The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-04-17

Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma
Theta. Eigrna Gamma Rho, Zeta Phi
Beta Sororities; Alpha Phi Alpha,
Kappa Aplpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi
and Phi Beta Sigma, both for the
greetings at our public program and
for the swanky Cocktail party for us
in the well-appointed home of the
GEORGE Hes an Ape) PATTON;
to DR.. Huff of Meridian for the
dozen red roses, to DR.. David White,
the Zetas, the Northside Garden
Club and Mr.. Willie Stevens for
beautiful flowers. both for our ses-
sions and our luncheon; to brother
Lipscomb, Coca-Cola's representa-
tive for the coke bar and pencils;
to the Low Fly ladies who make up
the following social clubs and other
organizations; Sophisticated Lavar-
cites, Gay Thirteen, Idle Hour Sen
ior; Professional Beauticians; Mary
Moore's Beauty School, for the tas-
ty sandwiches and cokes; to friend
Doris T. Hall, director of College
Park Clubhouse for all her many
extra courtesies; to the management
of Stevens Rose Room, for the ex-
ira touches to the already delicious
luncheon and for the use of this
beautiful spacious luncheon and for
the use of this beautiful, spacious
room until z p. m. without any
charge), for the continuation of our
business session, thus saving valu-
able time; to our Mayor of Bronze
vile, Father A. B. Keeling Presi-
dent Wilburn, the Tougaloo Prep
Choir, undre the direction of Mrs.
Princess B. Jones, for their splen-
did contributions to our public pro-
gram-and as President of the hos
tess chapter, we sincerely thank
each soror of Alpha Pi for the per-
fectly lovely, loyal and sisterly sup
port given throughout the prepar-
ationS for this conference = what
ever success has been ours, for it.
all of you are responsible. = WE
ARE JUSTLY PROUD of the fact
that Alpha Pi walked away with so
many regional honors - you5ve
probably read about this elsewhere
III this issue = we were proud to
give honor and recognition to our
beloved business woman of the
year., Mrs. NJ c. COLLINS: to the
charming and versatile GLADYS
NOEL BATES, whose contribution
to Negro Teachers is inestimabIe;
to. the chic. smart, business women,
who individually or with the aid of
their husbands have built and es-
tablished businesses that are equal
and in most cases excel those to
be found anywhere in the country.
Mesdames LULA BELL FORTE.
.THELMA SANDERS. HENRIETTA
STEVENS, ELLA LUCKETT, Ell
Use WILLIAMS, ALETHA BUCH-
ANAN THOMPSON, Misses LAURA
BELLE and EULA MAE SINGLE
TON - believe us, ladies - the
honor was truly ours.
THE NIGHT WAS FILLED with
music :. the hot, sweet. tunes
of the beter-than-ever JOE DYSON
ORCHESTRA - we were particu-
larly happy to know that Joe and
his boys with the singing sensa-
ton, KINzY MOORE, talented HOP
SON MASON at the piano. and the
pretty Miss, whose name we can't
call since she took unto herself a
husband - decided to put on one
Of their growing performances for
the Iotas dance - we'd been tell
ing the folk they were good - but
confess here, we didn't know they
were that good = Thanks boys =
From the moment the first notes
were played until long after good
night was said - the dance and
music lovers seemed to have still
been filled with JOE DYSON'S
good-rocking rhythms = many of
the regular dance crowd turned out
and there were many new faces
busy as a bee most of the time, we
did get chance to say hi to the