The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-27
HONORS TO SEVEN
Junior Girls at Washburn Join
NOnOsa Society.
New Members Entertained al
Dinner by President jWomer.

Seven Junior girls at Washburn col
lege were elected Friday to member
ship in Nonosa, the honorary senior
girls society. The girls are Miss Lii
liam Hughes, Miss Ruth Marsh. Miss
Isabel Whitconb Miss Lois Shaffer,
Miss Mabel Shirk. Miss Mabel Claire
Steele and Miss Nova Shoemaker.
The new Nonosa girls were enter
tanned at dinner Thursday night at
the home of Presi -ent p. P. Womer
and were initiated following the din
ner.
Highest Honor To Student.
Nonosa members are chosen for
| their interest in school activities and
for scholarship, and election to the
society is considered the highest honor
that can COME to a Washburn girl.
Miss Lois Shaffer will be president
of Nonosa for next year and Miss Isa-
| bel Whitcomb. secretary and treas
urer, to succeed Miss Marie Moore
| and Miss Margaret Seaton, respec-
| lively.
Miss Hughes, the daughter of Mr..
| and Mrs. r. E. Hughes, of Sabetha,
| Kan, has won her membership partly
thru her journalistic activities. She
was on the Washburn Review staff on
her second year in college, was edi-
| tor-in-chief of the Kaw, 1921 is a
member f the English Journal club
and the Alethian Literary society.
| She is representative of her class on
| the student council. Other work in
which Miss Hughes is a leader is as
| Big Sister" captain for the Y. w. C.
A. and she serves in the cabinet of
| that organization. She is a member
| of the Kappa Theta sorority.
Is Topeka Girl.
| Miss Ruth Marsh is a Topeka girl,
| the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. E.
| Marsh, Ill East Eleventh street. Her
greatest activity in the college has
No to- I,- ie
tary of the Washburn Dramatic club,
has an important part in the senior
play to be given soon, and carried the
leading role in the recent Dramatic
club play. Her other interests have
been as a member of the Y. w. c. A.
cabinet ard a member of the staff of
the Kaw.
variety of activities constitute rea-
sons why Mss Isabel Whitcomb was
elected to Nonosa. She is president
of the Y. w. c. A, president of the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, president
of the Helianthus Literary society, sec
| rotary of the Dramatic club, secretary
of the English Journal club, associate
editor of the Kaw, secretary of the
student council. chairman of the
and member of the Y. w. c. A. cabi-
1 net. 800
A Member of Press Club.
Miss Lois Shaffer, Y. w. c. A. vice
president, is a member of the Press
club and of the Kaw staff, and the
HelianthuS Literary society. She was
a delegate to the student volunteer
conference of the Y. w. c. A. at Des
Moines last spring. She is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Shaffer of
Atchison.
Miss Mabel Shirk, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. P. Shirk of Pratt, Kan.
has been a leader in forensic work al
the college, being a member of the
girls debating team of the college
and a member of the Pi Kappa Delta
forensic fraternity. She is junior
class representative of the student
council, member of the Y. w. c. A
cabinet, of the girls glee club. of the
dramatic club, the Ichabod First
Alder society, the Alethian literary So
ciety. She will have a part in the
senior play and has been in the cast
of various plays given by the Wash
burn dramatic club.
Miss Mabel Claire Steele. daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. Samuel Steele of Cha
mute, is a member of the student
council, assistant in the home econom-
les department of the college, girls
tennis champion, treasurer of hel
class for two years, secretary-treas
urer of the chemistry club, member
of the Alethian literary society, chair
man of varsity dances. and member
of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
Miss Steele is playing today in the
girls tennis finals.
On Kaw and Review Staffs.
Miss Neva Shoemaker's activities
which led to her Nonosa membership
were: AS member of the Y. W. c. A
cabinet, of the English Journal club
of the French club, the Delta Gamma
sorority, the Delta Phi Delta art fra
ternity, the freshman commission, the
Kaw staff and the Review staff. She
was chairman of the Junior prom an6
is chairman of the May fete.
Miss Whitcomb, Miss Marsh Mis-:
Shirk, Miss Steele, Miss Shoemaker
and Miss Hughes were awarded "W's'
by the student council this year, ir
recognition of their college activities