Mary Sue Beam of Shelby, North Carolina, attended the North Carolina College for Women (now UNCG) from 1919-1923. Mary was a member of the Dikean Society and a Charter member of the Tau Pi Delta. Her freshman year she was Class President, her sophomore year she was on the YWCA Cabinet and was an Intersociety Debater. Beam was also a speaker at the Baptist Young People's Union Convention in June of 1920. She attended the student conference with the Blue Ridge Association during one of her college summers. Her junior year she was on the YWCA Cabinet, a Marshal, a member of the House of Representatives, and the International Relations Club. Her senior year she was in the International Relations Club and the Intersociety Extension Bureau. She graduated in 1923 with a A.B. Degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
From the description of Mary Sue Beam scrapbooks, 1919-1923. (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31403700
