The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-27

all of whom are working to make the
party successful. are: Mrs. Katherine
Lindsay Perkins, Mrs. w. S. Gal
loway, Mrs. Charles Hammond, Mrs
H. f. Lyman, Mrs. w. H. Davis, Mrs
w. P. Bishop, Mrs. w. c. Melon
ough, Mrs. J. B. Doncyson, Mrs. Lynn
Banta, Mrs. Clark Berry, Mrs. NJ. NJ
Blinn, Mrs. G. o. Boone, Mrs. ]. S.
Ensminger, Mrs. J. j. Harmon, Mrs
J. K. Jones. Mrs. Cleveland Lopez,
Mrs T. S. Stevens. Mrs. A. o. Well
man, Miss Marie Witwer, Miss Ger
trude Anderson, Miss May Hull, Miss
Hazel Branch, Miss Edna Ekstrom,
Miss Gussie Fuller, Miss Elizabeth
Smith, Miss Marie Mayhem and Miss
Murphy.
The Topeka Alumnae chapter of Pi
Beta Phi will celebrate Founders
Day with a tea at the home of Miss
Elfie Dean, in Western avenue Fri
day afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock. All
members of Pi Beta Phi in the city are
invited.
Pi Beta Phi is the oldest sorority.
1t was founded many years ago at
Monmouth college, in Illinois, and is
one of the largest and most influential
OF the national sororities. There are
chapters in the Kansas university and
the State Agricultural college, and
there is large alumnae chapter in
Topeka.
The news is out today that Topeka
is to lose one of it's well-liked public
workers. Miss Marguerite Dice, for
the past few years secretary of the
Y. w. C. A, this afternoon handed her
resignation to the association board of
directors in their official session.
Miss Dice is to go to Cincinnati to
become general secretary of the Y.
w. c. A. in that city. There will be
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parture, except that she is going to
larger and more important field. She
will leave Topeka about the middle of
July, and will begin her new work
September l 3. The Cincinnati associa-
ton has a large building, and they
have in their dormitories 10 girls.
Miss Dice came to Topeka the sec
ond year after the association build
ing here was completed. There was
at that time a debt of five thousand
dollars on the building. That in
cumbrance has been removed. The
association now has 1900 members,
the largest membership in it's history.
The department of physical training
is larger than it has ever been be-
fore. A special department for the
girls work has been added since Miss
Dice came to the association, and the
secretary in charge of that depart
ment, Miss Clara Armstrong, has been
employed by Miss Dice.
No other secretarial changes are to
be made at the departure of Miss
Dice. Her successor has not yet been
chosen. Miss Anne Sweet, a member
of the board of directors, is now in
New York, attending the Finance In
stitute. While she is in the east she
will look for someone she can recon-
mend for the work in Topeka. The
Y w. c. A. training school is located
in New York, and it is in that school
that women prepare for the office of
local secretary.
Miss Dice, before coming to To-
peka was secretary of the association
in Colorado Springs. Colo. Previous
to her work in Colorado, she spent
some time travelling in Europe. Her
home was in Cincinnati, and she was
educated in Goucher college, Balti-
more. Maryland.
Her work in Topeka as a secretary
has been highly gratifying to the
board, and she is said to be especially
gifted as n teacher and leader.
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The third community sing of this
season will be held Friday night in the
auditorium. The public is invited.
The songs that will be sung are Co
lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Old
Oaken Bucket, My Bonnie Lies Over
the Ocean, Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground, Hail Columbia, Tramp,
Tramp. Tramp and America. Some
rounds will also be sung. The singing
of the rounds at the last community
sing was the most popular part of the
entertainment.
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