Alice Belt Soper

Teaching, 1903-.
Present address, Wellsville, Pa.

October 1905 Kalends:

Miriam Alice Belt was married June fifteenth to Mr. Edmund Soper.

June 1912 Kalends:

Alice Belt Soper has twins, born in May.

July 1929 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Belt Soper's husband has been made President of Ohio Wesleyan University at Deleware, Ohio. Dr. Soper for several years has been at Duke University in North Carolina.

July 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Belt Soper whose husband is President of Ohio Wesleyan could not attend as it was too busy a time for the President's wife.

November 1935 Alumnae Quarterly:

Alice Belt Soper's letter comes from Ohio Wesleyan University, of which her husband has been President for eight years. Hers is a busy life, she says, but a most enjoyable one - "how could it be otherwise with all these fourteen hundred young people around you?
"Already this year we have had in our home a reception for the Freshman Class, a tea for the University Women's Club, and tomorrow night will have a reception for the faculty and trustees.
Since leaving college, my life has been varied. My husband started his teaching here on this campus in 1910, five years after we were married. From here we went to Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey; from there to Northwestern University at Evanston. While there our Goucher College group was very active. Then we went to Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, and finally back here in 1928.
My two boys (the twins) finished college here. Of all the colleges we have been connected with, this was our choice for our boys; but we never dreamed that we would be here at this time they would be in college. Herbert is now taking his Master's degree at the University of Michigan and Robert is with Hasley, Stuart & Co. in Chicago. Robert was the athlete, being especially interested in football and swimming. Herbert was the student type, making Phi Beta Kappa. Both are fine boys and we are very proud of them.
SInce coming here I think my greatest interest has been in watching the growth and development of Ohio Wesleyan University Women's Club. Each year something new has been added to the program until now we not only have a most unusual and interesting event for each month for the whole Club but numerous groups besides, the most popular being the Book Groups, the Home Group, and the Square Dance Group.
In addition, we have had groups for Hiking, Bird Study, Home Recreation, Sewing Group for faculty children, Social Dancing, Swimming, International Relations; and this year a Bicycling Group is being added. Whenever ten people can be found who wish to pursue some study or some form of recreation, they apply to the Executive Board and organize as a new group.
Enthusiasm has run high and the cooperation has been splendid. It has added much to the social life of the institution.
I alwats read your letters with great interest and wish that I might join you at some time in Baltimore. But of course commencement time is another of my busy seasons so I cannot get away.
It has been nice to see Edith Powell Pringle, whose daughter is here in college. I hope that if any of you come this way you will look us up at 23 Oak Hill Avenue."

February 1939 Alumnae Quarterly

The members of the Class of 1903 have learned with sorrow of the death of Alice Belt Soper (Mrs. Edmund D. Soper). As the wife of a college professor and president Alice represented her Alma Mater on many campuses with dignity and efficiency. She took an active part in the work of the ALumnae Association whenever she lived where there were branches and was loyal to her class and college friendships. However, in her home she found her greatest joy and poured out her devotion. Her death came at her home in Evanston, Illinois, on October 27, 1938. ALICE DUNNING FLICK '03.