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The 

ALUMNAE 
NEWS 

of  the  JSlorth  Carolina  College 
for  Women 


Published  by 

THE  ALUMNAE  ASSOCIATION  OF 

NORTH  CAROLINA  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN 

APRIL,  1932 


THE  ALUMNAE  NEWS 

Published  Four  Times  a  Year:  July,  November,  February,  April 

By  THE  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  NORTH 

CAROLINA  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN 

GREENSBORO,  N.  C. 

Clara  Booth  Byrd,  Editor 

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OFFICERS  AND  BOARD  MEMBERS 
Annie  Moore  Cherry,  President 
Laura  H.  Coit,  Honorary  President 
Susie  West  Mendenhall  (Mrs.  F.  H.  Mendenhall),  Vice  President 
Clara  B.  Byrd,  General  Secretary 
Board  of  Trustees:  Kate  Finley,  Fannie  Starr  Mitchell,  Helen  Tighe,  Elsie  Doxey,  Pearl  Wyche. 
Nan  McArn  Malloy  (Mrs.  Harry  Malloy),  Sethelle  Boyd  Lindsay  (Mrs.  W.  S.  Lindsay). 
Ethel  Skinner  Phillips  (Mrs.  H.  H.  Phillips),  Mary  Poteat,  May  Lovelace  Tomhnson  (Mrs. 
C.  F.  Tomlinson).  

Admitted  as  second-class  matter  at  the  postoffice    in    Greensboro,    N.    C,    June    29,    1912 


Vol.  XX  APRIL,  1932  No.  4 


Contents 


Commencement  "Is  Icumen  In" 

Up  and  Down  the  Avenue 

George  Washington:  The  Man,  The  Statesman 

Listening  In 

The  Class  of  193 1  —  Part  1 1 1 

Among  the  Alumnae 


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JUNE  4 — Alumnae  Day  and  the  Class  Reunions.  .June  5— Bacr^alaureate  Sj-rmou, 
and  the  friendly  gathering  of  us  all  on  the  President's  lawn.  June  0--Cora- 
mencement  Day  and  the  Graduating  Address ;  the  long  line  of  capped  and  gowned 
seniors;  admiring  fathers  and  mothers  and  friends;  the  President  awarding  diplo- 
mas; hail  and  farewell!  In  the  words  of  the  old  camp  meeting  song,  '•When  the 
Roll  is  Called  up  Yonder"  on  June  4-6,  will  you  be  there? 

Commencement  this  year  will  follow  very  much  the  usual  order.  At  eleven 
o'clock  on  Saturday — Alumnae  Day — will  come  the  General  Assembly  meeting  in 
Students'  Building.  At  one  o'clock  the  luncheon  in  the  dining  hall.  In  the  aftei-- 
noon,  the  pageantry  of  Class  Day.  The  hours  from  5  :30  to  8  :30  have  been  set  aside 
for  individual  class  reunions.  The  classes  due  to  have  reunions  this  year  are: 
1894,  1895,  1896,  1897 ;  1907  (twenty-five  year)  ;  1913,  1914,  1915,  1916 :  1922  (ten- 
year)  ;  1931.  In  the  evening  there  is  to  be  a  guest  performance  in  Aycock  by  the 
Play-Likers.  "Berkeley  Square,"  a  cliarming  costume  play,  will  soon  be  in 
rehearsal  for  the  occasion.  Dr.  W.  Taliaferro  Thompson,  head  of  the  Department 
of  Religious  Education,  Union  Theological  Seminary,  Richmond,  will  preach  the 
commencement  sermon  on  Sunday.  Edwin  R.  Erabree,  president  of  the  Julius 
Rosenwald  Fund,  Chicago,  will  deliver  the  address  to  the  graduating  class. 

When  you  come  to  think  about  it — really  to  think  about  it— how  can  you  bear, 
how  can  you  hear  not  to  come?  Depression  or  no  depression,  we  alumnae  must 
have  our  reunions.     Jobs  or  no  jobs,  it's  fair  weather  when  we  do  get  together  I 


SATURDAY,  JUNE  i 

11 :00  a.m.  General  Assembly — Students ' 
Building. 

1:00  p.m.     Alumnae  Luncheon. 

4:00  p.m.  Senior  Class  Day  Exercises  — 
Front  Campus. 

.5:30  p.m.     Eeunion  Suppers. 

8:30  p.m.  Guest  Performance  by  Play-Lik- 
ers, "Berkeley  Square,"  by  Jolin 
Balderston — Aycock  Auditorium. 

SUNDAY,  JUNE  5 

11:00  a.m.  Baccalaureate  Sermon,  Dr.  W. 
Taliaferro  Thompson,  Union  The- 
ological Seminary,  Richmond — 
Aycock  Auditorium. 
5:00  p.m.  Informal  Gathering  for  Faculty, 
Seniors,  Alumnae,  and  Friends — 
Lawn  in  Fi-ont  of  President 's 
Residence. 

MONDAY,  JUNE  6 

10:00  a.m.  Annual  Commencement  Address, 
Edwin  R.  Embree,  Chicago — Ay- 
cock Auditoriiim. 


up  and  Down  the  Avenue 


E'aster  Holidays — liow  long  in  com- 
ing !  How  quickly  fled !  Now  we  pause 
an  instant  on  third  base  for  the  home 
run ! 

Curry  School  is  stepping  high  these 
days !  And  all  puffed  up  like  a  pouter 
pigeon.  And  friends,  Romans,  country- 
men—there's a  reason!  Listen  —  the 
Curry  debaters  won  the  state  champion- 
ship this  year,  and  brought  back  the  Ay- 
cock  Cup.  The  finals  as  usual  were  de- 
bated at  Chapel  Hill.  The  question  was : 
"Resolved,  That  the  United  States 
should  adopt  a  system  of  compulsory  un- 
employment insurance."  Katherine 
Keister,  daughter  of  Dr.  Keister,  head 
of  the  department  of  economics  at  the 
college,  and  Nash  Herndon,  defended 
the  negative  side,  and  won  the  unani- 
mous decision  of  the  five  judges.  But 
to  pile  Ossa  on  Pelion,  the  judges  after- 
wards admitted  that  they  had  a  hard 
time  deciding  not  to  let  the  Curry  affirm- 
ative team  debate  the  Curry  negative 
team.  Miss  Anne  Kreimeier,  of  the 
training  school  faculty,  is  the  happy 
coach. 

]\Iany  generations  of  college  stu- 
dents remember  the  quaint  figure  of 
Uncle  "William,  colored  helper,  shuffling 
along  about  the  campus,  lo,  these  dec- 
ades. His  quiet  though  penetrating  hu- 
mor is  traditional.  It  is  he  who  after 
long  years  of  fetching  and  carry  ob- 
served that  "you  can  pacify  the  women, 
but  you  can 't  satisfy  'em ! "  He  has  a 
son,  William  Andrew  Rhodes,  who  has 
been  studying  music  at  the  Boston  Con- 
servatory. More  lately  he  is  teaching 
and  composing.  One  of  his  compo- 
sitions, "Poor  Me,"  a  fine  negro  spir- 
itual, was  recently  sung  to  an  apprecia- 
tive chapel  audience  in  Aycoek  by  Miss 
Schneider,  head  of  the  Voice  Depart- 
ment. 


Dr.  Keister,  head  of  the  Department 
of  Economics,  has  just  completed  a  se- 
ries of  seven  weekly  lectures,  given  to 
about  fifty  members  of  the  faculty,  on 
the  present  economic  situation.  These 
discussions  have  presented  an  illuminat- 
ing analysis  of  many  factors  bearing  on 
the  financial  breakdown,  and  a  study  of 
governmental  efforts  to  rebuild  the  eco- 
nomic structure.  The  work  was  given 
under  the  direction  of  the  Extension  De- 
partment. 

Sylvia  Thompson,  young  English  nov- 
elist, particularly  known  as  the  author 
of  ' '  Hounds  of  Spring, ' '  lectured  in  Ay- 
cock  the  last  of  February,  using  as  her 
theme,  "The  European  Novelist's  Work- 
shop." 

Renee  Chemet,  violinist,  brought  to  a 
close  the  Greensboro  Civic  Music  Asso- 
ciation offerings  for  this  year.  Her  per- 
formance could  hardly  be  said  to  climax 
the  series,  for  there  were  notable  con- 
certs to  measure  against;  but  hers  was 
certainly  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  per- 
formances we  have  had  this  season. 

The  alumnae  will  hear  with  pleasure 
that  ]Mrs.  Charles  D.  Mclver  is  getting 
along  well  after  the  fall  a  few  months 
ago  which  injured  her  hip.  She  is  at 
her  home  on  College  Avenue,  is  now  out 
of  bed  and  using  a  wheel  chair,  and  very 
much  enjoys  the  many  friends  who  con- 
stantly drop  in  to  see  her. 

Dr.  Faith  Fairfield  Gordon,  of  the 
Vocational  Department,  discussed  the 
vocational  interest  of  students  at  a 
chapel  exercise  at  Salem  College  during 
]\Iarch. 

The  Senior  Class  elected  Margaret 
Kendrick  class  historian ;  Mary  Sterling, 
lawyer ;  Millie  Ogden,  prophet :  Roberta 
Johnson,  poet. 


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Dr.  Lois  MacDonald,  for  several  years 
Y.  W.  C.  A.  secretary  at  the  college,  is 
contributing  a  series  of  articles  to  the 
Independent  Woman  on  modern  business 
conditions  and  relations. 

The  pour  societies  have  each  given 
this  spring  a  Saturday  evening  dance  in 
Students'  Building,  making  a  series  of 
four  in  all.  The  halls  have  been  attrac- 
tively decorated  with  spring  flowers  and 
greens.  Dance  cards  in  the  society  col- 
ors have  added  a  festive  touch.  And 
much,  very  much  to  the  point,  good 
music  has  been  furnished  by  means  of 
amplified  records !  (Thus  saveth  we  the 
price  of  an  orchestra  !) 

As  PRESIDENT  AND  VICE  PRESIDENT,  re- 
spectively, of  the  Student  Governent  As- 
sociation, Pansy  McConnell  and  Pickett 
Henderson,  retiring  officers,  and  ^Mildred 
Brunt  and  Annie  Lee  Singletary,  officers- 
elect,  attended  the  convention  of  the 
Southern  Inter-Collegiate  Student  Gov- 
ernment Association  at  the  University  of 
Alabama,  in  March. 

Miss  Marguerite  Butler,  of  Brass- 
town,  was  a  chapel  hour  speaker  during 
March.  She  told  of  the  John  C.  Camp- 
bell Folk  School,  the  only  one  of  its  kind 
in  America,  drawing  many  of  its  pat- 
terns from  Denmark,  and  contrasted  the 
life  in  the  mountain  community  as  it 
was  before  the  establishment  of  the  cen- 
ter with  what  it  is  now. 

Helen  Kuck  '32,  of  Wilmington,  sis- 
ter of  Wilma  Kuck  '28,  will  be  May 
Queen  this  year. 

The  Abbey  Irish  Players,  under  the 
sponsorship  of  the  Play-Likers,  appeared 
in  Aycock  in  matinee  and  evening  per- 
formances on  March  23.  Their  offerings 
were  Robinson's  "The  Far-Off  Hills" 
and  0 'Casey's  "Juno  and  the  Peacock." 

Pine  Needles  is  this  year  being  dedi- 
cated by  the  Senior  Class  to  Miss  Lillian 
Killingsworth,  student  counsellor  in 
charge  of  upperclassmen. 


On  Sunday  evenixo,  March  20,  .stu- 
dents conducted  a  series  of  all-dormitory 
vespers  on  the  campus.  In  the  variou« 
houses,  students  themselves  led  the  ex- 
ercises and  made  the  talks.  They  were 
well  attended.  In  New  Guilford,  Miss 
Abigail  Rowley  talked,  using  as  her 
theme  the  twenty-third  Psalm  as  ex- 
plained in  the  "Song  of  Our  Syrian 
Guest." 

Dr.  John  H.  Cook,  dean  of  the  School 
of  Education,  and  president  of  the  North 
Carolina  Education  Association  for  the 
year  just  closed,  in  his  address  opening 
the  convention  in  Charlotte  maintained 
that  economic  depression  is  no  cause  for 
retreat;  that  "the  last  source  of  reve- 
nue on  which  the  state  should  draw  is 
the  educational  opportunities  of  its  peo- 
ple." Not  a  new  statement  to  be  sure, 
but  one  which  educators  in  responsible 
posts  should  continue  to  hammer  on,  un- 
til it  crystallizes  into  an  attitude  of  mind 
so  strong  in  the  state  that  politicians  will 
not  dare  encounter  it  adversely ! 

Librarian  Charles  H.  Stone  played 
the  lead  in  "Mr.  Pim  Passes  By" — offer- 
ing of  the  Play-Likers  during  ]\Iareh. 
He  characterized  Mr.  Pim  so  aptly  that 
no  one  could  possibly  doubt  it  was  he  I 

The  Speakers'  Club  is  sponsoring  a 
debate  with  representatives  of  Brenau 
College  the  last  of  April. 

The  Don  Cossacks  Russian  Chorus, 
composed  of  thirty-six  men.  former 
officers  in  the  Russian  imperial  army, 
received  an  enthusiastic  reception  from 
the  audience  composed,  of  college  and 
townspeople  at  their  recent  performance. 
A  picturesque  group,  singing  unaccom- 
panied, with  much  of  military  precision 
in  their  stage  handling,  they  greatly 
pleased.  There  was  a  wholesale  demand 
for  autographs  afterwards:  but  one 
wonders  whether  the  possessors,  still  in- 
terested in  such  things  as  scrap  books 
and  college  histories,  are  very  much  wiser 
as  to  chirography  than  they  were  before. 


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rHE      zALUMhIAE      [H^EWS 


Stella  Marek  Gushing,  American- 
born  daughter  of  Czeclioslovakian  immi- 
grants, appearing  on  the  lecture  pro- 
gram, gave  a  lecture-recital  on  the  peas- 
ant folk  music  and  dances  of  her  pictur- 
esque ancestors.  Dressed  in  a  colorful 
peasant  costume,  she  lectured  a  bit, 
danced  a  little,  played  on  her  violin  from 
the  famous  native  composers,  sang  rep- 
resentative folk  songs — all  very  charm- 
ingly. 

In  commemoration  of  the  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  death  of 
Goethe,  members  of  the  faculty  of  the 
German  Department  gave  two  lectures 
during  March  for  the  college  community. 
"The  Universality  of  Goethe"  was  the 
subject  discussed  by  Miss  Caroline 
Schoch,  head  of  the  department.  "A 
Modern  Aspect  of  Goethe's  Faust"  was 
presented  by  Mr,  John  A.  Kelly,  assist- 
ant professor  of  German  and  French.  A 
world  figure,  an  ancient  and  a  modern 
in  the  span  of  his  conceptions  and  his 
activities,  the  great  German  still  lives. 

Miss  Mary  C.  Coleman,  head  of  the 
Department  of  Physical  Education,  has 
just  brought  to  a  close  her  year  as  pres- 
ident of  the  southern  division  of  the 
American  Physical  Education  Associa- 
tion. The  annual  convention  was  held 
March  30  to  April  1  in  Jacksonville,  Fla., 
in  connection  with  the  State  Teachers' 
Association.  A  comprehensive  program 
was  offered  the  delegates.  In  addition 
to  directing  the  sessions  of  the  physical 
education  conference,  Miss  Coleman  also 
addressed  the  Florida  teachers  on  the 
subject  of  "Physical  Education  and  the 
Modern  Curriculum." 

The  Theatre  Guild,  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Play-Likers,  gave  a  perform- 
ance of  Maxwell  Anderson's  "Elizabeth, 
the  Queen,"  in  Aycock  last  fall.  Eliza- 
beth Risdon  did  excellent  work  in  the 
title  role;  George  Blackwood  made  only 
a  slightly  less  dramatic  appeal  as  Essex. 
This  is  the  third  appearance  of  the 
Theatre  Guild  Company  on  the  campus 
within  the  past  three  or  four  years. 


"The  Land  of  Heart's  Desire," 
Ethelbert  Nevin's  cantata,  arranged  by 
Deems  Taylor,  was  featured  by  the  Mad- 
rigal Club  as  part  one  of  its  program 
given  in  Aycock  Auditorium  on  Satur- 
day evening,  March  26.  Part  two  fea- 
tured Orchesis,  with  the  singers  inform- 
ally seated  on  the  stage  in  a  group  ar- 
rangement as  a  background  and  as  ac- 
companiment for  the  dancers.  The  work 
was  under  the  general  direction  of  Miss 
Grace  Van  Dyke  More.  Miss  Minna 
Lauter,  director  of  Orchesis,  also  assisted 
the  students  with  their  dance  numbers. 
H.  Grady  Miller,  supervisor  of  music  in 
the  city  schools,  was  soloist. 

In  her  lecture  on  etching,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  0  'Neill  Verner,  famous  Amer- 
ican etcher,  emphasized  the  importance 
of  a  mastery  of  drawing  as  a  foundation 
preparation,  traced  the  history  of  the 
art  from  the  earliest  engravings  on  steel 
armor,  and  discussed  the  technique  of 
the  work.  Mrs.  Verner  belongs  to  that 
group  of  artists  in  Charleston,  repre- 
senting various  fields,  which  has  done 
much  to  center  the  interest  of  the  art 
world  upon  this  beautiful  historic  city. 
Her  most  widely  known  etchings  are 
those  which  illustrate  the  Charleston 
edition  of  Dubose  Heyward's  Porgy. 
And  she  is  best  known  for  her  Charles- 
ton scenes. 

Antonia  Cortis,  tenor,  and  Mar- 
gherita  Salvi,  coloratura  soprano,  gave 
a  joint  recital  in  Aycock  last  December. 
It  was  a  colorful  performance,  notable 
for  its  touch  of  grand  opera  and  bril- 
liant costuming. 

A  BENEFIT  performance,  ' '  The  Streets 
of  New  York — or  Poverty  Is  No  Crime," 
melodrama  par  excellence,  a  revival  of 
1857,  was  presented  by  the  Play-Likers 
as  their  contribution  to  Unemployment 
Relief.  There  were  only  a  few  vacant 
seats  in  the  house,  and  the  old  stage 
ideals  of  villain,  the  lovely  and  innocent 
girl,  the  young  aristocrat  reduced  un- 
justly to  poverty,  hisses,  sighs,  and  tears 
were  all  realistically  enacted. 


George  Washington:  The  Man    .   , 

The  Statesman 


Walter  Clinton  Jackson 

^  Bicentennial  z^dclress 


GEORGE  Washington  is  the  foremost 
fi^ire  in  American  History.  His 
name  and  his  fame  fill  the  nation  with 
an  all-pervading  aroma.  His  services  to 
his  country  and  his  influence  upon  his 
fellows  probably  exceed  that  of  any 
other  American  citizen. 

A  gifted  orator  has  said  that  it  is 
hard  to  overstate  the  debt  we  owe  to  the 
men  and  women  of  genius.  Take  from 
our  world  what  they  have  given,  and  all 
the  niches  would  be  empty,  all  the  walls 
naked ;  meaning  and  connection  would 
fall  from  words  of  poetry  and  fiction : 
music  would  go  back  to  common  air,  and 
all  the  form  of  subtle  and  enchanting  art 
would  lose  proportion  and  become  the 
unmeaning  waste  and  shattered  spoil  of 
thoughtless  chance. 

George  Washington  was  not  a  genius 
in  the  common  acceptation  of  the  term ; 
but  take  from  American  History  what 
he  gave  to  it,  and  continuity  and  strength 
and  vitality  would  fall  away  from  it,  and 
the  story  would  be  as  a  rope  with  rav- 
eled and  twisted  and  broken  strands. 

It  is  not  easy  to  recreate  the  past ;  but 
if  Washington  could  stand  before  us  now 
as  he  actually  was,  you  would  observe  a 
remarkable  figure,  six  feet  two  inches  in 
height,  light  brownish  hair,  large,  light 
blue  eyes,  big  nose  (bright  red  in  the 
wind  or  the  cold),  sallow  complexion, 
face  pitted  from  smallpox,  bad  teeth,  dis- 
colored from  drinking  wine — false  teeth 
in  his  later  years,  big  hands,  big  feet. 
big  bones,  a  very  giant  in  physical 
strength,  able  to  straighten  a  horseshoe 
with  his  hands,  cracking  nuts  with  his 
fingers  when  everyone  else  must  needs 
use  a  nut  cracker ;  dressed  fashionably 
and  well  with  knee-breeches,  black  stock- 
ings, silver  buckles  on  his  shoes  and  at 


liis  knees,  lace  at  his  sleeves,  a  frilled 
shirt,  and  if  dressed  for  a  public  occa- 
sion, yellow  gloves  on  his  hands  and  a 
dress  sword  at  his  side:  dignified,  som- 
bre, stately,  reserved.  This  man  is  fond 
of  hunting,  fishing,  riding,  eating,  danc- 
ing, and  especially  fond  of  the  society  of 
ladies,  with  whom  lie  is  more  at  ease  than 
with  men ;  a  gentleman  planter,  a  land 
speculator,  the  richest  man  of  his  day. 
owning  upwards  of  seventy  thousand 
acres  of  land,  hundreds  of  slaves,  town 
lots,  stocks  and  bonds;  a  typical  Vir- 
ginian ;  an  aristocrat,  a  soldier,  a  wise 
counselor,  a  patriot  and  statesman  -. 
strong,  courageous,  honest,  dependable, 
self  -  controlled,  clear  -  headed,  high  - 
minded. 

This  man  is  the  son  of  a  reasonably 
well-to-do  and  well  educated  father,  and 
a  mother  who  gave  him  in  full  measure 
her  own  physique,  but  who  in  all  other 
respects  was  at  odds  with  her  famous 
son.  The  father  dying  when  George  was 
eleven,  he  spent  his  youthful  years  with 
his  elder  half-brothers,  Augustine  and 
Lawrence,  the  mother  living  at  Fred- 
ericksburg, and  though  possessed  of 
plenty,  this  mother  in  her  latter  years 
was  obsessed  with  the  idea  of  poverty, 
complaining,  begging,  accepting  gifts, 
petitioning  for  a  pension:  untidy,  smok- 
ing her  pipe  according  to  tradition,  dy- 
ing of  an  offensive  cancer  at  eighty-three, 
only  ten  3-ears  before  the  death  of  her 
distinguished  son.  This  man  has  but 
little  formal  education :  a  good  mathema- 
tician, surveyor,  and  letter-wi'iter.  but  a 
poor  gi'ammarian  and  poor  speller — his 
Latin  spelled  1-a-t-e-n.  with  a  little  /. 
Lie.  a  word  which  occurs  with  remark- 
able frequency  in  his  diary,  is  always 
1-v-e.     Kifle  is  r-i-f-f-1-e,  oil  alwavs  o-v-1. 


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rHE      ALUMNAE      ^EWS 


He  is  preeminently  a  social  person — 
the  typical  Virginia  gentleman;  his 
home  a  "well-resorted  tavern,"  as  he 
calls  it.  There  are  dinners  and  levees 
and  picnics  and  teas  and  dances  and  the 
theater  and  card  playing.  He  never 
misses  the  opportunity  to  visit  the 
theater,  and  he  is  a  constant  player  at 
cards,  though  his  losses  are  usually  not 
large  because  the  stakes  are  never  high. 
He  is  fond  of  dancing  and  does  it  well, 
considering  his  No.  13  shoes.  Mrs.  Gen- 
eral Knox  reports  that  at  her  home  ' '  the 
party  danced  all  night" — -Washington 
among  the  guests.  At  another  time,  he 
danced  for  three  consecutive  hours  with 
Mrs.  General  Greene. 

He  is  something  of  a  dandy  in  dress. 
In  1754  he  bought  "a  super-fine  blue 
broadcloth  coat,  with  silver  trimmings, ' ' 
"a  fine  scarlet  waistcoat  full  lac'd,"  and 
a  quantity  of  "silver  lace  for  a  Hatt," 
and  from  another  source  it  is  learned 
that  at  this  time  he  was  the  possessor  of 
ruffled  shirts.  A  little  later  he  ordered 
from  London  "as  much  of  the  best 
super-find  blue  Cotton  Velvet  as  will 
make  a  Coat,  AVaistcoat  and  Breeches  for 
a  Tall  Man,  v\^ith  a  fine  silk  button  to 
suit  it,  and  all  other  necessary  trimmings 
and  linings. ' ' 

He  is  very  fond  of  the  society  of  wo- 
men. He  had  his  love  affairs  from  early 
youth,  was  even  so  affected  as  to  write 
poetry.  Rupert  Hughes  maintains  that 
he  was  in  love  with  Nancy  Fairfax,  the 
charming  wife  of  his  neighbor.  I  do  not 
know,  nor  does  anyone  else  know  posi- 
tively, whether  he  was  or  not,  but  I  do 
know  that  he  bore  himself  like  a  gentle- 
man in  any  circumstances.  Pie  courted 
Mary  Philipse  with  an  energy  that  de- 
served a  better  fate,  and  the  vigor  and 
directness  and  speed  and  the  success 
with  Avhich  he  courted  the  wealthy  and 
beautiful  Widow  Custis  is  evidence  of 
no  mean  lover.  This  wife  of  his,  Mar- 
tha, is  only  a  mildly  interesting  person. 
A  biographer  says  of  her,  "Very  little 
is  really  known  of  his  wife,  beyond  the 
facts  that  she  was  petite,  over-fond,  hot- 
tempered,  obstinate,  and  a  poor  speller." 


(I  am  not  responsible  for  the  arrange- 
ment of  those  qualities.)  In  1778  she 
was  described  as  a  "  sociable,  pretty  kind 
of  woman,"  and  she  seems  to  have  been 
but  little  more.  One  who  knew  her  well 
described  her  as  "not  possessing  much 
sense,  though  a  perfect  lady  and  remark- 
ably well-calculated  for  her  position. ' ' 

Further  evidence  of  his  fondness  for 
the  ladies  is  found  in  the  records  of  his 
diary,  containing  a  large  number  of  such 
references  as  the  foUomng:  "—at 
which  there  were  between  60  and  70  well 
dressed  ladies";  " — at  which  there  were 
about  100  well  dressed  and  handsome 
ladies";  " — at  which  there  were  256 
elegantly  dressed  ladies."  I  have  often 
wondered  how  George  knew  there  were 
exactly  256  at  that  particular  meeting! 

At  his  wife's  receptions  Washington 
did  not  view  himself  as  host,  and  "con- 
versed without  restraint,  generally  with 
women,  who  rarely  had  other  opportun- 
ity of  seeing  him,"  which  perhaps  ac- 
counts for  the  statement  of  another  eye- 
witness that  Washington  "looked  very 
much  more  at  ease  than  at  his  own  offi- 
cial levees."  Sullivan  adds  that  "the 
young  ladies  used  to  throng  about  him, 
and  engaged  him  in  conversation.  There 
were  some  of  the  well-remembered  belles 
of  the  day  who  imagined  themselves  to 
be  favorites  with  him.  As  these  were 
the  only  opportunities  which  they  had  of 
conversation  with  him,  they  were  dis- 
posed to  use  them."  And  that  this  at- 
tention was  not  merely  the  respect  due 
to  a  great  man  is  shown  in  the  letter  of 
a  Virginia  woman  who  wrote  to  her  cor- 
respondent in  1777,  that  when  ' '  General 
Washington  throws  off  the  Hero  and 
takes  up  the  chatty  agreeable  Compan- 
ion, he  can  be  downright  impudent  some- 
times— such  impudence,  Fanny,  as  you 
and  I  like." 

It  is  as  a  farmer  and  landed  proprie- 
tor that  George  AVashington  was  at  his 
best.  There  is  no  more  engaging  picture 
of  him  than  to  see  him  rising  at  day- 
break, eating  a  hasty  breakfast  of  corn 
cakes,  honey,  and  tea,  mounting  his  horse 
and  riding  forth  to  his  farms,  looking  in 


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at  tlie  carpenter  and  tlie  t^ardener  and 
the  blacksmith  and  the  shoemaker  and 
the  weaver,  examining^  his  fine  stable  of 
horses,  looking  at  his  herds  ol!  cattle : 
down  to  the  water  mill  and  to  the  fisli- 
ery,  and  in  1797  to  the  copper  still  whei-e 
he  makes  both  corn  and  rye,  deriving  in 
the  year  1796  a  clear  profit  ot'  $1,700 
from  these  operations  and  having  155% 
gallons  left  over.  (I  think  there  is  no 
more  revealing  evidence  of  one  phase  of 
Washington's  character  than  the  record- 
ing of  that  quart.)  Returning  from  such 
a  ride  he  has  a  regular  breakfast  of  ham 
and  eggs,  potatoes,  honey,  bread,  tea,  and 
other  substantial  dishes,  and  then  pro- 
ceeds to  his  office  for  the  further  work  of 
the  morning. 

Two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  is  the 
dinner  hour.  There  are  always  guests 
and  a  bountiful  table.  There  is  one  dish 
that  is  served  every  day  in  the  year  at 
this  meal,  and  that  is  fish,  for  the  Father 
of  his  Country  is  inordinately  fond  of 
fish.  He  is  also  quite  fond  of  wine  and 
nuts  and  as  soon  as  the  ladies  withdraw 
and  the  cover  is  removed,  he  will  sit 
sometimes  for  hours  chatting,  cracking 
nuts  witli  his  fingers,  and  tasting  his 
wine. 

He  is  shrewd  in  a  bargain.  He  owns 
lots  in  AYilliamsburg,  Alexandria,  and 
other  towns.  He  has  stock  in  the  Po- 
tomac Canal  Company,  the  James  River 
Canal  Company,  the  Dismal  Swamp 
Canal  project.  He  is  a  good  business 
man.  When  he  learns  that  Philadelphia 
is  to  be  the  new  capital,  he  quietly  at- 
tempts to  purchase  a  farm  in  the  sub- 
urbs of  that  city,  anticipating  a  hand- 
some rise  in  real  estate  values :  and  later, 
when  the  new  capital  is  selected  by  him. 
on  the  baiiks  of  the  Potomac,  he  hastens 
quietly  to  purchase  a  number  of  the 
choicest  drug  store  corners,  filling  sta- 
tion and  postoffice  sites  in  the  newly 
surveyed  city ! 

He  invests  frequently  in  lotteries.  He 
is  interested  in  any  number  of  big  land 
companies.  He  owns  upwards  of  three 
hundred  slaves ;  he  has  thousands  of  dol- 
lars in  bonds,  and  in  truth,  dies  one  of 


the  richest,  if  not  the  richest  man  of  his 

Some  reference  to  the  religious  life  of 
this  man  is  necessary  if  we  are  to  get 
anything  like  a  correct  picture  of  him. 

The  story  is  short  and  simple,  and  is  in 
complete  accord  with  the  other  aspects  of 
his  life.  He  was  conventional  and  or- 
thodox. John  ^Marshall  said  with  sim- 
ple accuracy:  "Without  making  osten- 
tatious professions  of  religion,  he  was  a 
sincere  believer  in  the  Christian  faith 
and  a  truly  devout  man." 

His  parents  were  religious,  after  the 
manner  of  the  times.  He  was  baptized, 
with  two  godfathers  and  one  godmother, 
into  the  Established  Church,  and  con- 
tinued a  member  in  good  standing  all  his 
life.  He  read  his  Bible ;  provided  Bi- 
bles for  his  children ;  he  attended  church 
\^dth  reasonable  regularity;  he  was  a 
vestryman  in  two  parishes,  Truro  and 
Fairfax;  he  contributed  liberally  to  the 
support  of  the  church ;  and  there  are  rec- 
ords of  his  observing  fasts. 

As  head  of  the  army  he  provided  con- 
stantly for  religious  exercises  for  the 
soldiers,  and  in  his  letters  and  his  state 
papers  there  are  constant  references  to 
a  belief  in  a  guiding  Providence  both  in 
his  personal  life  and  the  life  of  a  nation. 
While  these  may  be  entirely  conventional 
and  may  not  necessarily  imply  a  revela- 
tion of  his  inmost  thinking — he  was  a  re- 
markably reticent  man — there  is  no  evi- 
dence to  the  contrary,  and  the  justifiable 
assumption  is  that  they  are  sincere.  The 
apocryphal  stories  of  the  cherry  tree, 
his  praying  at  Valley  Force,  and  upon 
other  occasions,  together  with  the  per- 
petual emphasis  upon  his  honesty  and 
his  solemnity,  have  tended  to  produce 
the  impression  of  the  awe-full  pious,  au- 
stere Puritan — something  quite  differ- 
ent from  the  naturalness,  simplicity,  and 
sincerity  of  his  daily  life. 

That  he  was  no  joyless  puritanical 
conformist  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that 
he  would  not  participate  in  the  -commun- 
ion service,  that  he  occasionally,  though 
quite  unostentatiously,  went  hunting  or 
fishing  on  the  Sabbath,  and  that  he  did 


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most  of  liis  business  "wi-iting  on  Sunday, 
occasionally  closing  a  deal  of  some  kind 
on  that  day.  He  owned  slaves,  he  man- 
ufactured whiskey,  he  invested  in  lotter- 
ies, he  bet  on  his  horses,  he  drank  wine, 
he  swore  on  occasion,  he  played  cards 
with  stakes,  he  danced,  and  he  attended 
the  theatre. 

All  of  these  things  were  commonplaces 
of  life  in  his  day.  To  attempt  to  judge 
him  literally  by  them  as  measured  by 
our  own  statutes  and  customs  would  be 
foolish.  Certainly  no  man  ever  had  a 
higher  regard  for  the  proper  observance 
of  law,  and  for  high-minded  and  honor- 
able behavior  among  his  fellows.  No  one 
but  a  sophist  or  a  hypocrite  would  dare 
excuse  himself  today  by  a  comparison  of 
his  own  life  with  Washington's.  And  if 
any  of  these  things  are  vices  today, 
whether  so  regarded  by  Washington  or 
not,  let  no  man  conceal  his  own  beha\dor 
behind  the  example  of  Washington,  un- 
less he  can  match  virtues  with  Washing- 
ton as  well  as  vices. 

When  the  sum  total  of  his  character 
and  his  conduct  are  considered,  I  am  per- 
suaded that  the  pastors  of  our  present 
day  churches  would  be  content  to  worry 
along  with  a  congregation  of  men  who 
would  match  him  point  by  point  in  his 
daily  life. 

He  was  tolerant  in  all  religious  mat- 
ters. While  in  the  army  and  while  pres- 
ident he  constantly  attended  church  and 
worshipped  with  various  sects  and  de- 
nominations, being  a  frequent  attendant 
of  Catholic,  Baptist,  Quaker,  CongTega- 
tional,  and  other  church  services.  His 
attitude  is  well  stated  in  these  words : 
"While  we  are  contending  for  our  own 
liberty,  we  should  be  very  cautious  of 
\dolating  the  rights  of  conscience  in 
others,  ever  considering  that  'God  alone 
is  the  judge  of  the  hearts  of  men,  and  to 
Him  only  in  this  case  they  are  answer- 
able." 

He  chose  to  live  the  just,  the  upright, 
and  the  honorable  life.  That,  for  me,  is 
sufficient.  One  of  his  biographers  ac- 
curately and  succinctly  states  the  case 
for  him,  thus:     "He  made  no  parade  of 


]iis  religion;  for  in  this-  as  in  other 
things,  he  was  perfectly  simple  and  sin- 
cere. He  was  tortured  by  no  doubts  or 
questionings,  but  believed  always  in  an 
overruling  Providence  and  in  a  merci- 
ful God,  to  whom  he  knelt  and  prayed  in 
the  day  of  darkness  or  in  the  hour  of 
triumph,  w^ith  a  supreme  and  child-like 
confidence. ' ' 

In  presenting  these  sketchy  biographi- 
cal sidelights  there  is  no  desire  or  intent 
to  be  facetious  or  derogatory,  but  simply 
to  portray  and  reveal.  It  will  not  di- 
minish the  stature  of  Washington  — 
rather  it  will  increase  it — to  have  the 
full  truth  known  about  him.  I  do  not 
belong  to  that  number  of  men  who  seek 
to  minimize  his  greatness  or  to  lessen  his 
fame.  The  more  I  study  and  learn  about 
him  the  greater  my  own  respect  and  ad- 
miration becomes.  These  glimpses  into 
the  life  of  Washington,  the  man,  may  in- 
terest or  amuse  us  and  may  in  some 
measure  reveal  the  man,  but  they  are 
relatively  unimportant,  for  they  are  not 
the  insignia  of  greatness  and  do  not  in- 
dicate the  deep  significance  of  his  life 
and  his  work. 

AViiy,  then,  do  we  celebrate  his  achieve- 
ments and  pay  tribute  to  his  greatness? 
And  what  shall  it  profit  us  to  contem- 
plate anew  what  manner  of  man  he  was, 
and  what  things  he  wrought  in  his  day  ? 

A  wise  and  witty  Englishman  has  said 
that  "the  only  thing  we  learn  from  his- 
tory is  that  we  do  not  learn  from  his- 
tory." 

America's  poet  gave  us  the  typically 
American  lines : 

Lives  of  great  men  all  remind  us 
We  can  make  our  lives  sublime 
And  departing  leave  behind  us 
Footprints  on  the  sands  of  time. 

Combining  the  ideas  and  paraphras- 
ing the  words  of  the  two  we  may  say 
that  it  is  possible  for  men  to  study  the 
lives  of  the  great  and  profit  thereby,  but 
actually  they  do  not. 

The  Father  of  his  Country  has  been 
dead  these  133  years.  I  fancy  it  would 
be  somewhat  difficult  to  demonstrate 
how  manv  sublime  lives  there  were  in 


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thcso  yofii's  fiTul  ]\<)\v  iriJiiiy  of  tlicin  vvci'c 
attribiitabJe  to  a  eonterri])]ation  oi;  the 
life  of  Washington.  We  may  well  won- 
der how  far  American  thinking  and 
American  conduct  hav(!  been  determined 
by  him.  He  was  an  aristocrat,  and  be- 
lieved in  a  limited  suffrage.  We  have 
universal  suffrage  to  a  degree  unsur- 
passed by  any  nation. 

He  objected  to  political  alliances  with 
foreign  nations.  The  greatest  statesman 
in  my  opinion  who  has  occupied  the 
President's  chair  since  he  left  it  was  the 
Father  of  the  League  of  Nations.  He 
strongly  inveighed  against  the  evils  of 
sectionalism  and  earnestly  besought  his 
fellow  citizens  to  compose  their  differ- 
ences. We  fought  the  bitterest  sectional 
w^ar  of  modern  times. 

He  admonished  the  people  to  abate 
the  partisanship  and  strife  that  would 
accompany  the  formation  of  political 
parties.  AVe  have  had  Whigs,  Free  Boil- 
ers, Greenbackers,  Populists,  Progres- 
sives, Eepublicans,  Democrats,  Socialists, 
and  Communists.  And  we  recall  the 
elections  of  1828,  1840,  1860,  1875,  1884, 
]896,  1912. 

He  strongly  objected  to  secret  organi- 
zations that  would  seek  to  control  by  ul- 
tra or  extra  governmental  powers.  AA^e 
had  the  Know  Nothings,  the  Union 
League,  the  Molly  Maguires,  and  the  Ku 
Klux  Klan  —  original  and  revised  edi- 
tions ! 

He  spoke  with  feeling  and  eloquence 
for  religious  toleration.  We  have,  even 
to  this  day,  Northern  and  Southern 
churches  of  more  than  one  denomina- 
tion; by  custom  and  by  statute  we  have 
proscribed  many  of  our  fellow  relig- 
ionists :  and  we  had  the  election  of  1928  I 

So,  in  participating  in  these  memorial 
exercises  I  am  under  no  illusions — I  do 
not  expect  to  see  any  moral  or  political 
renaissance  and  reformation  growing  out 
of  them.  I  am  not  expecting  as  a  result 
of  these  celebrations,  all  pervasive  as 
they  will  be  in  the  nation,  any  softening 
of  the  severity  of  the  conflict  that  will 
reach  its  climax  next  November :  nor  any 
exalted  lifting  up  of  our  ideals  of  con- 


duct and  of  government.  Neverthele.s.s. 
it  surely  cannot  be  tliat  there  will  \)(i  no 
profit  in  a  reexamination  and  contem- 
plation of  this  man's  remarkable  career. 
His  impact  upon  American  History  was 
greater,  ijrobably,  than  that  of  any  other 
single  individual.  At  least  there  mu.st 
come  from  a  study  of  him  a  surer  knowl- 
edge of  the  elements  of  true  greatness, 
and  of  the  part  a  great  man  may  play  in 
making  the  history  of  his  time.  We 
must  needs  come  to  a  clearer  understand- 
ing of  our  nation  and  how  it  came  to  be 
what  it  is.  And  surely  there  will  creep 
into  our  consciousness,  if  ever  so  slightly 
and  unconsciously,  something  finer  and 
better  if  we  dwell  long  enough  and  in- 
telligently enough  upon  a  life  so  splen- 
did and  so  useful. 

AVashington  is  unique.  He  was  not  a 
brilliant  man.  Beside  the  flashing  and 
scintillating  Hamilton,  or  the  fascinat- 
ingly versatile  Franklin,  his  mind  seems 
slow,  prosaic,  mediocre. 

He  was  not  a  learned  man — not  even 
an  educated  man  in  the  usual  meaning 
of  the  term.  Alongside  the  richly  in- 
formed Aladisou.  or  the  studious  Adams, 
or  the  gifted  and  scholarly  Jefferson,  he 
was  ever  conscious  of  his  lesser  equip- 
ment. 

He  was  not  an  orator — not  even  a  fair 
speaker.  His  name  could  not  be  put 
among  the  Henrys,  Otises,  Rutledges, 
Lees,  and  Hoopers,  as  one  who  stirred 
his  fellows  to  action  by  convincing 
and  appealing  speech.  He  wrote 
nothing  of  consequence — either  on  gov- 
ernment, or  war,  or  morals,  or  art.  or  re- 
ligion, or  philosophy.  Even  in  the  field 
of  government,  where  his  thinking  was 
clearest  and  most  influential,  he  has  left 
us  nothing — unless  we  except  the  Fare- 
well Address,  the  phrasing  of  which  is 
accredited  to  Hamilton  —  to  put  beside 
the  work  of  Hamilton  or  Jefferson  or 
IMarshall.  Nevertheless,  he  is  the  most 
commanding  figure  in  our  History. 
AA^hy? 

The  answer  is  to  be  found  in  his  char- 
acter. He  possessed  more  of  the  solid 
and  endurino"  virtues  of  men  than  anv 


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man  in  onr  history,  and  lie  possessed 
them  in  a  higher  degree.  It  is  in  the 
totality  and  nniversality  of  his  virtues. 
and  their  identification  with  the  life  of 
his  fellows,  that  we  will  find  the  true  ex- 
planation of  his  greatness. 

Woodward  has  very  accurately  said : 
' '  He  has  been  considered  the  least  under- 
stood of  our  great  men,  when  in  truth  he 
is  the  best  understood.  People  have 
thought  that  they  did  not  understand 
him  because  they  could  not  see  in  him 
anything  that  was  not  in  themselves.  It 
was  just  in  that  quality  that  his  great- 
ness lay.  He  was  the  American  Com- 
mon Denominator,  the  average  man  dei- 
fied and  raised  to  the  nth  power. ' ' 

I  am  inclined  to  think  that  courage 
was  his  most  important  characteristic. 
Courage  is  a  rare  and  compelling  virtue. 
It  is  the  sustained  force  of  life.  Doubt, 
despair,  discouragement,  disillusionment 
are  universal  and  assail  us  all,  small  or 
great.  All  life  is  tragic.  Sooner  or  later 
comes  to  every  man  the  terrible  shadow 
of  doubt  or  despair.  Only  the  coura- 
geous carry  on.  Maurois  states  that  the 
most  characteristic  qualitj^  of  modern  bi- 
ography is  its  attempt  to  reveal  the  fact 
that  the  world's  great  men  and  great 
women  have  achieved  in  the  face  of 
doubt.  Washington  possessed  courage 
of  high  order.  I  do  not  here  speak  of 
physical  courage,  of  which,  of  course,  he 
had  plenty;  but  of  this  heroic  quality 
that  holds  a  man  steadfast  to  his  course 
in  the  face  of  qvqty  obstacle  that  may  be 
encountered.  This  is  one  reason  for  the 
universality  of  Washington's  influence 
upon  his  fellows. 

Washington  was  a  man  of  integrity. 
He  was  patriotic  in  the  highest  sense  of 
the  term.  He  was  unambitious.  He 
was    disinterested,    unselfish,    impartial. 

He  was  master  of  himself,  though  pos- 
sessed of  a  violent  temper,  with  strong 
emotions  and  convictions.  He  learned 
the  difficult  art  of  self-control — he  did 
not  lose  his  head.  When  his  officers,  the 
members  of  the  Continental  Congress, 
his  co-workers,  even  Hamilton  and  Jef- 
ferson and  most  of  his  fellow  countrv- 


men,  were  confused,  distracted,  discour- 
aged, wrangling,  hopeless,  he  was  calm, 
steady,  and  clear-headed. 

He  had  an  open  mind.  He  possessed 
the  remarkable  capacity  of  weighing  evi- 
dence with  rare  discretion.  Free  from 
prejudice,  independent  of  selfish  or  sin- 
ister motives,  he  was  able  to  listen  to  all 
of  the  conflicting  clamor  that  raged 
about  him  and  go  straight  to  the  heart 
of  problems  and  difficulties. 

He  was  a  master  of  men.  While  it  is 
true  that  he  was  reviled  and  abused  by 
many  of  his  fellows,  no  man  in  our  his- 
tory has  so  continuously  held  the  con- 
fidence of  thinking  people  as  he  did,  not 
only  of  the  leaders,  but  of  the  rank  and 
file  of  men.  Nothing  but  his  towering 
force  of  character  held  together  the 
wretched  little  army  during  the  trying 
days  of  the  American  Revolution.  Even 
Jefferson  and  his  followers,  who  dis- 
agreed with  him  in  so  many  particulars, 
served  him,  as  did  hundreds  of  public 
servants,  because  of  his  capacity  to  in- 
fluence, lead  and  control  men. 

In  the  highest  sense  of  the  term,  he 
was  wise.  Run  through  his  long  and 
varied  career  and  we  will  find  fewer  mis- 
takes, both  of  judgment  and  action,  than 
in  the  life  of  any  other  man  in  our  his- 
tory. He  took  the  measure  of  men  and 
events  Math  deadly  accuracy.  He  looked 
through  to  the  heart,  to  the  very  essence 
of  things. 

It  is  a  common  but  dangerous  practice 
to  use  such  a  man  as  an  argument  to 
prove  a  present  point,  or  attempt  to  put 
into  his  mouth  words  that  he  might  utter 
today.  Some  years  ago  I  found,  by  an  ex- 
amination of  a  number  of  speeches,  that 
Washington  was  an  expansionist  and  an 
isolationist;  that  he  was  a  free  trader 
and  a  high  taritf  man ;  he  was  a  wet  and 
a  dry;  he  was  a  big  navy  man  and  a 
little  navy  man ;  he  was  a  Rotarian,  a 
Kiwanian,  a  Monarch,  a  Civitan,  a  Lion 
and  a  Boy  Scout ! 

If  Washington  were  in  our  midst  to- 
day what  would  be  his  attitude  toward 
the  League  of  Nations,  the  Tariff.  Prohi- 
bition, and  the  multitude  of  perplexing 


THE      <t/1  LU  M  NAIi      U^  L  W  S 


15 


problems  confronting  us?  We  simply 
do  not  know.  We  cannot  call  up  tlie 
dead  to  bear  testimony  to  the  livin*^.  We 
can  only  surmise.  It  would  be  interest- 
ing indeed  if  tlu;  prism  of  that  lucid, 
informed,  balanced,  and  disinterested 
mind  of  his  could  be  focused  upon  cur- 
rent events.  It  might  startle  some  of 
those  who  prophesy  loudest  in  his  name. 

We  can  take  knowledge  of  the  pur- 
pose, the  method,  and  the  skill  with 
which  he  dealt  with  problems  in  his  day. 
We  know  that  he  was  high-minded,  im- 
partial, honest,  unselfish,  patriotic.  If 
our  statesmen  today  possessed  the  same 
characteristics  as  he  did,  if  even  in  les- 
ser degree,  or  approached  public  ques- 
tions in  the  same  manner  and  with  the 
same  point  of  view,  we  could  be  content. 
We  would  not  need  to  pray  for  the  re- 
appearance of  Washington  himself.  The 
application  of  Washington's  principles 
and  point  of  view  by  our  own  leaders 
would  sui^ce. 

A  discriminating  biographer  says  of 
him :  "I  see  in  Washington  a  great 
soldier  who  fought  a  trying  war  to  a  suc- 
cessful end  impossible  without  him ;  a 
great  statesman  who  did  more  than  all 
other  men  to  lay  the  foundation  of  a  re- 
public which  has  endured  prosperity  for 
more  than  a  century.  I  find  in  him  a 
marvelous  judgment  which  was  never  at 
fault,  a  penetrating  vision  which  beheld 
the  future  of  America  when  it  was 
dimmed  to  other  eyes,  a  great  intellec- 
tual force,  a  will  of  iron,  an  unyielding 
grasp  of  facts,  and  an  unequal  strength 
of  patriotic  purpose.  I  see  in  him  too 
a  pure,  high-minded  gentleman  of  daunt- 
less courage  and  stainless  honor,  simple 
and  stately  of  manner,  kind  and  gener- 
ous of  heart.  Such  he  was  in  truth.  The 
historian  and  biographer  may  fail  to  do 
him  justice,  but  the  instinct  of  mankind 
will  not  fail.  The  real  hero  needs  not 
books  to  give  him  worshippers.  George 
Washington  will  always  receive  the  love 
and  reverence  of  men  because  they  see 
embodied  in  him  the  noblest  possibilities 
of  humanity." 

We  do  well  to  pause  and  contemplate 


what  manner  of  man  lie  vva.s,  for,  while 
the  outward  fonrj  and  circumstance  of 
Jife  may  change  from  day  to  day,  even  a.s 
the  fashion  in  dre.ss  or  the  mode  of  travel 
or  the  customs  of  a  community,  the  eter- 
nal verities  of  life  are  con.stants,  A.s 
the  simple  but  majestic  monuments  by 
the  river,  in  the  city  which  bears  his 
name,  is  lifted  high  and  stands  a  per- 
petual reminder  of  his  services  to  the 
nation,  even  so  does  this  man's  noble 
character  rise  like  some  majestic  peak,  a 
sentinel  by  which  we  may  chart  our 
course  in  tlic  devious  way  of  life. 

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A  SUMMER  VACATION  COURSE 
AT  OXFORD 

In  July,  19.32,  a  summer  vacation  course 
for  American  women  graduates  and  teachers 
will  be  held  for  the  third  time  in  Oxford. 
Those  who  attended  the  courses  held  in  1926 
and  1928  will  know  something  of  the  special 
character  of  this  Oxford  Summer  School,  or- 
ganized by  the  four  women's  colleges  and 
the  Society  of  Oxford  Home-Students.  The 
students  will  reside  for  three  weeks  in  the 
women's  colleges;  they  will  hear  lectures  by 
eminent  men  and  women,  authorities  in  their 
subjects;  they  will  have  opportunities  for 
discussing  the  topics  of  the  lectures  with  Ox- 
ford University  teachers,  and  they  will  visit 
places  of  historical  and  literary  association 
in  the  countryside.  Concerts  and  plays  and 
excursions  of  architectural  interest  will  also 
form  part  of  the  program.  It  will  be  an  ob- 
ject to  give  students  an  insight  into  English 
life  as  far  as  possible,  and  to  bring  them 
into  contact  with  the  Oxford  tutors. 

The  course  will  open  on  Thursday,  July  7th, 
and  close  Thursday,  July  2Sth,  1932. 

The  subject  will  be  "England  in  the  Eight- 
eenth Century,"  and  lectures  will  be  given 
on  the  Literature,  Art,  History,  Polities,  and 
Thought   of  the  period. 

The  fee  is  $125,  which  will  include  full 
board,  residence  in  one  of  the  Oxford  wo- 
men's colleges,  lectures,  classes,  excursions 
and  concerts. 

For  further  information,  address  Miss  Ma- 
rion L.  Day,  39  West  54th  Street,  New  York 
City. 

cS5^ 

The  recent  performance  of  the  Minneapolis 
Symphony  Orchestra  registered  a  red  spot  in 
the  succession  of  concerts  here  this  year.  Eighty- 
four  men  and  one  woman  rendered  a  program 
of  some  of  the  world 's  greatest  compositions, 
and  did  it  in  masterlv  fashion. 


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To  May  Lovelace  Tomlinson  '07  the 
senior  class  of  High  Point  College  is  ded- 
icating its  1932  annual,  the  Zenith.  The 
theme  of  the  book  this  year  is  music. 
Certainly  no  happier  or  more  appropri- 
ate choice  could  have  been  made  than 
Mrs.  Tomlinson,  for  her  interest  in  music 
and  her  efforts  to  create  a  widespread 
appreciation  of  it  are  well  known.  In 
honoring  her  the  seniors  of  our  neighbor 
college  have  likewise  honored  themselves. 
»♦.      »j.      ^ 

"Historic  Happenings"  is  the  sugges- 
tive and  appropriate  title  of  a  series  of 
syndicated  articles  which  Katherine  Hos- 
kins  is  contributing  to  Sunday  newspa- 
pers. The  articles  are  uniformly  brief, 
and  concisely  and  entertainingly  disclose 
certain  episodes  connected  with  public 
life  in  the  state.  For  instance,  one  learns 
how  an  accident  to  his  foot  turned  the 
attention  of  James  B.  Duke  to  the  devel- 
opment of  electric  power  in  North  Caro- 
lina. Teachers  of  history  should  find 
these  stories  valuable  as  attractive  sup- 
plementary material  not  lil?:ely  to  be 
found  in  the  textbooks.  And  the  general 
reader  should  enjoy  them  for  what  they 

are. 

.%       .J.       .J. 

The  Bladen  Journal  in  a  recent  issue 
carries  a  unique  and  convincing  story 
about  the  establishment  of  a  community 
center  in  Carver's  Creek  School,  Bladen 
County.  Carrie  Tabor  Stevens  '20  is  a 
moving  spirit  in  the  undertaking  and  is 
throwing  an  enthusiastic  interest  into  the 
whole  work.  The  Journal  explains  that 
Mrs.  Stevens  at  the  organization  meeting 
held  in  the  high  school  auditorium 
pointed  out  that  "in  spite  of  so  much 
talk  of  depression,  no  family  throughout 
the  community  has  suffered  for  the  three 
fundamental  necessities,  food,  clothing 
and  shelter,  but  that  the  community  is 


starving  for  wholesome  mental  diver- 
sion." Therefore  it  was  proposed  to 
establish  a  community  center,  with  the 
township  as  the  unit,  to  serve  every  or- 
ganization and  every  individual  through- 
out the  township,  and  if  opportunity 
should  arise,  to  cooperate  with  other  cen- 
ters in  other  townships  and  counties. 
Programs  of  a  cultural  and  educational 
character  are  carried  out  every  two 
weeks,  on  Friday  evenings,  with  mem- 
bers of  the  community  taking  all  the 
parts.  A  string  band,  made  up  of  local 
players,  furnishes  music.  The  simplest 
form  of  dramatics  is  used — comedy  and 
tragedy  are  portrayed  through  readings, 
songs,  sometimes  without  previous  re- 
hearsals. Various  persons  take  the  parts 
in  a  sketch  and  act  them  upon  the  stage. 
Two  words  are  barred  in  connection  with 
the  programs:  "No"  and  "Can't"! 
The  opening  program  centered  around 
the  life  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  but  no  two 
consecutive  programs  are  being  planned 
on  identical  lines.  The  great  idea  un- 
derlying the  undertaking  is  this  —  that 
once  every  two  weeks,  all  the  people  in 
the  unit  shall  come  together  to  learn 
together,  enjoy  together,  live  and  work 
together,  for  mental  stimulation  and  cul- 
ture. The  possibilities  in  such  an  idea 
seem  limitless. 

♦       ♦>      ♦ 

Lula  Martin  Mclver  Scott  '21  is  the 

new  executive  secretary  of  the  Young 
Democratic  Clubs  of  America,  a  national 
organization  recently  launched  with  local 
state  organizations  as  the  federating 
units.  Twent^^-seven  states  were  repre- 
sented at  the  organization  meeting  held 
in  Washington  City  during  March,  and 
it  is  proposed  to  form  local  clubs,  com- 
posed of  young  Democrats,  in  communi- 
ties in  each  of  the  forty-eight  states.  At 
the  present  time  national  headquarters 
are  in  Raleigh,  and  Mrs.  Scott  has  her 


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office  there.  The  Greensboro  News  re- 
marks that  hereafter  ' '  the  world  will  be 
her  country  and  to  make  Democrats  will 
be  her  religion!"  In  creating  the  title 
role — for  she  is  of  course  the  first  execu- 
tive secretary  of  the  Young  Democratic 
Clubs  of  America  —  Lula  Martin  will 
have  the  exhilirating  experience  of  chart- 
ing out  a  path  through  a  new  field.  She 
brings  to  her  new  job  actual  participa- 
tion in  party  politics  during  the  last 
four  years,  especially  in  the  campaign  of 
1928,  when  she  actively  campaigned  in 
the  state  in  support  of  the  Democratic 
ticket. 

Hail  to  Mary  Webb  Nicholson  '24- '25, 
young  flyer,  recently  appointed  governor 
of  the  Southeastern  District  of  the  99 
Club,  national  organization  of  women 
flyers.  Mary  Webb  is  a  licensed  pilot, 
holding  a  private  flying  license,  and  is 
the  only  North  Carolina  woman  in  the 
club.  The  district  over  which  she  pre- 
sides is  made  up  of  seven  states — North 
Carolina.  South  Carolina,  Georgia.  Flor- 
ida, Alabama,  Tennessee,  and  iMissis- 
sippi.  Miss  Amelia  Earhart  is  president 
of  the  national  group,  and  from  her  the 
new  district  governor  received  appoint- 
ment. Much  to  the  interest  of  many 
alumnae  may  be  added  the  fact  that 
Mary  Webb  is  the  daughter  of  Frances 
Cole  '02,  before  her  marriage  a  member 
of  the  Training  School  faculty.  They 
live  in  Greensboro,  not  far  from  the  col- 
lege. 

Velma  Dare  Matthews  '25  has  entered 
upon  her  work  as  head  of  the  Biologj" 
Department  of  Catawba  College.  She 
was  chosen  for  this  post  to  succeed  Miss 
Mary  Frances  Seymour,  who  died  sud- 
denly early  in  March.  Before  going  to 
Catawba  College  Miss  Seymour  was  a 
teacher  in  the   Department  of  Biology 


here,  and  was  one  of  Vehna  Dare's  in- 
structors. After  receiving  her  Ph.D. 
from  the  University  of  North  Carolina  in 
1930,  Miss  Matthews  taught  a  year  in 
the  Arkansas  A.  and  M.  This  present 
year  she  has  been  associated  with  Dr. 
Coker  at  the  University  in  the  revision  of 
a  book  relating  to  botany.  Dr.  Mat- 
thews' thesis,  "Studies  on  the  Genus 
Pythum, ' '  was  published  last  fall  by  the 
University  of  North  Carolina  Press.  The 
book  is  well  illustrated  by  29  plates,  2G 
of  which  are  from  original  drawings. 

(i^ 


CAMPUS  GOOD  FAIRIES  FOR 
1932-33 

Spring  student  elections  are  now  tak- 
ing place.  By  ^lay  1  they  will  be  over, 
and  the  new  governing  bodies  will  go 
into  office  on  that  date.  The  president 
of  the  Student  Government  Association 
has  made  her  appointments  to  the  Ju- 
dicial Board;  and  throughout  the  lists, 
many  sections  of  the  state,  as  well  as  sev- 
eral states,  are  represented. 

These  officers  will  head  the  Student 
Government  Association  for  1932-33 : 

President,  Mildred  Brunt.  Winston- 
Salem  ;  vice  president,  Ernestine  Haly- 
burton,  New  London,  Conn. ;  secretary. 
Johanna  Lichtenf  els,  Asheville ;  treas- 
urer, Barbara  Graves,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Members  of  the  Judicial  Board  (ap- 
pointed by  President  Brunt)  :  Margaret 
Morris,  Florence,  S.  C. ;  Margaret  Mc- 
Guire,  Franldin ;  ^Margaret  Stallings, 
Louisburg;  Ruth  Cobb.  Bryson  City; 
Dorothy  Duff,  Philadelphia.  Pa. ;  Anne 
Coogan,  Bryn  Mawr.  Pa. :  Oetavia 
Smith.  Wilmington. 

House  presidents :  Mary  Parrish, 
Rocky  Mount ;  Emma  Rice.  Asheboro ; 
Elizabeth  Langford.  Gastonia ;  Helen 
Lichtenfels,  Asheville:  ^Margaret  Van- 
story,     Lincolnton :     Blanche     Pareell. 


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THE      ^ALUMNAE     U^EWS 


Cleveland;  Margaret  AVeeks,  Maysville; 
Daisy  Young,  Smithfield;  Reaville  Aus- 
tin, Rocky  Mount;  Martha  P.  Leake, 
Rockingham;  Margaret  Plonk,  King's 
Mountain ;  Claire  Lind,  Southport ;  Mar- 
garet Winder,  Elizabeth  City. 

Officers  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  are  :  Pres- 
ident, Alice  Virginia  Poe,  Rocky  Mount ; 
yice  president,  Sue  Ray,  Hendersonville  ; 
secretary,  Margaret  Plonk,  King's  Moun- 
tain ;  treasurer,  Margaret  Hedrick,  High 
Point;  representatives  at  large,  Con- 
stance Lam,  China ;  Elizabeth  Langford, 
Grastonia ;  Ruth  Wolcott,  Asheville. 

These  were  elected  to  direct  the  Ath- 
letic Association:  President,  Margaret 
Stallings,  Louisburg;  vice  president, 
Clay  Howard,  Greensboro;  secretary, 
Barbara  Lincoln,  Daytona  Beach,  Fla. ; 
treasurer,  Mary  Tyler,  Rockville,  Conn. 

The  Carolinian  has  for  its  editor  and 
business  manager,  respectively,  Alice 
Reid,  Statesville,  and  Virginia  Allen, 
Henderson. 

Pine  Needles  chose  Ruth  Owens,  of 
Danville,  as  editor,  and  Louise  Ward, 
Wallace,  as  business  manager. 

The  Coraddi  editor  and  business  man- 
ager are  :  Arline  Fbnville,  Burlington, 
and  Virginia  Dalton,  Winston-Salem. 

Allene  Charles,  Grifton,  was  elected 
college  cheer  leader. 

<^ 


A  sectional  conference  of  the  Amer- 
ican College  of  Surgeons  was  brought 
to  a  climax  at  a  community  meeting  in 
Aycock.  "What  Every  One  Should 
Know  About  Cancer, "  "  Why  Are 
You  Nervous?"  "Saving  Your  Eye- 
sight," "Life's  Impacts  and  the  Adult's 
Adjustments,"  were  the  four  scheduled 
addresses,  each  by  a  man  eminent  in  the 
given  field. 

<5^ 

An  "exam  tea" — who  said  it?  Well, 
this  is  the  way  it  was.  During  examina- 
tion week  the  Y.  Vv.  C.  A.  served  tea 
for  three  successive  afternoons  in  the 
Y.  W.  Hut,  and  thither  flocked  those  who 
would  have  a  cheering  or  reviving  cup. 
Veritable  pep-ups  they  proved  to  be ;  and 
we  hope  they'll  all  come  again! 


THE  HONOR  SOCIETY  GROWS 
APACE 

To  the  twenty  charter  members  of  the 
Honor  Society,  organized  last  year, 
thirty-one  neAv  names  have  been  added 
since  the  first  semester  examinations. 

Twenty-seven  of  these  luckiest  of  "the 
lucky  are  of  course  members  of  the  class 
of  1932 :  Adda  Anderson  and  Marian 
Anderson,  Greensboro  ;  Maud  Ashworth, 
Fairview ;  Margaret  Bacchus,  Norfolk, 
Va. ;  Exie  Beasley,  Apex ;  Mary  Brig- 
ham,  Greensboro;  Fannie  Brodie,  Hen- 
derson; Lois  Champion,  Fuquay 
Springs;  Mary  Deese,  Badin;  Elizabeth 
Hoffman,  Mount  Holly;  Marion  Holo- 
man,  Rich  Square;  Evelyn  Howell,  Ox- 
ford; Virginia  Kelly,  Hamlet;  Mary  E. 
Lewis,  Norfolk,  Va. ;  Grace  Lindsaj'-, 
Lexington ;  Edna  Livingston,  Laurel 
Hill ;  Pansj^  McConnell,  Gastonia ;  Amy 
Newcomb,  Wilmington ;  Kathleen  Par- 
ker, Monroe ;  Rebecca  Rhodes,  Bessemer 
City ;  Louise  Robinson,  Matthews  ;  Helen 
Shuf  ord,  Greensboro ;  Elizabeth  Thomp- 
son, Davidson ;  Dorothy  Tolleson, 
Greensboro  ;  Rosalind  Trent,  Leaksville  ; 
Evelyn  Underwood,  Waynesville ;  Mi- 
nerva Waynick,  Greensboro. 

The  remaining  four  are  juniors : 
Ernestine  Halyburton,  Waterford, 
Conn. ;  Marjorie  Hefren,  Hertford : 
Katherine  Moser,  Greensboro ;  Katherine 
Stecker,  Fort  Bragg. 

New  student  officers  of  the  Honor  So- 
ciety, which  conceives  of  itself  as  the 
forerunner  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  are  pres- 
ident Mary  Lewis,  vice  president  Evelyn 
Underwood,  secretary  Ernestine  Haly- 
burton. These  three,  together  with  Miss 
Helen  Ingraham,  secretary  representing 
faculty  members.  Miss  Magnhilde  Gul- 
lander,  faculty  member  at  large,  and 
Marjorie  Hefren,  student  member  at 
large,  compose  the  executive  committee. 

(S>s. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  occasiou  when  the  heart 
is  more  open,  the  brain  more  quick,  the 
memory  more  rich  and  happy,  or  the  tongue 
more  prompt  and  eloquent,  than  when  two 
schoolday  friends,  knit  by  every  sympathy  of 
intelligence  and  affection,  meet  .  .  .  after  a 
long  separation. — Disraeli. 


The  Class  of  1931— Part  III 


Here  they  come  trooping— the  R's,  the  S's,  the  Ts— clear  down  to  the 

X^  Y,  Z's—the  final  third  of  the  Class  of  1931— who,  what,  where!  From 

A  to  Z  we  spell  a  Grand  Return  on  June  4. 


Edna  Eaby,  home  economics,  Cherokee  In- 
dian Normal,  Pembroke. 

Euth  Eaby,  home  economics  and  civics, 
high  school.  Kings  Mountain. 

Mary  Delia  Eankin,  assistant  in  bacteri- 
ology, physiology,  and  anatomy,  North  Car- 
olina College. 

Pearl  Eaper,  departmental  work  in  geog- 
raphy, art,  and  spelling,  sixth  and  seventh, 
grades,  Eoute  2,  Concord. 

Mary  Eatledge,  now  Mrs.  Cyrus  Donald 
McCrary,  Fourth  Avenue,  Lexington. 

Maude  Eatledge,  English  in  fourth  grade 
and  American  history,  Samarcand. 

Hazel  Eay,  sections  of  third  and  fourth 
grades,  Hendersonville. 

Augusta  Eaymond,  supply  teacher  in  local 
high  school;  assisting  mother  in  running  a 
boarding  house;  selling  beauty  preparations, 
Wake  Forest. 

Mary  Eaysor,  now  Mrs.  Howard  Haynes, 
705  Magnolia  Street,  Greensboro. 

Evelyn  Estelle  Eeeves,  French  and  English, 
high  school.  Black  Mountain. 

Lucy  Eeeves,  first  grade.  Laurel  Springs. 
Alice   Eenfrow,   teaching,   Matthews. 
Madge  Ehyne,  home  economics,  high  school, 
Star. 

Alline  Eichardson,  home  economics,  biology, 
and  general  science,  high  school,  Campobello, 
S.  C. 

Emilie  Eichardson,  fourth  grade,  Southern 
Pines. 

Evelyn  M.  Eives,  French  and  English,  high 
school,  Eoekwell. 

Kate  H.  Eobinson,  biology  and  physical 
education,  high  school,  Greensboro. 

Manie  Eobinson,  now  Mrs.  Charles  C.  Eo- 
deffer,  laboratory  technician  for  the  Lubbuck 
Clinic,  Lubbuck,  Texas. 

Matilda  Eobinson,  public  school  music,  El- 
lerbe. 

Annie  Gladys  Eogers,  now  Mrs.  Jack  But- 
ton, 518  Lamar  Avenue,  Charlotte. 

Cecil  Eogers,  graduate  work  in  the  School 
of  Applied  Social  Sciences,  University  of 
Pittsburgh,  and  part  time  social  work  with 
the  Family  "Welfare  Association,  Pittsburgh, 
Pa. 


Euby  Eosser,  English  and  French,  high 
school,  Lillington. 

Eleanor    Eothwell,    second    grade    Ellerbe. 
Theo  A.  Euddock,  at  home,  Charlotte. 
Edna   Sapp,   home   economics,   biology   and 
science,  "Walnut  Cove. 

Anne  Eoyal  Saunders,  commercial  law  and 
typing,  high  school,  Wilmington. 

Geraldine    Sayre,   third   grade,   Kannapolis. 
Janie  Secrest,  at  home,  Monroe. 
Helen   Seifert,   attending   Western   Eeserve 
University,   and   field  work  with   the   Associ- 
ated  Charities,   Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Meta  Shaffer,  fourth  grade,  Benson. 
Helen  Shearin,  at  home,  Littleton. 
Frances  Shearon,  at  home,  Eoute  5,  Ealeigh. 
Mamie  Shirley,  third  grade,  Crossnore. 
Martha  Shore,  at  home,  Boonville. 
Esther    E.     Shreve,    studying    pipe    organ, 
"Venice,  Cal. 

Adelaide  Shuford,  taking  business  course 
and  doing  part-time  work  at  Catawba  Cream- 
ery, Hickor3^ 

Annie  Lee  Singletary,  history,  high  school, 
Eoute  7,  Winston-Salem. 

Frances  Sink,  home  economics  and  biology, 
high  school,  Bethel. 

Ethel  Sledge,  science  and  math,  high  school, 
Grifton. 

Marion  Smith,  home  economics,  high  school, 
Samarcand. 

Mary  Boddie  Smith,  music  in  grades,  Eieh 
Square. 

Dorothy  K.  Spence,  taking  a  course  in  hos- 
pital dietetics,  New  York  Post-Graduate 
Medical  School  and  Hospital,  New  York  City. 
Euby  Spencer,  Mrs.  Price  Milliken,  378 
Elm  Avenue,  Ingram  Apts.,  A  No.  2,  Eoanoke, 
Va. 

Selma  Stegall,  piano,  high  school,  and  di- 
recting an  orchestra,  Marshville. 

Nancy  Ellen  Stoner,  library,  Asheville. 
Sallie  Stott,  sixth  grade,  Mebane. 
May    Swan,    home    economics,    high    school, 
Unionville. 

Pearl  Sykes,  Long  Creek  teaeherage,  Hunt- 
ersville. 

Mabel  Tate,  studying  at  the  University  of 
Montana,  Missoula,  Mon. 


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Maude  Terrell,  jniblic  school  music,  Cross- 
nore. 

Annie  Lee  Thompson,  now  Mrs.  Charles  C. 
Hutton,  813  Spring  Garden  Street,  Greens- 
boro. 

Noelle  Thomson,  working  in  the  laboratory 
at  James  Walker  Memorial  Hospital,  Wil- 
mington. 

Nell  Thurman,  now  Mrs.  E.  E.  Morrisett, 
Apt.    8,    201    S.    Mendenhall    St.,    Greensboro. 

Verna  Toleson,  at  home,  Greensboro. 

Mildred  Tomlinson,  taking  a  business 
course,  Wilson. 

Sue    Trenholni. 

Jeanette  Trotter,  studying  English,  North 
Carolina  College. 

Annie  Tucker,  home  economics,  high  school, 
Marion. 

Mildred  Turner,  home  economics,  high 
school,  Eoute  2,  Concord. 

Edith  Vail,  physical  education,  University  , 
of  Nebraska,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

Lueile  Varner,  English,  high  school,  Bry- 
son  City. 

Frances  Wallace,  at  home,   Statesville. 

Henrietta  Wallace,  grade  and  public  school 
music  work,  Jennings. 

Eloise  Ward,  in  charge  of  organizing  the 
school  libraries  in  Currituck  County,  Moyock. 

Margaret  Ware,  at  home.  Mount  Holly. 

Rebecca  Webster,  first   grade,  Westfield. 

Catherine  Wharton,  Orthopaedic  Hospital, 
Gastonia. 

Mary  Jane  Wharton,  graduate  work  in 
zoology  at  Yale,  New  Haven,   Conn. 

Nellie  G.  Wheeler,  physical  education,  high 
school,  Leaksville. 

Pauline  Wheeler,  seventh  grade,  Kenly. 

Frances  White,  taking  course  in  family 
case  work  at  Western  Reserve  University, 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Louise  Whittington,  piano,  Denton. 

Helen  Williams,  taking  a  combined  course 
in  accounting  and  secretarial  studies  at 
Smithdeal  Business  College,  and  working  in 
the  office  there,  Richmond,  Va. 

Peggy  Ann  Williams,  secretary  to  the  chief 
chemist,   American   Enka   Corporation,   Enka. 

Maud  Williams,  fourth  grade,  Taylorsville. 

E.  Ruth  Williams,  home  economics,  general 
science,   and  physics,   high   school.   Oak   City. 

Margaret  Winstead,   at   home,   Wilmington. 

Mildred  Winston,  at  home,  Youngsville. 

Eloise  Woosley,  first  grade,  Haw  River. 

Eva  Woosley,  taking  training  for  nurse  at 
Jefferson  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Martine  Wright,  attending  William  and 
Mary  School  Work,  Richmond,  Va. 

Ruth  C.  Yates,  employed  at  Anchor  De- 
partment  Store,  Winston-Salem. 


Notes 

"POETHV     FKO.U     TJIE     STANDPOINT     OP 

THE  Reader"  was  the  subject  of  a  lec- 
ture by  Edward  Davi.son,  Kngli.s?i  poet 
and  critic,  g^iven  in  Aycock  to  a  eollef^e 
audience.  lie  also  proved  a  delightful 
guest  of  the  Quill  Club  in  an  informal 
talk  at  a  tea.  His  dominant  theme,  no 
matter  what  his  subject,  is  the  intimate 
relation  between  everyday  life  and  lit- 
erature in  all  its  phases— the  old  as  well 
as  the  new. 

A  PHOTOGRAPH  of  the  .students  and 
members  of  the  faculty  who  took  part 
in  the  Pinehur.st  Archery  Tournament 
last  spring  has  been  published  in  a  re- 
cent issue  of  the  Amsterdam  Cllolland) 
Herald.  Katherine  ^Morgan  '31,  Kather- 
ine  Robinson  '31,  Charlotte  Hill  '31, 
and  Virginia  Douglas,  appear  along 
w^ith  Misses  Minna  Lauter  and  Dorothy 
Davis,  members  of  the  physical  educa- 
tion faculty. 

Dr.  E.  F.  Richards,  geologist  with  the 
Gulf  Oil  Company  in  Venezuela,  was  a 
lecturer  for  the  Zoologj^  Club  last  fall. 
He  discussed  the  transformation  of  ani- 
mals into  oils  and  the  methods  of  mak- 
ing the  remains  available  for  commercial 
use.  Dr.  Richards  and  his  wife,  Katha- 
rine Gregory  '27,  were  at  that  time  vis- 
iting friends  in  North  Carolina. 

Extension  courses  with  credit,  most 
of  them  a  continuation  for  the  second 
semester  of  work  begun  last  fall,  are 
being  taught  in  various  towns  in  North 
Carolina  by  members  of  the  faculty. 
Courses  in  history,  English,  economics, 
health,  government,  sociology,  art  appre- 
ciation, supervision,  education,  public 
school  music  are  included. 

"The  AVishixg  AVell. "  comic  oper- 
etta in  three  acts,  by  ]\Iary  Hewes  Dodge 
and  John  Wilson  Dodge,  was  presented 
recently  in  Students  Building  by  stu- 
dents of  Curry  High  School.  Carlotta 
Barnes  '26.  teacher  of  public  school 
music,  w^as  director. 


Among  the  Alumnae 


Attorney  General  Brummitt,  Avhose  wife  is 
Kate  Fleming,  addressed  the  Alabama  Edu- 
cation Association  at  its  annual  meeting  in 
Birmingham  during  March.  He  reviewed  the 
long  legislative  fight  in  1931  for  state  sup- 
port of  the  six-months  school  term,  declaring 
his  belief  that  there  is  essential  justice  in 
using  the  larger  territorial  area.  He  said 
that  the  change  was  a  permanent  one,  and 
predicted  that  the  next  general  assembly 
would  remove  the  fifteen-cent  state  wide  land 
tax  for  the  support  of  schools. 

Harold  T.  "Williams,  whose  wife  is  Mary 
Parker  Fryer  '23- '25,  has  recently  been  pro- 
moted to  the  post  of  assistant  cashier  of  the 
Morris  Plan  Bank,  Greensboro.  He  was  form- 
erly connected  with  the  North  Carolina  Bank 
and  Trust  Company. 

Pearl  Bostian's  husband.  Dr.  Gilbert  T. 
Eowe,  is  professor  of  Christian  Doctrine  in 
the  School    of   Religion,   Duke   University. 

CLASS  OF  1898 

Evelina  Wiggins  (also  A.B.  '23)  finished 
the  required  work  for  the  M.A.  degree  in 
English  at  Columbia  University  last  August. 
This  meant  four  summers  of  study  in  her  spe- 
cial field,  the  seventeenth  century  in  English 
literature.  The  work  she  did  on  Milton  was 
under  the  direction  of  F.  A.  Patterson,  editor 
of  the  Columbia  Milton.  Evelina  recently 
represented  this  college  at  a  meeting  of  the 
A.A.U.W.   in  Lynchburg. 

CLASS  OF  1899 

Mary  Collins,  Secretary,  Enfield 

Bulus  Bagby  Swift  has  been  giving  a  series 
of  talks  this  spring  on  child  development  for 
the  child  study  class  of  Aycock  Parent-Teacher 
Association,  Greensboro. 

CLASS  OF  1900 

Mrs.  J.  T.  Lowe  (Auvila  Lindsay),  Secretary 
Lexington 

Mary  S.  Winiorne  Skinner  is  teaching  again 
in  the  Durham  schools. 

CLASS  OF  1903 

Mary  Taylor  Moore,  President 
North  Carolina  College 

Lelia  Hampton  is  again  teaching  in  the 
Durham  High  School  and  living  in  Chapel  Hill. 

Ida  Hankins  returned  to  Sondo  to  resume  her 
duties  in  the  Holston  Institute,  after  having 
spent  two  years  in  the  United  States  studying. 
In    June,    1930,    she   received   her   B.S.    degree 


from  Peabody  College;   in  .June,  1931,  she  re- 
ceived her  M.A.  from  Columbia  University. 

Nettie  Parlcer  Wirth  writes  from  Buffalo. 
The  family  has  returned  there  after  having 
spent  several  months  in  New  York.  Both  An- 
toinette and  Albert  are  in  school  until  June. 
And  after  then — and  this  is  the  best  part  of 
her  letter — she  is  looking  forward  to  coming 
south,  and  plans  to  include  the  college  in  her 
visit. 

CLASS  OF  1907 

Mary  Exum,  Secretary,  Snow  Hill 

Marjorie  Kennedy  White  has  been  conducting 
classes  in  contract  bridge  in  Greensboro  this 
winter.  She  has  also  taught  the  course  in 
Ealeigh. 

CLASS  OF  1908 

Edna  Forney,  Secretary,  North  Carolina  College 

Martha  Petty  Hannah  is  president  of  the 
Greensboro  Business  and  Professional  Women's 
Club,  and  recently  presided  at  a  banquet  in 
Greensboro  in  celebration  of  Business  Wo- 
men's Week.  At  this  time  representatives  of 
the  district  were  also  present. 

CLASS  OF  1912 

Jamie  Bryan  writes  of  the  interesting  meet- 
ings the  Buncombe  County  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion has  held  during  the  past  year.  In  Janu- 
ary Dr.  Weizenblott,  noted  eye  specialist  of 
Asheville,  gave  the  group  an  enjoyable  talk  on 
European  university  life.  In  February  Mrs. 
Crosby  Adams  gave  the  association  a  lecture- 
recital  at  her  own  home  in  Montreat. 

Dora  Gates  is  studying  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity this  winter,  working  for  her  master's 
degree.  She  is  on  leave  of  absence  from  East 
Carolina  Teachers  College.  Dora  studied  at 
the  college  during  the  1931   summer  session. 

CLASS  OF  1913 

Mrs.  S.  S.  Coe  (Verta  Idol),  President 
High  Point 

Christine  Butledge  Rickert  says:  "I'm  still 
dietitian  at  Mitchell  College;  still  teaching 
home  economics  there,  and  dietetics  at  Long's 
Sanatorium;  still  married;  still  have  two  chil- 
dren; still  have  Sarah  Rutledge,  Clyde  Fields, 
and  Ethel  McNairy  boarding  with  me;  in 
short — nothing  new!" 

Pattie  Spurgeon  Warren  at  Chapel  HiU  says: 
' '  Housekeeping  goes  continuously  on,  and  yet 
each  new  day  offers  some  new  interest.  We 
have  been  beseiged  by  boys  who  want  to  earn 


THE      ALUMNAE      ^EW  S 


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tlu'ii'  way  by  ddiiiy  sdiiu!  service — and  wisli 
wo  cmiJd  tfike  tlifin  all  in.  Marjoric  Mcnrlen- 
liall  is  living  witli  us  this  year.  Tjovo  and  {^ood 
Avishes  to  all  my  follegfe  friends. ' ' 

Gretehen  Taylor  Ilobbs  also  writes  from 
Chapel  Hill.  Her  family  moved  into  a  brand 
new  home  of  their  own  last  fall.  Tt  is  located 
in  the  Gim;jhoul  Forest  section,  on  Tllandon 
Drive. 

Sadie  Hice  Reid  sends  greetings  from  Colum- 
bia, S.  C,  to  her  clnssniates  and  college  friends. 

CLASS  OF  1914 

Mrs.  .T.  H.  .\r(;K\vpn   (Tvis  Tlolt),  Prcsi.lfut 
Burlington 

Louise  Alexander  lives  in  Charlotte.  She  is 
Grand  Worthy  Matron  of  the  order  of  the 
Eastern  Star  and  \ery  much  enjoys  her  duties 
in  this  connection. 

Annie  E.  Bostian  continues  as  principal  of 
the  John  E.  Henderson  school  in  Salisbury 

Ruth  Faison  is  first  gi'ade  critic  teacher  in 
East  Carolina  Teachers   College,   Greenville. 

Pattie  Groves,  M.D.,  is  again  at  her  post  in 
Mount  Holyoke  this  year.  Last  summer  she 
was  associate  physician  at  Peabody  College. 
Pattie  sends  greetings  to  her  college  friends. 

Hallie  and  Mamie  Hollow-ay  are  both  teach- 
ing in  Durham  again. 

Louise  Jones  is  also  there. 

Iris  ILolt  McEwen  was  hostess  to  the  Mentor 
Book  Club  in  Burlington  at  its  March  meeting. 

Eleanor  Morgayi  Phipps  and  her  husband 
spent  the  year  1930-31  in  Germany.  The  greater 
part  of  the  time  they  were  in  Hamburg,  where 
her  husband  was  doing  research  in  physical 
chemistry.  Her  address  is  608  West  Iowa  Street, 
Urbana,  111. 

Annie  Scott,  1228  Asheboro  Street,  Greens- 
boro. 

CLASS  OF  1916 

Katherine  A.  Erwin.  President 
1104  M.  St..  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Anne  Albright,  together  with  three  other 
High  Pointers,  went  to  Williamsburg  last  fall 
to  visit  Flossie  Foster  for  a  week-end.  Flossie 
is  teaching  library  science  at  William  and  Mary 
College.  She  was  formerly  the  popular  librarian 
of  the  High  Point  High  School. 

Julia  May  Canady  is  teaching  in  Asheville 
this  year.    Her  address  is  68  College  Street. 

Ernestine  Cherry  has  her  usual  first  grade  in 
Burlington — only  it 's  not  quite  usual — it  "s  a 
good  deal  larger  than  usual! 

Mabel  Cooper  Adams  has  been  running  an 
eighty-acre  farm  this  past  year;  she  says  it's 
great  fun! 

Katherine  Ervin  is  studying  Italian  this 
Avinter.  She  is  librarian  at  the  Central  High 
School  in  Washington. 

A^era  Millsaps  is  teaching  chemistry  and  bi- 
ology in  Grenada  College,  Grenada,  Miss.    She 


wrote  early  last  fall  that  twenty  per  cent  sal- 
ary cuts  were  in  order  there  I 

Alice  Sawyer  is  in  charge  of  th«  Y.  W,  C.  A, 
cafeteria  on  I^exington  Avenue,  New  York.  Sh<5 
wrote  about  having  seen  "The  IfouHC  of  Con- 
nolly," Paul  Green's  play,  with  Mary  Owynn, 
who  was  passing  through  on  her  way  home 
from  Europe.  She  said  they  both  felt  proud 
tlicy  were  from  the  same  state! 

CLASS  OF  1916 

Mrs.  Kemp  Fundfirliurk  'Annio  Ream),  Secretary 
00.3  S.  Church  Street,  Monroe 

Annie  Beam,  Funderbnrk  is  back  in  the  whool 
room  again,  teaching  English  and  French  in 
Wingate  High  School.  She  lives  at  home  in 
Monroe. 

Cora  Caudle  Cooper  teachers  grade  thre<>  in 
Hamptonville. 

Elizabeth  Horton  Thomson,  Rantonl,  111.. 
says  that  Uncle  Sam  keeps  her  too  busy  for 
comfort,  but  that  from  time  to  time  she  and 
her  husband  manage  to  investigate  the  Indian 
country  in  northern  Illinois,  where  they  see 
many  interesting  and  beautiful  things  and 
places.    She  sends  regards  to  everybody! 

Marguerite  Wiley  Bilbro  resumed  her  teach- 
ing several  years  ago.  She  has  first  grade  work 
in  Asheville. 

CLASS  OF  1917 

Ruth  Bhjtlie  Wolfe  has  two  children,  Betty 
Wolfe,  aged  four  and  a  half,  and  Harry  Flynn, 
junior,  a  little  over  a  year.  They  live  in  Char- 
lotte. 

Hattie  Mae  Covington  teaches  first  grade 
in  Hamlet.    Her  home  is  in  Wadesboro. 

Gladys  Emerson  Emerson  is  living  now  in 
Hollywood,  Cal.  She  moved  there  last  fall 
from  Los  Angeles.  Gladys  sends  her  regards  to 
all. 

Caroline  Goforth  Hogue  was  in  charge  of  an 
exhibit  for  our  college  and  the  L'niversity  at 
a  meeting  of  the  A.A.U.W.  in  Washington  City, 
early  in  March.  Mary  Haynes  '20  assisted  her. 
and  Norma  Hardy  Britton  came  in  for  lunch 
wdth  them  at  the  club,  bringing  also  Gertrude 
Nelson  Rogers,  of  Chicago.  Caroline  said  she 
and  Mary  enjoyed  doing  the  exhibit  and  kept 
the  material  to  share  with  the  other  alumnae. 

Minnie  Lang  Ward  says  she  is  just  keeping 
house  and  trying  to  raise  her  two  red-headed 
boys,  aged  eight  and  ten — "it  may  soimd 
simple,  but  I  assure  you  it's  quite  a  job!  " 

May  Meador  is  again  at  her  post  in  High 
Point". 

Eula  Parrish  Pugh  is  now  living  in  Chapel 
Hill. 

Artelee  Puett  is  teaching  commercial  work 
in  the  junior  high,  Winston-Salem.  She  says 
her  sixth  and  seventh  graders  are  delighted 
with  shorthand  and  typewriting. 


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Annie  Piersou  Simpson  Stratford  has  recently 
been  elected  president  of  the  Tuesday  Study 
Club.  Laura  Linn  IFiley  Lewis  '18  is  also  a 
member  of  this  club,  and  chairman  of  the  pro- 
gram committee. 

Marguerite  Sherrill  Bartholomew  has  one 
young  son,  Bradley  White,  Jr.,  who  was  born 
April  30,  1931.    She  lives  in  Charlotte. 

Euline  Smith  spent  last  year  on  furlough  in 
the  United  States,  arriving  back  in  Korea  dur- 
ing September.  She  was  sent  to  a  new  station, 
Chulwon.  The  rural  project  in  her  mission  was 
being  started  from  that  point,  and  she  was 
happy  to  find  herself  in  the  midst  of  it  all. 

CLASS  OF  1918 

Mrs.  Charles  Finch  (Susan  Green),  Secretary 
Thomasville 

Martha  BlaTceney  Hodges  and  her  husband 
entertained  the  Ivie  Memorial  and  the  Men's 
Bible  classes  of  the  Leaksville  Methodist 
Church  at  their  home  in  Leaksville  during 
February.  One  of  the  features  of  the  evening 
was  the  appearance  of  Nancy  Hodges,  Mar- 
tha's small  daughter,  dressed  in  colonial  cos- 
tume, who  told  the  origin  of  St.  Valentine's 
Day.  Games  and  contests  preceded  a  delicious 
course  of  refreshments,  all  suggestive  of  the 
romantic  old  saint. 

Nell  Bishop  Owen  says  that  she  is  "only  a 
very  busy  college  pastor's  wife."  But  it  is 
a  great  work  that  she  and  her  husband  are 
doing  at  Mars  Hill. 

Belle  Bullock  Ivie  says  she  has  definitely 
given  up  the  schoolroom.  A  real  boy,  house- 
keeping, and  club  work  fill  her  days  full. 

Inabelle  Coleman  has  headquarters  in 
Greensboro,  where  she  lives  with  Mattie 
Morgan.  She  is  a  writer  for  several  Southern 
Baptist  publications. 

Carrie  Cranford  is  this  year  teaching  math- 
ematics in  the  high  school,  Trinity,  where 
she  lives.  Last  summer  she  spent  with  her 
mother,  now  seventy-four  years  old,  moving 
later  to  Trinity  for  the  winter  months. 

Mildred  Ellis  is  still  in  New  York  City.  She 
teaches  high  school  English. 

Mary  Nell  Hart  man  Lashley  has  been  living 
with  her  mother  in  Farmington  since  the 
death  of  her  father  in  the  summer  of  1930. 
She  says  that  her  three-year-old  son  is  thriv- 
ing on  an  abundance  of  fresh  country  air 
and  sunshine. 

Winnie  Leach  Duncan  is  assisting  her  hus- 
band with  his  research  and  writing.  ' '  Eace 
and  Population  Problems ' '  now  has  numerous 
adoptions;  so  has  "Backgrounds  for  Soci- 
ology, ' '  which  came  off  the  press  early  in  the 
summer  of  1931.  At  the  present  time,  a  study 
on  Immigration  is  in  course  of  preparation. 

Evelyn  McCullers  Townsend  says  she  is  well 
and   happy,   and   all   settled   in  Fort   Shaffer, 


with  her  little  family,  for  a  two  years  stay  in 
Honolulu.  She  says  Honolulu  is  a  marvelously 
attractive  city. 

Euth  Wyche,  who  graduated  last  June  from 
Scarritt  College,  is  this  year  superintendent 
of  MacDowell  French  Mission  School  in 
Houma,  Ala.  Her  work  is  extremely  interest- 
ing. She  sends  greetings  to  her  classmates, 
and  will  be  glad  to  have  them  write  to  her. 

CLASS  OF  1919 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Thompson  (Mary  Bradley),  Secretary 
231  Leak  Ave.,  Wadesboro 

"George  Washington  as  a  Christian"  was 
the  subject  of  a  talk  given  by  Ida  Gordner 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Parent-Teacher  Associa- 
tion of  Goldsboro  High  School,  held  in  March 
in  the  high  school  library. 

Eebecca  Gushing  Eobertson  writes  from  her 
home  in  Montreal,  and  sends  regards  to  her 
classmates   and   college   friends. 

Lucy  Gay  Cooke  is  recovering  from  an  ex- 
tended illness.  She  says  her  "summer's  vaca- 
tion" has  been  prolonged  far  beyond  her  ex- 
pectations! 

Margaret  Hayes  has  a  book  now  in  the 
hands  of  publishers.  It  is  called  "Activities 
in  the  Progressive  Public  School. ' ' 

Theresa  Williams  O'Kelley  is  now  millinery 
buyer  for  Gimbel  Brothers,  New  York. 

CLASS  OF  1920 

Marjorie  Mendenhall,  Secretary 
Lake  Drive,  Greensboro 

Helen  AsJcetv  Gulley  is  substitute  teacher  in 
the  Clayton  High  School,  Avhere  she  taught 
for  six  years  previous  to  her  marriage  two 
years  ago. 

Jo  Causey  says  orchids  are  her  latest  hobby. 
She  had  a  great  time  last  summer  studying 
native  flora  in  the  mountains  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  incidentally  found  thirteen  varieties 
of  her  "hobby"! 

Eachel  Haynes  is  in  Bristol,  Va.,  teaching 
and  supervising  public  school  music  in  a  pla- 
toon school  of  seven  hundred  children. 

Margaret  Lawrence  spent  last  fall  in  the 
children's  Hospital,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Wily j on  Medloclc  Kennan  is  now  living  in 
Georgetown,  Del. 

Annie  May  Pharr  Worth  moved  with  her 
family  last  August  from  Cleveland,  Ohio,  to 
Eochelle,   111. 

Bessie  May  Walker  Morrison  sends  greetings 
to  the  1920 's. 

CLASS  OF  1921 

Mrs.  Laurie  Ellis  (Beid  Parker),  Secretary 
R.  F.  D.,  Winterville 

Euth  Allison  Morris  writes  that  she  isn't 
teaching  this  year — "just  trying  for  the  first 
time  to  be  a  real  homemaker  and  house- 
keeper; and  it's  a  job  too." 


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Mary  Blair  has  many  duticH  asidf!  from  licr 
job  as  teacher  of  KngliHh  in  KastHido  Jfif^li 
School,  Paterson,  N.  J.  For  instance,  in  Feb- 
ruary, she  directed  an  elaborate  (icor^e  Wash- 
ington pageant.  Last  fall  she  coached  two 
Christmas  plays,  one  for  the  Scholarship  So- 
ciety and  another  for  the  College  Club  of 
Paterson.  When  the  college  club  brought  the 
Ben  Greet  Players  to  the  city,  Mary  did  the 
publicity.    And  so  it  goes! 

Flossie  Foster  is  assistant  professor  in 
School  of  Library  Science,  William  and  Mary 
College.  She  received  her  degree  in  library 
work  from  Columbia  University  last  summer. 

Anne  Fulton  Carter  is  this  year  superintend- 
ent of  the  schools  of  Walnut  Cove,  her  home 
town,  which  have  about  twenty  teachers  in 
the  system.  We  offer  congratulations  all 
around! 

Lena  Kernodle  McDuffie  compiled  a  very  help- 
ful list  of  books  under  the  general  subject  of 
"Garden  Literature"  and  discussed  them  in 
an  interesting  way  at  the  March  meeting  of 
the  Garden-makers  in  Greensboro.  ' '  The 
Little  Garden  for  Little  Money, ' '  by  Brewster ; 
"Adventures  in  a  Suburban  Garden"  and 
"Color  in  My  Garden,"  by  Louise  B.  Wilder; 
"The  Spirit  of  the  Garden,"  "Garden  Mak- 
ing" and  "The  Beginner's  Garden"  were 
among  the  titles  she  recommended. 

Mary  Jackson  is  teacher  of  French  in  Mon- 
roe High  School.  Last  summer  she  spent  the 
entire  vacation  seeing  the  western  part  of  the 
United  States.  She  made  stops  in  New  Or- 
leans, Los  Angeles,  San  Francisco,  and  Se- 
attle. In  Seattle  she  remained  for  a  month, 
and  from  there  made  excursions  into  Canada, 
climbing  a  mountain  and  even  having  expe- 
rience with  a  glacier! 

Jessie  McNeill  Woltz  can't  resist  the  lure  of 
the  schoolroom  and  is  teaching  first  grade  in 
the  Ealeigh  system. 

Katherine  Millsaps  is  the  very  efficient 
home  demonstration  agent  in  Edgecombe 
County.  This  is  her  second  year  there.  Tar- 
boro  is  headquarters. 

Gladys  Newman  Barbee  went  to  Duke  Uni- 
versity for  the  spring  semester  last  year,  and 
pursuing  regular  college  work. 

Eosa  Oliver  spent  her  vacation  last  summer 
at  her  old  home  in  Person  County,  and  is 
again  at  Marshall  College,  efficiently  filling 
her  same  post  in  the  library. 

Carrie  Belle  Boss  has  been  secretary  to  a 
doctor  in  Ealeigh  for  five  years.  She  likes  the 
work.  She  and  three  teachers  share  an  apart- 
ment together.  Jessie  McNeill  Woltz  and  Anna 
Johnson  live  in  the  same  apartment  house. 

Buth  Winsloiv  Womack  is  an  active  member 
of  the  Art  and  Travel  Club,  Eeidsville.  At  a 
recent  meeting  she  review^ed  Bazin's  "Those 
of  His  0"wn  Household." 


CLASS  OF  1922 

Mi-K.  CUtiH.  ('.  Krwiri  (.Murrii-I  tiaruHh),  Secretary 
Forifht  City 

M.iitli.i  Uradley  Im  Htill  teachin;^  in  the 
('liarlotte   .school  system. 

Kthol  Mynum  writes  from  Wilson  where 
she  ha.s  been  a  member  of  the  city  school 
faculty  for  several  years. 

Edith  (hmninfffuim  Boesser  is  living  now  in 
Greensboro,  where  her  husband  is  connected 
witli  Dr.  Pepper  Bottling  Works.  Edith  was 
foinierly  jirincipal  of  the  school  at  Hanes. 

(Charlotte  Daitgliety  House  has  two  sons,  one 
in  the  second  grade,  the  other  two  and  a  half. 
She  says  she  is  still  teaching,  though  not  in 
the  classroom! 

Elizabeth  Foust  Ashcraft  is  now  living  in 
Greensboro  at  the  home  of  her  parents.  She 
has  two  small   children. 

Emeline  Gofortli  Whisnant  has  a  daughter, 
Mary  Tuttle,  now  seven  years  old.  She  is  in 
second  grade.  Emeline  is  teacher  of  the  young 
women's  Sunday  school  class  in  the  Methodist 
Church,  Elizabethtown,  Tenn.;  ahso  chairman 
of  the  business  women's  circle,  leader  of  the 
primary  missionary  society,  secretary  of 
junior  high  school  P.  T.  A.,  member  of  the 
yearbook  committee  of  the  Woman 's  Club, 
and — but  that's  enough,  isn't  it.  And  then 
of  course  she  keeps  house. 

Margaret  Heinsberger  is  now  Mrs.  Abra- 
ham Moscow,  and  for  several  months  has 
been  living  in  Wilmington.  She  has  a  small 
daughter.  Margaret  received  her  M.A.  degree 
in  sociology  from  New  York  University  sev- 
eral years  ago,  was  connected  with  the  uni- 
versity faculty  for  a  year  afterwards.  Since 
leaving  college,  she  has  been  industial  secre- 
tary for  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  in  Durham. 

Euby  Hodgin  Parnell  moved  to  Eichniond 
last  fall  from  Greensboro,  where  she  had  been 
connected  with  the  work  in  home  economics 
almost  ever  since  graduation. 

Mary  John  is  enjoying  her  second  year  as 
teacher  of  fifth  grade  in  the  Ealeigh  system. 

Yera  Keech  writes  that  she  is  looking  for- 
ward to  the  tenth  year  reunion  next  June. 
This  is  her  fourth  year  as  supervisor  of  rural 
schools  in  Perquimans  County.  Hertford  is 
headquarters. 

Last  fall  Joscelyn  McDowell  Williams 
brought  young  Joscelyn  II  down  from  Point 
Pleasant,  N.  J.,  to  see  the  grandparents  and 
relatives  in  Waynesville.  We  all  regret  she 
couldn't  make  any  stop-overs. 

Elizabeth  Stanford  is  now  Mrs.  Fleming 
W.  Winn  and  lives  in  Birmingham.  Previous 
to  her  marriage  two  years  ago  she  had  taught 
school  in  Wilson,  in  Orange  County,  in  Salis- 
bury, and  in  Burlington. 

Mary  E.  York  is  studying  at  Iowa  State 
College   this   vear.   working  for   her  master's 


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degree  in  home  economics.  She  says  this  is 
the  first  year  she  has  been  absent  from  the 
teaching  field  since  her  graduation. 

CLASS  OF  1923 

Mrs.  Newton  G.  Fonville  (Mary  Sue  Beam),  Secretary 
106%  Ashe  Street,  Raleigh 

Gertrude  Durham  is  teacher  of  social  sci- 
ence in  the  sixth  grade,  Moses  School,  Knox- 
ville,   Tenn. 

Alva  Earle  was  married  to  Mr.  C.  R.  Little, 
April  3,  1931,  in  Tlorence,  S.  C.  How  could 
their  honeymoon  be  otherwise  than  "roman- 
tic" since  they  spent  it  in  Charleston  when 
the  magnolia  and  Middleton  Gardens  were  in 
bloom!  They  live  in  Salisbury,  and  Alva  is 
keeping  house. 

Miriam  Goodwin  is  at  Duke  University, 
taking  another  year  of  graduate  work  in  the 
School  of  Eeligion. 

Maude  Gray  is  this  year  teaching  piano  in 
the  high  school,  Burgaw,  going  there  from 
Car}',  where  she  had  taught  piano  in  the  high 
school  for  several  years. 

Mary  V.  Herring  is  again  at  Pembroke, 
teaching  history  in  the  Cherokee  Indian 
Normal. 

Anna  Claire  Johnson  is  very  valuable  part 
of  the  personnel  of  the  Wake  County  Health 
Department.  She  has  been  technician  there 
for  seven  or  eight  years. 

Wilma  Kirkpatrick  says  she  is  back  on  the 
job  again  after  a  year 's  rest,  teaching  home 
economics  in  Marshall  High  School.  She  likes 
both  her  work  and  the  people. 

Alna  Kiser  received  her  M.A.  degree  in 
mathematics  last  summer  from  the  University 
of  North  Carolina.  She  is  now  teaching  her 
subject  in  Bessemer  City  High  School. 

Pearl  Knight  Biggs  loves  to  teach!  She  has 
a  second  grade  this  year  in  Miami,  Fla. 

Julia  Montgomery  Street  has  spent  much 
time  these  last  few  months  ' '  fixing  up ' '  the 
lovely  new  home  which  she  and  her  husband 
bought   last   May  in   Winston-Salem. 

Ida  Belle  Moore  received  her  master 's  de- 
gree in  mathematics  from  Columbia  University 
last  summer.  She  is  teaching  the  subject  in 
the  Greensboro  High. 

Oleta  Norman  has  wandered  off  to  New 
Jersey,  where  she  teaches  first  grade  in  East 
Orange.  She  is  only  about  forty  minutes  from 
New  York,  and  fifteen  minutes  from  Newark, 
where  Loula  Woody  '24  is  director  of  play- 
grounds. 

Janie  Pearce  spent  a  happy  summer  in 
Central  France,  studying  at  the  University  of 
Clermont.  Later  she  journeyed  through  Alsae- 
Lorraine,  and  found  that  section  to  be  all,  and 
more,  than  she  had  expected. 

Maitland  Sadler  Sykes  writes  from  Washing- 
ton, where  she  and  her  husband  have  been  for 
sometime. 


May  Shearer  has  new  Ayork  this  year  in 
Thomasville — departmental  teaching  in  the  fifth 
grade.  Due  to  the  economic  situation  the  sub- 
ject she  has  been  teaching  there,  home  eco- 
nomics, was  discontinued. 

Agnes  Stout  is  still  head  of  the  Department 
of  English,  Queen's  College.  She  holds  both 
M.A.  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from  the  University 
of  North  Carolina. 

Frances  Summers  is  living  now  where  life  is 
exciting  and  still  more  uncertain — in  Zuni, 
New  Mexico.  She  is  teaching  home  economics 
in  the  high  school. 

Nell  Thompson  is  now  Mrs.  W.  L.  Metcalf, 
and  lives  in  Oakmont,  Pa. 

Lizzie  Whitley  Dill  writes  from  Ridley 
Manor,  Ridley  Park,  Pa.  She  says  she  is  trying 
to  be  a  real  mother  to  Ed  Jr.,  about  twenty- 
seven  months  old  now.  Lizzie  remarks  that  she 
is  just  now  finding  out  what  a  will  she  must 
have  had  when  "I  was  a  little  boy!" 

CLASS  OF  1924 

Cleo  Mitchell,  Secretary 
510  Forest  Street,  Greensboro 

Azile  Clark  is  teaching  music  in  the  ele- 
mentary schools.  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.  She  is 
living  near  Columbia  University,  and  is  carry- 
ing some  extra  courses  there. 

Rena  Cole  was  one  of  two  faculty  advisers 
who  directed  the  graduating  class  of  Greens- 
boro High  School  in  producing  the  historical 
pageant,  "On  Guilford's  Hills,"  at  commence- 
ment last  June.  The  pageant  was  written, 
staged,  and  put  on  by  the  seniors.  From  be- 
ginning to  end  it  was  skilfully  done.  The  book 
itself  was  excellently  written,  tableaux  beauti- 
fully arranged,  with  great  accuracy  of  detail, 
and  the  lighting  effects  colorful  and  lovely.  A 
few  days  after  it  was  all  over,  Rena  started 
out  with  a  camping  party  to  spend  eight  weeks 
in  the  west.  They  went  through  twenty-one 
states,  plus  a  trip  into  Mexico  and  Canada.  ' '  A 
rodeo  in  Wyoming  was  one  of  our  thrillers. ' ' 

Ruth  Cordle  attended  the  summer  school  at 
Northwestern  University  last  summer.  She  is 
teaching  French  in  Henderson  High  School. 

Mary  Davis  Faison  says  she  is  keeping  house 
in  Zebulon  this  winter,  and  incidentally  work- 
ing on  her  thesis  for  a  master 's  degree  in 
home  economics. 

Marita  Frye  is  very  much  enjoying  her  sixth 
grade  work  in  Morganton.  The  system  is  more 
familiar  to  her  this  year,  she  says. 

Sarah  Hamilton  is  teaching  Bible  again  in 
Oklahoma  Presbyterian  College  in  Durant.  She 
writes  that  she  was  mighty  happy  to  be  back 
with  her  Indian  girls  for  another  year.  Last 
summer  she  says  she  wandered  around  in  New 
England,  visiting  Cape  Cod,  Plymouth,  Boston, 
the  White  Mountains  in  New  Hampshire  and 
the  Green  Mountains  in  Vermont,  and  inci- 
dentally attended  commencement  at  Princeton, 


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Yale,  and  Ilarvard;  also  visited  Wellcslcy, 
Smith,  Vassar,  Dartmouth,  and  Williams.  Then 
she  settled  down  in  the  mountains  of  North 
Carolina  for  real  rest! 

Beulah  McKenzic  is  teachintr  freshman 
math  in  Gastonia  High  School. 

Juanita  Matthews  is  spending  her  seventh 
year  teaching  in  the  Raleigh  system.  She  has 
fifth  grade  work. 

Elizabeth  Simkins  is  again  at  Ball  State 
College,  Mnncie,  Ind.,  doing  reference  work 
in  the  library  and  teaching  in  the  library 
school.  She  came  to  North  Carolina  for  her 
vacation  last  summer,  but  to  her  regret  and 
that  of  her  friends,  did  not  get  back  to  the 
college. 

Lorene  Templeton  Avas  married  last  sum- 
mer to  Robert  Clifton  Robinson,  a  native 
Texan.  Her  husband  does  recreational  work 
in  Goldsboro.  Lorene  herself  is  teaching  sev- 
enth grade  historj^  in  the  city  schools. 

Carrie  Lee  Willcerson  Brown  has  a  son,  Ern- 
est H.,  Jr.,  born  last  October. 

Florence  Winstead  Lee  also  has  a  son,  John 
Winstead,  born  last  September.  He  weighed 
eight  and  a  quarter  pounds  on  arrival,  and 
his  mother  wrote  later  that  he  was  still  grow- 
ing rapidly. 

CLASS  OF  1925 

Mae  Graham,  Secretary 
406  Jones  Street,  High  Point 

Ruria  Biggs  Shelton  spent  last  summer  in 
Norfolk,  and  while  there  made  numerous  ex- 
cursions to  nearby  places  of  interest.  She  is 
again  teaching  fourth  grade  in  the  High 
Point  system. 

Margaret  Bridgers  continues  her  work  as 
visiting  teacher  in  the  Norwich,  Conn.,  public 
schools. 

Mary  Grady  Chears  is  now  Mrs.  J.  E.  Deb- 
nam.  She  is  continuing  her  work  as  teacher 
of  French  and  English  in  the  Snow^  Hill  High 
School — her  fourth  year. 

Hazel  Fry  Sandlin  writes  that  she  has  three 
children,  Martha  Catherine,  aged  five,  and  the 
twins,  Joyce  and  Jeanette,  aged  three.  The 
family  lives  in  Brj'son  City. 

Margaret  Hight  received  her  M.A.  degree 
in  history  and  government  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  North  Carolina  in  June,  1931,  and  is 
this  year  teaching  historj^  and  sociology  in 
Chow^an  College. 

Virginia  House  is  a  registered  nurse.  She 
received  her  degree  in  nursing  from  the  Hart- 
ford (Conn.)  Hospital  in  1930,  and  since  that 
time  has  been  doing  private  duty  in  Hartford. 

Clyde  Hunter  has  started  work  on  her  mas- 
ter 's  degree  in  mathematics  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, studying  in  the  summer  sessions.  She 
is  teaching  in  Enfield. 

Mai-y  Latham  is  teacher  of  first  grade  work 
in  Asheville. 


Beatrice  McCracken  ih  librarian  in  Boyd 
.Junior  High  in  Knoxvillc — her  Hf;cond  y<--ar 
there,  an'd  her  second  year  out  of  the  Ktatc. 

Harriet  McDonald  ih  a  fourth  grade  teacher 
ill  the  Wilmington  system. 

Ola  Carson  McJyelland  Catliey  has  two  fine 
boys,  Cforge,  three  and  a  half,  and  Thoma«, 
about  twentj'-two  months  old. 

Mary  L.  Miller  Windsor  is  serving  her  sec- 
ond year  as  principal  of  Camden  High  School. 
She  likes  administrative  work,  and  was  form- 
erly principal  of  Sinith  Grove  High  School 
in  Davie  County. 

Elizabeth  Minor  Blasingame,  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  has  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Minor,  bom 
in  October,  1930. 

Mary  Morris  O  'Day  also  has  a  daughter,  bom 
in  July,  1931.  Mary  lives  not  far  from  the 
college,  in  Greensboro. 

Evelyn  Reed  says  she  was  constantly  meet- 
ing N.  C.  girls  in  New  York  last  summer,  where 
she  was  studying  jnano.  Glenn  Yarborough 
Warren  '27,  Daisy  Tucker  '28,  Frances  White 
Rood  '27,  Mae  Stoudemire  '28,  Mary  T.  Pea- 
cock Douglas  '23  were  among  them.  Evelyn  is 
teaching  piano  again  at  Rowland. 

Hazel  Simpson  Bigger  writes  from  Bloom- 
field,  N.  J.  She  enjoys  living  there,  but  for 
her,  "I'm  a  Tar  Heel  born,  I'm  a  Tar  Heel 
bred,  and  when  I  die,  I'm  a  Tar  Heel  dead," 
still  holds  good  for  her — she's  still  a  south- 
erner at  heart.  Hazel  says,  "I  do  enjoy  the 
Alumnae  News."  (The  editors  say,  "Thank 
you,  come  again.") 

Irene  Slate  Stoudemire  lives  in  Chapel  Hill, 
where  her  husband  is  professor  of  romance  lan- 
guages in  the  University.  She  has  a  daughter, 
Marian,  four  and  a  half. 

Margaret  Thornton  Trogdon  is  teacher  of 
public  school  music  in  the  Proximity  schools, 
Greensboro. 

CLASS  OF  1926 

Georsie  Kirkpatrick.  President 

116  St.  Mary's  Street,  Raleigh 

Harriet  Brown.  Secretary,  Washington 

Ruby  Ashe  is  now  Mrs.  E.  C.  Brown,  and 
lives  in  San  Pedro,  Cal.  She  taught  high 
school  science  previous  to  this  year,  but  is 
now  homemaking. 

Gladys  Baker  has  been  at  home  these  last 
two  years,  nursing  her  mother  who  is  ill. 
Formerly,  she  taught  math  and  history  in 
Clayton  High  School. 

Alma  Ball  repiorts  an  interesting  occupa- 
tion— directing  amateur  shows  in  the  states 
of  New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  Her  home 
address  is  Greensboro. 

Ophelia  Barker  is  doing  home  demonstra- 
tion work  in  South  Carolina.  Her  address  is 
St.  George. 

Irene  Barwick  spent  last  year  in  New  York. 
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versity  Eesearch  Bureau.  This  year  she  is 
teaching  grade  three  in  Ayden. 

Kathryn  Burchette  is  working  in  Duke 
University   library. 

Annie  Gray  Burroughs  landed  in  Liberia, 
West  Africa,  last  December  21,  having  re- 
ceived her  appointment  in  August  as  mission- 
ary teacher  to  this  district.  The  year  1930-31, 
she  studied  at  the  Church  Training  and  Deac- 
oness School,  Philadelphia,  in  preparation  for 
her  work.  Annie  Gray  made  the  journey  with 
Mary  Wood  McKenzie,  who  was  returning  to 
her  post  after  a  leave  of  several  months  spent 
in  the  United  States.  She  taught  seventh 
grade  history  in  Salisbury  from  the  time  she 
graduated  until  she  went  to  Philadelphia. 
The  best  wishes  of  your  classmates  and  col- 
lege follow  you  both! 

Rebecca  Cameron  Veasey  and  her  husband 
spent  several  weeks  in  Georgia  during  the  to- 
bacco season  there,  where  Mr.  Veasey  was 
federal  state  tobacco  grader.  He  now  has  the 
same  work  in  Farmville  as  he  had  in  Georgia. 
Rebecca  says  she  has  retired  from  the  teach- 
ing profession  and  is  now  endeavoring  to 
practice  for  herself  what  she  taught,  home 
economics. 

Laura  Dry  Harrill  is  now  living  in  Lincoln- 
ton,  where  Dr.  Harrill  is  a  dentist. 

Eva  Eure  McKenzie  died  in  the  hospital. 
High  Point,  on  Christmas  night,  following 
the  birth  of  a  little  son  a  few  days  previous. 
The  little  boy  is  being  cared  for  by  her 
mother. 

Mary  Katherine  Fisher  continues  to  do 
secretarial  work  in  the  Wachovia  Bank  and 
Trust  Company,  Salisbury. 

Janie  Gold  Gooch  is  teaching  first  grade  in 
Winston-Salem. 

Clara  Lee  Hyatt  is  teaching  French  in  the 
Senior  High,  Asheville.  She  gives  news  of 
several  of  the  alumnae:  Grace  Anglin  '27  is 
Mrs.  Norris  Hoyle,  of  Newton,  where  her  hus- 
band is  principal  of  the  school,  and  she  is  also 
teaching.  Ruth  Fanning  '26  is  teaching  math 
in  Woodfin  High  School,  Asheville.  Mar- 
guerite Overall  '26  is  Mrs.  T.  A.  Groce,  and 
lives  in  Asheville. 

Nan  Jeter  is  teaching  this  year  in  the 
Georgia  School  for  the  Deaf  at  Cave  Spring. 
For  four  years  previous  Nan  did  similar  work 
in  Morganton. 

Lois  Justice  is  now  Mrs.  Francis  J.  Sette, 
and  lives  in  Blacks,  where  her  husband 
teaches  in  V.  P.  T. 

Lena  Keller  continues  her  work  as  librarian 
at  Lenoir-Ehyne  College. 

Nolle  McDonald  is  laboratory  and  X-ray 
technician  for  the  Marlboro  County  General 
Hospital,  Bennettsville,  S.  C. 

Ruth  McLean  is  now  technician  for  the 
State    Laboratory    of    Hygiene,    Raleigh.     She 


was  formerly  with  the  Children's  Hospital, 
Washington  City. 

Elizabeth  Morisey  Dunning  lives  in  Kansas 
City.  She  is  the  proud  possessor  of  a  hand- 
some young  son,  born  August  8,  and  named 
for  his  father. 

Barbara  Osborne  is  now  Mrs.  J.  G.  Wells 
and  lives  in  Monroe,  where  she  is  homemak- 
ing. 

Vivian  Peterson  Rhodes  lives  near  Charlotte, 
and  is  teaching  high  school  English  in  a  con- 
solidated school.  She  moved  into  a  brand  new 
house  last  spring,  and  fairly  flies  home  to  it 
in  the  afternoon  after  school  is  over. 

Lidie  Pierce  Horton  says  it  is  a  great 
pleasure  to  be  back  in  High  Point,  Avhere  she 
taught  for  three  years  several  years  ago.  She 
is  in  charge  of  home  economics  in  the  high 
school.    "Welcome  back  honie!" 

Hilda  Weil  Wallerstein  is  having  a  play- 
school every  morning  from  nine  to  twelve  for 
children  two  and  a  half  to  five  years  of  age. 
She  is  also  teaching  folk  dancing  once  a  week 
and  has  a  fine  class. 

CLASS  OF  1927 

Mrs.  E.  W.  Franklin  (Tempie  Williams),  Secretary 
West  Davis  Street,  Burlington 

Grace  Anglin  was  married  to  Robert  Norris 
Hoyle  last  August  8,  and  now  lives  in  Newton. 

Blanche  Armfield  is  teaching  both  French 
and  English  at  Chariton  Junior  College, 
Chariton,  Iowa.  She  has  a  brilliant  sister  in 
college,  Alice,  a   sophomore. 

Mary  Susan  Carroll  was  married  to  Eugene 
J.  Johnson  in  January,  1932.  They  live  in 
Wallace,  and  Mary  Susan  is  teaching  third 
grade  there. 

Ruth  Davenport  has  a  delightful  position 
in  Albany  Academy,  Albany,  N.  Y.  She  has 
been  teaching  second  grade  in  Southern  Pines. 

Clara  Gill  is  doing  her  always  excellent 
work  as  teacher  of  history  in  Asheboro  High 
School. 

Elizabeth  Griffith  Freeman  has  a  small  daugh- 
ter, Nancy  Lenora,  now  about  a  year  and  a 
half  old.  They  live  in  the  country  near  Char- 
lotte. 

Grace  Johnston  is  dental  assistant  to  an- 
other Tar  Heel-born-now-in-Florida  doctor, 
located  in  Fort  Lauderdale.  She  is  a  great 
booster  for  her  new  state. 

Ruth  Linney  says:  "There  is  nothing  in- 
teresting about  me.  I  am  still  rusticating  on 
the  most  remotely  isolated  farm  in  North 
Carolina,  'The  Tilly  Place,'  home  of  my  ma- 
ternal grandparents,  living  in  an  unpainted 
farmhouse  built  in  1840  but  partly  in  the 
style  of  the  sixteenth  century;  still  going  to 
protracted  meetings  without  becoming  at  all 
pious;  and  still  trying  to  write  a  few  stories 
for  newspapers  and  magazines.    Many  of  my 


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brain-children  become  so  nostalgic  that  they 
return  home  and  I  am  put  to  the  necessity  of 
feigning  a  Avelcome  I  do  not  feel.  One  of  II. 
L.  Mencken 's  biographers  says  he  thinks  so 
highly  of  bricklayers  he  has  spent  much  time 
the  last  ten  years  building  a  brick  wall. 
Without  any  idea  of  emulating  the  slightly 
scoffing  sage  of  the  cerulin-backed  impudence, 
I  have  carried  the  stones  and  built  a  rock 
wall  40'  X  2'  6".  It  is  crooked  enough  to  hedge 
in  the  household  of  the  crooked  man  and  so 
unstable  that  the  cats  and  chickens  knock  it 
down,  but  it  holds  the  steep  lawn  typical  of 
the  Brushy  Mountains." 

Mollie  C.  Parker  did  graduate  work  last 
year  in  home  economies  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee,  Knoxville.  This  year  she  is  teach- 
ing the  subject  in  Stedman. 

Miss  Mary  Louise  Ragland  has  been  as- 
sistant librarian  at  the  Danville  Public  Li- 
brary for  the  past  two  years. 

Minnie  Ross  was  married  to  Dr.  A.  J.  Wal- 
ter in  July,  1930.  In  1931  she  was  granted 
the  degree  of  E.N.  from  the  Wesley  Memorial 
Hospital,  Atlanta.  They  live  part  of  the  year 
in  Pensacola  and  the  other  part  in  Washington 
City. 

Lucy  Wellons  Crittenden  says  she  has  de- 
serted the  ranks  of  the  librarians  for  home- 
making.  She  and  her  husband  have  an  ador- 
able apartment  in  Frankfort,  Ky.,  and  Lucy 
says  she  is  enthusiastically  learning  all  the 
tricks  of  this  business  of  keeping  house! 

CLASS  OF  1928 

Teeny  Welton,  President,  North  Oaroliua  College 

Mrs.  Boydston  Satterfield  (Frances  Gibson),  Secretary 

3418  91st  St.,  Apt.  022,  Jackson  Heights,  New  York 

Virginia  Batte  and  her  sister  Frances  '30 
still  enjoy  the  memories  of  their  month  in 
Virginia  last  summer,  when  they  learned 
Williamsburg,  Jamestown,  Yorktown,  Rich- 
mond, Petersburg,  and  other  ' '  history  les- 
sons" by  heart!  Virginia  is  teacher  of  social 
science  in  the  junior  high  school,  Winston- 
Salem. 

May  Blalock  has  been  taking  a  business 
course  this  winter.  We  hope  you  have  landed 
just  the  sort  of  good  job  you  want.  May.  Do 
tell  us! 

Linnie  BurTcliead  Fox  says  she  looks  forward 
to  the  coming  of  the  Alumnae  News — each 
number — and  her  interest  in  her  alma  mater 
is  a  growing  one.  She  is  living  in  Albemarle 
since  her  marriage.  (Come  to  see  us  at  col- 
lege, Linnie!) 

Alice  M.  Craig  Potter  says  it's  loads  of  fun 
being  director  of  the  laboratory  of  a  famous 
diabetic  specialist — and,  incidentally  it's  also 
loads  of  work.   She  lives  in  New  York  City. 

Ethel  Eudy  is  this  year  teaching  in  Bethel 
High  School. 


Ellen  Fletcher's  job  in  that  of  librarian  in 
the  High  Point  Junior  High. 

Lacy  L.  Gaston  Bradford  writes:  "  VVe  have 
just  purchased  the  honwc  of  our  dreaniH — come 
to  see  us,  all  of  you!"  (Thank  you,  Lacy,  we 
accept!  But  don't  let  us  all  come  at  once.) 

Rosalie  Goldstein  has  a  job  in  a  department 
store  in  New  York,  selling  ladies'  ready  to- 
wear. 

Margaret  Green  is  teaching  fifth  grade  work 
in  Mountain  Lakes,  N.  J.  She  says  she  en- 
joys life  in  the  north,  the  climate,  the  people, 
the  scenery,  the  school,  and  not  least,  her 
trips  into  New  York. 

Ruth  Henley  is  this  year  studying  in  the 
School  of  Medicine  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina. 

Vivian  Kearns  is  junior  botanist,  division 
of  seed  investigation,  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture, Washington.  She  came  to  Greensboro 
last  fall  to  attend  the  wedding  of  Lucile 
Sharpe    '28. 

Margaret  Lambe  is  the  wife  of  a  physician, 
Dr.  R.  E.  Nichols,  Jr.,  and  they  moved  to 
Durham  last  fall,  where  Dr.  Nichols  is  prac- 
tising. 

Mildred  Lindsay,  Mildred  Davis,  and  Grace 
Lindsay  '32  ran  a  tea  room  last  summer  at 
Brown  Mountain  beach  near  Lenoir. 

Lanette  McMurray  Harwell  works  for  Uncle 
Sam — she  is  postmaster  at  Glenwood,  a  sub- 
urb of  Greensboro. 

Dorothy  Nash  was  married  to  H.  H.  Hutch- 
inson in  April,  1931.  They  live  in  Raleigh, 
where  Dorothy  is  a  supervisor  of  physical 
education  in  the  city  school  system. 

Nancy  Richardson  has  an  interesting  posi- 
tion as  cataloger  in  the  library  of  the  Eastern 
Kentucky  State  Teachers  College,  Richmond. 

Mary  Hazel  Swinson  is  home  demonstration 
agent  in  Pender  County,  after  having  done 
similar  work  for  two  years  in  Chesterfield 
and  Essex  Counties,  Virginia.  Previous  to 
her  work  in  the  Old  Dominion  she  taught 
home  economics  in  North  Carolina. 

Evelyn  Thompson  is  assistant  in  the  Edu- 
cational Department  of  the  Museum  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia. 

Rebecca  Ward  is  teaching  botany  and  bi- 
ology in  Judson  College,  Marion,  Ala. 

CLASS  OF  1929 

Virginia  Kirkpatrick.  President 

206  Jefferson  Apts..  Charlotte 

Era  Linker,  Secretary 

87  Meadow  Street,  Concord 

Bertha  Barnwell  has  a  job  in  the  business 
office  of  the  Greensboro  News-Record. 

Harriet  Boyd  is  doing  her  iisual  good  work 
as  teacher  of  biology,  general  science,  physios, 
and  civics  in  the  Crabtree  High. 

Margaret  Causey  strikes  a  happy  note  of 
cheer  when  she  says  she  is  just  as  enthusiastic 


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over  teaching  as  if  tliis  were  her  very  first 
year.  Margaret  teaches  sixth  grade  in  a  con- 
solidated school  near  Liberty.  She  stays  at 
home  and  drives  back  and  forth. 

Marjorie  Chapman  has  first  grade  work  in 
Roanoke  Rapids.  Last  summer  she  ''went 
west"  and  saw  America  first!  Marjorie  had 
a  really  wonderful  trip. 

Corinne  Cook  is  teaching  grade  2B  in  the 
Lindley  elementary  school,  Greensboro.  She 
is  actively  identified  with  the  social  and  club 
life  of  the  city. 

Corinne  Cook  and  Virginia  Van  Valsem 
Woltz  were  among  the  representatives  from 
Greensboro  Junior  Woman's  Club  who  acted 
as  hostesses  in  the  Colonial  room  of  Meyer's 
Department  Store,  Greensboro,  on  the  occa- 
sion of  Million  Dollar  Day,  March  19.  The 
store  featured  the  George  Washington  Bicen- 
tennial, and  the  hostesses  wore  the  costume 
of  the  period.  Frances  Harrison  '26  was  also 
numbered  among  the  hostesses. 

Katie  Cutting  is  principal  of  the  school  at 
Hanes  and  incidentally  teaches  grade  three. 
She  spent  last  summer  at  Teachers  College 
working  toward  a  master's  degree. 

Elizabeth  Draughon  is  completing  her  sec- 
ond year  of  study  at  the  Baptist  W.  M.  U. 
Training  School  in  Louisville,  Ky.  She  ex- 
pects to  receive  her  M.A.  degree  in  religious 
education  in  May. 

Wren  Duncan  is  teaching  French  and  Eng- 
lish in  the  high  school  at  Hays. 

Betty  Ehringhaus  spent  a  delightful  sum- 
mer at  Virginia  Beach  last  year,  and  climaxed 
it  with  ten  days  in  Annapolis.  She  and  three 
other  '29-ers,  Athleen  Whisnant,  Mickey 
Brown,  and  Mattie  Query  spent  a  day  to- 
gether at  Mattie 's.  Athleen  was  visiting  Mat- 
tie  and  Mickey  was  returning  to  Saratoga 
Springs  after  her  vacation  in  North  Carolina. 

Virginia  Fields  is  spending  her  third  year 
as  teacher  of  public  school  music  in  Fairmont. 
She  says  there  are  five  other  N.  C.  Alumnae 
teaching  in  the  same  school. 

Katherine  Fleming  is  this  year  women  and 
girls '  commissioner  in  the  office  of  the  Wake 
County  Board  of  Public  Welfare.  She  re- 
signed her  work  as  assistant  county  superin- 
tendent of  Child  Welfare  in  Shelby  County, 
Alabama,  to  accept  this  new  post  in  Mrs. 
Biekett's  office  in  her  own  home  town. 

Aileen  Garrell  is  bookkeeper  in  the  Farm- 
er's and  Merchant's  Bank,  Tabor,  her  home 
town. 

Grace  Grogan  took  a  business  course  the 
year  after  she  graduated,  then  worked  for 
nine  months  in  the  North  Carolina  Bank  and 
Trust  Company,  Greensboro.  However,  the 
call  to  teach  proved  stronger,  so  she  is  this 
year  doing  third  grade  work  in  Walkertown. 

Grace   Hankins  is   again   a  member   of  the 


Department  of  Physical  Education,  Woman's 
College,  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Gladys  Hughes  was  a  recent  week-end  visi- 
tor at  the  college.  She  is  this  year  supervisor 
of  the  fifth  grade  in  the  training  school  of 
East   Carolina    Teachers    College. 

Mary  Inglis  is  making  a  real  success  of  her 
work  as  teacher  of  commercial  courses  in 
the  Charlotte  High  School. 

Virginia  Jackson  is  working  in  the  adver- 
tising department  of  Vick  Chemical  Company, 
Greensboro. 

Virginia  Kirkpatrick  is  teacher  of  sixth 
grade  work  in  Charlotte.  This  is  her  third 
year  there.  Virginia's  sister  Katherine  is  a 
senior  at  college. 

Dorothy  Long  had  a  lovely  vacation  in  the 
mountains  of  western  North  Carolina  and  in 
Tennessee  last  summer.  On  her  way  home 
she  visited  Elizabeth  Sandifer  at  Lowell, 
and  together  they  went  to  Davidson  to  see 
Ruth  Johnston   '28. 

Dorothy  Miller  is  doing  part  time  work  in 
Macy's  Department  Store,  New  York,  and  is 
taking  courses  in  advertising  at  Columbia 
University. 

Anne  Porter  was  married  to  Clifford  T. 
Elliott  last  May,  and  now  lives  in  Atlanta. 
She  is  taking  a  vacation  from  the  classroom 
this  year. 

Edna  Mice  Sprinkle  is  teaching  music  and 
third  grade  work  in  Marshall.  She  says,  "I 
do  wish  more  '29-ers  would  send  in  news 
about  themselves — I  want  to  know  all  about 
'em!"  She  is  keeping  house  in  addition  to 
teaching,  and  enjoys  it  more  and  more  every 
day. 

Lorita  Woodruff  is  still  doing  her  efficient 
work  as  first  grade  teacher  in  Winston-Salem. 

CLASS  OF  1930 

Betty  Sloan,  President 

17  East  9th  Street,  New  York 

Edith  Webb,  Secretary 

No.  2  Henderson  Apts.,  Chapel  Hill 

Aileen  Aderholt  is  this  year  librarian  at 
Gi'eensboro    Junior   High   School. 

Marian  Hunt  Barber  is  teacher  of  history 
in  High  Point  Junior  High. 

Frances  Batte  is  director  of  physical  edu- 
cation at  Catawba  College  in  Salisbury. 

Dorothy  Baughman  is  assistant  dietitian 
at  Flushing  Hospital,  Long  Island. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Blake  is  again  teaching 
foods  and  clothing  in  the  grades  of  the 
Proximity  schools,  Greensboro.  In  addition 
she  has  neighborhood  classes  for  the  women 
of  the  village. 

Anna  Brown  is  teacher  of  home  economics 
in  the  Raleigh  High  School  and  manager  of  the 
cafeteria. 

Vera  Buckingham  has  ninth,  tenth,  and 
eleventh  grade  English  in  Walkertown. 


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Emily  Carr  has  the  work  in  lionic  eco- 
nomics, Mocksville. 

Mary  Cody  has  been  doin^-  work  in  New 
York  as  church  secretary,  but  she  left  there 
last  summer,  visited  her  family  at  their  sum- 
mer camp  in  Hendersonville,  and  from  there 
went  to  Marion,  Ark.,  where  she  is  doing 
fourth  grade  work  this  year. 

Beatrice  Daniels  had  the  experience  of  do- 
ing secretarial  work  in  a  doctor's  office  in 
Philadelphia  last  summer.  This  year  she  is 
librarian  in  the  Asheboro  High  School. 

Lorine  Davis  is  teacher  of  physical  educa- 
tion  and   health  in  Miami,   Pla. 

Tommy  Davis  Liles  has  a  small  son,  Scher- 
wood  III.  The  family  was  in  Elizabeth  City 
last  fall,  where  her  husband  was  completing 
a  bridge.  Later,  they  Avent  to  Georgetown, 
S.  C,  where  Mr.  Liles  has  been  constructing 
another  bridge. 

Dorothy  Edwards  wrote  that  she  was  stay- 
ing at  home  in  Wilmington,  substituting  at 
school  and  for  the  society  editor  of  the  news- 
paper, doing  a  lot  of  reading  and  sewing,  and 
trying  out  various  hobbies. 

Charlesanna  Fox  is  again  teaching  history 
and  English  in  the  Maxton  High  School. 

Nina  Greenlee  is  teaching  English  and  bi- 
ology in  Marion. 

Frances  Hampton  is  having  an  enjoyable 
experience  teaching  English  and  history  in 
the  high  school  of  Shaw,  Miss.  She  completed 
all  of  her  work  for  her  master 's  degree  at 
the  State  University  last  year,  and  hopes  to 
get  her  thesis  finished  this  year. 

Edith  Harbour  is  a  member  of  the  office 
staff  of  the  Institute  for  Eesearch  in  Social 
Science  at  the  State  University. 

Irene  Hester  is  librarian  in  the  Burlington 
Public  Library. 

Jean  Hewitt  is  living  with  her  parents  in 
Miami.  She  has  been  taking  a  secretarial 
course  this  winter. 

Margaret  Hood  is  teaching  sixth  grade  in 
Greensboro  this  year.  Last  year  she  did  work 
in  public  school  music,  Denton. 

Sponsoring  a  science  club  in  Hayesville  is 
one  of  the  extra  interests  Mary  Jarrett  has 
in  addition  to  her  work  as  teacher  of  science 
in  the  high  school.  The  club  has  weekly 
meetings  and  has  centered  interest  this  year 
on  planting  trees  and  shrubbery  on  the  school 
grounds. 

Mary  Kapp  received  her  M.A.  degree  from 
Duke  University  this  past  June,  and  this 
year  is  teaching  a  combination  of  chemistry 
and  science  in  Blackstone  College,  Va.  It  is 
a  junior  institution,  with  about  two  hundred 
students. 

Mary  Lewis  is  assistant  manager  of  the 
restaurant  of  James  McCreery,  well  known 
department  store  on  Fifth  AA-enue,  NeAv  York. 


iXita  Mae  Lewiw  is  dietitian  in  Cooper 
IfoHfiital,  Carnden,  N.  J. 

Mary  Lyon  tcacheH  Kngliwh  in  (grades  «ix 
and  seven.  Proximity. 

Margaret  McConnell  in  spending  her  Hccond 
year  as  director  of  music  in  the  schools  of 
Grail  am. 

Glenn  McJ)ouga)d  is  this  year  teaching  pub- 
lic school  music  in  Fayetteville. 

Glenn  Boyd  MacLeod  is  taking  a  secre- 
tarial course  in  New  York, 

Listen  in  on  the  Raleigh  station  WPTF 
and  hear  Christie  Maynard  play  the  organ 
and  piano.    She   is   connected   with   the   staff. 

Cornelia  Setzer  teaches  grade  four  in  Le- 
noir. She  spent  her  vacation  in  Washington 
City  last  summer. 

Anne  Sharpe  is  doing  graduate  work  at 
Columbia   University. 

Margaret  Terrell  went  to  Cambridge  last 
summer  and  studied  at  Harvard  University. 
She  is  teaching  Latin  and  English  at  Clyde. 

Virginia  Tucker  spent  her  vacation  last 
summer  at  Nag 's  Head.  She  saw  a  number 
of  N.  C.  College  alumnae  while  there,  among 
them,  Florence  Johnson  '30,  Virginia  Butler 
'28,  Mary  Lentz  '31,  Frances  Leake  '32,  Ella 
Burton  Hutchison  '29,  Katherine  High  '29, 
Marjorie  Skinner    '29. 

Sue  Underhill  says  she  has  mighty  inter- 
esting classes  in  French  and  Latin  in  the 
Asheville  High.  During  the  past  year  her 
mother  has  been  very  ill.  We  send  them  both 
every  good  wish  from  Sue 's  college  friends 
and  classmates. 

Charlotte  Van  Noppen  is  doing  sixth  and 
seventh  grade  departmental  work  in  Graham 
this  year. 

E'dith  Webb  is  at  the  State  University, 
spending   a   second  year   in   study. 

CLASS  OF  1931 

Katherine  Morgan,  sponsor  for  the  varsity 
track  team  of  State  College,  is  one  of  the 
four  young  women  whose  pictures  appear 
in  the  1932  Agromeck,  State  College  year- 
book. 


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Necrology 

In  Memoriam 

During-  March  Eula  B.  Glenn  "03  died  in 
the  Charlotte  Sanatorium.  For  twenty-five 
years  she  had  been  head  of  the  English  De- 
partment in  the  Gastonia  High  School,  and 
preA'ious  to  that  time  had  taught  in  the 
Statesville  public  schools.  During  all  these 
years  her  life  and  her  work  were  motivated 
by  the  highest  ideals  of  service.  What  she 
contributed  to  the  lives  of  hundreds  of  boys 
and    girls   who    came    under   her    teaching,    in 


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soundness  of  training  and  in  the  impetus  to 
achieve,  cannot  be  estimated.  One  can  only 
know  that  in  them  she  still  lives.  To  her 
sisters,  Carrie  '06,  Lena  '08,  Annie  '15,  and 
Gertrude,  and  to  the  entire  family,  we  extend 
deepest  sympathy. 

We  record  with  sorrow  the  sudden  death  of 
Miss  Mary  Frances  Seymour  on  March  3,  in 
Salisbury.  For  a  number  of  years  she  was  a 
teacher  in  the  Biology  Department  of  this 
college,  but  for  some  time  had  been  head  of 
the  Department  of  Biology  in  Catawba  Col- 
lege. 

We  extend  deepest  sympathy: 

To  Nettie  FarTcer  Wirth  '03  in  the  death  of 
her  husband,  Albert  C.  "Wirth,  March  20, 
Buffalo,  N.  T.,  following  an  illness  of  several 
weeks.  Mr.  Wirth  was  an  architect.  There 
are  two  children,  Antoinette  and  Albert. 

To  Juanita  McDougald  '17  and  her  sisters, 
Glenn  '80,  Edelweiss,  Lois  Roxie,  and  Camille, 
in  the  death  of  their  brother  in  an  automobile 
accident. 

To  Nell  Grimsley  Hamlin,  and  Josephine 
Grimsley  Clement,  in  the  death  of  their  mother 
in  Greensboro  on  March  12. 

To  Vernelle  Fuller  '27,  Mary  L.  Fuller  Ab- 
bot '28,  and  Alyce  Fuller  '32,  in  the  death  of 
their  father  early  in  February,  at  his  home 
in  Kittrell. 


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Engagements 


Sallie  Palmer  Edwards  '27- '30,  of  Hooker- 
ton,  to  Eichard  Stedman  Wimbish,  of  Stuart, 
Va.,  the  wedding  to  take  place  the  latter 
part  of  April.  Miss  Edwards  is  now  complet- 
ing her  year  as  a  teacher  in  the  Hookertou 
school.  The  bridegroom  is  connected  with  the 
Reynolds  Tobacco  Company,  with  headquar- 
ters in  Albany,  N.  Y. 


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Marriages 


Katharine  Wilson  '19  to  William  Elliott 
White,  December  19,  1931.  In  addition  to  her 
A.B.  from  this  college,  the  bride  holds  an 
M.A.  degree  and  a  Ph.D.  in  English  from  the 
University  of  North  Carolina  and  has  also 
studied   music   and   art   since   her   graduation 


here.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage  Mrs.  White 
was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  La  Grange 
College,  La  Grange,  Ga.  Only  close  relatives 
and  intimate  friends  were  admitted  to  the 
secret  at  the  time,  since  it  was  decided  not 
to  announce  the  wedding  until  the  end  of  the 
school  year.  The  bridegroom  is  an  alumnus 
of  the  University  of  North  Carolina,  and  his- 
torian of  Cleveland  County.  They  will  live 
at  Chapel  Hill,  where  Mr.  White  hopes  to 
continue  his  studies. 

Ethel  Roberta  Smith  '23- '24  to  Elwood 
Boyd  Dixon,  March  26,  La  Grange. 

Dorothy  Perry  '26- '28  to  William  W.  Ham, 
at  twilight,  March  12,  Greensboro.  Elizabeth 
Hanaman  '29,  violinist,  and  Clyde  Kearns, 
pianist,  played  the  wedding  music.  The  bride 
has  a  secretarial  position  with  the  North  Car- 
olina Industrial  Bank.  The  bridegroom  is  an 
alumnus  of  Blackstone  Military  Academy 
and  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina.  He 
is  connected  with  the  home  office  of  the  Pilot 
Life  Insurance  Company.  At  home  Greens- 
boro. 

Ava  Gray  Mewborn  '28  to  Burton  Franklin 
Albritton,  Jr.,  December  22,  at  the  home  of 
the  bride 's  parents,  Wilson.  After  a  motor 
trip  visiting  northern  cities,  they  are  at  home 
in  Hookerton,  where  the  bridegroom  is  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  business  with  his 
father. 

Violettemae  Crystal  LaBarr  '29  to  George 
Kendriek  Hasty,  February  12,  Brookland,  Md. 
Only  close  relatives  and  friends  were  present 
for  the  wedding  service.  Violettemae  spent 
the  year  after  her  graduation  doing  special 
study  at  college.  Since  then  she  has  been  in 
Washington  City,  doing  graduate  work  at 
George  Washington  University  and  also  be- 
ing connected  with  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Commerce.  The  bridegroom  is  an 
alumnus  of  Georgia  Tech.,  and  is  associated 
in  business  with  the  American  Stores  Com- 
pany, Washington  City.    At  home  there. 

Rebecca  Rabun  '29- '32  to  Charles  Clayton 
Bell.  At  home  Greensboro,  where  the  bride- 
groom is  connected  with  the  Dillard  Paper 
Company. 

Odessa  Mae  Hunter  '31  to  Hubert  Barr 
Rayhill,  March  12,  Spartanburg,  S.  C.  Mr. 
Rayhill  is  connected  with  the  Greensboro 
News-Record.    At  home  Greensboro. 


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Managed  by  a  Sister  Alumna  —  Sarah  Redfearn 


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Births 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  G.  Kennedy  (Mary 
Pegram  '23- '23),  a  son,  Carlton,  Jr.,  March 
3,   Carthage. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clyde  Edwards 
(Elizabeth  Carter  '24- '2.")),  a  daughter,  Nancy 
Carter,   March   17,  Greensboro. 

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ROSEMARY 


For  our  March  meeting  we  went  to  Tillery, 
with  Mrs.  John  Ball  and  Gladys  Cox  as  joint 
hostesses.  After  singing  our  college  song  and 
reading  the  club  ritual,  we  settled  down  to  a 
business  meeting.  Books  have  been  loaned 
to  us  from  the  college  library  during  the  year, 
and  a  good  deal  of  discussion  centered  around 
this  feature  of  our  club  work.  We  also  took 
up  the  matter  of  a  visit  from  President  Foust 
and  Clara  Byrd,  our  alumnae  secretary.  We 
are  hoping  very  much  that  they  can  come  for 
a  meeting  with  us. 

The  feature  of  our  program  was  a  talk  by 
Miss  Cherry  on  "The  City  of  Washington  on 
February  22,  1932. ' '  She  was  present  for  its 
great  celebration,  and  brought  the  whole 
scene  vividly  to  us.  Mrs.  Jenkins,  dressed 
as  Martha  Washington,  added  a  realistic 
touch  to  the  story. 

During  the  social  hour  our  hostesses  invited 
us  to  the  dining  room,  appropriately  decorated 
with  miniature  statues  of  the  Father  of  his 
Country,  flags,  and  cherry  trees.  In  the  midst 
of  such  surroundings  we  doubly  enjoyed  red 
and  white  ice  cream  and  cake. 

Irene  Gordon,  Secretary. 


Odell  Hardware  Compano 

'The  CaroUnas'  Greatest  Hardware  and 

Sporting  Goods  House" 

Greensboro,  N.  C. 


"The  Place  of  Gift  Suggestions" 

Party  Favors,  .Stationery,  liookH,  liook 

Ends,  Fancy  Goods,  Picturf;H,  Etc. 

Mail  Orders  Given  Prompt  Attention 

Wills  Book  &  Slallonery  Go. 

107  South  Greene  Street 
Greensboro,  N.  C. 


Harrison  Printing  Company 

PRINTING— BINDING— RULING 
OFFICE  SUPPLIES 

E.  Sycamore  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C 

KENDALL 

THE  PRINTER 
216  N.  Elm  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C. 

W.  H.  FISHER  CO. 

PRINTING— ENGRAVING 

110  East  Gaston  Street 
Greensboro.  N.  C. 


DR.  W.  PERRY  REAVES 

EYE,  EAR,  NOSE  AND  THEOAT 

Office  and  Infirmary 
117  W.  Sycamore  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C. 


Office  Hours 
8:30 — 1:00 
2:00 — 4:00 


Telephones 

Office  4312 

Infirmarv  4024 


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225  South  Davie  Street 


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\\  The  institution  includes  the  following  divisions: 

; 

I.    THE  COLLEGE  OF  LIBERAL  ARTS  AND  SCIENCES,  which 
is  composed  of: 

(I)  The  Faculty  of  Languages 

]'  (2)  The  Facult}/  of  Mathematics  and  Science 

!  (3)  The  Faculty  of  the  Social  Sciences 

(4)  Department  of  Health 

;;  (a)  Medicine 

'<  (b)   Hygiene 

!  (c)  Physical  Education 

I  II.    THE  SCHOOX  OF  EDUCATION 

I  III.    THE  SCHOOL  OF  HOME  ECONOMICS 

;  IV.    THE  SCHOOL  OF  MUSIC 

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