Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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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

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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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OFFICERS. M. MuBumey, Treasurer; E. Layton, President; M. Ascherfelrl, Vice-President; G. Semen, Recording Secretary; E. Sigerist, Corresponding Secretary. DELTA GAMMA 32 THIS YEAR was an especially outstanding one in the history of Psi chapter of Delta Gamma for it marked the fiftieth anniversary of the chapter7s founding 0n the Goueher campus. To celebrate this important event, the chapter held a tea in the Alumnae Lodge on May 20th at which alumnae, representatives of the other fraternities 0n the campus, and members of the faculty were among those present. Much Of the success of this affair was due to the cooperation of Psi Omicron7 the Delta Gamma alumnae chapter in Baltimore. Although the fraternity did not have a national convention this year, Psi Chapter was hostess at the biennial conference of Provence II which took place in the Lord Baltimore Hotel the week-end of March 25-27. Catherine Cook was the oHieial representative of the local chapter, but many of the members attended the meetings and social functions in an unolhcial capacity. The high spot of the conference was a formal banquet at which Miss Mildred Coughlin, a former member of Psi chapter and now principal of the Western High School in Baltimore7 was the Chief speaker. The new pledges of the chapter were honored by an informal dance during the early part of the fall, while in April Psi had its annual Spring Formal at the Hotei Stafford. Other social events throughout the year included a Christmas party planned by the pledges for the actives, a house party at the Country Club Inn in Belair the first weekend in January, and a tea for the new province secretary, Mrs. Harold Jacobs of Washington, D. C. Also there were coffee hours in the rooms on the average of at least once a term at which some of the faculty gave short talks for the members and their friends. Among the speakers this year were Dr. Dorothea Wyatt, Dr. Grace Baker, and Dr. Eugene Ashton. Now that the end of Delta Gammavs first fifty years at Coucher has been reached, Psi chapter feels sure that it can look forward to another fifty years even more profitable than the last.