Louise "Ma" Sutton, Acacia Cook 1925 - 1952

I have been wanting to post this picture of Ma Sutton since the moment I saw it.

The following blurb is what I propose to include as part of the book, as a caption to this photograph.

When Ma Sutton’s twenty-one year term as cook of Cornell Chapter ended, many brothers felt at a loss. In article entitled “Tribute to ‘Ma’ Sutton,” Brother Charlie Deakyne ’47 wrote of Sutton’s role in reinvigorating the house: “I am sure the boys who came back to open house after the war will never forget the vital part Louise played.” The brothers were sure always to remember Ma’s “faculty for remembering” and “her lively interest in the house as a fraternity and as a group of boys.” Any brother who knew here, whether he be pledge class ’25 or ’52 counted Ma as a friend. “It is my only hope,” Deakyne concluded, “that sometime in the future the men will have another opportunity to witness and benefit from a similar tradition.” It would be another decade and a half before his hope would come true.