sent  to  the  reunion.  Charles  (aged  four),  Edwin 
Bell  (two  and  a  half),  and  Bett  Massie  (five  months)  are  good-looking  little  Hannas. 
Peg  says,  "As  you  see,  I  have  three  perfectly  natural  children.  But  what  you  can't 
see  by  the  pictures  is  the  amount  of  time  and  energy  consumed  daily  just  in  feeding, 
clothing,  and  bathing  them,  not  to  mention  all  the  casualties,  such  as  skinned  knees, 
stumped  toes,  and  bumped  heads.  I  use  about  a  sheet  a  week  in  bandages  for  the  youngest 
boy,  but  he  beams  as  soon  as  he  sees  a  'banjidge'  going  on."  No  wonder — with  Peg  to 
put  it  on!  She  says  to  tell  anybody  going  near  Lexington,  Virginia,  please  to  come  to  see 
her.  She  lives  on  the  Middlebrook  Road  between  Staunton  and  Lexington,  across  the 
road  from  New  Providence  Church,  and  she'd  love  to  see  any  dear  familiar  face — even 
on  wash-day. 

These  were  all  the  messages  sent  back  to  the  sheltering  arms,  but  there  were  other 
choice  morsels  of  news  about  class  members  that  were  collected  and  exclaimed  over  by 
the  reunioners: 

Dot  (Allen)  Tucker  has  a  red-headed  baby  girl.  Dot's  sister,  Catherine,  who  looks 
like  Dot  and  Beff,  graduated  from  Agnes  Scott  this  year. 

Isabel  Carr,  who  lives  in  Harriman,  Tenn.,  has  been  in  Miami  Beach  all  winter. 
She  passed  by  Agnes  Scott  on  her  way  back  to  Tennessee  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  told  us 
about  her  four-year-old  daughter. 

Cora  (Connett)  Ozenberger  was  sent  by  the  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  branch  of  the  A.  A. 
U.  W.  to  the  national  conference  in  New  Orleans  this  spring.  Miss  Alexander,  who 
went  from  A.  S.  C,  talked  to  Cora,  and  reports  that  she  is  prettier  and  more  charming 
than  ever. 

Louise  Fluker  has  been  visiting  about,  taking  life  easy  this  winter.  Helen  Wayt 
saw  her  at  Magnolia  Gardens  in  Charleston  this  spring. 

Anne  (Hart)  Equen  has  two  lovely  children,  whose  pictures  are  pasted  in  the  class 
scrap  book.  Dr.  Equen  is  an  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat  specialist  in  Atlanta.  Anne  is  an 
active  Junior  League  worker. 

Dorothy  (Havis)  McCullough  lives  at  Sunnyside,  Long  Island.  She  works  with 
a  New  York  charity  organization. 

Jean  McAlister  is  studying  medicine  in  New  York. 

Fan  (McCaa)  McLaughlin  lives  at  Stoncy  Point,  Tenn.,  where  her  husband  (Mar- 
garet's brother)    is  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.     They  have  a  son. 

Lina  Parry  works  in  Atlanta.     She  is  going  to  Europe  in  the  late  summer. 

Lucile    (Smith)    Bishop  is  getting  up  a   tour  to  Europe  this  summer. 

Amy  Twitty  is  teaching  in  Miami. 

Martha  Stansfield  is  studying  for  her  Ph.D.  in  Latin  at  Chicago  University. 

"Sis"  Jones  does  a  lot  of  Junior  League  work  in  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Emily   (Hutter)    Stewart  and  her  husband  are  both  teaching  in  Chattanooga. 

Peg   (Hcdrick)   Nichols  has  two  children.     She  lives  in  Bristol,  Tenn. 

Lois  (Compton)  Jennings  lives  in  Ponca  City,  Okla.  We  hear  she  has  two  children. 
Is  that  right? 

Marguerite  Cousins,  who  is  teaching  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  will  study  at  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  this  summer. 

Betty  Floding  is  OUR  NEW  CLASS  SECRETARY.    DO  SEND  HER  SOME  NEWS. 


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Her  address  is  8  54  Myrtle  St.,  Atlanta,  and  she  teaches  at  North  Avenue  Presbyterian 
School.     She  says  our  next  CLASS  REUNION  is  ONLY  FIVE  YEARS  OFF. 

Nelle  Frances  Daye  is  teaching  in  Huntsville,  Ala. 

Mary  Robb  (Finney)  Bass  lives  in  Ensley,  Ala.  Her  husband  is  a  chemist,  and  she 
has  two  children,  we  think.     Is  this  right? 

Elizabeth  (Enloe)  McCarthy  has  one  child.  Her  husband  is  a  professor  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina. 

Myrtle  Blackmon  is  English  teacher  and  school  librarian  in  the  Columbus,  Ga., 
high  school.     She  is  going  to  Columbia  University  this  summer. 

Janef  Preston  recently  received  honorable  mention  for  her  group  of  poems,  "Por- 
traits," entered  for  the  Southern  Prize  of  the  Georgia  Poetry  Society.  The  competition 
was  open  to  poets  of  the  southern  states,  and  over  sixty  poems  were  entered.  The  judge, 
Dr.  Hibbard  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  spoke  very  highly  of  the  type  of 
poem  represented  by  "Portraits."  But  Janef  says  a  miss  is  as  good  as  a  mile,  and 
she  could  have  used  that  fifty  dollar  prize  mighty  well! 

We'd  like  a  lot  more  news  about  some  people  we  haven't  heard  from.  Does  any- 
body know  anything  about  Eleanor  Gordon  except  that  she  is  married  and  lives  in 
Davidson,  N.  C?  And  what  about  Augusta  Brewer,  and  Pearl  Lowe  Hamner,  and  Sarah 
Harrison,  and  all  the  others?  And  we  have  some  non-graduate  members  of  '21  we'd  love 
to  hear  from.  We  cherish  Ida  (Brittain)  Milner,  who  re-uned  with  us  this  year;  Ida 
is  one  of  the  Atlanta  Agnes  Scott  Club's  most  loyal  supporters.  She  asks  about  Sarah 
Hall,  who  started  us  off  our  famous  freshman  year.  Anybody  know  anything  about 
Sarah? 

The  Dix  Plan  that  brings  you  back  for  reunions  with  the  classes  you  knew  in  col- 
lege is  simply  great.  For  instance,  you  can't  imagine  how  good  it  made  us  feel  to  see 
members  of  '22,  '23,  and  '24  wandering  familiarly  around  the  campus.  Nannie 
Campbell  and  Eva  Wassum  were  all  around  proudly  displaying  Eva's  new  baby;  Beth 
McClure  and  Em  Guille  appeared  together;  and  Janice  Brown  was  here  to  tell  us  about 
Vic  and  Mary  Green  and  to  delight  us  with  her  own  self;  Frances  Gilliland  and  Lil  Mc- 
Alpine  sang  at  alumnae  vespers;  and  Liz  Brown  nearly  got  mobbed  by  a  joyful  crowd 
at  Sunday  coffee  in  Rebekah  lobby. 

Don't  you  wish  you'd  been  here?  Truly,  1921  alums,  or  messages,  or  rumors  flew  in 
from  the  east  and  the  west  and  the  cuckoo's  nest.  Our  next  reunion  will  be  in  1934. 
Plan  now  to  let  the  world  run  itself  while  you  come  back. 


1922  CLASS  REUNION 


"Come  seven,  come  'leven!"  Never  did  a  class  run  more  true  to  the  lingo  of  "the 
game"  than  the  class  of  '22.  Come  their  seventh  year  reunion,  come  eleven  members 
returned  to  gather  about  the  festive  board  in  a  private  dining  room  on  the  second  floor 
of  the  cool  and  comfortable  Candler  Hotel  in  Decatur,  Monday,  May  27th,  at  1  P.  M. 

The  date  of  this  auspicious  occasion  was  doubly  significant,  it  being  the  one  hundred 
and  fiftieth  birthday  anniversary  of  the  class  president!  The  following  were  among 
those  present:  Cama  (Burgess)  Clarkson,  Mary  Floding,  Marion  (Hull)  Morris,  Mary 
Knight,  Alice  (Whipple)  Lyons,  Emily  (Thomas)  Johnston,  Ruth  (Laughon)  Dyer, 
Ruth  Pirkle,  Liz  Brown,  Eunice   (Dean)    Major,  and  Helene    (Norwood)    Lammers. 

Due  to  illness,  our  class  secretary,  Sara  (Till)  Davis,  sent  in  her  resignation  with 
regrets,  and  Ruth  Pirkle  was  unanimously  chosen  to  "carry  on."  Sara  will  have  her 
competent  hands  full  managing  a  new  son  and  even  though  he  can  never  become  a 
Blackfriar,  we  feel  sure  that,  sooner  or  later,  the  footlights  will  claim  him. 

The  Hopkins  Jewel  Award  was  presented  to  Miss  Hopkins  through  the  class  of 
'22  to  be  awarded  at  the  commencement  exercises.  It  is  an  amethyst  pendant  with 
platinum  chain — purple  and  white — the  colors  of  our  Alma  Mater,  and  is  to  be  given 
evey  year  to  the  senior  who  has  during  her  four  years  most  genuinely  exemplified  the 


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true  spirit  of  Agnes  Scott.  It  is  presented  in  Miss  Hopkins'  name  that  the  class  of  '22 
may  show  to  whom  they  feel  this  honor  first  belongs,  and  with  the  hope  that  it  will 
express  a  depth  of  love  and  admiration  that  words  are  inadequate  to  convey. 

The  only  pleasant  part  about  happy  things  coming  to  an  end  is  that  there  must 
be  an  end  before  there  can  be  another  beginning.  And  though  we  parted  mid  laughter 
and  a  wee  tear,  it  is  but  to  meet  again  in  1934,  when,  upon  our  heads  the  dust  of  the 
almond  tree  will  have  begun  to  fall  and  great  fun  will  be  had  by  all  in  relating  what 
havoc  time  hath  wrought  in  our  varied  and  "sun-dried"  lives. 

M.  L.  K. 


CLASS  OF  '23 

Dear  Reunion- Absentee,  Class  of  '23: 

Was  your  school  not  out?  Was  the  baby  too  small  to  leave?  Was  the  trip  pro- 
hibitive from  a  financial  standpoint?  Or  were  you  reluctant  to  return  to  Agnes  Scott 
lest  you  find  too  many  changes  on  the  campus,  in  the  faces  of  friends,  in  the  pervading 
spirit  of  A.  S.  C?  Whatever  the  reason  for  your  absence,  we  missed  you — we  wished  for 
you,  and  reunion  was  less  than  perfect  because  you  were  not  here. 

Of  course,  no  account  in  words  can  convey  to  you  the  various  and  unique  delights 
of  such  a  time  as  we  had,  and  so  in  a  way,  you'll  "never  know  what  you  missed."  Per- 
haps the  enthusiasm  of  those  attending  has  reached  you  in  other  ways  than  this,  and 
if  so  this  will  serve,  I  hope,  further  to  fix  your  determination  not  to  miss  another  re- 
union. 

Not  to  mention  any  of  the  events  of  the  delicious  four  days  there  is  to  do  scant 
justice  to  the  persons  who  so  thoughtfully  planned  all  the  lovely  occasions  on  which 
friend  met  friend,  former  students  and  faculty  met,  and  on  which  visitors  and  trustees 
greeted  the  alumnae  of  the  college.  But  they  understand,  I  know,  that  all  can't  be  said, 
and  that  the  actual  events  of  reunion  will  be  elsewhere  described.  What  I  am  so  anxious 
to  convey  to  you  is  a  sense  of  renewed  loyalty  to  Agnes  Scott,  and  thankfulness  for 
the  enduring  blessings  of  comradeship  and  idealism  that  Agnes  Scott  girls  possess  to  a 
marked  degree. 

Added  to  the  joy  of  seeing  the  girls  who  returned  (and  you'll  find  all  their  names 
in  another  part  of  the  Quarterly) ,  there  were  the  delightful  telegrams,  letters,  snap- 
shots and  other  communications  from  Dot  (Bowron)  Collins,  Helen  (Faw)  Mull, 
Maud  (Foster)  Jackson,  Anna  Meade,  Mary  Stewart  Flewlett,  Becky  Dick,  Mart  Hay, 
and  Nancy  (Tripp)   Shand. 

You  can't  imagine  what  fun  it  was  to  hear  first-hand  about  the  jobs,  the  husbands, 
the  babies,  the  "operations"  or  other  personal  news  of  our  crowd  of  "pelankers"!  But 
the  realization  which  gave  meaning  to  all  the  happy  events  of  reunion,  was  that  in 
spite  of  the  time  that  has  elapsed  and  the  changes  that  have  come  to  friends,  to  the 
campus,  to  us,  the  essential,  beautiful  spirit  of  Agnes  Scott  is  unchanged.  When  a  former 
student  knows  that  unfamiliarity  of  landmarks  and  strangeness  of  faces  bodes  no  change 
in  the  moving  ideals  which  pervade  the  halls  and  walks  of  the  campus,  then  reunions 
become  a  joy  indeed.  And  it  is  the  conviction  of  this  alumna  that  those  who  attended 
reunion  this  May  found  a  refreshment  for  their  spirit  that  no  other  experience  could 
have  given  them  so  fully  or  so  happily. 

Come  and  make  the  venture  with  us,  next  reunion-time,  for  we  missed  you  at 
this  one! 

L.  L.  M. 


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REUNION  OF  "CLASS  OF  OLD  '24" 

The  reunion  of  '24  really  began  with  the  alumnae  luncheon  in  Rebecka  Scott  dining 
room  on  Saturday.  The  shrill  excitement  of  seeing  everybody  in  the  lobby  beforehand 
was  equaled  only  by  the  pleasure  of  sitting  down  at  the  table  in  a  group  and  talking 
about  babies  and  husbands  and  jobs  and  old  times.  We  decided  among  ourselves  that 
the  luncheon  would  never  have  been  so  successful  without  '24,  for  our  class  furnished 
the  college  with  Dick,  who  fixed  the  hundreds  of  place  cards  and  the  nut  cups  and 
vases  of  beautiful  flowers  and  mimeographed  songs  and  programs  and  put  a  pansy  at 
each  place.  Polly's  speech  in  which  she  announced  alumnae  engagements  was,  as  always, 
the  hit  of  the  occasion:  and  she  was  ours,  too.  We  were  happy  also  to  have  Mr.  Stukes. 
who  was  the  only  masculine  member  of  our  class,  present. 

Margaret  (Griffin)  Williams  had  darling  pictures  of  her  two-year-old  son  which 
everybody  oh-ed  and  ah-ed  over;  Mary  (Mann)  Boon  was  there  looking  just  as  she 
always  did;  and  so  was  Rebecca  Bivings.  Virginia  Ordway,  who  is  teaching  at  Anniston, 
was  at  the  College  Friday  and  Saturday;  but  none  of  these  girls  were  able  to  stay  through 
our  class  luncheon  Monday. 

Polly  planned  a  very  satisfying  alumnae   vesper  service  Sunday  afternoon  at  five. 

Frances    and   Lil    sang    their   lovely    duet    about    "Angels   of   Jesus,    Angels    of  Light." 

That  night  we  enjoyed  seeing   the  moving  pictures   which  were   taken  at   the  reunion 
in  1927.    Mary  Greene,  Polly,  and  Dick  showed  off  to  great  advantage. 

It  was  at  our  reunion  luncheon  Monday,  though,  that  we  got  the  most  said  and 
heard  the  most  news.  Of  the  twelve  members  present,  seven  were  married:  Jack 
(Evans)  Brownlee,  Augusta  (Thomas)  Lanier,  Nonie  (Peck)  Booth,  Frances  (Gilliland) 
Stukes,  Margaret  (McDow)  MacDougall,  Cora  (Morton)  Durrett,  and  Lilian  (Mc- 
Alpine)  Butner.  The  unmarried  minority  was  Daisy  Frances  Smith,  Polly  Stone,  Dick 
Scandrett,  Katie  Frank  Gilchrist,  and  Janice  Brown.  Frances  proved  her  housewifely 
prowess  by  arranging  a  beautiful  centerpiece  of  flowers  grown  in  her  own  garden,  seeing 
about  place  cards,  table-setting,  etc.  The  favors  were  fans  which  were  plied  vigorously 
throughout  the  meal.  We  gossiped  about  our  various  absent  friends  until  someone 
mentioned  the  inevitable  mystery  story.  It  was  while  we  were  off  on  mysteries  and 
murders  that  Polly  wondered  casually  whether  it  would  be  possible  for  a  person  to  dis- 
appear entirely  for  say  a  year  without  leaving  any  trace.  D.  F.  at  once  put  her 
debater's  mind  on  the  problem  and  planned  her  vanishing  in  detail  from  getting  a  muscu- 
line  haircut  and  costume  to  leaving  her  car  under  a  bridge  near  Macon.  Whether  we 
were  influenced  by  Mr.  Orr's  little  verse  about  the  truest  test  of  woman's  worth  or  not, 
I  don't  know,  but  anyhow  no  one  agreed  with  Daisy  as  to  her  method  of  escape;  and  we 
had  a  grand  time  proving  to  her  that  the  police  would  be  on  her  heels  in  a  half  hour. 

We  sang  "Flail,  Agnes  Scott,  We  Sing  to  Thee";  and  then  proceeded  to  beat  '23 
to  the  living  room  of  the  Alumnae  House  where  we  sat  down  to  hear  Dick  read  in- 
teresting letters  from  Margaret  (Powell)  Gay,  Martha  (Eakes)  Matthews  and  Annie 
Wilson  Terry.  Annie  Will's  remark  that  she  was  doing  "some  teaching  and  a  little 
courting"  caused  great  excitement.  Martha  wants  us  all  to  call  her  up  when  we  go 
to  Chicago.  Polly  and  Dick  will  probably  see  Margaret  this  summer  while  they  are 
in  New  York.  Dick  next  read  Mary  Greene's  funny  prophecy;  and  we  laughed  again 
over  long  forgotten  jokes.  Dell's  last  will  and  testament  was  read;  and  then  we  went 
through  the  class  roll  comparing  our  intended  professions  with  what  we  are  doing  now. 

We  did  have  a  simply  lovely  time.  And  if  all  the  ones  who  weren't  there  could 
have  heard  how  often  they  were  wished  for  and  felt  how  much  they  were  missed,  our 
entire  fifty-seven  would  surely  have  been  on  hand. 

J.  S.  B. 


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'28'S  FIRST  REUNION 

A  goodly  percentage  of  '2  8-ers  trekked  back  to  the  Alma  Mater  to  make  the  most 
of  the  week-end  before  the  Tuesday  morning  that  should  bring  another  graduation, 
and  take  from  the  class  of  '28  the  satisfying  distinction  of  being  the  very  youngest 
alumnae. 

We  were  duly  impressed  with  the  new  rules  that  were  poured  into  our  left  ears 
while  the  right  ears  reveled  in  familiar  shrieks  and  greetings — all  the  while  our  eyes 
noticed  shining  new  paint  and  obvious  improvements.  It  was  the  same  old  last-minute 
rush  scene,  but  rather  rose-tinted,  for  we  had  no  four-years-accumulation  to  pack  into 
two  small  trunks,  no  meetings,  no  last  minute  decisions  to  agree  upon,  and  no  disturbing 
mystery  as  to  what  is  meant  by  the  line  in  the  song — "Out  in  the  cold,  cruel  world." 
None  of  these,  but  all  of  the  fun  of  being  back,  knowing  nearly  every  one,  and  un- 
deniably "belonging." 

We  had  gossiped  as  devastatingly  as  we  knew  how,  but  arrived  at  the  luncheon 
Saturday  without  suspicions  of  a  single  pending  engagement — and  throughout  the  lunch- 
eon and  triumphs  of  every  class  from  1911  to  1929 — still  no  announcement  to  make  us 
throw  arms  about  our  neighbor!  That  fact  isn't  as  disturbing  as  it  would  be  if  we 
couldn't  think  back  upon  several  marriages  accomplished  during  the  fall,  winter  and 
spring. 

Our  own  class  supper  in  the  Tea  Room  Monday  evening  just  before  Sara  Carter's 
long  to  be  remembered  reading  of  "The  Ivory  Door,"  truly  brought  the  old  days  back. 
If  there  had  just  been  about  60%  more  faces  around  the  U  shaped  table  on  the  left 
of  the  Tea  Room  as  you  enter  from  the  parlor — as  we  did! — last  year  would  have  been 
perfectly  duplicated,  in  scene  and  spirit. 

There  was  Jo  Walker  with  the  most  long  hair  you  ever  saw  one  year's  training 
boast!  Vera  Kamper,  prettier  than  ever,  Anais  Jones  and  Eloise  Gaines.  Emily  Cope 
was  down  for  the  May  Day-Senior  Opera  week-end,  which  probably  explains  her  absence 
from  the  group.  "Bee"  Keith  and  Virginia  Norris  represented  Greenville.  With  them 
were  Pat  Collins  and  Carolyn  Essig.  Their  end  of  the  table  was  kept  hilarious  by  Lillian 
White's  tales  of  how  she  tried  and  failed  (but  it's  her  own  story,  remember)  to  make 
Blackfriars  of  untrained  and  youthful  Floridians — and  by  Virge  and  "Bee's"  accounts 
of  their  summer  plans,  which  include  studying  at  Columbia  with  Ann  McCollum,  an 
apartment,  and  all  those  things  you  read  about. 

Mary  Crenshaw  and  Louise  Girardeau  were  there  in  person  to  stand  up  for  their 
telephone  company  profession,  and  to  reiterate  "we  don't  say  'number  please.'  '  With 
them  were  a  group  of  Atlanta  pals,  including  Bet  Cole  and  Julia  Napier.  There 
were  a  number  of  "dear  familiar  faces" — oh,  so  many  that  I  tremble  to  name  them 
all  for  fear  I  should  leave  out  one  and  so  bring  down  wrath  on  my  head. 

It  seemed  very  familiar  and  exactly  right  for  Janet  MacDonald  to  be  sitting  at  the 
U  part  of  the  table,  and  to  second  someone's  motion  that  wc  use  for  curtains  in  Miss 
Hearon's  memorial  room  in  the  library  part  of  the  $13  5.00  in  our  treasury.  Huda  an- 
nounced that  it  was  there,  so  we  took  the  news  like  nonchalant  business  men  and  started 
devising  ways  and  means  to  employ  it  to  a  nobler  purpose. 

Demi-tasse  arrived  with  the  decision  to  donate  the  rest  of  the  funds  to  the  Greater 
Agnes  Scott  Campaign,  in  which  we  are  all  so  vitally  interested. 

It  was  all  great  fun!  Mark  the  next  reunion  date  on  your  calendar  now!  And 
class  of  '29,  DON'T  miss  your  first  reunion! 

C.  E. 


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OUR  MISS  HOPKINS 


This  commencement,  May,  1929,  marks  the  40th  anniversary  of  Miss  Hopkins'  connection  with  Agnes 
Scott.  First  as  lady  principal  of  the  Institute,  and  later  as  dean  of  the  college,  Miss  Hopkins  has  endeared 
herself  to  hundreds  of  Agnes  Scott  students.  They  are  scattered  all  over  the  world  now,  yet  still  in  each 
heart  there  is  a  very  warm  affection  for  the  dear  Agnes  Scott  mother  who  was  the  guiding  spirit  of  their 
schoolgirl   years. 

The  trustees  of  the  college  presented  Miss  Hopkins  (elected  last  year  as  a  member  of  that  board)  with 
a  Plymouth  sedan  at  commencement  time  as  a  token  of  their  love  and  esteem  for  her.  The  alumnae,  too, 
wished  to  show  their  love  in  some  tangible  way.  Hundreds  of  letters  poured  in  to  the  alumnae  office 
with  their  messages  of  congratulation  to  Miss  Hopkins  on  this  happy  occasion,  and  at  the  luncheon 
given  by  the  trustees  to  the  alumnae,  the  Alumnae  Association  president,  Mrs.  B.  R.  Adams,  announced 
that  a  radio  and  orthophonic  Victrola,  the  gift  of  her  "old  girls,"  would  be  awaiting  her  in  her  sitting 
room  on  her  return  to  the  college  in  August  after  her  vacation. 

Agnes  Scott  owes  much  to  Miss  Hopkins'  presence,  and  we  who  spent  our  student  days  under  her 
influence  are  rich  indeed.  We  cannot  say  how  much  she  has  meant  in  the  lives  of  the  hunlreds  of  alumnae, 
nor  how,  through  them,  her  gentle,  radiant  spirit  has  helped  in  the  building  of  many  a  home  and  com- 
munity and  state. 


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NOTES  ON  NEW  BOOKS 

POETRY 

Angels  and  Earthly  Creatures,  by  Elinor  Wylie.  New  York:  Alfred  A.  Knopf, 
1929. 

Elinor  Wylie's  four  small  volumes  of  poems,  states  The  Saturday  Kevieiv  of  Liter- 
ature, "place  her  among  the  eight  or  nine  important  poets  in  American  literature,  and 
the  few  important  women  poets  in  any  literature."  In  profundity  of  thought  and 
depth  of  emotion  her  last  surpasses  all  her  others.  "Some  of  the  thought  in  Angels 
and  Earthly  Creatures  is  so  profound  that  it  is  only  after  many  readings  that  one  can 
get  the  full  meaning  of  the  verses.  And  the  emotion,  for  all  its  intellectual  statement, 
is  so  intense  that  one  is  stirred  to  tears  that  a  human  being  should  have  felt  so  deeply 
and  suffered  so  strongly." 

ESSAYS 

The  Modern  Temper,  A  Study  and  a  Confession,  by  Joseph  Wood  Krutch.  New 
York:    Harcourt,  Brace  and  Company,  1929. 

Here  is  expressed  in  a  series  of  essays  which  constitute  one  essay,  the  attitude  of  the 
thinking  man  with  regard  to  modern  tendencies.  Mr.  Krutch  makes  his  pronouncements 
in  the  tone  of  the  informed  and  cultured  conversationalist;  he  is  sane,  just,  deliberate;  he 
has  none  of  the  bombast  of  the  doctrinaire.  The  titles  of  the  essays — several  of  which 
have  appeared  in  The  Atlantic — themselves  provoke  interest:  "The  Disillusion  of  the 
Laboratory,"  "Love — Or  the  Life  and  Death  of  a  Value,"  "The  Phantom  of  Certitude." 

To  call  the  book  fatalistic,  pessimistic,  skeptical,  is  to  apply  hackneyed  tags.  Yet 
it  is  these.  And  so  convincing  is  the  writer  that  we  feel  that  to  be  true  it  must  be  so. 
The  future,  says  Mr.  Krutch,  will  be  in  the  hands  of  barbarians  who  will  destroy  what 
humanists  of  our  age  have  been  at  pains  to  build  up:  those  values  at  present  esteemed  by 
thinking  men  cannot  survive.  He  arrives  in  the  end  only  at  heroic  despair:  "Ours  is  a 
lost  cause  and  there  is  no  place  for  us  in  the  natural  universe,  but  we  are  not,  for  all 
that,  sorry  to  be  human.     *we  should  rather  die  as  men  than  live  as  animals." 

LETTERS 

Victoria,  empress  consort  of  Frederick  111,  German  emperor,  1840-1901.  Letters  of 
the  Empress  Frederick,  edited  by  the  Right  Honorable  Sir  Frederick  Ponsonby.  London: 
Macmillan,  1928. 

These  letters  written  by  the  mother  of  Wilhelm  II  to  her  mother,  Queen  Victoria 
of  England,  should  vindicate  one  of  the  most  misunderstood  figures  in  German  and  Eng- 
lish history.  Her  love  for  her  husband  and  family,  her  desire  that  Germany  might 
develop  along  the  liberal  lines  so  dreaded  by  Bismarck,  her  sincerity  and  warmheartedness 
make  her  letters  an  interesting  human  document.  Her  intense  antagonism  to  her 
son's  plans  and  her  feeling  that  he  was  constantly  and  ignorantly  rushing  in  where 
angels  fear  to  tread  proved  themselves  in  the  right  thirteen  years  after  her  death.  She 
said  in  one  letter  with  regard  to  her  eldest  son  that  she  felt  exactly  like  a  hen  who,  having 
hatched  a  duck,  was  sorrowfully  watching  him  swim  away  from  all  the  things  she  wanted 
him  to  do  and  be. 

The  story  told  in  the  introduction  of  how  the  letters,  committed  to  the  care  of  the 
editor,  were  smuggled  out  of  Germany  under  the  very  nose  of  the  Kaiser  makes  breathless 
reading. 

The  Intimate  Journal  of  George  Sand.  Edited  and  translated  by  Marie  Jenney  How. 
New  York:    The  John  Day  Company,   1929. 

This  Journal  Intime  consists  of  three  sections — the  Journal  to  Alfred  de  Musset,  the 
Pirfol  Journal  (dialogues  between  the  male  and  female  personalities  which  George  Sand 
imagined  to  exist  in  herself),  and  a  miscellaneous  collection  of  letters  and  musings.  By 
far  the  most  important  of  these  is  the  first,  for  here  the  writer  reveals  with  a  frankness 
striking  even  in  this  age  of  no  reticences,  all  the  intricacies  of  the  best  known  of  her 


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various  liaisons.  Some  of  the  effusions  seem  genuine  expressions  of  emotion,  in  spite  of 
the  fervent  style  popular  in  the  1830's.  Others  appear  tawdrily  melodramatic.  The 
volume  is  of  utmost  interest  to  the  student  of  a  woman  strangely  great  and  small. 


MISS  KIRK  IS  NEW  TRUSTEE 

Miss  Mary  Wallace  Kirk,  of  Tuscumbia, 
Ala.,  was  elected  alumnae  trustee  by  that 
board  at  their  meeting  during  commence- 
ment week  at  the  college.  Miss  Kirk,  who 
was  graduated  with  the  class  of  '11,  has 
been  prominently  connected  with  the  col- 
lege ever  since  her  graduation,  serving  at 
one  time  as  president  of  the  Alumnae  As- 
sociation. She  has  a  genius  for  organiza- 
tion, and  it  was  during  her  administra- 
tion that  the  present  organization  of  the 
Association  was   put   into   effect. 


OUR  SENIOR  TRUSTEE 

A  tribute  was  paid  at  the  trustees'  lunch- 
eon to  the  alumnae  to  Mr.  Murphy  Can- 
dler, of  Decatur,  who  celebrates  this  com- 
mencement his  40th  anniversary  as  a  trus- 
tee of  Agnes  Scott.  Mr.  Candler  is  the 
only  member  of  the  board  who  has  been 
identified  with  the  college  in  this  capac- 
ity from  its  opening  in  1889. 


QUENELLE  HARROLD  SCHOLARSHIP 
AWARD 

Each  year  there  is  keen  competition  and 
rivalry  for  the  Quenelle  Harrold  Graduate 
Scholarship,  given  by  Mrs.  Thomas  Har- 
rold of  Americus,  Ga.,  in  honor  of  her 
daughter,  Quenelle,  an  honor  graduate  of 
the  class  of  '23.  The  award  this  year 
was  made  to  Miriam  Preston,  '27,  who 
will  continue  her  work  at  Yale  University. 
Miriam  has  been  spending  the  time  since 
graduation  two  years  ago  with  her  family 
in  Korea,  and  was  at  Port  Said  when  the 
cable  reached  her,  announcing  that  she 
was  the  winner  of  the  scholarship.  Miriam 
is  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and  is 
one  of  the  most  excellent  students  who 
has   ever   attended   Agnes   Scott. 

Former  winners  of  this  scholarship  are 
Mamie  Shaw,  '27,  who  is  studying  medicine 
at  Hopkins,  and  Frances  Brown,  '28,  who 
is  doing  work  for  her  Ph.D.  at  Hopkins  in 
chemistry. 

Mrs.  Harrold  was  a  visitor  at  Agnes 
Scott  for  commencement  and  was  present 
when  the  award  was  announced. 


JUANITA  GREER,  '26,  HONORED 

The  first  member  of  the  class  of  1926  to 
receive  a  Ph.D.  degree  is  Juanita  Greer, 
who  has  been  working  for  that  honor  in 
the  Chemistry  department  at  John  Hop- 
kins University  since  her  graduation  at 
Agnes  Scott.  Juanita  was  one  of  the  first 
members  of  the  Agnes  Scott  chapter  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa,  installed  at  the  college  the 
year    of   her   graduation. 


Juanita's  outstanding  work  in  the  de- 
partment at  Hopkins  has  won  for  her  a 
coveted  scholarship  offered  by  the  Amer- 
ican Association  of  University  Women,  it 
was  announced  at  the  national  convention 
of  that  body  in  New  '  Orleans  in  May. 
Juanita  will  continue  her  research  at  Hop- 
kins next  year. 


AGAIN,  THE  SCRAPBOOKS 

The  class  scrapbooks  gained  many  at- 
tractive new  snapshots  of  alumnae  babies 
during  commencement.  These  are  of  Dell 
Bernhardt's  wee  son;  Martha  Mcintosh's 
little  blonde  daughter,  Alice;  Eileen  Dodd's 
two  sons  riding  a  huge  dog  around  the 
sundial  in  their  flower  garden;  several 
adorable  pictures  of  Jule  Hagood's  daugh- 
ter, Marie,  in  a  fetching  spring  bonnet; 
Essie  Roberts'  two,  Anne  and  Walter,  Jr., 
at  a  diminutive  tea  party  on  Christmas 
day;  Annette  Carter's  daughter,  Betty 
Ann,  breaking  Chicago  speed  limits  on  her 
kiddie-car;  Helen  Faw's  two  blonde  sons, 
and  Maud  Foster's  happy  looking  little  son 
dressed  in  such  a  stiff-starchy,  immaculate 
suit.  From  the  twinkle  in  his  eye,  we'll 
wager  the  suit  didn't  stay  in  that  condi- 
tion long!  The  scrapbooks  grow  more  and 
more  interesting.  If  your  babies'  pictures 
are  not  there,  take  some  good  ones  this 
summer  and  send  them  to  the  alumnae 
office.  From  time  to  time  we  intend  to 
publish  groups  of  these  pictures  in  the 
Quarterly. 

Remember,  they  aren't  just  baby  books 
either,  and  a  newspaper  clipping  or  recent 
picture  of  yourself  will  be  joyfully  received 
by  the  paste-besmeared  secretary. 


THE  HOPKINS  JEWEL   AWARD 

A  new  and  unique  award  made  for  the 
first  time  this  commencement,  but  to  be 
given  annually  hereafter,  was  the  Hop- 
kins Jewel  Award.  It  is  presented  by  the 
class  of  1922  in  honor  of  the  dean,  and 
is  to  go  to  that  member  of  the  senior  class 
who  most  nearly  meets  the  ideals  for 
Agnes  Scott  students  which  Miss  Hopkins 
has  established  during  her  forty  years  of 
service.  These  include  scholarship,  charac- 
ter, poise,  health,  personality,  and  the 
spirit  of  service.  The  award  was  made 
this  year  to  Helon  Brown,  of  Stamps,  Ark., 
who  was  also  the  senior  class  president. 
The  jewel  is  a  graceful  amethyst  pendant 
on  a  white  gold  chain,  carrying  out  the 
Agnes  Scott  colors.  The  class  of  '22  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  the  award  at  their  re- 
union two  years  ago,  and  have  pledged 
themselves  to  present  it  each  year  in  honor 
of  Miss   Hopkins. 


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WE  CAME  BACK  FOR  COMMENCEMENT! 


Out-of-town    alumnae    guests    on    the 
included: 

Kittie   (Burress)   Martin,  Anderson,  S.  C. 
Kate   (Logan)   Good,  Acworth,  Ga. 
Annie  Kirk   (Dowdell)   Turner,  '02,  New- 
nan,  Ga. 
Hattie  Gaston   (Blackford)   Williams,  '03, 

Richmond,  Va. 
Eileen  Gober,  '03,  Marietta,  Ga. 
Rachel    (Young)     Gardner,    '07,    Camilla, 

Ga. 
Eleanor  Frierson,  '10,  Columbia,  Tenn. 
Lucy  (Reagan)  Redwine,  '10,  Fayetteville, 

Ga. 
Julia  (Thompson)   Gibson, '1 1,  Covington, 

Ga. 
Louise    (Wells)    Parsons,  '11,  Chattanooga, 

Tenn. 
Marie    (Maclntyre)    Scott,   '12,   Scottdale, 

Ga. 
R.  Florence  Brinkley,  '14,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Mary  (Brown)  Florence,  '14,  Stamps,  Ark. 
Louise  McNulty,  '14,  Dawson,  Ga. 
Mary     (Bryan)     Winn,    '16,    Birmingham, 

Ala. 
Elizabeth    (Burke)    Burdett,   '16,   Brussels, 

Belgium. 
Anne    (McClure)    Simpson,  '16,  Norcross, 

Ga. 
Regina   Pinkston,    '17,   Greenville,    Ga. 
Georgina     (White)     Miller,    '17,    Orlando, 

Fla. 
Juliet   (Foster)   Speer,  '20,  Anderson,  S.  C. 
Charlotte   (Bell)   Linton,  '20,  Thomasville, 

Ga.,  and  Chunju,  Korea. 
Myrtle  Blackmon,  '21,  Columbus,  Ga. 
Aimee  D.    (Glover)    Little,   '21,   Marietta, 

Ga. 
Elizabeth  Brown,  '22,  Albany,  Ga. 
Cama    (Burgess)    Clarkson,  '22,  Charlotte, 

N.  C. 
Eunice  (Dean)  Major,  '22,  Anderson,  S.  C. 
Ruth    (Laughon)    Dyer,   ex  '22,   Roanoke, 

Va. 
Emily  (Thomas)  Johnston,  '22,  Selma,  Ala. 
Allie  Louise  (Travis)  White,  ex  '22,  Lyons, 

Ga. 
Lucy    (Wootten)    Wiegund,   '22,   Coving- 
ton, Ga. 
Mary   White   Caldwell,   ex   '23,   Scottdale, 

Ga. 


campus    during    commencement    week-end 

Nannie  Campbell,  '23,  Richmond,  Va. 

Christine  (Evans)  Murray,  '23,  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. 

Mary  (Goodrich)  Meredith,  '23,  Jackson- 
ville, Fla. 

Emily  Guille,  '23,  Spartanburg,  S.  C. 

Viola  (Hollis)  Oakley,  '23,  Columbia,  Ala. 

Lucie  Howard,  '23,  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Eloise  (Knight)  Jones,  '23,  Milton,  W.  Va. 

Lucile    (Little)    Morgan,   '2  3,  Heflin,  Ala. 

Josephine  (Logan)  Hamilton,  '23,  Ap- 
palachia,  Va. 

Lois  McClain,  '23,  Jasper,  Ga. 

Hilda  (McConnell)  Adams,  '23,  Colum- 
bus, Ga. 

Martha  (Mcintosh)  Nail,  '23,  Albany,  Ga. 

Mary  Stewart  McLeod,  '23,  Bartow,  Fla. 

Valeria  (Posey)  Brown,  '23,  Fort  Valley, 
Ga. 

Frances  (Stuart)  Key,  ex  '23,  Knoxville, 
Tenn. 

Eva  (Wassum)  Cunningham,  '23,  Colum- 
bia, S.  C. 

Janice  Brown,  '24,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 

Jack  (Evans)  Brownlee,  ex  '24,  Anderson, 
S.  C. 

Katie  Frank  Gilchrist,  '24,  Courtland,  Ala. 

Margaret  (Griffin)  Williams,  '24,  Bir- 
mingham, Ala. 

Lillian  (McAlpine)  Butner,  '24,  Winston- 
Salem,  N.  C. 

Catherine  (Nash)  Goff,  '24,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Virginia  Ordway,  '24,  Anniston,  Ala. 

Nonie    (Peck)    Booth,   '24,  Anniston,  Ala. 

Daisy  Frances  Smith,  '24,  Cuthbert,  Ga. 

Agatha  Deaver,   '2  5,  Tampa,  Fla. 

Araminta  (Edwards)  Pate,  '2  5,  Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Larsen  Mattox,  '2  5,  Moultrie,  Ga. 

Lillian  Middlebrooks,  '2  5,  East  Point,  Ga. 

Mildred  Pitner,  '25,  Tate,  Ga. 

Julia   Pope,   '2  5,   Greenville,  S.   C. 

Emily  Spivey,  '2  5,  Hartwell,  Ga. 

Helen  (Bates)  Law,  '26,  Schenectady, 
N.  Y. 

Clarkie   Davis,    '26,   Columbus,   Ga. 

Louisa  Duls,  '26,  Charlotte,  N.  C. 

Edith  Gilchrist,  '26,  Birmingham,  Ala. 


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Gertrude  (Green)  Blalock,  '26,  Bradenton, 

Fla. 
Eleanor  Gresham,  '26,  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Ladie  Sue  Wallace,  '26,  Rutledge,  Ga. 
Eleanore  Albright,  '27,  New  York  City. 
Josephine  Bridgman,  '27,  Gastonia,  N.  C. 
Rachel  Henderlite,  '27,  Gastonia,  N.  C. 
Carolina  McCall,  '27,  Opelika,  Ala. 
Louise  Plumb,  '27,  Lawrenceville,  Ga. 
Frances  Rainey,  '27,  Clinton,  La. 
Virginia  Sevier,  '27,  Hendersonville,  N.  C. 
Evelyn  Knight,  ex  '27,  Safety  Harbor,  Fla. 
Sallie  Abernethy,  '2  8,  Winter  Garden,  Fla. 
Harriet  Alexander,  '28,  Augusta,  Ga. 
Huda  Dement,  '28,  Wartrace,  Tenn. 
Mary  Ray  Dobyns,  '2  8,  Birmingham,  Ala. 
Mary  Jewett  Doyal,  '28,  Rome,  Ga. 
Sarah  Glenn,  '2  8,  Gastonia,  N.  C. 
Olive  Graves,  '2  8,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


Mildred   Jennings,    '28,    Augusta,    Ga. 
Margaret  Keith,  '28,  Greenville,  S.  C. 
Hortense  (King)  Fowler,  '28,  Fort  Gaines, 

Ga. 
Lilla  Mills,  '28,  Camden,  S.  C. 
Mary  Jane  McCoy,  '28,  Washington  Court 

House,  Ohio. 
Janet  MacDonald,  '28,  Greensboro,  N.  C. 
Ellott  Mae  McLellon,  '28,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Virginia  Norris,  '28,  Greenville,  S.  C. 
Mary  Ramage,  '2  8,  New  York  City. 
Margaret  Rice,  '28,  Florence,  Ala. 
Josephine  Walker,  '28,  Summerville,  S.  C. 
Lillian  White,  '28,  Fort  Pierce,  Fla. 

This  does  not  include  the  Atlanta  and 
Decatur  alumnae,  nor  a  few  other  out-of- 
town  alumnae  who  did  not  register  at  the 
Alumnae  House. 


Annual  Reports  of  Alumnae  Association 


MINUTES  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE 

COMMITTEE  MEETING 

MAY  25,  1929 

The  Executive  Committee  was  called  to 
order  by  the  president,  Mrs.  Hilda  McCon- 
nell  Adams,  in  the  college  chapel.  Min- 
utes of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and 
approved. 

The  committee  voted  to  suggest  to  the 
alumnae  that  the  gift  the  alumnae  should 
make  to  Miss  Hopkins  be  a  radio  and 
Victrola  combination. 

The  treasurer  made  her  report  and  pre- 
sented the  proposed  budget  for  the  year 
1929-1930.  The  committee  then  voted  to 
recommend  to  the  Alumnae  Association  the 
acceptance  of  the  budget. 

Report  of  the  House  and  Tea  Room 
Committees  was  read  and  approved.  The 
Executive  Committee  also  approved  the 
following  recommendations  from  this 
committee: 

1.  That  Mrs.  Vera  Nisbet  serve  in  the 
capacity  of  Tea  Room  hostess  and  man- 
ager. 

2.  That  the  charge  made,  in  case  of 
alumnae,  for  a  bed  in  the  Alumnae  House 
be  raised  from  50  cents  to  75  cents,  while 
cots  may  be  secured  for  50  cents  on  spe- 
cial occasions. 

The  Executive  Committee  appointed  the 
following  as  councillors-at-large: 

Mrs.  Ida  Lee  (Hill)  Irwin. 

Mrs.  Anne  (Waddell)  Bethea. 

Mrs.  Lou   (Buchanan)   Proctor. 

Miss  Helena  Hermance. 

As  there  was  no  further  business,  the 
committee  adjourned. 

CORA  MORTON  DURRETT, 

Secretary. 


MINUTES  OF  THE  ALUMNAE  COUN- 
CIL MEETING  MAY  25,  1929 

The  council  was  called  to  order  by  the 
president,  Mrs.  Hilda  McConnell  Adams,  in 
the  college  chapel. 

Minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read 
and  approved. 

Miss  Lois  Smith,  president  of  the  day 
students,  reported  that  a  wonderful  spirit 
of  co-operation  has  existed  on  the  campus 
between  boarders  and  day  students,  and 
that  efforts  to  increase  the  interest  of 
day  students  in  campus  activities  have 
been  made. 

Mrs.  C.  E.  Harmon  suggested  that  the 
interest  of  preparatory  students  in  Agnes 
Scott  should  be  encouraged  at  North  Ave- 
nue  Presbyterian   School. 

Mrs.  Guy  reported  the  gift  of  a 
Plymouth  sedan  to  Miss  Hopkins  by  the 
trustees. 

Mrs.  Thatcher  as  a  representative  of  the 
Atlanta  club  called  attention  to  the 
Founder's  Day  program  and  the  Play 
Day  given  to  preparatory  students.  The 
Atlanta  club  made  a  contribution  of  $300 
to  the  campaign  fund,  and  will  add  more 
to  this  later.  The  Atlanta  club  hopes  to 
give  $500  each  year  of  the  campaign. 

Mrs.  Thatcher  as  a  representative  of 
the  alumnae  thanked  the  students  for  their 
splendid  work  during  the  campaign  on 
the  campus. 

Miss  Nannie  Campbell  reported  that  the 
main  handicap  of  the  Richmond  Agnes 
Scott  club  is  the  fluctuating  membership. 

The  Charlotte,  Birmingham,  Orlando  and 
several  other  clubs  reported  growing  in- 
terest in  Agnes  Scott. 


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The  president,  Mrs.  Adams,  reported 
that  Miss  Polly  Stone  had  applied  for  a 
leave  of  absence  for  one  year  as  alumnae 
secretary.  The  president  expressed  the  re- 
gret of  the  alumnae  that  Miss  Stone  found 
it  necessary  to  make  this  request. 

Motion  was  made  and  carried  that  the 
constitution  of  the  Alumnae  Council  be 
revised.  The  president  appointed  the  orig- 
inal committee  on  revision  of  the  con- 
stitution of  the  Alumnae  Association  to 
serve  in  this  capacity  for  the  Alumnae 
Council. 

On  motion  duly  made  and  seconded, 
council   adjourned. 

CORA  MORTON  DURRETT, 

Secretary. 


MINUTES  OF  THE  ANNUAL  MEETING 

OF  THE  AGNES  SCOTT  ALUMNAE 

ASSOCIATION  MAY  25,  1929 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  the 
president,  Mrs.  Hilda  McConnell  Adams. 
Minutes  of  last  meeting  were  read  and 
approved. 

Motion  to  receive  and  adopt  as  a  whole 
reports  from  all  officers,  and  then  of  all 
committees,  was  made  and  adopted. 

Reports  of  the  president,  general  secre- 
tary and  the  treasurer  were  then  read  and 
accepted. 

Reports  were  made  by  the  following 
standing  committees:  Alumnae  Loan 
League,  Finance,  Grounds,  House  and  Tea 
Room,  Entertainment,  and  Preparatory 
Schools.  These  reports  were  likewise  ac- 
cepted as  a  whole. 

The  president  expressed  the  gratitude 
of  the  alumnae  to  the  trustees  for  the 
$500  given  the  past  year,  and  for  the  $500 
voted  by  them  to  the  alumnae  for  the  year 
1929-1930. 

Mrs.  Guy  moved  that  a  letter  be  written 
Mrs.  Louise  Brown  Hastings  in  apprecia- 
tion of  her  splendid  gift  of  flowers  and 
shrubs,  as  well  as  her  untiring  services  as 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Beautifying 
Gi-ounds  and  Buildings. 

Action  of  the  trustees  in  designating 
Miss  Mary  Wallace  Kirk  as  alumnae  trus- 
tee for  two  years  was  duly  ratified. 

Mrs.  Thatcher  as  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Revision  of  Constitution,  called 
especial  attention  to  the  following  impor- 
tant changes: 

1.  Separation  of  constitution  and  by- 
laws. 


2.  Associate  membership  open  to  any 
one  who  has  been  a  student  in  Agnes  Scott 
College,  Institute  or  Academy. 

3.  Formation  of  the  Student  Loan  Com- 
mittee, which  includes  the  old  Student  Aid 
League  and  the  Scholarship  Committee. 
Only  students  of  junior  and  senior  classes 
to  receive  aid,  thus  allowing  the  money 
to  be  turned  over  more  rapidly. 

4.  Vocational  Guidance  Committee  elim- 
inated, as  college  does  most  of  this  work. 

5.  Committee  on  Class  Organization 
eliminated,  as  general  secretary  does  work 
of  this  committee. 

6.  Audit  of  accounts  of  treasurer  an- 
nually, auditor  to  be  selected  by  execu- 
tive committee. 

7.  Requirement  of  minimum  of  five 
members  for  the  formation  of  a  local 
branch. 

8.  One  councillor  from  each  five  mem- 
bers of  a  local  club,  with  one  additional 
councillor  for  each  extra  twenty-five  mem- 
bers. 

9.  Addition  to  the  list  of  standing  com- 
mittees of  the  Committee  on  Constitution 
and  By-Laws. 

After  some  discussion,  the  revised  con- 
stitution, on  motion  duly  made  and  sec- 
onded, was  adopted  as  a  whole. 

On  motion  duly  made  and  seconded,  the 
Executive  Committee  was  instructed  to 
select  a  suitable  gift  for  Miss  Hopkins. 

The  president,  Mrs.  Adams,  reported 
that  Miss  Polly  Stone  had  applied  for  a 
leave  of  absence  for  one  year  as  alumnae 
secretary.  The  president  expressed  the  re- 
gret of  the  alumnae  that  Miss  Stone  found 
it  necessary  to  make  this  request.  A  ris- 
ing vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  her  for 
the  untiring  and  splendid  services  she  has 
given  for  the  past  four  years  as  general 
seci*etary. 

It  was  decided,  on  motion  made  and 
seconded,  to  present  a  gift  of  money  to 
Miss  Polly  Stone  at  the  trustees'  luncheon. 

It  was  stressed  that  dues  be  paid  by 
September.  The  constitution  states:  "Any 
member  who  fails  to  pay  her  dues  shall  re- 
ceive the  literature  of  the  association  for 
one  year  thereafter,  but  she  shall  be  en- 
titled to  vote  and  to  the  other  privileges  of 
the  association  only  for  the  current  year 
for  which  she  has  paid  dues." 

As  there  was  no  further  business,  the 
meeting   adjourned. 

CORA  MORTON  DURRETT, 

Secretary. 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


REPORT  OF  THE  PRESIDENT 

The  efforts  of  the  Association  this  year 
have  been  centered  almost  exclusively  upon 
the  endowment  campaign  which  we  plan- 
ned in  May,  1928.  The  general  response 
has  been  sincere  and  encouraging,  even 
though  we  have  not  reached  our  greatest 
hopes  financially.  Five  hundred  and  seven- 
ty alumnae  have  pledged  a  total  of  $70,000 
— more  than  half  of  the  amount  set  for 
our   goal. 

The  pamphlets  and  letters  sent  out  to 
the  alumnae  from  the  college  have  been 
the  means  of  arousing  new  interest  and  a 
closer  relation  between  Agnes  Scott  and 
her   alumnae. 

The  splendid  response  of  the  students 
and  faculty  by  their  generous  contribu- 
tions to  the  campaign  is  worthy  of  great- 
est appreciation.  The  Association  is  grate- 
ful to  the  Atlanta  club  for  the  lively 
Founder's  Day  program. 

An  outstanding  piece  of  work  by  the 
constitutional  committee  has  been  a  com- 
plete revision  of  the  Alumnae  Association 
Constitution.  The  results  of  the  efforts 
of  the  other  committees  will  be  made 
clear   by   the    various    reports. 

In  the  rush  of  campaign  work,  we  have 
tried  to  keep  in  touch  with  the  student 
body.  The  student  members  of  the 
alumnae  council  have  made  interesting  re- 
ports. The  annual  tea  for  the  senior  class 
was  given,  as  usual,  this  spring  in  the 
Alumnae  House. 

We   would   express   our   appreciation   to 
all   of   those   who   have,   during   the   past 
year,   helped   in   any  way  to  promote  the 
growth  of  the  Alumnae  Association. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
HILDA  McCONNELL  ADAMS. 


REPORT  OF  THE  GENERAL 
SECRETARY 

The  year's  work  in  the  alumnae  office 
has  been  handicapped  by  the  fact  that  the 
secretary  has  had  to  be  away  a  good 
deal  of  the  time  on  campaign  business. 
These  trips  have  combined  alumnae  work 
with  campaign  work,  however,  for  in  the 
various  cities  she  has  visited,  she  has  met 
with  alumnae  clubs  and  groups,  and  in 
many  cases  aided  the  preparatory  schools 
committee  by  speaking  in  the  high  schools 
and  interviewing  individual  high  school 
students.  The  secretary  has  been  out  of 
the  office  for  five  weeks  since  Christmas 
doing  this  work,  visiting  all  the  principal 
cities  and  towns  in  Alabama,  North  and 
South  Carolina,  and  several  cities  in  Geor- 
gia. Though  this  has  necessarily  slowed 
down  work  on  files  and  records,  etc.,  we  all 
feel   that   right   now   the   campaign   work 


should  come  first,  and  that  our  present 
great  undertaking,  the  erection  of  the 
Gaines  Memorial  Chapel  by  the  alumnae, 
must  have  right  of  way  over  every  other 
alumnae  plan. 

Three  issues  of  the  Alumnae  Quarterly 
have  already  appeared — November,  Janu- 
ary and  April.  The  fourth  quarterly  for 
the  year  containing  the  good  news  of  the 
General  Education  Board's  gift  and  com- 
mencement write-ups  will  appear  in  July. 

A  good  deal  of  work  has  been  done  on 
alumnae  records  this  year,  and  the  class 
scrapbooks  have  many  new  items.  These 
books  (the  gift  two  years  ago  of  Mary 
(West)  Thatcher,  '15)  are  increasingly 
interesting  as  time  goes  on  and  new  pages 
become  filled. 

The  secretary  has  been  in  closer  touch 
with  the  students  this  year  than  ever  be- 
fore, and  she  is  constantly  impressed  with 
their  interest  in  the  alumnae  and  the 
Alumnae  Association.  The  secretary  has 
addressed  the  entire  student  body  and 
picked  groups  of  students  on  various  oc- 
casions this  year — the  one  thing  of  the 
year  about  which  she  feels  entirely  satis- 
fied is  the  alumnae-student  relationship. 
The  last  class  meeting  of  '29  was  held  in 
the  Alumnae  House  living-room,  when  the 
seniors  were  welcomed  into  the  Alumnae 
Association  and  the  duties  and  privileges 
explained  to  them  in  a  not-too-dry-as-dust 
way. 

The  part  of  the  secretary's  work  which 
at  the  end  of  the  year  can  show  no  definite 
results,  yet  which  consumes  an  enormous 
amount  of  time  is  the  position  of  hostess 
at  the  Alumnae  House.  When  she  is  in 
town,  the  secretary  is  "on  tap"  practically 
twenty-four  hours  a  day,  seven  days  a 
week.  This  is  a  delightful,  though  ex- 
hausting, part  of  her  job. 

In  conclusion  may  she  be  allowed  to  say 
that  she  has  really  enjoyed  immensely  her 
four  years  as  alumnae  secretary,  and  its 
many  contacts  with  alumnae  and  residence 
at  the  dearest  college  in  the  world,  and 
wishes  for  her  successor  what  she  will 
surely  find  here — years  as  happy. 
Respectfully   submitted, 

POLLY  STONE. 


TREASURER'S  REPORT 
Proposed  budget,   1929-30: 
Income 

Tea  Room $    700.00 

House  rent 400.00 

Room  rent 200.00 

Dues 1,500.00 

Gifts 500.00 

Miscellaneous 25.00 


$3,325.00 


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Expense 

Secretary    $    900.00 

Office  supplies,  printing,  postage, 

etc. 1,300.00 

Furnishing  and  upkeep 350.00 

Maid 160.00 

Traveling  expenses 100.00 

Dues 32.50 

Entertainment 50.00 

Miscellaneous 30.00 


$2,922.50 
Debt  (to  Life  Membership  Fund)      330.95 


$3,253.45 
Report  for  year  1928-29 : 
Receipts 

Tea  Room  profits $    171.03 

House  rent 400.00 

Room  rent 163.25 

Dues 1,412.20 

Miscellaneous 32.69 

Gifts 555.00 

Gift  for  Miss  Hopkins 316.10 

Gift  for  Miss  Stone 40.85 

Interest  on  Savings  Account 47.20 


Balance  in  bank,  Sept.  29,  1928_ 


5,138.32 
267.20 


$3,405.52 
Disbursements 

Secretary    $1,300.00 

Office  supplies,  printing  and  post 

age 1,030.02 

Furnishings  and  upkeep 241.78 

Maid 160.00 

Dues 32.50 

Entertainment 30.40 

Miscellaneous 20.51 

Gift  to  Miss  Stone 50.00 

Gift  to  Alumnae  House 55.00 


$2,920.21 
Balance  in  bank,  June  1,  1929 485.31 


$3,405.52 


Prior  to  my  taking  office,  the  Alumnae 
Association  had  borrowed  $330.95  from  the 
Life  Membership  Fund,  and  during  my 
term  of  office  it  has  not  been  possible 
to    repay   this   amount. 

At  the  direction  of  Dr.  McCain,  the 
Alumnae  Association  returned  to  Miss 
Mary  Kirkpatrick,  at  her  request,  the  un- 
used portion  of  a  prize  fund  which  she 
had  given  some  years  ago,  the  amount 
being  $306.66,  which  was  taken  from  the 
savings  account.  Balance  in  the  savings 
account  (Life  Membership  Fund)  is 
$964.29. 

Respectfully    submitted, 
Mary   Palmer    (Caldwell)    McFarland, 

Treasurer. 


BEAUTIFYING  GROUNDS  AND 
BUILDINGS    COMMITTEE 

The  committee  is  composed  of  the  fol- 
lowing members: 

Christine   (Evans)   Murray. 

Eileen    (Dodd)    Sams. 

Sarah  Belle    (Brodnax)    Hansell. 

Miss  Louise  Lewis. 

Miss  Mary  Stuart  MacDougall. 

We  report  for  the  year  the  planting  of 
500  tulips,  500  daffodils,  and  175  hyacinths 
in  beds  about  the  campus. 

Our  plans  are  to  try  in  this  coming  year 
to  have  a  well-planned  scheme,  that  will 
keep  some  flowers  in  bloom  on  the  cam- 
pus the  whole  year,  and  the  above  is  only 
the  beginning.  Our  plans  call  for  further 
development  around  the  drive,  new  shrubs, 
etc.,  the  planning  of  a  formal  garden, 
which  will  be  a  mass  of  color  spring  and 
fall. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
LOUISE  (BROWN)  HASTINGS, 

Chairman. 


ENTERTAINMENT  COMMITTEE 

The  entertainment  committee,  composed 
of  Mec  (Maclntyre)  McAfee,  Eliza  (Can- 
dler) Earthman,  Marie  (Maclntyre)  Scott, 
and  Clare  Louise  (Scott)  Beall,  has  given 
two  parties  this  year.  The  first  was  the 
birthday  tea,  given  at  the  Alumnae  House 
on  Miss  Anna  Young's  birthday,  to  which 
the  alumnae  and  faculty  were  invited.  The 
second  was  a  tea  for  the  senior  class. 
This  was  given  in  April  at  the  Alumnae 
House.  The  committee  is  also  responsible 
for  the  decorations  of  today's  luncheon. 
Respectfully  submitted, 
LOIS  (MacINTYRE)  BEALL, 

Chairman. 


STUDENT    LOAN    FUND    COMMITTEE 

The  members  of  this  committee  are: 
Mrs.  Lewis  Gaines,  chairman;  Mrs.  John 
Van  DeErve,  Miss  Elizabeth  Lynn,  treas- 
urer. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  year  the  com- 
mittee had  in  the  bank  $550.27  at  its  dis- 
posal. Seven  applications  for  loans  wer-e 
received  early  in  September  and  after  con- 
sulting with  the  president  of  the  college 
and  looking  into  the  records  of  the  ap- 
plicants, loans  were  granted  to  these  seven 
girls.  These  loans  were  made  possible 
by  the  return  of  three  loans  given  to  stu- 
dents in  the  past. 

Our  treasurer  has  sent  letters  to  all  de- 
linquents with  some  results.  There  was 
no  response  from  four  of  the  previous 
loans.  Two  addresses  seem  to  be  lost, 
and  letters  have  been  returned  unclaimed. 

Following  is  the  report  of  the  treasurer: 
Respect  fully  submitted, 
MRS.  LEWIS  GAINES, 

Chairman. 


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FINANCIAL  REPORT  OF  THE  STU- 
DENT LOAN  FUND 

Money  on  former  loans  paid  in  dur- 
ing year $708.85 

Money  loaned  out  again  this  year__  625.00 

Balance  on  hand  at  present $  83.85 

Loans  have  been  made  to  seven  girls 
this  year.  One  has  repaid  part  of  her  loan 
already.  Letters  have  been  sent  to  all 
girls  who  have  left  school,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  two  whose  addresses  are  incor- 
rect. Not  including  loans  made  this  year, 
and  mentioned  above,  $375.00  is  still  out. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

ELIZABETH  LYNN, 

Treasurer. 


HOUSE  AND  TEA  ROOM  COMMITTEE 

The  popularity  of  the  Anna  Young 
Alumnae  House  continues  to  grow  every 
year  as  more  and  more  alumnae  are  re- 
garding it  as  their  permanent  home  on 
the  campus.  This  year  there  were  one 
hundred  visiting  alumnae  who  spent  at 
least  one  night  there,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  countless  numbers  who  dropped  in 
for  a  friendly  chat,  tea,  or  a  meal.  The 
college  guest  room  has  had  many  distin- 
guished visitors  among  whom  were  M. 
Desclos  of  Paris,  Mrs.  Percy  Pennybacker, 
Mrs.  Karl  Wilson  Baker,  the  poetess;  Dr. 
Frank  Morgan,  Dr.  Henry  Sweets,  and 
Mr.  A.  M.  Palmer,  Assistant  Director  of 
the  Institute  of  International  Education. 

We  have  done  some  refurnishing  up- 
stairs in  the  house  which  has  cost  very 
little  but  yet  has  been  most  effective. 
There  are  new  colored  rayon  spreads  on 
the  beds;  two  mattresses  renovated;  there 
is  a  chintz  covered  boudoir  chair  in  one 
room;  and  Dr.  McCain  very  generously 
gave  us  twenty-five  dollars  which  we  used 
in  freshening  up  the  college  guest  room. 
The  cash  register  in  the  Tea  Room  has 
been  repaired  and  there  is  a  new  gas  stove 
in  the  kitchen. 

As  usual,  our  friends  have  been  very 
generous  with  us.  At  the  home-coming 
tea  which  is  held  every  fall  in  memory  of 
Miss  Anna  Young,  Mrs.  Samuel  Young, 
Mrs.  John  J.  Eagan,  and  Mrs.  Paul  Brown 
gave  the  house  fifty-five  dollars.  Linen  has 
been  received  from  Louisa  White,  Maurine 
Bledsoe,  Frances  (Arant)  Wilmer,  Mary 
(West)  Thatcher,  Miss  Lillian  Smith,  Miss 
McKinney,  and  Dr.  Sweet.  The  Atlanta 
club,  continuing  its  plan  for  the  furnishing 
of  the  living  room,  added  a  very  beauti- 
ful tilt-top  table  as  a  birthday  gift  to  the 
house. 


Miss  Florinne  Brown,  the  manager  of 
the  Tea  Room,  is  leaving  us  this  year. 
The  committee  and,  I  am  sure,  the  entire 
Alumnae  Association,  will  ever  be  grate- 
ful for  the  work  she  has  done  for  us  and 
our  best  wishes  go  with  her  in  the  new 
work  which  she  is  taking  up.  After  care- 
ful consideration  we  have  engaged  Mrs. 
Vera  Nisbet,  who  for  the  past  eight  years 
has  been  hostess  and  has  had  entire  charge 
of  the  boarding  department  at  North  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  School.  Mrs.  Nisbet 
comes  to  us  with  splendid  recommenda- 
tions and  we  feel  that  we  are  most  for- 
tunate  in  having  her. 

A  report  concerning  the  Alumnae  House 
would  not  be  complete  without  an  expres- 
sion of  our  love  for  and  grateful  apprecia- 
tion of  the  work  of  Polly  Stone,  to  whom, 
as  hostess,  most  of  the  fine  and  genial 
atmosphere  which  pervades  the  Alumnae 
House  is  due.  We  hate  to  think  of  the 
house  and  the  campus  without  her. 

The  financial  statement  is  as  follows: 
Total  receipts  of  the  Tea  Room, 

September- April $7,012.12 

Total  profits 228.02 

.  75%  profits  to  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion        171.03 

20%  profits  to  Tea  Room  manager        45.59 
5%   profits  to  House  Committee..      11.40 

Funds  handled  by  this  committee: 
Balance  on  hand  September,  1928  $       79.70 

5%  of  Tea  Room  profits 11.40 

Gifts 55.00 

Total   $     146.10 

Disbursements: 

Refurnishing  bed  rooms $     47.76 

Kitchen  equipment  and  new  silver        12.47 

Total   $     60.23 

Cash  on  hand $       85.87 

The  committee  has  made  a  recommenda- 
tion to  the  Executive  Committee  which  has 
been  approved.  We  think  that  there  should 
be  a  difference  between  the  amount  paid 
by  returning  alumnae  who  occupy  the 
guest  rooms  and  those  who  sleep  on  cots 
in  the  sewing  room.  Therefore  the  com- 
mittee proposed  to  raise  the  very  small 
sum  of  fifty  cents  per  night  to  seventy-five 
cents  for  those  occupying  guest  rooms. 
Those  who  apply  for  places  late  and  have 
to  sleep  on  cots  shall  pay  only  fifty  cents. 

Respectfully   submitted, 
FRANCES  (GILLILAND)  STUKES,  '24, 

Chairman. 
CARRIE  SCANDRETT,  '24. 
EVA   (TOWERS)   HENDEE,  ex  '10. 
GUSSIE   (O'NEAL)  JOHNSON,  ex  '11. 
(Reports  continued  on  page  32) 


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Concerning  Ourselves 


1889-1906 

Kitty  (Burress)  Martin  and  her  old 
roommate,  Kate  (Logan)  Good,  came  back 
together  this  year  to  commencement, 
roomed  in  Main  Building  again,  and  said 
they  had  the  time  of  their  lives.  They 
took  their  meals  at  Miss  Hopkins'  table, 
and  told  many  tales  of  institute  days  that 
kept  the  whole  table  in  a  gale  of  laughter. 

Hattie  (Blackford)  Williams,  '03,  visit- 
ed the  college  at  commencement  time. 

Ellen  (Cheshire)  Kemp's  daughter,  from 
Missoula,  Montana,  is  a  student  at  Agnes 
Scott. 

Alice  (Coffin)  Smith's  daughters,  Alice 
and  Sarah,  were  both  married  this  spring. 
Sarah  has  moved  to   Augusta  to  live. 

Corinne  (Cotton)  Hodges'  daughter, 
Marian,  was  graduated  from  Agnes  Scott 
this  June.  Her  engagement  was  an- 
nounced at  the  alumnae  luncheon. 

Annie  (Emery)  Flinn's  second  son,  Dick, 
was  graduated  with  honors  from  David- 
son this  June.  He  will  teach  at  Banner 
Elk,  N.  C,  next  year,  and  then  plans  to 
enter  the  ministry. 

Frances  (Fisher)  Warren  is  spending  the 
summer  abroad. 

Marian  (Haynes)  King  has  written  a 
most  interesting  letter  telling  of  her  life 
and  home  in  Zellwood,  Fla.  "My  mother 
and  sister  live  in  Leesburg,  twenty-five 
miles  from  here,  and  as  we  both  own  cars, 
it  is  not  long  between  visits.  I  drive  my 
own  car  and  enjoy  it.  Those  who  remem- 
ber how  terrified  I  used  to  be  of  driving 
or  even  riding  in  a  horse  and  buggy  will 
smile  at  this.  We  have  a  nice,  comfort- 
able home  here  in  Zellwood  with  all  the 
conveniences  of  a  city  and  are  only  forty- 
five  miles  from  Orlando.  As  to  my  looks 
now — well,  I  weigh  a  hundred  and  forty- 
six,  and  have  bobbed  hair.  We  Floridians 
are  making  a  valiant  tight  against  our 
latest  pest — the  fruit  fly.  As  it  all  started 
in  a  grove  in  Orlando,  we  are  very  close 
to  the  trouble,  but  the  clean-up  policy  is 
being  so  closely  carried  out  that  we  are 
very  hopeful  of  shipping  fruit  next  winter 
even  from  our  section.  My  pet  hobby 
these  days  outside  of  my  home  is  the 
Orange  General  Hospital  in  Orlando.  I 
am  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Advisory 
Board  and  also  a  member  of  the  Orlando 
Auxiliary  of  the  Orange  General  Hospital 
Association.  Our  duties  are  mostly  to  sew 
articles  needed  in  the  hospital,  and  to 
raise    money    everlastingly!      My    particu- 


lar job  has  been  the  making  of  jelly,  and 
one  year  I  made  nearly  300  glasses.  At 
home,  my  hobby  is  my  family  of  Persian 
cats.  They  are  thoroughbreds,  perfect 
beauties,  and  get  a  great  deal  of  atten- 
tion. I  sold  two  kittens  and  have  one 
more  to  sell.  A  main  industry  here  in 
Zellwood  is  growing  Boston,  Sprengeri  and 
Asparagus  Plumose  ferns.  They  are  sold 
in  the  Woolworth,  McCrory,  Kress  and 
Grant  chain  stores  everywhere.  The  women 
of  the  neighborhood  wrap  the  ferns  and 
even  the  children  get  jobs  on  rush  days. 

Our  packing  house  was  making  an  ef- 
fort to  ship  60,000  ferns  today.  My  son- 
in-law  is  interested  in  a  new  cut  fern, 
called  the  leather  leaf.  These  fronds  will 
last  a  month  standing  in  a  little  water, 
and  are  beautiful,  too."  Marian  sends  news 
of  other  alumnae,  too,  among  them  of 
Alice  (Hocker)  Drake.  Alice  lost  her  hus- 
band last  year.  Her  son,  Trusten,  Jr.,  was 
married  shortly  after  his  father's  death, 
and  lives  at  home  with  his  mother.  Wil- 
liam, Alice's  other  son,  is  still  in  college. 
Annie  Newton,  Agnes  Scott's  first  May 
queen,  came  up  from  LaGrange  to  witness 
the  May  Day  fete  at  the  college  this 
spring. 

In  the  midst  of  this  unstable  and  chang- 
ing age,  it  is  refreshing  to  find  one  alumna 
who  does  not  change  her  apartment  every 
September.  Carrie  B.  Scott  has  lived  in 
the  same  home  in  Kirkwood  for  over  thirty 
years.  If  only  there  were  more  like  her, 
alumnae  secretaries  would  not  grow  grey 
so  early  in   life. 

Annie  Shields  is  Mrs.  William  Prince,  of 
Chickamauga,  Ga.  Her  husband  is  a 
farmer. 

Irene  (Stalnaker)  Overton  is  a  widow 
with  three  daughters.  One  is  married,  one 
is  a  stenographer,  and  one  is  still  in  high 
school.     They  live  in  Hamlet,  N.  C. 

Maude  (Stalnaker)  Brewer  lives  in  Cum- 
berland, Md.,  whei-e  her  husband  is  the 
president  of  the  Liberty  Trust  Company. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Virginia,  now 
seventeen  years  old. 

Effie  Tiller  is  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Work- 
man, Box  1156,  Asheville,  N.  C.  She 
is    holding   a   government   position. 

Aline  (Vance)  Allen  still  lives  in  Buford, 
Ga.     She  is  a  widow  with  two  children. 

Marion  Van  Dyke  is  the  manager  of  a 
travel  service  in  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  She 
has  an  office  in  the  First  National  Bank 
Building. 


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Jessie  (Vereen)  Smithwick  lives  at  4700 
Connecticut  Ave.,  Washington,  D.  C.  Her 
husband  is  a  congressman  from  the  state 
of  Florida.  They  have  two  children,  Mary 
and    William   Vereen   Smithwick. 

Susie  May  (Wallace)  Montgomery's  hus- 
band is  connected  with  the  McNeel  Mar- 
ble Company  at  Marietta,  Ga.  They  have 
two    grown    children. 

Edith  West  has  a  kindergarten  in  Sa- 
vannah, Ga. 

Kate  Whiteman  is  Mrs.  F.  R.  Davis, 
McMinnville,  Tenn.  She  recently  suffered 
a  nervous  breakdown  and  has  been  re- 
cuperating in  a   Nashville   sanitarium. 

Annebel  (Williams)  Cromartie's  husband 
is  a  dentist  in  Fayetteville,  N.  C.  They 
have  two  boys,  16  and  9,  and  a  daughter 
13. 

Bessie  Wilson  is  Mrs.  J.  D.  Reardan, 
221  Belmont  Rd.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Margaret  Wilson  is  Mrs.  C.  W.  McCully, 
Sharon,  S.  C.  Her  husband  is  pastor  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  there.  They  have 
five  children,  among  them  a  daughter  who 
will   come   to   Agnes    Scott  in   1932. 

Susan  (Young)  Egan  is  spending  the 
summer  in  England. 

1907 

Next    reunion,    1930. 

Rachel  (Young)  Gardner  attended  Agnes 
Scott  commencement  to  see  her  daugh- 
ter, Lenore,  receive  her  degree.  Lenore's 
engagement  was  announced  at  the  alumnae 
luncheon. 

1908 

Next  reunion,  1930. 

Jane  Brown  writes:  "Doing  just  the 
same  as  I've  been  doing  for  the  past  two 
years,  and  reveling  in  a  relief  from  con- 
stant change.  House  and  garden,  to  say 
nothing  of  a  job  as  county  librarian,  keep 
me  busy.  I  belong  to  the  Atlantic  City 
branch  of  the  A.  A.  U.  W.  and  have  to 
drive  18  miles  to  a  meeting." 
1909 

Next  reunion,   1930. 

Mec  (Maclntyre)  McAfee's  daughter, 
Marie,  was  graduated  from  Washington 
Seminary  in  Atlanta  in  May. 

Roberta  (Zachry)  Jjngle,  ex  '09,  has 
moved  from  Virginia  to  1424  12th  Ave., 
Greely,    Colorado. 

1910 

Next  reunion,   1931. 

Lida  (Caldwell)  Wilson  is  now  first  lady 
of  Charlotte,  N.  C,  her  husband  having 
recently  been  elected  mayor.  Linda  has  a 
beautiful  home,  and  an  adorable  three- 
year  old  son. 

1911 

Next  reunion,   1931. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of 
Florinne  Brown,  ex  '11,  to  Mr.  Givens 
Arnold,  of  Atlanta,  the  marriage  to  take 


place    this    summer.      Mr.    Arnold   is    con- 
nected with  the  White  Provision  Company. 

A   son,   James   Grinnell   Blanchard,   was 
born  April  3  to  Marie  (Parry)  Blanchard, 
ex  '11,  in  New  York  City. 
1912 

Next  reunion,  1931. 

Ruth  (Slack)  Smith  will  motor  to  Yel- 
lowstone Park  the  first  of  the  summer, 
and  then  attend  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin summer  school. 

Nellie  (Fargason)  Racy,  ex  '12,  has  been 
teaching  Latin  and  French  this  term  at  the 
Hogansville,  Ga.,  high  school.  After  leav- 
ing Agnes  Scott,  Nellie  studied  at  Emory 
and  at  the  University  of  Chicago. 
1913 

Next  reunion,   1931. 

Allie  (Candler)  Guy  made  the  presenta- 
tion speech  recently  when  her  father, 
Judge  John  Candler,  gave  Wesleyan  Col- 
lege a  portrait  of  Allie's  grandmother. 
Little  Florrie  Margaret  Guy  unveiled  the 
portrait. 

Kate  Clark  will  spend  the  summer  in 
Europe   again. 

Lilly  (Joiner)  Williams  writes  that  her 
daughter,  Mary  Winn,  is  making  her  one 
proud  mother  by  winning  all  the  honors 
in  her  school.  Besides  being  a  splendid 
student,  Mary  Winn  is  also  musical. 

Janie  McGaughey  was  recently  made 
chairman  of  the  women's  work  for  the  en- 
tire Southern  Presbyterian  church.  Janie 
was  at  Agnes  Scott  during  May. 

Lavalette   (Sloan)    Tucker  and  her  hus- 
band have   purchased   a  beautiful   site   on 
Hillsboro  Road  in  Nashville  for  their  new 
home  and  plan  to  begin  building  soon. 
1914 

Next  reunion,   1932. 

Mary  (Brown)  Florence  came  from 
Arkansas  to  see  her  twin  cousins,  Hazel 
and  Helon,  graduate  from  Agnes  Scott. 
Both  girls  were  outstanding  students, 
members  of  Hoasc,  and  Helon,  besides 
being  senior  class  president,  was  awarded 
the  Hopkins  Jewel  as  the  member  of  the 
senior  class  who  most  nearly  typifies  the 
Agnes    Scott   ideal. 

1915 

Next  reunion,   1932. 

Marion  (Black)  Cantelou  writes  that  her 
energetic  little  son  has  kept  her  very 
busy  at  home  all  winter,  and  that  the 
Cantelou  family  is  headed  for  the  coast 
this  summer. 

Mary  (Kelly)  Coleman  announces  the  ar- 
rival of  a  son,  Emmett  Lee  Coleman,  Jr., 
on  May  20,  1929,  in  Atlanta. 

Lucv  (Naive)  Swain's  new  address  is 
Apt.  5,  787  Penn  Ave.,  N.  E.,  Atlanta. 

Mary  (West)  Thatcher  accompanied  her 
husband  on  a  business  trip  to  Florida  in 
May. 


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25 


Isabel  Norwood,  ex  '15,  is  singing  at  the 
Roxy  Theatre  in  New  York.  Marion 
(Black)  Cantelou  says:  "Isabel  was  in 
Montgomery  for  a  short  visit  this  win- 
ter— lovelier  than  ever  and  vastly  en- 
thusiastic   over  her  work." 

Lula  (White)  Potter  has  moved  into  a 
new  home  at  705  Morningside  Dr.,  N.  E., 
Atlanta. 

1916 

Next  reunion,  1932. 

Mary  (Bryan)  Winn  and  her  diminutive 
daughter,  Leonora,  visited  in  Decatur  dur- 
ing May.  Mary  was  here  to  see  her 
brother,  Harry,  graduated  from  Columbia 
Seminary  and  to  let  Leonora  look  over 
her  future  Alma  Mater. 

Elizabeth  (Burke)  Burdett,  of  Brussels, 
Belgium,  is  visiting  her  mother  in  Macon, 
Ga.,  and  came  up  for  the  alumnae  lunch- 
eon. She  writes:  "I  don't  know  when 
I  have  enjoyed  anything  so  much!  It  is 
the  first  time  I  have  ever  been  near 
enough  to  come  back  since  I  graduated  and 
I  see  what  I  am  missing  each  year  by 
living  so  far  away." 

Nell  (Frve)  Johnston  has  moved  to  201 
W.   Flora   St.,  Tampa,   Fla. 

Maryellen  (Harvey)  Newton  and  her 
two  small  daughters  have  been  visiting 
her  parents  in  Montgomery. 

Margaret  Phythian  is  returning  to  the 
States  this  month  after  a  year  spent  in 
study  at  the  Sorbonne.  She  will  be  with 
her  father  in  Kentucky  during  the  summer 
and  will  take  up  her  work  in  the  French 
department  at  Agnes  Scott  in  September. 
1917 

Next  reunion,  1932. 

Amelia  (Alexander)  Greenawalt  writes: 
"We  have  lived  in  Albany,  Ga.,  for  the 
last  five  years  without  any  news  of  in- 
terest, but  we  are  very  happy  now  over 
the  probability  of  moving  back  to  At- 
lanta this  summer.  Any  member  of  old  '17 
who  comes  through  had  better  not  try  to 
skip  by  without  coming  out  to  see  me  and 
my  two  daughters.  Amelia,  Jr.,  will  enter 
A.  S.  C.  six  years  from  this  fall.  She  is 
really  making  a  wonderful  record  in  the 
grammar  grades.  Myra's  scholarship  is 
something  to  be  proud  of,  too,  but  that 
young  lady  is  certainly  a  handful." 

Gjertrud  (Amundsen)  Siqueland  writes 
from  Brooklyn:  "I  have  been  busy  getting 
my  house  in  order  and  running  on  an  ef- 
ficient schedule  made  to  be  easily  broken. 
We  enjoy  watching  the  garden  grow  and 
are  looking  forward  to  a  nice  quiet  sum- 
mer here  in  our  own  home." 

Ellen  (Ramsay)  Phillips  writes  from 
Mexico:  "I  have  not  seen  a  single  one 
of  my  college  mates  since  I  graduated.  We 
were  in  the  states  on  leave  last  year,  but 


spent  almost  all  the  time  in  Texas  and 
California.  We  have  just  moved  to  Mexico 
City.  It  nearly  broke  our  hearts  to  leave 
Jalapa,  but  due  to  the  advance  in  the 
development  of  the  native  church  and  the 
request  of  the  native  Presbytery  for  all 
work  to  be  given  over  to  the  entire  direc- 
tion and  support  of  the  native  church, 
our  mission  thought  it  wise  for  all  evan- 
gelistic workers  to  be  withdrawn  from  this 
particular  territoi-y  and  so  we  have  gone 
into  educational  work  temporarily.  We 
are  living  next  door  to  the  Girls'  Nor- 
mal, where  Harry  teaches  English,  psy- 
chology and  logic  and  I  teach  arithmetic 
in  the  English  school,  and  music,  theory 
of  music,  and  sight-singing  in  the  normal 
department.  Our  children  ax*e  fast  grow- 
ing up.  Jean  Sue,  our  eldest,  was  ten 
a  few  weeks  ago.  She  has  finished  the 
fourth  grade  and  plays  the  violin  excep- 
tionally well.  Andrew  Ramsey  is  seven 
and  a  half  and  will  be  in  the  third  grade 
next  year.  Foster  Maxwell,  our  three- 
year  old  baby,  has  just  started  to  kinder- 
garten." Ellen's  address  is  Arenal  42, 
San   Angel,   Mexico,   D.   F. 

Vallie  Young  (White)  Archibald  says: 
"An  urgent  request  from  Regina  Pinkston 
forces  me  to  write,  although  I  have  no 
news.  Have  no  plans  for  this  summer  as 
I  have  to  catch  up  on  my  marvelous  trip 
to  Europe  last  summer.  My  little  girl  will 
be  seven  years  old  in  July  and  she  is  count- 
ing on  going  to  Agnes  Scott  when  the 
time  comes.  I  had  such  a  nice,  though 
short,  visit  from  Mrs.  Parry  several  weeks 
ago.  She  is  the  same  dear  'Mother  Maude' 
as  we  '17-ers  knew  at  camp  that  won- 
derful time." 

Mary  Virginia  (Yancey)  Fahy  writes:  "I 
should  like  the  Agnes  Scotters  to  know 
that  we  (Joe,  Joseph,  Jr.,  and  I)  would 
be  delighted  to  see  any  of  them  should 
they  be  in  Washington.  Joseph,  Jr.,  is 
now  six  months  old  and  is  a  perfect  dar- 
ling to  us.  He  has  big  brown  eyes  and  red 
hair  and  is  full  of  mischief — a  regular 
laughing  baby.  We  find  Washington  a  de- 
lightful place  to  live  and  we  are  happy  to 
see  many  of  our  friends,  for  everyone 
comes  to  Washington  sooner  or  later." 
Mary  Virginia's  address  is  2807  Ontario 
Road. 

Celia  Grant,  ex   '17,  and  a  former  lost 
alumna,  has   been   found   at  441   28th   St., 
West  Palm  Beach,  Fla. 
1918 

Next  reunion,  1933. 

Hallie  (Alexander)  Turner  has  bought 
a  home  at  2435  10th  St.,  Columbus,  Ga. 

Ruth  (Anderson)  O'Neal  has  a  new  baby, 
and  a  most  delightful  new  baby,  just  like 
all  the  other  little  O'Neals,  to  judge  from 
reports  of  other  Winston-Salem  alumnae. 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Winning  prizes  has  become  quite  the 
ordinary  thing  for  Helen  Trafford  Moore, 
ex  '18,  of  Asheville,  N.  C.  Only  a  few 
months  ago  she  won  sixth  place  in  an 
international  contest  where  eight  hundred 
poems  were  submitted.  This  contest  was 
conducted  by  the  Poetry  Review  of  London 
and  the  poem  of  Helen's,  "Wings,"  appear- 
ed in  the  March- April  number  of  that  mag- 
azine. The  Society  of  Present  Day  Poets 
of  America,  has  just  awarded  Helen  first 
prize  in  a  contest  in  which  three  thousand 
poems  were  submitted.  The  title  of  this 
prize-winner  is  "The  City  of  the  Silent 
Dead,"  and  it  is  dedicated  to  Arlington 
Cemetery.  A  lovely  Easter  anthem  written 
by  her  several  years  ago,  and  which  has 
become  widely  known  in  American  church 
choirs,  is  "Awake   My   Soul,  Arise." 

1919 

Next  reunion,  1933. 

Blanche  (Copeland)  Gifford's  new  ad- 
dress is  712  S.  Edison,  Tampa,  Fla. 

Lucy  Durr  has  recently  been  made  presi- 
dent of  the  Montgomery  Junior  League.  In 
addition,  she  has  won  all  sorts  of  laurels 
for  her  work  in  the   Little  Theatre. 

Lois  Eve  is  enjoying  the  summer  at 
home  in  Augusta,  and  taking  long  drives 
in   her   new    sport    roadster. 

The  engagement  of  Mary  Alice  Norman 
to  Mr.  William  Wesley  Pate,  of  Tela,  Hon- 
duras, was  announced  at  the  alumnae 
luncheon.  Mr.  Pate  is  a  graduate  of  Ala- 
bama Polytechnic  Institute,  and  is  at  pres- 
ent soil  chemist  in  the  research  depart- 
ment of  the  United  Fruit  Company,  Tela, 
Honduras. 

Mary    Katherine    Parks     visited     Agnes 
Scott    just    before    commencement. 
1920 

Next  reunion,  1933. 

Margaret  Bland  is  spending  the  summer 
at  home  in  Charlotte.  She  will  study 
playwriting  next  year  with  Professor 
Baker   at   Yale. 

Juliet  (Foster)  Speer  drove  down  for 
commencement    at   the    college    this    year. 

Anne  Houston  was  married  in  April  to 
Mr.  David  Ira  Shires,  of  Lewisburg,  Tenn. 
They  came  by  Agnes  Scott  on  their  wed- 
ding trip. 

The  life  of  a  newspaper  reporter  is  full 
of  thrills,  and  notes  from  Emilie  Keyes 
are  always  interesting.  She  says:  "I  did 
have  a  gorgeous  winter,  interviewing  all 
the  celebrities  in  Palm  Beach — everyone 
from  Rube  Goldberg  to  Sinclair  Lewis, 
Grover  Whalen  to  Marion  Talley.  Now 
that  the  season  is  over,  I  am  back  on  my 
old    grind — wrangling    city    hall     politics 


and  looking  forward  to  a  few  weeks  va- 
cation up  in  Minnesota,  far  from  my  gen- 
erally beloved  topics." 

Marion  (McCamy)  Sims  was  busy  com- 
mencement time  directing  the  senior  play 
at   the   Dalton   High   School. 

"Crip"  Slack  says:  "My  summer  is  going 
to  be  a  series  of  summer  conferences  and 
office  work.  The  only  thing  different  and 
new  on  the  horizon  is  two  weeks  at  Lake 
Winnipesaukeei,,  New  Hampshire,  where 
sister  will  join  me,  and  then  we  will  motor 
back  together.  The  only  Agnes  Scott  girls 
I  have  seen  lately  were  Mary  (Champe) 
Raftery,  ex  '14,  and  Frances  (Glasgow) 
Patterson,  '19,  when  I  was  at  Lexington 
over  the  week-end  some  time  ago.  Frances 
is  looking  forward  to  returning  to  China 
with  much  pleasure  some  time  in  August. 
Her  two  little  boys  are  certainly  fine.  Mary 
has  a  most  attractive  house  with  a  very 
artistic  garden  and  three  adorable  children. 
Then  at  Natural  Bridge  I  saw  Margaret 
(McLaughlin)  Hogshead,  '21,  and  her  little 
girl.  Incidentally,  Margaret  (McLean) 
McLaurin,  ex  '23,  and  I  were  making  this 
trip  together  in  her  car.  The  most  fun 
I  have  had  in  some  time  was  a  trip  to 
New  York,  where  I  met  with  a  number  of 
editors,  authors,  and  illustrators,  who  were 
exceedingly  funny  and  thoroughly  enter- 
taining. The  best  part  of  this  trip,  how- 
ever, was  lunch  with  Mart  Hay,  ex  '23, 
and  Jean  McAllister,  '21.  They  are  so 
full  of  ambition  and  higher  learning  that 
it  made  me  feel  terribly  dull.  We  had  a 
large  time,  though,  rehearsing  the  days  at 
Agnes  Scott  and  talking  of  the  friends  we 
had  seen  at  recent  times.  I  will  get  to 
Georgia  some  time  in  June  and  hope  to 
see  a  few  more  girls  on  this  trip.  Oh,  yes, 
I  was  having  dinner  last  night  with  Louie 
Dean  (Stephens)  Hayes,  '22,  who  has 
moved  here  from  Baltimore  and  lives  just 
around  the  corner  from  me.  It  is  great 
fun  having  her  so  near,  and  I  certainly 
enjoy  being  with  her.  A  friend  of  mine 
who  is  traveling  in  Europe  wrote  the  other 
day  that  in  the  same  compartment  with  her 
from  Lucerne  to  Paris  were  Mrs.  Bu- 
chanan, of  Marion,  Virginia,  and  her 
daughter,  Nell.  Sounds  familiar,  doesn't 
it?"  Whatever  would  the  Quarterly  do 
without  peripatetic  "Crip,"  who  gathers 
not  moss,  but  so  much  g»ood  news  for  each 
issue    with    her   traveling? 


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27 


1922 

Next  reunion,  1934. 

Agnes  Adams,  violinist,  assisted  the  col- 
lege glee  club  with  thqir  program  on 
Saturday  night  of  commencement. 

Nell  Buchanan  is  chaperoning  a  group 
of  girls  in  Europe  again  this  summer. 
Mazxia  Green  and  Mae  Erskine  Irvine,  '27; 
Lucile  Gause,  '25;  Marion  Park,  ex  '22, 
and  Mary  Bell  McConkey,  '28,  are  members 
of  the   party. 

Chauffeur  Eunice  (Dean)  Major  drove 
up  to  the  Alumnae  House  during  com- 
mencement with  a  carfull  of  alumnae  from 
Anderson,    S.    C. 

Ruth  (Evans)  Larimore  spent  several 
weeks  in  Georgia  with  her  family  during 
the  late  spring,  and  returned  to  her  home 
in    St.    Louis    in    May. 

Ivylyn  Girardeau  writes:  "824  Felicity 
Street,  New  Orleans,  will  be  my  address 
for  the  next  two  years.  I  have  been  ap- 
pointed junior  interne  at  the  woman's  dis- 
pensary, and  am  starting  on  my  last  two 
years  of  medicine  at  Tulane." 

Lilburn  Ivey's  school  was  in  the  middle 
of  exams  during  commencement  week-end, 
so  she  was  unable  to  attend  '22's  reunion. 
"As  soon  as  school  is  out  I  shall  dash 
home  and  try  to  collect  a  few  clothes  to 
be  in  a  wedding  in  Lafayette,  after  which 
I  leave  for  summer  school  at  the  Univer- 
sity  of   Wisconsin." 

Mary  (McLellan)  Manly  writes:  "I  want 
to  herald  the  news  to  my  classmates  that 
a  big  new  boy  at  our  house  kept  me  from 
coming  to  reunion  this  year.  Judson,  Jr., 
was  born  May  8th.  You  ought  to  see  my 
little  daughter,  Mary,  hang  over  Bubbe's 
bed,  kiss  his  hands,  pat  his  head  and  keep 
me  terrified  for  fear  she'll  punch  his  eyes 
out." 

Lucia  Murchison  has  come  home  from 
Baltimore  to  work  with  the  Associated 
Charities   in   Columbia,   S.   C. 

Ruth  Scandrett  has  completed  her  sur- 
vey of  cotton  mill  villages  in  the  south, 
and  after  looking  in  on  the  strike  at  Eliza- 
bethton  and  Gastonia,  she  is  at  home  in 
New  York  City.  Ruth  will  spend  August 
with  friends  at  Provincetown. 

Louie  Dean  (Stephens)  Hays  has  moved 
to  Richmond  and  is  living  at  1128  W. 
Grace  St.,  Sweet  Briar  apartments.  She 
writes  that  she  likes  Richmond  very 
much.  "Nannie  Campbell,  '23,  and  'Crip' 
Slack,  '20,  came  to  see  me  as  soon  as 
we  moved  in.  'Crip'  lives  only  a  couple 
of  blocks  away,  so  we  see  each  other 
quite    often." 

Sarah  (Till)  Davis'  little  son,  Charles 
Till  Davis,  was  born  April  14th.  We  may 
be  mean,  but  we  cannot  help  but  hold 
grudges  against  innocent  little  babies  that 
insist  on  arriving  just  at  reunion  times. 


Ruth  Virden  writes  that  she  is  giving 
up  girl  reserve  work,  and  plans  to  do 
"something  different."    Now,  we  wonder — . 

Rosa  Wilkins,  ex  '22,  was  married  on 
May  21  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  to  Mr.  Robert 
Erskine  Kerr.  Rosa  has  been  night  super- 
intendent of  nurses  at  the  Wilhenford 
Children's  Hospital. 

1923 

Next  reunion,  1934. 

A  telegram  from  Dot  (Bowron)  Collins 
to  '23  read:  "Sorry  I  could  hot  make  com- 
mencement. We  hoped  to  come  but  our 
plans  were  upset  at  the  last  minute.  My 
love  to  each  member  of  '23.  You  should 
hear  daughter  Patsy  sing  'Pelanky.'  " 

Margaret  (Brenner)  Awtrey  announces 
the  birth  of  a  daughter  in  May. 

Sarah  Belle  (Brodnax)  Hansell  is  in- 
teresting herself  in  the  Druid  Hills  Gar- 
den club  and  the  lovely  grounds  around 
her  own  home. 

Louise  (Brown)  Hastings'  son,  Donald 
Madison,  Jr.,  was  born  April  15th. 

Nannie  Campbell  and  her  sister  are 
opening  a  tea  room  in  Richmond  this  sum- 
mer. 

Christine  (Evans)  Murray  has  moved 
from  Atlanta  to  Chattanooga. 

Helen  (Faw)  Mull  was  too  far  away 
to  attend  reunion  this  year,  but  she  sent 
from  Cleveland  a  long,  newsy  letter  to  the 
class,  and  several  snapshots  of  her  two 
little  sons. 

Philippa  Gilchrist  had  Katie  Frank,  '24, 
and  Edith,  '26,  as  her  guests  during  com- 
mencement, and  then  the  three  of  them 
drove  home  in  the  new  car  Mr.  Gilchrist 
has  just  given  them. 

Quenelle  Harrold  was  awarded  her 
master's  degree  at  Columbia  in  June.  On 
the  way  home  she  visited  "Speedy"  (King) 
Wilkins,  '24,  in  Baltimore.  Quenelle  is 
going  on  with  work  for  her  doctor's  de- 
gree next  fall. 

Mary  Stewart  Hewlett  will  study  at  the 
University  of  Chicago  this  summer. 

Lucie  Howard's  engagement  has  been 
announced  to  Mr.  John  Otey  Carter,  Jr.,  of 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

With  a  class  reunion,  two  sisters  being 
graduated,  and  a  new  niece  in  Atlanta  to 
see,  Eloise  (Knight)  Jones  simply  had  to 
come  to  commencement  this  year. 

Elizabeth  (Lockhart)  Davis  was  in  New 
York  during  May  and  was  forced  to  miss 
the  reunion. 

Edith  McCallie  will  be  bridesmaid  in 
Sarah  Slaughter's  sister's  wedding  on  June 
27th,  and  leave  almost  immediately  after- 
ward to  spend  the  summer  at  Columbia 
University. 

Hilda  (McConnell)  Adams  has  moved  to 
Atlanta  and  is  living  at  2040  Peachtnc 
Road,  the  apartment  just  vacated  by 
Christine   (Evans)   Murray. 


The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


Martha  (Mcintosh)  Nail  is  back  on  her 
old  job  as  society  editor  of  the  Albany 
Herald. 

Alma  (Seagle)  Courtney's  baby,  Alma, 
Jr.,  is  over  a  year  old  now,  petite  and 
quite  blonde.  Dell  (Bernhardt)  Wilson's 
little  son  sent  her  a  wee  corsage  at  Easter. 

Nancy  (Tripp)  Shand  writes  off  the 
birth  of  Janet  Gaden  Shand  on  March  4. 
"Am  awfully  sorry  I  can't  come  down  to 
reunion  and  show  her  off,  but  we  had  to 
move  to  have  room  for  her,  and  I  am  still 
busy  trying  to  make  the  furniture  from  a 
three-room  apartment  fill  a  three-story 
house." 

Eva  (Wassum)  Cunningham  brought  her 
new  daughter,  Martha  Elizabeth,  down 
for  commencement.  "She  really  is  almost 
too  young  to  travel,  and  I  never  could 
have  done  it  if  we  hadn't  had  my  father's 
private  car  to  travel  in,  Nannie  Campbell 
to  help  me  on  the  trip,  and  Mother  Cun- 
ningham waiting  at  this  end." 

A  letter  from  Becky  Dick,  ex  '23,  in 
New  York,  and  originator  of  "Pelanky" 
reads:  "I'd  give  a  lot  to  be  able  to  get 
there  for  the  reunion,  and  to  sing  Pelanky 
with  the  grandest  class,  but  I'm  laid  low. 
I've  been  out  of  the  running  since  early 
in  February,  and  am  now  back  in  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital  where  I  have  been 
off  and  on  since  February.  A  pesky  old 
streptococus  germ  got  into  a  sinus,  and 
it's  all  but  wrecked  me,  at  least  for  pres- 
ent usefulness.  I've  had  to  take  a  six- 
months'  leave  from  my  work  after  nearly 
seven  years  of  being  busy.  As  soon  as  I 
can  walk,  I'm  going  to  Miami  Beach  to 
bake  with  a  sun  cure.  Fortunately,  I 
like  heat.  I'll  be  at  the  William  Penn 
Hotel,  and  should  like  to  hear  from  some 
of   the   girls." 

Margaret  (McLean)  McLaurin,  ex  '23,  is 
moving  back  to  Mississippi.  They  will  lo- 
cate at  Oxford,  where  Bob  will  practice 
medicine. 

1924 

Next  reunion,  1934. 

Elizabeth  Askew  is  home  from  New 
York  for  the  summer  with  her  mother  in 
Decatur. 

Dell  (Bernhardt)  Wilson  has  sent  a  per- 
fectly adorable  picture  of  her  little  son  for 
the   class   scrapbook. 

Gwynne  Cannon  has  been  teaching  this 
year  at  Americus,  Ga. 

Helen  Lane  Comfort's  latest  letter  from 
Germany  begins  "I  am  really  ashamed  of 
myself  for  not  having  shared  more  of  my 
good  times  this  year  with  my  classmates. 
My  life  in  Heidelberg  seems  to  have  more 
or  less  divided  itself  into  periods — at  least 
in  my  mind.  As  I  have  written  before,  I 
lived  with  a  private  family  and  until  the 
middle  of  November  I  knew  only  them  and 


a  few  of  their  friends,  so  I  spent  my  days 
studying  and  reciting  German.  The  Ger- 
mans are  hospitable  in  a  way,  but  they 
surely  don't  take  you  into  the  bosom  of 
the  family.  It  is  just  as  difficult  to  make 
friends  here  as  in  New  York  or  any  other 
city.  About  the  only  recreation  I  had  in 
this  time  was  walking.  And  I  assure  you 
I  know  all  the  paths  in  these  mountains 
and  have  become  as  good  a  tramper  as 
the  Germans.  I  always  thought  we  made 
long  enough  hikes  in  the  good  old  Agnes 
Scott  days,  but  now  I  think  nothing  of 
walking  six  miles  up  a  mountain  and  back 
down  in  an  afternoon.  About  the  last  of 
November,  I  began  to  meet  the  Americans 
here.  They  proved  to  be  a  very  nice  bunch 
and  we  had  lots  of  fun  together.  After 
Christmas,  the  girl  who  is  my  best  friend 
here — from  Oregon — and  I  went  'tripping' 
together — Berlin,  Dresden,  Nurnburg, 
Rothenberg.  Being  with  someone  else  made 
it  far  more  pleasant,  of  course.  Berlin 
attracts  me  with  all  its  modern  comforts — 
the  people  here  simply  can't  understand 
why  one  should  want  to  see  a  bathtub 
every  day!  Dresden  was  very  lovely.  The 
third  part  of  my  life  here  dates  from 
the  trip.  We  have  considered  ourselves 
very  fortunate,  for  we  have  been  able  to 
meet  and  know  and  enter  a  little  into  the 
life  of  the  German  fraternity  students 
here.  It  is  seldom  that  Americans  are  al- 
lowed. For  instance,  we  have  seen  a  fenc- 
ing match.  They  wear  no  helmets  and  so 
accumulate  scars  on  their  cheeks  and  fore- 
heads of  which  they  are  most  proud.  Of 
course  it  was  impossible  for  us  to  attend 
the  'Kneipers' — only  men  are  allowed.  For 
most  every  one  gets  drunk  on  beer — im- 
agine! I  have  some  pictures  of  the  stu- 
dents in  their  fencing  costumes.  The 
semester  ended  yesterday,  so  all  my 
friends,  American  and  German,  are  leav- 
ing the  first  of  this  next  week.  And  so 
begins  the  fourth  period  of  my  stay 
here,  which  will  consist  mainly  of  reading. 
I  have  a  huge  long  list  of  German  books 
to  read.  I'm  sure  it  will  last  a  life-time! 
I  leave  here  the  first  of  April  for  a  few 
days  in  Switzerland  and  then  on  to  Italy 
to  meet  my  brother.  We'll  land  in  New 
York  about  June  1st.  Please  think  of  me 
at  the  reunion,  and  remember  that  I'll  be 
longing  to  be  with  you  all." 

Beulah  Davidson  is  spending  the  sum- 
mer at  home  with  her  family  in  Fort  Val- 
ley, helping  ship  the  peach  crop. 

Mary  Greene  attended  Davidson  com- 
mencement, where  her  brother,  Bill,  was 
graduated  this  year.  Mary  will  be  at  home 
in  Abbeville  for  the  summer  and  writes 
that  she  is  expecting  a  visit  from  Janice 
Brown. 


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29 


Vivian  Little  has  begun  her  work  in  the 
graduate  school  at  Johns  Hopkins  Uni- 
versity. 

Fran  (Myers)  Dickley  accompanied  her 
husband  to  Japan  on  a  business  trip  in 
May. 

Catherine  (Nash)  Goff  writes  that  her 
husband  received  his  degree  in  Washington 
on  June  10th.  They  will  visit  her  family 
in  Kirkwood  for  several  weeks  and  then  are 
off  to  Berkeley,  California,  where  Mr.  Goff 
has  accepted  a  position. 

Montine  (Pharr)  Harlan  writes  that  her 
baby  is  the  first  grandchild  in  both  families 
and  that  she  has  a  busy  time  to  keep  it 
from  being  hopelessly  spoiled. 

Dick  Scandrett  taught  at  the  Florida 
State  Extension  school  during  June.  Then 
she  visited  her  sister  in  Mobile  and  drove 
back  for  a  visit  with  Cora  (Morton)  Dur- 
rett  in  Atlanta  before  leaving  for  New 
York  and  Columbia  Summer  School. 

Daisy  Frances  Smith  has  accepted  a  po- 
sition on  the  faculty  at  Peace  Institute, 
Raleigh,  N.  C,  for  next  year. 

Polly  Stone  spent  June  with  her  brother 
in  south  Georgia,  and  writes  that  al- 
though it  is  five  weeks  since  she  sprained 
her  foot  on  a  concrete  tennis  court,  she  is 
still  unable  to  walk. 

Elma  (Swaney)  Nelson  writes:  "The 
most  exciting  news  I  know  is  that  I  have 
another  son.  He  was  born  April  23,  and 
is  named  William  Bentley  Nelson,  for  my 
father.  Harry,  Jr.,  is  not  a  bit  jealous, 
but  is  wild  about  his  new  brother.  We  are 
living  up  on  Lookout  Mountain  now — a 
fine  place  to  raise  boys." 

Annie  Wilson  Terry  sent  in  the  prize 
letter  to  be  read  at  the  reunion  luncheon! 
It  was  partly  in  verse  and  was  copiously 
illustrated  by  the  author.  Those  of  '24 
who  didn't  get  back  to  reunion  certainly 
missed  something!  But  we  are  still  won- 
dering just  how  seriously  to  take  the 
"just  a  little  courting"  paragraph. 

At  the  end  of  our  fifth  year  as  alumnae, 
it  is  interesting  to  look  down  our  class 
roll  and  see  what  has  happened  to  us  all. 
Twenty-one  are  married;  thirty-six  unmar- 
ried. We  continue  to  be  the  great  unwed 
class,  for  this  is  a  low  marriage  percent- 
age for  an  Agnes  Scott  class.  And  we 
had  not  a  single  engagement  announced 
from  our  class  at  the  alumnae  luncheon! 
Thirty-one  of  us  are  working.  Twenty- 
four  of  that  number  are  teachers,  five  are 
business  women,  and  Helen  Lane  and 
Janice  are  librarians.  Katie  Frank,  Pauline 
and  Melissa  are  our  "idle  rich,"  who 
neither  pound  a  typewriter  nor  maintain 
school-room  discipline  to  earn  a  living. 
Lucky  girls!  Elma  is  the  only  member 
of  '24  who  can  talk  about  her  "children"; 


altogether  the  class  boasts  five  girls  and 
five  boys  of  the  next  generation.  We  are 
scattered  over  seventeen  states — Georgia, 
Florida,  Arkansas,  North  and  South  Caro- 
lina, New  York,  Alabama,  Illinois,  Ken- 
tucky, West  Virginia,  Virginia,  Arizona, 
Maryland,  Mississippi,  Tennessee,  Califor- 
nia, and  Connecticut.  One  of  us — Emmie — 
is  living  in  India,  and  if  this  census  had 
been  taken  the  first  of  May  it  would  have 
found  Helen  Lane  in  Germany  and  Fran 
in  Japan.  We  haven't  set  the  river  on  fire 
yet,  or  done  any  other  front-page  ac- 
complishment, but  after  all,  five  years 
is  not  so  very  long.  Give  us  time,  sisters, 
give  us  time! 

Sarah  (Brandon)  Rickey,  ex  '24,  is  a 
graduate  of  Mississippi  State  College  for 
Woman  but  she  is  a  loyal  A.  S.  C.  alumna 
and  member  of  '24.  She  writes  that  she 
wanted  to  come  to  reunion,  but  was  kept 
at  home  with  her  new  baby,  Sara  Wynn. 
Sara's  husband,  who  is  head  of  the  French 
department  at  Louisiana  College,  has  a 
year's  leave  and  will  study  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Bordeaux  next  winter  on  a 
Franco-American  scholarship. 

Charlotte  McMurray,  ex  '24,  will  sail 
for  Africa  during  June  to  begin  her  work 
as  teacher  of  missionary  children.  Her 
brother,  Armistead  McMurray,  and  his 
bride,  will  be  on  the  same  boat. 
1925 

Next  reunion,  1930. 

"One  teacher  married  and  then  thei'e 
were  two."  Although  Grace  Carr,  '27,  is 
leaving  the  triumvirate  for  matrimony  this 
summer,  Frances  Bitzer  and  Sallie  Horton 
plan  to  teach  in  Birmingham  again  next 
year  and  to  continue  to  live  together. 

Idelle  Bryant  visited  her  family  in  south 
Georgia  during  April.  Idelle  has  a  splendid 
position  with  a  secretarial  school  in  New 
York  City. 

Lou  (Buchanan)  Proctor  was  a  delegate 
to  the  A.  A.  U.  W.  convention  in  New 
Orleans  in  May. 

Elizabeth  Cheatham  visited  Ellen 
Walker  in  Summerville  during  June.  Eliz- 
abeth will  be  with  her  family  in  Atlanta 
the  rest  of  the  summer,  before  sailing  for 
France  in  the  early  fall. 

Lucile  Gause  will  spend  the  summer  in 
Europe  as  a  member  of  Nell  Buchanan's 
party. 

Rosalind  Janes'  engagement  was  an- 
nounced in  May,  the  wedding  to  take  place 
the  early  part  of  the  summer. 

Mary  (Keesler)  Dalton  accompanied  her 
husband  on  a  business  trip  to  Atlantic 
City   in    May. 

Josephine  Marbut's  engagement  was  an- 
nounced at  the  alumnae  luncheon  to  Mr. 
Wilkins  McCall  Stanley. 


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Larsen  Mattox  is  working  on  her  mas- 
ter's degree  at  the  Emory  University  sum- 
mer school. 

Emily  Spivey's  little  sister,  Laura  Jar- 
mon,  was  graduated  from  Eatonton  High 
school  this  May,  and  is  headed  for  Agnes 
Scott  next  fall,  Spivey  writes.  They  lost 
both  their  father  and  mother  during  this 
past  year. 

Marianne  (Strouss)  McConnell  an- 
nounces the  birth  of  a  son,  Judson,  Jr.,  in 
May  in  Decatur,  Ga. 

Frances  (Tennent)  Ellis  writes:  "We  are 
spending  every  minute  working  on  and 
planning  for  the  home  we  are  building. 
It  is  red  brick,  colonial,  with  white  col- 
umns, and  will  be  ready  for  us  the  last 
of  the  summer."  Frances  and  her  hus- 
band take  frequent  trips  during  the  sum- 
mer to  seashore  and  mountains — the 
Cloister  at  St.  Simons  Island,  and  Lake- 
mont. 

Poky  Wight  was  married  on  May  25th  at 
her  home  in  Richmond  to  Mr.  Richard 
Coles  Edmunds.  It  was  an  elaborate  eve- 
ning wedding,  and  Poky  was  very  lovely 
in  ivory  satin  and  an  exquisite  veil  of 
Viennese  lace.  The  Edmunds  will  live  in 
Halifax,  Va. 

1926 

Next  reunion,   1930. 

Helen  (Bates)  Law  has  come  from  New 
York  to  spend  some  time  with  her  parents 
in  Atlanta. 

Eleanor  (Berger)  Blumenthal  and  her 
husband,  who  is  a  professor  at  Johns  Hop- 
kins, are  spending  the  summer  with 
Eleanor's  parents  in  Atlanta. 

Lois  Bolles  has  accepted  a  position  with 
the  library  at  Agnes  Scott,  beginning  next 
September. 

Mary  Dudley  Brown  and  her  young 
charges  are  now  in  Winston-Salem,  N.  C. 

Edythe  (Carpenter)  Shuey  writes: 
"Have  had  a  busy  winter  and  now  that  the 
season  is  over  am  trying  to  take  life  a 
little  more  slowly.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Her- 
mance,  Helena,  Hal  and  Edythe  were  here 
during  April  and  we  had  a  glorious  time 
together.  The  four  walls  of  my  tiny  house 
fairly  bulged  but  stood  the  strain  admir- 
ably. We  spent  most  of  our  time  at  the 
beach  and  the  ocean  is  heavenly  here.  I 
have  been  playing  a  lot  of  golf  lately.  We 
are  only  three  blocks  from  the  Country 
Club  and  we  old  women  must  get  our  exer- 
cise some  way.  I  am  keeping  myself  in 
trim  for  that  alumnae  hockey  game  I  in- 
tend to  play  in  at  some  future  date." 

Mrs.  Pilley  Kim  Choi's  husband,  Dr. 
Young  0.  Choi,  '26  medicine  at  Emory,  is  in 
charge  of  the  Ellen  Lavine  Graborn  hos- 
pital at  Kwangju,  Korea.  This  is  a  50-bed 
hospital,  and  in  addition  takes  care  of 
about  60  patients  each  day  in  the  clinic. 


Mary  Freeman's  engagement  has  been 
announced  to  Dr.  Walker  Lewis  Curtis, 
the  wedding  to  take  place  June  28  at  the 
First  Baptist  church  in  College  Park.  Dr. 
Curtis  is  a  graduate  of  Emory  University, 
where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Delta  Tau 
Delta  fraternity. 

Mary  (Knox)  Happoldt  and  her  husband 
took  a  trip  to  Cuba  during  May,  but  were 
back  in  time  for  Mary  to  lend  her  capable 
aid  at  the  Tea  House  during  the  commence- 
ment rush. 

Elizabeth  (Moore)  Harris  announces  the 
bii'th  of  a  daughter  in  May. 

Florence  Perkins  was  recently  elected 
president  of  the  Atlanta  Agnes  Scott  club. 

Sarah  Slaughter  is  home  from  Colum- 
bia University  with  an  M.A.  in  physical 
education.  She  is  to  be  maid  of  honor  in 
her  sister's  wedding  at  Saint  Mark's 
church  in  Atlanta  on  June  27th. 

Sarah  Smith,  '26's  beloved  life  presi- 
dent, was  married  on  June  1  at  the  North 
Avenue  Presbyterian  church  in  Atlanta  to 
Mr.  Arthur  Brian  Merry.  Nancy  Simp- 
son, now  a  student  at  Agnes  Scott,  and 
"Frisky"  Cooper  were  Sarah's  bridesmaids. 
After  a  wedding  trip  in  their  car  through 
North  Carolina  and  the  Shenandoah  valley 
of  Virginia,  the  Merrys  will  be  at  home  in 
Augusta,  Ga.,  where  Mr.  Merry  is  an  archi- 
tect. He  is  a  graduate  of  Georgia  Tech, 
a  member  of  the  S.  A.  E.  fraternity,  and 
brother-in-law  of  Gena  (Calloway)  Merry, 
'22. 

Two  other  engagements  of  interest 
among  ex-members  of  '26  are  those  of 
Olive  Hall  to  Mr.  Laurence  Moss  Shadgett, 
of  Australia,  and  Laura  McCullough  to 
Mr.  James  Madison  O'Neal,  of  Eustis,  Fla. 
Olive  is  the  secretary  of  the  Atlanta  Civi- 
tan  club,  hosts  during  June  to  Civitan 
International,  and  Olive  says  she  has  been 
so  busy  with  arrangements  for  the  conven- 
tion she  has  hardly  had  time  to  think  about 
getting  married.  The  wedding  will  take 
place   in  July. 

1927 

Next   reunion,   1930. 

Eleonore  Albright  received  her  master's 
degree  at  Columbia  University  and  came 
straight  to  Agnes  Scott  in  time  for  com- 
mencement there.  She  will  teach  in  New 
York  next  winter. 

Maurine  Bledsoe  was  back  in  Decatur 
and  Atlanta  for  a  few  days  the  first  of 
May,  visiting  Louisa  White,  Agnes  Scott, 
and  of  course,  senior  opera. 

Josephine  Bridgeman  and  Rachel  Hen- 
derlite  were  also  at  the  Alumnae  House  for 
May  Day  and  the  seniorpolitan  presenta- 
tion of  "Ah,  Heed  Her,"  and  were  back 
again  to  see  Jo's  little  sister,  Lucile,  re- 
ceive her  diploma. 


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Louise  (Capen)  Baker  announces  the 
birth  of  Clinton  Capen  Baker  on  May  18 
in  New  York.  "Dodo"  Chamberlain  writes: 
"I  went  to  see  Louise  and  her  baby  a  few 
days  later.  Louise  was  doing  splendidly, 
but  I  went  at  the  wrong  time  to  see  the 
baby,  much  to  my  disappointment." 

Cephise  Cartwright  motored  up  to 
Charleston  during  April  to  see  the  Mag- 
nolia Gardens.  Cephise  has  been  teach- 
ing in  Savannah  this  year. 

Frances  (Chambers)  Wing's  new  baby 
is  absorbing  all  her  attention. 

Lib  (Clark)  Young  and  Bill  are  par- 
ticularly joyful  over  being  now  in  Stark- 
ville,  Miss.,  just  twenty  miles  from  West 
Point.  They  go  home  every  week-end  to 
see  their  families. 

Willie  May  (Coleman)  Duncan's  son  was 
born  just  after  commencement. 

Marcia  Green  is  on  the  briny  deep  by 
the  time  this  Quarterly  comes  out,  sailing 
for  a  summer  in  Europe. 

Mary  Heath's  wedding  to  Rev.  James 
Godfrey  Phillips,  of  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C, 
took  place  on  June  14th  in  Augusta,  Ga. 

Virginia  Hollingsworth,  who  has  been 
teaching  in  Greensboro,  N.  C,  will  be 
in  Maine  and  Canada  this  summer  at  one 
of   the    beautiful    lake    resorts. 

Mae  Erskine  Irvine  simply  can't  escape 
fires.  First  the  school  at  Tuscumbia  burn- 
ed and  imposed  all  sorts  of  trying  hours  on 
the  poor  school  teachers,  and  now  Mae 
Erskine's  lovely  country  home  was  burned 
to  the  ground.  Her  family  is  living  in 
Florence  while  it  is  being  rebuilt. 

Martha  Johnston  has  moved  from  Day- 
ton to  225  W.  Euclid  Ave.,  Springfield,  0. 

Leila  (Joiner)  Cooper  has  deserted  Al- 
bany once  more  and  gone  back  to  the 
west  coast  to  be  with  Jock. 

Ellen  Douglas  Leyburn  is  living  this 
summer  with  Mrs.  Baker,  while  Professor 
Baker,  head  of  the  Yale  playwriting  de- 
partment,   is    in    Europe. 

Elizabeth  Lynn  will  be  councillor  again 
at  Rockbrook  camp,  Brevard,  N.  C,  during 
the  summer.  Next  fall  she  will  begin  work 
on  her  master's  degree  at  the  University 
of  Wisconsin. 

Carolina  McCall,  who  had  planned  to 
visit  Lib  (Clark)  Young  in  April,  had  to 
go  to  Florida  instead.  Carolina  has  had 
quite  a  siege  of  sinus  trouble  all  spring. 
She  reports  that  people  in  Florida  were 
little  more  than  a  good  coat  of  tan. 

Elizabeth  McCallie  visited  Grace 
(Zachry)  McCreery  in  Cleveland  before 
going  on  to  attend  Columbia  University 
summer   school. 

Miriam  Preston  has  returned  to  the 
states  via  Europe  after  spending  two  years 
at  her  home  in  Korea.  Miriam  was  at 
Port  Said  when  the  cable  reached  her  an- 


nouncing that  she  had  been  awarded  the 
Quenelle  Harrold  graduate  scholarship. 
Miriam  will  study  at  Yale  next  winter. 
With  Rosaltha  Sanders,  Eugenia  Gobere, 
Emily  (Kingsbery)  Ferrara,  all  '28,  Mar- 
garet Bland,  '20,  and  Roberta  Winter, 
'27,  there  will  be  quite  an  Agnes  Scott 
colony  at  Yale  next  winter. 

Frances  Rainey  hardly  waited  for  her 
classes  at  Silliman  College  to  be  over  be- 
fore she  hopped  a  Decatur-bound  train.  She 
arrived  Tuesday  morning  just  before  grad- 
uation exercises,  and  by  tearing  around 
the  campus  at  a  Daisy-Frances-Smith  rate 
of  speed  managed  to  see  everybody  before 
college  closed.  Frances  will  study  at 
Columbia    University  this   summer. 

Peggy  Rankin  has  won  a  scholarship  for 
another  year's  study  of  Biology  at  Johns 
Hopkins. 

One  of  the  big  thrills  of  the  alumnae 
luncheon  was  the  announcement  of  the 
engagement  of  Louisa  White  to  Dr.  Cullen 
Gosnell,  the  marriage  to  take  place  in  the 
late  summer. 

Roberta  Winter  will  study  at  Yale  next 
winter.  She  and  Margaret  Bland  plan  to 
live    together. 

Edna  (Anderson)  David's  son,  Edgar 
George  David,  Jr.,  was  born  January  13th. 
1928 

Sallie  Abernethy  was  back  for  com- 
mencement and  '28's  first  reunion. 

Harriet  Alexander  came  up  from  Au- 
gusta, too,  to  see  the  thing  done  proper- 

ly. 

Jack  Anderson  writes  that  she  likes 
her  work  at  the  University  of  California 
so  well  she  plans  to  stay  in  Berkeley  for 
another   year. 

Emily  Cope  has  spent  her  winter  at 
home  in  taking  a  secretarial  course  and 
teaching  French  at  Miss  Pape's  private 
school. 

The  marriage  of  Frances  Craighead  to 
Mr.  Francis  Joseph  Dwyer  on  February  7 
at  Toledo,  Ohio,  was  announced  by 
Frances'  parents  during  May.  Mr.  Dwyer 
is  a  student  at  the  University  of  Michigan, 
where  Frances  is  getting  her  master's  de- 
gree. 

Betty  Fuller's  engagement  has  been  an- 
nounced to  Mr.  Frank  E.  Veltre,  Jr.,  of 
Havana,  Cuba. 

Hattie  Gershcow's  engagement  was  an- 
nounced in  May. 

"Pete"  Grier  writes:  "I  am  planning 
either  to  study  at  Columbia  next  year  or 
go  back  to  teach  in  an  American  school  in 
China." 

Mildred  Jennings  will  teach  next  year  at 
a  school  over  the  South  Carolina  line,  but 
mar  enough  for  her  to  drive  over  every 
day  from  her  home  in  Augusta,  Georgia. 


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The     Agnes     Scott     Alumnae     Quarterly 


"Bee"  Keith,  Virge  Norris,  and  Anna 
Mae  McCollum  will  study  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity this  summer. 

Lilla  Mills  has  finished  her  secretarial 
course  and  has  accepted  a  position  with  an 
Atlanta  firm. 

Mary  Jane  McCoy  was  back  for  reunion. 
"My  plans  for  the  summer  are  still  in- 
definite," she  said,  "but  mother  and  I  are 
both  getting  the  wanderlust  again,  so  we 
are  apt  to  be  off  any  time  now." 

Jack  McLellon  visited  her  old  roommate, 
"Red"  (Bowers)  Hamilton,  during  com- 
mencement. Jack  is  very  much  in  love 
with  her  work  in  the  editorial  department 
of  the  Board  of  Christian  Education  of  the 
Northern  Presbyterian  church  in  Phila- 
delphia. "The  next  time  you  pick  up  a 
Sunday  School  Quarterly,  think  of  me," 
says  Jack,  "for  I  certainly  work  on  those 
things." 

Margaret  Rice  will  teach  next  year  with 
Marcia  Green  at  Lafayette,  Ala. 

Judith  Wilson  writes  that  she  will  be  on 
the  job  at  the  Dale  County,  Alabama, 
Child  Welfare  Board  all  summer  except 
for  two  weeks  when  she  plans  to  jump 
in  her  car  and  take  a  little  rest  up  in 
the  Carolina  mountains. 

Edith  DuPre  Brown,  ex  '28,  was  mar- 
ried on  May  26th  at  Minden,  Louisiana, 
to  Mr.  William  Drane  Haddox  Rodriguez. 

Anne  DuPre  Choate's  engagement  has 
been  announced  to  Mr.  John  Spier  Dodd, 
of  LaGrange,  Ga.  Mr.  Dodd  is  a  graduate 
of  Eastman  at  Poughkeepsie.  After  leav- 
ing Agnes  Scott,  Anne  took  her  A.B.  at 
Florida  State,  where  she  was  a  member  of 
the    Alpha    Delta   Pi    sorority. 

Dorothy  Spratt  was  married  June  27  at 
the    A.    R.    P.    Church    in   Atlanta   to    Mr. 
Robert  Clifford  Chestnut.     Mr.  Chestnut  is 
a  contractor  in  Atlanta. 
1929 

The  class  of  '29,  all  95  of  them,  will  be 
formally  introduced  to  the  Alumnae  As- 
sociation in  the  first  fall  Quarterly,  but  we 
have  a  few  bits  of  news  here  that  really 
won't  keep  till  then.  "The  thing  for  which 
we'll  probably  go  down  in  history  is  our 
marrying  propensity,"  says  '29.  Three  of 
their  number — Esther  (Nisbet)  Anderson, 
Hortense  (Elton)  Garver,  and  Margaret 
(Andreae)  Hamrick — had  proud  husbands 
in  the  audience  when  they  received  their 
diplomas,  and  a  sub-rosa  census  taken 
just  before  graduation  revealed  twenty- 
three  engagement  rings  in  a  class  of  nine- 
ty-five! Not  all  of  the  twenty-three  are 
ready  to  have  a  formal  announcement  of 
their  engagement,  but  the  following  were 
announced   at   the   alumnae   luncheon: 

Mary  Ficklen  to  Mr.  Marion  Bamett,  of 
Washington,  Ga.,  the  wedding  taking  place 
June  19th  with  a  number  of  Mary's  class- 
mates as  attendants. 


Nancy  Fitzgerald  to  Mr.  Henry  Woodall 
Bray  of  Atlanta,  the  wedding  to  take 
place  in  September. 

Lenore  Gardner  to  Mr.  Gilbert  Field,  of 
East  Lake,  Decatur,  Ga. 

Elizabeth  Hatchett  to  Mr.  Durwood 
Haynes,  of  Kentucky,  the  wedding  to  take 
place  next  summer. 

Marion  Hodges  to  Mr.  Joe  Anthony. 

Martha  Riley  Selman  to  Mr.  Otis  Her- 
ring, of  Albany,  Ga. 

Josephine  Pou,  ex  '29,  to  Mr.  Robert 
James  Varner.  The  wedding  took  place 
on  May  4  at  the  home  of  her  sister,  Eu- 
genia (Pou)  Harris,  ex  '23,  in  Seneca, 
S.   C. 

Gulie  McLean  Stephenson  to  Mr.  Harry 
Cassady,  in  December. 

Evelyn  Wood,  who  for  two  years  was  a 
beloved  member  of  this  class,  serving  as  its 
president  during  Freshman  year,  was 
graduated  in  June  from  the  University  of 
Alabama.  On  June  14  Evelyn  was  mar- 
ried to  Mr.  William  Sheffield  Owen,  of 
Birmingham,  Alabama.  They  are  living 
in  the  Ponce  de  Leon  apartments  there. 


PREPARATORY  SCHOOLS  COM- 
MITTEE 

In  an  attempt  to  interest  desirable  girls 
in  Agnes  Scott,  the  Preparatory  Schools 
Committee  this  year  has  concentrated  its 
attention  upon  those  six  southern  states 
whose  geographical  positions  are  such  that 
their  proximity  to  Georgia  would  furnish 
within  itself  an  incentive  to  attend  a  col- 
lege situated  in  this  state. 

Georgia,  Alabama,  North  and  South 
Carolina,  Virginia  and  Florida  were  select- 
ed as  places  for  intensive  work.  These 
states  were  divided  into  either  two  or 
three  sections  which  have  as  their  centers 
as  many  outstanding  cities.  In  each  sec- 
tion a  subcommittee  has  been  at  work. 
Such  committees  have  been  directed  by  the 
chairman,  but  the  details  of  the  pro- 
gram have  been  left  largely  to  the  in- 
dividual members  of  their  committees. 

In  general,  the  attention  of  high  school 
seniors  has  been  directed  toward  Agnes 
Scott  through  letters,  group  meetings,  and 
teas,  when  advisable.  The  alumnae  teach- 
ing in  various  schools  have  been  especially 
co-operative. 

Although,  in  some  cases,  our  plans  have 
failed,  and  although  in  other  cases,  their 
success  can  hardly  be  measured  concretely, 
we  believe  that  the  Preparatory  Schools 
Committee  has  accomplished  some  good  for 
our  Alma  Mater,  and  we  hope  that,  in  the 
future,  the  committee  will  become  in- 
creasingly  efficient. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

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