University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Edie Iota fbch 6M Designed as an organization to challenge and claim the interest of students who evidence an affection for the theatre, the club purposes to foster the appreciation of drama and the development of histrionic ability, with the aim of encouraging habits of poise and fluency in speech and its concomitant behavior. In keeping with the intention and its objective, the practice is sus- tained of staging a play 01' scene at each monthly meeting. There are, moreover, the public appearances of the company throughout the year. At Christmas it acted the ttLost Star ; during the Lenten season it presented with unexceptionable merit the traditional passion play, ttThe Upper Room ; it offered a play dealing with the problems of modern marriage, ttThe Ravelled Sleeve, to a sodality assembly. The public per- formances 0f the annual cycle were concluded with A Portrait of Carol? a dramatic story which essays to answer the persistent question of how the individual may escape the domination of the family. Among the social activities of Delta Iota for 1939-1940 were its enter- tainment of prospective members with a tea and the morning coffee for the club given by its president, Miss Ellen Shropshire. The membership roll for the year records the names of Ellen Shrop- shire, president; Mary Frances Devine, Vice president; Betty Kunkel, treasurer; and Margaret Pickering, reporter; Margaret Adams, Elizabeth Aman, Virginia Anderson, Mary Theresa Boyle, Rita Ruth Carlin, Jacque- line Conley, Elaine Coutret, Mary Frances Devine, Camille DuBose, Jean Fitzgerald, Barbara Furlong, Shirley Jones, Jessie Kinsley, Betty Kunkel, Lucy Gold Lytle, Zelime Lytle, Clare Notzon, Mimi Ogden, Mary Agatha Owens, Margaret Pickering, Mary Katherine Russell, Alice Sawtelle, Ellen Shropshire, Dorothy Wearden, and Maxine Whitten.

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The Incarnate Word College Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary scholastic fraternity for freshman women, was established in December 1939'. The only national honorary organization for freshman women, Alpha Lambda Delta promotes the development of character, leadership and scholarship among first year college students. Notable among the events of the year were the tea for Freshmen in October, the initiation banquet in April, and the tea complimenting senior members of the N ational Honor Society in city high schools in May. Fall initiates included Barbara Furlong and Hermine Dalkowitz. Freshmen who achieved the average required for election at the end of the first semester were: Doris Bissett, Rita Ruth Carlin, Margaret Ellen Corbett, Shirley Jones, Patricia Ney, Joyce Sallee and Gertrude Schafer. Activities of the chapter, 1939-1940, were carried out under the ca- pable direction of Maxine Whitten, president ; Zelime Lytle, vice president; Alice Ruth Yates, secretary; Carmen Balluder, treasurer; and Hibernia Swain, senior advisor.

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itAnd the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. One supposes this jewelled thought to have inspired, in part at least, the founders and promoters of the college choral society, an organization made up of music students and students Who love music even though they be not formally engaged in the study. It is distinctively a ttvolunteer society for conferring the benefits of the best of music and song on those Who earnestly appreciate them. To experience the splendid performance of the organization is to know that its deeds of beauteous art are figurative of mercy in that hit is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Throughout its presentations choristers and auditors share in occasions of greatest delight. If a single offering of the year is to be noted as outstanding, it must be that of the Christmas Oratorio. Officers of the society, 1989-1940, are inscribed as Hibernia Swain, president; Consuelo Puck, Vice president; Hortense Rahlmann, secretary- treasurer.