Favorite Alums

[LampLady]

My favorite DZ alum was a woman by the name of Vee Toner. She was a member of my chapter at Pitt and graduated in 1927. She was famous in the athletic world as a Swimming and Diving official at the Olympics and the Pan Am games back in the 1950's and 60's and as one of the first female judges at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

She is listed on the DZ website as one of our famous alumnae, however she is special to me because I got to meet her and spend time with her when I was a collegiate. Ms. Toner would show up at our sorority suite on home football Saturdays outfitted from head to toe in Pitt blue & gold regalia. It also remember her carrying a handbag made out of an NCAA football! She was a very vivacious, funny, and entertaining woman and we enjoyed having her in our company, even though she was probably nearly 70 at the time. She died in 1995 and has gifted much of her estate to the Pitt athletic and band departments. She was a very dear character to remember.