The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-24
Girls Secure College
Training Through
Alliance

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can't make up my mind what to
take at colleg'.
One of these three things confronts
nine out of every ten high school
graduates who is contemplating col
lege, or having it contemplated for
him by his parents.
There exists an organization In
the south to help out girls in just
such cases. 1t is the Southern Wom-
ems Educational Alliance.
The work of the alliance is that
| of helping girls to find out the sort
| of education best suited to them in
dlvidualiy and of helping them TO get
| it when help is practicable and neces-
sary. The help means first the pro-
vision OF educational information and
guidance, including vocational infor-
nation and guidance. Then, If the
student is too seriously handicapped
financially to undertake the educa-
tion found to be best, the alliance
seeks--and with an adequate office
force can always find-the necessary
scoriarship, loan. opportunity for
self help and other facilities for
making the ed cation possible. Often
various types of aid are combined.
No implication of charity in any
sense is permitted in connection
with the aid which the alliance gives
to the capa BILE, ambitious girls whom
it Helps. ON both sides II is recog-
nized that the education of the 1ndl-
vidual is a community asset because
the girls best development is to be
an investment for serving her conf
munity well as herself. Moreover,
each girl is asked, when her train
ing is over, to become supporting
member of the alliance and SO be-
gins carly 10 give back to younger
girls the opportunity which she her
calf bac Even w hen girls
still studying, through the aid of
| the alliance, there are striking eX-
amples Of their generous attitude to-
wards the younger girl, in giving up
the financial aid SO that the youne
one may get start. Instances of
this have Just occurred at Randolph
Macon, where two members of next
years senior class, holders of ALI
an@e scholarships and to the front
rank in student standing, have given
back their scholarships to enable
freshmen to enter and are borrowing
money to complete the course.
By means of these an eager little
girl in a small Tennessee town Is
getting her hearts desire and an
other high school graduate nearer at
| hand is getting her chance. They
will be the special charges of the
seniors who lave made it possible
for them to come.
The SCHOLARSHIP are given to the
alliance from rools, colleges and
universities of arious types AMI by
them the wards of the alliance are
at least partly aided to attend what
ever schools. colleges, sche OILS of art,
music, secretarial aid, business train
ing graduate chools of preparation
for various professions. Student loans
are secured vairously from the school
or college itself. from -AGividuals
and from various educational or pa
triotic groups who are eager to share
in giving girls of the south a tuil
chance through education. where 1t
is safe for the health of the girl and
is otherwise desirable. Ways are
found for girls to earn part of their
| own expenses by doing small
amount Of remunorative work.
Girls are helped at whatever point
! in their education help is needed and
although much of the work of the
i alliance lies in cities, the girl on the
farm or at the country crossroads
has very especial appeal. Every
award is an honor award because
every girls school record is gone
into carefully and her assets of
character, mentality, personality, per-
severance and others making for or
| against success are carefully exam
/ ined before she is given the scholar
ship.
The Southern Woman's Educational
alliance, which provides educational
and vocational guidance for girls and
acts as a clearing house for edu-
eational opportunities, is holding
Membership Week throughout the
south. The two-fold purpose Of the.
work is that of interpreting the
work more fully to the general pub
lie and of increasing the number of
those identified with the work
through membership.
The cooperation sought has refer
ence to girls in the cities and in the
rural districts of the south.
The committee for Membership
Week includes, besides local mem
bers of the executive board of the
Southern Woman's Educational al
lance. the following business and
professional men who are sponsors
for the work: w. S. Forbes, Thomas
s. Wheelwright, Herbert w. Jack
Charles n. strotz, DR.. Albert j. ochs-
ner, Norman H. Davis. Col. f. NJ.
House, Frank Polk. George Gordon
Battle, S. Laurence Bodine. DR.. Field
ing Lewis Taylor, Walter Ledyard
TaylUr; David Houston, John v. Davis
Russell Bowie.
Acting ex-officio on the committee
are Orie Latham Hatcher. president;
| DR.. Margaret P. Kuyk, vice president;
Rachel L. Gregg, secretary; Mrs. j.
x. Bowman. treasurer. President d
r. Anderson of Randolph Macon
Woman's college; Mrs. John A. Bar
ker, Richmond; Professor Florence
Bascom, Bryn Mawr college; Mrs.
Laurence Bodine. Philadelphia; Dean
Pierce Butler, New Orleans; Mrs
Robert w. Claiborne, New York city;
Mrs. G. Harvey Clarke, Richmond
Dean Ada l.. Comstock, Smith col
lege: Mrs A f. Cook Richmond:
President William f. Few, Trinity
college, Durham; Miss Mary S. Gam
mon, Knoxville; Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson New York city; President w.
w. Guth, Goucher college; DR.. Haidie
Weeks Guthrie. New Orleans; Mrs.
Superintendent Harris Hart, Rich
mond; DR.. Fl. II. Hibbs, Jr., Rich
mond; President D. B. johnson. VIM
throp college, S. C.; Dean May l..
| Keller. Richmond; Mrs. Edith Shatto
King, New York city; Mrs. William
II. n. MacCracken, Vassar college;
Dean Charles G. Maphis, University
of Virginia. Miss Helen p. McCor-
mick, Brooklyn: President Emile w.
McVea, Sweet Briar college; DR.. L.
c. L. Miller, Medical College of Vir-
ginia: DR.. 5. G. Mitchell, University
of Richmond; Mrs. Dexter Otey.
Lynchburg; Miss Lena Madesin Phil
lips, Dean Florence NJ. burlington,
Mounty Holyoke college; DIR. W. Car
son Ryan, Jr.. Swarthmore college;
i Dr. w. 7. Sanger and Miss Frances
art, Washington, D. c.; Mrs. Leslie
e. STROBE, New York city; Mrs.
Charles N Strotz. Chicago; Miss Eu-
genia Wallace. New York city; Mrs.
Claiming NJ. Ward. Richmond.
The, committee asks that every
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