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'''Additional Outstanding Beta Epsilon Alumnae'''
Alice Duer Miller, author and poet who wrote many columns on the Women’s Suffrage Movement for the New York Tribune; Shelley Smith Mydans, ''Stanford'', author, a Life magazine staff writer who with her husband Carl Mydans, a Life magazine photographer, spent their married life working side-by-side. They were captured by incoming Japanese troops in Manila in January of 1942. They were held as Prisoners of War for almost two years. After a respite in New York, they both returned to the combat zone, this time in Europe as World War II wound to a close. Mary Harriman Rumsey, founded the first Junior League chapter in New York in 1901, Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. Louise Comfort Tiffany and Julia de Forest Tiffany, granddaughters of founder of Tiffany & Co., Charles Lewis Tiffany. Julia was the fall 1907 tennis champion at Barnard.
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