Past President Frances Priddy McDonald, University of Missouri, speaks to Gloria Hoffman Snyder, University of Texas, about her recollections of presiding over conventions as president and attending conventions as a child with her mother Bessie Leach Priddy, Adrian College, her memories of early Tri Delta leaders like her mother, Amy Olgen Parmelee, Northwestern University, and R. Louise Fitch, Knox College, and the 1921 Tri Delta Europe Tour. She reflects fondly on her memories of some of the Tri Deltas she served with in leadership, including Ernestine Block Grigsby, University of Colorado Boulder, Florence Spear Grant, University of Minnesota, Gretchen Borland Davies, University of Washington, Dorothy Gaines Roeske, University of Illinois at Urbana, Mary E. Baker, University of Cincinnati, Kathleen Davis Nye, University of Iowa, and Ruth McDowell Kinnard, University of Alabama. Frances also shares her thoughts on the importance of strong chapter leadership and alumnae-collegian relations for chapter development and the importance of Tri Delta friendship, and recalls her experience serving as editor of The Trident.
June 1974
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