Cover ~clure ' This is the house that Upsilon built ~and Upsilon is the chapter that burned the mo.rtgage on that house three years before it was due! Upsilon, installed in 1918, was the .first national sorority oo Oregon State campus to build its own house. For a full account turn to page 13 of this issue. 6/riangle DECEMBER 1945 Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority"~- Founded a1 Colby College, W alerville, Maine, November, 1874 VOL. 389 NO.4 CONTENTS GRAND COUNCIL Convention! 1946 2 Grand President-Ruth Ware Greig Newspaper Game Is a Great One if You Like to (Mrs. William R. Greig) 924% S. Mix Hard Work with Excitement .. ... ... Serrano, Los Angeles 6, Calif. .. ........ ... ........ : . ... Margaret Ray 3 Grand Viet President-Helen Ives Japs Catch the Mattocks Family in the '"Land of the .l Corbett (Mrs. Laurence W. Cor· Morning" .. ...... Dowthy Latham Mattocks 5 bett). 2445 Sheridan ave. S., Min· Sigma Kappa-A Racing Thoroughbred .. ... .. neapolis 5, Minn. Sherman and Florence Jackson Clough 11 Grand Counulor-Juanita Piersol Upsilon Sees What Pretty Firelight a Burning M0rt- Warren (Mrs. Virgil A: Warren), gage Makes ! . .... .......... Dorothy Yocum 13 136 W. Twenty-fourth ave., Spo· Life Membership Payments in Central Office, August kane 9, Wash. 3, 1945, Through Janu.ary 8, 1946 ... ...... 14 Our New Grand Secretary . Frances Cope Hummel 15 Grand Secretary--Marion Race Cole ,.-~' (Mrs. Russe!J), 4230 Clements, De· She Lived Alone in Mme. Chiang's Mansion for Two Years Before Being Put into a Concentra- troit 4, Mich. tion Camp in Shanghai . ........ .... ..... · 17 Acting Grand Treasurer-Margaret Address of the Chairman, Mrs. George Cunningham, · Hazlitt Taggart (Mrs. E. D. Tag­ Opening the 29th N .P.C. ..... ... ... 19 gart), Room 805, 129 E. Market National Panhellenic Conference ...... .. .. .. 20 Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Editors' Conference ..... .. Wilma Smith Leland 20 FOUNDERS U.S.S. General Mark L. Hersey ... ... .... ..... ..... .. ... .. ....... , .Helen Coburn Fawcett 22 LOUISE HELEN CoBURN, Skow­ Career Girl '45 in a Truly Clean Field .. ......... hegan, Me. .................. ...... Shirley Petersen 23 MRs. L. D. CARVEll, nee Mary Our Magazine Agency Reports 7 Months Totals 24 Caffrey Low (deceased) How to Be Santa for 2,000 Islanders ... ........ 26 ELIZABETH GORHAM HOAG (de· More Stars on Sigma's Service Flag ....... .. ... 27 ceased) Sigma Kappa Pictorial ............... .. .... 31 MRs. J . B. PIERCE, nee Ida M . With Our €ollege Chapters ........... .. ... .. 40 Fuller (deceased) Pledges . .. ...... ..... ...... ........ ..... 49 MRs. G. W. HALL, nee Frances E. Initiates .... .. .. ...... .. .. .... · .. .... · . 53 Mann (deceased) With Sigmas Everywhere .......... .... ..... 54 Milestones ....... .. .. .. .. ... .. ........ ... 59 BOARD OP EDITORS Directory ....... ... .. ..... ..... .... .. .... 62 Editor-in-chief-PRANCES WARREN BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Ba· ker), 18644 Gainsborough rd., De· SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in the months of March, June, troit 23, Mich. October, and December by the George Banta Publishing Company, official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, at 450 Ahnaip street, College Editor-HELEN REYNOLDS Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a year; single copies 50¢; life BECK (Mrs. Broussais C. Beck, subscription $15. Jr.), Seahurst, Wash. Send change of address, subscriptions, and. correspondence of a b\'siness nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 450 Ahna~p street, Menasha, W1s., or Alumn~ Editor-JEAN RAGON, 425 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. W. Second st-:, Apt. 5, Dayton 2, Correspondence- of· an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Ohio. Baker, 289 ·woodland road, Highland Park, Ill. Chapters, college and alumnre must send manuscript in time to reach the1r respecttve edttors before the first of November, February, May, and September. CENTRAL OPPICE Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All m~tters pertaining to national advertising should be duected to Fratern1ty Magaz.nes As­ Director-MARGARET HAzLITT TAG· sociated 1618 Orrington avenue, Evanston, Ill. GART (Mrs. E. D. Taggart), Room Entered' as second-class matter at the post office . ~ t Menasha, Wis. 805, 129 E. Market Bldg., Indian· under the act of March 3, 1879; accepted for ma.llng at spec~a l .rate apolis. Ind. of postage provided for in the act of October 3, 1917. C/ f ERE IT IS-out first post-war Convention, Sigma Kappa's fifty-second a-L meeting! Not all the details can be announced yet, but the main facts are: the date: AUGUST 5-8, 1946; the Place-ROYAL YORK HOTEL, (the largest hotel in the British Empire), TORONTO, CANADA; the hostesses-Beta Gamma, our Canadian chapter, and all the chapters of Province II. The meetings are planned to combine the maximum of Sigma Kappa business with the maximum of Sigma Kappa friendship and fun. Don't miss.this first conven­ tion in four years! Those of our college members who have never had the privilege of attending convention and whose college courses were of necessity accelerated by the war, should make every effort to add this background of sorority experience to their memberships. All the old time alumna:: know what an inspiring renewal of friendships and Sigma lore a convention means-What better way of celebrating a real vacation next summer than coming to Toronto? . This is our first Canadian convention. "Visiting Cana-da" is always a joy to us State side people-:-to visit our Neighbors and Sisters at the same time, :with the gracious hospitality of our Canadian Sigma Kappas, the efficient transportation of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the welcome extended by the Royal York 1-Jptel, is our 1946 dream-to-be-realized. CT SKC CT SKC (Come to Sigma Kappa Convention) newspaper Qame !fs a ()real C9ne !Jf Yo~ £ike to mix Uard Work wt.th fbxcitement By MARGARET RAY, Alpha Phi N A LAZY, post-war Sunday eve­ readers wearing pencils to stubs turning out ning the city room of The Ore­ banners that read, "RUSSIA JOINS WAR O gonian, one of the west coast's AGAINST JAPAN, ATOMIC BOMB largest daily newspapers, is a far cry from LOOSED ON JAPAN, and finally PEACE the Hollywood version. Only a few sleepy­ -THIS IS IT-WAR'S END!" eyed reporters and copy readers sit perusing My newspaper career has been one of hard magazines and papers as the janitor sweeps work and gradual advancement, speeded -up littered floors. In a few more hours the somewhat of course by the war which opened city edition will have rolled and the staff many business opportunities to women. I left will call it a day (and night!). the University of Oregon in 1938 with sheep­ When the news is breaking it's a different skin bravely clutched in hand to find the story though. Then the exciting rattle and weekly newspaper field the only possible clatter of typewriters and teletypes, the jingle opening. of phones, the easy good fellowship of men My first job was on the Springfield News, and women working together at tasks they a weekly in a small town three miles from enjoy, the feeling of being on the inside as Eugene, Ore., where I had spent my life and the news liappens-all spell the newspaper attended college. The experience here was game, a game which is as fascinating to me rich and varied and has served me well since. today as when my first story broke into print. I covered every type of story-city council Never will I forget the early hours of meetings, the building of lumber mills, high June 6, 1944, when as news editor of the school football games and even interviewed Astorian-Budget,, Astoria, Ore., I was routed Raymond Massey and other stars on location out of bed at 12:30 A.M. by an emergency of the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" set a few call from the associate editor and pitched miles east of Springfield. In addition to re­ into work to put out a D-day extra. Coffee porting I set type for headlines, helped with and peppermints were our only refreshment. the mailing, office work, advertising and in We called prominent citizens from their beds the bindery. to tell them the news and obtain quotable A year and a half at this paper and I was remarks for a local story, called ministers of graduated to the Eugene Register-Guard, my the churches and asked them to ring their home town daily paper. For six months I bells and finally at 4:30A.M. the press rolled tried the business office, handling classified with the huge black banner "D-DAY ads, the telephone switchboard and steno­ HERE" Home for three hours of rest and graphic work, and then moved to the edi­ then back for seven hours work on the regu­ torial side of the paper as the extra reporter. lar daily paper! Here I was in my element-play and con­ Then there was the night call in June of cert reviews, the county fair, the pioneer 1941 when a Jap sub shelled Fort Stevens pageant, interviews with Mrs. Franklin near Astoria and reporters and photographers Roosevelt, Paul Robeson, Gladys Swarthout from all over the west and the nation were and other greats and near-greats. I also had pounding at us for news of the event. And a crack at the city and federal beats, re­ then the week of all weeks-August 6 to 13, organizing the morgue or newspaper filing 1945-when flash after flash sent news edi­ system for cuts and mats, the county news tors stumbling to the teletypes and copy • (country cousin) and churches and lodges. SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 3 the reporters, editing the county and church news, filing pictures and covering an occa­ sional news story. Three years of this, every moment of which I enjoyed, and then I decided I neede~ some big city experience, so accepted a posi­ tion on The Oregonian in Portland.