The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-25

OF amateur sports.
They're telling a good story out at
| WaShburn.
In common with many other schools
that are keeping up to date in all
betterment movements, Washburn
college has begun big sister" sys-
tenn OF chaperonage for freshman
girls. This means that the upper class
women help the new girls by nitro
ducing them, showing them about the
grounds, helping them to get settled
IN their classes and residences, if they
are from out of town, and giving them
general at home ree11ng. The sCror-
ity girls are forbidden to do any rush
ing In connection with the Dig sister
movement.
Letters were sent out during the
summer to girls who expected to come
the wish of the older co-eds
to help the newcomers. offer
ing to meet them at the train.
etc One of the letters was sent
to a prospective freshman whose name
was Marian-Jones, let us say. Final
ly reply came from Marian's par
ents. 1t said: I'VE intended sending
Marion to Washburn, but if the girls
down there are so forward as to APP
point themselves SISTERS and guardians
to the young men, Wen send our son
elsewhere"
Mrs. G. F. Menninger announces
that she will meet all who are inter-
ested in a Bible study of the Life of
Christ for this winter, at the Y. w. c.
A. Tuesday evening. September %, at
1880 o'clock, promptly,
The Social Service club will meet
Monday afternoon at 2:3o O'Clock, at
the First Presbyterian church. All the
members are urged to be present.
The West Gida club will
meet Thursday afternoon, Sept. 80,
with Mrs. B. D. Mize, 337 Woodlawn
avenue Mrs. Mize and Mrs. Walter
L. Bates will be hostesses. Mrs. r. 1.
Lee will read = paper on = Vines"
The list of pledges of the x U.
soror1tles, so far announced, is as fol-
lows: Kappa Alpha Theta-Helen
White City; Vivian Pemberton, Port
land, Ore; Dorothy Riddle, Herring
ton; Elsie Paterson Abilene; Evelyn
Hall, Ottumwa, Ia; Marjorie Crooks,
Kansas City, Mo-; Helen Robinson, Sa-
lima; Coyetta Youmans, Ossawatomie.
Pi Deta Phi-Imogen Gillespie, Kan
sas City, Kan; Gertrude Sheperd,
Kansas City, Kan; Frances Jobes,
Kansas City, Mo-; Beatrice Diamond,
Wichita; Marie Dunn, Wichita; Lucine
Spencer, lola; Eleanor Atkinson, Law
renee; Helen PEARS, Lawrence; Lor-
raine WATSON, Leavenworth; Winni-
fred Matticks, Kansas City, Mo-; Mil
dred Taylor, Kansas City, Mo-; Jane
Parmenter Kingman; Helen Chap
man, Kansas City, Kan; Elizabeth
Coors, Las Vegas, N. M; Madaline
Butts. Wichita; Lula Dykes, Lebanon.
Md Kappa +o, Kappa GammaMRutn
Hutchinson; Dorothy McCanish, Kan
sas City, Kan; Ruth Forter, Topeka;
marguerite DUNN, Junction City; Lu-
Gle Smith, Lawrence; Bess Ainsworth,
11r-@I I, A.
Chi 'Omega-Helen Forbes, Concor-
dia; AIDA Simmons, Hutchinson;
Thelma Wharton, Parson; Margaret
Mitchell, Lawrence; Rose Haworth,
Lawrence; Hazel Wade, Chanute;
Cathrine Waite, Wichita.
Alpha Chi Omega-Isabel Searles,
Wetmore; Dorothy Buttons. Wichita.
Alpha Delta Pi-Jesse Buck, Paola;
Lola Bozell, Beloit;. Edith Whitcher
Concordia; Pauline McClintock, Kan
sas City, Kan; Vesta Talbert, Conway
Springs; Mrs. P. v. Faragher, Law
renee; Margaret Fairchild. Hiawatha.
Sigma Kappa-Clara Lesh, Arkansas
City; Edith Banks, Independence;
Ernestina Cissna, Fort Scott; Gladys
Drake, Fort Scott; Nellie Kitchens
Burlington; Lorna Pumroy, Pawnee.
Okla.
+ + +
Mrs. Arthur Capper will entertain
the Duplicate Whist club at her home
next Friday, at the clubs first meet
ing or the year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bonebrake viii
give a dinner party tonight, for Mr..
P. 1. Bonebrake, who today celebrates
his eightieth birthday anniversary.
The guests will be Mr.. Bonebrake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bonebrake, Miss
Clyde Bonebrake, Mrs. ]. H. Hamp-
shire and her daughter Lena of Over
brook, and the Fred Bonebrake fam
lily. Mrs. Hampshire is niece of Mr..
P. T. BOnebrake
Mr.. Bonebrake is a Kansas pioneer,
having come to the state about 1855,
and during his residence here he has
been a man of prominence in state,
civic, business and social life. He was
at one time state auditor, has held
various state and county offices,
served for years on the school board,
and was a member of the first police
commission of the state, the other
members being DR.. S. S. McCabe and
Mr.. Charles F. Spencer. For years ne
was. president OF one OF the leading
banks. He has been a supporter of
the governmental ideals that have be-
longed peculiarly to the process of
state building in Kansas. He main
still plays a good game of golf and is
otherwise active. He not only kee os
friends among his contemporaries but
he is on terms of equal friendliness
and his grandchildren. The home of
Mr.. Bonebrake and the lat, Mrs.
Bonebrake was for years center of
social enjoyment for many friends of
themselves and their children. His
sons are Mr.. Frank Bonebrake and
Mr.. Fred Bonebrake.
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The girls of the active and alumnae
chapters of the Beta sorority were
hostesses this morning at chocolate
for the new girls of Washburn col
lege. The hours of the party were
from to IL.
The decorations were in the soror-
ity colors, white and blue. The serv-
ing was done from the dining table,
which was decorated with a large