active participation in community affairs earned her the House; advisory board, Salt Lake Detention Center; and title of Fayetteville's Senior Citizen of the Year in 1981. PTA boards. Her interest in service to others prompted her to be- She is a former vice-chairman of the Salt Lake City come a founding member of the Interracial Fellowship, Historic Buildings Committee and was a delegate to the a group that promoted brotherhood long before the rest Women's Legislative Council and Salt Lake Council of of the nation was involved in civil rights issues. Women. Throughout her adult life, she has written books and She has been a preschool vision screening volunteer articles on poetry, art instruction, her personal experi- for many years and has served the Salt Lake City Delta ences, and the teaching of English to foreigners. Gamma chapter in various chairmanships. She is a She is a member of the Senior Citizens Advisory former member of the advisory board for Beta Gamma Council, the Metropolitan Council on Aging, the Ono- chapter at the University of Utah and was a co-editor way Literary Club, the Syracuse Poetry Club, the Onon- of the Delta Gamma Cookbook, published in 1966. daga Art Guild, the Associated Artists of Syracuse, the Alice has been involved in several political campaigns Oswego Art Group, and the First Methodist Church of as a worker for candidates for Congress as well as local Manlius. positions. Presently, she serves as chairman of the budget and finance committee of the Salt Lake City Council and is a member of the public utilities and per- sonnel committees. She has been a guest lecturer for the Hinckley Insti- tute of Practical Politics and the Robert A. Taft Foun- dation on Politics at the University of Utah. She received a Delta Gamma Cable Award in 1974. Ann Leach Stapleton, N-Missouri "With so many women working, the title of vol- unteer has almost gone out of style. Fortunately for Kansas City and Delta Gamma, Ann Stapleton contin- ues year after year to give hours of time to a variety of organizations." A member of numerous civic and philanthropic boards in Kansas City, Ann Leach Stapleton, M-Mis- souri, is a member of the board of managers and for- mer president of the George H. Nettleton Home, a retirement-nursing home for the elderly; the board of Alice Neff Shearer, A-Minnesota "Restraint and cool intellect are her trademarks her loyalty and sincerity are constant she is a schol- ar's scholar." A member of the Salt Lake City Council, Alice Neff Shearer, A-Minnesota, is well known in her city as a participant in political affairs and as a long-time volunteer. After pledging at the University of Minnesota, she graduated with honors in history from the University of Kansas and was chosen for Phi Beta Kappa. She attended graduate school at the University of Utah and is a graduate of the Brigham Young Univer- sity Law School course on Grants and Cooperative Agreements. She is a member of the board of the Deseret Founda- tion (a fund raising body for Latter Day Saints Hospi- tal); Altar Guild; All Saints Church; Salt Lake City Women's Republican Club (past president); the board of the Utah Society to Prevent Blindness; Utah Asso- ciation of Women; ad hoc committee on Deveraux 6/SUMMER 1982 THE ANCHORA OF DELTA GAMMA