Westhampton selects Renée Gartner for Apple Blossom Festival
Miss Renée Gartner, a Westhampton junior and sociology major, will represent the town at the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester from April 26 to May 1. She competes with 36 princesses from several states. events include a parade, tea dance, pageant, and the queen’s coronation. Gartner is president-elect of the town students and formerly lived in Detroit.
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Renée Gartner
Westhampton
Winchester
Miss Gartner
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
Virginia
Gartner
Richmond
Detroit
Betty Leigh Stembridge
Pat Minor
Jackie Ayre Mack
Phyllis Moulden
Gwen [Kiley
Ann Bailey
Virginia Lovelace
Ethel Smith
Norma Hloward
Phi Delta Theta Banquet Honors Founders in Virginia
The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity will hold its Founders Day Banquet at the Commonwealth Club on Friday March 19 with Barrett Herrick of the Phi Delt General Council as speaker. Genial Jim McWilliams will provide entertainment. The Marlin T Nolan Award will honor the top undergraduate Phi Delt in Virginia and Jim Beckner of the Virginia Delta Chapter will receive the Outstanding Pledge Award. Alumni will then attend a reception at the Phi Delta Theta lodge.
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Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Commonwealth Club
Barrett Herrick
Phi Delt General Council
New York City
Jim McWiliams
Theatre and Radio
Marlin T. Nolan
Brother Nolan
Korea
Virginia
Jim Beckner
Virginia Delta
Phi Delta Theta Lodge
Lambda Chi Formals Dinner Dance planned at Hotel Jefferson
Lambda Chi Alpha announces its annual all state formal dinner and ball from 6 30 p m to midnight Saturday in the Empire Room at the Hotel Thomas Jefferson. Richmond College Dean Raymond B Pinchbeck will speak after the banquet with Spencer Gilmore serving as toast taster.
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Lambda Chi Alpha
Empire
Thomas Jefferson
Will James
Richmond College
Raymond B. Pinchbeck
Spencer Gilmore
Plans for Scouting Fraternity at University Campus
University of Richmond considers forming a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega to aid students with scouting ties. Dr. Jack Burke leads the effort with officers Fred Reid Jim Gardner Harry Fentress Arnold Frederick. Next meeting set for Biology Building room 204 at 11 50.
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Alpha Phi Omega
Scouting Fraternity
Scouting
Jack Burke
Richmond
Fred Reid
Jim Gardner
Harry Fentress
Arnold Frederick
Scout Service Fraternity
Burke
Virginia
VPU
Randolph-Macon
University of Virginia
Clyde Fields Jr Advances to Finals in WRVA Quiz
Franklin High School senior Clyde Lee Fields Jr advanced to the semi finals of the University of Richmond WRVA Radio Scholarship Quiz aiming for a $600 scholarship and possible $1,000 grand prize. He posted 105 points, edging Windsor High’s Katherine Eley by 10, with Otis Thomas of Lawrenceville finishing third.
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Franklin High School
Clyde Lee Fields, Jr
University of Richmond
WRVA
Katherine Brown Eley
Windsor High School
Otis Thomas
Lawrenceville High School
Fields
Warren G. Harding
United States
Hariet Beecher Stowe
Poe
New York
Log
Monogram Club
Glee Club
Hi-Y. A
Field
Joe Haley
Ashland
Henry Gray High School
Nancy Campbell Gill
Petersburg
Tamara Cooper
Maury High School
Dean CG. J. Gray
University of Virginia
Area Studies Open Meetings Highlight Pan American Week
Pan American Week activities on the University campus April 5 to 9 feature open Area Studies class sessions from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on the 6th and 8th. Speakers include Miss Joanne Waring discussing the Inter-American Commission and slides from her travels, plus reviews of writings by Jose Mart and Alfonso Reyes.
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Joanne Waring
Miss Waring
Paraguay
Organization of American States
OAS
Rio de Janeiro
Lima
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Asuncion
University of Richmond
Pan- American Union
Washington
José Mart
Alfonso Reyes
Americas
May Day Festival Revs Up With Mardi Gras Spirit
Barbara Bull chairing the May Day steering committee announces a fuller Mardi Gras theme for the festival. Ethel Smith and Alice McCarty help coordinate costumes and closer timing to avoid lag. Concessions and games run 3 to 4 30 pm on the green with Basin Street inspired decor and paper mache.
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Barbara Bull
Miss Bull
Ethel Smith
Alice McCarty
Westhampton
New Orleans
Basin Street
Miss Helen Monsell Completes Book on Susan Anthony
Miss Helen Albee Monsell of Richmond College Resistrag completes Susan Anthony Girl Who Dared illustrated by Paul Laine, eighth in the Childhood of Famous Americans Series. The series will total 81 volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Morrow
Helen Albee Monsell
Richmond College Resistrag
Susan Anthony
Paul Laine
Miss Monsell
Bobbs- Merrill and Company
University of Richmond Library
Miss Mansell
Jefferson and
Lee
New York
Connecticut
J. Vaughan Gary
Congress
the Messenger
Class Officer Nominations Due at Richmond College
Nominations for class officers must be submitted to Student Government President Park Dickerson by 12:00 midnight on Tuesday. Tuesday morning students will also vote on the Hodder Amendment to elect House of Representatives officers concurrently with class officers. If approved, new House nominations are due at the same time.
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Richmond College
Park Dickerson
Hodder
House of Representatives
New House
Westhampton College to Elect New Officers Next Monday
Westhampton College votes next Monday 9 to 3 in a second ballot for student offices across YWGA Athletic Association College Government sports and dormitory councils. Candidates include Jean Crittenden Peggy Hall Erliene Rainey Carol Brooks Eliza Hubble and others across junior and sophomore house leaders, college council reps, and A A offices. Polls are outside the Westhampton reading room with attendance recorded.
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Westhampton College
YWGA
Athletic Association
South Court Residence Council
Jean Crittenden
Peggy Hall
Alice McCarty
Ann Pettit
Betty Leigh Stembridge
Betty Brinkley
Marilyn Source
Recorder
Erliene Rainey
Dottie Stiff
North Court Residence Council
Carol Brooks
Eliza Hubble
Betty Lou Kerndall
Helen Crittenden
Ann Carol Yeaman
Marty McKay
Brandon McDaniel
Mary Katherine Davis
Margaret Foster
College Council
Carolyn Baker
Macon Moring
Joyce Garrett
Meg Kidd
Martha Boatwright
Anne Stuart Hartz
University Board of Publications
A.A
Margie Blevins
Annette Kizzia
Margaret Logan
Jane Riley
Betty Jean Parrish
Ann ‘Tillman
Ann Byrd
Jane Saunders
Dottie Smoker
Margaret English
Sallie Dornan
Shirley Evans
Rose Dranchak
Evelyn Moore
Pat Norman
Grace Bloxom
Nancy Johnson
Westhampton Reading Room
Kappa Sigma Chooses Sweetheart for Spring Formal
Miss LeReve Mallory of Ashland to reign as Sweetheart of Kappa Sigma at the fraternity spring formal in the Jefferson Hotel Ball Room. She will be escorted by John G. Peluso of Richmond, Beta Beta Chapter social chairman, with Grand Master Charles E. Keener of Amelia presenting a bouquet at intermission.
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LeReve Mallory
Ashland
Kappa Sigma
Jefferson Hotel
John G. Peluso
Richmond
University of Richmond
Charles E. Keener
Amelia
Miss Mallory
Longwood College
School of
Johnston-Willis Hospital
John A. Mallory
Hoagy Carmichael
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
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WC Brunette
Wray Selden
Phi Delt
Lambda Chi’s
By Arnold Frederick
Clyde Fields, Jr
Doris Mills
Caracas
Venezuela
South Court
North Court
Miss Lutz
Tower Room
India
China
Russia
Indonesia
Near East
Carnival
Helen Monsell
A. A
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