Evening star., 1927-11-13
PLEDGE
Al At. MARYLAND i.
Names Are Announced After
Close of Rush Season.
Other News Items.

COLLEGE PARK. Md. Novembe,
12.-Forty.one girls have been pledged
by the sororities at the University OF
Maryland. it has been announced, fol-
lowing the close of the annual rush
season. They are as follows:
Alpha Omicron Pi-Madeline Ber-
nard. Jane Hammock, Mildred kettler
JOY Linton, Margaret McGarVey, Ruth
Miles and Gwendolyn Sargent, all Of
Washington; Lenore Blount and Vir.
ginia Blount. College Park; Virginia
Smith. Martha Ross Temple and Julia
Arnold, all Of Hyattsville; Phyllis
Kress, Johnstown, Pa, and Elizabeth
Walton, Salisbu- Y, Md.
Sigma Delta--Elizabeth Drummer and
Dorothy White, Washington; Christine
Simmonds, New York City; Eleanor
Baummel, Royal Oak, Md; Anne
Ella son, Newcastle, Del; Geraldine
Parry. Ridgewood. N. J.; Isabel Sy-
mons, College Park; Anne Price and
Nellie May Price, Queenstown, Md,
and Margaret Hermann, Baltimore.
Kappa Xi-Helen Meade and Har'
riet Bishop, College Park; Emily
Fuller. Riverdale; Estele Hoffa and
Inez Hoffa, Barton, Md; Elizabeth
Kirkwood. Mount Washington. Md;
lhlHISs d. Wal SdL Ct
Wade, Port Tobacco, Md: Ann Wolf,
Hyattsville, Md, and elizabeth Wittig,
Frostburg. Md.
Alpha Epsilon Chi Club-Felesia
Jenkins. Marie Boyd and Mary Rooms,
all of Washington; Winnifred Gahan,
Berwyn, and Norma Rowe Brentwood.
Frances Freeny, president OF the
Women's Student Government Asso-
citation, represented that body al the
annual conclaVe OF heads of similar
organizations at Smith College. North.
ampton, Mass, yesterday and Thurs
day.
Sigma Delta Phi, national honorary
Spanish fraternity, has announced the
pledging of the following: Thelma
Elliott, Dorothy Bean, Clemencia
Cause, Hazel kreider. Frances Maisch,
Adele Siehler, Donald De Mari and
Adelaide Gallup.
Alpha Gamma, local fraternity, has
oeen granted charter by Alpha Gamm
Rgo, national agricultural fraternity.
Action was taken at the recent CON
vention in Lexington, Ky. The Mary
land chapter is to be Alpha Theta.
7. L. Nagle, designing engineer of
the Arlington Memorial Bridge, gave
an interesting illustrated talk before
the Engineering Society the other eve
ming. He explained many details OF
the structure that will span the Po.
tomac.
DR.. f. n. Cory. head of the en-
tomology department at the university
and State entomologist, will deliver a
paper before the chronological So
ciety of Ontario at the convention to
be held in Ottawa next Thursday and
Friday.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. command
ing the Sd Corps Area, United States
Army, who will leave shortly for the
Philippine to take up his duties there,
praised the Maryland r. o. T. c. unit.
In a recent letter to DIR. Raymond A.
Pearson, president of the university,
Gen. h lcArthur said, in part;
my satisfaction in returning to the
Philippine Isla nds is somewhat dimmed
by the necessity of disrun ing the de-
lightful associations / ave formed in
the Sd Corps Area. Among them none
has been more inspiring to me than
the ore with the University os Mary
land. The efficiency Of the military
unit has been so marked and its re
SponSe TO every patflOtlC appeal SC
prompt that it has engendered in me
feeling not only of great respect, but
of real affection. I shall leave 1t with
regret"
Milford A. Sprecher, editor of the
Diamondback, the student weekly al
College Park, has been elected presi
dent of the freshman class at the
Medical School in Baltimore and al
the same time editor Of the Y. NJ. c.
A. paper. which circulateS among the
professional schools of the university
in Baltimore.
Twenty-Five members have beer
initiated by the new Mercer Literary
Society, as follows: Bernice Balch
Eleanor Baumel, Anne Eliason, Jane
Hammock, Helena Hartenstein, Phyllis
Kress, Joy Linton, Marian Palmer
Geraldine Parry, Frances Price, Nellia
Price, Margaret Crunkleton. Louise
Townsend, James Benner, Richard
Boyd, William Bradley, Lawrence
Chiswell. John Hill. Nicholas Janetzke
Iyving Russell, John Umbarger and
Paul Doerr.