Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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have a name fur authurity Top: J. Dunton, M. McComas, J. Uffelman Middle: C. Cook, B. McCall, C. Bush Bottom: M. Ascherfeld, M. Randall, F. Flynn 30 K. Gilbert, J. Caither, D. Cort, J. Chadwick THE PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, governing body of the united Sisterhoods, first asserted itself to the new students when it presented the Freshman Class with the Handbook of Greek Orthodoxy: a catalogue of fraternities on campus, and the last word in the inviolable rules of rushing. Representa- tives, two from each of the eight fraternities, regu- lated rush-week activities and kept up diplomatic inter-fraternal relations throughout the trying time of rivalry. That the Freshmen might find their choice of sisters a little less diHicult, Panhellenic enter- tained the Class Of Forty-four at tea where a guest speaker from a fraternity not on campus could answer their problems with impartiality. ttPanhell did all but decide the one really troublesome questioneWhich Fraternity shall it be? Each Freshman had to answer for herself to the Pan- hellenic Council on the day of preferentials. When rushees became pledges, the new fraternity girls of f orty-f our became members in good standing of the Goucher Panhellenic Association, For the Ltcultivation of good College Citizen- ship:7 the associated fraternity members developed a two-fold course of action. Inspired by the C0uncihs Annual Scholastic Rating of fraternities, they put their minds to things intellectual. Set an example by Panhellenic social planning, they gave an incessant series of teas for their aHiliated and unafhliated friends on campus. Panhellenic Association, Patron 0f the Arts, introduced some local talent when Alumnae Lodge

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Editor was kind. N0 manuscripts were returned; no rejection slips were issued. The medium of self-expression for aspiring poets and short-story writers needed no high pressure sales talk to step up the yearTs subscriptions. Coucher Kalends was a tgpopularT magazine and never more popular than with those who first saw their own names in print upon its pages. This years editorial policy was directed toward more contributions from the student body and less writing by the staff. Instead of carrying a theme throughout each issue, as had been done in past years, the best of the material on hand was included regardless of the continuity of the magazine as a whole. Whatever artistic merit was taken from individual issues by lack of a theme, was more than compensated for by the rise in literary standards. The staff : Carol Drechsler, Editor-in-Chief ; Vera Beck, Associate Editor; Fontaine Mann, Exchange Editor; Mignon Sauber, Art Editor; Helen Alexan- der, Business Manager7 assisted by Frances Reiner and Florence Wagner; Doris Grain and Miquette Miller, Circulation. Daily newspapers . . . . . of Baltimore and New York City wanted first- hand reports on Coucher activities. So that we Kalends. 0n floor: M. Miller, F. Reiner. Seated: D. Grain, J. Chadwick, R. Wolf, H. Alexander, C. Drechsler, E. Layton, K. Neuer, N. Elliot, D. Ervien. might be fittingly prominent in the ucollege newsi, sections of the best eastern journals, Goucher had its own Representatives of The Press. Each Wednesday morning the Press Club took seats in the ohice of President Robertson while Miss McCurley released the official college news bulletins for publication. The Staff Correspondents were Barbara Banker, The Morning Sun; Dorothy Elliot, The Evening Sun; Elaine Katz, The News-Post; Virginia Babeock, The Herald - Tribune; and Dorothea Kopsch, The New York Times. Press Club scooped the Towson story. Left to Right: B. Banker, Miss McCurIey, E. Flack, D. Elliott, Dr. Robertson, E. Katz. 29

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was given over to their Musicale. Helen Wine of Pi Phi played the piano. Polly Mengers performed on the cello and Libby Somers, with the Hutc. Ann Levy sang, and the Glee Club did its part to finish OH the program. Oihcers 0f the Panhellenic Council in nineteen forty-forty-one were: Dorothy Cort, President; Kathryn Gilbert, Secretary; Jane Caither, Treas- urer; Betty McCall, Social Chairman; Mary Isabel Randall, Scholarship Chairman; and Ida Black, Literary Chairman. Representing the Fraternities were Carolyn Bush and Jane Gailher of Alpha Phi; Madeline Taylor and Betty McCall of Tri Delt; Kitty Gilbert and Frances Lee Flynn of Pi Phi; Catherine Cook and Margaret Ascherfeld of Delta Cam; Ginny Cause and Judy Chadwick of Theta; Ida Black and Mabel McComas of Alpha Cam; Jeanne UHelman and Mary Isabel Randall of Kappa. After the Stall Lina . . . . arrived on the Panhellenic scene at the Mary- land Casualty Ballroom, there was no necessary ingredient of pleasure lacking 0n the program of Of all things Panhellenic, the inter-fraternity dance was counted most impor- tant, and the number of stag bids answered in the affirmative accounted for it. And of all the automobiles packed full of formal-datcrs, speeding merrily alone University Parkway, there wasnet a wall-flower in a carload 0f Coucher girls. Betty McCall, Dance Chairman, and chaperons7 Dr. and Mrs. Beardsley, joined the Dean and Miss Conner 0n the receiving line, while the orchestra played on. January seventeenth. thMay I cut?7 was the password to popularity. But on this grand occasion of triumph for inter- fraternal good will, what ctPanhell had joined together, no man could put asunder. Pan-Hell was anticipated, enjoyed, remembered 31