Miss Mary Paige Thompson and Miss Jackie McKay

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20037100

Description

Left to right: Miss Mary Paige Thompson and her guest, Miss Jackie McKay. The women are sitting on a striped couch. Miss Thompson is wearing a dress with eyelet trim. Miss McKay is wearing a shirtwaist dress with an embroidery-trimmed bodice. Both dresses have mother-of-pearl buttons and both women are wearing sorority pins. There is a painting on the wall and a ceramic pitcher in a nook over their heads. "Miss Mary Paige Thompson, 2571 Waits, has as her guest Miss Jackie McKay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. McKay of Madisonville. Miss McKay is the 'sweetheart of Texas' at the University of Texas where she will be a senior next semester.Misses Thompson and McKay are roommates at the Chi Omega House in Austin. Miss Thompson will be a junior at the university.Miss Thompson returned last week from Miami, Fla., where she visited other Chi Omega friends. With Miss Betty Jean Sanders, the two girls attended a Chi Omega rush party Saturday in Dallas at the home of Mrs. Ben W. Clower." "(Star-Telegram Photo.)" Published Star-Telegram Morn. Aug. 8, 1944.

Archival Date

1944-08-07

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-619

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Thompson, Mary Paige; McKay, Jackie; University of Texas; Chi Omega; Dresses; Paintings; Sorority pins; Ceramic pitchers; Shirtwaists; Fraternities & sororities