Chatham College - Cornerstone Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Sfellouis Lyda Hamilton Fellowship in Science Marjorie Garnkk Fellowship in Science Julia Matthews Fellozvship in Science ( vnbixatv tafr nt Leah Davis Music ■ She has been awarded the Marston Teaching Fellowship at Yassar College. Twenty-eight

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Physical f£ uration HERE is a two-year requirement in gymnasium work, but athletics and dancing are open to every student. The purpose of the department is to build up and retain normal, healthy bodies as the foundation of normal, healthy minds. This end is attained through the medium of calisthenics, apparatus, stunts and games of high and low organization, folk and aesthetic dancing, athletics, and — a new departure this year — health charts for individual records used to establish defi- nite health habits. The gymnasium instructor had charge of the dancing con- nected with the May Day Pageant last year. Many of the choruses and dances in the various plays and entertainments given at college reveal her training . LOIS P. HARTMAN Head of Department MARIAN TOBSON Field Secretary A.B. Pennsylvania College for Women LENA ZEISER Resident Nurse MARGRETT L. HOFER Assistant to the Secretary MRS. MELLIE C. WOODWARD House Director, Woodland Hall MRS. LEAH T. EDWARDS , . .House Director, Berry Hall BELL M. WILSON Secretary to the President and the Dean A.B. Pennsylvania College for Women JOHN W. FARROW Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 2nd Semester— PAULINE B. SMITH Twenty-seven 5

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(ftlje Alumna? aho ti t £ampmgtt What has P. C. W. given her daughters? The thought of one alumna has been ex- pressed by Mrs. Harold O. Reif in a talk to the undergraduate body at the Student Cam- paign Luncheon. I want to try to tell you what I, an alumna, feel I owe the college, and that no mat- ter how much I give, not only in this endowment campaign, but in years to come, I can never repay her for what she has given to me It is only when we stand back and look down the length of years at our life in col- lege that we realize what is really meant, what it has given to us, and how much we owe. Tt takes on a perfect whole. From the distance we can see that the training and contacts and environment of those four years form a background for our wdiole life We can ' t pay. It is too intangible and delicate a thing, not even if each of us could give $1,500,000 We can never pay in kind for such fragile and precious things as these, bit we can give to our college in appreciation, the financial support to make it bigger and better and able to give to others what it has given to us. There is a poem — ' Barter by Sarah Teasdale. T quote the last verse- ' Spend all you have for loveliness, Ruy it and never count the cost: For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost. And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be ' And so for llv ' s breath of understanding and appreciation which our college has given to us, l et us give all we have been or could be. This year the alumnae have had an opportunity to repay P. C. W. in some small mea- sure for what she has done for them. Realizing what a large part was ready for them to play, as individuals and as a united body, they have pitched in to make a success of probably the greatest undertaking ever attempted by the college — the ra : sing ' of an endow- ment and building fund sufficient to allow P. C. W. to take her rightful place among the best women ' s colleges in the country. To overcome the handicap of an insufficient endow- ment one and a half million dollars are necessary — a sum large enough to tax the resources of everyone connected with the college, as well as those of everyone interested in the advance of education. A far-reaching organization was immediately formed to extend to alumnae and former students, who have been found to reside in practically every state in the union and in twelve foreign countries. By means of a National Conference and a series of Divisional Conferences, it was attempted to bring them all under the influence of the Campaign. The drive was formally launched with a dinner for one thousand covers at the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, on March 1 1 ; at the same time branch dinners were held all over the country wherever P. C. W. was represented. The committee for the Pittsburgh dinner consisted of Mrs. H. Hughart Laughlin, D. H. ' 01, chairman; Mrs. Edna McKee Houston, ' 04, associate chairman; Mrs. William P. Barker, ' 92; Mrs. William L. Coyle, ' 81; Mrs. John M. Phillips, ' 03 ; Mrs. Harold O. Reif, ' 19; and Mrs. Nathan A. Weed, ex- ' 9i. The national executive committee in charge of the campaign includes: Mrs. Charles H. Spencer, chairman; Mrs. William P. Barker, William W. Blackburn. Arthur E. Braun, Mrs. Herbert P. Canerdy, Alexander Dunbar, Mrs. William N. Frew, Ralph W. Harbison, Mrs. Edna McK. Houston, Mrs. J. Horace McGinnity, Mrs. Georg ' e W. Martin and Frederick B. Shipp. Ex-officio members are Miss Cora Helen Coolidge, president of the college, and Alexander C. Robinson, president board of trustees. The alumnae organization in Pittsburgh is headed by Mrs. H. F. Baumann, chairman. Her associates are Mrs. Robert Fulton, Mrs. John M. Irvin and Miss Margaret Hare. Twenty-nine ••■■;.■■■■ ■..;.- .. A