University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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Colors: Turquoise and Steel Gray. Flower: White Violet. ZETA TAU ALPHA (Rows reading, from top to bottom ) Hess Johnson, Marion Morris, Dorothy Shepherd, Mary H. Beasley. Helen Horton, Lena M. Robinson, Elizabeth Sutton. Evelyn Williams, Lois Berard, Virginia Long. Edna R. Flavin, Edith Goff, Erma Jane Webb. Edna Compton, Jane Glasscock, Marian Hutton. Betty Hight, Ada Bell Johns, Qwen Sanders.

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ZETA TAU ALPHA Founded at Virginia State Normal, 1898. Epsilon Chapter Established at the University of Arkansas, 1903. OFFICERS Lena Morris Robinson . . President Irma Jane Webb . . Vice-President Louise Vickers .... Secretary Evelyn Williams . . . Treasurer Zeta Tau Alpha was founded as the Virginia State Alpha, Virginia State Normal School at Farmville, Virginia, October 15, 1898, and was chartered as a legal corporation by the legislature of Virginia, March 18, 1902. Since the farmer date the fraternity has expanded until it now has sixty-seven chapters in the United States and Canada. Government of the fraternity is vested in a grand chapter composed of five officers. The legislative gov¬ ernment is vested in a convention. The fraternity’s central office is located at Beaumont, Texas. Chapters of Zeta Tau Alpha are grouped in twelve provinces, with a province president appointed over each. There is a scholarship loan fund, not necessarily limited to members of the fraternity. Epsilon chapter was established at the University of Arkansas on December 18, 1903, and was the second national women’s fraternity on the campus. The local which petitioned Zeta Tau Alpha was named Delta Phi. Epsilon was the fourth established chapter of the fraternity. MEMBERS NOT IN PICTURE Jo Ann Bohnert Dorothy Dalton Doris Flemming Louise Vickers Frances Stone •—-———— ---—-—• | i PROMINENT ALUMNAE I | | Dr. May Agnes Hopkins .... Child Specialist I Dorothy Shaver . ... V. P . Lord and Taylor ! = T I Marian Taylor. Ariatrix i 5 , j Carolyn Storloi . . Decorated by King of Norway I I Elizabeth Fromme Gardner . V . P . Tips Eng . Wks . ! Grace Sefton Mayer. Concert Soloist { 5 I I Virginia Boyle. Poet J I Elinora Thompson . . Pres . American Nurse Ass ’ n . : ! Marian Johnson Castle. Author s I Marian Thayer McMillan. Artist s !

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PI BETA PHI Founded at Mammouth College, 1867. Arkansas Alpha Chapter Established at University of Arkansas, 1909. OFFICERS FJelen Fulbright . . . President Virginia Greenhaw . Vice-President Marian Timmins . . . Secretary Mamie Corbitt .... Treasurer Pi Beta Phi was founded in 1867 at Monmouth College, Illinois, and was the first organization of college women founded upon the principles and organized with the aims and policies of a national fraternity. It was originally called I. C. Sororis, but in 1888 the name was changed to Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, and as such it is incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois. The fraternity now has seventy-eight active chapters located in the leading colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. Pi Beta Phi has 144 chartered Alumnae Clubs. The total active membership of the fraternity is approximately 19,000. The fraternity, by voluntary contributions of members and alumnae, maintain a Settlement School at Gat- linburg, Tenn., established in 1912 as a memorial to the 12 founders of Phi Beta Phi. Situated on over one hun¬ dred acres of its own land in eight well-equipped buildings, the school offers work covering eleven grades. It has an enrollment of nearly 150 and a teaching staff of nine members. Total assets of the School are now $81,000. Arkansas Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi was founded at the University of Arkansas in 1909. A new $40,000 home was completed in February of 1931. The publication is The Arrow.” MEMBERS NOT IN PICTURE Mamie Corbitt Lodine Fuller Betty Speers Virginia Witt Virginia Greenhaw Dorothy Witt Hariet Fallis Catherine Gile Mary Elizabeth Pace Margaret Seamster PROMINENT ALUMNAE Grace Coolidge . . . . (Mrs. Calvin Coolidge) Carrie Chapman Catt . Writer Amy Omken . National President Lois Stortman . Social Worker Mrs. Jerry Bywater . Social Worker Mabel Scott Brown . Editor Miriam Leuck . Artist Florence Morrison. Artist Jessie Brown . Explorer «