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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1927)
By HELEN SHANK One’s popularity seems to be es timated these days by the number of formals one rates, for just now dances seem to be the chief source of diversion. It is interesting to note the variety of clever ideas in the way of entertainment which appear at these festivities, all of which combine to make the winter semester one of the most enjoyable of all from a social standpoint. Honoring Miss Elenor Bennet, na tional officer of Kappa Kappa Gam ma who was a visitor on the campus last week, members of the chapter here entertained with a reception 0 and tea on Tuesday afternoon be tween the hours of three and six at the chapter house. About three hun dred guests were invited to call. Receiving were Miss Edith Soren son, Miss Bennet, Mrs. Lettie Mow rey, Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly and Mrs. Eric W. Allen. Mrs. C. L. Teshner, Mrs. J. Bishop Tingle, Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mrs. W. E. G. Thacher, Mrs. Homer P. Rainey and Mrs. Prank L. Chambers poured. A yellow color scheme was charm ingly carried out by yellow tapers and a large bouquet of yellow spring blooms on the tea table. During the afternoon a delightful musical pro gram was given, including numbers ’by Miss Emily Williams on the harp, Miss Katherine Inwood at the piano, and Miss Margaret Inwood on the violin, accompanied by Miss Myrtle Janssen. The spirit of the Valentine season was predominant at the formal sup per dance given by members of Kap pa Kappa Gamma at the Eugene ho|el on Saturday night. At each table was a colorful centerpiece of red candles and greenery, and tiny red leather programs with a heart cut out in the center bearing the sorority (crest told the order of dances. A large Oriental rug and tall potted palms gave a beautiful background for the orchestra. Patrons and patronesses were Dean Virginia Judy Esterly, Mrs. Lettie Mowrey, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chambers, Prof, and Mrs. W. P. G. Thacher, and Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller. At dinner at the Sigma Beta Phi house on Sunday were several mem bers of Sigma Kappa at O. A. C., including the Misses Norma Bras tead, Velma Morgan, Birdean Pheese, Betty Rolfe, Ruth Bartruff, Blanche Hurd, Marion Graham, and Miss ^ Bertha Whillock, district councillor. Two French dolls in red and black, each holding valentines, formed the centerpiece of the table, and at each place was a tiny red heart shaped box filled with Valentine can dies. A musical program was given by the four Burton sisters. Thirty couples enjoyed the de lightful formal supper dance for which members of Alpha Beta Chi fraternity were hosts at the Eugene hotel on Friday evening. The rooms were made most attractive with eut flowers and potted palms, and dance programs in white leather served as place cards. The feature of the evening was a group of pop ular songs by Ted O’Hara who ac companied himself on the mandolin. Patrons and patronesses were Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Stetson, Dean and Mrs. D. H. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Merrill. On Saturday afternoon the Girls’ Oregon club entertained with a skating party at the Winter Garden, which provided something new in the way of amusement. Mrs. Henry D. Sheldon acted as patroness for the affair. The formal dance given by Phi Sigma Kappa at the Woman’s build ing on Saturday night had as a set ting a Holland scene. A huge Dutch Dance Every Wednesday 8-to-10 Ye Campa Shoppe Type ’Em Can you read your notes after they’ve grown cold. Buy your own typewriter taking advantage of our Special Student Terms Office Mach & Supply Co. windmill in the midst of a bed of tulips gave a still and quiet Old World atmosphere to the affair. The rooms were lavishly decorated in tulips of many colors, and on the walls were picturesque scenes with Dutch children and geese as the cen tral figures. Supper was served in the sun room at little tables where the Dutch motif was further carried out. As the feature of the evening Miss Margaret Holbrook gave a cunning little Dutch dance in costume. Patrons and patronesses were Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Bennett Hall, Hon. and Mrs. Sam A. Kozer, Dean Vir ginia Judy Esterlv, Dr. and Mrs. Willem von Hoogstraten, Dean and Mrs. D. H. Walker, Dr. and Mrs. James H. Gilbert, Dean and Mrs. W. G. Hale, Prof, and Mrs. C. L. Kelly, Mr. Louis P. Artau and Dr, Wm. P. Maddox. One of the outstanding affairs of the week was the bridge party and tea at which members of Gamma Phi Beta honored their housemother, Mrs. Josephine Stewart. Bridge was played between two and four o’clock and additional guests were invited to call during the tea hour. The rooms were made bright and colorful with spring flowers, and centering the tea table were tall pink tapers and a large bouquet of pink carnations with yellow acacia. In the receiving line were Miss Esther Setters, Mrs. Stewart and Miss Harriett Pezendorf. Mrs. I. L. Patterson and Mrs. Robert J. Hendricks of Salem poured. In cluded among the guests were a number of women from Salem, Al bany and Corvallis. Robert McKnight sang several solos during the tea hour. * * # Garbage cans, tin cans and every other kind of cans lined the walls and filled the corners while the Tin Can Alley Ball was in progress at the Pi Beta Phi house on Friday evening. It was a middle-class dance in fact as well as in name as only juniors and sophomores could attend. One of the illuminating features was the clothesline which stretched its perilous way across what is usual ly a dining room, and the walls were covered with suggestions as to what’s what in picture shows and circuses. To step into the dance, it would recall stories told of Bowery days and Bowery ways. The chaperons, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leslie and Mr. and Mrs. Howland B. Zane had dressed the part, and light sweaters, plaid skirts, caps over one eye and thumbs in vest pockets all helped to create the at mosphere which made the Tin Can Alley Ball one of the most unusual dances of the season. * * * Members of Alpha Xi Delta and their housemother, Mrs. Charles Gray, were hostesses at dinner at the chapter house on Saturday night for a number of their out-of-town friends. Covers were laid for Mrs. Frank Snedecor, Mrs. Wm. Brown, Mrs. Ben Schucking, Mrs. Anna Gil bert, Mrs. Isaac L. Patterson, Mrs. Reuben Boice, Mrs. John Lauterman, Mrs. Robert Hendricks and Miss Margaret Casper of Salem and Mrs. Josephine Stewart of Eugene. * * * Oregon colors carried out by lem on' yellow streamers and potted palms and greenery made a truly collegiate atmosphere at the formal supper dance given by members of Sigma Pi Tau on Saturday night at Do You Like Good Home-Made Pastry? Try our home-made pies and cakes made fresh daily. For lunches our French Egg Waffles and Toasted Sandwiches will satisfy you. Electric Toastwich Shoppe 786 E. 11th St. It ’ll LAST tickle DAY you jpiuk With THEODORE ROBERTS REX the ' Osburn hotel. The chandeliers were covered with lemon yellow, giving a softly shadowy effect. The programs were in red leather. Several guests from out-of-town attended the dance, including Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Clark of Portland and some members of Delta Upsilon at Corvallis. Patrons and patronesses were Dean and Mrs. Eric W. Allen, Prof, and Mrs. H. G. Tanner, Prof, and Mrs. C. L. Kelly, and Prof, and Mrs. W. E. Milne. Alpha Delta Sigma, men’s adver tising fraternity,‘struck a new note in the way of parties at the ilnique and unusual Krazy Kopy Krawl given at the Campa Shoppe on Fri day night. The room was decorated with cut-out advertisements dis played in humorous fashion, and the dancing during the evening was interspersed with a number of clever features, all take-offs on modern ad- ; vertising. At each table were copies of a miniature newspaper in which the guests were instructed as to the : correct method of procedure at such i an affair, and in which the list of ’ features was given. It is planned to make the dance an annual occasion, j The Anchorage was the scene of the enjoyable informal supper dance for which members of Sigma Chi were hosts on Saturday night. The rooms were made bright with twist ed streamers of gold and blue, the fraternity colors, and on one wall was the fraternity crest. A dim lighting effect was achieved by the candles at the tables, and at each place .as a white rose, the Sigma Chi flower. Gold and blue programs, crested, told the order of dances. The orchestra featured the last dance by singing the Sigma Chi sweetheart song. Patrons and patronesses were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Reinhart, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn S. McCready and Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Reinhart. Mortar. Board initiated two hon orary members, Mrs. Arnold Bennett Hall and Miss Florence Magowan on Sunday afternoon at six o’clock at the home of Mrs. P. L. Campbell. The wedding of Miss Alberta Grilley of Portland and Holt Wil son Slaughter of Tacoma was an event of yesterday at the Grilley home in Portland. The bride was a student of Oregon Agricultural Col lege, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She has a number of friends on this campus. Mr. Slaughter formerly attended the University of Oregon, and is affiliat ed with Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The couple will make their home in Tacoma. Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Wood ward of Portland are receiving con gratulations on the birth of a daugh ter, Virginia Brewett. The Wood wards will be remembered as former students here. Mrs. Woodward was I 1 Classified Ads GOOD TABLE BOAKD for 3 or 4 women it 653 E. 12th St. Phone 1102Ja. £5-8-9 If You’re Tired have to up and — and stay cram for that exam — then about two o’clock you pile into bed, almost dead — and the sheets are crisp and clean, just back from the New Service Laundry —don’t you feel rested as soon as climb in? you ‘Up to the Minute in Service and Workmanship” New Service Laundry Phone 825 Lillian Ward Baker, and a member of Delta Delta Delta, and Mr. Wood ward, who was a prominent member of the Emerald staff and active in student body affairs, is affiliated with Theta Chi. Their wedding was an event of last year at the Delta Delta Delta chapter house here. The engagement of Miss Mary McCullagh, ’25, to Mr. J. Lee Stew art, a graduate of Oregon Agri cultural College, was announced dur ing. dinner at the Delta Zeta house on Sunday. Telegrams hidden under each chair told of the event. Miss McCullagh was a former student here and is affiliated with Delta Zeta. She is now teaching in Roseburg high school. Mr. Stewart is a member of Kappa Psi fraternity at O. A. C. The wedding will be an event of next summer. Freshmen and sophomores of Beta Theta Pi were hosts at an informal dinner dance at the chapter house on Friday night. The rooms were simply and effectively decorated in potted palms and cut spring flowers. Crested programs lettered in gold stood at each place. Musip|j«^»| furnished by four members of the Campa Shoppe orchestra, amO’lecl O ’Hara gave a few selectionsrinth his mandolin. u Patrons and patronesses were Mr. and Mrs. Nish Chapman, Mr. afifiP Mrs. Lawrence Manerud and.jSfr. and Mrs. Bichard McLardy. t Dean Virginia Judy Esterly invit-, ed the fifteen active members Kwama, sophomore women’s orary society, for dessert and col at her home on Tuesday even?ng?f \n interesting discussion was rfa‘r-r ried on, followed by the regi^i^ meeting of the group, * * * Mrs. A. E. Roberts was hostess "a^ her home on Sunday evening 1^1 an informal supper party honoring the officers of Mu Phi Epsilon, wom en’s musical honorary. 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