The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-11
HONOR 5 WOMEN
Washburn Students Become
Members of NOnOsa Society.
Membership Is Based on Serv-
ice to the College.

Five young women of the junior
| class at Washburn college received
| this morning the highest honor which
the school confers on women students
| by public election to the Nonosa So
ciety. Membership in this organiza-
/ ton is based on service to the col
| lege, activity, character and popular
| ity. The active members, who are
seniors, chose their successors
The new members are Barbara
, Williams farrell, of Topeka; Erma
! Evelyn Lewis, of Topeka; Ruth Grace
Speer. of Muscotah; Mabel Taylor, OF
Junction City. and Margaret Louise
| Tillotson, of Lenora.
The ceremony of election took place
in the college chapel. The Nonosas
of the outgoing senior class with
some of the honorary members and
alumni, marched into the chapel and
caHed the names of their choice, one
| by one. The newly elected members
walked from their seats to the front
of the chapel amid the applause of
the crowd, and received the purple iris
flower as a badge of membership.
Mrs. P P Womer. Mrs. Duncan l.
| McEa chron. Miss Charlotte Leavitt
and Mrs A. T. Burch led the process
sion. They were followed by the out
going active members, Neva Shoe
maker, Isabel Whitcomb, Ruth Marsh,
Mabel Claire Steele, Lillian Hughes
and Mabel Shirk.
Inc society VIII nOlu annual Ddn-
quet at Pelletier's tea room tonight,
followed by the initiation service at
the home of Mrs. Womer.
Prominent in School Affairs.
All of the five women elected this
morning have been prominent in
school affairs Miss farrell. daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. farrell, 1909
Plass avenue, is chairman of the May
Fete committee this spring. She is a
member of the American College Quill
club. the Washburn Press club. the
Review staff, the Kaw staff and the
Alpha Phi sorority. She is secretary
of the Girls Athletic association.
Miss Lewis, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. B. z. Lewis, $40 Douthitt
avenue, is a member of the college
debating team; of Pi Kappa Delta
honorary debating fraternity; the
Alethean Literary society; the Quill
club; the Review staff and the Delta
Gamma sorority She has been elect
cominb school year. 1929. She was
captain in the Big Sister" organi-
zation last year.
Mrs. Speer is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Bushey, of Muscotah.
Last summer she participated in the
Y. W. c. A Industrial experiment at
Denver, Colo, working as a servant
in several private homes. She was
Big Sister captain in 1921. She
is Washburn's undergraduate repre-
sentative in the Y. w. c. A. She is
vice president of the Spanish club, and
is member of the Alethean Literary
society and the Delta Gamma So
rority-
. Miss Taylor. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George P Taylor. Junction City,
is the Washburn representative this
year in the state oratorical contest.
and the junior class representative on
the student council. She is a member
of the Y. w. c. A. cabinet and was
treasurer of the Y. W. c. A. last year.
She Is a member of Pi Kappa Delta
honorary debating fraternity.
Miss Tillotson. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. R. Tillotson, of Lenora, is as
sociate editor of the Kaw. She was
1921 president of the Washburn Girls
society and is now vice presi-
dence of the student council. She is
Y. w. c. A. big Sister, captain and
a member of the Alpha Phi sorority