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Alumnae News
The annual luncheon of the Alumnae was held last fall at the Hotel Astor and was a great success. The absence of the President, Anna Yerkes, who was convalescing after appendicitis, was much deplored. Adele DeLeeuw, who is continuing her literary career, acted as toast- mistress with great spirit. Blanche Pratt spoke for the married alumnae, Grace Robinson for the engaged alumnae, and Edith Foster for the alumnae in the business world. Helen Besler Gardner, better known as Bobby Besler, sang delightfully. The encouraging growth of the Scholarship Fund was reported.
d he girls at college continue to distinguish themselves in all lines. It is not always easy to extract information when honors are in question, but we are sure that Virginia Merrill is a candidate for honors in History at Smith and has been asked by Professor Kimball to act after her graduation this June as his assistant in research work. Margaret Stanley- Brown, who will take her diploma this year at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, was in charge for a month of a ward at the Presbyterian Hospital. Caroline Butterfield at Vassar and Grania Knott at Smith have been conspicuous in dramatics. Ruth Broughton is, we hear, on the daisy
chain at \"assar. Anna Frazar, Dorothy Frost, Margery Meigs, Frances Miller, Catherine Stockwell, and Margaret Taylor will be graduated from Vassar in June. Anna, Margery, Frances, and Catherine are all planning to take positions in New York; Margaret is to teach in Idaho, not far from
her own home. Gertrude Knapp, after a year’s absence on account of her health, returned to Swarthmore last fall. We read in the Fassar Miscel­ lany that under her leadership the Swarthmore Polity Club organized a
conference between students of colleges in the Philadelphia district— Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Ursinus, Swarthmore—and representatives of organ­ ized labor in Philadelphia. Katherine Fite after two years’ study in
Europe entered Vassar with so many advance credits that we don’t know where she really belongs. We have in all fifty girls in college to-day, and sixteen more plan to enter in 1923.
Esther Strong, Christine Claybrook, Margaret Borland, and Anna Medberv are all at work. Catherine Ames Pattison is in business for her-
self in Metuchen; she and Mr. Pattison make most beautiful parchment shades. Sarah Carvalho has been doing splendid work in a little public
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