CRESCENT of GAMMA PHI BETA Back-to-School Edition Chapter Honors Section . page 41 SEPTEMBER � 1968 lo Build a Better World by Ardis McBroom Mareh, International Grand President And how are things going on the college campuses? The mass Let us be firm in our beliefs and maintain our rights. Let us media have given us a picture which often is a distorted view become strong, articulate advocates of fraternities and stand of the violence and revolutionary demands of a minute per up against those who would deny us those rights. centage of the students. But they make a loud noise, drowning In this free society which is in imminent danger of becoming out the reasonable voices of 95 percent of the students. Unfor fragmented, as one segment is pitted against another, let us re tunately many college administrators have capitulated to these flect upon the words of a college president. "The two most im minority demands. Out of fear? Ignorance? Hardly! The desire portant words in our language [are] freedom and discipline. A not to rock the boat? One wonders. But as long as administra decision which all of us have to make every day of our lives is tions acquiesce or sit in silence while the campus explodes, or to strike a proper balance between the two. Sometimes it is make unreasonable demands of the reasonable students, not fashionable to think of discipline as a bad word and freedom only sororities and fraternities and other worthwhile student as a good word. The opposite can be true. Discipline leads to groups, but, even the university itself, is in grave danger. good taste and good manners, to domestic tranquility and the The problems of today are not of the young or the old, but advancement of civilization. Freedom, on the other hand, exer of everybody and the endless confrontations of student and cised absolutely, corrupts absolutely, leads to disorderly con adult create a wasteful polarization. Let us today seek a com duct and collapse of governments." mon ground and join our energies. Let us discuss together as In a very real sense, your future as well as tlie future of women of intellect and with mutual tolerance and good will Gamma Phi Beta will be as you will it. You have the power to Gamma Phi Beta's role for the future. smother freedom by abusing it. You have the power, if you Serious as the threats to fraternity are from outsiders, by far have the will, to preserve that freedom by using it with discre the greater danger can come from within. In situations where tion. A characteristic of a disciplined civilization is the will to sorority women ha\e themselves initiated changes tiirough create and construct, not the will to destroy. It is my prayer their Panhellenic which would alter our basic premises, we that Gamma Phi Beta sorority and each individual member find members who have never become deeply involved with will play a major role in creating and constructing a better Gamma Phi Beta through ser\ing the chapter as officers, and world for tomorrow ... that the destruction and revolution thus ha\e not experienced the depth and meaning of member abroad in our world may be re-directed toward reasonable re ship, nor learned to appreciate its intrinsic values. form and building a responsible, disciplined society. .\s to the outside pressures, we are sympathetic to the situa For nearly 100 years Gamma Phi Beta has brought strength tions our collegiate members find themselves in today. These and beauty into the lives of thousands of women. Let us, draw pressures are constant and the questioning of fraternity proce ing on those fine past traditions, build for the future so that dures, its policies and traditions, its \ery integrity, have been countless others still to come may enjoy tliat extra dimension unrelenting. Collegians are lieing used as a sounding board of love, loyalty, labor and learning which is Gamma Phi for those who would destroy much that is synonomous with Beta. democratic, American life. And so the attacks take on a sinister and double meaning that cannot be ignored or shrugged off. The above article is the address the Grand Presi How successfully we shall weather this time of change and con excerpted from of dent delii'ered at the opening session of Gamma Phi Beta's fifty- how united a we are and how fusion depends upon Sorority third Convention on June 24 at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in clear our sights. Let us not find ourselves "running scared." Pasadena, California. THE CRESCENT of Gamma Phi Beta Editor Volume LXVIII September, 1968 Number 3 Betty Luker Haverfield Robert (Mrs. W.) o 507 Medavista Drive ^ A Gamma Phi Beta Is Someone Who .. Columbia, Missouri 65201 ^" It All Depends on You by Dr. Weldon P. Shofstall 24 Associate Editor Fifty Golden Candles Glow at Chi Noreen Linduska Zahour �^~' Grand Council (Mrs. Edward F.) Appointments 3 Jacqueline Drive Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 �^^ Gamma Phi Debuts in Dixieland 27 K.S.U. Dedicates Judith Koonce Hall Assistant Editor Collegiate �^O Gamma Phi Beta Foundation Dianne Burdick Edmondson (Mrs. Robert K.) ZJ In Memoriam 5113 S. Joplin Avenue Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 -j'J University of Northern Iowa �J-l Books by Gamma Phi Betas Alumna Assistant Editor jZ Gamma Phi Beta Profiles Janet Drescher Lyon (Mrs. James R.) 4120 Muskogee Avenue JO Gamma Phi Beta Kappas Des Moines, Iowa 50312 JO Mortar Boards 41 Chapter Honors Section Business Manager EXeanor j. 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(D) provided for in the Postmaster: Please send notice of undeliverable copies act of February 28, 1925. Second-class postage paid Form 3579 to Gamma Phi Beta, Box 186, 530 Green Bay Road, at Menasha, Wisconsin. Kenilworth, Illinois 60043 Printed in the United States of America a gamma phi beta LS someone . is hnppy, happy, happy, when you win an award who ... (A Report of the Fifty-Thirdi International Convention) arms . greets you with open when you're 3,000 miles from home. 2 THE CRESCENT OF GAMMA PHI BETA / SEPTEMBER � 1968 Convention '68 The vast majority of conventioneers who arrived at Gamma Phi Beta's fifty-third international Convention flew into Los An geles' international airport. From the' east they soared over the majestic, snow-capped Rockies, over the burnished earth colors of the Painted Desert, over the cavernous depths of the Grand Canyon. From the north, they looked down on the vast timber- lines of the Northwest, stately Mount Hood, the flowing rapids of the Columbia River. Eventually, they all sighted-in on the blackened landscape of the Sierra Nevadas as they approached the mist-clad environs of Los Angeles. The trip alone was an eloquent preface to six days of wonder of and and awe, living learning, of renewed vows of purpose and sisterhood. From the Los Angeles air terminal, delegates and guests lim- ousined to the Huntington-Sheraton in Pasadena. Suburban in setting and surrounded by acres of trees and flowers, this hotel ... waits patiently in line to register as a offers guests an escape from city distractions and a California voting delegate. view from every window. Built at a time when spaciousness was the order of the day, rooms are large and airy-and air-conditioned if the weather calls for it. A huge lobby and terrace areas add enjoyment for guests and visitors. There are tennis courts, a swimming pool, the spacious formal horseshoe gardens that boast many varieties of palms and cacti, grapefruit trees in full bloom and the fra grant magnolia. The dining and meeting rooms seem endless, each more decorous than the other. The Crystal Terrace, where the Gamma Phi Betas break fasted, overlooked the pool and the pool gardens. The Viennese Room, where they banqueted, was designed for dining in an elegant manner with its incomparable crystal chandeliers from old Vienna.