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Gretchen Davis Past President Interview, May 1981

Gretchen Borland Davies, University of Washington, speaks to Bette McGillivray Euse, University of Minnesota, recounting her time serving as president of Tri Delta and describing the celebration of Tri Delta's 50th Anniversary at the 1938 Convention in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She describes some of the changes Tri Delta underwent during her leadership, including the creation of the traveling secretary program and the move to the 2108 Chicago Daily News Building Executive Office in Chicago, Illinois. Gretchen also recounts being in Washington, D.C. at the outbreak of World War II and being in attendance when President Franklin Roosevelt formally declared war on Japan.