Evening star., 1935-10-27
SorOrities andFraternities
Phi Delta Gamma and Chi Psi Omega
Joint Hosts.

Alpha Chapter OF Phi Gamma, ma
tional sorority for graduate women,
and Chi Psi Omega, fraternity for
graduate men, were joint hosts at an
open-house evening last evening at
the Graduate School of American Uni
versity, 1901 F street
The guests of the evening were the
faculty and students of the American
University Graduate School In the
receiving line were Miss Ora Cage,
president of the sorority; Mr.. E. T..
Paxton, president of the fraternity;
DR.. E. G. Griffith, dean of the Grad
uate School, and Mrs. Griffith; DR..
j. M. Gray. chancellor of American
University, and Mrs. Gray.
The rooms were artiStically deco
rated with Autumn leaves and masses
of chrysanthemums. Presiding at the
refreshment table were MRS. Albert
Putney, Mrs. c. C. Tansill, Mrs. Price
and Mrs. Edward Paxton. During the
evening a delightful program was
given under the direction of Miss
Marjorie Webster.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements included DR.. Price, DR..
Whitney, DR.. Maurice Salisbury, DR..
Ralston Iyon, Dr. Margaret Sebree,
Miss Eleanor Gessford, Miss Airline
Du Four and Miss Elma Moulton.
The Washington Alumnae Chapter
of the Chi Omega Fraternity enter
tanned the active members and
pledges of Phi Alpha Chapter of Chi
Omega at breakfast this morning at
1890 o'clock at the Broadmoor, 1901
Connecticut avenue. Mrs. C. L, Par
ker, 4317 Elm street, Chevy Chase,
Md, is chairman.
Alpha Theta, George Washington
University Chapter of Pi Lambda
Theta, national honorary education
sorority, will hold its founders day
dinner Saturday, November 2, at the
Brook Farms Tea House. Miss Bess
GcodykoontZ. assistant commissioner
of education and national president
of Pi Lambda Theta. and Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle. president of the Board
of Education of the District of Colum-
bia public schools, will attend the
banquet.
Delta Gamma alumnae in Washing
ton will have their second meeting OF
the season CT Friday evening. Novem-
ber /, at 8 O'Clock, at the apartment
of Mrs. Ernest Smith, 2400 Sixteenth
street. Mrs. Robert F. Tompkins Of
Rhinelander. Wis, convention chair
man of the national organization, Will
be a guest Assisting Mrs. Smith will
be Miss Adele Smith, Miss Anne Lar
rabee, Mrs. Will Sanders and Miss
Helen Lingenfelter.
Nearly one hundred members of the
Kappa Delta Sorority observed foun-
ders' day Wednesday with a banquet.
held at Wesley Hall, on Farragut
Square. the Washington Alumnae As
sociation of the sorority, Sigma Mu
Chapter at George Washington Uni
versity and Alpha Rho Chapter at
the University of Maryland partici-
pating.
The George Washington Univer-
sity Chapter was hostess for the
Lambda Province Convention of Kap-
pa Kappa Gamma and was assisted
by the Washington, D. c., Alumnae
Association, held Friday and Satur-
day.
Those who arrived Friday morning
as official delegates of their respective
chapters included Miss Betty Bennett
and Miss Jean Newmaker of Goucher
College, Baltimore, Md: Miss Nancy
Norment. University of Maryland, Col
lege Park, Md: Miss Dorothy Davis
of Duke University, Durham, N. c.;
Miss Jane Howard of University of
West Virginia, Morgantown. w. Va;
Miss Marjorie Harrison, Miss Helen
Kimmel and Miss Jean Luckie of the
College of William and Mary, Will
liamsburg, Va. and Miss Mary MaXon
and Miss Kathleen Bulow from the
George Washington University
A large reception was held at the
home of Miss Helen Hoskinson, Presi-
dent of the Washington Alumnae
Association, at 3410 Garfield street,
northwest, Friday evening. Mrs B. w.
Wasser was in charge of the arrange
ments for this affair.
The convention closed with a color
full banquet at the Shoreham Hotel
last evening. Mrs Rollin A. Hunter,
social chairman of the Washington
Alumnae Association, was in charge