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Pittsburgh BranchAn afternoon is not long enough when the Branch assembles for such a varied and interesting program as that of November first, at the College Club. For in the first place came the regular business meeting, and it included the report of the Branch representatives, Mrs. C. W. Dah-linger (Bess McCain, ’04) and Mrs. W. V. Bingham (Millicent Todd, ’02), which is always important and ably presented, but the account of Alumnae House made it doubly interesting this lime. The Pittsburgh Branch has planned to make a closer acquaintance with Yassar authors and the project was delightfully inaugurated at this meeting by the presentation of two plays by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Two Slatterns and a King and Aria da Capo, directed respectively by Eleanor Grier, T8 and Mrs. C. B. Watkins (Gertrude Taylor, ’07). Incidentally, these plays were repeated the next day before a large and most enthusiastic audience at the College Club, when they were prefaced by a reading of poems writtenby the same gifted author.Grace 11. Kelly, ’90, was the gracious hostess for the club at her home on Shady Avenue, December II. After a rather brief business meeting, chiefly devoted to a discussion of “high finance, Anna G, Richey, ’97, told, most informally, of lier pleasant experiences at the recent meeting of the Associate Alumnae at Chicago. Mrs. George P. Bassett read her favorite poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Alice Thurston McGirr, 06, gave some seasonable advice on books to buy as gifts, covering in particular current fiction and children’s literature. The meeting then adjourned for the usual sociable “tea and talk.The annual Holiday Luncheon at the University Club, January 3, was attended by some sixty “daughters of old V. C. Burges Johnson, who spoke on “The literary shop and college training for it, was warmly welcomed to Pittsburgh, It would not have seemed right had the occasion not brought a smiling word of greeting from Mrs. W. R. Thompson, ’77, whose absence from the city this winter
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Poughkeepsie Vassar Alumnae Quarterly
Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Fri, Feb 01, 1924
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