area's debutante season lasts from November to March. School culture Gentile and Jewish girls at Newcomb historically had separate social spheres. This was a continuation of the social separation that occurred on the secondary school level in New Orleans. The alumnae of gentile sororities screened prospective applicants and recommended them to the girls in the current gentile sororities. Historically, each period two rushes were held at the school; one for gentile sororities and one for Jewish sororities. This did not occur in the 1980s. A girl entering Newcomb would receive a letter in the mail over the summer and return a photograph of herself and a preference on whether she would participate in the gentile rush or the Jewish rush. These rush practices no longer existed by the 1980s. Jewish sororities used the Hillel foundation to get lists of names of Jewish first year students. Several years before 1997 the school stopped the two rush system. There was no two rush system in place at Newcomb College by the 1980s. Notable alumni See also Newcomb Art Gallery Newcomb-Tulane College Timeline of women's colleges in the United States Women's colleges in the Southern United States Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library References References Tucker, Susan, and Beth Willinger, eds. Newcomb College, 1886–2006: Higher Education for Women in New Orleans (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), 424 pp. External links Newcomb Scholars Newcomb Art Gallery The Future of Newcomb College, Inc., organized to preserve Newcomb College as a women's degree-granting institution. Newcomb College Pottery Newcomb Pottery Marks Defunct private universities and colleges in Louisiana Educational institutions established in 1886 Educational institutions disestablished in 2006 Embedded educational institutions Former women's universities and colleges in the United States Tulane University 1886 establishments in Louisiana 2006 disestablishments in Louisiana