Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Five o ' Clock Tea in the Auumn Room.

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1903 Alumni Officers. Johnston Armstrong, Esq., President. Charles Rosen, Esq., Vice-President. Charles G. Gill, Esq., .Secretary Rathbone E. De Buys, Esq., Treasurer. Miss Myra Rogers, Historian. Executive Committee. Representing the Medical Department. Dr. William M. Perkins, Dr. Hermann B. Gessner. Representing the Law Department. Valentine J. Stentz, Esq., Edward Righter, Esq. Representing College of Arts and Sciences. Johnston Armstrong, Esq., Charles Rosen, Esq. Representing Unive rsity Department of Philosophy and Science. Charles G. Gill, Esq., Alfred R. ymond, Esq. Representing College of Technology. R. E. De Buys, Esq., L. C. Datz, Esq. Representing H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College. Miss My ' ra Rogers, Miss Asenath Genella. 19

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|. ' 1890 the first class of students was graduated from Newcomb College, but it was not until March, 1893, that the Newcomb Alumna; Association was organ- ized, with members of the Class of ' 91 as the chief promoters and the able as- sistance of representati es from the Classes of 1890 and 1892. The object of the Association can best be given by quoting in full Article II. of the Constitution: ' ' The object of this Association shall be to promote fellowship among its members, to preser res and to increase their loyalty to their Alma Mater, and in every way to further the interest of the College. None but those who have received a degree from the College is eligible to membership, the graduates of the Art School being received as associate members. After the organization of the Association with Miss Helen De Grange (Mrs. A. ' . McLellan) as President, Miss Frances Howe (Mrs. C. P. Cocke) as Secretary-Treasurer, and Missess Penelope Chaffe (Mrs. T. N. Richardson), Florence Dymond, and vSophie Bachman as Vice-Presidents, and a membership of twenty-four, President Dixon very kindly gave to the Alumnae a delightfully situated room in the Pligh School building, the room to be devoted exclusively to the use of the Association. This room has been very prettily fur- nished by the Association, and proves a haven of rest to man} ' an old girl on a visit to the College. For a number of years the Alumnse gave an annual hop to the Senior Class, which for the past three years has been abandoned, a series of Alumna; Teas being sub- stituted. These teas have proved more successful than the hops in bringing the stu- dents and Alumnae in closer contact, and have been the means of renewing the interest in the College of a number of former Newcomb girls, it being understood that all Newcomb students, whether graduates or not, are more than welcome. Consequently very large gatherings of Alumnae and ex-students are to be found on the first Tuesday of each month clustering around the two or three fearless men who have dared to brave the dissi- pations of an Alumnae Tea. For three years the Alumnae Association was possessed with the laudable, but at the same time impracticable, idea of improving New Orleans minds by establishing a course of lectures, and some very excellent lecturers were obtained : but the minds refused to be improved, audiences were small, and receipts still smaller, so that benevolent plan was abandoned. Then, in order to more rapidly increase the somewhat slow accumulation of the Alum- na; funds, it was decided that the digestive apparati of the College students needed more careful attention, and that the Alumnae should establish a lunch-room at Newcomb, where the students could procure sandwiches, hot chocolate, etc., instead of the more indigest- ible and also more alluring praline. This scheme, also, was a failure, in spite of the untir- ing toil of the Alumnae committees in charge, and it, too, was abandoned. 21