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Main entrance to the library ltt: San Jose State College, Calif., where our Beta Rho chapter was installed the spring of 19-48. SIGMA KAPPA &iangle MARCH H;J49 Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, 1874 Editor-in-Chief, FRANCES WARREN BAKER
Contents VOL. 43 No. 1 Senator Margaret Chase Smith Is Initiated into Alpha Chapter ...... Barbara Browning Hunter 3 They Say About the Senator ...... 4 NATIONAL COUNCIL Founder Louise Helen Coburn D ies February 7 at the Age . of 92 ...... 7 National Pr
Editor-in-chief-FRANCES WARREN SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in the months of March, June, BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Bak· October, and December by the George Banta Publishing Company, er), 433 Woodlawn ave ., Glencoe, official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, at 450 Ahnaip street, Ill. Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a year; single copies SO¢; life subscription $15. Co llege Editor-MARTHA jEWETT, Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business 529 Ohio st., Lawrence, Kan. nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wis., or 129 East Market Buil By ~ARBARA BROWNING HUNTER, President, Province II ENATOR SMITH to be initiated Feb. hand. When Mrs. Smith filled out her hus 19." . band's term in Congress after his death, S From the time these magic words many people said she would be foolish to came over the wire, all was hustle and attempt to run in her own right, as a woman bustle in New England, with phones ringing, could not be elected to the Senate. That and wires flying. only meant one thing to Margaret Smith After many consultations, two of the she would prove to them it could be done, Springfield alumn;e were able to make the and did so, winning overwhelmingly over trip, and take three girls from Beta Eta her male opponents. with. them. Then the big question-would Having been ·born and raised in Skow the mild weather hold so that we dare drive? hegan, Me., Senator Smith of course knew We decided to chance it, and set off on a the Coburn family, including our late beautiful sunshiny morning, Feb. 18. Of Founder, Louise Helen Coburn, and felt a course we had sand, a shovel, tow rope, connection with Sigma Kappa's history. and what have you in the trunk-just in But on with the reception. The receiving case! 280 miles later we arrived (still in line started off with Patricia Lydon, Presi sunshine) at Waterville, Me. dent of Alpha ; then Senator Smith; Florence All during the evening greetings were Dunn, Past Grand President of Sigma; Mrs. being called back and forth as new arrivals Seelye Bixler the wife of Colby's President ; checked in at the Elmwood hotel. Many of Alice Hersey Wick, Past Grand President the Alpha girls came to the hotel, and held and Permanent Convention Chairman ; Mar a pow wow with girls from other chapters; garet Hazlett Taggart, National Secretary rushing back to the dorms on the hill just and Treasurer; Miss Elizabeth Libbey, Col in time to keep from being locked out. lege Librarian, and Panhellenic Representa The morning was given over to more tive for Alpha Delta Pi; Mrs. Ellsworth greetings, and preparations for initiation in Millett, representing Chi Omega, and lastly the afternoon. Finally every one was as Mrs. Franklin Thompson, advisor to Alpha sembled in the large hall, in the most at and Panhellenic Representative from Sigma tractive Women's Union Building. Three Kappa. Alpha girls were initiated with Senator After duly greeting all in the line, the Smith, who looked most charming in a guests wandered on into a smaller room, white suit. Ten girls had been initiated the where tea and coffee were being served. afternoon before, so that the service would The Waterville alumna:: did a superb job, not be too long on Saturday. setting the table beautifully, with a center As I sat watching the receiving line get piece of dark red roses, and lavender sweet ting ready to greet all of the Sigmas, and our peas, with violets at the base, and delicious Panhellenic guests, I thought again of how candies in maroon and lavender, with cakes very appropriate the initiation of Margaret daintily colored in the same colors. Every Chase Smith was. A woman born in Maine, body had such a marvellous time that we with an honorary degree from Colby, who stayed so late we had to scramble to get represents Maine in the United States Senate ready for the banquet. making her a Pioneer in the field, joining This was held -in the attractive dining the sisterhood of the pioneer women of room at the Elmwood hotel with 12 5 Sigmas Colby. Although being so tired from her present, and the following chapters officially tasks that she had completely lost her voice, represented: Alpha, Delta, Nu, Phi and and could only whisper, she was extremely Beta Eta for college groups, and Portland, charming and gracious, with something in Boston, Rhode Island, Worcester and Spring teresting to whisper to each one shaking her field for the alumna::. Besides Peg Taggart SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 3 and Alice Wick for National officer , there delightful Alpha girl ang rna ong . were also present Lillian Perkins, National Of cour e enator mith till could not Historian; Marjorie Parmenter, Chairman peak above a whi per, but she wrote a little Post War Project; Lt. Dorothy Maraspin, note for Janet to read which told u of how Province President I, and Barbara Hunter, plea ed and honored he wa to be one of Province President II. us, and that she would come back to Water Janet Pride, A, made a charming toa t ville and speak to the girls at orne future mistres . Patricia Lydon, A, welcomed us date. all, and Alice Wi k gave the greetings from We closed the banquet with our tradi National Council, after which Lt. Dorothy tional candlelight song, and I imagine many Mara pin read greetings from Sigmas and thoughts went back to that fir t initiation held Sigma Kappa chapters from coast to coa t. in February in '75, with a handful of girls, "A Century of Sigma Kappa" wa the and were happy to think of the growth theme of the toast , and was divided _into Sigma Kappa ha made, and how proud quarters with Grace Thomp on, A; Alice and honored we are, in this our 75th year, Wick, P; Margaret Taggart, AI; and Jean to welcome the outstanding woman of the Desper, A; each taking a quarter. A trio of year into our isterhood. They Say Albout the Senator ... Excerpts from the fascinating feature article aboNt Senator Smith by BEVERLY SMITH, Washil1gton editor of the Saturday E ening Post, in the Saturday Evening Pot of Sept. 11, '48. NEW woman star, perhaps of trange chance and the tragic cir umstance steadier glow than any on view of her hu band's death entered into her first A ince the enactment of the Woman's election to Congres in 1940. Thereafter she Suffrage Amendment twenty-eight years ago, was on her own. Unobtru ively she built a has ri en over the national political horizon. popular support which wa the marvel of She is Margaret Chase Smith, of Maine, the old-line politician at the arne time showing first woman ever to win a place in the a sturdy, good-humored independence whi h United States enate strictly on her own ometimes di mayed the con ervative Re merits. publican leadership. By last year she had o Mrs. Smith wa born in the small town won the hard-bitten heart of the econd of kowhegan on the Kennebec river. he District of Maine that people were aying of wa a daughter of the loca l barber-and her ''Margaret mith can tay in Congres as incidentally, al o a Daughter of the Ameri long a she wants. he i set for life." can Revolution. As a girl she had a part ince u h security i the cheri hed dream time job in the five and ten cent tore a3 of mo t legi lators, there was much sympa soon as he was tall enough to reach the thetic clucking when he abandoned it for helve . Later he worked a a telephone a rash venture. On announcement that operator, a a bookkeeper, as a teacher in a Maine's eptuagenarian enior senator, Wal one room chool hou e. he hu tied ci rcu lace White, would retire at the end of hi lation, adverti ing and new for the weekly term he decided to enter the race for hi new paper. he was office manager and place. This meant giving up her established tr a urer in the woolen mill. po ition in the House and plunging into a Top I ft-Sellulor Murgur I Ch.ue Smith, .\ ; PuJI '.111011<~1 PreJ!delll Fltn nre E. Drnm, A- Pau 'u· tio11ul P~nidwt Alice Hi'TJe) Jl''((k, P ; <111d '·J/fOftJI S ~r IJr)·Tre.nurer A!.Jti(.Jrel H a::lell Tdggarl, AJ. T~P_ r~ght-Sp ukerr /.Jbl . SI.JIIdmg: D molh) f~r.Jrflm. Blf, P g Taggurl, Rub.1r<1 Brou ning Hu11ter, P.J~rroa L)dOit, .\ , / .Jtt D Jfler, A . S .11 d: Gure 11 ellJ Thomf'Joll, A, Al((e Jl",rk, SelloJior Smtih, J <~nel Prtde, .\., ,md Flor 11r Dumt. Cent r-/111/i.Jiiotl b.JIIzu I J(' 1/e. Bollom-S 1/.Jior Smil u·ith 1he o1her Alph.1 inili.JieJ .11 1he b.1nque1. IGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE statewide contest against the toughest kind them were what are known as "the stark of opposition. If she lost, it would doubt realities of politics." Two of her opponents less end her brilliantly begun political career. were Governor Horace Hildreth and former On her side, for this fight, she had certain Governor Sumner Sewall. valuable qualities: a personality not spec The size of her victory not only con tacular but buoyant, calm, direct, and quietly founded the experts but surprised Margaret radiant ; a rare gift for friendship; and an Smith's most optimistic supporters. Hers unrivaled faculty-partly innate, partly due was no mere plurality, but a whopping ma to her working-girl experiences-of talking jority which topped the votes of her three easily with everybody, but not up, or down, opponents put together. to anyone. She had a well-reasoned and courageous voting record in the House and finally she had, concealed in her slim, five To Receive Honorary Degree from foot-four-inch frame, the sheer endurance Coe College in Iowa of a marathon runner-it was this which Senator Smith will deliver the commence enabled her to last through a campaign ment address at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, which set the stern old state of Maine on Iowa, June 4, and will be awarded the its ear. honorary doctor of laws degree during com These are good gifts, but arrayed against mencement ceremonies. B eta Rho Chapter Loves Its New H ome "Beautifu!, lar!Je and comfortable" describes the new home of Beta_ Rho chapter, at San Jose State college, Calrf. I~ rs located at 168 S. Ele.venth st., Sa.n Jose. Th~ c~apter rs. most outspoken in its gratitude to the Calrfornra alumnce and the N atrona/ Councrl. Mrs. W rllram Grerg, Past N ational President and N ational H ousing Chairman, was particularly helpful. T he large living room is fumished in an ultr:t m od e~11 mann~r and carries out a color scheme of watermelon, chartreuse, pea green, b lack and greY, rn the drvan, sectronals, chairs, and wall paper. T hough the color sc_heme may sound startlrng, the effect rs. reallY, restful and most pleasing. The marn h~ use ac ~ ommo~ates twenty-three m cludrng the housemother. The large airy bedrooms carry out a varrety of rnterestrng themes and are called by these intriguing titles: the Stables, the Pink Lady, the N ursery, and the Mandarin roo m. Six more girls live in the A nnex, which is fin ished in knotty pine and has its own bath and snack bar. 6 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Founder Louise Helen Coburn Dies February 7 at the Age of 92 EATH came Feb. 7, to Louise Helen Coburn, 92, second woman gradu D ate of Colby College, its first woman trustee, and last surviving founder of Sigma Kappa sorority, at her home in Skowhegan. Her span of years was so great that the sorority which she founded with the four other young women students enrolled at Colby was celebrating its Diamond anniver sary when she died. The sorority had grown from one college chapter of five members to fifty-two college chapters and over 100 alumnre chapters. In 1914 she was given the honorary de gree of doctor of letters at Colby commence ment, in 1919 she became the first woman trustee, serving until 1930, and in 1927 her 50th anniversary of graduation was observed at Colby commencement. Miss Coburn, who achieved distinction as author, poet and botanist, was one of the eminent citizens of Maine. She was a ·past State Regent of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution and once held the office of National vice-president. Louise Helen Coburn as she looked when Sigma She was a member of the Society of May Kappa celebrated its 50th Anniversary. flower Descendants and· an officer of the Maine Writers' Research Society. Miss Coburn was born in Skowhegan In addition, Miss Coburn had long been Sept. 1, 1856, daughter of Stephen Coburn, vice-president of the board of trustees and onetime member of Congress, and Helen the principal benefactor of Coburn Classical Miller Coburn. Institute in Waterville. She attended Bloomfield Academy and She was the first v,roman trustee of Colby Waterville Classical Institute-now renamed College, from which she was graduated in Coburn Classical Institute for her uncle, the 1877, and always prominent in alumnre later Governor Abner Coburn- before enter affairs. One of the new women's dormitories ing Colby College in 1873 which up to that on the Mayflower Hill campus bears her time had had only one woman student. name in recognition of her share in building Following her graduation with honors, up the women's division of the college. she attended the University of Chicago, In her latter years her historical research taking graduate work in philology to con resulted in a two-volume local history, Skow tinue a book in this field which her father hegan on the Kennebec, which received had left uncompleted. wide attention as a definite study of the rise With her mother, she spent several years of a typical New England town. in European travel and the remainder of her Miss Coburn's poem, Song to Maine, was life was spent in the family home in Skow adopted by the Maine D.A.R. as their state hegan. song. She was a periodic contributor of She took courses in botany at H arvard articles on botany to Rhodora and The University summer sessions and this became Maine Naturalist. In 1916, she published a her life hobby. She was president of the book of verse, Kennebec and Other Po ems. Josselyn Botanical Society and editor of The MARCH, 1949 7 examples of early Skowhegan furniture and pictures, and a fireproof wing for the preser vation of interesting displays of historical material. For several years, Miss Coburn had been confined to her bed, growing steadily more feeble. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Charles H . Pepper, of Brookline, Mass., and five nephews and nieces: Prof. Stephen C. Pepper, University of California ; Mrs. Frederic Langenbach, Brookline; Joseph Coburn Smith, Boston, formerly of Water ville; Helen Smith Fawcett, Berkeley, Calif. ; and Louise Smith Velten, New York City. Services were held from the Bethany Baptist Church, Skowhegan, February 9, with the Rev. Walter L. Sheppard and President J. Seelye Bixler of Colby College, officiating. This Cobu,·n-Sigma Kappa family g,-oup picture taken several years ago. Two past Grand Presidents of Sigma Back row: the late Grace Co bum Smith (Mrs. Kappa attended the funeral services: Flor George Otis Smith) A, National President of ence E. Dunn, A, and Ethel Hayward Wes Sigma Kappa 1909-12, and the late Founder ton, A. Several college members of Alpha Louise H elm Coburn, A. chapter attended, and more would have had First row: Helen Coburn Smith Fawcett, A, it not been the day when they were return Louise Cobum Smith Velten, A, and Ervena ing for the second semester. Goodale Smith, A (wife of j oseph Cobum Smith) . Colby college was represented by Presi dent Bixler, D ean and Mrs. Marriner, Dean Ninetta Runnals, and Prof. Lester Weeks. Maine Naturalist. Her collections of bo The Grand Chapter of Sigma Kappa sent, tanical specimens were regarded of distinct as its floral tribute, a beautiful triangle of scientific value and were given by her in violets surrounded by dark red carnations. recent years to the University of Maine de Members of the sorority wore their pins partment of botany. inverted for fifteen days. A member of Bethany Baptist Church her major interests included her church and the missionary work of the Baptist denomina tion. She served as park commissioner from 1904 to 1940 and was an officer at various This note was received from Mrs. Velten in . appreciation of Sigma Kappa's fl oral tribute to times of the local library, academy and other Louise H elen Coburn. boards. Feb. 13, 1949 A few years ago the Maine Federation "Dear Sister Lowry: of Women's Clubs cited her as "Pioneer "I wish to sincerely thank Grand Chapter of Woman of the Year." . Sigma Kappa Internati onal, on behalf of myself She purchased properties of scenic value and the other members bf the family of Louise near highways in Skowhegan and vicinity Helen Coburn, for your sympathy as expressed by the beautiful triangle of violets, outlined with and turned them over to a self-perpetuating, maroon, with the letters Sigma Kappa in gold in non-profit organization, the Somerset Woods the center. The Triangle was on a stand covered Trustees, to preserve them as beauty spots. with lavender heather and maroon carnations. For many years she held the office of presi "This lovely fl oral piece was placed at the head of the cas ket and next to it on the pillow dent of the Coburn Lands Trust, a timber edge was placed the bouquet of violets from land enterprise. Alpha Chapter. Miss Coburn created the Skowhegan His "My aunt looked very peaceful in a setting of tory House, converting one of the early spring fl owers. She wore purple velvet, with white lace at the neck, and her Sigma Kappa pin. homes of the town into a local museum "Loyally in the Bond, consisting of rooms furnished with authentic Louise Coburn Smith Velten" 8 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Louise Helen Coburn EW people have brought more gra cious attention to Skowhegan than F Louise Helen Coburn, who passed away last Monday morning. For nearly one hundred years she had lived in this com- - munity. She had not only shared with Skowhegan people through these long years that which she possessed but she is leaving tangible evidence of her thoughtfulness which will perform a great service for the generations who are now living and are yet unborn. Such include her history of Skow hegan in two volumes, which she accentuated with her gift of Skowhegan's History House, and the places of scenic beauty which she has been largely responsible for preserving through the Somerset Woods Trust. Her benevolences have been far-reaching, and her brilliant mind in years prior to her re tirement afforded much of educational value Founder Louise H elm Cobum at her 50th re to her townspeople. Nq greater tribute can . mzion at Colby College in 1927. be paid to Miss Coburn than that she was a she has lived and spread good cheer for a Christian woman. While this prompted period much greater than that allotted to much material giving which has and will the average human. It is not our place to long benefit her native town on the Ken eulogize, but to bring to the people of nebec, her lifetime of righteous doing and Somerset County some recognition, even her sublime faith in things eternal afford an though it may be slight, of a splendid and example that should have a deep influence useful life. on the lives of the people of the town where -Editorial from Skowhegan, Me. paper A Tribute to Miss Coburn By LILLIAN M. PERKINS, N ational Historian UISE HELEN COBURN, our last too, posterity was very real to them all. living Founder, daughter of a lawyer, She was well-known throughout Maine L brought to Sigma Kappa the fine particularly, and also internationally, as a mind and special skill that made possible poet and historian. Generous always when our judiciously drawn Constitution and by Sigma called, when the poetry anthology laws, without which the organization could was published, she sent a wealth of material not have lasted. She wrote the ritual, too. to choose from- given without stint or It was Louise who thought of "Posterity" grudging, which if you know poets whose and judging by the number of references work is salable you know is unusual. to posterity found in old letters and articles, Until her last days she was a vivid, inter though often joked about, posterity's needs esting person. Her time was spent with her and their own duty as the first women to poetry writing, her botanical collection, the attend college, the very importance of mak history of the town she lives in, and the ing good so that the posterity they visioned museum she founded and maintained for coming after them would enjoy education the town, and her studies. MARCH, 1949 9 By ANN HUTCHISON, Tau THE termination of summer classes at the University of London, I had A three marvelous weeks to travel in the British Isles. In that short time, it was impossible to gain more than a superfic~al acquaintance with the many phases of life and culture. It was, however, sufficient time to dispel most of the illusions and prejudices which I had harbored. I had always thought the English were reserved to a point of being unfriendly. Contrary to expectations, they were very warmhearted and easy to talk to ; and more than anything else the people themselves made my stay most enjoyaQle. I found ac quaintances and strangers alike sympathetic to my difficulties and eager to help. I was overwhelmed by the open-hearted generosity and hospitality of the people. Casual acquaintances invited me to their homes to share their rationed food. And a girl whom I had met through the English Speaking Union invited me to see her God father's home, Eltham Castle, and to have dinner with her at her home overlooking Ann H utchison the Thames. Other new-made friends in A nn applied a11d was accepted to study at Bit'k vited me to have tea, to shop in New Bond beck College of the University of London through Street or to go sightseeing. Not at any time the International Institute of Education. She sailed July 1, '48 on the Queen Eli zabeth, spent did I feel that I was in a foreign country. six weeks studying contemporary English litera In fact, I spent one evening during my ture (which have 1'eceived credit at Indiana uni week's visit at Oxford University talking versity) then toured England, Scotland and France. to a girl from English South Africa-talking She came back Sept. 14 on the Queen Mary just in time to start her Junior year at Indiana Uni- · about all the foreigners in England and not versity. She is now T au's president. once considering myself as an outsider! Moreover, I even found a Sigma Kappa in conception of the English people and gov Kilmacoln, Scotland, Mrs. Fenwick W. ernment. It is true that the English are Keltie (Bess Ritchie, P) . She most certainly jealous of the United States-its power, and lived up to all my expectations of what a its high standard of living-but they are good Sigma should be-and her nine-year jealous only because they have also set such old daughter, Madge, was equally as charm a high aim for their government. They ing. sincerely want to learn from the United England, itself, lived up to all I had ever States. Millions of embittered, weary folks anticipated-Westminster Abbey, Saint are groping in the dark, fighting . for the Paul's Cathedral, the changing of the guards survival of liberty and truth. Their physical at Buckingham Palace, London Bridge, and weakness and mental exhaustion is rich and even Ben Jonson's house near Fleet Street. fertile soil for new ideas we alone can give. But, perhaps more than that which I saw Then feeling for the United States goes of the countryside and the famous monu deeper than the Marshall Plan. They look to ments of England, or that which I learned America to show them a decent, free and in classes. I was able to correct a gross mis- democratic world community. 10 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Occupational Therapy Provides Satisfactions and Surprises By RUTH BUFFINGTON TURNER, O.T.R., Phi, Director. of the Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Division, Vermont Sanatorium, Pittsford, Vt. CCUPATIONAL THERAPY-now what in the world is THAT? O How often I have heard that question. In brief, it is any supervised activity, phys ical or mental, prescribed by a doctor to aid his patient in recovery from disease or injury. It is relatively a newcomer to the field of medicine and to say that it is the most fascinating profession in the world is doubtless an exaggeration. I freely admit my biased viewpoint, but having come into it from too many unsatisfying years in an other profession, it seems rather to verge on understatement. It was during the First World War that O.T. as it is familiarly referred to, had its inception. General Pershing called for a group of women known as Reconstruction Aides who served in the army hospitals and who were primarily concerned with helping the boys to adjust to hospitalization and to use their enforced leisure constructively. At the end of the war some far-sighted indi viduals realized the value of such a service to the civilian sick and injured. Today, in all parts of this country and Ruth Buffington Turner, Phi others, occupational therapy departments. are integral parts of hospital plants. Outpatient it, our tools are in our heads rather than in clinics, private agencies working with the our hands. That is true, albeit we use crafts home bound, psychiatric hospitals, tuber freely as we ply our trade. While her pa culosis sanatoria, as well as army hospitals, tient's interest is centered on what he is veterans administration, and the United creating with the material at hand, the thera States Public Health Service employ thera pist's interest is centered on how that ma pists to carry _out the recommendations of terial and its manipulation is helping to the physician. restore him to his former healthy state. To This is a growing field with endless op be able to make this evaluation it is necessary portunity and choice of jobs. And the salary to have an understanding of the medical range is good, too! Any activity, physical problems involved. or mental, covers a lot of territory, and no To give this training, the first school of day is dull or routine. I sometimes think that Occupational Therapy was founded in Bos safe cracking is the only thing which I have ton some twenty-five years ago. There are not yet been asked to attempt, and I am not now over twenty schools throughout the at all sure that that request will not be made country, most of them affiliated with or de one of these days! partments of established colleges or uni As one occupational therapist expressed versities. The course for undergraduates is MARCH, 1949 11 one leading to the bachelor's degree, and ing we have an excellent woodworking shop includes arts and skills in addition to the equipped with power tools, and another shop liberal arts and medical subjects required. for such activities as dressmaking, typing, A clinical training period, similar to a and classroom instruction. A darkroom with nursing affiliation or to practice teaching, equipment for developing, printing and en follows before a student therapist is eligible larging is available for photography. to take the registration examination quali Not all patients participate in craft work fying her as a practicing therapist. for a work tolerance tryout. The purpose of work tolerance is to find out how an indi Psychology Is Essential Aid vidual is going to react when he returns to Not all people-sick or well-are easy normal activity, and he is started on work to work with, but it is a great game to try to similar to that in which he will engage after keep one jump ahead of a crotchety patient. discharge. It is in a sense making him be I find daily need to call on all my college his own guinea pig! The record is kept of psychology courses and the months spent in their reaction to amounts of exercise. psychiatric training. Sometimes, alas, I have to be a school In the fall of 1944 the Occupational teacher, too. Oh, the High School subjects Therapy and Rehabilitation program at the which I have reviewed. Prevocational train Vermont Sanatorium for Tuberculosis was ing may be arranged in cooperation with organized. All patients admitted to this hos the State Rehabilitation Division· for those pital receive some type of occupational ther who are eligible. A certain number always apy. The program is divided into four over need training in a suitable occupation or lapping services-psychological, educational, retraining for one better suited to their physi work tolerance and physical function. My cal limitations. morning in the infirmary may consist of a Since the summer of 1947 a student train trip to each room with the bookcart. This ing program has been in effect in the depart proves an excellent means of establishing ment here. Students from the University of rapport with new patients, or it may find New Hampshire and from the Boston School me visiting new patients to help in orienta of Occupational Therapy (now affiliated tion, or calling on old ones to boost lagging with Tufts college) are on a regular sched morale. For most bed patients the prescribed ule. work is for psychological reasons and to help them gain mental rest-freedom from home It May Be Your Dish, Too worries, etc.-in order that they may attain If you like to work with sick people, like maximum physical rest so important in the to match wits with everyone from the bus treatment of this disease. All of the crafts boy to the chief medical officer of a big suitable for bed patients are called into use. institution; from the smarty school boy to These range from simple s'ewing, leather the Ph.D., the politician, or the social butter tooling, shell craft, silver jewelry to intricate fly; if you get a· charge out of solving un wood carving. For the young patient who usual problems in human relationships, or has not yet completed his schooling it is out of fixing faulty machinery; if you like often possible to carry a program of tutorial to work with your hands-in short, if you instruction which will return him to his class are looking for a life full of the exciting qualified to continue without loss of time. and the unexpected, don't fail to investigate This, too is occupational therapy. occupational therapy. It may be your dish, For work tolerance or prevocational train- too. · INSTALL TWO MORE CHAPTERS National Council is happy to announce the installation of two new college chapters: Beta Tau, the fifty-first chapter, at the Unive1'Jity of Florida at Gainesville, Fla., April 2-3, and Beta Upsilon, the fifty-second chapter, at Ohio university, Athens, Ohio, May 14-15. An account of the Florida installation will appear in the Jttne TRIANGLE and the Ohio chapter in the fall i.rsue. 12 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Maybe Lila Jones Tested That Recipe You Like So Well By BEATRICE S. LINES, E ow many alumnre noticed an article in the November Good Housekeep H ing Magazine on oranges; also one in February on cheese? Both were written by Lila Jones, E, '39, since 1946 assistant to Dorothy B. Marsh, the food editor of Good House keeping Institute of Good Housekeeping Magazine. An editorial department of Good House keeping Magazine, Good Housekeeping In stitute, with which Lila is associated, serves homemakers as a source of information and ideas to help them keep abreast of latest developments in home making-in Lila's case, in nutrition and meal planning. The Institute kitchens, in which Lila works, are fully equipped for the menu planning, first hand testing and research Lila Jones, E, is getting the cake ready for the which precede the Good Housekeeping photograper. Looks like a licking good job! The articles on Foods and Meal Preparation with cake's port1·ait appeared in the Sept. '48 issue of which so many of us are familiar, and which Good Housekeeping. are presented to help us attain the goal of every homemaker; namely, the planning and '43, Lila enlisted and received her commis serving of delicious, appealing, nutritionally sion as a 2nd Lt. in the Army Medical Corps sound and economical meals. (not W.A.C.) , as a hospital dietician. Her Lila says her work consists of d~veloping first post was at Stewart Field, then part of and checking family size recipes, planning, West Point. The hospital there was small writing and proofreading food editorials, and new, so she was the only dietician. At planning and preparing food photographs, that time dieticians, as commissioned officers answering readers' mail, investigating new in the Army, were so new that she was as food products, etc. much a mystery to authorities at Stewart We are all more or less familiar with the Field as they to her. Institute, but a few of us know that it was In Feb., '44, Lila was transferred to first established in 1901, the first magazine Borden General hospital, Chichasha, Okla., department of its kind. It is reassuring to but six months later joined the 168th Gen know that the Foods Division of the Insti eral hospital unit and sailed for France, tute continuously keeps an eye on new de landing at Omaha Beach, the famous D-day velopments in the food industry, and that beach-head, in late September. it cooperates with Good Housekeeping Bu She spent eight months in Normandy, reau's Chemical Laboratory in investigating near the famous battle ground of St. Lo, new food products offered for advertising. where the hospital was set up in tents in a When the Army called for dieticians in cow pasture, where patients at first were MARCH, 1949 13 .•. unit lived in buildings instead of tents and mainly G.I.'s with a few German prisoners. After a few months, however, the Ameri treated G.I. patients again. She was prepar cans were transferred and the patients were ing for duty in the Pacific when V-J Day all Germans, so that the hospital was behind meant return to the States instead. barbed wire and under armed g1,1ard. As Lila Jones, since 1946 assistant to Dorothy soon as there were enough German doctors B. Marsh, the food editor of Good House and hospital corpsmen as prisoners to care keeping ~nstitute, spent a year as student for the German patients, they were trained dietician in Shadyside hospital, Pittsburgh, to run a hospital, American style, and the Pa., then spent two years in civilian hospitals 168th was transferred to Metz. in New Jersey and New York before enter There the 168th took over and ran a ing upon her present job, which would prob French Military hospital for American pa ably correspond to a small boy's idea of tients, Lila was promoted to 1st Lt., the heaven. LCDR Ellen Littlejohn Is Director for 15 States DR Ellen V. Littlejohn, W, USNR, is the District Director of Women's JC Reserve for the NINTH Naval Dis trict which comprises fifteen states. She is a native Chicagoan-attended Brooks School and Lewis Institute now merged into I.I.T. in Chicago, the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She was initiated into Sigma Kap pa as an alumna member of Beta Pi chapter since she was an alumna of the local, Sigma Beta Theta. Miss Littlejohn has travelled very exten sively-both in the. United States and abroad. She has been around the world twice, has spent considerable time in the far east, and speaks some Hindustani, Malay, and Arabic. Prior to joining the Navy, LCDR Little john did work in Public Relations and Con sumer Education. She conducted cooking schools and did food advertising work throughout. the country for the Home Eco nomics Service Corporation of New York, was on the staff of Chicago American in Official U. S. Navy Photograph 1934 and '35, and from 1935 to 1942 was Education Director for Hydrox and the Mid Lt. Comdr. Ellen Littlejohn west Company of Sealtest, where she did several radio programs a week. t~roug~out her Navy career. She pinch Miss Littlejohn was commissioned a httted m other fields, but her major assign Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Women's me~t was Women's Representative at her Reserve of the Navy Oct. 12, '42. She vanous duty stations which were Naval Air was i~doctrinated at Naval Training School Stations at Willow Grove, Pa., Patuxent at Smtth and ordered to NAS, Jacksonville River, Md. and Pearl Harbor and U. S. for further training in Aviation Administra Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill. tion and duties in connection with super In ~arch, 1947 Miss Littlejohn reported vision of .enlist~d women. LCDR Littlejohn as Dtrector of Women's Reserve for the has remamed m Personnel Administration NINTH Naval District. 14 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE I Was in a Student Work C~mp in -Germany Before I Toured About By JANE WIGSTEN, Alpha Zeta UT you can't be Americans-there are no Americans tn Germany B now." This was the reaction we drew from three Polish Civilian Police we met one evening soon after arriving in Muenster. And this same astonishment was repeated time and time again during the month we worked and traveled in Germany. Actually we were the first American stu dents to enter Germany since the war. Our purpose was participation in work camps made up of German, Dutch, and American ·students-the Americans being of two groups, the Congregational Christian Service Committee, and the Westminster Foundation from Cornell University. I went to Muenster where we cleared rubble at the site of the physics building of the university. We lived in tents, slept on British Army stretchers, ate from tin plates and tin cans. The girls took care of the laundry and cooking of a camp of forty -for the first few days having only three large pots in which all the laundry, water heating, cooking and dishwashing were done. And we soon discovered how different our ideas were about food preparation. One f ane A . Wigsten may get a slight understanding of the prob economic, and religious problems now facing lems of the U.N., for example, after trying the German people. We talked of everyday to convince the women of only two foreign life in our own countries and found the nations that new potatoes can be cooked Germans had some extraordinary ideas about with the skins on-and even more amazing, Americans-we all have maids, everyone that the skins can be eaten. lives in skyscrapers, no household work is done by anything but machine. Laundry Was a Problem I also had an opportunity to talk with a Laundry presented another great prob young German professor of American gov lem. We had no washing machine, of course, ernment and literature who was graduated not even a scrub board, little soap, very from Miami University in Ohio in 1941- hard water, and piles of dirty clothes. It and who said he had dated Sigma Kappas took one of us all day and a set of ruined there-what an incredible thing to hear in knuckles to turn out a laundry of twenty a bomb-demolished city 3,000 miles from five shirts, twenty pair socks, fifteen pair home. r undershorts, plus workpants, undershirts, Weekends we were able to go on ex towels, pajamas, etc. We girls took turns cursions to nearby points of interest, the working at the project also, cleaning un most meaningful to me being the time spent damaged brick, and moving roofing tile. at a Displaced Person's Camp just outside During the evenings visiting University Muenster. There about 1,000 · families are lectures gave us their views on the political, living in barracks of German Luftwaffe MARCH, 1949 15 pilots. Many of these buil~ings damaJ?ed the plants and mines. And we began to by bombs during the war are JUSt now bemg realize more and more the great amount of completed, although the camp has been work which had been done since the war to open over a year. . get Dutch production back to its present Living conditions are unb~hevable level. families of eight living in two tmy rooms, 6000 at Youth Program no heat, no electricity. Many of the ground floors still have no covering over the sod All too soon it seemed, we had only one and last winter people were without beds more week in Holland. Fortunately we spent so slept• on these floors. Sanit~ry facilities it in Amsterdam where not only was the are hardly in evidence-one tot~et for t:wo W odd Council of Churches holding its hundred fifty families, the remamder us~ng first meeting, but also festivities were be open pits dug close by the barracks. Clothmg ginning for Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee. is very poor, and although summer weather The whole atmosphere of the World Coun makes lack of shoes and coats less important, cil meetings we attended was dynamic. The cold weather brings great suffering, espe climax came during the Youth Program cially for the children. Diets are completely with over 6,000 people filling the assembly inadequate for health-perhaps even for hall. Youths from every continent of the survival. Bread for breakfast and supper, world were there to tell us something of potatoes for dinner. One look at the skinny their own church and way of life. legged full-stomached figures of the chil The main speech of that meeting came dren quickly tells the nutritional story. Mul from Pastor Martin Neimuller, the out tiply this picture by millions and. the answer standing figure in the resistance of the is the health condition of a contment. Protestant Church in Germany during Hit Holland seemed like a land of plenty ler's time. To the audience his presence w-as after Germany, for the Dutch have been able a living symbol of their triumph over Hitler to remove many of the physical marks war and they gave him a standing ovation both left on them. Even so, food and clothing when he arrived and when he left the hall. are still rationed, housing is inadequate, At the same time Amsterdam was also in military conscription continues, the economy a holiday spirit. Crowds jammed the streets remains poor, and the memories the people to see the lights and other decorations in hold of German occupation are not for honor of the Queen's anniversary. It was gotten. their first big celebration since the war and they made the most of it. Some of us were We Toured by Barge able to attend the Jubilee Play-a series of We spent a week leisurely traveling episodes from the Queen's life-at which through the northern Friesland lake area she, Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard with Dutch, English, French, Swiss, Italian, were present. and American students. Our boats were largely Before we left I also had the opportunity barge type outfitted with sails. During the to spend a few days with some Dutch days we stopped at quaint Dutch towns friends near the North Sea. Living with a visiting the tiny shops, homes, and old family gives one the real picture of these churches. The countryside was picturebook people-and they seem like Americans in like, with flat green pasture lands stretching many ways of homelife. I'm sure more of on either side of the canals. us felt at home in Holland than any other From this rural area we moved the next place in Europe. week to the southern industrial section where And so we sailed for home-we took with ·Holland's only coal mines and cement fac us not only the usual souvenirs, but also tories are located. While there we girls lived information, impressions of the living ways in a government kindergarten for the miners' of the people, remembrances of discussions children-an example of just one of the and ideas expressed, and a genuine liking services the government offers its employees. for the people we had come to know. But Here again we were interested in learning most important of all, we had learned for about the economic situation in the country ourselves that we could live internationally and so had lectures and inspection tours of and like it. 16 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Mission Helps Children Adjust By EDITH DRURY, Maine. Sea Coast Mission Staff NEVER expected to win anything." It less often from the younger teachers, even was the quavering voice of a spastic though they may have only high school I child which the Mission worker heard training, than from the older women who, in the one-room school where, a few mo without opportunities to renew their en ments before, she had announced the awards thusiasm and skill, have spent years and in the most recent Mission contest for Maine years in the schoolhouse. coast children. Alice's name had been read There is always the handicap of distance, as one of the winners of honorable mention. too, whether it is distance across water (up She knew that 260 children, from twenty to twenty miles in the case of the most re nine other schools besides her own, had mote islands), or distance along muddy, taken part in the contest. No wonder that dusty, or icy roads, according to the season. it took her a while to catch her breath, and In spite of it, many of the children do well. then out came this halting, still incredulous The one girl from last year's eighth grade, expression of her joy. · in a small rural school which we visit, is now The contest had been about dream houses the only student with all A's in the nearest -each child being invited to describe, in high school, which she reaches by walking story and pictures, the house of his dreams. several miles "out the road" and there join Alice hadn't been able to draw her pictures, ing neighbors to go the last five miles to but painstakingly she h ad cut illustrations town in their car. from magazines, pasting them in a booklet to show each room of her house, and with Mission Helps Adjustments almost uncontrollably shaking hands, she To outline some of the handicaps with had written every bit of the little story which Maine coast children may be faced herself. is not, however, to say that they should be Very few of the hundreds of children pitied. The Mission's emphasis is on helping whom we think of as members of the Sea them to adjust to their environment, and coast Mission family are handicapped as is to be happy in it. The Mission provides Alice. Nevertheless, the better we know vitamin capsules and bushels of oranges for them, in school groups and individually, the better nutrition, magazines, books, games, more we see what could be done to bring paints-anything which will broaden the them the more abundant life. To be sure, horizon and bring variety in the place of the older generations of Maine coast folk monotony. We try to follow the graduating grew up under even more strenuous condi eighth graders, encouraging them to go on tions than most of today's children face, as far as possible with their schooling. and a few of them, parents now, may expect The inter-school competitions sponsored no more for their children than they them by the Mission once or twice each year are selves received. However, we in the Mission but one aspect of the program for enriching are ever aware of the difficulties which may the children's experience, and each time we surround childhood on the islands and coast are delighted by their enthusiasm and in of Maine. genuity. The recent Dream House contest, There may be the handicap of poverty. for instance, revealed such independence of There are children who come to school some thought and such hopefulness for the future days with nothing in their dinner pails but that anyone who might preach that "the a few cold beans, or a piece of bread spread world is going to pieces" would have a hard with mustard. There are pre-school children time convincing us! so underfed that even when a visitor comes, For instance, Richard, age 9, wants to perhaps bringing them warm clothing or a live in a Quonset hut, with the latest air few toys, they sit or stand motionless and conditioning and heating. It will be all on without expression. one floor, which wi ll be convenient for old Some have the handicap of poor teaching, people. He says that he likes old people and MARCH, 1949 17 hopes he has some to live with him. Contributions to Philanthropy Fund Jane, age 8, has, of all things, a dream From December 11 to January 25 boat! She wants it in the harbor of her village and will live on it all the time. College Chapters The dream of Francis, of the eighth grade, Alpha Alpha Zeta is to have his own hunting camp with room Iota Alpha Iota so that he can put up a lot of men in hunt- Xi Alpha Kappa Sigma Alpha Omicron ing or fishing season. . . Tau Beta Kappa Jud has something on h1s farm of wh1ch Omega Beta Mu we never thought. Along with a "haypile" Alpha Delta Beta Nu to slide in, two roosters · that crow, a turkey Alpha Epsilon for Thanksgiving, lights and a "telerhone," Alumna: Chapters besides the brook running through his prop Central Michigan Milwaukee erty there is "a small duck house." Champaign-Urbana New York City Boylike, Ronald; age 12, has dreamed Cincinnati Palo Alto of an all-automatic house in which a rolling Corvallis Pasade,na Dallas Philadelphia cart will bring in his supper hot from the Dayton Pittsburgh kitchen, and take out the dishes afterwards. Fort Wayne Portland, Me. He also hopes to lie in bed and have an Hammond-Gary Portland, Ore. open book and his breakfast pop up before Hartford Rhode Island Indianapolis Sacramento him every morning! Jacksonville Salt Lake City The Seacoast Mission seeks to minister Kansas City San Francisco as best it can to all of these children, to Knoxville San Francisco, Jrs. their teachers and parents and neighbors of Los Angeles Shreveport all ages, in every community on the Maine Marietta Worcester coast where there is loneliness or need. To Individuals _many the Mission's sturdy little ship Sunbeam Anonymous Mildred Z. Clarke symbolizes the kind of service which, in all Frances Warren Baker Florence E. Dunn weather and all seasons, the Mission stands Carrie M. True ready to give. This is the service which Sigmas by their traditional generosity toward Additions to Christmas Cheer Since their N ational Philanthropy, the Maine Sea December 23 coast Mission, are helping to make possible. Beta Rho Toledo Alumna: Phi'! champion softball team at Rhode Island State college is this group of girls from Phi. Fro 111 row, left to rrght, they are Anne c;larke, Sue Mut·phy, Margaret English, Huberta Higgins, and Muriel Dame. The back row: Fae Trll:, Drane Kacena, Joyce Lother, Eleanor Johnson, Joyce Gammon, and Joan Sawyer. 18 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Iowa State Has Panhellenic Days HERE is a friendship among the sorority women at . Iowa State which T is not always found on other cam puses" said Mrs. Laurence W. Corbett, Sig ma Kappa's National Counselor, at the con clusion of Panhellenic Days at Ames, Iowa, this spring. "The results of the two day conference will be seen in an even improved Panhellenic spirit." National officers of the eleven sororities at Iowa State came for the meetings Jan. 31- Mrs. Clarence Hassell presents refreshment it·ay Feb. 1 under the sponsorship of the to Betty Y oung, president of Beta N u chapter, Women's Panhellenic Council. Conferences and Thelma Elson, president of Peoria alumnce were held on rushing, pledge training, chapter. scholarship, social activities, and the organi zation of alumnre Panhellenic groups. 'Mary Beta N u Alums Jo Winterbottom of our Alpha Epsilon chap ter, helped to lead the round table for social chairmen. Mrs. Corbett was a leader for Give Music Tea the pledge trainers' workshop. HE alumnre of Beta Nu chapter, The climax of the two day session was the Bradley. university, presented their formal dinner attended by 750 sorority T Fourth Annual Musical Tea Sunday women in the stately Memorial Union. Each afternoon, Feb. 20, in the ballroom of the of the visiting officers spoke briefly, carrying Pere Marquette hotel, Peoria, Ill. The so the thoughts of the Panhellenic Creed rority continued its tradition of giving the through their talks. funds from this event to the Bradley Library Building Fund in the memory of an es teemed Bradley figure. This year it was in tribute to the late A. J. Robertson, for many years head of the Bradley Athletic Department. Following a welcome and brief tribute by Thelma Elson, Alumnre President, Mrs. Walter Krause introduced the artists, two of whom were members of the faculty at Bradley university, who presented the pro gram. Co-chairmen of the tea plans were Mrs. Robert Johnston and Mrs. Walter Krause. Their committee chairmen included Mrs. Edwin Rogers, tickets ; Mrs. James Neerman, program; Mary Martin, publicity; and Mrs. Carl Schunk and Mrs. Clarence Hassell, in charge of decorations. Our Musical Tea was both a financial success and one of the most enjoyable affairs of the season. The Sunday Journal-Star had a full page display of pictures taken at the Helen Ives Corbett, National Counselor and Beverly tea. Beach, president of Alpha Epsilon chapter. MARCH, 1949 19 Life Memberships Paid in Central Office October 1, 1948 through March 1, 1949 2060 Ruth Brown ...... Al pha Iota 2123 Antoinette LaCroix ...... Epsilon 2061 Daisy Jackson Clarke ...... Beta Theta 2124 Ruth Koontz Cordis ...... Theta 2062 Mary Janet White Lawson ...... 2125 Elizabeth Keyes Burckmyer . Alpha Zeta ...... Alpha Omega 2126 Miriam Manchester ...... Theta 2063 Ruth Dove Salter ...... Phi 2127 D oris Perkins Chandler ...... Omicron 2064 Myrtle Agle Nelson ...... Theta 2128 Jessie Carter Vasse ...... Pi 2065 Mildrajean Green ...... Beta Nu 2129 Ethel H oge Straight ...... Theta 2066 Doris Adams ...... Alpha Epsilon 2130 Mary H iggins Proffitt ...... Zeta 2067 Evelyn Davis ...... Alpha Iota 213 1 Lu Jean Hansen ...... Alpha Eta 2068 Bonnie Voss ...... AI pha Kappa 2132 Shirley N ethken W elch . .. Beta Epsilon 2069 Shirley Guenther ...... Xi 2133 Virginia Reaney Saxton .. . Alpha D elta 2070 Barbara N ewcomb ..... Al pha Gamma 2134 Marian Faust Clark ...... Xi 207 1 El eanor Shelly ...... Upsilon 2135 Vesta Alden Putnam ...... Alpha 2072 Jean Dietterle ...... Lambda 2136 Luci le Kohlberg Lermond ...... Phi 2073 Frances Jane Osgood ...... Al pha Eta 213 7 Aida Aced W illiamson .. Alpha Lambda 2074 Lucille Clausen Cumm ings ...... Tau 2138 Patricia N ichols Hamilton ..... Lambda 2075 Dorothy Byra nt Mooren . .. . Beta Theta 2139 Gretchen Johnson ...... Phi 2076 Delores Petersen ...... AI ph a Epsilon 2140 Wilma Lockhart ...... Iota 2077 Roberta Manning Lin er . . . Beta Epsilon 2141 Mary Teresa Finney ...... Beta Zeta 2078 Mary Lou Flieder Henry ...... Mu 2142 Sipprelle R. Daye ...... Alpha 2079 Elaine Covey ...... Sigma 2143 Jeanne M. Smith ...... Xi 2080 Florence James ...... Zeta 2144 Lee McN eill Crippen ...... Zeta 2081 Emily Jo Vance ...... Alpha D elta 2145 Metha Kess ler McDowell ...... ·. . 2082 June Martin ...... Tau ...... Alpha Epsilon 2083 Helen Gilles pie Gellein . . . . Alpha Mu 2146 Virginia Carpenter ...... Lambda 2084 Betty Keirn Rush ...... Beta Sigma 2147 Vera Mason ...... Upsilon 2085 Marj ori e Sorensen Sisson . . . Beta Sigma 2148 Corrine Knight ...... Alpha Delta 2086 Jewel Claxton Cox ...... Beta Sigma 2149 Marjorie Baker Holden .. . . Alpha Tau 2087 Catherine Brown Smith . .. . Beta Sigma 2150 Clara D ockum VanAuken ...... Theta 2088 Beth Grenfell ...... Iota 2151 Jolene Cox Cole ...... X i 2089 Gloria Bonazzoli ...... Beta Eta 2152 Laura Griswold Snyder .. .. Alpha Zeta 2090 Gloria Bell Bush ...... Al pha Tau 2153 Aroline Jacques Forrest ...... Delta 2091 Gloria Dubus McDaniel ...... Omega 2154 Jane Mundy ...... Beta Zeta 2092 Li la Jane Cook ...... Al pha Tau 2155 Judith Neil Kell y ...... Chi 2093 Mary L. Dixson ...... Theta 2156 Sy lvia N icholson ...... Psi 2094 Danise Smith ...... T heta 2157 Mary Ann Blount Young ... . Alpha Psi 2095 Roberta Applegate ...... Alpha Tau 215 8 Virgini a Osborn ...... Alpha Eta 2096 Ruth Brecher Lew is ...... Alpha Theta 215 9 Ardith Hellberg Reed . . Alpha Omicron 2097 Josephine Bogert D avenport ...... Mu 2160 Ida Curry Gardiner ...... Phi 2098 Martha McAdams Ki rch mann ...... 2161 Martha Louise Carlin ...... Beta Xi ...... Alpha Psi 2162 Cleo Lochas Clark ...... Omega 2099 Jea n Parker ...... Nu 2163 Rachel Armstrong ...... Beta Zeta 2100 Ruth Durland ...... N u 2164 Dorothy Mower ...... D elta 2101 Gladys Terry Math ews ...... Beta N u 2165 Janis Cooper ...... Mu 2102 Edith Kennison Stene ...... Alpha 2166 Wilma Bulow Quinlan ...... Theta 2103 Bessie Hardie ...... Beta Iota 2167 Margaret S. Franch ...... Beta Pi 2104 Ruth Grishaw Calvert ...... Tau 2168 Enid Lambert Robinson . Al pha Gamma 2105 Ruth Ruffner Brooks ...... Beta Sigma 2169 Eli zabeth Stuart Mercer ...... Omega 2106 Joan M. Bail ey ...... Beta Iota 2170 Joyce Kell y Thomas ...... Epsilon 2107 Mary Kay Flanry Codey . . . . Alpha Iota 2171 Alice Hobbs ...... Xi 2108 Mary Houchins ...... Lambda 2172 Linda Call away ...... Alpha Omicron 2109 Marie Anne Lauer ...... Tau 217 3 Jane Bogley Maddox ...... Zeta 2110 Roberta Lewis ...... Beta Nu 2174 Sara Ri ce Carter ...... Alpha Beta 2111 Rosemary Speer ...... Beta Eta 217 5 Sarah Haml in Ralston ...... Omega 211 2 Ruth Brown Granet . . . .. Al pha Sigma 2176 Lois Stirme l ...... Psi 2113 Louise Streibich Croslin ...... Beta N u 2177 2114 Jacqueline Baker ...... Alpha Epsilon Janet Small ...... N u 2178 D orothy D aggett...... Nu 211 5 Frances Hadley Gray ...... X i 2179 211 6 Shirley Galvin ...... Lambda Frances Wood ...... Omicron 2180 Katherine Church Ford ..... Alpha Chi 211 7 Merilyn Lodge ...... N u 2181 211 8 Doris Backer Dawson .. . . Alpha Kappa Winona R. Keyes ...... Iota 21 82 Edna Backer Beachler .. . . Alpha Kappa 211 9 Grace Havey McConn ...... Omicron 2183 2120 Barbara Webster Borrell ...... Phi Jean Randall Smith ...... Alpha Zeta 2184 Cecil Allen W estfi eld ...... Theta 212 1 Dorothy Abra ms ...... Beta Kappa 2185 2122 Anne Fowler Jarvis ...... Epsilon Barbara Breining D avidson ...... Tau ( Continued on next page) 20 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Indianapolis Alum§ Stage Benefit IGMA KAPPA spirit-a 'good speaker ant costume which many of you saw at con -a cooperating department store vention was exhibited and we also had a S auditorium and tearoom-a good large exhibit of pictures showing the girls, cause, these combined to give the Indian the school, their daily activities and a map apolis alumn::e of Sigma Kappa a most inter of the area. esting, successful . and worthwhile program Tea was served in the auditorium follow and tea Jan. 29 benefiting the American ing the program and the table was lovely Farm School scholarship girls. with white candles and spring flowers. The We are fortunate to have such a capable, food, prepared and served by the store's personable and successful person in our tearoom had eye appeal and was delicious. alumn::e group as Dorothy Benson, H, who Mrs. William Hutchison, T, and Mrs. Rob is head of the Interior Decorating Depart ert Coleman, T, poured, Mrs. Russell Burkle, ment at our best department store, L. S. 0, our City Panhellenic delegate welcomed Ayres & Company. Dorothy spoke to about the Panhellenic guests, Mrs. Earl Cooper, T, two hundred and fifty Sigma Kappas, Pan did a super job of contacting members, Mary hellenic guests, and friends in the auditorium Jane Coleman, T, prepared the exhibit and of the department store for which she works. Mrs. Harry May, '1', secured for us a writeup Her subject was "Personalized Decorating" and an excellent picture in each of our three and she gave interesting information, new daily newspapers. trends, ideas and "to do and not to dQ " We can heartily recommend to each pointers. In addition she exhibited four sug alumn::e group having comparable facilities gested color schemes and showed samples in a store or home, this method of bringing of new fabrics and carpeting, including the to Sigma Kappa good publicity, an enjoyable luscious new nylon carpets. afternoon, and benefit to a good cause. Each Each Sigma Kappa and guest brought member paid for her own tea ancl that of one used garment for our clothing drive her guests, while the alumn::e treasury bore for the American Farm School in honor of the expense incurred in entertaining Panhel our Scholarship girls. The lovely Greek peas- lenic guests and in shipping the garments. 2186 Mary Kaufman Whitney ...... Xi 2197 Nancy Hambly ...... Lambda 2187 Rosemary Bender ...... Beta Sigma 2198 Clara G. Mallonee ...... D elta 2188 Wilda Seaton Bloch ...... Xi 2199 (]) Nelle D aly Sutton ... Alpha Kappa 2189 Ruth H orner Holt ...... Theta 2200 Isabel Perkins Wright ...... Omicron 2190 Margaret Eatough ...... Phi 2201 Ainslie Alice Bricker ...... Beta Iota 2191 Della Settles ...... Theta 2202 Stella Wilson Johnston ...... Upsilon 2192 Isobel Taylor Hayes ...... Omega 2203 Crystell e Barnard Clark ...... Chi 2193 Mary Lucille Young Jones ... . . Omega 2204 Lois Meta Brunn ...... Beta Iota 2194 Ei leen Schiffer Tan tum .. . . . Alpha Psi 2205 D eborah Hichborn Rayner ...... Pi 2195 Louise Wynn Blanton ...... Sigma 2206 Elizabeth D aniell Hobgood ... . Omega 2196 Marguerite Cheever Hambly ... Lambda MARCH, 1949 21 Celebrate 2 Milestones In Detroit Honor guests at D etroit Founders D ay Luncher:n . Fit"St row: Helen Huffman Walters, T; Katharrne Tener Lowry, National President; Julie Street Getty, AK; Genevieve Bowlus Schoonover, ~ . ENJO'f ' , Standing: Else Kuehn Bauman, 'IT, Pres~de nt D etroit Panhellenic and also S.A.C. for Srgma Kappa for Michigan.: Marion Race Cole,_National THIS TREAT First Vice President ; Pauline Summy Brxby, AM, President Province VII; Eugenia Gould Huntoon, AZ President Detroit alumnce chapter. ON The celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Sigma Kappa and. the twenty fifth anniversary of the D etroit alumnce ~hap~er YOUR was combined with a banquet at the Prckwrck Room of the Whittier in Detroit. Guests of honor MEAT were Mrs. Swift Lowry, National President, and Mrs. Russell Cole, National First Vice President. A ceremony honoring the ten founders of the SEXTON Detroit chapter was directed by Mrs. Hilmer Gel lein and Mrs. Albert Shannon. The ten original AMERICAN members honored included Mrs. Howell Van Auken, Mrs. Fred Walters, Mrs. Gailord Miller, Mrs. Hayward Getty, all of Detroit; Mrs. Max WOOSHRSHIRE MacKinnon, Applegate, Mich. ; Mrs. Rex SchoOII over, Huntington Woods, Mich.; Mrs. ]. Hay SAUCE ward Parsons, Pontiac, Mich.; Mrs. D. S. Stein gard, Honolulu ; and two deceased members, Mrs. William john Shaw and Miss Helen Blish. - Detroit alumnce are proud that Else Kuehn Bau man, '¥, holds the presidency of the Detroit Panhel lenic association this year, with the assistance of ·N Sexton Frances Cope Hummel, AM, vice president. A ~ !flua.li6t~ Panhellenic tea honoring Mrs. Bauman was given at the home of Mrs. H. Glenn Bixby, President of Pro vince VII, Oct. 22. ------~ Top, left to right: Barbara Burkholder, Xi, with her fiance, Bernard Nordling. Barbara was chosen "Miss Lawrence," was one of eight attendants to the American Royal Queen, and was a finalist for N.R.O.T.C. queen at the Army-Navy Military Ball; Center, Xi's and their dates watch the entertainment "Doi{Patch style" at their Sadie H awkins dance in November; Right, Mildred Knott, left and jean Ory, right take time out from the Alpha Epsilon Christmas formal; Center, left, Beta Rho's and dates at their first annual Christmas party; Right, Beta Theta's merry-go-round float for the 1948 Homecoming "at Marietta College ; Bottom, left, Beta Gammas with Helen l ves Corbett at their final reception at the UniversitY. of Manitoba; Right, Alpha Epsilon chapter enjoying their Christmas Tree. 22 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Luncheon Speaker's table, Indiana Slate Day, March 12, 1949. A dance was given that evening. ' Hoosier Sigmas Celebrate State Day Left: Amz H utchi son, Tau president, right, D ora B1'ookie, Beta Sigma presi dent, Left to 1·ight : A11n Gullion 'i heehan, Tau, Guest speaker, Ruth Dickey Linf!,le. Tau, Natio>zal Col lef!,e L oan Ftmd chainnan, Marf!,aret H of!,tm lr'atson, AE, f!,enera l chttinnan of Slttte D tty a11d M ar /!,fll'et Hazlett Taf!, f!,art, AI, National Secretary-T reasure1·. Denver Alumnae Like Being Santas By JUDY BERSHA W JOLLY, Iota O YOU know what it's like to play Christmas 1948 mean something for the kiddies Santa Claus to forty-five babies? at the Nursery." D Ask any Denver alumna and she Following the letter there came a hearten will tell you it's wonderful! She will speak ing response. The envelopes containing from experience, for the Denver alumnre money were quickly returned and our plan adopted the Infant of Prague Nursery as began to take form. Hands were busied with their Christmas philanthropic project. needle and thread, hemming diapers and It all began at the November luncheon. fashioning gay stuffed toys. No sooner was the motion made and sec By the time the December meeting was onded than a committee was appointed and called each member had completed her con set to work to make Christmas a merry one tribution and following the business meeting for forty-five orphaned children. we spent the evening wrapping each article With Mrs. William C. (Scrappy) Ols0n in gayly colored paper and ribbon until we and Mrs. C. L. (Mary Jane) Eldridge head had more than sixty packages. ing the project, letters were sent to each Letters of appreciation assured us we had alumna urging her to contribute her time done our job well, but the Sigma Kappa and money to the cause. spirit which went into the making of the Scrappy's clever letter, bordered with little shirts and diapers and the soft cuddly chubby babes, went straight to the hearts toys was all the gratitude we needed to make of each member, reading in part. ... our own Christmas a merry one. "Dear Sigmas, How's your Christmas spirit these days? Have enough to reach out to forty-five kiddies living in the Infant of Prague Nursery? Let me tell you a little about them .... Josephine Bloniarz, Beta Eta, is a drum maiorette These babies are from nine months to two at the University of Massachusetts. years old. They come from broken homes, are orphans, or were abandoned. The Nursery, their sole mainstay, is an agent of the Community Chest. The Chest provides the necessities but none of the frills all little children should have. And that is where YOU come in. The Sigma Kappa Alumnre have adopted this Nursery for Christmas. No one else helps them out at this time, and we're sure yo u'll all whole heartedly agree that we should give them a REAL Christmas-the kind all children should have-a bright, shiny-eyed Christmas. We are purchasing diapers and little shirts so that they will be warm and comfortable. But more than that is needed for a happy Dec. 25 where babies are concerned. And that is what the enclosed envelope is for. Right now, we're asking you to rob the grocery money, the petty cash fund, the loose change in the bottom of your purse, and put as much as you feel you can afford into the envelope. Mail it today when you go to the store or take the baby for his airing, so that we can purchase toys in time to have them wrapped and delivered to the Nursery for the Big Day. Next, if you have any serviceable clothing left over from your own chi ldren's wardrobes we would very much appreciate your bringing it over. We will welcome any helping hands, so bring yours along, and we'll have a grand time making She Wants the Girls to Harmonize ROM its original group of forty-one charter members, Sweet Adelines, Inc. F has grown in four years into a na tional organization with twenty-five chapters and a membership of more than a thousand, extending from coast to coast. . . . Our interest in Sweet Adelmes anses m the fact that the organization is a brain child of Edna Schaetzel Anderson (Mrs. W. H.) I, '25 of Houston, Tex., who in July, '45, called together a group of Tulsa women who enjoyed singing together in four part harmony. Out of their enthusiasm and in terest came the present rapidly growing organization which promotes Four-part Har mony for Women, and which has named Edna Anderson Founder of Sweet Adelines. It gives the women the fun of singing together that men get thru Barber Shop Quartettes and the Society-that-preserves and-encourages-them! Edna went to Topeka, Kan. late in October for the National Convention of Sweet Ade lines, Inc. and she and her husband, William Anderson, attended the international con vention of SPEBSQSA in Oklahoma City last June. Other recent travels for Edna in cluded a trip to -Long Beach, Calif. and a week in Corpus Christi. Edna Schaetzel A nderso11, Iota National Council Officers to Wear Special Sigma Kappa Pins E ARE inclined to think of "tradi immediately recognize the wearer as a past or tion" as something that has always present Council Officer. But no Council W existed. But every tradition had to member wanted a really differen't pin. have a beginning sometime. Your Council After discussion it was decided that every hopes that the action taken at their recent council member should hereafter be pre meeting will become a cherished Sigma sented with a pin jeweled with alternate Kappa tradition. diamonds and pearls after one year of coun For several years and from several dif cil service. The former tradition of a gift of ferent sources has come the suggestion that silver to a retiring council member is to our National Council officers should have a be discontinued. This pin is truly beautiful distinctive pin. It should be so distinctive and it will be indeed a great honor and that any Sigma Kappa seeing the pin would privilege to wear it. 26 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE What1s Next for-Alpha Omicron? OR "hot news" (and wet news too!) reported to TRIANGLE editor Speed F Baker by two cryptic and breathless telegrams while news was still happening out in California, Pat Shea, Alpha Omicron's correspondent, rates three cheers as a speedy reporting-reporter! The two telegraphic reports, which had the editor breathless too were: MARCH 7 TWO WATER MAINS BROKEN IN PRESIDENTS ROOM DURING ACTIVE MEETING WATER POUR ING FROM LIGHT FIXTURES SMALL FLOOD IN PROGRESS FIREMAN AND POLICE EVERYWHERE NEW 300 DOLLAR FURNITURE SAVED BY ALERT INITIATES WE 'RE LAUGHING WETTEST WED DING SHOWER WE EVER HAD PICTURE FOL LOWING. MARCH 17 FIRE FOLLOWS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER FLOOD AT AO BLAZING FLOOD STORM CAUSES ALARM HANDY JUNIOR FIREMAN WITH EX TINGUISHER SAVES ROOM HOUSE AND 63 GIRLS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY. Pat later sent this complete account At 7:30 March 7, two water mains broke in the house while the active chapter was in meeting. One of the mains broke in the ceiling of the president's room at the light Left to right: Joanne Swan, Janice Blumhof, Janet fixture. Thereupon, water poured from the · Brownlee (the heroine) . light socket! Discovered by the initiates, they promptly removed the new furniture But our heroine came to the rescue! Before which had just been purchased for the room. anyone could call the fire department, Janet They saved the furniture, but the ceiling of Brownlee removed the fire extinguisher and the room cracked. The ceiling of the foyer charged into the bedroom. She soon put the and dining room were also stained and will fire out in the end of the room (which need redecorating. The firemen finally de included beds, curtains, and the dressing cided that the ceiling of the president's room table). Due to her courage and quick think was safe and would not give way. All in ing, she saved the rest of the house, for no all, that fateful evening proved a hectic one, one else seemed to know how to work the for photographers arrived to take the house extinguisher. At any rate, the fire was picture in the midst of the confusion, while quenched before the fire truck arrived. The guests arrived at a shower being given for damage was not too extensive, but destroyed Barbara Whelan, AO alum. Meanwhile two completely the dressing table, curtains, and fire trucks arrived, and many more people scorched the walls. (as w·e broke up two serenades on the row) ! As to the cause of the fire, it is still un Finally the water was shut off, and Zeta Tau determined. We concluded that the flood Alpha, next door, was kind enough to offer gremlins returned to heat up the place! the use of their water facilities to us. In short, Alpha Omicron's house hasn't As if this catastrophe weren't enough for fared too well this spring semester. Our the chapter, at 11:30 a.m., March 17, a fire only hope is that the saying that " troubles broke out in the front suite of the house! always travel in 3's" isn't true in our case. The room became filled with smoke, and The house just couldn't be subject to an the heat so intense that no one could enter. earthquake, or tidal wave, could it? MARCH, 1949 27 Already Chapters Are Giving Aid to Endowment for Housing HE National Council has been busily The response to this request was fine, considering ways and means to in with a majority of our now one hundred T crease funds available for chapter seven groups in favor of the plan. The first borrowing for buying, improving and re contribution was asked for next year, but furnishing sorority property. The National our "eager beaver" division (see list below) Council feels that a conservative policy is responded with their $10.00 each this year. best pursued by the organization and that it Here they · are, and their cooperation . is would be folly to use the principal of any greatly appreciated: trust funds the Sorority has to make loans to Bay Cities, Calif. chapters. Cleveland, Ohio It strongly believes, however, that as much Chicago- Beverly South Shore current income as can be used, and as much Chicago- West Suburban support from alumnre, individually and in Corvallis, Ore. groups, as possible, should be secured to Colorado (Denver) ward a larger Endowment Fund whose cash Marietta, Ohio may be loaned to chapters. With this in Philadelphia, Pa. mind, a general letter explaining the un Peninsula, Calif. usually large housing fund demand due to Pittsburgh, Pa. the period when no chapter could build, Shreveport, La . buy or remodel during the war, and the Spokane, Wash. additional housing needed for the expansion Springfield, Ill. ($5.00) activities, went to alumnre groups. Chapters Topeka, Kan. were asked to contribute $10.00 annually and Tulsa, Okla. clubs $5.00 annually. ------ Have You Married or Moved? Cut this out and mail t? t?e Direc~or of the Central Office, Mrs. Edward Taggart, Room 805, 129 East Market Bmldmg, Indianapolis 4, Ind. Please change my address or name and address on the files as follows: From Name College Chapter ...... Initiation number ...... 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Believing that there had long been a need for a concise, simple book at a modest price, covering all phases of a children's party in the home, Frances, drawing and writing under the name of Frances Keene, first pre pared "How to Plan a Sucessful Children's Party," a handy-sized guide which tells how to make a party FUN for both children and parents. In it she not only covers Invitations, Table Decorations, Menus, Games, Dances, Prizes and Favors, but in a chapter entitled Fare well, tells how to get the children home! A second party book was released this November, "The Keen Party Book." they are working on Play-a-Bed number Their second book was PLAY-A-BED for two for February publication. Boys and Girls, a collection of Things-to-do, How does Frances manage drawing, writ such as stories, puzzles, games, jokes, cut ing AND housework? She says the answer is outs, cartoons, coloring pages, toys-to-make, simple. She sets a time for the office- nine and surprise sections-a veritable treasure to eleven and two to four, fits the housework trove of ideas and amusement. The jolly in around those hours, gives the girls simple bright red and blue clown on the cover chores to do, gets up at six-thirty, and says almost invites one to be sick-a-bed so he can that helps most, markets by phone, has a play-a-bed. grand gal who comes in for heavy cleaning With her four children, John, 15; Sandra, and that is that ! 13; Lynn, 10; and Wendy, 3, Frances has She does admit that afternoons of bridge had years of practical experience with the are out, but says she doesn't mind, she ne-ier subject matter of both types of books. In cared for that anyway. Besides, her husband addition to serving as chairman of a Parent is in good health now, the business is doing Teacher Association, she is also the author well, the children seem none the worse for of many short pieces, plays and stories. wear, Frances finds she gets things done in The Casmans work at home, in what used one third of the time she used to because to be the maid's room off the kitchen, so she has to, but what is most important, they that Frances can tend stove and washing all love what they are doing and the way machine without moving far. At present they are doing it. Help Sigmas Swamp Swampscott June 25-30, 1950 MARCH, 1949 29 Beverly TPatson, Alpha Tau, was elected a11 hon01·ary liettte11ant colonel of R .O.T.C. at M ichigan State College. Queen Gaynelle Miller, Beta Rho, was chosen at first Homecoming queen at San Jose State College and reigned at parade, game, and dance. With Our College Chapters MARTHA JEWETT, Editor handily with first place honors. . . Alpha Initiates Senator Cooperating with a current Panhellen1c proJect, Iota 0 r most exciting events centered around the initiation visited and entertained the wounded veterans at Fitz of ~aine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith in February. simons General Hospital in Denver. At the annual Associated Women Students' banquet, Four Deltas in "Who's Who" Wilma Lockhart was named Miss Loveliness of 1949. Four members of Delta have been electd to JIV ho' J lYI' ho Such titles as hers and as Miss Dependability, Miss Serv ill American Unit•erJilieJ and CollegeJ : Mary Ellen Wag· ice , Miss D.U. are awarded to outstanding senior women Kathy Sheehan, Peggy Graetz and Betty T.oz1er. each year. At the same affair, Edla Wilson was presented ner, f G D It women s or- a giant trophy as the outstanding junior woman of 1949. Peggy Graetz, president o amma e a, . ganization of the school, also recently had the title fof Announcement of 11Vho'J Who in American College1 and "Gamma Delta Girl of the Year" bestowed upon her or Univu1itin revealed the name of Marilyn Moore. her superiority in leadership, populanty, and se~vlce. I Edla Wilson and Jean Honstein will be candidates for Ann Crecco won the title of Coed Co lone at t 1e the offices of vice·president and secretary, respectively, of Associated Women Students. At the initiation banquet, Military ball at Hotel Statler Dec. 10. ' NANCY BIGELOW Elllen Gail Mapes was awarded the chapter's Minerva BoJton Uni11erJity head for maintaining the highest grades in her pledge class the previous year. MARILYN MOORE Ep·silon Enjoys Busy Schedule Denver UniverJily The highlight of our holiday celebrations was our formal Dec. 11 held jointly with the Ph1 Ga':'ma Deltas. Sixteen pledges more than enjoyed our Chnstmas p_arty Lambda Has IIKA Dream Girl given on their behalf. Eleven seniors were entertamed We found it difficult to return to our studies after at a buffet dinner by the Alumnae group at the home of the eventful football season which ended w ith California Mrs. Harold Martin Dec. 14. . in the Rose Bowl. During the season we held many We have been active in the Women's Athletic Basketball after-game open houses which were well attended by Association with nineteen on the squad and mne on the friends and relatives who enjoyed the hot coffee and first string. Jean Berger was Chairman of the Ice Revue sandwiches and the warmth of our lire place. Before at our big Winter Carnival Weekend Dec. 11·13. Greta the Cal-Stanford game we had a buffet luncheon at which Rich was one of the fina li sts for the Sophomore Hop we served ham and turkey to our enthusiastic and hungry Queen. friends. NANCY MILLS Syracrue UniverJily This semester Cupid has caused the Lambdas to an nounce nine pinnings and ten engagements! Patricia Brown, one of ur most active seniors, was Theta Entertains Eta, Beta Pi, Beta Nu honored recen tly by being elected to Prytanean, a junior At Homecoming Nov. 13, Theta won second place and senior women's honor society. trophy in the Homeco~i?g badge sales .in competitiOn We gave our sincere thanks to the Mothers' Club for with all the other sorontles and fraternities on campus. buying new lamps for the study tables in our chapter The 74th anniversary of the founding of Sigma Kappa room, and new salt and pepper shakers for our dining was celebrated by Theta Nov. 21. Guests included mem· tables. bers of Eta chapter, Beta Pi chapter, .Beta Nu chapter One of our pledges, Diane Van Der Zee, now holds and alumnae of Champaign-Urbana. the much envied title of "Dream Girl" which she won Theta held a short memorial service Feb. 9 in honor from the members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. of the late Louise Helen Coburn. Eighty couples enjoyed our winter formal at the JO ANNE ARMSTRONG Orinda Country club. UniverJity o/ JllinoiJ MARIAN NELSON UniverJity of California Iota's "Raven" Wins First Place In a raging snowstorm seven gi rl s rode a float depicting Mu Holds Inspiration Week an old fashioned sleigh, with the theme "Sleigh 'Em, Mu honored her pledges with a Winter Formal. Nov. Pioneers,'' and captured second place in the homecoming 21 at the Washington Athletic club. ' competition for the sorority. Wilma Lockhart, chapter At our annual Christmas party, toys were brought for, president, was an attendant to the homecoming queen. the Jr. Orthopedic Hospital. The Mothers' Club presented Iota pledges gave a tea for other campus sorority pledges. us with a silver service tray and three pieces in a matched Goal posts and football decorations carried out the theme, pattern and the alumnae gave us three silver compotes. "Gridiron Gaieties" and each pledge wore a D.U. letter Jackie Schroufe and Barbara Raber were in charge of sweater. Other social events in cluded exchange dinners inspiration week, which was climaxed with a banquet with several campus fraternities and a guest luncheon to honoring our new initiates Jan. 29. Feb. 12 the pledges which each girl invited another sorority girl. gave the traditional costume dance for the chapter at the The 1948 pledge class added another cup to Iota's col· chapter house. Circus costumes carried out the theme of lection when they put on the best skit at the annual Pan the dance. hellenic breakfast. Held before one of th D.U. football We are proud of Monica Dahl, who was sent by the games, the breakfast is attended by all sorority gi rls. Y.W.C.A. as a representative for the United Students Iota pledges satirized Poe's "The Raven" and walked off Christi an Council at Lawrence, Kan. during Christmas 32 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE vacation. Monica is also chairman of the Campus Com Upsilons Collect Bargains mittee for Religious Emphasis Week. Ardelle Nelson was pledged to D elta Phi Mu, music honorary. Looking back to fall term, Upsilons remember with JANE EBERHARTER pleasure our house dance, "A Rainy Night in Ri o." Al so U11i11ersity of W ashi11gton on the social schedule was an exchange dinner with Theta Xi. Trading hospitality, food , and songs was fun, and we are looking forward to similar winter term ex Parties, Guests, Activities at Xi changes with Kappa Delta Rho and Sigma Chi. Homecoming found the house in a whirl of activity. We In mid-fall Xi's were honored with a visit from Helen welcomed alumnre with an inform al "coffee and do-nut Jves Corbett. nati onal counselor. We celebrated Founders' session" after the game, and at a buffet supper that D ay, Sunday, N ov. 14, in the Kansas room of the Me evening. Claiming perhaps more than our share of honors morial Union Building with Sigma Kappa alumnre from for the weekend, we walked away with a gleaming trophy Kansas and Kansas Ci ty, Mo. in scribed: " First Place, women's homecoming sign co n W e put on our "go to meetin' " Dogpatch clothes to tes t." Our sign was patterned a ft~r a big book, telling, entertain our dates with a Sadie Hawkins party N ov. as the pages turned, of our team's victory. Pledge, 12. Our fall formal was held at the chapter house, Dec. Marjorie Olin, was presented at game halftime as one 4, with a "Winter W onderland" theme. A fat snowman of the four homecoming princesses. was an "extra" chaperone. Duri ng religious emphasis week we invited the men We entertained 14 guests for rush weekend w ith a of the Campus Club to our house to hear Rabbi Joseph' Christmas costume party Dec. 10 . Xi's and their alumnre Lusch disc uss current religious tre nds and beliefs. guests enjoyed the formal Christmas dinner D ec. 16, with Our versatile dramatist, Fay ne .Blackburn carried the Christmas carols and eggnog in the living room following lead in the Workshop theater play, "A Murder H as dinner. Been Arranged" and took part in " Macbeth " w inter Several Xi 's participated in the annual K.U. Christ dramatic production . mas vespers. Suzon Lapat, Peggy Miller, Charlotte Reams Orchesis , national modern · dance honorary,. tapped and Charlotte Sagmoen sa ng in the a cappella choir and Jeanette Holroyd. Jeanette was chairman of the modern Sally Sherwood had a part in one of the tableaux. T wo dance re cital last spring. D oris Norton was tapped for queen candidates for the Army-Navy Military ball m Kappa Kappa Alpha, art honorary by Joan Toy who is D ecember were Xi acti ves-Dorothy Baldwin was chosen already a member. Agnes Moll tapped Mary Jane Young by the R.O.T.C. as finalist and Barbara Burkholder was and Ruth Ann Ferris for Alpha Lambda Delta, sopho chosen by the N.R.O.T.C. as finalist. more women's scholastic honorary. Pledge Cheri Knox, D onna De Munn, a member of the A.W.S. senate, Sigma Chi sweetheart finalist, proved that beauty and was busy with meetings for the A.W.S. leadership work brains mix well by attaining honor ro ll grades. shop in February. New members of Quack club, swim N orma Lou Kroeger and Ruth Young were chosen by ming group,-Nancy Cole, Sue Cubbin, and Allene " Who's Who Among Students in American Universities Wenke-worked many hours on a water ballet. Charlotte and Colleges." Norma Lou, "Noonie" to us, is house Sagmoen was initiated into Iota Sigma Pi , honorary president, president of co llege house pres idents' council, chemistry sorority, Jamie Estlack was initiated into a member of the A.W.S. counselling board, and a Kappa Epsilon, women's pharmacy fraternity, and Vir Mortar Board member. During her junior year she ginia Frost was initiated into Theta Sigma Phi, women's was co-chairman of college Homecoming. Ruth, journalism fra ternity. New members of University Players a consistent four pointer, has received the Phi Kappa are Pat D av ison, Suzon Lapat and Nancy Sewell. Phi freshman award for scholarship, the Clara H. W aldo Xi's were hilariously entertained by Phyllis Mowery, prize for the outstanding sophomore woman, is first vice '49, who had one of the lea ds in "The Far-Off Hills," president of the house and is past vice-president of Alpha given in early D ecember. W e also enjoyed the support Lambda Delta. She was recently elected as senator in the ing comedy roles played by Suzon Lapat and Nancy college legislature where she represents the school of Sewell. We were able to see " Phyl" again m educa tion. February play, " Bury the Dead." To get us in a happy mood for finals, the juniors put The spring semester started brightly-with three on our annual Christmas party. Exchanging gifts and ap third fl oor rooms newly painted in spring co lors of propriate ·poems was fu n before we settled down to study. rose, yellow and chartreuse. The first real chance to entertain in w inter term was VIRGINIA FROST nickel hops. University of Kamas Winter rush week, through Candyland, China, and las tly in the South Seas, entertained rushees and Upsilon and pledged six gi rls. Among these is Mary Ann Shel burne, sister of Peggy Shelburne Childs, Upsilon. Parties, Trip to Purdue for Tau R uTH ANN FERRIS At the annual Fall Carnival, we shared a booth with O;·egofl Stale College the Sigma Nus. Li ve mice were featured , and the con cession was tabbed "The Mousetrap. " Phis Attend Initiation of Senator Our annual fall dance was held Nov. 13, and congratu The Mothers' Club of Phi chapter entet tai ned the lations went to Leslie Stewart, Jean Frantz, Beverly chapter with a dessert bridge Feb. 14. . . . . Murphy and Janet Murphy, who make Tau dances Joan Beattie and Gloria D arling attended the tntttattOn spectacular with their professional and original decora of Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smtth from Mame, tions. at Colby College. Tau went en masse to the Purdue installation Sept. We had a Panhell enic Round Robin Dance Dec. 3 to 25, leavi ng Bloomington at 5 A.M . ! There . was. some get acquai nted with fres hman girl s we would soon rush. trouble arousing the girls, but the chapter arnved mtact. M UR IEL D AME Everyone was quite subdued until the bus driver suggested Rhode Island State College a break for coffee. The trip proved very eventful from that moment on. Omega Has Valentine Weekend H ats off to Dorothv McPherson, who disproved the beauty without brains theory when she was elected to Phi Omega began its annual Sigma Kappa formal week Beta K appa. Congratulati ons go to Ann Hutchison, who end with a Valentine dance at the Tallahassee country studied abroad last summer after winning a scholarship club Feb. 4. The next afternoon, there was entertainment to London University. at the house, fo llowed by a hayride party and barbecue. BARBARA STRUM The weekend of fun was concluded Sunday wtth a India11a University luncheon at the chapter house. MARCH, 1949 33 Scout troop. This is Nat's second term as a scout Initiation was held Jan. 29 for eleven girls, and the leader-and she does Scout Camp counseling during annual Pearl Banquet was held in their honor. Yvonne the summer months. Fitzgerald was honored as the best pledge of the year. Mary Rita Saxton lately added a Macbeth role to her The pledge class entertained the pledges of all the repertoire developed with the Cornell Dramatics club. other sororities on this campus at the traditional Bowery Priscilla Gage holds the chairmanship of the Minorities Ball Jan. 17. Committee of C.U.R.W. Beverly Alexander was elected program chairman of the Alpha Zeta boasts a recreation room-Saturdays of Sophomore Hop Feb. 5. Omega is well represented in the floor and wall painting, the addition of new lights, and Pre-Law club. Barbara Southard was elected vice the major attraction-pingpong table, paddles and balls president; June Cameron, secretary-treasurer; Carolyn -have turned part of the basement of the house into Williams, corresponding secretary. a popular place. The first' homecoming weekend at F.S.U. Dec. 3-4 was We're looking forward to the province convention to be a big event and Omega took a large part in the festivities. at Cornell during April with Buffalo, Syracuse, and They were among the three groups invited to present skits Adelphi chapters. for the "Pow-Wow," a football rally the night before JANB WIGSTEN the game against Tampa U . The football team, the Cornell UniverJily Seminoles, selected Wanda Lee Hamilton as one of their sponsors for the big game. Nancy Spach was named Homecoming queen runner-up. Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Jenkins Visit Alpha Theta Omega's part in the parade showed the college's transi Alpha Theta was recently honored with visits from tion to a co-ed university. Pledges Lulu Singletary and Elsie Reed Jenkins, province president, and National Barbara Bell rode by in a horse-and-buggy, dressed in the Vice-President, Marian Race Cole. In Mrs. Cole's honor styles of the twenties. Following this came several Omegas we had a tea to . which the Mothers' Club and members and their dates in a red convertible to show that co of all campus organizations were invited. education had finally arrived. Alpha Theta has had honor bestowed on some mem A dess~rt party was held Jan. 30 for Delta Tau Delta bers. Bobbie Phillips, our president, was chosen as one and Pi Kappa Alpha. of a group of University of Louisville students in Who' 1 MARY VIRGINIA BURRY Who Among CollegeJ and UniverJitieJ. Nancy Baston Florida Stale UniverJity was elected secretary of the State Home Economics clubs. Lynn Smock was elected a University cheer leader. "Harlequenade" Is Alpha Beta's ETHEL SCOBEE UniverJity of Loui1vi/le Because of its success last year, the " Harlequenade" became an annual affair for Alpha Beta and was held Nov. 13 at the Trap and Field Club. Alpha Iotas Get Record Collection . Virginia Ross was appointed representative of the Na Alpha Iotas and their "men of the minute'' recently tional Student Association from the University of Buffalo enjoyed a record dance held in the Brant Room at Oxford and attended the conference at Michigan. Marcelyn Burke Hall. This social affair was planned to add to the record was selected chairman of the Freshman Tea. collection for our new combination, which is a very SALLY FRETTS recent addition to our suite. UniverJily of Buffalo Betty Fuller was initiated into Alethenai, English h~norary. When Betty was graduated in February, Jeanne Christmas Parties Gi'l'e Gala Holiday Spirit Hmes replaced her as corresponding secretary. to Alpha Epsilon JEANNINE HAGAN I Miami Univer~ity December 10 and 11 were gala days at 233 Gray in Affi;es. The tenth was set aside for our big fireside, at whiCh we decorated a sixteen foot tree. The activities Alpha Kappas Participate in Campus Acti'l'ities centered around stringing popcorn, cranberries, and deco at Uni'l'ersity of Nebraska ratmg the tree. Alpha Kappa is busy working on their UNESCO proj December 11 was our big Christmas formal-"Prelude ect, with Yugoslavia as our chosen country. to Christmas." The tree, and a roaring fire in the fire Mary Lo':'ise Horstman and Myra Hauge are new place gave the room a feeling of Christmas and YWCA cabmet members. Myra also leads the Univer romance. sity Vesper. Choir. Ruth Sandstedt and Jean Fenster are Iowa Stale College assistant editors of the Daily Nebra1kan. Jean is also the head of the Institutional Planning committee for the Alpha Zeta Is Busy ~ed Cross College Unit, and home economics editor of Cornhusker Countryman" Agriculture campus magazine. Readers of the December issue of the Cornell Coun Alpha Kappa has five meml!ers in University Singers, an tryman, were attracted by the cover picture of Delores unusual number for one sorority. Hartnett, who was also just elected to the business board We ~ad a wonderful time at our Mock Wedding party. of th: C ounlryman. Dee serves on the staff and social The giCls wore cotton and gingham dresses while the committee of the Newman club. fellows wore jeans. A comical farmer's wedding, and On Jan. 16, the chapter invited faculty members to be dancmg filled the evening. our guests at an afternoon tea. Esther Artman and her DENISB CAVE Sister entertained with piano selections. ' Univenity of Nebra1ka Alt~ Ann Turner, president of the Dance club, took part m a Saturday afternoon recital, Jan. D, for the school children of Ithaca. Alpha Lambda Boasts Editor Ann Sullivan was elected to serve on the governing Margaret Cacioppe, was elected editor or the college council of the Cosmopolitan club. Geraldine Hanks year book for next year. Helen Sorhus, and Patricia Adams, all seniors, are amon~ Olive Rhetts, '48, has re-entered the WAC the first_ students. to register in a new course, in Home Mary Ann Bastress, was chosen as a cheerle~der. Economics extensi~n teaching. They spend seven weeks ~n a county extenswn office. giving demonstrations train· m~ county leaders, writing ano giving radio talks and Alpha Tau Places Third in Scholarship domg office work. ' The_ best news th_is . term for Alpha Taus, with the Natalie McW_illiams_ devotes much of her extra-curricu exception of the admiSSIOn of Michigan State College into 1ar time workmg With members of her Ithaca Girl the Big Ten, is the third place we copped on the scholar- 34 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE left: Margie Zellers, AK, first H onorary Producer of University Theater at University of Nebraska. Top, center: ;a Alessandrini, AZ, president of Clara Dickson VI, women's living unit at Cornell. Top, right: Marion Smith, AX, / of Honor to May Queen and Football Attendant at Georgetown College. Middle, left: Maribeth Porter, AX, voted t Outstanding Girl at Georgetown College. Middle, center: Ramona Hicks, BP, Sophomore Class Secretary, member par/an-Spears, sophomore honorary at San Jose State College. Middle, right: Bonnie MacD onald, BA, Senior Class Otd ... dt TTtdh "'d '" Rntln.n /,ft. M ,,.., T nuirP D n1Jir. R~ tJreridP.nt nf !.hi Beta Phi . .rcientific honorarv at MemPhis sl11p ltst for sixteen nati onal sorontles on campus. Con· ca ndidates for dream girl were Grace Adair and Barbara centrated rush wmter term ended with the pledging of Messer. si xtee n girls to fill our quota. Following our annual Christmas party, held at the end Beta Gammas Sport Sigma Kappa Jackets of fa ll term , was a rousing caroling at eighteen of the Beta Gamma members sport new maroon corduroy fr aternity houses. . jackets with Sigma Kappa crests on th ~ m. Alpha T au led the bowling tou rnament ea rly m Febru For the third consecutive year the Casmo has been host ary and had hopes of retaining that plaque p e rm a n ~ ntl ~. to Beta G amma at its annual pledge party. The dance th1s Marge Evans was initiated into K a p~ a Alpha S1gm a, year was preceded by a party at the home of Soph.a women's Flori culture honorary, and Gmny . K ra use was Tu0. . elected secretary of Sigma Epsilon, business administra Initiation for eight members was held earl y m the fall tion honorary, into which she was just initiated. Mary at the Fort G arry hotel. This yea r's award for tbe out Moran was recently pledged to Theta Sigma Phi, women's standing pledge went to Brenda D ev lin . The award is a journali sm honorary. . gold-filled compac t. Maril yn McCowan was chosen as co-chanman fo r the E LEANOR BLACKH URST big dance of spring term, the Mardi Gras. Kay Hanses University of M anitoba has parts in several shows on the co llege ra d1 o station, and Beverl y W atso n was elected as an honorary lieuten Beta Epsilon Entertains Mrs. Lowry ant co lonel in Mrchi gan States ROTC unit. Our form al dinner dance was held Feb. 18 at the Beta Epsi lon was honored by a visit from N atio nal Lansing Country club. Pres id ent, Mrs. Sw ift Lowry, Jan. 10 . She was welcomed B EVE RLY A NN WATSO N •t the stati on by members of the sen10 r councli ,_ who M ichiga11 State Co llege were hostesses at a dinner at Phil 's Steak House m her honor. A fo rmal tea for M rs. Lowry was given the Alpha Phi Builds New House next aftern oon. Follow ing the tea, Mrs . Lowry, Beta Epsilon members, pledges, and Ruston alumnae enj oyed At long las t the new Alpha Phi chapter house at Ore a banquet at Phil's Steak House . The followmg n1ght gon has begun constructi on. The initial blow was struck Beta Epsilon saw M rs . Luw ry off to Memph1s, the next the first of January, and the las t nail will be d ri ve n stop on her trip. before September of 1949. D ec . 11 the members and pledges and their dates en This new, modern house is in keeping with this year's joyed a " Hobo" party at one of the Ruston alumna's Oregon sp irit. The campus is undergoing a face lifting country lodge. with the addition of a student union build ing, a new JOHNNI E FLOYD women's dormitory, an addition to the music sc hool, and Louisiana Polytech 11ic a rejuvenation of the Mill Race . These improvements were all consolidated under the 1948 Homecoming theme, " The New Look at Oregon. " The the!Jle was ca rried out d uring Beta Zeta Enjoys Parties Homecoming by house signs illustra ting these improve At our Founders' D ay banquet Nov. 9 at the Lord ments and a campus clea nup. Calve rt Hotel we we re fortunate in having several of our Sa ll y Lew is, transfer from Orego n State, was tapped colonizers as .guests of honor. N orma Cornell , BZ '40, fo r Phi Beta, the nati onal fratern ity of music and speech . spoke on Sigma Kappa's ea rl y adventures at the Uni Jl not her honorary pledge was Pat H onl, freshman from versity of Mary land . Hawai i, to Amphibians, swimming honorary. Those par W e exchanged a di nner with Alpha T au Omega, enter ticipating in the annual Amphibian W ater Show included tained Phi Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Theta at _a fter Pat Honl , Louise H astrup and Betsy Moffitt who also dinner desserts and we.re entertained at an aft er dmner did part of the choreography. social by Phi Kappa Sigma. In December we held opeh Joanne Whitson and Marye llen Wright, graduat'in g house and Jan. 7 introduced our new pledges to the se niors, were on the campus honor roll spring term. universi ty at our w inter formal. One of Alpha Phi's activity women this year is Joan Beta Zeta is justl y proud of Ann ·c. Sipp who was W agenblas t, a member of Kwama, the sophomore included in the 1949 li stings of " Who's Who Among women's honorary, a day manager on the school paper Students in Ameri can U ni versiti es and Colleges" and and a committee chairman for Homecoming. Two fres h Dotte Kroeger who has been assigned the post of feature men in activities are Joanne Har ri s w ho had one of the ed itor of Diamondback, ca mpus newspaper. th ree fe minine parts in " The Petrified Forest," and Lil ADELE WOJCIEC HOWSKI li an Schott who is the presid ent of her YWCA commis University of M aryla11d sion. Vis itors to Alpha Phi this fall included Ruth Ann Greig, past grand president and national housing chair Beta Theta Likes a Vacuum! man of Sigma Kappa, and Maxine Anderson, provin ce Mrs. Ca rl Miller, preside nt of Prov in ce XI, visited us president. They conferred wi th the architects, bui lding fo r se veral days and helped us with protocol-to say commitree, and chapter members about the new house and nothing of hints on stacking rooms! W e do our best with formulated some new house rules . cooking and housecl ea ning with the assistance of the mi x A part of the fall term college life with Orego n Sigmas mas ter,. press ure cooker, vacuum and laundromat- all we re exchange desserts with fraternities , exchange din new. ners with w omen''s o rg anizati ons, faculty d inners, and The highlight of the fi rst se mester was the " Journey a weekl y coffee hour. To a Star" pledge for mal w1 th a 6-foot 3-dimensional The outstand ing pledge caper of the term was their blue and silver star in the center of the dance Hoar. The annual H all oween costume party. Acti ves were Jed pledges presented two so ngs of their own composition, thro ugh Spook corridor and the Horror room to a pump led by Carol Mackey. kin and corn -s talk decorated livi ng- room . Our crowded social ca lendar included the Founders' B ETTY Lou RussE LL D ay Banquet ; a H ellzapoppin ' entertainment at the Unive•·sity of Oregon pioneer club-our student union ; and at the inform al Christmas party, the best gift received was from the An Alpha Chi Voted Dream Girl alumnre chapter -a vacuum cleaner ; and the Blue Marion Smith was chosen D rea m G irl of Alpha Book Ball-an all -college aff ai r. Lambd a chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, and is their cand i Pledges gave a blackface minstrel and also entertai ned . date for the national Dream G irl of Pi K.A. Mari on pledges of the other sororiti es . previously had been chosen football attendant and will J EANNE M . CLARE be maid-of-honor to th e May quee n at Georgetown. Other Mariella Co llege SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE # I i Left to right: V irginia Krause, A lpha Tau, secretary of Sigma Epsilon, business administration honorary, and member o.f Uniotl board at Michigan State; Phyllis Mowery, Xi, who has had lead 1"0les in the University of Kansas productions of "The Far Off Hills," "Bury the Dead," "Hm·ve;l'; Mary Lee Pm·dy, Alpha T au, president of D elta Psi Kappa, national women's physical education honorary and secretary of lV A.A. at Michigan State College. Spaghetti Party for Alpha Tau Omega Brings Beta Lambdas Sculpture Snow Figures Praise to Beta Iota At Utah State the Beta Lambdas are still remembering N ov. 19 we attended the annual Founders' D ay Ban· their annual W inter Form al held at the L. D . S. Insti quet of Pittsburgh alumnre, Our Christmas party was tute. " Stairway to the Stars' ' gave a heavenl y atmosphere. held at the home of Mrs. Readio, our sponsor. Jan. 14, Our pledge class held their annual pledge party fo r all we gave a spaghetti party for the A T !l's. The tables pledges on ca mpus with a "come as yo u are party" based were covered with red and white checked cloths, and on the theme, " Our House Burned D own." The chapter bowls of fruit were the centerpieces as well as the dessert. members left the house and the pledges did al l the en Candlelight and soft record music added to the atmos tertaining . phere. After supper some of the guests danced , while The Aggies of Beta Lambda are sculptured in snow for others played bridge. Many of the boys considered it the th e campus sculpturing contes t. La Faye Reid, made a best sorority party of the season, and of course th at made beautiful clay model of a woman- the theme is " Spring our chests expand. Breaks Forth. " This contest was a part of the annual ANITA TAMBELLIN I Sn ow Carnival, in which all groups partici pate in skiing, Carnegie lmtitute of T ech 11o logy snowshoe and ice activities. MARY LOIS GREAVES Utah State A g•·icultm·al College Beta Kappa's Skit Reaches Finals Sigma Kappa' s " Bachelor Night" fo und the actives hot on the pledges' trail an hour after their getaway . Beta Mu Crowns "fack Frost" The pledges were finally discovered at the home of Dr. Beta Mu chapter has started a collection of reco rds of Maude Williamso n, 8 , alumna, where they treated the Ameri ca n folk music for the Culver-Stockton libra ry. Each actives to chocolate ca ke. The ac ti ves retaliated Monday year at least one album will be g iven by the chapter night with a surprise sneak to Loveland for dinner. On to the collection, which is the first of its type in the co l their return a serenade to the pledges gai ned them en lege library . trance to the house for meeting. Beta Mu pledges gave a Bingo party for the pledges of We observed Cou rtesy Week (or " hell-o" week) in all the oth er sororities on the campus in October. ea rl y February for the Sigma Kappa pledges who were In N ovember, Beta Mu paid tribute to Founders' D ay go ing to be initiated. Sa yi ng " hello" to everyone they by presenting a program of the events which occurred at meet, carrying ca nd y, gum, and cigarettes for the chapter the 75th Diamond Jubilee Conve ntion last June. Delegates members, and answering telephone ca ll s with a prescribed D orothy Patton and Audrey Maas told the group of speech are some of their activities during this week. their experiences at Sun Valley . Beta Kappa was proud to be among the four groups The holiday spirit was carried out by giving a basket on the campus to be chosen for the fin als in the annual of food to be a poverty-stricken family of the town , and Skit Night, in which all the G reek organizati ons par ca roling to the members of the faculty and townspeop!e. ticipate for the whole school. Barbara Patterson was song In ' January, " Frost Fantasy," an annual turn about leader for the skit, which was a silhouette of a boy and dance was gi'1en by Beta Mu. Snowfl akes and wh ite girl in hoop-skirt and pantalettes against a moon lit crepe paper streamers provided the decorati ons and en sky. The chorus in the background sang '.' Moon Song." tertainment was supplied by the crowning of a " Jack Some of the Sigma Kappa's who hold schoool offices Frost." Five candidates for Jack Frost wea ring mufflers on the campus are: Roberta Cox, sec retary of Associated and gloves, skated to the music of the Skaters W altz up W omen's Students ; Paula H aynes, presid ent of French to the throne and the winning " Jack Frost" was crowned club ; and Gerry Miller, vice-president of French club, with an icicle crown and presented with a w hite Vivian Slocum, secretary-treasure r of Student Progressive muffler by Audrey Maas, pres id ent of the chapter. Party. Ca rol Koerber was Panhellenic Counsel's choice Mrs. William Seaman. N ational Second Vice- President, fo r Spruce Queen. visited the chapter in January. VIVIA N SLOCU M A UDRE Y M AAS Co lorado A and AI Cuh•er-Storkton MARCH, 1949 37 Left to rif(ht: Donna Neville, Alpha Phi, is a Stewardess for United Airlines; M_arilyn McCowan, Alp_ha Tau, co-chairman of the Mardi Gras dance at M1ch1gan State; 117a_nda Lee Hamilton, Omega, at Flor1da State University was sponso1· of the football team at the H omecommg game. Beta Nu Reports Honors sored by the alumnae chapters in and around Chicago. The pledge class gave a party for actives and their Bringing honors to the chapter were Marilyn Huston dates at which each active received a corsage of gardenias and Marnajean Groom who were elected to Pi Gamma from her little sister. True to tradition, the pledge class Mu, honorary social science fraternity. Also elected to the gave a skit and composed a song. The evening ended Federation of Scholars, a scholastic honorary, were with a candlelight song fest. Marjorie Long, Marnajean Groom, and Marilyn Huston. To celebrate the end of finals Panhellenic held a One of our pledges Anna Marie Johnson won a trpe Barn D ance. The opening event of the spring semester wri ting contest by typing 120 words a minute. was a Turn-about party. Sunday, Jan. 16 our pledges held a Panhellenic tea on ARLENE EDWARDS the campus and entertained the pledges of Pi B2ta Phi, I/li11 ois Instifllfe of Technology Gamma Phi Beta, and Chi Omega. In Mask and Gavel, a campus dramatic organization, Audrey Madison was named as property chairman ; Connie Beta Rho Plays Hostess for San Jose Stewart, as costume chairman; and .Betty Mull, as pro State Pledge Presentation gram chairman. They took part in the organization's fir st Beta Rho was honored with a visit from Rena play of the season held Jan. 21 -23 "John Loves Mary." Phair Smith, province president, in November. The Panhellenic dance was held Feb. 18 at the Pere Gaynelle Miller was chosen the first homecoming queen Marquette hotel. It was the first attempt of the Pan of San Jose College in N ovember. Gaynelle, a journal hellenic organization on this campus to sponsor such an' ism major, was honored at a dance, reigned as queen of affair, and they hope to make it an annual event. a parade, and was crowned traditionally at game halves. Roberta Randall was named as program chairman. A tea for Mrs. Frank A. Irick, housemother, was BETTY JEAN MULL given Oct. 31. The Palo Alto alumnae assisted with Bradley U11iversity serving and decorations. Beta Rho held an open house for faculty members, Parties Keep Beta Pis Busy parents, and alumnae Nov. 14. Over 150 guests were Theta chapter graciously entertained us at their entertained. Founders' Day celebration. It was a new experience for Tradition got off to a big start for the " baby" chapter our chapter to meet so many of our sisters from chapters in December when over 80 people attended Beta Rho's throughout our province. first Christmas party. Dancing and games furnished enter Our president, Audrey Read, was named the Sweetheart tainment. The decorations, depicting the old English of Sigma Phi Epsilon at their Christmas party, and '·'Christmas Carol, " were done by Nona Brown. Miniature under the mistletoe was given the Sweetheart Pin en Sigma Kappa mugs were given as favors. crusted with pearls. Then they put her atop the piano and An open house for all pledges at San Jose was held at serenaded her with sweetheart songs. the Beta Rho chapter house Jan. 26. · Nine other sororities Ursula Lier, president of the pledge class, was elected participated in the presentation and 208 pledges were secretary of the sophomore class, and Connie Olson so pres·ented. Before the presentation, pledging services were cial chairman of tlie pledge class, was elected social chair held for Beta Rho, followed by a Chinese buffet dinner. man of the freshman class. LENORE Cox The annual event of the Christmas season was lunch San Jose State College eon in the Wedgewood Room of Marshall Fields, spon- Plan now to be at New Ocean House, Swampscott, Mass., June 25-30, 1950 to celebrate the end of our 75th year. 38 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Initiates - ETA-Illinois Wesleyan Joyce Brown, 1325 Mapleton rd., Jacksonville, Fla. Jane Blue, 1207 Thirty-Fourth ave. , N ., St. Petersburg, Margaret Beckman, '52, LaGrange, Ill. Fla. Martha Coolidge, '52, Pontiac, Ill. Patricia Louise Domnick, 357 S. W. Twenty-First rd., Caryl Downer, '52, Aurora, Ill. . Miami, Fla. Barbara Essex, '52, Western Springs, Ill. Yvonne Fitzgerald, Box 627, Fort Myers, Fla. Sue Heinzman, '52, Bloomington, Ill. Danneye Ann Massey, 509 La Fayette st., Marianna, Fla. Phyllis Kirkpatrick, '52, Bloomington, Ill. Catherine Register, 288 1 N.W., Fourth ter. , Miami, Fla. Joanne Mostoller, '52, Heyworth, Ill. Jo Ann Tudeen, 1941 Eighteenth ave., N., St. Petersburg, Elizabeth Neu, '52, Bloomington, Ill. Fla. Jane Petit, '52, Granite City, Ill. Peggy Walsmith, Box 446, Delray Beach, Fla. Jeanette Schnipper, '52, Lombard, Ill. Donna Schultz, ' 52 , Pontiac, Ill. ALPHA EPSILON-Iowa State Renee St. John, '51, Bloomington, Ill. Gloria Lang, '5 1, Villa Park, Ill. Jeanette Weaver, '50, Lincoln, Ill. Shirley Soderberg, '5 1, Burlington, Iowa Jeanette Williams, '52, Bloomington, IlL Bonnie L. Todd, ' 50, Palmyra, Mo. THETA-Illinois ALPHA THETA-Louisville Delia O'Neil, '52, 1015 W. Tremont st., Champaign, Ill. Patricia Happell, '51, 2508 Brighton dr., Louisville, Ky. Jessica Pavlik, '52, 105 !57th st., Calumet City, Ill. Bonnie Holdreeh, '49, 4633 S. Seventh, Louisville, Ky. Ann Pelrine, '50, 1138 Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Ill. Miguel Hoffman, ' 51, 2549 Ridgewood ave., Louisville, Patricia Rush, '50, 5440 Seventy-second ct., Summit, Ill. Ky. Gwen Satterlee, '52, 119 W. Second st., Litchfield, Ill. Margie Hunter, '52, 1426 Larchmont, Louisville, Ky. Mary Lou Sachaeflein, '52, 7808 S. Ada, Chicago, Ill. Rose Ann McCarthy, '52, 1912 Woodbourne, Louisville, Joann Scherb, '52, 401 W. Washington, Champaign, Ill. Ky. Katherine Wolcott, '52, 8257 Kimbark ave., Chicago, Ill. Ann Yolk, '50, 2306 Meadow rd., Louisville, Ky. Jere Willenborg, '50, Indian Hills Trail, Louisville, Ky. JOTA-Denver ALPHA IOTA-Miami University Jackie Apulo, '52, 1343 S. Gaylord st., Denver, Colo. Martha McCarroll, '51, 901 N . First st., Dennison, Ohio Julia Black, '50, Columbus, Mont. Jane Smith, '5 1, 1·24 S. Sixth st., Ironton, Ohio JoAnn Dague, '50, 133 E. Eighth ave., Denver Colo. Dealy Ann Dvorak, '52, 7028 Fifty-fifth ave., N.E., ALPHA KAPPA-Nebraska Seattle, Wash. Nancy Gentelene, '51, Southern dr., Elm Grove, Wis. Helen Barry, '5 1, Kansas City, Mo. Harriet Gleason, '5 1, 1467 S. Humboldt st., Denver, Co lo. Jane Beamis, '51, Linco ln, Neb. Sara McGonagle, '52, 547 Hill ave., Glen Ellyn, Ill. Pat Holliday, '50, Hebron, Neb. Eleanor Mellen, '52, 3231 Port blvd., El Paso, Tex. Nancy Mosher, '52, 627% S. Sherman st., Denver, Colo. ALPHA SIGMA-Westminster Shirlee Nelson, '52, 201 Colorado blvd., Denver, Colo. Phyliss J , Brown, '5 1, 40 Woodward ave., Brockton, Patty Patterson, '52, 1656 Newport st., Denver, Colo. Mass. Therese Pool, '52, 109 N. Union, Madison, S.D. Barbara Crawford, ' 51, Emlenton, Pa. Harriette Robinson, '52, 1207 Figueroa, Walla Walla, Marjorie Crawford, '51, 1125 Hill st., Whitinsville, Wash. Mass. Marion Roth, '50, 1729 Clarkson st., Denver, Colo. Martha Dewar, '51, !61 S. Euclid ave., Bellevue, Pa. Sally Simpson, '52, 2290 Krameria st., Denver, Colo. Paggy Lindquist, '51, Gra nd Valley, Pa. Luella Spargo, '51, 1551 S. Humboldt st., Denver, Colo. Bety Lou Lint, '51, Perryopolis, Pa. Cora Lee Stahl, '50, 414 N. Fifteenth, Canon City, Colo. Alice J. Mitsas, '5 1, 32 1 Boyles ave. , New Castle, Pa. Margaret Witting, '51, 526 Clarkson st., Denver, Colo. Marie L. Olson, '51, 509 Leasure ave., New Castle, Pa . Barbara Shira, '51, 425 Penn st., Butler, Pa. Susan Sternberg, '51, 358 W. Ninth st., Erie, Pa. NU- Middlebury Martha Tidd, '51, Indiana ave., Avonmore, Pa. Dorothy Gilligan, '51, 60 Sunset rd., Weston, Mass. Mary Zahariau, '51, 1202 Negley st., Farrell, Pa. Eleanor Keeler, '51, Elm st., Old Bennington, Vt. Jane E. White, '51, 4407 Chase ave., Bethesda, Md. Sally Eroe, '51, 325 N . Mercer st. , New Castle, Pa. PHI-Rhode Island ALPHA PHI-Oregon Dorothy Howard, '50, Stafford Springs, Conn. Shi.rley Mason, '50, 2025 Lawerence st., Klamath Falls, Katherine Harris, '51, Main st., Wickford, R.I. Ore. Linda Pedron, '50, 1190 Washington st., Eugene, Ore. OMEGA-Florida State Jean Alderman, 1820 Seventh ave., Bradenton, Fla. BETA EPSILON-Louisiana Polytech Barbara Bell, 510 E. Sixth ave., Tallahassee, Fla. Johnnie Elizabeth Floyd, '49, 705 Auburn ave., Monroe, Mary Penelope Bishop, Dogwood st., Monticello, Fla. La. MARCH, 1949 39 BETA ZETA-Maryland BET A LAMBDA-Utah State Gloria Raffo Anacker, '49, 503 Holstein ave., Takoma Joan Barber, '49, Berkeley, Calif. Park, Md. Redonna Cammack, '52, Blackfoot, Idaho Katherine Chipian '52, Bingham, Utah BETA IOTA-Carnegie Tech j oan Christiansen, ' 52, Hyrum, Utah Elynor Bruce, '51, Lebanon Church rd., R.D. 1, Home Marjorie Cole, ' 52, Logan, Utah Virginia Francis, '50, Twin Fall s, Idaho stead, Pa...... I Janet Hoerger, '51 , 812 Norwich ave ., Pittsburgh 26, Pa. Maurine Hanks, ' 51, Idaho Falls, Idaho Marilyn Lee, '52, Logan, Utah BETA KAPPA-Colorado A and M Pat Madsen, '52, Monroe, Utah Margaret McBride, '52, Fillmore, Utah N ancy Kumler joyce Siddoway, '52, Teton , Idaho Wilma Knourek joan Treloar, '52, Afton, Wyo. Paula Haynes Norma Jean Weaver, '52, St. Anthony, Idaho Jo Ann Hall Janet Hyde, '50, 242 1 Jefferson, Ogden, Utah Betsy .Brua Betty Ann Tandy Laura Savage, '52, Hyrum, Utah Vivian Slocum Marilyn Daniels, ' 51, Logan, Utah Pledges EPSILON-Syracuse Barbara Brailey, '52, 19201 S. Moreland blvd. Shaker Heights, Ohio ' Betty Bush, '51 , 91 Marlboro rd., West Hempstead, Mary Jean Burr, '52, 96 State st., Rutland, Vt. N.Y. Elizabeth Dillingham, '52, The Manlius School Manlius Jane Cabelus, '52, 63 Maple st., Plainville, Conn. ~~ ' . Joan Cascio, '50, 2600 Albany ave., West Hartford, Jeanne DuVall, '52, 1968 E. Twenty-Third st. Brooklyn Conn. N~ , , Carolyn Corwin, ' 50, 97 Inwood rd., Bridgeport, Conn. Ruth Eddy, ' 50, Box 55, Rutland, Vt. Nancy Harris, '50, 153 Lark st., Albany, N.Y. Ildara Elmore, '5 1, 149 Ames ave., Leonia, N.J. Ann Horton, '52, 7 Goodrich _s t., East Hempstead, N.Y. Elizabeth Gale, '5 1, 28 Ashland ave. , Buffalo, N .Y. Jane Mac Alpine, '52, 357 E. Main st., Somerville, Barbara Glenn, '51, 2 Burhans pl., Elsmere, N.Y. N.J. Jeanne Koelsch , '52, 4 Dartmouth st., Forest Hills, N.Y. Patricia O'Connor, '52, Summit st., Monroe, N.Y. Frances MacRae, '52, Box 567, Kennebunkport, Me. Earlene Perry, '52, 43 Rankin st., Rockland, Me. Phyllis Mortimer, ' 52, 27 Central st., Randolph, Vt. Barbara Rumbles, '50, 14 Hubbard ave., Stamford, Conn. Martha Rupp, '52, 101 Main st., Springvale, Me. Janice Snell, '51 , 547 Prescott ave., Scranton, Pa. Dorothy Smith, '52, Ill Ridgeway ave., Pittsfield, Mass. Wilma Stegeman, '52, 871 Ostrom ave., Syracuse, N.Y. Manon Thomann, '52; 186 Lakeside dr. Nutley 10 Patricia Taylor, '52, 59 Hempstead ave., West View, N .J. ' ' Pittsburgh, Pa. Nancy· Turner; '52, 18 E. Greenwood ave., Lansdowne, XI-Kansas Pa. Leslie Wehrheim, '52, 44 Rochester st., Scottsville N.Y. Jean L. Bush, ' 52, R.F.D. 6, St. Joseph, Mo. Eleanor M. Wittkuhns, ' 52 , 18 Hobart ave. Summit Dorothy G . Durfee, '52, Dighton, Kan. N.J. , ' Georg~a Lee Sharpe, '52, 390 W. Third st., Colby, Kan. ETA-Illinois Wesleyan Jean Terrell, '50, 622 Ohio, Lawrence, Kan. Loui se Sims, UPSILON-Oregon State THETA-Illinois Mary Ann Shelburne, '51 , Dundee, Ore. Barbara Nemoyer, '52, 407 S. East ave., Oak Park, Delores Braden, '52, 481 Flint st. Grants Pass, Ore. Ill. . Lois Marie Chalcroft, '52, 815 w: Twenty-Fifth ave., June Saley, '50, 1640 N. Seventy-Third ct. , Elmwood Eugene, Ore. Pa~ k, Ill. Barbara Clark, ' 52, 6557 S.E. Thorburn, Portland, Ore. Elizabeth Weston, '52, 71 Salem Lane, Evanston, Ill. Allee Hansen, '52, 6833 N. Fenwick ave., Portland, Marilyn Holmes, ' 50, Alpha, Ill. Ore. Patricia Borngasser, '50, R.R. I , LaSalle, Ill. Marjorie Scott, '52, Ca rlton, Ore. Ruth Lee Lampley, ' 50, 306 Broadway, Gillespie, Ill. Manan Lamb, '50, 417 S. Sixteenth, Herrin, Ill. PHI-Rhode Island MU- University of Washington Doris Atkinson, '52, 93 Brightwood ave., North Provi- Barbara Goodman dence, R.I. Ruth Benson, ' 52 , 9 Williams st., Bristol, R.I. NO-Middlebury Jon Campbell, ' 52, Wickford, R .I. Carol Annable, ' 52, 801 E. Thirty-eighth st., Brookl yn, Elizabeth Cannon, '52, Arnold ave., Edgewood R.I. N.Y. Marjorie Dinwoodie, '52, Ashaway, R.I. ' 40 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Madelyn Geisser, '52, 28 Sherman st., Riverside, R.I. Anne Phillips, '52, South Lyon, Mich. Anne Holford, '52, 54 Woodruff ave., Wakefield, R.I. Virginia Prine, '52, 15061 Monte Vista, Detroit, Mich. Barbara Johnson, '52, 531 Fruit Hill ave., North Provi- Elayne Sache, '52, 16113 Rosemont, Detroit, Mich. dence, R.I. Grace Ann Stapleton, '52, 1523 Federal, Saginaw, Mich. Carline Johnson, '52, 316o Post rd., Apponaug, R.I. Mary Lou Thibodeau, '52, 916 Grand Marais, Grosse Florence Keeher, '52, Southhampton, Mass. Pointe, Mich. ' Marjorie Kent, '52, 41 Wannamoisett rd., East Provi- Patricia Thibodeau, ' 52, 916 Grand Marais, Grosse dence, R.I. Pointe, Mich. Jacqueline Kenyon, '52, 8 Park ave ., Westerly, R.I. Leslie Vermeulen, '52, Oakland dr., Kalamazoo, Mich. Joan Laboissoniere, '52, Gladstone st., Greystone, R.I. Elsie Lombardo, '52, 99 Vaughn ave., Greenwood, R.I. ALPHA PHI-U. of Oregon Betty Loudenslager, '52, 17 Newport ave., Newport, R.I. Elaine Martin, '52, Putman ave., Greenville, R.I. Shirley Clarke, '52, Rt. 3, Box 62, Springfield, Ore. Martha McRae, '52, 75 Ayrault st., Providence, R.I. Carmelita Cobell, '52, 721 N. Evans, McMinnville, Ore. Doris Noyes, '52, 72 Allerton ave., East Providence, Bernice Gartrell, '52, Milwaukie, Ore. R.I. Joanne Harris, '52, 2335 N.W. Irving st., Portland, Ore. Patricia Shailer, '52, 361 Spring Green rd., Governor Mary Havens, '50, 1421 Pacific terr., Klamath Falls, Francis Farms, Edgewood, R.I. Ore. Shirley Wagner, '52, 33 Beechwood ave., Pawtucket, Carolyn Hill, '52, 3305 N.E. Glisan, Portland, Ore. R.I. Pat Honl, '52, 3871 Old Pali rd., Honolulu 8, T.H. Donna Lestico, '52, 656\12 F. st. , Springfield, Ore. Jacqueline Morris, '52, North Powder, Ore. ALPHA KAPPA- Nebraska Ann Moyes, '52, Rt. 1, Box 279, Lake Grove, Ore. Virginia Davis, ' 50, Omaha, Neb. Lois Myers, '52, Rt. 2, Box 438, Springfield, Ore. Martha Stratbucker, '52, Fort Calhoun, Neb. Lillian Schott, '52, Box 148, Kinzua, Ore. Kathleen Stryker, '52, 4130 S.E. Steele st., Portland, Ore. ALPHA LAMBDA-Adelphi Jane Weber, ' 52 , 2726 N .E. Fourteenth ave., Portland, Ruth Ann Angus, '52, 282 Wellington rd., Mineola, Ore. N.Y. June Winter, '52, 2234 N.E. Thirty-Sixth ave., Portland, Mary Ann Bastress, ' 52 , 9230 222nd st. , Queens Village, Ore. N.Y. Jean Young, '52,- 1252 W. Twelfth st., Eugene, Ore. Josephine Berretta, '51, 21-53 Forty-seventh st., Long Nancy Youngblood, ' 51, 315 E. A. st., Grants Pass, Island City, N.Y. Ore. Blanche Geekie, '51, Cambria rd., Little Neck, N.Y. ALPHA CHI-Georgetown Marjorie Heyler, '50, 221·52 Davenport ave., Queens Village, N.Y. Grace Adair, '52 , 103 N. Thirty-Seventh st., Louisville, Ky. Nancy McDonnell, '5 1, White Plains, N.Y. Nancy Bergman, '52, Irvine, Ky. Inez Morazco, '51, 22·38 Thirty-sixth st., Long Island City, N.Y. Margie Burbank, '52, 23 19 Alta ave., Louisville, Ky . June Cavanah, ' 50 , Smithland, Ky. Phyllis Pisciotta, '51, 114-27 119th st., Saint Albans, Helen Donovan, ' 52, Ewing, Ky. N.Y. Patricia Grady, '52, Harrodsburg, Ky. Helen Hamon, ' 50 , 2628 Hackworth st., Ashland, Ky . ALPHA SIGMA-Westminster Paula Hoskins, '52, Liberty, Ky. Ann Ashbaugh, '52, S. Main st., .Knox, Pa. Frances Hughen, '52, 28 First ave. , Jackson Heights, Patricia Campsey, '52 , Meadows st., Claysville, Pa. Pensacola, Fla. Rebecca Carson, '50, 40 S. Lincoln st., Washington, Pa. Jean King, '50, Glasgow, Ky. Pauline Christos, '52, 718 Wilmington ave., New Castle, Rose Celia Martin, '50, Athens, Tenn. Pa. Ella Mae Meador, '52, Erwin, Tenn. Patricia McClure, ' 52 , 333 Vine st., New Wilmington, Barbara Messer, '52, Crab Orchard, Ky. Pa. Billie Mitchell, '52, 103 W. Seventh st., Owensboro, Joan Martin, '52, State st., Oakdale, Pa. Ky. Jean Quigley, '52, 422 Lamore ave ., Allegheny, Pa. Peggy Mitchell, ' 52 , 103 W. Seventh st. , Owensboro, Eleanor Regule, '52, 487 S. Dock, Sharon, Pa. Ky. Jane Scott, '52, 64 Church st., Burgettstown, Pa. Louise Rutledge, ' 52, 324 N. Nineteenth st., Louisville, Margaret Shields, '52, 18 Longview dr., Allison Park, Ky. Pa. BET A ZETA-Maryland Elynor Tiberia, '52, 467 Crandall ave ., Youngstown, Rosemary Guenther, '51, 6201 New York pl. , Apt. 4, Ohio Riverdale, Md. Kathy Tidd, '52, Indiana ave., Avonmore, Pa. Shirley Keady, '51, 3800 Hamilton st. , Hyattsville, Md. Jody Turner, '52, 7215 Brigton rd., Ben Avon, Pa. Ann Mallos, ' 50, 5719 Thirteenth st., N .W., Washing· Eleen Zahariau, ' 52, 1202 Negley st., Farrell, Pa. ton 11, D.C. Laura Wilt, '51, 555 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh, Pa. Helen Neighbours, '50, S. Seton ave., Emmitsburg, Md. ALPHA TAU-Michigan State BETA IOTA-Carnegie Tech Carol Armstrong, '51 , 3033 Lakewood, Detroit, Mich. Caroline M. DeVal, '51, R.D. #2 , Box 341, Pitca irn , Demaris Fuller, ' 52 , 1486 Montgomery, Muskegon, Mich. Pa. Joan Gregory, '52, 510 Cowley ave., East Lansing, Mich. Elaine Grill, ' 52 , 1504 W. Michigan, Jackson, Mich. BETA KAPPA-Colorado A and M Dorothy Harris, ' 52 , 812 S. Attillia, S.E., Grand Rapids, Jane Ewbank, Fort Collins, Colo. Mich. Joann twbank, Fort Collins, Colo. Margot Kabl, ' 52, 85 7 Hampton rd. , Grosse Pointe, Vivian Slocum, Fort Collins, Colo. Mich. Jo Ann Hall, Fort Co llins, Colo. Phyllis Klenk, '52, Sparta, Mich. Elizabeth Brua, Hollidaysburg, Pa. Barbara Kunkel, '52 , 420 Marshall st., East Lansing, Donna Lamb, Winona, Kan. Mich. Betty Cymanski, Pl attville, Colo. Audrey Lagesen , '52, 519% E. Dowland st .. Ludington, June Sheriff, Wray, Colo. Mich. (Continued on page 56) MARCH, 1949 41 Salient News of Sigmas - of the Business and Professional Women's club at Fort Epsilon College Members Are All Worth. Paid Up Life Members! Alpha Pi Alumnte Enjoy Epsilon chapter has some sort of a record-for all of Chatty Homecoming Reunion the present Epsilon college members are paid up Life Members! This outstanding Life Membership record is Alpha Pi alumnae enjoyed a fine reunion in connection the work of Cora Kampfe Dickinso n, a hard working with Ohio Wesleyan's Homecoming last fall. Supper was Epsilon alumna. How Peg Taggart longs for some one served at the home of Kay Eckler Hearn in Delaware. like Cora for every college chapter! Plans were made for another reunion the fall of '49. Mary Allen Kramer was toastmistress for the informal Nancy Hambly, A, Is Working For gathering and Marian Patch Smith Jed the singing of Sigma Kappa songs. Ruth Domigan Truxall gave State Department in Paris some of the highlights of Alpha Pi's first years, with Nancy Hambly, A, is working in Paris, France, as Mrs. Rufus Crane, N, nodding agreement. Mrs. Crane secretary to the head man in Chief Administrative was instmmental in establishing Alpha Pi chapter at Services under the State Department. Nancy, who is the Ohio Wesleyan. Dorothy Crane, Ali, who has been doing daughter of Marguerite Cheever Hambly, also A, ex work at White Cross Children's hospital in Columbus pects to be in Paris for two years and is anxious to also attended. contact any Sigmas who happen to be in Paris. She Among the alumnae present were Mildred Gehret can be reached through the United States Embassy, Paris. Goodwin, _Ruth Diller Davis, Mary Buckingham, Betty Line, Mildred Wetterauer Brooks. Two Alpha Zeta alumnae are among the directors of Vivian Armstrong Wagner told about her summer the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs: Mary Perrell trip West, which included Sun Valley convention. Kelso, '31, and Edna A. Stephany, '31. Margaret Speigel, who teaches in the Ft. Wayne, Ind. drove through Columbus to bring Juanita McVey, who manages the Beauty Salon for Lazarus Department store. Hester Sondergaqrd, AH, Acts in "Galileo" Mary Wolf Gardner came from Pittsburgh, Pa. to Hester Sondergaard, AH, had a part in the produc Strongsville, Ohio to the home of JdaBelle Jacobs tion of "Galileo" by the Experimental Theater at the Roberts, then on to Delaware with Harriet Luther Busler. Maxine Elliott theater in New York City last December. Genevieve (Jane) Musson Hinkle told about life on Charles Laughton took the role of Galileo. their big farm on the Ohio-Michigan line, the first five years being without electricity. Mary Lou Swander Sayre Publishes Genealogy Book is also on a farm, which will soon include a reservoir Winifred Lovering Holman , S.B.F.A.S.G., t!. , a pro stocked with fish as part of Ohio State Conservation pro fessional genealogist and biographer, published the gram. Mary Lou has gone back to teaching now that Stevens Miller Ancestry of 580 pages last fall. It was her three children are in school. compiled for Mrs. Charles S. Pillsbury, Minneapolis. Martha Gregg Myers told of a modern air-con ditioned home just being completed in Upper Sandusky. What Goes on in Walla Walla Gwen Williams Schlueter and Doris Williams Roche Peggy Zuger Stanecipher, AT, has moved into her new drove from Cleveland with their husbands, and all hus bands attending were entertained by Bud Hearn a Ia attractive farm home . Lorraine Scott Hatley, AT, besides organizing and kitchen. being the first president of the Walla Walla Toast Two D elaware girls attended: Dorothy Worrall, who mistress Club, has finished a busy year as our president, is secretary to 0. W. U. Dean of Women, and Sara homemaker and mother of a 20 months' old boy. Boltinghouse Williams. Sara reported she had left her Nell Waite Harvey, A, who travelled extensively last small daughter and twin sons at home with her husband, year introducing the books she composed on the art of who has had his leg in a cast ever since a baseball teaching piano, is off again on a seven month business accident in July. Miriam Johnson Leach came with her and pleasure trip. Navy husband who is now on duty in Columbus, Ohio. Ada Erwin Kelly, T, our new and charming president, Virginia Carter, of Richfield, Ohio, came with Ruth Moss is a good advertisement for her business-a beauty salon. Parks, of Prospect. Letters were read from many girls who could not attend. Peggy VanHouten Oster has moved from Pitts Who's Who in Houston burg to Florida where her husband is teaching. Esther Catherine Bogart Berry, :l: , spends a big share of her Carhart is studying in New York and Mary Logan in hobby-time in Girl Scout activities. During the sum California. Mary will see Helen C. McClure while she mer she &!tended a National Board meeting at Colorado is in California. Hazel Parks Parry has moved from Springs, a . regional meeting at New Orleans, and Alaska, then Buffalo, N.Y., to New Jersey with her Army another regional meeting at Fort Worth. husband and family. Edna Cope Quine wrote they had Louise Wynn Blanton, :l: , attended, with her hus just sold their large farm and 5000 chickens, and are band, a Conference in Philadelphia. Mr. Blanton was traveling in a trai ler until they relocate. Estelle Lem elected president of the American Chamber of Com pertz wrote from Chicago about a recent meeting with merce, Executives association. Phyllis Davies Arnold after discovering they lived only . Lyndith Gerry Barkley, Z, is playing with three a few blocks apart. different bowlmg leagues this year. Betty Lou Kizer is teaching in Honolulu. President of the Houston alumnae chapter, Gladys Cora Harris Goble, E '46, is a N .W. law school Leeper Allensworth, 9, attended the biennial convention student. 42 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Alpha Phi Alumnre Travel and Fly Ayer, Mass., where her husband is rector of the Episcopal Patricia Lee Nordgren Sackett has changed her ad Church. dress to 2139 S.E. Fifty-first Ave., Portland, Ore. c/o Pauline Watts, A '23, is house mother of St. Mark's D. A. Nordgren. Mission, Nenana, Alaska. Arlene Johnson, '47, is working for American Air lines flying out of New York. She graduated from the Helen Aschmann Is on Faculty of Oklahoma City training school in Oklahoma. Northwestern Journalism School Donna Neville is a stewardess on the United Airlines Helen T . Aschmann, BIT, has been appointed to the flying from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and Seattle. She received her Wings from the . Cheyenne, Wyo., train Faculty of Northwestern University, School of Journalism. Free lance writer and first woman to hold such a posi ing school in May. Donna was a part of the all Oregon crew that flew the Oregon football team to Ann Arbor, tion there, she teaches Introduction to Fiction. Mich., in October. Triple threat Sigma Kappa is Marian Vreeland Met calf, II. Marian is vice-president and program chairman Maryellen Wright, '48, from Klamath Falls is visit of West Towns' Alumnre Chapter. As treasurer of ing Mary Day, '48, in Honolulu, Hawaii, while work ing on the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Maryellen graduated Theta's Mother's Club in the Chicago area she helps wj th all money raising activities for Theta where her from the Oregon journalism school with honors. daughter, Marcia, is a member. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Beta Pi at Illinois Tech., making College Lambdas Travel Afar the hour and a half trip each way from Elmhurst to the Barbara Jenkins, A, is visiting Ireland. south side of Chicago to attend Wednesday night chapter Colorful postcards have been received from various meetings. places in Europe from Betty Jo Bunnel, A, who left the United States early in June for Norway. Betty Jo Cleveland Clippings and her family went via the Panama Canal to New York, where they boarded a ship which took them to At our annual Christmas party, held at Ruth Cannel Antwerp. They made stops at Bruxelles, Paris, Rome Wychgel's home Dec. 20, we were happy to entertain and then journeyed on until they reached their destina these college members: Miriam Hirchert, Be; Janet Mc tiop in Norway. Kenney, 0; Patricia Hawgood, AE; Barbara Brailey, N; Pat Brown, /1, believing in the advertisement, "See and Irma Steck, Virginia Knesal, Noreen Feltes, and America First," toured the U. S. making Washington, Marcia Fleming from Alpha Iota. D.C. her principle stay. Jane Potter Hanson, A9, and her husband spent the holidays with Jane's mother in Akron, Ind. Jane has recently been in New York City where she purchased News from Bay Cities many exciting fabrics and wallpapers for her interior Florence Colby Battram has been elected president decorating shop which she is continuing from her former of the California Music Teachers" Association, Alameda residence in Evanston and Barrington, Ill. Jane is a County Branch. welcome addition to our group having moved to 3522 Lucy McCune Yates, A '24, has moved from Martinez, Stoer rd., Shaker Heights last May. Calif., to Bayside, Long Island. Evelyn Adams Corell, A-¥, and family have moved Rosemary Forgie Martin, A '31, and her family will into their new home at 2736 Rocklyn rd., Shaker Heights. move soon to Los Angeles. Muriel Stoll Emerson, A '39. has returned with her family to Berkeley. Two Upsilon Alums on Magazines Marguerite Cheever Hambly, A '23, is · a new grandma. Pat Glenn Hagood's, T, free lance articles have been Her son and his wife have a baby daughter, Katherine appearing in the Sunday Oregonian in the Farm and Hambly, born Dec. 25, '48. Garden section. Katherine Schwaner Kolasa, A, is also a new grandma. Peggy Vincent Elizondo is now in Peru, #15 Cerro Her son and his wife have a son, Walter Kolasa, III, de Passo. born during the fall of 1948. Dorothy Yocum, T, is on the editorial staff of the Sumet Magazine, San Francisco. Eta Alumnre Teach All Around Back at Oregon State college this year are Bonnie Dorothy Washburn, H, is teaching journalism at Thorn Riley Bray, Mildred Martin, and Charlotte Best. ton Township High School, Harvey, Ill., where she is Birdeen Feese Tulley (Mrs. Kenneth) is living at also managing the weekly school newspaper and year 23 18 Carquinez ave., Richmond, Calif. book. Her address is 228 E. !50th st., Harvey, Ill. Mary Louise Smith Warren is teaching Home Eco Ruth Lyon De Gamboa, H, is teaching Spanish and nomics and Physical Education at Monroe, Ore. French at Gulf Park college, Gulfport, Miss. Lucile Otto Goff, H, is teaching in the High School Doings of Dallas Alumnre at Eaton Rapids, Mich. Dorothy Hyles Manes and sons Kenny and Tony are Lois Childs Craig, H, has moved to 514 Wildwood, leaving us to make their home in Caracas, Venezuela. Jackson, Mich., from Gibson City, Ill. Rene has been in South America for several months with Marilyn Mecherle, 16 year old daughter of Rosamond the Venezuelan Atlantic Refining co. Rene was fortunate Salzman Mecherle, H, won five ribbons and two trophies enough to find a new three bedroom house. Dorothy and at the International Stock Show Horse Show in Chicago sons will fly down from Dallas in about fourteen hours. in December riding three gaited Sue Barrymore. She Helen Powell Pace, 1: , and son, Rusty, were in Dallas won the Grand Championship in the senior division in a few days before joining Russell in the Rio Grande equitation over seventeen qualifying riders. Valley. Mrs. Randolph Smith (Edwina Ratcliffe, 1: ex'20) has Boston. Broadcast returned to Dallas after an absence of several years. Margaret Cochran '17, has been elected secretary Marjorie Reagan Mills, l:, has moved back to Dallas treasurer of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in after several years in Washington, D.C. Massachusetts and appointed representative for the Na A new member is Betty Lyman, AT. tional Council of Mathematics. Our international member, Mrs. John Barr (Ruth Katherine E. Hilliker, A '13, was recently elected presi Hill, 1: '24) plans to stay in Shanghai, China, hoping dent of the New England Association of Collegiate conditions will improve. She is teaching in the Shanghai Registrars. American School. Frances Fox Baker's (Mrs. Lewis F.), A '15, new Elizabeth Moore, 1: '28, is National President of address is 22 Crosby rd., Chestnut Hill 67, Mass. Delta Psi Kappa, and presided at their National Conven Derothy Latham Mattack, A '21, is now living in tion in Asheville, N .C., in February. MARCH, 1949 43 Milwaukee Alums Move Dorothea McClain, ;:: , played the part of Louisa Cr~ed in the Little Theatre production of " Ladies 10 Retire The Franklin Claytons (Irene Ramlow, o/) and their two daughters will soon be moving to Beloit, Wis. . ment." Marjorie Reagan Mills and fami ly have bought a The Reynolds Tjensvolds (Margaret Mtller, o/) wtll house out in Oak Cli ff and are Dallasites once more. be moving in any day now to their new home at 2526 Mary Lula Fleming is president of Senesa Study club. N. Seventy-Third st. , Wauwatosa, Wis. Helen Gratigny is President of a leader group of Gtrl Scouts . Reba Ross was elected to the American Guild of Harriett Hicks Thompson Is Busy! Organists. Mrs. Claude E. Thompson (Harriett Hicks, Al\1), president of the Omaha Alumnre Chapter, has also been Denver News and Moves elected President of the Omaha Women's Faculty club Alumnre on the moving list from Denver are Mrs. and of the Parents Council for Cerebral Palsy Victims. Henry W. Hasse (Betty Brannan) and Mrs. Grant L. Mrs. W . G. McCubbin (Margaret Marston, AK) has Robertson (Dorothy Tait) who have movec) to Fort been appointed Omaha Cit y rush chairman. Morgan, Co lo. Three other Denver alumnre preparing to move into their new homes in east D enver are Mrs. Collect Honors in Palo Alto A. G. Moerlin (El'nor Berg), Mrs. Ralph Armstron·g Marian Schaeffer (Mrs. Paul), e. is chairman of San (Betty Paul) , and Mrs. Daniel E. Conwell (Elaine Jose City Panhellenic's scholarship committee. Haney). Lu ria Heinsen (Mrs. A. C.) one of BP's honor tnt Recently we have had the pleasure of including two tiates, is a County Commander for the American Cancer stray Sigma Kappas on our roster. Mrs. M. E. Hays Society. (Gladys D avis, A) is a frequent visitor at the house. Mary Sloan Wilbur (Mrs. Blake) , II, is President of Her daughter Joan is a Sigma Kappa at Purdue. While the Y.W.C.A. Advisory Board of Stanford university, 'a in Denver Mr. and Mrs. H ays are staying at the Hall board member of the Palo Alto Community Y outh Fund hotel. The other alumna is Mrs. H . E. Larson (Mildred and a Staff Assistant of the Red Cross. Bennett, AE) who has moved to Denver from Shreve port, La. Travelers include M rs . Hugh M . Woods, Jr. , who Philadelphia Patter spent a month in Mexico and Mrs. Ward Darley who Guests at the Hotel Dennis in Atlantic City for the attended a medical meeting in West Virginia. Christmas season were fortunate in hav ing Philadelphia's One of the most glamorous · trips we have heard of is peppy H elen Perrell, AZ, as their social director. that taken by Myrtle Lang and Grace Seeman. They left Eunice Keirn, A o/, is kept busy these days substitute Denver Jan. 14 for San Francisco and sai led Jan. 17 for teaching in the Philadelphia schools. a month's vacation in Hawaii . Mary Kelso, AZ, president last year of the Cornell Women's Club, has recently been made a Director of Detroit Doings the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs. Margaret Nortenheim, All and E, has left our midst Gene Allais, e, has visited her brother in St. Peters to open a shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. burg, Fla. Members with new homes include Christine Connor Kay Keenan, M, flew to Chicago for Christmas and Bowler, AT, Hazel Rogers Meredith, AT, and Jean for her sister, Irene's wedding. Kay works in Phila delphia for the Phi leo advertising agency . Viesel Maas, AT . Grace Maass Matthews left Jan. 28 for a six weeks' Ploy Armstrong, X, recovered from a recent illness, vacation trip to Mexico with her husband. has started a new job as office manager at the Methodist Dorothy Limburg Eggleston, AB '26, and her husband, Ep iscopal Hospital in Philadelphia. Ralph, combined a week's business and pleasure trip to Helen H auenstein , AH, w ho has a fascinating job as New York, Buffalo and Philadelphia, during the holidays. a travel consultant w ith Thomas Cook and Son travel agency, went to Guatemala in October. These trips are a pleasant part of H elen's job, though Helen is afraid Knoxville Enjoys Visit of Betty Lou that next year she wi ll have to go to Europe agai n. Kizer from Honolulu Mary Petersen , A'l', and her husband, Arnold, are From across the blue Pacific came a grand surprise to spending all the time they can at the Home of Our her parents and to Sigma friends when Betty Lou Merciful Saviour Hospital since their three-year old son, Kizer, At>, arrived to spend the Christmas holidays from Scotty, has been out there under treatment since his bout Honolulu. Betty is teaching kindergarten and is sharing with polio last summer. an apartment with Dot Lynne, also Ali. Dot is working in the frozen foods research division of the Dole Pine What Alpha Sigma Alumn~ Are Doing apple Co. There are twelve known Sigmas in Honolulu who are in the process of " doing something about it." Christine Masterson, Al: '47, is a secretary at Duquesne Frances Lewis Hurley is lay ing plans for a summer Lil(ht Company, East Liberty, Pittsburgh. vacation in Mexico-a family vacation, since Francie Ruth Stoehr, Al: '46, is a copywriter in the educational Lew and Leonard are taking all three youngsters. public re lations department, advertising division, of Elise Reed Jen kins, " Doc" and yo ung Reed are about H . J, H einz Company. to become dream- house ow ners. The blue-prints have June Menn, Al: '48, is employed as a secretary in been checked and double checked, the well is dug and the Quality Control department also at Heinz . the orchard and . trees planted. Clai re Quigley Wanner, Al: '47, is teaching second grade in the Berkeley Hills School in suburban Pittsburgh. Opens Memphis Kindergarten Katherine Zderad Robbins, B:::, has opened a kinder Alpha Kappa Notes garten in one of the Memphis city schools. She has Mabel Heyne Buell, AK, who has been living in San just returned from two years with the Nursery school on Antonio, Tex., has moved to Mitchell, S.D. the campus of the University of Mississippi. Hollis Eggers, AK, is following her career as an in surance saleswoman in St. Joseph, Mo. Her address is Beta Theta Alumn~ Move 415 N. Tenth. Mildred Sey ler, Be, left in January to attend Teachers College, Columbia University to work on her Masters Syracuse Address Changes D egree in N ursing Administration. Changed addresses for Syracuse area alumnre include Mrs. Lawrence Schultheis (Nina Muscari) is living at Barbara Weinges Cross (Mrs. Roger H .), E ex' 48, c/o 315 South K st., Pensacola, Fla., where her husband is Mrs. Theodore Stenner, Penfield, N.Y.; Margaretta Le with the Naval Air Corps·. Vee Mitchell (Mrs. Donald), E '46, Hanks Village, 44 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE N.Y.; Jean Duffie Gardner (Mrs. Irving H.), E '43, Catherine Wettling Hen ward (Mrs. DeBanks M.), 76 Burgess Ave ., Westwood, Mass.; Betty Farber Peter E ' 24, though retiring in January as Onondaga County sen (Mrs. Gunnar), E '39, whose husband is a ski Girl Scout Commissioner, is a member of the Girl Scout instructor at Syracuse University, Clay, N.Y. ; Leonora Regional Committee of the Hendrick Hudson region. She Willkie Remillard (Mrs. Robert), 134 Delaware St., is also general golf chairman for the Onondaga Country Syracuse 4, N.Y.; Betty Haase Ford (Mrs. E. Allison), club, and has been appointed chairman of the Women's BZ '43, who moved into a new home, on which she Golf Tournament to be held this June. and her husband did a great deal of work themselves, Betty Tracy Morrow (Mrs. Robert Rising) , E '46, at 2 Munro Drive, R.F.D. 1, Camillus, N.Y. director of the Girls' Club, Women of Rotary project, and full time probation officer for the Onond'aga County They Don't .Loaf in Sacramento! Children's Court, still found time and energy to serve Helen Johnston Dow, AO, is Vice President of the as co-chairman of Delaware Baptist Church's very success Sacramento League of Women Voters. She is also on the ful two day church festival. State Parent Teachers' Board. Judith Heitman Lamprecht (Mrs. Joseph) , E '39, par Dr. Ruth Sievers Thomas, II, one of the more recent ticipated as soloist in Zeta Phi Eta's, women's professional members of our alumnae chapter, is Vice President of speech arts fraternity, Christmas party. the Sacramento Junior College and also Dean of Women. Calla .Brewster Whitney (Mrs. Rich D.) , E ex'09, Helen Van Norman Webster, AT, and her husband, served as chairman for the World Day of Prayer, spon formerly of Yakima, Wash., are making their home 'in sored March 4 by the Syracuse Council of Churches. Sacramento now. Helen is with the Telephone Company. Ann Aloi Garofalo (Mrs. Albert) E ' 33 , who Janice Parks Chastain, AI, is now doing Social Wel sailed Feb. 11 for a Caribbean cruise, was selected in fare work in the General Relief Division . January by Syracuse styli sts as one of the ten best Betty Bowen Tretheway, A, finds time to do volunteer dressed women in the city. Ann is a member of the work for the Blood Bank. board of the Volunteer Center, also a director of tl:e Marion Tarbell, II, Director of the City Health De Rummage Shop, only financial contributing member in partment laboratory, is serving as head of the city Syracuse of the Syracuse Council of Social Agencies. laboratory and as a public health laboratory technician, Working with Beatrice Lines, one of the co-chairmen wrth a staff of three. Commanding officer of the local of tickets for the Henry Scott benefit recital sponsored WAVE unit, Marion holds a reserve Navy commission by the Syracuse University Alumnae Club for the Women's as a li eutenant, junior grade. During the war, she Building Fund were Melva Waful, '40, Ethel Quacken bush Heselden, '42, Maxine Gilmour Stryker, '39, Mary served at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center in Belle Forbes, '44, and Catherine Henward. Maryland as a bacteriologist. She is also commanding Mary Belle Forbes, secretary to the Manager of Sales, officer of a local American Legion organization. the Receiver Division of General Electric Co ., is an · officer Virginia Boden Post, Chairman of the Health Section of the G.E. Girls' Bowling League. She confesses that of Community Welfare and Associate Conductress, Order of Eastern Star. she is only high scorer now, but last season she held the high individual single (185) as well as the high San Francisco Alumna! Chapter Lulu Armstrong quite literally went into office as Treasurer of Bay Cities Panhellenic with a BANG! As she was leaving the home of the new Panhellenic Presi dent after the organization meeting she fe ll and broke her arm. When she regains the use of that right arm after eight week's immobilization in a cast, it is hoped shell write an account of the chain of events following, for it abounds in enough humorous detail to make a clever short story. San Francisco Alumnae Chapter is indebted to Iota for two charming new members. Marjorie Urich Yockey and Jeanne Basford Brenimer. " Bill" Yockey is Assistant Division Manager of the Western Division for Parker Pen Company. Marj travels with Bill quite a bit, but when she is in San Francisco she gives at least one day a week as Staff Aide for the Red Cross. Jeanne's hus band. Charles J. is studying dentistry at the University of California. Jeanne and Charles have two adorable boys , Jackie-four and Randy-two. Martha Turner Landers, Ar, is a great addition to our group. Her husband, Leonard, is with the American President Steamship Company. In that capacity the Landers were in Panama for nine years-Martha tells us as she wrote to the TRIANGLE , of the time nine Sigma Kappas met at the Panama Golf and Country Club for a wonderful get-together. Lucie Lee Christman is our "traveling" member. Last year she and her husband traveled extensively through Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Now they are en route by automobile for an extended stay in Mexico City, then they will go by plane to Guatemala City 1 It Mary Belle Forbes, E '44, Bowling, Golf, and sounds most romantic to us sober stay-at-homes . Style Show Enthusiast Helen Blackie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Crocker Old Peoples Home for six individual triple (477). As for golf, she was runner-up months or so. in the GE Gal Golfers championship match last season. As though that were not enough, Mary Belle modelled All Kinds of News About Epsilons of all Ages in GE's November Fashion Show. Betty Tracy Carmichel (Mrs. Alexander), E '38, our Annette Craig Goodman (Mrs. Lewis) , E '47 , served Province President, was recently appointed a vice-president as chairman of the February benefit bridge party spon of the Hospital Auxiliary board of \XIieting Johnson, sored by the Jay-Cettes for Wieting Johnson Hospital. Syracuse' Rheumatic Fever center. Mary Louise Hills, E '41, served as director for the MARCH, 1949 45 Calla Brewster Whitney, E, general chairman of Ann Aloi Garofalo, E 1949 World Day of Prayer sponsored by Syramse Ann Aloi Garofalo (Mrs. Albert), E, was ,-hosen cottncil of chttrches. by fashion experts as one of the ten best dressed women in Syracttse for 1949. came went to the same house which had been moved to Tulsa! Even the light and gas connections were in and April mass music festival sponsored by the Central New the family had dinner at home as usual. . York Association of Music Teachers. Goldie Capers Smith, :!: (Mrs. Hugh L.), was wmner Eleanor Seymour Jutras (Mrs. Francis), A '20, one of of the $50 annual Peace Prize offered by the Poetry our program co -chairmen, took a vacation from her volun· Society of Texas in November, with a sonnet ent1tled, teer duties at the Red Cross Motor Corps center, and "Invocation for the Security Council." The sonnet w11l drove to Corpus Christi, Tex., in February to visit her son. be published in the Year Book of the Poetry Society of Maria Calabrese Murray, E '44, in January rece1ved a Texas. Goldie is working on her Master's degree at the Masters Degree in Allied Arts from the College of University of Tulsa this year, and will present as her Home Economics, Syracuse University. thesis a book of original poetry. Cora Harris Goble, E · 46, is enrolled as a student Helen Ford Kaufman (Mrs. Roger), '46, comes to at Northwestern University School of Law. us from Beta Epsilon Chapter at Ruston-Tulsa Alumnre's Evelyn C. Bassett, E '22, YWCA Indust_rial Girls' adopted chapter. Both Helen and Roger are employees Secretary in Dayton, Ohio, spent the summer 10 Ireland. of an oil company in Tulsa. Bernice Brewster Caskey (Mrs. Kenneth). E ' 23, is Billie Rhea Corley, BE (Mrs. Wayne T.) and her secretary of the Harrisburg, Pa., Syracuse University husband, District Engineer with Interstate Pipelines in Alumni. Tulsa, are hunting a house here. From Anchorage, Alaska, Janet Whitenack Stout (Mrs. The Don Barclays (Harriet George, AH) have had Verne). E '29, writes that she is now revelling in all their share of automobile accidents· this year-three in the hot water she wants to use for Bendix and general a row. In the spring, their car was wrecked in an household use--after nine years without hot running accident in Tulsa, with no serious injury. During the water. They are meeting their housing problem by summer when they were in Colorado in a new station building their own home--mostly by hand. Work is wagon, they had a disastrous accident on a mountain progressing steadily if slowly. road with six passengers in the car, all of whom were injured, Don the worst of all. The car was a total loss. News of Tulsa Sigmas Then just this month their younger son Arthur, a h1gh Louise Kreuzer Montgomery, AZ, and Claude have school student, was seriously hurt while riding with recently bought a new home in Tulsa at 2144 S. Nor several students in a car belonging to another member folk Terrace. Claude, a well-known American artist, of the party. Arthur was hospitalized for some time be who was the only American to win the silver medal in cause of two chipped vertebrae. The Barclays hope their the Graphic Section at the Paris Exposition in 1937. bad luck has run its course now. They lived two years in Mexico before coming to Tulsa, and Claude has had a one-man show of his Mexican paintings in New York and in Tulsa. They spend their News from Winnipeg summers at their home on Peak's Island in Casco Bay, Mary Shearer Widdows and small son, David have left Me. , and their winters in Tulsa where Claude is a very for Washington, D.C., to join Lt. Comdr. William E. busy portrait painter. Widdows who has been appointed to a staff position in Mary Stanwaity Updegraff, a classmate of Beula John Washington with the Royal Canadian Navy. son in Xi, came to Tulsa from Pryor, Okla. She is an Holiday visitors in Winnipeg were Jean Cuthbert, '47, instructor in the Aeronautical College of Engineering at of the department of Dietetics, Vancouver General the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa. Her four Hospital, and Edith Ashdown, '47, student dietician, children live in Tulsa, three of them at home with University of Alberta Hospital. Mary. Her daughter Jane is married. Mary had diffi Mrs. Gordon Leckie . (Janet Story, Br) has left with culty finding a house in Tulsa, so she had her Pryor her husband for England. home moved one day some twenty miles. She had Claire Tisdale, BI', recently delivered an address on breakfast in Pryor, went to work, and when evening her European trip to a large and appreciative audience. 46 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE With ·Our Alumnae Chapters BEATRICE STRAIT LINES, Editor - Akron Coffee and tea were poured by Mrs. William Adams and Mrs. Florence Regester from a table centered with Sun Valley convention reports were given by Joyce a pink balloon bunny. Hatch, Mildred Moody, and Kathryn . Mansell at the Senior guests were Beverley Murphy, president of Oct. 11 meeting with Lucille Hastings. A luncheon at Tau chapter, and Pat Davis, Margery Badanish, Helen the Mayflower hotel Nov. 13 celebrated Founders Day. Chaney, Mary Lou Hassler, Ginny Schultz, and Marth Christmas gifts were brought for the Maine Sea Coast Joe Davis. Mission. Pledges honored were Barbara Ayres, Barbara Burnett, KATHRYN SHRYOCK MANSELL Nancy Colbert, Pat Fortress, Joan Gerrard, Barbara Goodwin, Adrienne Hitchcock, Glenda Nolte, Betty Ames Noon, Phyllis Phew, Clara Ratliff, Ann Schoenholtz, and Beverley Smith. Our buffet supper for the twenty-three new pledges Mrs. Louise Pleasants, Sigma Kappa housemother, was of Alpha Epsilon was held in November at the lovely a guest of honor. Alumn"' present were Beatrice Colbert home of Frances Adams. Also in November six of our and the Mesdames William Adams, Howard Brown, members visited the Des Moines alumn"' monthly Burchard Davidson, Florence Regester, Louis Heitz, luncheon meeting. Our Province President, Lucille Hoff Brooks Pernick, William Moss, L. L. Waters, Robert man, was guest of honor and gave a very enthusiastic Neidhart, John Scott Davenport, and John Stempel. speech. DOROTHY MILLIKEN DAVENPORT In December we gave a buffet supper for the graduat ing seniors of Alpha Epsilon. Miss Mable Campbell, who helped found Phi Chapter talked on "Our Life's Goal." Boston Late in January, Ames, Iowa, held a two day Pan Boston alumn"'' s annual Christmas tea was held at hellenic Program, honoring eleven national social fra· 131 Commonwealth ave., Boston. At January's "Dutch" ternity officers. Helen Ives Corbett, represented Sigma lunch and business meeting at the Chatterbox, we were Kappa and spoke at the dinner Feb. 1, attended by 750 honored by the presence of Mrs. Peasley, who gave sorority women. • an interesting talk and showed pictures of the Maine At our Feb. 3 meeting we showed movies of the Seacoast Mission. Feb. 24 the members of the Boston Maine Sea Coast Mission at the sorority house to permit alumn"' club were on WNAC ·on the Boston Gas pro· the college girls to see them too. gram, " Quizzing the Wives." BEVERLY T. HAW Our speaker March 5 was Winifred Lovering Holman, who talked on her recent trip to England. In April Esther Freeman, our Panhellenic delegate, will speak Bay Cities on "Philanthropies Supported by Greek Letter Sororities." A good turnout of Bay Cities alumn:l! met Jan. 19 The annual meeting will be held May 28 at the home lor a buffet supper at Mary Freese Prucha's T, home. The of Sue Tidd Heald in Woburn. supper was given by the Hillside Group of the Alumn"' RUTH I. BESSON Association. Letters were read from the Greek girls in Salonica, Greece. It was decided to send additional Central Ohio "CARE" packages and, also packages made up from our own things to the Greek girls. Everyone had a wonderful time at the Christmas party After our rummage sale last fall, Hillside Group made at the lovely home of Helen Coppess Fait Dec. 7-hus· up four clothing packages from articles left over from bands and. boyfriends were invited. Motion pictures of the sale to be sent to the Maine Sea Coast Mission. the Maine Sea Coast Mission were shown followed by The Annual East Bay Alumn"' Luncheon and Card a delicious buffet supper. Party, held in mid-March at the Chapter house in In January, in the new home of Ruth Davis Long, Berkeley, was a big success and will certainly help us we were entertained by one of our own members, Betty meet our obligations to our philanthropies. Patricia Sedgewick Rucker who belongs to the Storytellers Stearn Rohde, A, '41 was General Chairman. She was League. aided by: Mary Turnbull Schacht, A '37, Peggy Me· The February business meeting held at Betty Ruckers Guire Bannister, A '35, Duffy Rawlins Prevost, A '37, was followed by bridge. Barbara Alexander Stone, A '37, and Florabelle Marsh At our March meeting Mrs. Neal Hallock gave us Blank, A '39. some pointers on Interior Decorating. Lucille Tibbals FLORABELLE BLANK was hostess. In April we are looking forward to our annual Spring luncheon. Frieda Beltz is chairman for the affair. Bloomington, Ill. In May comes election of officers at the home of Mrs. Grace Green, H, gave an interesting account of Helen Nida Brannon and in June we plan to have a her recent trip to Europe at our meeting Nov. 22 . The picnic, inviting husbands, friends and children. annual Christmas luncheon was held Dec. 27 at the HELEN HILDERBRAN T HARBAUGH Rogers hotel, with many Sigmas home for the holidays attending. Champaign-Urbana Our January meeting was held in the home of Bertha Bloomington, Ind. Burkhardt McClure, '1', Miss Jane Klein, one of the The Bloomington, Ind., alumn"' chapter honored the new assistant deans of women at the University of seniors and new pledges, Sunday afternoon March 20, Illinois, talked on "Alumn"' Relationships," in which at the home of Mrs. John E. Stempel. she pointed out the many ways the alumn"' can help MARCH, 1949 47 We had a semi-pot-luck supper (we don't intend to the college chapter. She particularly stressed three phases: have all baked beans and no pie!) ·with husbands and first alumni support of University policies and rushing guests the end of January at the home of Betty Seavey rules as well as a knowledge of the Panhellenic con in Riverside. stitution; second, alumnre understanding of the purpose For February we planned a card party at the Bowman of the dean of women's office which is to help the Dairy Company. student build character and leadership; and third the Besides donations to Hines Hospital and our regular art of human relationship and the importance of main gifts to Main Seacoast Mission we have decided to put taining individualism for members. idle hands to use at our meetings and do some sewmg In December we met in the home of our president, for a children's hospital or some other needy organiza Edna Sullivan. Edna's brother, Dr. Arthur T. Sullivan, tion. showed his colored movies of the northwest. As our We were invited to the North Side Alumnre February Christmas gift to Theta chapter we gave $50 towards meeting at the home of Edith Holm, and saw movies the new silver. of Maine Seacoast Mission . Many alumnre attended the moving and impressive ETHEL BuRKHARDT Founders' Day ceremony held Nov. 21 in the Theta chapter house. Lorah Monroe came from Bloomington to preside at the impressive service honoring our five Cincinnati founders. Mabel Walmsley Roney, of Mattoon, one of Again this Christmas Joyce Eddy opened her lovely the founders of Theta chapter, was present, and she home in Hyde Park for a delightful Christmas Party. told how Theta chapter was founded, after which she This year we packed a Christmas box for the Main presented to the chapter a picture of its ten original Seacoast Mission . Our President, Mary Frances Severin, members. At the buffet supper which followed Mrs. initiated the idea, feeling that something warmer in R. K. Hursh poured. Guests included many from Eta, feeling than a check would be a nice gesture. Beta Pi, and Beta Nu chapters as well as alumnre Our group is growing constantly since many Alpha from out-of-town. Iota recent graduates attend our meetings and Virginia We are planning to have our annual round-up in the Hill has secured a list from National Office of all spring, probably in M~y. To this we invite alumnre Sigmas in the Cincinnati area and each meeting brings in downstate Illinois within approximately a 150 mile out a previously "undiscovered" member. We miss Mary radius, in order to give us an opportunity to become Jean Snook who now is working in Detroit. better acquainted with each other and with Theta chap A Luncheon at the Cincinnati club was our January ter. This year Mrs. Stanley Slack and Mrs. N. K. meeting. Tuthill are co-chairmen. In May we will entertain the RUTH WURTZ WALKER seniors from Theta in the home of lone Allen with the executive board as hostesses. ' ELEANOR B. SIEBERT Cleveland Dec. 5 a buffet supper was given by Cleveland Alum Chicago-North Side nre to honor our National President, Katharine Tener Lowry, 8 ,_ and to introduce her to the present Cleveland Our November meeting was held in the newly Panhellen1c group. Evelyn Adams Corell, A'l', graciously purchased home of Betty-Jane Heitz, if\ Rogers Park. offered her beautiful new home for the occasion A We brought gifts for the Maine Sea Coast Mission Panhellenic representative and the local president of gayly wrapped in Christmas paper and ribbons . We had each sorority were invited to attend, as well as our a nice letter from the Mission later, telling us the gifts national officers. We were happy that Marion Race Cole were "just what they wanted"! At this same November our National First Vice President, was ab le to b~ meeting, perfume, hosiery and greeting cards were sold. present. Approximately eighty enjoyed the party, including The December meeting ... "Christmas Eve Preview" three alumnre from Akron and our own Cleveland . . . was held in the apartment of Susie Fisher our Alumnre. Exhibits of the Maine Seacoast Mission and Vice-Pres_ident. Each girl brought a 50¢ gift fo~ the Natwnal Greek Philanthropy were ably displayed by grab-bag and a hilarious time was hel~ by all. A spe Jane Scearce Shepherd, '1'. Cial guest was Lt. Commander Ellen Littlejohn, the To. build up our treasury before Christmas we sold Rank1ng WAVE officer in this Naval District! We sent Florence Gunnarson's perfume . At our janua;y meeting Chnstmas ~.Cts to several college chapters in our area. we had a Beauty Counselor demonstration to help in Edna He1tzman entertained us in her apartment for the crease our funds. January meeting. .Because we are now solvent we In . cooperation with Cleveland Panhellenic, Mrs. planned on sending gifts to the Greek school. A't the Gen~v1eve Payne, Delta Gamma, spoke at our January Febr~ary meetmg we saw movies of the Maine Seacoast meetmg on Peace, as proposed by the World Federalists. MISSIOn. RITA SCHNELL HINCKLEY BETTY-JANE HEITZ Corvallis, O re. Chicago- West Suburban At Co~vallis' first fall meeting Sept. 28, at the home In November we met at Dorothy Burnet"s home in of Conme Shupe Plants, plans were made for bolstering Oak Park. We were happy to welcome Helen Smith the treasury by the sale of Christmas cards and wrap BIT, also Edith Taylor, 13, who lives in Atlanta, but i~ pmgs, and by a rummage sale. here gomg to school at the University of Chicago. Nora Oct. 11, a dessert was held at the chapter house, Nelson, who went to school in Norway last summer hononng th~ pledges and giving the alumnre members entertained us with beautiful colored slides of her trip: an opportunity to become acquainted with them. How those l'!orweg.an words do slide off her tongue. Toys Money has been sent to the Main Seacoast Mission sent _to Mame Sea Coast Mission for Christmas were and as a local philanthropy we are sending birthda; exh1b1ted and admired. cards and money to eighteen boys at the Children's In December we met at the home of Shirley Snow in Farm Home. R1ver Forest. Florence Gunnarson Spraker, ~·. told CHARLOTTE BEST about her perfume and all that goes into the making of 1t. Grace Dahlberg, 13, and Alice Lawley 13 w newcomers. ' • ere Dallas Our firs.t meeting of 1949 was in River Forest at All fall the Dallas Alums have been on the go-with Ruth Ho_lt s home. We saw a color movie on the dyein both luncheon and evening meetings most months! In of matenals w1th the warning to ·"Look for the Ta g September we saw movies of Sun Valley and heard about IS 1t washfast'??" g · · · conventiOn. At the October luncheon we heard more 48 SIGMA KAPPA TRI ANGLE about convention. All members are on the look-out for dent, Millie Kesler Hawhurst, who was on her way to money making schemes as it looks as though the college visit Beta Kappa at Colorado A. & M. That same after· chapter might be able to start some type of housing noon we were given a performance of Poe's "The Raven" soon. Hettie Lee Winsett is working hard on a rummage by the pledge class which won them a golden cup at sale to be held soon. the annual Junior Panhellenic party last fall. In January, Sigma chapter and the Dallas Alumna: We gave Iota chapter a sterling silver lemon fork chapter were pleased and honored by the visit of our and some sugar tongs at their annual Christmas party. National Council who met if\ D allas. It was indeed a They returned the favor when they entertained us at a pleasure to become acquainted with these Sigma Kappa wonderful dessert-coffee at the chapter house. Sisters and it was with great pride that we introduced The rummage sale in January under the able direction them to members of our Mothers Club, members of of Margaret Mayer Leise cleared $90.00 for us. other Greek Organizations, and members of the faculty In February we enjoyed a Valentine dance planned by and staff of Southern Methodist University, at a tea us with the Iota college chapter and their dates as our held at Mrs. Norman G. Hardy's home. guests. Other events filling the calendar will be a luncheon and fashion show to be held in March at Dayton Daniels and Fisher's Tea Room and April will be the month for the election of officers as well as the presenta· Dayton's biggest news is leaving the club class to tion of "Sigma Kappa Woman of the Year." May will become a chapter. The petition to give the group the again feature our annual "Intercollegiate Night" at chapter title has been submitted to central office. Elitch's Gardens which is not only a big event in the Next in the• li st of important happenings was the lives of the Denver alumna: but ALL of Denver. The visi t of Marion Race Cole, National First Vice President, spring party with the active chapter will also be held for our November meeting at the home of Mrs. Ralph in May. All of this, together with our monthly lunch· Chilton. eons and meetings should be sufficient to keep the Denver The Christmas party with the usual gift exchange was alumna: on their toes and well informed for the next four at the home of Mrs. Paul L. Yordy. Mrs. Martin A. months. Antman, hostess at the January meeting, showed colored JUDY BERSHAW JOLLY slides of various travels. At the February meeting at the home of Miriam Wilson, we assembled articles to be sent Detroit to one of the Greek girls. The Dayton group's annual white elephant sale was We had a record turnout of thirty-eight members for the feature of the March meeting at the new home of the October dinner meeting at the home of Margaret Mrs. Fred Behrens, 1737 Kipling drive. Anger Shannon, AT. The highlight of the evening was JEAN RAGAN COLLETT a book review by Genevieve Bowles Schoonover, T '13, of the book " Together" by Mrs. George Marshall. Our Christmas party, sponsored by the Junior Group was held at the home of Genevieve Bowles Schoonover, T, in Huntington Woods, Dec. 20. Members from Alpha Tau chapter were our guests. Forty-seven members made it a record turnout. Favors were yarn Christmas dolls that the committee had made. The January dinner business meeting was held at the home of Elsie K. Roberts, A'!'. We heard an inspiring talk on Juvenile Delinquency by Inspector Sanford \Y/. Shoults, of the Detroit Police Department. We are proud of our Junior Group who have been busy making layettes and scrapbooks for the Maine Seacoast Mission. Group I of the Detroit Alumna: chapter took on the responsibility this year of giving a rebate to all paid up members attending the Founders' Day Banquet. The group has also been making refrigerator bags for sale and has sent 23 cans of citrus ,juice to CARE. The East Side group has been together for frequent games of bridge. MARGARET ANGER SHANNON Evansville, Ind. Marion Race Cole National First Vice President, In addition to our regular meetings of dinners, bridge, was e1ztertained al the November meeting of the book reviews, etc., we have two meetings which deserve special mention. At our service meeting in November we Dayton, Ohio, al11mme g1·o11p. Shown here, left furnished and prepared a Thanksgiving treat of candy to right, are: Mrs. Han·y L. Jackson (MarlaJt apples, rce cream, cookies and favors for the children of Frye, BN), M1·s. Ralph Chilton (Lenore Kolar, the Rescue Mission Nursery School of Evansville. Z) at whose home the meeting was held, Mrs. Sunday, January 16 we were honored by a visit from Cole and Mrs. Harold Albright (R11th Sa11nders, our Vice-President, Marion Cole. We met in the home AI), president of the Dayton cl11b. of Mrs. Peg Schlamp for a buffet supper and informal evening. ELIZABETH SANSOM Denver Hammond-Gary Popularity of our money making scheme to aid Iota chapter in the realization of their "Dream House" is At our October meeting, held in Edith Young's new evidenced by our growing treasury. The luncheons a~e home in Highland, we welcomed into our Alumna: held the third week of every month, the committee m Chapter four new members from Beta Sigma: Patricia charge financing the food bill themselves, making the Kochis, Peggy Taylor Clutter, Gloria Kirla and Kathryn dollar per person we charge clear gain. We always add Whiteman. Colored slides taken at the Sun Valley Con· a few more coins by putting our loose change together vention and Yellowstone National Park were shown by with our name tags into a grab bag, the winner is Edith Trautman. given a prize furnished by the previous winn_er. . Founders' Day and the Maine Seacoast Mission were Guest at our November luncheon was Provmce Presi· features of discussion at the November meeting at Wilna MARCH, 1949 49 Sana's with Julia Gault leading appropriate Founders' year is the Founders Day banquet, which occurred dur Day exercises and Edna Dreyfus reviewing the Saturday ing Mrs. Lowry's visit and at which Dean Flora Rawls, Evening Po st article on the Mission. The Christmas box AP '25, was guest speaker. It was a double . dose of for the Mission was packed. inspiration and very easy to take! Mildred Denms pulled Christmas time found us exchanging gifts at the home out her prettiest bag of decorating tricks. (Only Mildred of Edith Trautman. Our Christmas card project was a can have the luck of finding a banquet room newly success, with Albertine Wysong and Julia Gault de· decorated in lavender and maroon!) and Margaret Mc· serving all the credit for working hard. Cullough's, A.t1 '29, nimble fingers provided clever Mrs. Olive Byers, our alumnae patroness, entertained favors. College Sigmas, particularly musical this year, the chapter in February, and at that time we presented gave a program of songs. And isn't there something her with the official Sigma Kappa Patroness pin. Mrs. spine-tingling about a roomful of Sigma fixin's, Sigma Byers is a Social Science teacher in the Hammond music and Sigmas? High School, and her interest and willingness to help Dean Rawls journeyed to Knoxville again in February Sigma Kappa is always appreciated . to be principal speaker at U.T.'s Panhellenic Workshop. March and April will find us busy making plans for City Panhellenic sponsored a bridge and pastry sale to the Annual Bridge party in May, but we will have time assist in their expenses. to hear Mrs. Byers discuss "Our Foreign Policy." March, April and May can be summed up as the EDITH A. TRAUTMAN "doing something for others" months, with the public relations project, the Mount Rest Home for Aged Ladies, a model initiation and banquet for Alpha Delta pledges Hartford and the senior luncheon in May. In June, we are taking Hartford alumnae have taken enthusiastically to the the Burkeys at their word and inviting ourselves for a sale of Florence Gunnarson's perfume, proceeds to go to picnic, a "wind-up" for the summer in spirited style. the convention fund. Ev Ryle is the efficient chairman. MILDRED THOMPSON HARDIN At the January meeting a "bonus bottle" was won by the president, Catherine Larrabee, A. Lincoln In addition to the Maine Seacoast Mission box, the Hartford group has sent a CARE blanket package to Lincoln alumnae entertained the new pledge class of the American Farm School. Alpha Kappa chapter at dinner at the Colonial Cup Plans are underway by the program committee, headed Nov. 7. The total attendance was forty-seven, including by Dorothy Dooey, for a Saturday luncheon meeting in two out-of-town alumnae, Maryetta Parchen Lyman of May. All Sigmas who live too far away to come to Scottsbluff, Neb., and Hollis Eggers of St. Joseph, Mo. evening meetings in Hartford will be invited as well For their local philanthropy the Lincoln alumnae have as the Springfield alumnae. It is hoped that a large group started a permanent program to bring cheer into the will be present to hear plans for the 1950 convention. hospital lives of several young patients at the Nebraska An almost official Sigma Kappa house is located in Orthopedic Hospital. Priscilla Fowler Manning made East Hartford. Six Home Ec. graduates of Beta Eta, who the initial survey to determine which patients Sigma work in the Hartford area, have rented a house together. Kappa should try to help. She selected five, one from The project is a great success, although there have been each of the children's wards, on the basis of need for minor skirmishes with the furnace, and with the law, friendly attention outside the regular hospital care, and . when the snow was not promptly shoveled off the walks. gathered information for us on their respective birth· The six girls are Mary Hill, Jerry Griffin, Nat Hambly, days, probable length of hospitalization, their interests Barbara Whitney, Glenna Cady, and Jeanne Archer. and special needs. Sue Day, A, of the Home Service Bureau, in Hartford Our present "adopted" children, two boys and three for the January meeting, gave an interesting account of girls, range from a two and one-half-year-old suffering )ler travels and of the Sigmas she has met in her trips from arthritis to a 17-year-oJd who has spent most of her around the country. life in bed because of a tubercular hip. On holidays and the children's birthdays all members Houston of our alumnae chapter send cards or appropriate gifts, and members individually make some effort each month We are proud of three Houston alumnae who are to call on our patients, write to them or take them toys, serving on committees for the Houston Panhellenic asso· books or hobby material. Since at each monthly alumnae ciations: Louise Wvnn Blanton, on the permanent loan meeting we report specifically what our cheer contribu committee; Hazel Weingandt Jax, '1', on the Altruistic tion has been, duplication of gifts and either slighting comm1ttee; and Jean Waugh Lucke! , '1', on the program or over-indulgence of any particular child is avoided. committee. March 10, when one of our adopted children, Linda, A few rush parties sponsored by college members was eight years old, Beatrice and Lorraine Bartling took living in Houston were given in the summer for freshmen her a birthday cake sufficient to serve all of the children going to S.M.U. and alumnae members co-operated. in Linda's ward and gave her a beautiful doll. ANNIE LAURIE WHITMER Toliet, Ill. An alumnae chapter was formed in Joliet, Ill., Dec. 7, Long Beach 1948. Edna Dreyfus national director of alumnae affairs We made dozens of doll clothes lor the doll we sold came from Munster, Ind., to help us get started and at the Annual "Have a Heart and Help a Child" ~e are all enthusiastic over our new venture. The meet· Bazaar in Long Beach Feb. 12 . Our get-together sewing mg :was at ~eorgfa Deiss' home. Members include: Mary bees turned out such articles as a satin wedding gown, Dav1e~ Brun1 , 'I' ~ 1 ; Eleanor Ovington Grewenig, a '36 ; complete with beautiful veil, gold shoes and bouquet, as ~eorg~a ~e~ry De1ss, a '40; Margaret Gregg lmig, H well as coats, suits, hats, pinafores blouses dresses 32 ,; ChnstJ~e Schwartz Hicks, a; Miriam Manchester, nighties, lingerie and shoes. ' ' ' a. 28; LOUI Se Sonnemann Sinderson, a '31, Elizabeth Jan. 29 we held a box social and square dance for StJll~an Sternberg, '20. Louise Sinderson was elected our members and friends, complete with auctioneer in prestdent. The Febt;,Uary meeting was held at Mary Bruni's the person of Marvel Boyn's husband. home. RUTH FISK RYAN GEORGIA PERRY DEISS Long Island Knoxville The November meeting was held at the home of Perhaps the most interesting and the most inspiring Muriel Hancock, AA, in Mineola. Final plans were made experience the Knoxville Alumnae can claim for the for the Founders' Day celebration Nov. 22. The sched· so SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE uled program was "Hobbies," the members telling about chapter house in January, was our guest speaker, Gregory their hobbies. Alexis Ptitsen, who spoke on "My First Impressions of Jean Ellert Seaman, AA, showed us a beautiful tapestry this Country." The second highlight was the falling of she had just completed. Eva Gunther Goodman, AA, snow in Los Angeles. has a new hobby-needle-point. Blanch Pinnell Leich, Valentine's Day was celebrated by a dessert bridge AA, was taking a course in "Flower and Flower Grow party at the home of Greta Friebel. In March the ing" at the Long Island Agricultural and Technical Southern California Council of Sigma Kappa will hold Institute this fall and she told about tulip growing. its conference meeting in Santa .Barbara, with Alpha Dorothy Stapert Rudolph, AA, and her husband are now Omicron chpter as hostesses. stamp collectors. Lila Jones, E, who writes some of the The installation banquet will be held at the Eleda food editorials for Good Houukeepittg Magazine collects Restaurant in Inglewood in June. beautiful colored pictures of foods and table settings. CLAIRE NEWMAN SLATON Founders' Day celebration Nov. 22 at Adelphi College in Garden City was a huge success. The alums furnished Marietta the food for the supper as planned and according to the actives the al urns can cook for them· any time! There The Marietta Alumn"' Chapter has been active this were about sixty girls present-eighteen were alums. fall and winter helping the chapter of Marietta College After the supper the pledges and actives each presented get settled in their new house which is the former Dr. a skit. Florence C. Daly, one of the spokeswomen for Williams home on Second st. The girls moved into the the alums told about Founders' Day. Jean E. Seaman, house at the opening of school and since that time, the founder of the L.I. alumn"' group gave a most interest alumn"' have enjoyed holding several of their monthly ing talk on the history of Sigma Kappa. Lila Jones told meetings there. of the activities award and award given to the pledge In November a banquet was held at the Lafayette with the highest marks which the alums have given hotel combining the annual Founders' Day celebration in the past and plan to renew the practice now. with the honoring of the pledge class. Jan. 17 our meeting was held at the home of In December we were invited to the home of Sue Josephine Ruten, AM, in Baldwin. Plans were made for Bateman where a committee served us a delicious spa a Card Party May 20 at Adelphi College. getti dinner. At this meeting we were pleased to have The rummage sale in the fall was so successful that as our guest Mrs. Karl Miller of Chicago who was in we have decided to hold another one the end· of March town to inspect Beta Theta. In January a committee in Rockville Centre. Peg Dalva, E, has offered to take entertained at the home of Pearl Smith for luncheon. care of this again. A Christmas bazaar was held in December at the Weihl Automobile Agency show rooms. Both baked goods and hand-made articles were sold. A good profit Los Angeles was reported. A benefit bridge was given at the sorority The Los Angeles Christmas party was held at the house in February. home of Maybelle Peitzke, where gifts were distributed A sweeper was presented to the active chapter as a by our Santa, Betty Douglas. Christmas gift from the alums. First highlight of the annual Public Relations Tea, Our local philanthropy of honoring the birthdays of sponsored by the Southern California Council at the inmates of the Washington County Infirmary has again New Beta Theta Chapter House, Marietta College. The Former Dr. Williams home on Second Street, Marietta, Ohio MARCH, 1949 51 been ca rried out this year through the work of Elma Monroe, La. Whitaker 'and Willie Steen. The usual aid to the Maine Seacoast Mi ssion is also being given this year. Our Joy Bernhardt, BE, is president of our newly organized pledge of $100 to the Marietta Memorial Hospital alumnre club. We hope soon to have enough members building fund will be paid soon. to become a chapter. Present members include Joy Bern· Jo H UNE hardt, Vettye Bernhardt, Helen Hayes , Betty Ann Jones, Botty Sue J ones, and Betty Meredith. Memphis New Jersey Memphis alumnre met at the home of Lois Jones, Jan. 6, to plan the tea honoring Katherine Tener Lowry, The old members have done a marvelous job of National President, which was held Jan. 15 in the rounding up n~w members this year. We have been Memphis Art Academy. happy to welcome nineteen in all. They are: Ruth Feb. 6 we discussed decorations for the sorority roo:n Battis, 0; Ruth Bean, :M, who is H ome Economist for at Memphis State. Kresge's Department Store in Newark; Marion Blaylock, MARTHA PORTER PENNY BA; Elizabeth Rozendale Fariss, Z, and Mary Lynn Tuley, ;::, Frances Kirkpatrick, X, Rebecca Heitman Griffiths, Rose Marie W. Smith, and Bette Cullum Gum· Milwaukee pert, all Epsilon; Helen Haldt Hudson, N; Barbara The lovely home of Alma D avison Faude 6, was Johantgen, A'I'; Mrs. Alexander MacRae, A; Mildred the setting of a most interesting meeting De~. 6. We Brandner Naugle, N; Margaret T ansek, X, Eileen were immensely proud of a tremendous turnout, for the Sch iffer Tantum, A'I'; Helen H ausman Thurber, AZ; speaker of the evening was the eminent Dr. Gilbert Rich Robin Valentine, A 'i'; Lucille Crawell Ballinger, AT; Psychiatric Director for the Milwaukee County Guidanc~ and Jean Boyd Search, AZ, who is a dietician at Clinic, just returned from England, where he attended Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, N.J. meetmgs of the Committee on Culture and Education of Jean Butterfield, who now has an apartment in the UN. His talk concerned educating the children of New York City, resigned as our group president and the world to want peace instead of inculcating them we are pleased to have Marion Faust Clark, Z, as our with wa rlike tendencies . new President and Vesta Putnam as first Vice President. Our annual Mother-Daughter Christmas Tea was held R EBECCA H . GRIFFITHS Dec. 29 at the home of Marion Gerhardt Johnson, 'i'. Though the weather was "snowy and blowy" (Cali Omaha fornia vanety, no doubt) the attendance was lively and our mothers were cheery as ever. Several members in· Omaha alumnre have taken the school for spastic stead of bringing their mothers, brought attractive children as our local philanthropy. A big rubber doll daughters as their guests. was purchased and the January and February meetings .We en joyed a Fun Party in February. In March we were spent in making clothes for it. Dressing and Will meet at the home of Carol Field Gunderson 'i' buttoning the doll clothes teaches these children needed for a talk by Mrs. Clarence Hapke on "Flower Arr;nge: ski ll s. We plan to add small educational toys as needed ments." We are also anxiously awaiting a Box Lunch during the year. A tea for Alpha Kappa members, meeti~g at which the husbands will be most welcome. pledges and alumnre members is being planned for the .. Soc~ally, .?ur meetings have been stimulating and spring holidays. Sigma Kappa joined other Greeks in gemuet!I ch tn the Milwaukee tradition, and finan· contributing to the March of Dimes through the Omaha Cially, what with the successful Talent Sale in Septem. Panhellenic this year. ber and the Rummage Sale to come in April, we promise MARGARET MARSTON McCuBBIN to come out on top, so that we may again help Psi chapter at Madison. Pasadena _Ou r Talent Sale is so-called because each of us bnngs forth a product of our particular talent, from Very satisfactory reports of the October Rummage Sale knitted articles to home baked cakes and home made jars were given at the November meeting held at the home of preserves. These products are auctioned to the members of Virginia Gibson Eggleston, II '25, in San Marino. usually at the first meeting of the year, and not on!; Substantial donations were voted to Beta Rho chapter do we make a good profit, for our efforts, but we get a at San Jose State, also to our local philanthropy, good deal of Chnstmas shopping done early. H athaway House. MARGARET M. TJENSVOLD At Virginia's, too, Beatrice Mayberry Humason, II '1 9, repo rted her visit with Sigmas in the Bay area and in Missoula Stanford, including an account of ;Beta Rho's initiation and banquet. Proceeds from the sale of Christmas candles Missoula Alumnre chapter, now one year old , has had which Margaret Lawe King, M ex'24, had on display ~~e turnouts for our dinner meetings once a month were contributed to the support of the Children's Has· e last dmner was held Jan . 12 at the home of pital in Los Angeles. Mrs. Sandy Durrant. At our Christmas party, held in San Marino at the Our November meeting, held at the home of Betty charming home of Mrs. Ralph Trent, T, Glena Bartlett Jo raves, was a Cider-doughnut party in honor of our McCrea's, A, husband entertained us with colored slides pledges. Games and stunts were played with prizes for of thei r trips to the National Parks and Canada. January the best ones among the pledges. found us with plans for a joint meeting with the Valley d ~efore Christmas we purchased twenty-four mannequin Group at the home of Marion Hudson Williams, A o s and dressed them to sell as gifts from $3 .50 to '21, in Eagle Rock. The Public Relations director of the $5.00 each. However all of them were not sold and we Children's hospital spoke to us of the work at the still .have twelve to sell. If any alums from othe; chapters hospital and took us, via color film and sound track, on • a;e Interested in purchasing one or more of these dolls a tour of the hospital where, during 1948, the thirty-two P ease contact Betty Jo Staves, 225 Broadway, Missoula: clinics handled 80,000 out patients alone. At this has· Jhe doll~ are. !Ik~ the ones used on the tables at the pital, except for a comparati vely small staff of tech ast President s dmner at Sun Valley last summer nicians, the workers are all volunteer, including the We gave a dessert bridge in honor of our Mother's Club Feb. 9 at the chapter house. staff doctors. BEATRICE MAYBERRY HUMASON M~rch and April meetings will most likely be dinners ~nd In May we wdl have our annual dinner downtown Penimula 'n honor of our graduating seniors of Alpha Nu. With the installation of Beta Rho chapter at San Jose MARGARET JOHNSTON BEDARD State college, Palo Alto alumnre feeling that the name 52 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE PeninJIIIa Alumnre chapter came closer to describing our Throughout the year Edith Bulow has been busy sell group, adopted that name to use as our own from ing nylons and Florence Gunnarson's perfume. Edith is now on. the girl who thought up our system of collecting money Our last meetings have really been full of travel. At for the Maine Seacoast Mission. She passes a jar at the November meeting Mary Sloan Wilbur, IT, demon every meeting and we put in a nickel or more each time. strated two Hawaiian dances which she learned on her In the near future we plan to have a White Elephant trip to the Islands last summer. Kay Clifford Stevens, M, sale where we bring all those things that are collecting gave her report . on the Sun Valley convention in De dust in our homes in hope someone will h ave a use for cember. January saw us in Mexico when Ruth Vreden them and it will help build up our treasury. berg reported on her recent trip, and showed samples of J OYCE MEDLIN fine Mexica n handiwork she had brought with her. Our February meeting was at the Beta Rho chapter Portland, Ore. house. Marian Tarbell, IT , who is a lieutenant in the WAVE reserve, and a laboratory technician at the Fall activity started with a buffet dinner given by State Hospital at Sacramento talked. the in coming officers at the home of Muriel Spear. We We are thoroughly enjoying having a college chapter entertained nearly fifty members for dinner and others near us, and are spending a great deal of time trying arrived later for the meeting and special candle light to help Beta Rho by donating flowers and washing ceremony initiating new alumnre into the group. dishes for their rushing parties. We gave them dinner Our annual Rummage Sal e was held N ov. S with the chimes as a Christmas present. Oregon State and University of Oregon Mothers Clubs. The newly organized San Jose City Panhellenic is Dec. 28 was our Christmas dance at the Oswego Coun having its first social evening March 22. try club. This entertained the alumnre group and all the The annual spring luncheon will be held at the actives home for the holidays. Allied Arts Guild in April. We are looking forward Portland Alumnre was honored Oct. 29 by a visi t to seeing alumnre from Bay Cities chapter, San Fran from Mrs. William Greig, past grand president and cisco's Junior and Senior groups, as well as members chairman of our national housing committee. She had from San Jose State College. been visiting the University of Oregon where she was KAY CLIFFORD STEVENS consulting with members on the plans for the new chapter house to be built there. She was entertained at a buffet dinner in the home of Mrs. V. H. Vodra by the Peoria officers and discussed house plans and help that we Peoria alumnre chapter entertained Beta Nu members could give the Alpha Phi chapter in getting settled in and pledges Nov. 23 at the W oman's club. Dec. 14 their new house. the college girls and alumnre again gathered at the Fou nders' D ay was celebrated Nov. IS in the chapter house for their annual Christmas dinner. Pompeian Room of the Congress hotel with a formal Later guests gathered around the lighted tree for gift banquet. exchange. MURIEL SPEAR The Bradley unive rsity library building fund again benefited from the proceeds of the annual musical tea Rochester presented Sunday, Feb. 20, at the Pere Marquette hotel. On this occasion the proceeds were donated to the · In October at a supper meeting with Katheri ne Green library fund in memory of the late A. J . . Robertson, as hostess we sent a large box of children's clothing to veteran coach at the university. For this successful and Greece. ~ outstanding social event of the year we thank Mrs. A delightful meeting was held in November at the Walter Krause and Mrs. Robert Johnston, co-chairmen. home of Marion Hemmett. We packed our Christmas Many of our members with families were unable to box for the Mai ne Seacoast Mission and enjoyed a talk attend the monthly Saturday luncheon and business and movies on the Mission. In December we all joined meeting. Desiring to keep in touch with the activities in our annual Christmas luncheon at the A.A.U.W. of the chapter, another luncheon club has been organized House. Marjorie Perkins Pierce, E ' 13 , assisted by two of which meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month at her pupils, presented an enjoyable musical program at the homes of our members for a social get-together. our January meeting in the home of Gertrude Squier. This group will cooperate with the Crippled Children's MARY JO MAY Coordinating Committee in the distribution of Easter Seals. The chapter has assumed this project as one of Sacramento their philanthropic contributions. We held our Christmas party in the home of Irene Plans and preliminary arrangements are being for Eads Merryweather, T. We exchanged inexpensive gifts. mulated for the Province Convention to be held in In January we met with Helene Kirby Rohwer, A. Our Peoria April 22 and 23. cake sale which we held at Town and Country Village was most successful. The proceeds are to go to the Philadelphia Fairhaven Home Building Fund. Fairhaven, located in Sacramento, is a home for unmarried mothers. All Pan The Philadelphia alumnre chapter has a lot of catch hellenic sororities in the ci ty are contributing to this ing up to do since we haven't had a letter in the last worthwhile cause. We are planning on holding our an few issues. After our picnic at Wilma Bulow Quinlan's nual Spring Luncheon at the El Rancho Hotel again in home in New · Britain we adjourned for the summer. In April. September we started out with a rush demonstration at IRENE EADS M ERRYWEATHER Pat Milnes new home in Oreland. A percentage of the proceeds went into our treasury. October found us at Edna Aldinger's where Helen Dunaway gave us a report St. Petersburg on the Sun Valley Convention. Helen is still talking Florida alumnre have been concentrating on becomillg about what a wonderful time she had. In November we better acquainted with each other. The Tampa alumnre had our Founders' Day dinner at the New Century club were our guests at a luncheon meeting and later we and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful program which went to T ampa to enjoy a buffet supper. Edith Bulow had prepared. We had our gift exchange R OSALIE EvELYN SIMPSON Christmas party at M ary Kelso's in December and met in January at Dottie Landis' where we watched the Salem, Ore. Mummer's Day Parade, a Philadelphia traditional parade, on television and saw M~y Petersen's movies Alumnre in Salem, Ore., are organizing again after of the June picnic. nearly live years of inactivity. In the past they have MARCH, 1949 53 always had a local philanthropy such as sending a girl carols Our Christmas gift to the Alpha Omicron house to a summer camp or giving food and presents to needy this y~ar was a purse of money with which_ to purchase families for Christmas or Thanksgiving. . . the lace tablecloth desired for feshve occas10ns. . Plans are under way for a Panhellemc group m Jan. 9 a group of us went to the Annual Pubhc . Relations tea at Alpha Omicron house to hear Gregory Salem. EDNA FICKLIN BECKMAN Alexis Ptitsin, Russian born and raised author of. "De· feat Is My Victory," Mr. Ptitsin, whose daug~~e~ 1s one of the new pledges at the house, spoke on F1rst Im Salt Lake City pressions of my Adopted Country." The Salt Lake City alumnae chapter celebrated the We met at the home of Ethelmae Clement Woodard, birthday anniversary of Beta Lambda of Utah State at AO, Jan. 26, when we had as our guc;st, Sam Beatty, Logan, Utah, by presenting the college chapter w1th s1x expert hair stylist and authority on co!lfures. He used dozen crested plates. The alumnae are also proud of as models Louise Morrison Bates and Cora Cale, AK . . their handiwork: each member crocheted for use. at the Newcomers welcomed in January were Jean Hew1tt Beta Lambda house, lovely place mats, appro~1mately Nicklaus, A San Francisco In November we held our annual White Elephant sale at the home of Gladys Redford. Gladys offered us the use of her new rumpus room, which is ideal for enter taining, equipped as it is with hide-~way gas and water facilities a fireplace, comfortable cha~rs, and a table for table te~nis. This we heaped high with our ''white elephants" until they were purchased to the tidy sum of more than a hundred dollars! Lucie Lee Christman's charming home - at Belmont provided the locale for our Christmas party. The visit of Alice Armstrong Tammen, A, coincided with our Christ mass meeting so she brought greetings to us from her Josephine Bogert Davenport, M, (Wisconsin H), Alumnae Chapter in New Jersey. Our Januar.y meeting at the home of Lucille Brungard · State of Utah Alumnte President, and Zoe Satter was largely devoted to contributing and packing two bU1·g Conta, Ar (Mrs. Albert), Salt Lake City boxes to be sent to the American Farm School in alumnte President. Salonica, Greece. HELEN BLACKIE San Bernardino-RiYerside Counties San Francisco Juniors Receiving the charter was celebrated at a luncheon at At the November meeting, with Mrs. June Crook Padua Hills in November. Special guests were Mrs. Praun, hostess, we decided that instead of donating to George C. Smith, Province President, and Mrs. R. W. a community charity at Christmas time, the group would Bates, president of the San Fernando Valley alumnae send phonograph records to Beta Rho chapter at San chapter. Charter members of this alumnae chapter are: Jose State College. Assistance to Beta Rho has since Marian Cooley Byrnes, AO, Barbara Sheldon Clyde, AO, been enthusiastically adopted as a permanent project. Mary Lois Cooley, AE, Elizabeth Wheeler Cowen, AP, In January (at Marion Miller's) we decided to bring Lois Churchill Groneweg, :=:, Dorothy Tedlock Hull, :=:. to the February meeting at Ruth Willard's old clothing Harriet Hadley Johnson, AO, Doris Duryea Larson, AH, to be sent to the girls in Thessalonica, Greece. Jeanne Dorothy Zimmerman Robinson, :=: , Rouie Best Weatherley, McConeghy added to the evening's entertainment by IT , Ruby Hill Wright, A. bringing pictures she took of the Rose Bowl game. Rouie Best Weatherley entertained the group with a PATRICIA OTTO CARLSON Christmas party .. We participated in the Founders' Day luncheon in Los Angeles. HARRIET HADLEY JOHNSON Seattle The October Rummage Sale, Alice Vendova, chairman, San Fernando cleared $250 for the Seattle alumnae. That's the one project we're beginning to count on as a sure financial In place of a November meeting, as many of us as success-but it takes hard work! possible attended the Founders' Day luncheon held this A wonderful turnout of alumnae honored the founder yea r at the Roosevelt hotel in Hollywood. Our group of Mu chapter, Jessie Pepper Padelford, A '96, at the was in charge of decorations and Louise Morrison Bates, Founders' Day banquet at the Women's University club. 0 '10, did a wonderful job supplying lovely flowers . Charter members present were Ruth Moody, Adelaide Guest of honor at the December Christmas party at Moody Hays, Eleanor Jones Graves, Josephine Buckeley, the home of Mary Stout Brunner, AO, was Sara Marvis, Kathryn Hoffman and Grace Jack Ketcham, one of the librarian at the Van Nuys Library. She brought an first three initiates. Nona Fumerton Cox, '39, was exhibit of what kind of books to get for children. toastmistress. Afterwards we opened exchange gifts and sang Christmas Helen Stone Gilbert, master of ceremonies who is 54 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE equal to any role, played Santa Claus at our December reminisced concerning her aunt, Ida Fuller Pierce, Sigma meeting. Carolyn Patty was chairman for the Christmas Kappa founder. Contributions of money, clothing and party for the Sigma Kappa children. toys were received and packed for the Maine Seacoast The scholarship bracelet was awarded this year to Mission. Nancy Ford, '52, at the Initiation Banquet Jan. 29. We were happy to welcome as guests at our January A tea is being planned for Feb. 25 to honor the meeting at Cora Kampfe Dickinson's, E ' 15, Irma Mac National Second Vice-President, Mrs. William Seaman;· Callum Holcombe (Mrs. Chas.), E '24, and Frances Province President, Mrs. Ray Anderson, and housemother, Mack Woodworth (Mrs. John L.), ;:: '26, of Fayette Mrs. Helen Parkins. ville, N.Y., and Jessica Leland Bramley, E '12, of VIRGINIA KETCHAM MULLER Jordan, N.Y. Violets to Helen Bailey Martin (Mrs. Harold). E '21, Shreveport and her general committee, Isabelle Satterthwaite, Ethel Smith Hommel, E '18, Jean Johnson Preston, E '44, Jane Shreveport's Christmas party was quite an event with Cutting Read, E '44, and Beatrice Lines for the very dancing, bingo, and a buffet supper at midnight. The successful benefit bridge party held at the chapter house Ruston alumnre attending were our Province President, in February. Violets, too, to the college members and Annette Shelor, and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Dan pledges who assisted so charmingly as hostesses with us . Ott, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lawrence. Other expected out We are proud to report almost !OOo/o participation from of town guests were rained out. all the Sigma Kappa alumnre resident in the Syracuse We had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Swift Lowry, area. A money making project, yes, but a public rela National President, who was our luncheon guest Jan. 10 tions one too. at the home of Marion Lundstrom before visiting Beta More violets tu Betty Tracy Morrow for the enter Epsilon chapter at Ruston . Our February meeting was a taining hilarity her February Frolic furnished us at the stork shower for Marion Lundstrom at the home of Lucy meeting at Florence Bibbens Manier's. Most recent new Colquitt. comer welcomed to our group is Catherine Magiopoulos We have gained three new Sigmas while losing two. Danos (Mrs. Harry ] . ) , BH, whose Syracuse address is New in our group are Helen Larson , Mary Margaret 242 W. Borden ave. Sour, and Nancy Stewart .. We are losing Billie Corley, In March we hope for a lift in our spring house our president, who is moving to Tulsa; and Faye Keebler cleaning from Harold Dedrich's talk on " Decorating on who goes to Dallas. a Budget. " Also in March is scheduled our rummage MILDRED REED HAYWOOD sale. Election of officers will take place in April at Dorothy Spokane Wertheimer's, with the supper party for this year's ini tiates coming in May, with another of Betty Morrow's During the Christmas holidays, the Spokane alumnre fun programs. · · gave a fireside for vacationing college members and their So successful was our open house and dinner last mothers at the home of Garret Rockwell. · spring in connection with the University Commencement Our December rummage sale was a huge success. At -festivities that we are planning a repeat Friday, June 3. our February meeting we are having a white elephant sale. Several new alumnre have joined our group: Natalie (Mrs. Gordon) Wiles, N; Pat McHale Shoemaker, AN; Kathleen Holland Rutten, M; and Zoe (Mrs. 0 . B.) Howell, AT. Springfield, Mass. The November meeting was a dinner honoring our founders, held at Blake's restaurant. In December the annual Christmas party was held with Beta Eta at the chapter house in Amherst. The gift to the chapter of two pair of sugar tongs seemed small in comparison to the gifts of the radio-victrola given two years ago and the live piece silver service given last year. However the illness of our ways and means chairman, Isabelle Chapmen, was the cause of the low state of our treasury. Lt. Maraspin, now stationed at the Naval Base at Quonset, R.I., was one of the many Beta Eta alumnre present. The January meeting was held at the home of Barbara Hunter with husbands as guests. Edwin Malone, husband of Ruth Malone, BH, entertained us with movies of California. Maude Hawkes is president of the Community Y General committee for the highly successful bene Women's Club of West Springfield. fit bridge given by Syracuse alumn MARCH, 1949 55 For the alumna: group Isabelle Satterthwaite, House Kaufman, BE and Billie Rhea Corley, BE. Chairman member of the Advisory Committee, purchased Our September meeting was held with Lecil Benedict, and presented to Epsil9n, as a surprise Val~ntine, a and the October meeting with Gene Clark. Plans were pair of beautiful three branch candelabra, whrch were made for Sigma Kappa to have a part in the annual used for the first time Feb. Hl to grace the tea table Panhellenic style show at Philbrook Art Museum, Oct. 20, at our benefit bridge. . the proceeds of which go to pay for a scholarship for a Representing us at the 25th anniversary dinner Feb. nurse at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, and to aid an 19 at the Hotel Syracuse celebrating the founding of the invalid girl. Louise Montgomery was Sigma's sty le model, Interfraternity Conference of Syracuse University Women, and a most attractive one in an afternoon costume of an affiliate of the national Panhellenic association, were royal purple. At the Jan. 17 meeting at the home of :e: Cora Kampfe Dickinson, Ethel Smith Hommel, Leona Virginia Manhart plans were made for a Valentine dinner Smith Thomas, Florence Bibbens Manier, Shirley Garrett (escorts to be invited) Feb. 12 to take the place of the Savage, Beatrice Lines, and Catherine Wettling Henward. postponed annual dinner party usually held in Decem Stimulating guest speaker was Miss Margaret Hickey, ber. It wi ll be held at Helen Markham's home. lawyer, educator, business woman and editor of the The March meeting will be held with Louise Mont public affairs department of the uJdieJ' Hom e Journal. gomery, the April meeting will be with Frankie Read; College Sigmas also attending were Carol Winterbottom, the May meeting at Beula Johnson's home, and the June Jo Ann Frankenburg, Joan Ball, Anne Auty, and Jean meeting at Betty Sewell's. The June meeting is usually an Rausch. outdoor supper to which husbands are invited. The rummage sale will be held May 27 this year, in Tacoma time for summer fashions, as one of the members puts Beatrice Bemiss Post, Ar, toastmistress of our Founders' it. Day banquet in November, brought us all back to col GOLDIE CAPERS SMITH lege days and the traditions of Sigma Kappa making it a gay and memorable occasion for everyone. We also Twin City were pleased to have the Olympia alumna: with us. Again December found us holding a pot luck supper at the this year we held our annual Christmas luncheon for chapter house to which husbands and families were in the college girls home during the holidays. vited. At present we are looking forward to a money We are looking forward with anticipation to our making card party in April which is in the capable Valentine's Dance, Feb. 12, which will honor .our five hands of Merry Margaret Adams Froelich, '44. May is recently engaged girls, Marjorie Johnson, M, Dorothy the month for our annual picnic for the graduating Rudolph, M, Nayna Frederick, M, Gloria Swanberg, M seniors of Alpha Eta. and Marie Eckstrom, A: , from Tufts, Jane Kimberly and Eleanor Flemings from who has been an honorary member of Xi Corporation for Cornell, Jean Desper from Colby and Jean Kilmer from some time, is serving on one of the building committees. Duke. · We meet the second Tuesday of each month, in the Esther Damerell, N, was hostess for the Jan. 27 meeting evening, and are always happy to have visiting Sigmas at her home. Marjorie E. Frye, N '31, gave a book join us. review. \'(fe met March 3 at the home of Marjorie E. ZELMA SNYDAL BEARDSLEE Frye, April 7 Mrs. Elizabeth Philips will be hostess . We arc planning to pack a box of clothing for the Maine Tulsa Sea Coast Mission and to see the new movies of the Mission and its work. Tulsa Alumna: chapt" has grown to twenty members Grace Smith Cutting, tJ. , will be hostess at her home this year, with the addition of Mary Stanwait y Upde in Auburn for our annual pot- lu ck supper May 5. Our graff, Z, Mary Williford Underwood, AO, Helen Ford annual picnic will be held in June. PLEDGES SYMPATHY (Continued from page 41) (Continued from page 60) Anne Louise Moore, Colorado Springs, Colo. Paula Haynes·, Denver Angela Ellis Smith, AtJ., for the death of her father. Gladys Jayne, AtJ., for the death of her mother. Dorothy Lee Boseen, AH, for the death of her father. BETA RHO-San Jose Jane Weber, AH, for the death of her father. Susanne Cairns, '52, Rt. 4, Box 191 , Tulare, Calif. Virginia Helen Harvey Hess, AI, for the death of her mother. Clausen, '50, 914 Thirty-Ninth st., Sacramento, Mary Harter Harvey for the death of her father. Calif. Florence Irene Shomshor, AK, for the death of her Yvonne Curry, '50, 636 Middlefield, Palo Alto, Calif. mother, Mrs. Eleanore E. Shomshor, Jan. 2, '49. Dorothy Ellis, '50, 2122 Park ave. , San Jose, Calif. Harriet Yaberg Cleary, AT, for the death of her father. Beverly Etter, '51, 575 S. Arcade, Ventura, Calif. W'ilma Sackett Dressel, A'l', for the death of her Patricia Goulder, '51, 140 Turnstead, Sansmo, Calif. parents in Dec. , '48. Marianne Gertsch, '52, 615 E. Raleigh, Glendale, Calif. Gladys Morse Hunter, AT, for the death of her Mary McDiarmid, '50, 1201 Kentucky, Fairfield, Calif. mother Sept. 29, '48. Loretta Stratton, '52, 2914 W. Fifty-Ninth st., Los An- geles, Calif. Harriet Holden Schlubatis, Frances Holden Perrine, and Dorothy Holden Orr, all Alpha Taus, for the death Bonnie Jean Thomas, '51, 566 Bradley, San Jose, Calif. of their father in June, '35. 56 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Milestones - Announcements of engagements will not be printed m the TRIANGLE m the ftttttre. ALPHA- Virginia Keith Wing to Mr. Francis. At M ary Louise Blanc to E. J. Coyne, Dec. 28, '48. home, 403 Stolp ave. , Syracuse, N.Y. Priscilla Jane rMonnie to Vernon McClosky, Nov. DELTA- Louise McCarron, '48, to D avid Preston, 20, '48. At home, 9120 Eighth N.E., Seattle, W ash. Tufts college, '47, TBII, December 11, '48. Betty Woodworth to J. Nelson Jr., Sept. 4, '48. Ruth Pickard, '51, to Frede MARCH, 1949 57 Vaeritti, '47, June 26, '48. At home, Rt. 1, Box 179 A, Marjorie Wright, '48, to Robert Franklin Mueller, Sandy, Ore. , U · · Cornell, '48, June 9, '48. At home, 3308 E. !47th st., Virginia Avery, '48, to Jack Reitzell, 50, ntverst.ty Cleveland 20, Ohio. •48 of California, June 27, '48. At home, Pasadena, C~ltf. Amy E. Mann to Robert William Dixon, Ju 1Y 31, · Jacqueline Tetz, '48, to Bill Lobheart, Sept. 25, 48. At home 87 Caya ave., West Hartford, Conn, , At home, Heppner, Ore. ALPHA ETA-Merry Margaret ~dams t? Davtd J. Elizabeth Howes, '48, to Arthur Eblom, '48, K:r., Froelich, Sept. 4, '48. At home, Mtnneapolt~ . Aug, '48. At home, Eugene, Ore. . , Dorothy Bonn to Arthur Axness at MontiVIdeo, Sept. Bernice Reese, '47, to George Gneve, Nov. 4, 48 . 3, '48. '48 At home, Freewater, Ore. . Ardith Fountain to Byron M. Mabon, Dec. 30, , · BETA GAMMA-Lois Eleanor Catterson to Mtlton Doris Peterson to John R. Hossfield, Sept. 11: 48 · Blair Blackwood, Dec. 27, '48. Shirley Softke to Vernon DeCourcy, Aug .. 28, 48. BETA DELTA-Betye J. Roe to Michael J. Bantten, ALPHA THETA-Sue Montfort, '49, to Jtmmy Sttles, Dec. 31, '48. At home, 1549 S.W. Twenty-Seventh '49, University of Louisville, ~· Dec. 29, '4~. . ave., Miami, Fla. Joanne Mitchell, '49, to Wtlltam Cochran, 49, Unt- BETA EPSILON-Jane Rieves to C. R. Peterson, Jr., versity of Louisville, Dec. 16 , '48. . June 10, '48. At home, Jacksboro, Tc;x., where Mrs. ALPHA IOTA-Camilla Cook, '50, to Don Qutnlan, Peterson is a county home demonstration agent. l:,AE, Miami university, Dec. 28, '48. Jean Phelps, '47, to Charles M. Brunson, Dec. '48. Martha McCarroll, '52, to Bob Clark, !J.T, Miami Mary Margaret Hodge, '48, to Arthur W. Sour Jr. university, Dec. 27, '48. BETA ZETA-Joan Althea Brunner, '49, to Robert Barbara Lyons Rex to Mr. Cousins, June 11, '48. At Shryer Wilkinson, Jr., '51, Nov. 13, '48. . home, 1116 Bryant st., Fairmont, w.ya. . · Rose Ann Collier, '48, to the Rev. Rayburn Wtnd Nancy North '46 to Donald R. Htnckley, Oct. 48. ham Ray, University of Alabama, Dec. 21, '48. At At home, 939 W. Schaaf rd. , Brooklyn Heights, Cleve home, Tuscaloosa, Ala. land, Ohio. Janet Elaine Turner, '49, to Vincent George Stransky, Louise Beatley Hartley to Roy W. Shamhart Jr. At Jr., Jan. 29, '49. home, 819 Claremore dr., West Palm Beach, Fla. BETA THETA-Patricia DeBarger, ' 51, to Robert ALPHA KAPPA-Harriet Woods to John H. Farber, Keadle, '49, AXA, Nov. 22, '48. July 9, '48, at Fairbanks, Alaska. At home, 205 High Vera Walter, '50, to John McGilvray, '49, AXA, Jan. land Apts., Aberdeen, Wash. . 29, '49. ALPHA NU-Florence Nadine Olson to Edward A. Mary Krause, '46 to Walter Hobba, '~9. A'ftl, Jan. Bentley, March 27, '48. 30, '49. Living in Marietta, Ohio, unttl June, when Lauramae Moore to Jack Patterson, Aug. 21, '48. At both will enter the University of Wisconsin. home, 304 S. Fifth st., East, Missoula, Mont. Winifred Finkel to Robert Merritt, Jan. 14, '49. At ALPHA SIGMA-Nancy Jane Horn, '49, to Edward home, 110 Sacra Via, Marietta, Ohio. Aiken, A~ 58 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Babel), a daughter, Martha Ann, March 3, '49. son), a son, Douglas William, July 4, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cowan (Ruth Montgomery), To Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Stewart (.Betty Dickey), a a son, Nov. 21, '48. daughter, IOTA-To Mr. and Mrs. William G. Nowlin (Betty To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ashbaugh (Betty Carlson), E. Binkley), a daughter, Joyce, May 5, '48. William a son, Peter Graham, Jan. 26, '49, in Juneau, Alaska. G. Jr. was born Feb. 14, '45. Address c/o Statio·n KINY, Juneau, Alaska. To Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Mallander (Antha Ericke '37), To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swanson (Joan Joseph, a third child and first son, Russell William, Nov. 8, ex- '49), a son. '48, in Wichita Falls, Tex. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richmond (Lorraine Hardt, LAMBDA-To Mr. and Mrs. James Edgerly Miller, Jr. ex-'50), a daughter, Lynn Jeannean. (Loretta Colleen McManus) , a second son, Jamie, Sept. CHI-To Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Czuba (Joyce Goss) '47. Tommy was born in June, '46. a second son, Michael Terry, Nov 12, '48. MU-To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Maloney (Mary Mar PSI-To Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Fishman (Mary Lewis) garet Dwyer), a daughter, Madeline Maurice, Nov. '48. a daughter, Polly Louise, Nov. 18, '48. Living at 40 To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nagel (Donna Jean Allen), Telford ave., Davton, Ohio. a daughter, Jan. 6, '49. ALPHA GAMMA-To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mc To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wells (Vernice Monsey), Millen (Peggy Roberts), a daughter, Aug. 14, '47. a son, John Robert, Jan. 9, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. Randall Johnson (Jean Brown), To Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wick Jr. (Joyce Blair) , a a second son, Jan. 13, '48. daughter, Janis, Jan. 6, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Buettner (Mary Ann Castle), To Mr. and Mrs. R. J , Savery (Betty Jane Dignan) , a daughter, Jan. 31, '49. a daughter, Marilyn, Aug. 4, '48. J.LPHA EPSILON-To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Rick To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer .Berg (Dorothy Hall) , a (Alice Nordstrom), a daughter, Patricia Carol, Jan. 25, daughter, Dorelie, May 2, '48. '49. Living at 430 E. Twentieth st., New York City 9, To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brewer (Betty Kirby), a N.Y. son, Michael Kirby, Sept. 20, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haw (Beverly Thompson), To Mr. and Mrs. John Van De Vanter (Doris Hullin) , a son, Robert Arthur, June 29, '48. a daughter, Susan Adair, Jan. 9, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riecken (Frieda Heeney), To Mr. and Mrs. Lennard Mannon (Lois Kinsey), a son, Craig, Nov. 4, '48. a daughter, Eileen Carol, June 23, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wegener (Betty), a daughter, To Mr. and Mrs. Vance Taylor (Anne Wilkins), a Kristin, Nov. 21, '48. son, Marshall Davis, Feb. 26, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martins (Janice Vohs), a To Mr. and_ Mrs. George Martin (Helen Richardson), daughter, Cheryl Ann, Dec. 2, '48. a daughter, Beverly Ann, Aug. 5, '48. ALPHA ZETA-To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Phelps To Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cooper (Mary Mc (Louise Flux) , of San Gabriel, Calif., a daughter, An Millin), a son, Hiett Goodall, Sept. 22, '48. drea, Oct. 6, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Moodie (Helen Pichon), a To Mr. and Mrs. James Cuppers (Faith Farnum) , son. Allan Douglas, March 9, '48. Panama, Canal Zone, a daughter, Teresa, Sept. 22, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fee (Ruth Nordstrom) , To Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Alexander (Earle Lucille a third son, Jan. 4, '48. Smith) , a second daughter, Katherine Lee, Jan 23, To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gray (Lois Stevens), a '48. Living at 410 Oak st., Ripon, Wis." son. Steven, Feb. 6, '47. To Mr. and Mrs. George Kelso (Mary Perrell), XI-To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Hammond (Mary Jane recently welcomed one month old Bruce as a brother to Perkins) , a daughter, Jane Baillie, Nov. 15, '48. Liv adopted daughter, Sandra, now two years old. ing at 6826 Hi!lhway 69, Overland Park, Kan. ALPHA ETA-To Mr. and Mrs. Eric D . Bovet (Ethel OMICRON-To Mr. and Mrs. Randall H. Merriman Mae Lindsey) , a son, David Marc, Dec. 26, '48. Li ving (Dorothy Seekamp), a second sen, Ralph Gregory, July at 1502 Fort Hunt rd., Tauxemont, Alexandria, Va. 12, '48. John Randall was born March 19, '47. To Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hoden (Patricia Garrison). SIGMA7'To Dr. and Mrs. Gus Schreiber, Jr. (Susan a son, Gary Philip, July, '48. Townsend '37), a son, John Trueheart, Sept. !6, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. George Sellner (Jane Bossen) , To Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Owen, Jr. (Lessleen Clen a daughter, Louise Ann, Oct_ II, '48. denen), a daughter, Lelie Jean, July 5, '48, Overton , To Mr. and Mrs. James Lindsey (Lenore Hattlestad), Tex. (Jimmie is a :!:K son. ) a daughter, Sarah Marie, Jan. 19, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. Louis Williams (Bobbie Lee Moore), To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walters (Alma Fay Cross), a daughter, Meredith Louise, Jan. 26, '48. a daughter, Patricia Carol, May 3, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Moreau (Bebe Keyser) , To Mr. and Mrs. Orville G. Lundstrom (Marion John a son, Douglas Lee. son), a third daughter, Linda Lorraine, March 1, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. H. J. H. Ellzey (Ruby January) , Living at 4440 Finley dr., Shreveport, La. a son, John Henry, Nov. 21, '48. ALPHA IOTA-To Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Hitchcock To Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Ramsey, Jr. (Barbara Smith), (Phyllis Leiner), a son, Bradley Todd, Nov. 22, '48. a daughter, Barbara Dee, Oct. I, '48. Living at 424 Nordale ave., Darton , Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Guthrie (Kathleen Childress), To Mr. and Mrs. David Buvinger (Virginia Potter) , a third son, Thomas Hall, Sept. 27, '48. a son, Bradley Alan, Nov. 28, '48. Living at 30Vz TAU-To Mr. and Mrs. Harris R. Brown (Mary Locust st., Dayton, Ohio. Margie Wylie),. a son, Thomas Earl, April 12, '48. ALPHA KAPPA-To Mr. and Mrs. Clark Irey (Wini Living at 1603 Fifteenth st., Bedford, Ind. fred Haley), a daughter, Jane Louise, Nov. 1, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Marvin J . Rettinger (Helen Calde To Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Evans (Barbara Marston), meyer), a daughter, Barbara Ann, May 26, '48. a second son, David Steven, Dec, 7, '48. Address Box To Mr. and Mrs. Howard K. Brown (Dixie Pepple !56 Wauconda, Ill. '47), a son, Robert Nugent, Sept. 7, '48. At home, To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mizner (Helen Higgins), a 1409 E. Dubail st., South .Bend, Ind. son, Gregory Michael, Dec. 27, '48. UPSILON-To Mr. and Mrs. Weston H. Brockway To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Greenwood (Marian (Jacqueline Frakes), a son, Dana, Dec. 17, '48. Coomb) , a son, Gil Jay, Jan. 10, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Glass (Helen Starkey) , a To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Canady (Bernice Ripley) , son, Oct. 12, '48. a son, Jan. 18, '49. To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Martin (Clara Dysert), a. ALPHA LAMBDA-To Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. son, Oct. 9, '48. Guthrie (Jean Makay '38), a daughter, Dawn Ava, Aug. To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Fraser (Betty Lively), a 25, '48. son, Bruce Jr. ALPHA OMICRON-To Mr. and Mrs. William B. To Mr. and Mrs. William F. Caldwell (Dale Peter- Kirkland (Anna Pauline Sarrail), a son, William MARCH, 1949 59 To Mr. and Mrs. James T. Simper (Shirley Heslop), Sarrail. Living at 6123 S. La Cienega blvd., Los Angeles a son , James Craig, Dec. 26, '48. 56 , Calif. BETA NU- To Mr. and Mrs. William W. Keese To Mr. and Mrs. Harold J . Wilson (Betty Thompson (Shirley Arends) , a daughter, Pamela Louise, Nov. 14 , Ross) , a son, James Harold, June 1, '48. Living at 266 2 ' 48. Hilgard ave. , ;Berkeley, Calif. To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Voss (Evelyn Strassburger), To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dillard (Leora Livermore), a daughter, Susan Marie, Nov. 20, '48. a daughter, Val, Sept. 13 , '48. BETA PI-To Mr. and Mrs. Otto Laut (Patricia To Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Clyde (Barbara Sheldon Leddy) , a third daughter, April 25, '48. '41). a second child and first son, Edward Sheldon, To Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hageman (Phyllis Genung), July 4, '48. a third daughter, Oct. 8, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Victor Vodra (Marjorie W' ilson) , a son, Richard Earle, March 12, '48. To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shaw (Julie Richter '40), a son, Christopher Allan, Dec. 30 , '48. 1JBea:tbs · To Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lemberger (Dorothy Just DR. MILDRED STRUBLE CARPENTER (Mrs. Chas. '37) , a son, in Dec. '48. C.) M ' 15, died, after a lengthy illness, Jan . 14 , '49 To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gosch (Virginia St. Peter in Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. Carpenter, a widely known '43), twin daughters, Mary Aileen and Theresa Ann lecturer and author of verse and essay, was a former Dec. 3, '48. ' University of Washington associate professor of English, ALPHA SIGMA-To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Galbreath and, for the past twenty-six years, had been professor (Louise Johnst()n) , a son, Jan. 19, '49. Living on Beech· of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern wopd rd. , New Wilmington, Pa. California. She was a member of the American Associa· ALPHA TAU-To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ponchaud tion of University Professors, of the Modern Language (Shirley Dodd) , a son, James Arthur, Dec. 25, '48. Association, and of the American Association of Uni To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clements (Barbara De· versity Women. Gaw '47), a daughter, Susao Ann , Jan. 7, '49. JEANNETTE TWYMAN, M '10, charter member, To Mr. and Mrs. W . Ballew (Jeanne Held '45) died suddenly in Ellensburg, Wash., Sept. 29, '48. She a son, Patrick, Oct. II , '48. ' had been on the faculty of Ellensburg high school since To Mr. and Mrs. N. Glavin (Marguerite Zimmer· 1919. man '45) , a daughter, Katherine Ei leen, July 22, '48. ETHEL THOMAS BOWEN (Mrs. Earl), I '20, died To Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Racicot, (Eleanore Ann suddenly Dec. 28, '48 , in Denver. Ethel was born in Wtschka), a son, William Paul, Nov. 21, '48. ;Bath, England, but moved with her family to Colorado To Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Barnes (Marian Tobey) , a when she was young. She was active always in Sigma daughter, Madge, Nov. '48. Kappa's alumnae group, had been organist at the Ohio To ,Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Limmex (Mary Jane Ren Avenue Congregational church for twenty years, had been wtck 42), a daughter, Elizabeth Gale, Jan. 22, '49. twtce president of the Ladies' Aid, and at the same LIVIng at 311 W. McArthur st. , Corunna, Mich. time of her death was Grand Conductress of the Grand ALPHA PHI-To Mr. and Mrs. Everett Nicklaus (Jean Chapter of Colorado, Order of the Eastern Star. She Hewttt), a daughter, Cheryl Lee, Nov. 5, '48. Living is survived by her husband, her father, two sisters and at 13944 Addison st., Sherman Oaks Calif three brothers. • , To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Shelley ' (Kathl~en King KATHRYN WOOLSEY CARTER (Mrs. Truman C.), 48) , a son, Ttmothy Morgan, Nov. 22, '48. A 60 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Sigma Kappa Directory Founded at Colby College, Maine, in 1874 FOUNDERS College Chapters: Alpha, Delta, Omicron, Nu. MRS. L. D. CARVER, nee Mary Caffrey Low (deceased) Alumna~ Chapters: Boston, Portland, Me ., Worcester. ELIZABETH GRAHAM HOAG (deceased) PROVINCE II-Connecticut, Rhode Island, Western MRs. J. B. PIERCE, nee Ida M. Fuller (deceased) Massachusetts. LOUISE HELEN COBURN, (deceased) Province President: Mrs. J. Allan Hunter, 104 Elling MRS. G. W. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann (deceased) ton st., Longmeadow, Mass. Stale Alumna~ Chairmen: NATIONAL COUNCIL Connecticut: Evelyn Ryle, 49 Garden St., Hartford National President-Mrs. Swift Lowry, 15457 Brewster Western Massachusetts: Mrs. W. M. Heald, 184 rd., East Cleveland, Ohio. Salem st., Woburn, Mass. National First Vice-President-Mrs. Russell Cole, 15516 Rhode Island: Appoline st., Detroit, Mich. College Chapters: Phi, Beta Eta. National Second Vice-President-Mrs. William Seaman, Alumna~ Chapters: Hartford, Rhode Island, Springfield. 5313 Fisher pl., Seattle, Wash. PROVINCE III-Long Island, New Jersey, New York National Counselor-Mrs. Laurence Corbett, 2445 Sheri· City dan ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Province President: Florence Daly, 38 East 4th st., National Secretary-Treasurer-Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Rm. New York, N.Y. 803, 129 E. Market St. Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Stale Alumna~ Chairmen: New Jersey : Mrs. Frederic Williamson, 514 N. OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS Chestnut, Westfield New York and Long Island: Mrs. Richard Dede, National Panhellmic Conference Delegate-Mrs. William 138 Voorhis ave., Rockville Centre, N.Y. Greig, 6217 Acacia ave. Oakland 18, Calif. College Chapter: Alpha Lambda. Editor, Sigma Kappa Triangle-Mrs. James .Stannard Alumna~ Chapters: Long Island, New Jersey, New York Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. City. National Historian-Miss Lillian Perkins, 401 Broadway, PROVINCE IV-New York State, except Long Isla nd Suite 8, Cambridge, Mass. and New York City Director of Alumna Relations-Mrs. Monroe Dreyfus, Province President: Mrs. Alexander Carmicf;lel, 107 122 Beverly pl., Hammond, Ind. Wellington rd., Dewitt, N.Y. Stale 'Alumna~ Chairmen: CENTRAL OFFICE New York: Mrs. Allen F. Buchholtz, 54 Oakgrove, Room 803-129 East Market St. Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind., Buffalo 21 in charge of National Secretary-Treasurer. College Chapters: Epsilon, Alpha Beta, Alpha Zeta. Alumna~ Chapters: Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester, Sche· STANDING COMMITTEES nectady, Syracuse. AUDITOR OF CHAPTER REPORTS: Mrs. James C. PROVINCE V-Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vir Moore, 2 Edgewood Way. Corvallis, Ore. ginia, District of Columbia. COLLEGE LOAN FUND COMMITTEE: Mrs. Robert Province President: Miss Norma Cornell, 4305 Van M. Lingle, 815 E. 57th st. Indianapolis, Ind., Ness st. N.W., W ashington D.C. Mrs. Laurence Corbett, Mrs. E. D . Taggart. CONVENTION CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Richard M. Wick, Stale Alumna~ Chairmen: Rt. 60, Allentown, Pa. Assistant Convention Delaware: Dorothea Redman, 505 W. lOth st., Chairman: Lillian Perkins. Wilmington EXTENSION COMMITTEE: Mrs. William Seaman, Maryland: Miss Irene Radziminski, 1829 Chilton st., Chairman. Baltimore, Md. HOUSING COMMITTEE: Mrs. William Greig, Chair· Pennsylvania: Mrs. Robert Milnes, 204 Garth rd., man, Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Mrs. James C. Moore, Oreland, Pa. Mrs. Bernard Donnelly, 1416 Hawthorne terr., Virginia: Mrs. Robert Van Blaricom, 115 9th ave. Berkeley 8, Calif. W., Huntington, W.Va. MUSIC CHAIRMAN: Mrs. Arthur Hays, 729 N. 88th Dist. of Columbia: Miss Irene Radziminski, 18 29 st., Seattle, Wash. Chilton st., Baltimore, Md. MAINE SEA COAST MISSION: Mrs. Neal Bousfield, College Chapters: Zeta, Alpha Sigma, Beta Zeta, Beta Chairman, 24 Ledgelawn ave., Bar Harbor, Me. , Iota Mrs. Arthur Berry, 69 Bromfield st., Newbury· Alumna~ Chapters: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washing port, Mass. ton, D.C. College Park, Tidewater (Va.). NOMINATING COMMITTEE: Miss Frances Whit· PROVINCE VI-Ohio, West Virginia. well, 10 Brattle Rd., Syracuse, N.Y., Mrs. Wil· Province Presidwt: Mrs. Gilbert Cullen, Muskingum Jiam Greig, Mrs. Virgil Warren, 136 W . 24th dr., Marietta, Ohio. Ave., Spokane, Wash., Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Stale Alumna~ Chairmen: Front st., Bloomington, Ill., Mrs. A. S. Hoffman, Ohio: Mrs. T. K. Decker, R.F.D. 2, Marietta 203 Bluff st., Counci l Bluffs, Iowa. West Virginia: Mrs. R. R. Ayers, 714 5th st., RITUAL REVISION COMMITTEE: Chairman, Mrs. Williamstown Merton D. Linger, 248 North Long dr., Williams· College Chapters: Alpha Iota, Beta Theta. ville, Buffalo 21, N.Y., Mrs. Arthur Thompson, Alumna~ Chapters: Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Cen 4 Sheldon pl., Waterville, Me.; Mrs. Swift Lowry, tral Ohio, Dayton, Marietta, Toledo. Mrs. R. M. Wick, Mrs. Wilfred Readio, 204 PROVINCE VII-Indiana, Michigan. Gladstone rd., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Miss Minnie Pro vince President: Mrs . H. Glenn Bixby, 18510 Bret Bunker, 2680 Bancroft Way, c/o College Women's ton dr., Detroit 23, Mich. Club, Berkeley, Calif. Stale Alumna~ Chairmen: POSTWAR PROJECT COMMITTEE: Mrs. Robert B. Indiana: Lorena Denham, 261 S N . Gale, Indianapolis Parmenter, Chairman, 15 Woodside dr., Amherst, Michigan: Mrs. Walter Bauman, 1246 Berkshire, Mass. Grosse Pointe SCHOLARSHIP CHAIRMAN: Mrs. P. Dale Mitchell, College Chapters: Tau, Alpha Tau, Beta Sigma. 1009 Milton ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Alumna Chapters: Bloomington, Ind., Cen. Michigan, Detroit, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Lafayette, Mid FIELD ORGANIZATION land, Indianapolis. South Bend, Grand Rapids. PROVINCE !-Eastern Massachusetts, Maine, New Hamp· PROVINCE VIII-Kentucky, North and South Carolina, shire and Vermont. Eastern Tennessee. Pro vince President: Dorothy L. Maraspin, Lieut. (jg), Province Prtsident: Mrs. Eugene Jenkins, 2823 E. Sth (W), USNR, BO 363, Naval Air Station, Quon· ave., Knoxville, Tenn. set Pt., R.I. State Alumna~ Chairmen: Stale Alumna~ Chairmen : Kentucky: Massachusetts: Mrs. William Heald, 184 Salem St., North and South Carolina: Woburn, Mass. College Chapters: Alpha Delta, Alpha Theta, Alpha Maine: Chi, Alpha Psi. New Hampshire and Vermont: Mrs. Walter Furlong, Alumna~ Chapters: Georgetown, Knoxville, Louisville, Box 808, Windsor, Vt. Nashville, North Carolina. PROVINCE XVI-California and Nevada . PROVINCE IX-Florida, Alabama, Georgia. Province President : Mrs. George C. Sm.1th, 3709 Lan· Province Prnident: Lynette Patten, 2502 Dellwood, kershim blvd., Hollywood 28, Cahf. Jacksonville, Fla. State Alumna Chairmen: . Statt .Alumna Chairmen: . California: Mrs. E. E. Black1e, 49 18th av.e., San Florida: Betty Jack Janes, 15H Alexandna pl., Jack· Francisco son ville Nevada: Mrs. W. H. Smith, Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe Alabama: Collexe Chapters : Lambda, Alpha Omi~~on, Bet,a Rho Georgia: Mrs. Judson Blount, Jr., 1324 E. 55th st .. Alumna Chapters: Los J\ngeles, Bay C1t1es, Penmsula, Savannah T Pasadena, San Franc1sco Jr. an~ Sr., San Fernan College Chapteri: Omega, Beta Delta. and Beta au. do Valley, Sacramento, .San D1ego, Long Beach, Alumna Chapters: Jacksonvtlle, M1am1, Orlando, Tal- San Bernardino & R1vers1de Valleys. lahassee, Gainesville, St .. J?etersbur~.. . . . PROVINCE XVII-Idabo, Montana, Washington, Or~gon PROVINCE X-Arkansas, LouiSiana, MISSISSIPPI, Okla Province President: Mrs. Ray Anderson, 10202 Ramler homa, Texas, Western Tennessee. ave., Seattle 881 Wash. Province President: Mrs. C. E. Shelor, 205 W. Vir State Alumna Charrmen: ginia, Ruston, La. Idaho: Mrs . .Wm . Belan.gi~. Wallace State Alumna Chairmen: Montana: M1ss Kay W1lhs, Park Drug, Columbia Louisiana: Mrs. James Norman, Rt. 5, Box 372, Shreveport, La. Falls, Mont. Mississippi : Mrs. George Shank, Jr., Rt. 4, Aber· Washington: Mrs. William Miller, 2508 N. Howard, Spokane deen, Miss. Oregon: Arkansas and Oklahoma: Mrs. B. D . Barclay, 1539 College Chapters : Mu, Upsilon, Alpha Gamma, Alpha S. Florence ave., Tulsa, Okla. . Nu, Alpha Phi . Texas: Esther Hill, 824 N. Marsalis, Dallas Alumna Chapters: Butte, Missoula, Seattle, Spokane, Western Tennessee: . College Chapters: Sigma, Beta Epsilon, Beta. X1. Tacoma, Walla Walla, Olympia, Corvallis, Port· Alumna Chapters: Dallas, Houston, l.~ph1s, Ruston , land and Wilmette Valley. Shreveport, Tulsa, Monroe. PROVINCE XI-Illinois (part) Province President: Mrs. Karl Miller, 8521 Constance, Chicago, Ill. State Alumna Chairmen: --==- Illiqois: Mrs. Cecil McLaren, 110 Hampton ct., Peoria College Ch11pters: Theta, Beta Pi • Alumna Chapters: Champaign· Urbana, .Hammond PAST GRAND PRESIDENTS Gary, Chicago (North Shore, North S1de, South Florence E. Dunn, 77 Elm st., Waterville, Me. Shore·Beverly, West Suburban, West Towns) ; Rhena Clark Marsh (Mrs. George A.), 231 Boulevard, Kankakee and Joliet. Scarsdale, N .Y. d PROVINCE XII-Illinois (part), Missouri . Sara Mathews Goodman (Mrs. Joseph M.). decease Province President: Mrs. William R. Cordis, Prince· Grace Coburn Smith (Mrs. George 0.), deceased ville, Ill. Hila Helen Small, deceased State Alumna Chairmen: Eula Grove Linger (Mrs. Merton D.), 248 N. Long dr., Illinois: Mrs. Cecil McLaren, 110 Hampton ct., Williamsville 21, N.Y. Peoria Ethel Hayward Weston (Mrs. Benjamin T.), Box 175, Missouri: Mrs. Allan Clark, 6930 Dartmouth ave., Madison, Me. University City 5, Mo. Lorah S. Monroe, 614 E. Front st., Bloomington, Ill. College Chapters: Eta, Beta Mu, Beta Nu Marv Gav Blunt (Mrs. Harrv), Rockport. Ill. Alumna Chapters: Bloomington, Ill., Canton, Peoria , Audrey Dykeman Van Valzah (Mrs. Robert W.), 208 S't. Louis, Springfield, Ill. Michaux rd., Riverside, Ill. PROVINCE XIII-Minnesota, Wisconsin, Canada Ruby Carver Emerson (Mrs. Roswell D. H.), 72 Payer· Pro vince President: Miss Lu Jean Hansen, 4740 Harriet weather st., Cambridge, Mass. ave., South Minneapolis, Minn. Alice Hersey Wick (Mrs. Richard M.), Rt. 60, Allen· State Alumna Chairm Corresponding Chopt Adelphi College Carol Nielsen Barbara Gross c/o Sigma Kappa, Adelphi College, lii Alpha Lambda Garden City, L.l., N.Y.t 500 University Pl., Syracuse, N.Y.t IV Epsilon Syracuse Univ. Eleanor Ogg Anne Auty Alpha Beta Univ. of Buffalo Shirley Clabeau Margaret MacPherson Norton Union, Univ. of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.'(.t · Alpha Zeta Cornell Univ. Jo Anne Gully Constance Semon 150 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, N.Y.t v Zeta George Washington Univ. Ann Arnold Betty Lou Mann ~1>9, G St., N.W.i31 Washington 7 D.C.t Alpha Sigma Westminster College Phyllis Brown Nancy Elliott Sigma Kappa House, New Wilming• ton, Pa.t Beta Zeta Univ. of Maryland Truth Heinton Adele Wojciechowski Box 93, Univ. of Md., College Park, Md.t Beta Iota Carnegie Inst. of Technology Barbara Pleins Louise Petrus 10 Ledgedale St., Pittsburgh 5, Pa. VI Alpha Iota Miami Univ. Jea nnine Hagan Carolyn Cockerill Sigma Kappa Suite, South Hall, 0•· fo rd, Ohiot Beta Theta Marietta College Patrica Piper Betty Lou Yankeelov Sigma Kappa House, Marietta, Ohiot - Vll Tau Indiana Univ. Shirley Schiffer· ·Ann Hu tchison Sigma Kappa House, Bloomington, decher lnd.t Alpha Tau Michigan State College Jacquelyn Lowe M arge ry Dunlap 518 M .A.C. Ave., East Lansing, Mich.t Beta Sigma Purdue University Mildred Nigh Dora Brookie . 146 N. Grant, West Lafayette, Ind.t Vlll Alpha Delta Univ. of Tenn. Faun Delo IX Omega Florida State Univ. M artha A. Moore Helen Jungmeyer Sigma Kappa House, 50f W. Park Ave., Tallahassee, Fla. Beta Delta Univ, of Miami Marjorie Norris M. Minnette Massey San Sebastian Bldg., Room III, 33 5 University Dr., Coral Gables, Fla. t Beta Tau University of Florida Betty Walker Elhabeth Horlamus 1038 W. Union, Gainesville, Fla. t X Sigma Southern Methodist University Mo XV Iota Denver University Harriet Gleason Julie Thomas ~no So. Josephine, Denver, Colo.t Beta Kappa Colorado A.&M. College JoAnn Hall Dalas Lil timer 633 South College Ave., Ft. Collins, Colo.t Beta Lambda Utah State Agricultural College Lorna Nyman Virginia Winget 71 West 3rd, North, Logan, Utaht 6 --- XVI Lambda Univ. of California at Berkeley Nancy Rieck Jean Cummings ~409 Warring, Berkeley, Calif.t Alpha Omicron Univ. of Calif. at Los Angeles Jacqueline Eshleman Helen Swinimer 7>6 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles Calif.t Beta Rho San Jose State College Carol Beneli sia Audrey Auerbach 168 S. 11th St., San Jose, Calif.t XVII Mu Univ. of Washington Jane Eberharter Francis Joslin 4~10 ~>nd N.E., Seattle, Waoh.t Upsilon Oregon State College Colleen Madsen Norma Lou Kroeger >31 N. ~6th St., Corvallis, Ore .t Alpha Gamma Washington State College Shirley Scott Norma Denney 610 Campus Ave., Pullman Waoh.t Alpha Nu Univ. of Montana Joann Cline jean Popham 2.01 University. Missoula, Mont.t Alpha Phi Univ. of Oregon M arty Lou Coffey Dorothy Sutton 1761 Alder St., Eugene, Ore.t • President's address. t Address of sorority house or rooms. NEW INITIATES • ACTIVES • ALUMNAE Order Your Badge from Your Official Jeweler The L. G. Balfour Company, your official jeweler, guarantees the pro- tection of your insignia-each piece is die struck to insure accurate design and uniform weight. It is then pains- takingly finished by master jewelry craftsmen in exact accordance with your official contract specifications. HOW TO ORDER: Badges, pledge, patroness and Mother's pins must be received on official order blanks. Insignia Price List Scroll border badge ...... $ 4.25 Crown set pearl badge ...... 18.25 Monogram recognition pin ...... 1.50 Mother's pin, crown set pearl circle ...... ·...... 15.00 Send for complete price list. 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