San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
AWARD HON0RS.
To RESERVES
HERE SATURDAY,
School Girls Attend I'm
pressive Ceremony
at 'Y.W.'
REPEAT THEIR CODE
Confetti Fete of Bracken-
ridge Members Is a
Success.

Marching TO their great blue tri-
angle in the center of Dlue-and-white
draped stage with their leaders carry
ing the American, the Christian and
the Girl Reserve flags, nearly, half a
hundred Girl Reserves of San Antonio
were awarded their first forty honors
Saturday afternoon in the Y. w. G..
A. building. with Mrs. Ross Burns,
G.. r. leader, conducting the impress
sive ceremony. Following the SER
vices attending the Court of Awards,
at , 30. a social hour was held. with
Girl Reserves and their friends from
six junior high schools of San An
tonic participating.
The presidents of Girl Reserve Or
CARNATIONS in the JUNO. high schools
led the long procession that filed slow
ly into the ~" auditorium to the tune
of america" Miss Alta Bowman
of Joel Chandler Harris. Miss Ada
line Miller of Thomas Nelson Page
and Miss Evelyn Van Kuren of Ed
gar Allen Poe Junior High School,
carried the flags.
After assembling in the auditor
ium. the blue-and-whitc-clad girls
gave the three salutes to their flags,
repeating the code Of the Girl Re-
serves, which is:
"As a Girl Reserve / will be ::
Gracious in manner, impartial in judg-
ment, ready for service, loyal to
friends, reaching toward the best,
earnest in purpose, seeing the beauti-
full, eager for knowledge, reverent to
God, victorious over self, ever depend
able, sincere at all times"
Tell a Fairy Tale.
Rally songs, hymns, patriotic
choruses were given in a quick success
sion of melody as the Girl Reserves
stood with their hands on their hearts,
in the Girl Reserve salute, while their
leader directed them through the Girl
Reserve ritual attendant to a court of
awards ceremony.
Mrs. Fank Paschal, chairman of
the Girl Reserve Committee for the
Y w. c. A., spoke briefly to the
girls, eulogizing their work, and say
ing that she was "thrilled to ad-
dress such an assembly of patriotic
American girls"
Mis- Ruth Muir, executive secretary
of the Y. w. c. A., told the legend
of the "Golden Windows" and ap-
piled the fairy tale to a practical an
alysis of Girl Reserve work, pointing
out the meaning of its future use in
real life.
Girls Who Won HOnOrs.
Forty honors in knowledge, spirit,
health and service were given to the
following girls:
From Thomas Nelson Page Junior
High School, Rosalynde Childs. Lula
Burch. Ruth Blakchum, Tillie Brown,
Allie Kirkpatrick, Marie Long, Frah-
ces Dowdy, Nell Gilmer, Doris Tits
worth, Gertrude Hensen, Rosario de
Vega, Juanita Robinson, Lois Bart
lett, Paula Gonzales, Elsie Reyes, Ma
rie Henderson. Vilet Ashbecker, Adc-
line Miller, Gertrude Klotz, Lorena
Carr and Eulalia Gonzales from Joel
Chandler Harris, Essie Frendt, Ma
rie Vampool, Alta Bowman, Gather
inc Prothario, Thelma Stechin and
Ruth Tupp; from Nathaniel Haw-
tborne, Ruth Carruthers. Ruth Ford,
Louise Aubin, Louise Russell: from
Edgar Allen Poe, Sarah Baroschow,
Imogene Beasley. Wilma Overstreet,
Rosetta Samuels and Gladys Morell ;
from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Eliza
beth Cook, Hazel Murphy. Alice Oil
plant, Margaret Fator, Mildred Ros-
man, Alice Mcleod, Mabel Yeager,
Frances Steinhams, Kathryn Robin.
son, Marian Hargis, Mary McCurdy
Eleanor Rips, Anette Patrick, Ina
Buckner, Margaret Debney; from
Washington Irving, Helen Farwell.
Girl Reserves of Breckenridge High
School made a complete success OF
their Confetti Fete Friday evening
April 4. according to Mrs. Burns, who
directed the affair. Enough money
was realized from the sales of home
made wares to send delegate to
Camp Estes. Colorado, to the sum
mer conference of the Girl Reserves
There were about 200 guests for this
event, and all q. r. members were in
holiday costume, some wearing hoor
skirts and some appearing in mecca
sins and leather-fringed robe of Min
nehaha.
Girl Reserve Picnic.
There will be picnic for Cir
Reserves on May II, including all o.
the 500 members of the r. G. now
enrolled in San Antonio.
On Friday evening, April IL. there
will be ian evening in camp" con
Quoted in the Y. W. G.. A. club room'
for vacationists who are making plan
for this summer. The meeting vii
be for all girls who have ATTENDED