HONORED FOR SERVICE to her community was Edith Wood Swanson, AZ-Lawrence, left, who was the re- cipient of the Delta Gamma Shield Award. Mrs. Swan- son was presented the award by Patricia Langley Read, Z-Albion, at a Founders Day celebration of the North- ern New Jersey alumnae. contribution to the San Diego Girls Scouts by being named volunteer of the month in 1963 PROMINENT JOURNALIST honored for her achieve- (see Summer 1964 Anchora.) Serving in all areas ments was Ann Sumner, A-UCLA. Miss Sumner re- of Girl Scout work in her fifteen years of service, Mrs. Rockey has been president of the County ceived the Shield Award at a Founders Day Celebra- tion attended by 450 local Delta Gammas. Council and is a recipient of the Girl Scout Thanks Badge. She was elected to a life-time membership in PTA, and was a guest at the White House Conference on Children and Youth Association. An active organizer, Miss Sumner in 1960. Among her other activities are the Red has served as a founding member of Gold Shield Cross, American Field Service, a United Fund (UCLA Service group), the UCLA Art Council District and Area chairman for ten years, board and University Affiliates, of which she was presi- of directors of the Community Chest, and a past dent. In Delta Gamma she has served as presi- chairman of the Community Welfare Council. dent of the Alpha Sigma house corporation and She is the only woman to have served on the La of the Los Angeles Delta Gamma alumnx. Jolla Town Council and is active in the Union Congregational Church. Mrs. Rockey served Edith Wood Swanson, AZ-Lawrence, of Mont- many years as city recommendations chairman clair, New Jersey, who has been actively en- for Delta Gamma, as well as in many other ca- gaged in public works in the area since 1930. A pacities, including president of the alumnx. member of Phi Beta Kappa, after receiving her MA from Columbia Teachers College she Ann E. Sumner, A-UCLA, journalist-author worked in vocational guidance for several years from Los Angeles, California, who holds mem- before her marriage. Active in church life, Mrs. berships in Theta Sigma Phi, Ebell Club, Art Swanson has twice been president of the First Council, Faculty Women's Club and University Baptist Church guild, a deaconess, and is trea- Affiliates of UCLA, and has served as president surer of the Deacons Fund. Not only is she an of Ebell Juniors, Panhellenic and Faculty active member of the Cosmopolitan Club and Women's Club. Noted as the youngest woman's College Club, but was a volunteer helper in page editor in the United States while working braille classes for seven years and teaches weav- on the Los Angeles Evening Express, eight nov- ing and other crafts to blind children. Much of els have been published by Miss Sumner. At pre- her time is now devoted to her position as direc- sent she heads the Press Information Depart- tor of Diamond Spring Lodge, a ten-week sum- ment, University Extension, at UCLA. The re- mer camp for blind women. Mrs. Swanson has cipient of the UCLA Press Club Award, she was also held offices in the Northern New Jersey also the first woman to receive the University Delta Gamma alumnx association, including the Service Award presented by the UCLA Alumnx presidency. 6