Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
GIRL JOURNALISTS
/. HONORED At GNU.
Seven, Prominent in Press
Activities, Elected to
Gamma Eta Zeta.

Seven girls prominent in Journalistic
activities at the George Washington
University have been elected to mem
bership in Gamma Eta Zeta, women's
professional journalistic fraternity. The
women thus honored are Dorothy Albert
OF the Ratchet staff, Ruth Campbell
OF the Cherry Tree, Miriam Haas of the
Colonial Wig, Elizabeth Ford of the
Colonial Wig, Margaret Loeff1er of the
Cherry Tree. Hazel Peterson of the
Ratchet staff and Wanda Webb of the
Colonial Wig. An initiation banquet
will be held in the near future, at which
time the pledges will be indicted into
membership.
A meeting of the freshman honor
morrow night for the purpose of dis
cussing plans for the installation cere-
monies to be held in April, when the
society will become chapter of Phi
Eta Sigma, national freshman honor
fraternity. The society now has a men,
bership composed of 20, who have re-
ceived A and B grades in all of their
studies. The president is Richmond
Zoch.
Dean Anna L. Rose attended the
meeting in Cleveland last week of the
National Association of Deans of Wom-
en-, at which she made her annual re-
port as chairman of the headquarters
committee. On Friday Dean Rose went
to Pittsburgh to assist in the installa-
ton of system of cumulative records
which the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement Of Teaching is placing In
the Pittsburgh secondary schools.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle attended
a conference of the examiners in Span
ish of the College Entrance Exan1ina-
ton Board in New York yesterday.
Memorial Request Made.
Mrs. Mamie Yulee Noble has be-
queathed $4,000 to the university as a
memorial to her mother, Nancy Yulee,
to be set aside as trust fund, the in
come to be used for yearly lectures on
development in the fields of ethics and
home economics 1t has been announced
by DIR. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president.
With the debating season at its
height, the mems and women'S debate
teams are busily engaged. Last week
the mems team met West Virginia Uni
versity and Marquette University on
home ground Tomorrow the team will
visit the University of Maryland, and
on Wednesday will meet the University
of Richmond here.
The announcement last week OF the
gift of Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew for
the purpose of establishing depart
ment of public speaking in the univer-
sity has given impetus to interest in
forensic activities. Debates have al
ways been one of the major activities
and the additional opportunities for
training In public speaking made avail
able through the gift of Mrs. Depew
will be welcomed by the student body.
Cherry Blossoms Sold.
The George Washington University
Masonic Club sponsored the sale OF
cherry blossoms on the campus last
week, the official emblem OF the Ma
tional League of Masonic Clubs which
are sold throughout the ccuntry on
Washington's birthday for the benefit
of the leagues educational foundation.
This foundation has as its purpose the
establishment in the university OF
chairs in foreign service. The funds
necessary to start the work in foreign
service we're formally presented to the
university at the first convocation OF
the foreign service branch of the George
Washington University School OF Gov
eminent last November.
One of the most suspicious occasions
in the history of the university was the
Midwinter convocation held Friday
night in the washington Auditorium,
when President Coolidge delivered the
address. The honorary degree OF doc
tor of laws was conferred upon the
President and Mrs. Coolidge IN recogni-
ton of their public service. Among
those in the audience were the ambas-
sailors of several foreign nations, MEM
bers of the cabinet, Army and Navy
officers and members of Congress. De-
grees were conferred upon 81 graduates
of the university.