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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1917
Page
2
Sunday visits and weekend trips across Indianapolis and nearby towns are noted for Harold Tilson Mildred Merrill Helen Masten and others. Illness recovery updates for Harold Hastings Hugh Lowery and James Cooley plus college events, pledges initiated, and upcoming Scientific Association meeting announced.
Six Franklin College alumni accompany a large missionary party landing in Monlviein Burma 1916 after a two month voyage from San Francisco. Miss Julia E Perritt and Miss M Alice McGuire return to Mandalay and Insein while Mrs Marguerite Allen Bartlett and her husband join Rangoon Baptist College. Bartlett serves as assistant principal. McGuire teaches in European high school.
Delta Jeta Chapter initiated new Tri Deltas at Clara Jennings home Saturday afternoon. Actives and alumni hosted a reception for patronesses and guests, then an eight o'clock open house for college fraternity men. Readily noted were a punch and pineapple ice cater, Tri Delt wafers, original Delta songs, and small tridents as favors with several out of town visitors listed from Indiana and Detroit.
Extra seating will be installed in the college gym to accommodate a larger crowd this week. The plan was prepared last year and aims to improve spectator capacity for upcoming events at Notre Dame.
Elizabeth Book and Grace Barnes spent the weekend at their homes. The Franklin as a college publication lacks news from graduates now in various kinds of work. No one is in charge of that work, making it hard to obtain items of interest. The Franklin is glad to receive alumnae items.
Last Friday evening the Independent Literary Society held a spread in honor of John Denniston who will be out of school for the remainder of the series.
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