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

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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.

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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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14W mag 5W This sorority is securely distinctive. Its counsel represents that ttunique is the word for Alpha Delta Sigma, the only organization on the campus with an exclusively social aim. It works to increase the social contacts of its members and to foster a spirit of friendship and loyalty. T0 the first event of the year, the rush tea at the home of Elvi Lou Guerra, each member invited four guests. Then the dance for freshmen was held October 13. The pledge service for tthe ninei prospective mem- bers, October 26, was followed by the formal service six weeks later. At the luncheon given at the Gunter Hotel, December 18, in honor of the newly enrolled members, each of the initiates was presented with a gold chain and pendant bearing the Greek letters of the sorority. Subsequent to this occasion, the recently admitted members were hostesses 0f the Christmas party in the Home Economics building and the 901d members were honorees. A second group of pledges, received during the latter half of the year, were formally initiated in April, six weeks after their installation, March 7. The events of the year were brought to a happy close, May 18, with the annual dinner dance. Officers for 1939-1940 were Dorothy McCann, president; Helen Hof- fer, Vice president twith Frann Thulemeyer acting in her absencei; Hibernia Swain, secretary; Consuelo Puck, treasurer; and Lulu Mims, sergeant-at-arms. Included in the membership were: Betty Albers, Winifred Berchel- mann, Bebe Burkett, Hazel Burnett, Rita Ruth Carlin, Gail Davis, Jean Fitzgerald, Barbara Furlong, Elvi Lou Guerra, Betty Kunkel, Betty Jean Lamm, Clare Lawler, Helon Lawrence, Lucy Gold Lytle, Zelime Lytle, Gertrude Martin, Dorothy McCann, Lulu Mims, Betty Ann Moran, Anita Norden, Clare Notzon.