Evening star., 1935-02-10
Alumnae and Sorority
Social Activities Scheduled

SOc1al Activities Scheduled
Plans are under way to make the
twenty-first annual Trinity College
Alumnae prom the most elaborate
and the largest dance ever held by
the college. This affair, the third
dinner dance, will be held Friday.
March 1, at the Mayfiower. Many Of
the alumnae from out Of town are
expected to return for this event as
1t is the principal social affair OF
the year.
Active committees captained by Mrs.
Martin F. O'Donoghue are composed
of the following: Tickets, Miss
Genevieve Oliver, chairman; Mrs. F.
Dolan Donohoe, Mrs. Edmund Toland,
Miss Florence Judge. Miss Helen
Richards, Miss Margaret Wallace,
Miss Lillian Suracci, Miss Lucille
Walsh, Mrs. Leo Stock, Miss Angela
Hicks, Miss Eileen Downey, Mrs. Ray
mond Rupert, Miss Mary Guerin,
Miss Charlotte Gartner, Miss Eleanor
Rattigan, Miss Uriel Sheehy and Miss
Anna Rupert; Patronesses. Mrs.
James Early; Music, Miss Catherine
Redmond. and Publicity, Miss Mary
augusta Kennedy.
Students Of the college assisting on
the Ticket Committee are Miss Ruth
Sullivan, '35, of Yonkers, N. Y; Miss
Patricia Leary, SO, of New York City;
Miss Frances Barnett, 81, of Chicago:
Miss Margaret Devlin, '38, OF Trenton,
N. j., and Miss Elizabeth Doody. '35,
president of the Washington Club.
Beta Chi National Sorority will
celebrate the seventeenth anniversary
| Of its founding tomorrow. The eight
Washington chapters will combine to
, observe Founders day with banquet
and dance at the Carlton Hotel.
About 100 girls will assemble for the
banquet, following which their es-
corts will arrive for dancing until l
| o'clock. The toastmistreSs, Miss
Bertha Ryan of Gamma Chapter, will
introduce the national president, Mrs.
May Cole; the chairman Of the
Washington council, Mrs. Marjorie
Van Buskirk, and the past national
president, Miss Hilda Shomo, who
will give brief addresses. 1t is ex-
pected that one Of the charter men,
bers of Beta Chi, Miss Betty Clag-
| gett, will also attend and make a
short address. An entertainment
specially will be given by Miss Mary
Costello of Mu Chapter. The COM
mittee in charge Of arrangements IN
Washington is composed OF Miss
Theresa Trant, Rho, chairman; Miss
Wilhelmina Cronenberg. Alpha; Miss
Bertha Ryan, Gamma; Miss Alma
Nussear, Eta: Miss Mary Costello
MI; Mrs. Marion Risdon, Pi; Miss
Peggy Kidwell, Xi, and Miss Mary
Kessler, Upsilon.
Beta Chi was founded In 1918 by a
group Of five girls in Washington and
In II years has grown to its present
size of 81 active chapters.
Miss Mary Pearce will entertain at
tea this afternoon in the horne OF her
parents on Garrison street in honor
of Beta Chapter, Phi Delta Gamma
Graduate Sorority of George Wash
ington University. In keeping with
the Valentine season, color note OF
red and white will be carried out
the center of the tea table having
silver bowl filled with red roses and
valley lilies and lighted red candles
burning in silver holders. Mrs. Ken
meth Bailey Forbes, wearing a red
velvet tea gown and turban, will pour
tea and will be assisted in the din
ing room by Miss Esther Pearce and
Mrs. George Pitt, jr. Others assist
ing the hostess are Mrs. Hampton D
Percy, Mrs. Wilford L. White, Miss
Agnes Lee and Miss Nanele Kees.
The guest list includes, besides the
members of Beta Chapter, the pa
tronesses of the chapter, who are Mrs
Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr.; Mrs. Albert L. Barrow'
and Miss Elizabeth Cullen.
Washington Alumnae Club of the
national honorary musical sorority
Mu Phi Epsilon, will celebrate Valen-
tine day with a dinner dance to-
morrow night at the Shoreham Hotel
Mrs. Isabelle P. Middlekauff is ir
charge of the arrangements anc
reservations.
When the Entertainment Commit.
tee for Alpha Province, Chi Sigma
Sorority. met Wednesday at the home
Of Miss Elizabeth Swadley, final ar
rangementS were made for the an
nual card party and dance to be
given February Is at the Willard Ho-
tel. Members of the committee in
charge are Miss Dorothy Newell
chairman; Miss Florence Davis. Miss
Martha Slagle, Miss Elizabeth Swad-
ley, Miss Dorothy Mattingly. Miss
Clara Magruder, Miss Peggy Bogue
Miss Olive Summers, Miss Doris
Payne and Miss Dorothy Brown.
The alumnae of the Immaculate
Conception Academy will hold its an
nual subscription dance for the bene-
fit of the academy Saturday. e
The committee in charge Of the
dance includes Mary Sheehy as chair
man.
Alpha Chapter, Tau Beta Phi So
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