| Show Girl Borrowers ivia Make 0 Good Their Pledges That the number of women women who have been een assisted through the University of Utah by the girls gills loan und fund fund will reach seventy this thIn year Is the opinion on of Miss Lucy M. M Van Cott dean of women at the university The fund was started five y ye years ago by Miss 1 Van Cott and Dr Belle Gemmell a member of the tho board of regents of the university sity Up t to this school year fifty six of the women graduates of the he state In Institution institution In were able to remain through their senior year because of- of financial ial assistance from this fund announces announces Miss Van Cott who vho says the fund now has slightly over 2000 in it It and she sho hopes to raise this to within the next five years The money Is lent to the girls without without without with with- out interest to be paid after they leave the university So far Miss 1 Van Cott ott says she never has lost a a. a cent She says that 90 00 has been re received received received re- re already this year from girls assisted last spring Eight young women of the senior class have applied for aid id from th the hf fund and It its it's Is s expected that fourteen will be given assistance before the close of the second semester in June The purpose purpose of the fund is to J keep kep ep senior girls rather than th the first second sec see ond or third year coeducational stu stu- stu- stu dents although in rare instances even freshmen n and sophomores may be he beas as assisted as- as Miss Van Cott says the policy of the university is to urge the w women men students stu stu- lents dents to vork until nUl their senior year Then their studies and other duties be become become become be- be come too great and the loan fund must come t to their assistance A After ter graduation Miss Van Cott says it generally generally gen gen- takes from two t to three years jears to pay back the money mony borrowed Th That t more moM r girls girts who no h have ve been lent money from the fund have come come from Ogden than any other locality i In io the state Miss Van Cott points out p one of the peculiar Instances of sity that was never known until the fund was in operation The amount that is borrowed b by the girls from 5 to according to the circumstances of the girl The loan fund is swelled e each ch year yearby yearby by contributions lectures dances can- can ry sales and the sale of a pamphlet containing a story In poetry of an ac actual actual actual ac- ac occurrence at the university a few years ago The story is told by Lafayette Lafayette La La- fayette layette Lentz Lents Butler on one of the English English Eng Eng- Engi i lish Instructors who resigned last year From the dance given this year 97 was made Miss Van Cott says the girls will give glye leap year dance this May 1 for the fund fund Many subscriptions to the fund are made by women of the city clubs and other organizations Miss 1 Van Gott ott says that she has received money from women In San Francisco and other cities who heard of the fund and were anxious to assist Many checks s com come cometo to her she shoo says sags from women she nev never r knew before Many small ch checks for lor 1 come from women In Indifferent Indifferent indifferent I different parts of Wyoming and arid small towns In southern Utah who have eith either r had daughters assisted through I I the university by the loan fund or have heard of the fund through graduates graduates graduates grad grad- who haye have benefited by It It Many girls who have borrowed from the fund also send in money after atter all their debts ar are paid up to help other coeducational students |
