s i g m a J UNE K a p p a TRIANGLE I 9 4 3 Official Publication of Sigma Kapp a Sorority Founded at Colby Co/lege, W atervi//e, Maine, November, 1874
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Boall"d There's No "Women's Work" in Ship Yard-But Women Are There ...... Phyllis St. Clair Fraser 3 of Was "Compounded" 6 Months in Japan after the War Began ...... Alice Bixby 6
Editoll"s Subscription Order Blank ...... 11
Plaf)ning Meals in an Army Hospital Keeps Me Busy ...... 2nd Lt. Alice Jewell 12 Editor-in-Chief Rushing in Wartime ...... H elen f. Dow 13 MRS. }AMES STANNARD BAKER (Frances Warren Baker) Send Your Rushing Suggestions to These Chapter Rush 289 Woodland Road Chairmen ...... 14 Highland Park, Ill. Campuses at War ...... 17
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Pictorial Section ...... 25
A/umnte Editor With Our College Chapters ...... 31 MRS. WILLIAM F. SHELTON Pledges, Initiates ...... 36 (Helen Wilsey Shelton) 503 Washington Ave., Kennett, Mo. With Sigmas Everywhere 38 Milestones ...... 43
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Vol. 37 Edited by FRANCES WARREN BAKER No.2
Therets No uwomen1s Workn in Ship ,: Yard=-= But Women Are There
Mrs. Fraser, Director of Women's Personnel, came to the yard October 26, 1942. On her staff, which she describes as "both competent and congenial," are two Field RepresentaJives, who are her immediate assistants; twelve counselors; two employment interviewers and one exit interviewer. Mrs. Fraser, who was t;raduated from Colby •College in 1913, taught Latin aJ Coburn. Classical Institute in Waterville, Me. for the next eight years. In 1921 she· married Paul Frederic Fraser, also a Colby graduate. He died in 1938 and Mrs. Fraser went back to teaching, this time in· Westbrook high school. where she remained until she went to the shipyard. She has six children: Mary Louise, a sophomore at Colby ; Gordon, Ada, Constance, Haddon, and Janet.
By PHYLLIS ST. CLAIR FRASER, A
HEN in the summer of 1942 it be Last September we did not apprehend put came generally recognized that it ting women at any trade except tack-welding. W would be necessary to employ Today they are found in twenty different de women in shipyards in the United States as partments. When women were first em they had been employed in Europe, the South ployed as yard workers, we assured them Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, now the that they would work only on the flats. To New England Shipbuilding Corporation, set day there is scarcely a place in the yard or about laying their plans. September 11 the on the hulls where women are not working. first women welder trainees, 21 in number, In September any foreman would have were employed. Now, eight months later, we scoffed- at the idea of a department's ever have on our payroll 3189 women, of whom employing more women than men, but to 2806 are replacing men in the yards. It has day three fifths of our tack-welders are been interesting to watch the numbers in women. So has the picture changed in eight crease week after week-almost as interest months! ing a:s it is to go down into the yards and We are used to the idea of women in in: watch the daily progress of our ships, and dustry, and the last two years have seen marvel to see them take form, until the day women invading fields hitherto open only to when the miracle of steel lies at the outfitting men. The airplane industry is the outstand pier ready to be delivered to the Maritime ing example of this fact, and sometimes Commission. So you see my thrill is twofold people are inclined to say, "Why all the fuss -rooted in the expansion of the women's about women in shipyards'? They've been program, and the consciousness of our share riveting and welding in the airplane industry in the National war program. for years." The answer is of course that ship-
SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 3 building and airplane construction have little They know better than the men where the in common. The metals used in airplane con various templates are, and they are more struction are much lighter than our steep careful to put them back in the racks where plate. The employees work under shop con they belong. ditions. Ships are built outdoors, in all sorts The layout crews take the templates, and of weather. Rain and snow and wind must pai.nt on steel plate the shapes, and the holes be battled. Neither heat in July nor cold in and all the markings. Burners with acetylene February must slow our program. torches mt along these marks, or burn through to make the holes. Almost a hun Din Becomes a Symphony dred women are to be found doing layout, We tell the women, in our employment and more than two hundred ate burners. interview, "there is no women's work in a We have nearly five hundred women who shipyard. There is no light work. There is no are ship-fitters' helpers, assembling the units quiet corner for those who are bothered by that the huge gantry cranes move onto the noise." That is all terribly true. When you hulls. The shipfitters work on the hulls, on first step down in the yard, the din is ter the flats, or in the assembly building, with rific. It, is impossible for you to separate one the tack welders, so many of whom are sound from another. You are deafened. You women. The tackers are everywhere that con turn to speak to your companion, and realize struction is going on-in the plate shop, that you couldn't hope to be heard above the the tin shop, the pipe shop, the assembly racket. But presently the din is. music to .your building, the flats, and on the hulls. They ears-a queer symphony, whose orchestral climb to dizzy heights; they crawl into queer parts you can separate each from each-the places and twist into queer positions. Some riveting, the chipping, the welding, clang of of them are very skillful. Nearly a hundred steel on steel, shipfitters' hammering, warn have pa?sed their welding tests, and already ing bells on the cranes-all harmonizing into a good number of them are classified as a musical accompaniment for the mighty welders. drama of the building of a ship! What are the women doing? Well, they're Clean-up Job Is Dirty working in the shops, electric shop, machine The clean-up crew of the paint shop de shop, pipe shop, tin shop. And doing a very serve special mention, There is no glamour fine piece of work too. One or two of them in their job, but a lot of hard, dirty, laborious are already first-class mechanics. In another work. They clean the hulls for the paint shop women are sewing canvas on asbestos ers. Their work begins almost as soon as pads; to cover exposed pipe on the ships: the keel is laid. Whatever accumulates that Perhaps this is an exception to our claim is not needed they must move. It may be . that there is n9 women's work in the ship snow or mud or water. It may be lumber or yard-but it is the only exception. Other pipes or steel scrap. They scrape the steel women from this same shop climb around plate with steel wool. They clean and sweep the inside of the half-finishea ship, covering and wash and scrub. They go before the pipe with asbestos, much as your own heater painters to make the ship clean for paint ' pipes in your basement are covered. ing-and they clean up after the painters. We have three hundred or more women do Like BIG Dress Patterns ing this work. We have to tell them some In the mold loft they look after template times that their work is as necessary as any storage. The templates are to a ship what other. All the ship-fitting and welding and · a pattern is to a dress-but how different! outfitting in the world would be useless i'f They are big diagrams made of quarter-inch the ships were not painted-and the painters pine-twenty-thirty-forty feet long. They couldn't function without the clean-up crew. have holes in them that show where rivets We have girls catching rivets, checking will be placed, and cabalistic marks that tell plate, doing shiprigging, and working in the what part of the ship they belong too, and salvage crews. We have women who are what part they adjoin, and where the weld blacksmith's helpers. Remember, they are all ing seams should go. The foreman tells us doing men's work, most of them out of that the women are better house keepers doors in all sorts of weather, with the ele than the men-and why shouldn't they be? ment of danger always present. Many of
4 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE and a half miles through the woods to l_her home. We build monuments to people who _show no more courage than this woman. There's Tonie, ·who has been a carnival acrobat, and Miss R-, who has two degrees and -h'as written several scientific textbooks.
' 'fv~ . Two · Days Alike ' . . Mrs. Baker - ~~nt~d me to say so'mething about opportunities . f?r women ' in·.· th'is type . of work. Of course we . ·all recognize that we're in for 'the dur'atibn; ' and that when peace comes the yards will' be staffed with men again. But for the time being we're here because we're needed. As far as yard or shop · work is concerned, there are many jobs to be filled-ai).d every day men are leaving for the armed forces. In our Personnel organi zation here we have women employment interviewers, who must know the jobs for which they are hiring, and must have extraor dinary judgment in placing the applicants. There are_two field. representatives, who- are our contact' with the foremen and the as- Phyllis St. Clair Fraser sistant foremen in the yard. They have varied duties, from scouting up new requisitions for them are working with a fine spirit of con women, to settling minor labor disputes. secration. Here in the Yard they are doing They would bear out my statement that no their bit, as their husbands and their sons two days are alike and every day is inter are doing theirs in Iceland o;: North Africa esting. Then finally there are the Per's,onnel or the South Pacific. counselors whbm I mentioned. As the field Working out from the Personnel Office representatives are our contact with super we have Personnel Counselors, who ·contact vision, the counselors are our contact with the women, help them in adjustment to a the girls, and the work that they do is par:: new and difficult environment, help to main ticularly valuable to the company as well as tain morale, and set standards of conduct. to the girls. Through them we meet many of these I women and learn their problems. We learn "That's MY Ship Going Out" to admire them, too, as well as like them. There are Eleanor and Dot, two Navy wives It all offers va.riety and excitement, and on the clean-up crew, who really rejoice in each of us may be assured that in our own· the work they are doing,· and the harder it is, way we are serving in the emergency. I like the better they like it. There is Pee-Wee, not to think of one of our women, and feel ' quite five feet, who looks like a paper doll that all of us share her emotion. Some of in spite of her welding clothes, and Joan and the girls were in the rest-room for the brief: Jane, who run a farm in addition to their rest period which they may take each four work here. In fact, I've never been sure hours. Through the hum of their voices, which they do on the side, farming or over the noise of the yard, sounded the ship-building. But if their farming is as whistle that meant that ship had , been· good as their tacking, it's all right! And there christened, and was being towed from the is Lucy, who works eight hours here, then basin. Alice jumped to her feet and clasped when the shift ends at midnight, rides fifty her hands over her head. five miles on the bus. She leaves the bus at "My God," she cried, with rio trace of 2:30-2 :30 a.m., mind you-to walk two profanity, "that's my ship that's going out!"
JUNE, 1943 5 I Was 44 Compounded'' 6 Months in Japan After the War Began
Miss Bixby returned to Japan, after furlough, in September 1940 one of the last ones to ge~ back into that country. It was almost impossible to secure a passport after that date. From then untr/ war was declared she taught under the Baptist Board in a Girls' Mission School in Sendai, the largest city north of Tokyo. This . high school h By ALICE BIXBY, Epsilon .HE morning of Dec. 8, while I was home this evening as some unruly fellow eating breakfast, my cook's brother might be rude." T burst into the dining room in great A few days previous I had invited about agitation, saying that news· had just come six of the teachers to my home for a dinner over the radio of war between Japan and party that evening-a farewell to one of the America. Though for some time I had been teachers who was soon to be married and mentally prepared for such news, still I could move to Tokyo. When I asked them if un not believe it. When I arrived at school at der the circumstances they would prefer not 7:20 a.m., somewhat earlier than usual in to come, they replied that they wished to order to attend our weekly faculty prayer come as planned. At dinner and during the meeting, I heard nothing about war so hoped games which followed, though our hearts it was a false report. However, after prayer were heavy, in order to give the bride a meeting was over one of the teachers told pleasant memory to take away with her, we us definitely that war had been declared by did not mention the awful news of the day Japan. Few of the teachers said anything. until I was called to the door to meet one It apparently was a great surprise to them of the men teachers who brought a message and they went about their tasks with rather from the principal that I was not to attend dazed faces. At 8 o'clock when I asked the school next day. Then I knew that the break principal if I should attend chapel services in our relationship had come. Returning to he said, "Yes, but perhaps it would be better the room I told the teachers that anything not to preside at the piano; someone might might happen and pointed out certain things think it strange." I wished them to have in case I should be Early in the forenoon all the students and taken away suddenly. I think I realized bet teachers were again assembled in the audi ter than they the changes that would come. torium to hear the formal declaration of war They said little but I knew that there was, broadcast by the government, and during the and would be, no change in our friendship. day there were other broadcasts which every I was not allowed to see them again. one had to hear. I did not leave the class Early Tuesday morning the pastor of the room and each time the students returned I church I attend, a very friendly young man went on with the lesson. All the girls seemed and an earnest, efficient pastor, called and very quiet and looked at me with sympathetic offered to do anything he could to help me. eyes. I saw no change in their attitude which "If you need anything at any time let me had been very friendly ever since my return know quickly," he said. While he was still from America the year before. At noon I there the local policeman came-a pleasant ate my lunch with the teachers as usual. chap who had often dropped in to talk with After the day's work was ov~r I asked the me. He said that he thought I would not be principal whether I should return the next molested in any way. When I asked if I day. He said, "Yes, but don't go far from would be sent away he replied, "Oh no, 6 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE there will be nothing like that. You will be signed to the front downstairs room where quite safe here. I will look out for you." I was, the police using the other front room At about 10 o'clock six plain clothes men across the hall for their office. At meal time appeared at my home "to help me pack." we opened our furoshiki bundles ·and ate When I asked for details they told me it whatever we had hastily collected-in my would be necessary "for your protection" t JUNE, 1943 7 more from the banks or from any other days before Christmas they were all opened source. and the contents noted. Among other things We continued receiving monthly install there were marshmallows, jelly beans, gum ments of butter which five of us had been drops, fudge mix, molasses drops, and choco in the habit of ordering from Hokkaido, the late tidbits. How good they did look! The Northern Island, and the police saw to it papers, ribbons and cords were all smoothed that we had daily supplies of bread, meat out and cut in appropriate sizes. The candies once a week, fish occasionally, and fruit and were carefully counted, separated into about vegetables when and as they could be pro sixty portions and tied up in the papers, cured. The Japanese themselves were being trimmed with seals and cards. On Christmas rationed. Salt and sugar were also rationed. Day each person, police included, received We made the best use of such things as we one of these bags. They were small and con could get, sometimes not knowing what the tained only a few pieces each but they gave next meal would be. Fortunately at one of Christmas cheer and a "touch of home" to the convents there had been a good garden many. and as long as the supply lasted we had Of all the Christmas packages which had Chinese cabbage, carrots, and a few other no doubt been sent from America and Can vegetables. For a time we had some milk ada, it happened that these two boxes were and a few eggs from the same source. We the only Christmas gifts to be interned with also had a limited supply of milk from a Japa us, and the senders would have been happy nese dairy. indeed could they have heard the expressions of grateful appreciation. In the evening the We Weren't an Exhibit! tables were removed from the refectory, a At first we were strictly watched day and baby organ brought in from the church kin night, but gradually this was changed. There dergarten, and we all crowded into the room continued to be a morning and an evening for an impromptu program of Christmas inspection but sometimes this too was omit songs, French and English. Of course the ted. We had periods for exercise in the gar police were present, as always, and some den in front of the house, an hour in the Secret Service men. It was our opportunity morning and from one to two hours in the to show them in even a small way something afternoon. During such times passers-by of what Christmas means to us. later they often stopped to look in through the iron expressed more than once their surprise that gate, the police guard sometimes waving the Catholics and Protestants lived together them on. One policeman was several times in such a cooperative way. "You don't fight heard to say, "This is not an exhibit. People at all," one• said. should not stop to look in.'! From about the middle of December we Sometimes students or others we knew were allowed the use of the church building passed by and desired to speak with us but on week days from five to six in the morn all communication, even waving of hands, ing, before the early Japanese service. was prohibited and any infringement of this On Sunday mornings a Protestant service rule was punished by loss of the privilege of was held in one of our rooms and, though exercise by the whole group. Though we the proximity of piles of mattresses, clothes were considered enemy aliens, at no time did hanging on the walls, washing utensils in I hear or see any act of rudeness or disre evidence, did not add a religious atmosphere, spect on the/art of those passing by. How we knew that God was present and the sing ever, we di not enjoy the publicity and ing was as earnest, the prayers as reverent, were glad when in the spring a high board and the sermon as helpful as those at any fence was erected between the gate and the church service. house. This diminished somewhat the size Some time in February mail which was in of the garden but gave us more privacy, and the censor's hand when we were interned, after it was built we were allowed to go out was delivered to us and all the letters we into the garden at any time during the day. had mailed during November, and even When interned I was permitted to take earlier, were given back to us. At that time with me two Christmas boxes which had we were allowed to see the English news just arrived from my home church. These paper published under government control contained ·, many small packages, and two in Tokyo, and from then on it continued to 8 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE both "the cllimhey and roof Caught fire. An other day eatly in the morning a more se rious fire across the street destroyed the homes of some eight families and was barely stopped at our gate house. Our garden was filled with refugees and their salvaged furni ture. Our life was not monotonous. Officials came and went-the police ·were often in our rooms. They enjoyed our music and fre quently asked us to sing· for them. It was re ported by the representative of the Sw~ss Legation that the spirit of the Sendai camp was the best of any in Japan. It certainly is true that no matter what happened, very lit tle complaint was heard, and though there was constantly in our hearts a great desire to .; know what was going on outside, a great anxiety for the schools and churches, for our friends in Japan and also in America from whom we had· not heard in so many months, God gave strength, endurance and good cheer. Should We Leave? Early in April a representative from the Alhe Bixby, Epsilon Swiss Legation came to Sendai to meet the American citizens. He presented blanks to be come somewhat irregularly. signed by each which stated that the signer In March about 20 of those who had been either asked· for or did not ask for evacua interned in Morioka, under very strict super tion in case there be an evacuation boat. At vision, were brought to Sendai. that time I did not wish to leave Japan. We About once a month in our camp we had had heard by the grapevine route that the a social program in which all joined, usually American women in Tokyo were free-that a mixture of English and French and often some of them were still teaching school, and humorous in character. It was hard for the we were not without hope that in time we police to understand our deliberate attempt would be released and returned to our homes. to make the best of circumstances. They However, as it happened, my name was not could not relax because of the dignity which on his list which was supposed to include • they felt they had to maintain, but we could all United States citizens residing in or near joke with each 9ther and laughing together Sendai. I knew there was some mistake for I helped to keep up our morale. There were had been registered at Tokyo the year before. many irritating incidences and a more or less We talked the matter over and it seemed best tense feeling much of the time. Being con "for me to sign the blank asking for evacua stantly suspected and watched is not a pleas tion even though at the time I did not wish ant experience, but we had much to be thank to be repatriated. We heard no more about ful for. We were not mistreated in ·any way evacuation of missionaries though there was and were wonderfully protected from sick- an occasional notice in the newspaper about ness. a possible evacuation ship for diplomats, We Kept Ourselves Busy representatives of the press, and some others. We kept ourselves occupied most of the At the end of May the police suddenly in time and each day something different hap formed a few of us that we should be pre pened. Some of us studied French. Some ·pared to leave upon notice. I was one of nuns studied English and music. One lady those notified. By that time I had come to clever in sketching taught a class in drawing ·feel that I could not help the school in any which was a source of amusement to those way by staying in Japan, nor would it be concerned and ·all others as well. One day wise to live alone even though I should be JUNE, 1943 9 allowed to go home ; also it would probably friends nor communicate with them. Our be a long time before I could have any con hand baggage was examined .twice at the tact with school or church. So, though it was hotel but the trunks having been examined hard to think of leaving, I knew I should . in Sendai, received no further attention. take the opportunity for repatriation if it On the Asama Maru preparation for over were presented. In a day or so the representa 800 passengers had been made, temporary tive from the Swiss Legation returned to bunks having been built in the third class Sendai and confirmed the words of the po lounge and smoking room as well as in other lice, and I began to make preparation. available space. The men of our embassy had We were first told that we could take only very graciously planned to take crowded such baggage as we could carry, but the day quarters, leaving most of the cabins for the before we left, word came that we c~uld take women and children, and had planned things a small trunk, no books, pictures, or music, so well that there was no confusion. Quite a "nothing printed or written." The police number from Korea joined us, and after a took me home and gave me time to go week's wait in Yokohama harbor we finally through the house, pack some of my books started on our trip to Lourenco Marques, to be sent later if possible, and get such stopping at Hong Kong and Saigon to pick things as I would need for the trip. Nothing up more passengers and at Singapore for in the house had been molested and such supplies. We did not see the cities as the papers as had been taken away had been Asama anchored in places somewhat re returned. Since no wool or cotton can be moved. The food on the boat was good in bought in Japan now, I wanted to give to the first class dining room and we much re the school teachers all supplies that I could gretted that a difference was made in the not bring with me but I was allowed only other dining rooms, less fruit and vegetables to give my typewriter to the principal and to being served there. Religious services were make a few other small gifts. However, as I allowed on the boat and were very inspiring. did not have the amount of money each one I was glad to meet people from China and was allowed to bring out of the country, the Thailand and make new friendships; sad school was "especially permitted" to pay me dened to hear of the awful suffering of the a certain amount for my personal belongings. Chinese but thrilled as I heard stories of the Fortunately the house already belonged to courage of our Chinese Christians. the school. I could leave the furniture and contents as they were explaining to the police The Gripsholm-At Last! that they "belonged to the house." The next You can imagine the thrill we had when day the principal of the school and one of we entered the very attractive harbor of the men teachers called at the camp and paid Lourenco Marques, were saluted by Amer me the amount of money decided upon, and ican and British tankers, and saw the also gave me a gift of ¥200 ($45.00) . He Gripsholm, a thrill intensified when we un was not allowed to say much but I am sure expectedly received letters from America he wanted the gift to express what he could given us even before we boarded the Grips not say. Be did tell me that the religious ac holm. For four days we wandered around tivities were being continued as usual, that a the Portuguese town, took trips out into the large class had entered school in April (there country, visited the markets and museums, are about 1,000 students now), and that and attended services on Sunday. Being able there had been few changes in the faculty. to go about as we liked gave us such a wonderful sense of freedom. "Protected" in Yokohama I think much about the return trip of the In Yokohama we had expected to go from Gripsholm has appeared in the newspapers the train direct to the boat but it was ten so you are already acquainted with that. I was days later when we finally boarded the Asama happy to meet our Baptist missionaries who Maru June 17. While in Yokohama at the came from China by the Italian boat and we Bund hotel still "protected" of course, under had many pleasant hours together. At first police escort, we were permitted to visit the there was much confusion on the ship and a doctor and dentist, the barber and beauty large part of our time and strength was spent parlor, and to buy any needed medicine and in "standing in line." The food was good. a few other supplies, but we could see no We were crowded, of course, but it was sur- 10 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE prising, after we knew where we belonged, how so many people could move about the boat and not collide more often. The weather was wonderful most of the way. In all the ten weeks we were on the water from Yoko hama to New York there was not one bad storm. The few rather rough days did not bother me. I do not regret my return to Japan two years ago. This has been a valuable experi ence for me and I am glad that I was per mitted to be a witness for Christ in the school for even a short time, and could I have given any further service I would gladly have stayed. There are many discouraging factors now but we must continue to work for and pray for the church universal. Dorothy and Katherine Lane ( 011 left and right) on the Gripsholm Pauline Rowland Lane's Twin land lives near by. Mr. and Mrs. Lane were Daughters on Gripsholm in Japan when the Gripsholm left, but on the The twin daughters Dorothy and Katherine day the boat sailed the passengers heard that of Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Lane (Pauline they had already been released from prison Rowland, J.\J") were also passengers on the or would be released soon. Miss Bixby be Gri psholm. Miss Bixby knew them on the lieves that they were then interned with trip, but did not know until later that their others waiting for the next Exchange Ship. mother was a Sigma Kappa. The twins are The Lanes were English teachers, living in now in a home for Missionaries Children at Sapparo on Hokkaido, the northern island of Auburndale, Mass. Their Grandmother Row- Japan. Subscription Order Blank SIGMA KAPPA MAGAZINE AGENCY Credit the commission 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. on this order to Chapter. check Enclosed find money order for $...... in payment for the following magazines. cash How long When New Magazine Price to to or Subscriber's Name and Address Send Begin Renewal Order sent by ...... Donor (if gift, this is important) ...... Publi~hers request that you allow four weeks for subscription to take effect. Make all checks or money orders payable to SIGMA KAPPA MAGAZINE AGENCY. JUNE, 1943 11 Planning Meal§ in an At'my Ho§pital Keep§ Me Bu§y By 2ND LT. ALICE JEWELL, HIS army life keeps me busy every men1,1s and special diets. The master menu is minute, and yet, when I try to write pret>ared in advance by the head dietitian T about my work, there seems to be and from this, I plan the officer patients' nothing much of interest to say. Don't mis check menus. New diets to work on and understand me now, because working here problems to solve keep my work very inter in the Station Hospital, living on the post esting and there is no such thing as being with a grand group of nurses, and enjoying bored. the numerous social functions given for the Incidentally, as part of the Occupational personnel is wonderful! Therapy program, I am teaching archery to During the five months that I have been patients who choose to learn. My classes here, my jobs have been variable. At present, are held three times weekly from 10 to 11:30 Patient's Mess #1 keeps me occupied from and, besides the enjoyment I get teaching 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and there is never a them, it is a treat for me to go out-doors in dull moment. In the morning, my first job the sunshine and fresh air. It really is en is to chart the census and nourishments for couraging to note their progress and excite each ward. Of course, during this busy time, ment when they hit the bull's-eye. " cooks are asking about the substitutions on Evenings, needless to say, are full of the menu-diet cooks run into the office to activity. We have a weekly dance at the inquire about recipes-K.P.'s rush in with Officers' Club at which the music is fur cut fingers to be bandaged and, well, any nished by the Post Band consisting of several thing can and does happen. After my desk well-known players. The latest movies are work is completed, I make ward rounds to shown at the theatres on the Post, and fre interview patients on special diets, inspect quently outside entertainers come into camp ward kitchens and listen to the nurses' com to put on good shows. So you see, there is ments about the food and patients. The super usually something to do with spare time vision of food preparation, especially special at night. diets, also keeps life interesting. You have Perhaps now you have an idea about the no idea of some of the absurd notions these life of an army dietitian. The new insignia men have about cooking! for us is the coducer with the letters H.D., At a designated time the ward-men start representing Hospital Dietitian, and our uni coming into the Mess Hall with their food form is the same as the nurses', which as you carts, and the Mess Sergeant, using "the charts probably know will be olive drab. We may prepared in the morning, tells the cooks the have to "rough it" once in a while, but that proper number of servings for each ward and just makes us appreciate soft carpets, cur the special diets are checked by me. After the tains, fancy hats and dresses more than ever. wards are served, the ambulatory patients Until then, I'll keep on feeding the sick sol come to the Mess Hall cafeteria style. diers and try to make them as happy as pos My afternoons are usually spent planning sible while they are in the hospital. GRAND COUNSELOR HAS NEW DAUGHTER Sixma Kappas everywhere reioice with Irene Dickson McFarlane, M, Grand Counselor, 12 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Rushing in Wartime By HELEN]. DOW, A 0, Member International Membership Committee Sororities in the College Picture mother and alumnre; time is set aside for During War study and quiet; there is a balanced and ESPITE the war accelerated tempo supervised social life. Sorority officers and on college and university campuses, alumnre advisers make frequent check on D young women are still going off to scholastic progress and assist members in college in much the traditional manner this adjustment to college methods of study and summer and fall. But it is ·not quite "as examination. With practical help, praise for usual" because there is a more serious pur good work and often even tangiqle awards pose, and deep appreciation on the part of for scholastic achievement, the sorority stim most of them as they realize their privileged ulates members to make the best of college place in entering college when so much of opportunities. the world is in great turmoil. Where does the sorority fit into the college Effective Rushing This Year wartime picture? Social life is greatly cur Knowing that rushing is to a great extent tailed ; cost of living and taxes are high ; a dignifiea (we hope) salesmanship, all parents and daughters pause to weigh more alumnre and college members engaging in carefully the values of sorority membership it should have well in mind the facts dem before bids to join are accepted. onstrating our war service record. This is If practical war contribution is first con especially true, as we have a record of which sidered, Sigma Kappa, nationally and locally, to be very proud. is found in the thick of wartime service. Our In addition, rushees should know that as central project, giving thousands of dollars usual sorority membership means a campus of magazine subscriptions to Army and Navy home, good times, good friends, stimulus to posts and units, brings current magazines to do well in their college work, and oppor men in the services. A glance through recent tunities for college-and this year war TRIANGLES shows Sigma Kappas engaged service. But they and their parents should in all kinds of war work-drives for war also realize that these attributes are of greater stamps and bonds, home nursing and nutri relative value in wartime because they fur tion courses, entertaining service men at nish a backlog of stability, high standards carefully planned and supervised parties, and friendship which help counteract the are examples. We take special pride in sup emotional tensions of war. porting the USO scrapbook project because In planning the parties in the simplified it is the brainchild of Sigma Kappa Kather rushing of today, attention to details, gra ine Kolasa. Judging by the large number of ciousness, smoothness, count more than ever. Sigma Kappas in various branches of war Without the "crutch" of dazzling decorations service, in uniform and out, we cart be and elaborate food, what sorority members assured that sorority membership seems to be reflect in home and sorority traditions and a stimulus to full community service when accomplishments will have, as they always college days are over. should have, the greatest weight. However, aside from the direct wartime Sigma Kappas have been rushing very suc contribution of sororities there are excellent cessfully in wartime up to date, and the reasons for young women to accept a pledge International Rush Committee has confidence pin this year. Parents may have qualms about that food and gas rationing; the challenge of sending daughter away from home in war demonstrating the value of sororities in face time when so much. of normal life is out of of war and taxes; curtailed social activities; focus. Belonging to a sorority gives girls a all have stimulated our college Rush Com sense of security and stability which in turn mittees and their advisers to do an even gives their parents peace of mind. better job of planning, so that the end re The well organized sorority chapter offers sult will be the usual crop of excellent a girl guidance, if she wishes, by house- pledges. JUNE, 1943 l3 Send Your Rushing Suggestions To These Chapter Rush Chairmen= Here are summer and fall college rush chairmen-with their summer and college fall addresses-and fall rushing dates. Unfortunately all chapters did not send in rushing information so the list is not complete. Where the chapter rushing chairman is not listed, send the rushing reco_mmendations ~o the chapter president who is listed in the directory at .the end of this issue or to the Provmce Rush Cha1rman, whose name and address is given in another list in this section. PROVINCE I ALPHA-Colby College-Bernice Knight, summer address: 109 County rd., Westbrook, Me. Fall: c/o Colby College, Waterville, Me. First and secqnd weeks in February. DELTA-Bos~on University-Frances Steinhart, 40 Ripley rd., Dorchester, Mass. Approx. Sept. 29. PHI-Rhode Island State College-Virginia Brice, summer address: 15 Euclid ave., Providence, R.I. Fall address: Sigma Kappa House, Kingston, R.I. Approx. Nov. 1. J PROVINCE II EPSILON-Syracuse University-Clara Fassett, 50 Clifford dr., Tuckahoe, N.Y. Approx. Sept. 5. Nt_~-Middlebury College-Helen Beardslee, Forest Hall, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Ap prox. Nov. 19. ALPHA BETA-University of Buffalo-Helen E. Nauth, 2 Linden Park, Buffalo, N.Y. End of October. ALPHA ZETA-Cornell University-Winifred Wright, summer address: 47 Park ave., Webster, N.Y. Fall address: 150 Triphammer rd., Ithaca, N.Y. Approx. Oct. 1-15. ALPHA LAMBDA-Adelphi College-Vivian Martire, 55 Garden st., Valley Stream, L.I., N.Y. Bl!inche Perkins, 9319 244th st., Bellerose, L.I., N.Y. Approx. last of September. PROVINCE III ZETA-Mary Louise Lansdale, 1324 Euclid st. N.W., Washington, D.C. Approx. Sept. 27-0ct. 8. ALPHA Psi-Duke University-Camille Shumate, summer address: 411 Pine Tree dr., Atlanta, Ga. Fall address: College Station, Durham, N.C. PROVINCE IV OMEGA-Mary Louise Lopez, 1638 Avoca pl., Jacksonville, Fla. Approx. Sept. 16-20. PROVINCE V ALPHA THETA-University of Louisville-Mary Agnes Ernst, 4603 S. 1st st., Louisville, Ky. ALPHA CHI-Georgetown University-Sarah Gatewood, Georgetown, Ky. Approx. Sept. 23-0ct. 2. PROVINCE VI IOTA-Denver University-Betty Robertson, 670 South Washington, Denver, Colo. Approx. last week in August. • SIGMA-Southern Methodist University-Claydean Zumbrunnen, 3518 Haynie, Dallas, Tex. Approx. Sept. 22-27. , BETA EPSILON-Louisiana Polytechnic Institute-Melba Lee, Tech Station, Ruston, La. Summer rush: 4th and 5th weeks in July. Fall rush: 4th and 5th weeks of October. PROVINCE VII ALPHA IoTA-Miami University_.:._Mary Jo Pierce, summer address: East Main, Lima, N.Y. Fall ad dress : Sigma Kappa suite, South Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Approx. Sept. 17-0ct. 1. ALPHA SIGMA-Westminster College-Betsy Bush, 589 Crystal dr. W., Lebanon, Pa. Late November. ALPHA TAu-Michigan State College-Frances Fuller, Sigma Kappa House, East Lansing, Mich. Approx. Sept. 26-30. PROVINCE VIII ETA-Illinois Wesleyan-Wilma Schausten, 2004 E. Taylor, Bloomington, Ill. Approx. 2nd week in September. TAu-Indiana University-Novella Northcastle, Sigma Kappa House, Bloomington, Ind. Approx. first week in September. Psi-University of Wisconsin-Mary Jane Hayes, 2433 Fox ave., Madison, Wis. PROVINCE IX XI-University of Kansas-Clara Lee Oxley, summer address: 6009 Cataline Mission Kan. Fall address: 1625 Edgehill rd., Lawrence, Kan. ' ' ALPHA EPSILON-Iowa State College-Marjorie Hayward, summer address: 11 44 N. Massasoit, Chi cago, Ill. Fall address: 233 Gray, Sigma Kappa House, Ames, Iowa. Sept. 23-28. ALPHA KAPPA-University of Nebraska-Marjorie Parchen, 1910 High st., Lincoln, Neb. Approx. Sept. 19-22. 14 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE BETA GAMMA-University of Manitoba-Lois Catterson, 1187 Grosvenor ave., Winnipeg, Mart. Approx. last two weeks in October. ALPHA ETA-University of Wisconsin-Elizabeth Ringuis, 1600 Juliet ave., St. Paul, Minn. Late September. PROVINCE X LAMBDA-University of California-Margaret Warde, 2409 Warring st., Berkeley, Calif. Approx. Nov. 1. ALPHA OMICRON-University of California at Los Angeles-Ardith Hellberg, Sigma Kappa 'I-iouse, 726 Hilgard ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Informal rushing: Sept.-Oct. Formal rushing: beginning of new semester in November. PROVINCE XI ALPHA Nu-University of Montana-:-Jean Gordon, c/o University of Montana, Missoula, Mont., and Betty Jenkin, 1812 Phillips, Butte, Mont. Approx. Sept. 23-27. ALPHA PHI-University of Oregon-Bernice Grandquist, summer address: 9425 N. Midway ave., Portland, Ore. Fall address: 1761 Alder, Eugene, Ore. Approx. middle of September. UPSILON-Oregon State College-Phyllis Taw, Sigma Kappa House, Corvallis, Ore. Approx. middle of September. ALPHA GAMMA-Washington State College-Dolly Knowles, summer address: 810 De Kalb ave., Port Orchard, Wash. Fall address: 610 Campus ave., Pullman, Wash. Approx. first week in September. Mu-University of Washington-Harriet Race, 2454 19th N ., Seattle, Wash. Approx. second week in September. Province I Delta-Katherine Baker, 172 Lincoln rd., Medford, Mass. Phi-Mrs. John Greene, Kingston, R.I. Province II Epsilon-Melva Waful, 403 Shuart ave., Svracuse, N.Y. Nu-Mrs. A. L Brown, 33 South st., Middlebury, Vt. Alpha Beta-Mrs. Donald Young, 140 Winspear, Buffalo, N.Y. Alpha Zeta-Mrs. Marie Wells, 114 S. Geneva, Ithaca, N.Y. Alpha Lambda-Mrs. Lillian Dede, 229 Ascan ave., Forest Hills, N.Y. , SEND THESE BLANKS TO RUSH CHAIRMEN Name School she may enter Home address Father's name Occupation Other data, as school activities, fraternal affiliations, special talents, religion, etc. Name School she may enter Home address Father's name Occupation Other data, as school activities, fraternal affiliations, special talents, religion, etc. JUNE, 1943 15 Prouitzce III Zeta-Sue Burnett, 1204 Newton st. N.E., Washington, D .C. Alpha Psi-Mrs. John Kneip, 2304 Erwin rd., Durham, N .C. Province IV Omega-Lynette Patton, 2502 Dellwood, Jacksonville, Fla. Province V · Alpha Theta-Mrs. C. H. Gould, 1926 Roanoke ave., Louisville, Ky. Alpha Chi-Mary Louise Robey, Georgetown, Ky . .Province VI Iota-Betty Walsmith, 1375 S. Pearl, Denver, Colo. Sigma-Mrs. Wayne Gartogny, 3529 Southwestern, Dallas, Tex. Beta Epsilon-Eugenia Smith, Ruston, La. Province VII Alpha Iota-Mrs. Francis Weber, 1211(2 W. High, Oxfor~, ~hio. Alpha Sigma-Mrs. Glenn Taylor, Elhott House, New Wiimmgton, Pa. Alpha Tau-Beverly Smith, 31 Central Apts., Lansing, Mich. Province VIII Eta-Ruth Biby, 1202 N. Park, Bloomington, Ill. Tau-Betty Compton, 6330 Madison, Hammond, Ind. Psi-Mrs. David Howerton, 144 N . Delaplaine Rd., Riverside, Ill. Province IX Alpha Epsilon-Dorothy Stiaight, Adel, Iowa. Alpha Kappa-Wilma Jones, 2331 Dudley, Lincoln, Neb. Beta Gamma-Meryl Krolman, 507 Rosedale ave., Winnipeg, Man. Alpha Eta-Mrs. James Lindsey, 3232 Girard ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Province X Lambda-Mrs. Lloyd Smith, 5625 Market, Oakland, Calif. : Alpha Omicron-Mrs. John Vivrette, 456 N. Vista, Los Angeles, Calif. Province XI Alpha Gamma-Mrs. Virgil Warren, 134 W . 24th, Spokane, Wash. Alpha Nu-Ruth Bloom, 165 Strand, Missoula, Mont. Alpha Phi-Mrs. Gordon Gedney, 2377 Charnelton, Eugene, Ore. Upsilon-Mrs. Lester Stutz, 529 34th N. Corvallis, Ore. Mu-Mrs. Homer Stone, 7914 Densmore ave., Seattle, Wash. Register Your Daughter Now Have you registered your daughter with Sigma Kappa? If not, do so now. Send her name, age, year in school (register her now, even if she is still in grade school!}, college she may attend, fraternal affiliations, and other pertinent information. We also welcome the registra tion of sisters, cousins, nieces, friends now in high school--don't wait until just before they enter college. Do this registet·ing NOW. Sigma Kappa wants first chance at rushing your relatives, especially your daughter. Send the registration to International Membership Chair man, Mrs. Adrian McFarlane, 500 lAkeside ave. S., Seattle, Wash. Name ...... ·...... School she may enter and when ...... Home address Father's name Other data-(school activities, fraternal affiliations, special talents) ...... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 •••••• 0 •••• •• ••• 0 0 ••• • • • •••••• •• •••• • ••••• ••• 0 •••••• 0. 0 0 0 •• Registered by Relationship ...... 16 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Campuses at War As more and more campuses are being taken mira! of the Pacific Fleet, attended one of the over by the Army and Navy for training soldiers, recent ones. Loretta was recently chairman of a and as the classrooms take on the look of Miss dessert meeting of the War Service Group at which Jones' Female Seminary, Sigma Kappa's are plung some WAVES spoke. ing into war work. At the University of Washington, under the They take the new conditions in their stride. direction of Betty Bronsdon, Mu girls have been Coke dates, with the long hours spent in the corner busier than ever with war service. Co-operating hang-out, have · been shortened to a quick rest with the University Red Cross Center, Mu has period. Scrapbook making has replaced the end fiUed many kits for Navy men leaving Seattle, has Jess bridge games in the recreation room. Even solicited for Red Cross donations, and is knitting, the dances are different-dress is usually informal, en masse, for the men. and uniforms replace palm beach suits. The chapter took over the entire management, Delta chapter, at Boston University, has had a including entertaining and feeding of the Army busy year, for members have been donating their and Navy, of Seattle's U.S.O. center one after blood to the Red Cross, making scrapbooks for noon. Mu also has been hostess at several dances the USO, and figuring out new ways of saving and in the chapter house and elsewhere for the service earning money to buy bonds for the chapter. In men and pre-flight students now attending the addition, the girls have been contributing to the university. care of Sigma Kappa's foster child. And in place Middlebury has had groups of about thirty of the annual spring formal, the girls entertained C.P.T.s on campus aU winter, receiving pre-flight a group of service men at an informal dance at training, after which they were sent to Chapel the chapter house. Hill. Now the college has been accepted, the first The glamorous Stage Door Canteen in Wash· in New England, as a Navy training college. Half ington, D.C., has had a group of Zetas working of the naval unit arrive July 1; the other 250 wiU hard as junior hostesses. Among the most active come in the faU. They wiU stay · one or two have been Audrey Browne, Jean Crowther, Mary semesters. Louise Lansdale, and Ruth Bicknell. About 20 per cent will be members of the V-12 In an aU-school war bond drive at Illinois Wes program, studying on a restricted schedule, and leyan the girls of Eta chapter came through with specializing in mathematics and physics. They nre high honors. The group received a first place cer able to enter aU extracurricular activities, spor~B, tificate for seUing the most bonds of any sorority run for office, and in aU ways possible enJOY the $36,750 worth. Furthermore, it placed second in activities of regular coUege life. Panhellenic Coun the entire school. Helen Melton was bond chair cil is in charge of planning social affairs for the man for the chapter. The aU-campus total was Navy unit. $150,000. This final total amazed everyone when The other big news of change on campus due results were announced at the Jeep Hop because to war is that Middlebury is now operating on a . the original goal was $1,000, enough to finance three-semester basis. Students were aUowed to one jeep. choose whether they wished to return for the The Iota girls at the University of Denver have summer semester or not. The past year was accel joined the U.S.O. as a chapter to do its share in erated, with graduation exercises held May 3, 1943. entertaining. In addition five of Iota's talented With increased demands on the students' time, girls are in an entertainment group which goes to naturaUy aU the existing organizations on campus different camps to stage shows for the soldiers. were questioned for their values. It was decided They are: Orabell Smith, Elaine Witherwax, Bar that if sororities were valuable in peacetime, they bara Heikoff, Joyous Cummings, and Gloria Cum are doubly valuable in war-time. It was further mings. decided to use the sorority groups for entertain The University of Denver is one of the schools ment groups for the navy, as they were already set selected to train air crew cadets. So the campus, up, and organized. says Marion Chandler, has the added attraction of Specific activities of Nu chapter are those which 1,000 cadets marching to classes, doing calisthen many groups are doing: folding bandages weekly ics on the football field and practicing basketball at the Red Cross center, buying war stamps and in the gym. The students have been moved out bonds, airplane spotting, conserving and contribut of the two dormitories, and the fraternities have ing to the scrap collections. The pledges made USO had to give up their houses to make room. Nearly scrapbooks this spring, on Mrs. Morin's suggestion every office and every department in the school has and enjoyed the work. been shifted around. Sigma's activities, at Southern Methodist Uni Loretta McManus, A, has been chairman for versity, include USO and Red Cross work, sell four parties given recently by the Newman Club ing war stamps and bonds, and selling cigarettes of the University of California for the wounded in a drive to supply soldiers overseas. The pledges, sailors and marines of the Oak Knoll Naval hos as their special contribution, have been making pital. The various themes used were Circus, Coun scrapbooks of magazine stories. try Gardens, South American, and Cabaret. Loretta Campus life at Oregon State College has taken and her committee in conjunction with the Moth on a new atmosphere this spring. Because the col ers' Club of Newman Hall, arranged for dinner. lege was selected as an ASTU center, there are 300 An average of fifty feUows and fifty girls attended army engineers on the campus, and they march in each one. Among the guests were those of campus groups of 20 to and from their classes. and navy importance--Mrs. Nemitz, wife of Ad- On the other side of the continent, University JUNE, 1943 17 ' . of Bu1Ialo students also report changes as the air to help entertain the 350 officers in training here. cadets have taken over the student union, the Alpha Psi members, Duke University, are co dormitory, much of the library and many class operating with the COGS (College Organization rooms. of General Service) in the war work on the cam Two war bond and stamp booths have been pus. This includes dances for soldiers, salvage col erected, with Helen Nauth, Alpha Beta's record lection, bandage rolling, selling of war stamps, ing secretary, general chairman of sales and Penny and helping with various town projects. Mountfort, another Sigma Kappa, in charge of the Most of Alpha Omega's activities at the Univer booth in Foster Hall. Several of the girls have sity of Alabama center around the local army air jobs in war plants for the summer, and the rest cadets. The chapter has had open house nearly are engaged in some kind of volunteer war ac every night for as many of the 1,300 men as can tivity, Carol Brown reports. come. The big change, they report, is the leaving Margaret Nicola and Ruth Horr, both of Alpha of most of the men, the closing of the fraternities Gamma, are taking a two-month course which in May, and the influx of the cadets. Boeing's Aircraft established at Washington State Beta Epsilon gave the boys of the Army Air College for interested co-eds. Just as soon as the Corps stationed at Selman Field at Monroe, La ., course is finished they will go into plants on the their first entertainment when they staged a dance. coast. It started off with a grand march in which all par The entire college has gone all-out to make the ticipated. The rest of the dances were of the ex stay of the 1,000 aviation cadets stationed on the change partner type. campus a pleasant one. Dances, games, plays, The Beta Epsilons, at Louisiana Polytechnic In musicals, and the rest of the usual round of social stitute, have started work on the new USO scrap life ar!! being offered. books. Their goal is to complete 40 books by the Out near the geographical center of the country, end of the summer session. at Iowa State College, a war fair replaced the Beta Zeta reports a benefit which is fun and at floats in this year's spring carnival. Philippa Haw the same time raises money for the Red Cross. The good made and carried out the plans for Alpha house, on the University of Maryland campus, has Epsilon's concession-a puppet show with Doro sponsored two after-dinner dances at which each thy Parker's "Waltz," as the skit. boy was charged five cents for a dance of 20 The Alpha Etas and Delta Tau Delta boys at the minutes. Universiry of Minnesota formed a team during the war bond drive. They sold more than $15,000 worth of stamps and bonds during the day they Alum114! Are on the Alert were on duty. for War Work Alice Warns is defense chairman of Alpha Theta chapter at the University of Louisville, and under In San Francisco Irene Struckmeyer Popert, A, her guidance, members have donated to the blood is a Gray Lady; Mabel Goodrich is a Nurses' Aide bank, given time to the Red Cross, and helped at and also a leader in the junior group A WVS; the USO. Lulu Mann Armstrong is working on the Pan During the spring there was a special sale of hellenic committee in San Francisco which prepares war stamps on the college campus every Monday. and distributes A WVS scrapbooks; and Laura The Navy set July 1 as the date on which to start Hammond Beswick is the alumnre's champion blood training men on the campus. Barracks have been giver, having been to the blood bank three times. built. The summer trimester also begins July 1. With the coming of the Navy-and this in Grand President Ruth Ann Ware Greig, cludes WAVES-to the Miami University campus, many changes have been made. A USO has been is a co-chairman of Canteen for her district under established, and some of the Alpha Iotas are help the Red Cross in case of disaster, gives one day a ing at the center. Each member in the chapter has week at the Blood Bank, and another day a week contnbuted money to Bundles for America. on a mobile canteen as well as making surgical Alpha Nus usually attend the A WS-Panhellenic dressings. sponsored mixers in a body, at the University of Montana. There are more than 1,000 aviation Byra Hunter Lewis, T '32, directed canteen students now stationed there, and the mixers are courses for the Red Cross at Snohomish, Wash. held almost every Wednesday night from 7 to 8 Her husband has been in the Pacific area. p.m. Alpha Ta1;1, at Michigan State College, reports Dorothy Pulleyblank, AT, was one of Detroit's no great soc1al change because of the scores of air first air raid wardens. She has taught other wardens cadets. All of the sororities have held open house, and has conducted a class in nursing at the Harper and a.ll-college dances have been sponsored with hospital. She also has a full time teaching posi the a1d of date bureaus which function in all tion. dormitories and sororities-the dates are arranged according to height. Among the many New York alurnnre who are \Yhen l<;>cal ~armers issued a call for help in ~n the thick of war work are: Olga Gramm, E, who hoemg ~het~ spmach. crops, Alpha Phi was right IS secretary of the London Terrace Council and has there domg 1ts part wtth a group of girls volunteer charge of the Red Cross room where they make mg to do ~h1s work. In addition, the chapter has bandages, etc., and also give parties for men of rolled surg1cal bandages, done Red Cross sewing, the Coa~t Guard; Emily Campbell Eldridge, , is and had donated a bond a month to the University staff ass1stant for the Red Cross in Nyack, N.Y., of Oregon post-war scholarship fund. Berniece and does volunteer work at the local hospital; ~ranquist , '46, is . the chapter's social representa Fay Burnett, l:, teaches a Chef course in nutrition tive on the entertamment committee for the campus for the Greater New York Nutrition Committee; 18 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE and Florence Praeger and Alice Peterson Doerr, Our First WREN both are working with their local rationing boards. Miriam Margarson, B '3 1, is a member of the Sigma alumnre active in war work include Doris Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, com Miller Johnson, ~. who is teaching mechanical monly called the WRENS. engineering at Love Field, Dallas; Dorothea Mc Clain, ~. who is on the Speakers' Bureau for the Mrs. McQuate Heads Red Cross Red Cross; and Margaret J o Northcut Day, ~. who is field director of the Red Cross at New River, Home Roll Call N .C. Two Houston, Tex., alumnre who are air raid wardens are Reba Ross, ~. and Theo Hunnicutt, ~ . Mary Lou Hammersmith, '1-, is a USO Travelers Aide volunteer in Milwaukee, one of a hundred girls who are giving information and direction service in the railroad stations and assisting the professional case workers. She is on duty regularly one evening a week at the Northwestern R.R. sta tion and is a reporter on the staff of Volunteer News, the paper written by and for the Travelers Aid volunteers. Butte, Mont., has these Sigma Kappa alumnre in war work: Bernice Blomgren Anderson, AN, is a member of the Red Cross Volunteer Nurses' Aide committee, is on the Board of the A.W.V.S. and a member of the Consumers' committee of the A.W.V.S.; Lucile McQuaig, AN, is a member of the Red Cross Volunteer Nurses' Aide committee; and Miriam Finn Bloom, M, is a captain of Block Leaders in the office of Civilian Defense and a supervisor in the surgical dressings department of the Red Cross. The Los Angeles alumnre have continued their practice of working on the USO books and sup plying the soldiers of the Inglewood Canteen with cookies. June 30 they took the responsibility of entertaining the soldiers with a party at the Can teen. The Los Angeles alumnre contributed the money they acquired on Founders' Day to purchase magazines for our soldiers in foreign countries Mrs. Benjamin F. McQuate the international Sigma Kappa special war project. Hartford alumnre busy in war work include: Mrs. Benjamin F. McQuate, honor mttiate of Catherine Moore, 1>, is a nutrition aide in the the Cleveland convention, holds-with her usual Municipal hospital three times a week. Evelyn super-efficiency-the position of vice-chairman of Ryle, N, assists at the H artford hospital once a the American Red Cross of Greater Cleveland, a week for three hours after her regular work. Eliza position which was also hers from 1937-40. She beth Bean, N, is a volunteer worker at the hos is chairman of the Residential Roll Call division, a pital two days a week. Pauline Nevers, t., is a big job in itself, and has been chairmaning this member of the Red Cross Disaster committee. division since 1938. She became a member of the General Board of the Cleveland Red Cross in 1934 Winnipeg alumnre have engaged in two phases and has served on it in some capacity ever since. of war work. Every Friday evening a group visits · She was chairman of the Home Nursing department the Deer Lodge Military hospital, and the chapter from 193 7-40 and has participated in discussions contributes to a central fund from which smokes of Red Cross Services at national conventions, and candy are purchased, for distribution by these upon one occasion conducting one of the main girls. Other girls act as hostesses and canteen Round Tables. workers at the United Service Centre, the main Mrs. McQuate's daughter, Ruth Helen Mc recreational centre for all services personnel in Quate, is training in Washington for overseas duty the city. as a hospital visitor with the American Red Cross. The Test of a Chapter Scholarship Plus A chapter is measured by what it does with its It is curious, too, but a proved fact, that as a men and for its men; and the ability of the group general rule the houses having the highest scholar to hold its men to their highest degree of achieve ship standings are among the most successful in ment. Any attitude of irresponsibility or un other respects as well. The first step in raising willingness to strive seriously, on the part of the and maintaining any chapter's scholastic standing group, is bound to detract from the true interests is in the choosing of pledges.-The Alpha Xi Delta of the school and the fraternitv.-Triad of Acacia. JUNE, 1943 19 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * More Stars for Our Service Flag * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * These Sigma Kappas who have enlisted _in t'?e various kranches of the service hav~ bee'! reported since the last issue of the TRIANGLE. The edrtor rs most anxrous that all news concernrng Szgmas who havll enlisted be sent to her direcl so that the list of "stars on our service flag" be kept up to. date. A COf!Z· plete list will be run occasionally. We also welcome news of the whereabouts and promotions of servrce women already reported and pictures in uniform. WACs Phyllis Bolte, Ar Donna Davies, A4> Ruth Cornish, A Lt. (j.g.) Ruth M. Hall, 2nd Lt. Mary Jane Myers, AE '41 a Edna Lichti Henry, AI 2nd Lt. Vivian Parr, AE '41 Ensign Virginia F. Lane, 0 '39 Ruth Smith, Z Ensign Elizabeth Garr Miller, Ar Dora May Stephens, AX '43 (to enter in August) Caroline Mulhausen, Y Sally Ray, A4> WRENS (Canada) Ruth Reed, Y ~iriam Margarson, Br Dorothy Shapland, AM Elinor Williams, 4> SPAR ARMY MEDICAL CORPS Jean Butterfield, N 2nd Lt. Alice Jewell, 4> WAVES 2nd Lt. Lila M. Jones, E Janet Bogardus, ~ 2nd Lt. Viola Stephany, AZ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * With the WAVES Ensign Ethel Mae Lindsey, AH, is sta stationed at different training schools: Sally tioned in Washington, D .C., working in the Ray was sent to USNR Midshipman's School research department of Naval Ordnance. She (WR), Mt. Holyoke college, South Hadley, left Minneapolis in January and was com Mass., and Donna Davies was sent to Cedar missioned at Mt. Holyoke Feb. 9. Falls, Iowa, where her address was A S, Ensign Mary Jane Withrow, AT, is sta USNR, Billet 9 B, Section 33, NTS (WR), tioned at Minneapolis. She gave a most in Cedar Falls, Iowa. teresting talk at the March meeting of the Barbara Fatzer, A '40, has received her Twin .Cities alumnre. commission as Ensign. Marguerite Joyner, AE, ex'43, is now a Phyllis Bolte, A, was training at Hunter Seaman 2nd Class. College, N.Y. Lt. (j .g.) Ruth Maxine Hall, S, is sta Three of the New York City alumnae have tioned in Washington, D.C., and is living joined the WAVES. Sally Ray, A«<>, and Eli at 4000 Cathedral ave. N.W., Washington. nor Williams, , are takin~ their training at Ensign Virginia F. Lane, 0 '39, became a South Hadley, Mass., therr address being: WAVE on active duty Oct. 6, 1942. She is A S, V-9, U.S.N.R. Midshipmen School stationed at U. S. Naval Hospital, Medical (W.R.) South Hadley, Mass. Janet Bogardus, School, Bethesda, Md. ~. who has had charge of the Lending Serv Two Alpha Phi members enlisted in the ice Library at Columbia University, has also WAVES at about the same time, but were been sworn in. 20 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Faye Garber Ensign Beulah A. Griswold Mu's First WAC Alpha Epsilon-SPARS W lith the WACs W lith the Medllical 2nd Lt. Dorothy Parsons, AN, is stationed Corps at Fort Devens, Mass. 2nd Lt. Viola Stephany, AZ, is a dietitian. Lt. Phyllis Ward, AO, reported in Boston Lila M. Jones, E, 64 Raymond st., Rock March 9 to work with WAC recruiting. ville Center, N.Y., has been commissioned 2nd Lt., Medical Corps, U.S.A., and as signed as Hospital Dietitian at Stewart Field W lith the SPARS Station Hospital, West Point, N.Y. Jean Butterfield, N '42, was the .first Mid dlebury woman student to become a SPAR. Stop at Your Own New York She took her training at Smith college. Hotel-The Beekman Tower Ensign Beulah A. Griswold, AE, is work {Panhellenic) ing with the Coast Guard office in Wash Where you'll find a real 11 fraternity 11 welcome in a first class modern hotel-the only hotel in the world, open to ington, D.C., releasing a man for active serv the public, both men and women, which is owned and ice. She is living at 812 Quackenbos st. operated by members of the National Panhellenic Frater nities. N.W., Washington, D.C. You'll find a 26-story building--400 all-outside rooms complete facilities- an excellent restaurant-and an atmos phere as friendly as your own fraternity house. Daily from $2.50 Special Weekly Rates Beekman Tower (Panhellenic) 3 Mitchell Place When you renew your maga~ine subscriptions 49th Street overlooking the East River remember to do it through the Sigma Kappa New York City Maga~ine Agency, 129 East Market Building, Write for Booklet F. Indianapolis, Ind. Order blank on page 11. Will TRIANGLE subscribers who are moving frequently with husbands in service please send a permanent address to Central Office, 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind., for the duration? JUNE, 1943 21 Trip on the Sunbeam Shows How Maine Seacoast Mission Works HE following article is a part of the are Capt. Frye, Uewellyn Damon, Engineer, and Sans Varnum, who produced the best food on the annual Christmas letter of Mr. and shortest notice, I have ever eaten. T Mrs. Albert Baily of Philadelphia to Our evening destination was Frenchboro, a tiny their friends. The letter featured a trip village on Long Island, that lies about an hour which they took in the Sunbeam last fall. and a half sail from Northeast. Only sixty people Since it gives such a good picture of a rou remain on the island for the winter and Bert was to give them an entertainment in the school house. tine trip of the Sunbeam, we asked permis No one knew we were coming, so our first task sion to print it in the .TRIANGLE. The Bailys was to land and go to the store and spread the put on puppet shows at several of the islands news of the coming show by word of mouth. which were a great success. We climbed through the cold gray twilight to the little store high on the side of a hill above a It is night and our boat is anchored to leeward cove where fishing boats Jay at anchor. of a tiny cove. Night, but darkness lies only in That store made us realize the warmth and the black shadows of pointed firs for the moon friendliness country stores have offered their pa light 'silvers both land and sea with light. It gives trons for generations. This one must have headed emphasis to the white of birch against the black of the Jist, for inside it was a stove that radiated spruce. A wharf and two white fishing boats warmth and cheer and around it ran benches for stand out clearly. Across from the wooded shore all to rest upon and thaw themselves out before of the cove on a high knoll is a fisherman's house making purchases, or to linger on awhile to pass silhouetted against the sky. A single light shines the time of day before facing the wind and cold from its windows. The air is so cold it almost on the homeward trip. It also housed the post hurts to breathe. Over all is a deep quiet. Such office. The postmaster and his wife were clever, beauty and such stillness are so rare, one opens kindly people, caring for customers in a way that one's whole self to it, longing to imprint it within made running a store much more than just a busi and share it with others through outreaching love. ness. At six-thirty we were climbing the hill The still moonlit beauty of the cove at Loud again, Sans and Mr. Bousfield carrying great ville seems to lie at the heart of our trip on the packages of blankets, Bert with dolls and guitar, Sunbeam. As an introduction to the work of the while I, being a woman, stout and puffy, only Maine Seacoast Mission I will quote a paragraph lighted the way with a flash light. Always part of from "Anchor to Windward," a book devoted to the fun of these trips was the going out through an account of a similar trip on the same boat. the cold and wind and the arriving at a warm, "The Seacoast Mission, an independent philan cheery building somewhere off in the night. This thropic enterprise supported by individual contri school house was no exception. The school teacher, butions, has its headquarters at Bar Harbor, and Mrs. Muir, has been rated as running the best by means of boat brings religious, educational, hos one-room school in the state of Maine. A better pital, and recreational facilities to the inhabitants organized, more attractive school room I have (particularly children) of the islands and lonely never seen. Mrs. Muir has taught this school for outposts of the coast. Its work at Christmas time is eleven years; she also sells rugs and blankets and especially praiseworthy." many other things for the Seacoast Mission. On We reached Bar Harbor on a windy, cold eve Sunday she assumes the office of minister and ning in mid November. Driving wind and rain, as preaches to her island community. well as table talk of forty foot waves, made the Coming up on deck before seven next morning, trip next day seem well nigh impossible. Then we marveled at the beauty of the land locked har Neil Bousfield (superintendent of the Mission) bor at Swan's Island. Town and bay lay sleeping in arrived, and we had our first experience of the the faint morning light, even the water seemed calm way he refused to recognize difficulties. without motion. Returning on deck after breakfast, Morning broke clear and cold; the wind had we found a different scene. Lobster boats were dropped somewhat; and our enthusiasm for the put-puting about, other boats had men on board trip was definitely mounting. Two-thirty found us cleaning up, and on the pier people were begin putting out from Northeast Harbor in a choppy ning to load our boat with some furniture we were sea, under a gray sky with clear cold light on the to carry to Rockland. Every one went to work, horizon. and in short order we had all the worldly goods A word of introduction to the Sunbeam and of a bride-to-be stowed away on deck and in the her crew. The Sunbeam is a seventy-two foot tug hold. Here we took on three women bound for like boat, built with all possible consideration for Rockland. Also Mr. .Hall, a minister in the employ the winter service she is to render and for the of the Seacoast Mission, who lives on Swan's comfort of her crew. Four comfortable cabins offer Island with his wife and son, joined us here. We accommodations to crew and guests. A small were to drop him on another island for a week-end lounge above and cozy dinner quarters below give of fellowship with the people there. Characteristic much room for friendly talk and sociability. The of each stop, Mr. Bousfield had a plan for every galley rivals a New York apartment kitchen in effi minute; he would load furniture, then interview ciency of plan and detail. This is Mr. Bousfield's the nurse working for the Mission, deliver small but most efficiently run kingdom. His helpers blankets, rugs or magazines, and tend to endless 22 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Left to right: Sans Varnum, cook: Rev. Anson R. Williams, Missionary Pastor: L. C. Da mon, engineer: Ralph f. Frye, Capt.; Rev. Neal D. Bousfield, supt. other details involve9 in the Mission work. which stands high on a barren island of rock, At Rockland we were joined by "the Parson" perhaps a hundred feet above the water. The four or the ''Sky Pilate," the third minister employed by ./ young Coast Guard trainees and keeper that met the Mission. Bousfield, Hall and Williams form a us, shooted the shoots down skids from the light fine trio, each works in his own territory alone and house, hitting the sea with a great splash. We had then for a time they are on the Sunbeam together. a boat on board for the keeper and this was These times must be of great value to them, for turned over to the boys to row ashore. Later in their work is often very difficult, and they are the morning we visited Burnt Island Light near confronted with problems that only the three Fosdicks Island, across from floothbay. Here we of them can understand. We would like to pay were made very welcome, the keeper meeting us tribute to the fine, good fellowship we experi as we landed. He showed us with pride the enced with them and the fun we had matching remains of flower and vegetable gardens and a stunts and telling yarns around the dining table of large well kept lawn, as we walked to his home. evenings. Meals were fun too. Three shy, merry little girls were a challenge to At Vinalhaven a fisherman reported having U.B. At our slightest approach they would re seen a periscope that afternoon, but nothing treat with giggles to the next room. Mr. Bous daunted, we started for Matinicus the next morn field finally won them to him by producing candy ing on what seemed to us a very wild sea. Matini from his pockets. The keeper's wife and I had cus has added a sea wall of granite to make a a fine visit. Just before leaving she showed me real harbor, and when safely anchored behind it, over her very attractive, spotlessly neat home. Mr. we almost forgot our rough passage and all ate Bousfield keeps in daily touch with his office and heartily of a marvelous boiled dinner. It is the family, so we pulled into Boothbay for him to outermost inhabited island on the Maine coast. phone. Here we left "the parson" and almost immediately We had a beautiful evening's run back to after lunch, started our return trip, destination Loudville. Calm water, a beautiful shore line, and being Loudville on Muscongus Island. the usual ducks to keep us busy identifying them. Loudville is the name of the community that Two Coast Patrol airplanes almost touched us scatters over Muscongus Island. Here we visited as they flew down to inspect us. in homes, meeting fine people, both young and That night Mr. Bousfield preached at the little old. We walked that evening against an icy church at Loudville; we were driven both ways wind, across open pastures until our faces felt cut in the open truck and met our friends of the night as by a knife, and finally gained a haven of still before in an hour of worship. Mr. Hall, his week cold on an old cart road running between tall, end visit finished, returned with us to the boat. dark spruce trees. You could hear the .wind Early next morning we started all those rough miles hurrying overhead and could look up and see back to Matinicus to pick up "the parson." Eiders, moon and scudding clouds, and you were deeply old squaws, scooters, and loons were seen in thankful for the protection afforded by the trees numbers. Twice ·we saw sea pigeons or dovekies. and did not mind too much when your feet broke Seals were rare, but we saw a few. On this trip the ice and you went through into cold water. out we saw one tug pulling three barges, the only It all made you realize the life of extreme hard coast-wise transportation we saw throughout the ship these men endure to carry the word of God trip. Four planes accompanied them. Capt. Frye to these lonesome communities. Our walk was remarked, "Those planes must give them a heap only a mile, but the warmth of the church felt of comfort." wonderfully good, on arriving. After some wait we finally got the parson and A nice group of people and a friendly dog a fisherman, the cause of the delay, on board, and awaited us at the church, and as at Frenchboro, headed back to Rockland. It was the last lap of U.B. gave them over an hour of .recitation and our trip, and pretty precious because we realized song. The church was built in 1912 from lumber that in a few hours the beauty of sea and sky, and that came from the school on Malaga island, our companionship would be only treasured memo across from Sebasco. Mr. Hall left us here for the ries. Landed at Rockland, and our good-byes said, week-end. the parson drove us to the station, and with his The next day was Sunday and we took a course departure the most remarkable trip we have ever towards Boothbay, and visited the Cuckolds light, had was concluded. Have you sent in your contribution to Sigma Kappa's fund for magazines for service men? JUNE, 1943 23 Sigma Kappa's New Life Members These Sigmas have become Life Members since June, 1942. Life Membership is secured by paying $35, if you are already a Life Subscriber to the TRIANGLE (and you are if you u:ere initiated after Ju ne, 192~ ) or $50 if you are not (the ex~ra $15 makes you a Life Subscriber) . When you have Life Membershrp you have national dues· paid and receive the TRIANGLE for life. 675 Blanche· Pinnell Leich, Alpha Lambda 714 Evelyn Foit, Alpha Pi 676 · Billie Rhea Corley, Beta Epsilon 715 Florence Knowles, Alpha Gamma 677 Florece L'owe, Beta Epsilon 716 Marjorie Henning, Alpha Lambda 678 Elizabeth Page, Alpha Zeta 717 Betty Jean Campbell, Delta 679 Eula Grove Linger, Epsilon 718 Marian Clymer, Upsilon 680 Virginia Ann Clapper Johnson, Alpha Omi- 719 Lawain Churchill Willett, Alpha Tau cron 720 Elizabeth Hardy, Sigma 681 Margaret Ann Moore, Sigma 721 Gwen Williams Schlueter, Alpha Pi 682 · Kathleen Stephens, Sigma 722 Elise Reed Jenkins, Alpha Delta 683 Ann Burrus Edwards, Sigma 723 Ruth Moss Park, Alpha Pi 684 Constance Hurtibise Moore, Alpha Gamma 724 Maxine O'Donnell Race, Alpha Nu 685 Jessie Calder Dutton, Rho 725 Margaret Packard Hanson, Alpha Epsilon 686 Ethlyn Robinson Smith, Alpha Eta 726 Elizabeth Jullien, Beta Zeta 687 Doris Monson, Lambda 727 Natalie Hastings, Delta 688 Barbara Boer, Alpha Iota 728 Caroline Pike, Alpha Chi 689 Marcia Lininger, Iota 729 Frances Loretta Reilly, Iota 690 Marion Scott, Iota 730 Virginia Ann Thompson, Iota 691 Betty Paul, Iota . 731 Constance Gaynor, Epsilon 692 Elaine Haney, Iota 732 Mary Sears, Epsilon 693 Mary Hallock, Iota 733 Viola Steck, Epsilon 694 Margaret Crane, Iota 73 4 Barbara Sayre, Epsilon 695 Charlotte Fletcher, Iota 735 Mildred Kelly, Epsilon 696 Beatrice Hotchkiss, Upsilon 736 Alvina Karklin, Epsilon 697 Mary Nora Gianella, Upsilon 737 Mary Louise Fox, Epsilon 698 Maxine Smith, Iota 738 Cecelia McDowell, Sigma 699 ·Leona Smith Thomas, Epsilon 739 Marjorie Ann Reagan, Sigma 700 Avice C. Allen O'Neil, Beta Epsilon 740 Barbara Rowsey, Sigma 701 Janice Froiseth, Alpha Omicron 741 Carolyn Russell, Sigma 702 Melba Monson Wolcott, Lambda 742 Lenore Hatlestad Lindsey, Alpha Eta 703 Mary Louise Hills, Epsilon 743 Jean Duffie Gardner, Epsilon 704 Elizabeth Green Douglas, Alpha Omicron 744 Josephine Beatty Binder, Chi 705 Irmhild Bungenstock, Alpha Lambda 745 Josephine Rich Summers, Tau 706 Ruth Swanson Baxter, Iota 746 Susie Kamp Hutchison, Tau 707 Hazel Shultz, Theta 747 Helen Steele, Alpha Epsilon 708 Kate Chester Smith, Sigma 748 Carol Lewthwaite, Nu 709 Kathleen Childress, Sigma 749 Charlotte Johnson, Nu 710 Alice Voorhees, Nu 750 Shirley Schnee, Alpha Nu 711 Barbar!l Sheldon, Alpha Omicron 751 MarJ?;aret Merriman Parks, Phi 712 Peggy Duff, Alpha Omicron 7'52 Hazel Hilton Cutler, Alpha Epsilon 713 Mildred Adair, Alpha Pi Grand Council Meets Order New Rush Book Grand Council met at the LaSalle Hotel, Chi Another attractive booklet about Sigma Kappa cago, May 17-24 with all members present except to be used in rushing is being. prepared at central Grand Counsel Irene McFarlane, who could not o~ce •. under the dire~tion of Margaret Taggart. It leave her new daughter. Margaret Taggart, di Will mclude many piCtures as well as pertinent rector of central office, was present and "proxied" facts. The cost will be about 15 cents a copy. Please for her. The Chicago alumnre chapter gave a order them from Sigma Kappa Central Office 129 dinner for them at the Kungsholm-the only social East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. This book. affair in a week of hard work. let makes a line rushing assistant! All Together Influence Every chapter must bear in mind that our Na The desire to bring prestige to the chapter the tional Rushing Program can only become most consciousness of group interest and support' the effective when the chapters themselves accede in hope of d~s~rved recognition from chapter ~ates, every respect to the suggestions made by National. the appreCiatiOn that the fraternity has given them Appoint efficient rush chairmen and then get be much 3!Jd 0erefore they have an obligation to give hind them and help in every way possible. Your somethmJ?; In return-all these things have an in rush chairman cannot carry the load alone. fluence that makes for liner manhood and hence a higher quality of campus citizenship. The Themis of ZTE The Rllttle of ax 24 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE (1) Pat Carson, A Sports Manaf(er ; Corinne Swain, A (1) Edith Campbell, president of the Eta chapter and member of El(as, senior women's honorary of Illinois Wesleyan. (2) Helen E. Nauth, AB, Chairman, University of Buffalo war bond drive, vice president W.A.A., senior editor of the "Buffalonian" year book. (3) Lois Cole, I, Mortar Board at University of Denver. (4) josephine Miller, M, Sil(ma Chi Princess at the University of Washinl(ton. (5) Mary ]o Pierce, AI, rush chairman at Miami University. (6) Margaret Thayler, I, Phi Beta Kappa at University of Denver. {1) Some members of Alpha Theta chapter, University of Louisville, with Mrs. Richard Lawson (Ruth LitJle, AI), President of Province V. Left to rif!.ht ilz the first row: Sarah Funk, president; Pat 0 f!.den, vice president; Mrs. Lawson; Betty Dalton, treasurer. (2) More Alpha Thetas Jaken durin}l Mrs. Lawson's visit. WITH OUR COLLEGE CHAPTERS DOROTHY STEINMEIER SMALLEY, Editor - PROVINCE I Alpha Beta--University of Buffalo Delta-Boston University Alpha Beta was honored by a visit from Grand Secre tary Majel Horning Schneider in February and held an An initiation for eight pledges was held March 13 at initiation and banquet in her honor. During her stay in the Woman's Republican Club in Boston. At the ban Buffalo Mrs. Schneider was a guest at the home of Mrs. quet which followed, Anna Turkalo, I!., '41 was toast Merton D. Linger, a former Grand President of Sigma mistress. The three speakers were Patricia Armstrong, Kappa, I!., '46, representing the pledges, Meredith Arnold, The chapter recently conducted a war stamp raffle; its I!., '45, representing the college members, and Annalee annual Mothers' Day Tea was held on May 16; members Stewart, former member of Eta chapter and mother of are making scrapbooks of magazine articles ·which will one of the initiates. be given to the air cadets stationed on the University In place of our annual spring formal dance, we enter of Buffalo campus. The pledges have been collecting tained a group of servicemen at an informal dance held material for the scrapbooks, and as another activity at the Panhellenic House April 2. they recently entertained the active members at a play Ruth Butterfield, '43, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and party. and Janet McHale, '43, was elected permanent secretary Individual honors go to our president, Ruth King, of the class of 1943. who has been elected editor-in-chief of the campus news In accordance with our annual custom, the chapter paper and to membership in Cap and Gown, honorary members entertained the seniors after our last meeting fraternity for senior women; Martha Webster Waldo, the May 3. Janet McHale, Lydia Shepherd, Priscilla Tyler, new president of the University of Buffalo Panhellenic Ruth Butterfield, and Betty Stewart were our guests at Association; Helen Nauth, chairman of the U. B. Bond dinner and the theater. -Drive and vice-president of the Women's Athletic Asso In spite of food rationing, transportation difficulties, ciation; Betty Bassford, chapter vice-president, elected to and full programs, we held our annual house party this the board of managers of Norton Union; Jean Ritz, year at Kingston, N.H., from May 17 to May 20. pledge president, has been named president of the MEREDITH ARNOLD student council of the pharmacy school and was chosen attendant to the Junior Prom Queen. Betty Meister is Phi-Rhode Island State College president of the University Spanish club. Because preparations have been made to have the CAROL BROWN college train men for the Army engineers, Phi was fortu nate to have the pledges live in the house for several Alpha Zeta-Cornell University weeks before initiation. From Marr.h 9 to 12 we had a visit from the Grand Marjorie Hunter, '45, is manager of basketball for the Treasurer, Alta Thompson Morin, and we gave a tea Women's Athletic Association at Cornell, and Betty Jo for Mrs. Morin, our honor initiate, Dr. Parks, the pa Purple, '44, is vice-president of the Home Economics tronesses, and our new house mother. Mrs. Hunt. Club. April 28, Phi was awltded the Helen E. Peck me Mary Pollard, '44, is president of unit 3 of Balch Dor morial scholarship cup for 1942. mitory and Winifred Wright, '44, is a member of the Janet Beuregard, one of our pledges, has won the title Women's Cabinet of C.U.R.W. and chairman of the of queen twice in three months. Pirst, she was pledge Campfire Girls Committee. queen at the Sigma Kappa pledge dance March 5, and The home economics section of the Corn ell Countryman second as queen of the engineers' Slide Rule Slut. is edited by Louise Flux, '45, and Polly Ryder, '46, is The annual Sigma Kappa May breakfast was held chai.tman of Briggs Memorial Hospital of C.U.R.W. May 6, with everyone on campus turning out for the Janer Curtin, '46, is on the Dean's List. M'fy Alice Dietrich, '43, represented the Cornell Out event. BARBARA DRUMMOND ing Club at the Intercollegiate Outing Club conference at Smith college. The chairman of the Children's Home Committee of PROVINCE II C.U.R.W. is Meta Mesterharm, '44, and Janice Engle son, '43, is chairman of the Service Men's Center of Nu-Middlebury College C.U.R.W. At graduation, which is still fresh in our minds, two FAITH FARNHAM of our members received honors. Charlotte H . Johnson, '43, received the honors in the Latin Department. Helen S. Haldt, · 43. was appointed to Phi Beta Kappa. PROVINCE III Looking back over the last half yea r, we find that Zeta-George Washington University much of our meeting time was devoted to war services of various kinds. SinCe expensive parties were ''out,'' Zeta started the new semester off by initiating seven we substituted simpler socials, and found we had just pledges on February 6, 1943. After the ceremony, we all as good a time. These included a senior party for the went down to the Watergate Inn in ou~ best formals, for rest of the sorority; a tea given to us by the patronesses; the initiation banquet. a spaghetti supper cooked by the freshmen, followed by Our new initiates were just in time to help us with movies, and a senior tea during graduation week for winter rushing, which took place the following week. the parents and friends. After several parties, which were held in our rooms in Towards fixing up our rooms, the sorority bought sorority hall, we pledged five wonderful girls. venetian blinds, and the freshmen volunteered to re In March, the George Washington University Beauty decorate and paint the kitchen this summer. Queen was chosen at the University Varsity ball, held at DoRA HETHERSTON the Shoreham Hotel, and all the Sigma Kappas were SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 31 proud when our red-haired Bettye Donaldson won sec award, and Betty Spencer, former traveling secretary, ond place. Judges were members of the Corcoran .Art was among our guests. School Faculty. Our biggest thrill of the year came when Margaret Mrs. Taggart came to visit us April 4, S, 6, and 7. Taggart, Director of our Central Office, spent a few day• Sunday, April 4, our pledges gave a tea for Mrs. Taggart with us in March. in our apartment, so all the Zeta girls could meet her Supplementing the regular formal meetings, we now infonnally. Monday evening, Mrs. Taggart attended our have special activity meetings once a week, giving the meeting, and our newly elected officers were installed. chapter and pledges more time together. The annual Panhellenic Association ball was held Mary Lou Werner, our beauty queen representative, April 15 at the Shoreham Hotel, where it was announced was Beta Zeta's representative in the May Day Festival. at the dance that our own Mildred Blevins was the new Each contestant wore a defense costume. And at a sur· president of the Panhellenic Council of G.W.U. prise tea party, Miss Helen Wilcox, one of our patron· Our spring dance was held May I, at Hotel 2400. esses, was presented with a pin. As is our custom, our graduating seniors were our guests The weekend of May 14 was well filled with the of honor, and during the dance we introduced them all, spring formal and hay ride. and present 32 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Norma lee Rossiter won a Rabbinic literature prize. Then to top the day for the Sigma Kappas lois Cole PROVINCE VII and Elaine Witherwax were tapped for Mortar Board, with Elaine being selected president! Iota is very proud Alpha Iota-Miami University of all these girls. One of the highlights of the spring social season was The chapter as a whole received the lowell Thomas th_e . Panhellen1c dance held April 17. During inter trophy, for the third consecutive year, for acquiring the miSSI?n a chorus composed of two members from each greatest number of points in forensic speech work. sorority sang sorority songs. Joan Ballinger directed the Each spring, on the campus, third quarter freshman chorus, and_ Ruth Juergens, a member of Orchesis, did girls ate tapped by the honorary pep club, Parakeets, an mterpret1ve dance. and this year three Sigmas, Eleanor Shantz, Margaret Betty Schaefer,. our newly elected president, is also Egan, and Elaine Barcroft were elected. a memb~r of P_hi Beta Kappa and president of Kappa Then aside from the May Day honors, Vivian Wat Delta _PI. Phyllts Ruggeberg, our new vice-president, is kins was elected the historian of Alpha lambda Delta, also VIce-president of Delta Phi Delta. Our other officers and Helen Garrett, a Commerce girl, was asked to join are: Phyllis Leiner, secretary; Martha Cockerill treas Alpha lambda Delta. Mary Lininger and Marion Chand urer; Mal1_' Jo Pierce, rush chairman; and Ruth J~ergens, ler were chosen secretary and treasurer, respectively, of correspondmg secretary. the Pioneer Promenaders Square Dancing club. Kathleen Severs is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and MARION CHANDLER Ma~ion Howell is a new member of Combus, a women's busmess honorary. Marjorie Mack was recently elected Sigma-Southern Methodist University secretary-treasurer of the sophomore class. In honor of Mothers Day, the Sigma Kappas joined Sigma chapter was jubilant over receiving three honors With two other sororities and gave a Mother's Day at the recent S. M. U. Sing Song. In addition to win· breakfast on Sunday morning. ning third place in that contest, the chapter was declared Other activities included the Violet Tea and the to have won the Panhellenic scholarship cup for the Senior picnic. fourth consecutive time and also received a permanent cup EvELYN WHITE in recognition of its having consistently maintained the highest average among the sororities. At the same Alpha Tau-Michigan State College time Jane Manton received an award, also from the Women's Panhellenic Association, for having tied for Eight of our girls have received honors on campus: the highest average among sorority pledges. Vera Gardner, '44, Mortar Board, president of Co Four of the newest initiates, Martha Ellen Bell, Mary ordmatmg Defense Council, Associated Women Students Nell Snow, Helen Wilfong, and Jane Manton, were ini ~oard, and member of Student Council ; Shirley Springer, tiated into Alpha lambda Delta, the freshman women's ~4: secretary of La Cofradia, Spanish honorary; Vir honorary ; and two seniors, Betty Wolfe and Carolyn gmia loughead, Eng., '44, vice-president of the History Russell, made Alpha Theta Phi, which is the equivalent Club i Pat Foran, '44, Pi Kappa Delta; Kay Besemer, '45, of Phi Beta Kappa at Southern Methodist University. Matrix; and Shirley White, '44, Alpha Beta Sigma, Martha Ellen Bell is a pledge of Eta Sigma Phi, art honorary. Barbara Christiancy, '46, is secretary of the classical languages honorary. Betty Jane Preston and Home Economics Club, and Joyce Armstrong, · 46, was Marjorie Cofer are members of Mu Phi Epsilon, the tapped for Tower Guard. music honorary, and Cecelia McDowell is a new initiate Nancy Longwell, '44, was chosen the Delta Chi of Pi lambda Theta, education honorary. Dorothy Tay Dream Girl and is new recording secretary of Alpha Tau. lor and Madge leon are members of Alpha Rho Tau, Sally Peterson, '43, was chosen the outstanding member art honorary; and Barbara Rowsey, Ruth Parker, and of Alpha Tau. Her other achievements include secretary Edythe Westmoreland have been initiated into Psi Chi, treasurer of Panhellenic, co-chairman of Senior Week honorary psychology fraternity. Claydean Zumbrunnen and recipient of a Pratt & Whitney scholarship. and Marjorie Tennison have become members of Delta MARGE jOHNSON Psi Kappa, physical education honorary. In the recent Mortar Board calling out, Marcia Brooks and Betty Jane Preston were in the guard of honor. PROVINCE VIII Marjorie Cofer was elected the music school's repre sentative to the Student Council. Eta-Illinois Wesleyan University Betty Jane Preston, who was recently featured in the In honor of lois Roehl Redlin, our province president, concerto program of the S. M. U. Symphony Orchestra, who visited. the chapter house in February, Eta gave a gave a brilliant performance. Also, Betty Wolfe's senior tea to wh1ch alumnae, faculty members, and repre project play, "She Stoops to Conquer." was successful. sentatives from other sororities on campus were invited CAROLYN RUSSELL to meet her. We held our annual intersorority party April 16. This year the affair was an informal card party and the guests Beta Epsilon-Louisiana Polytechnic Institute were invited to "come as you are ... Mimi Davis, former president of Beta Epsilon, was Sigma Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta were the win· selected as the "Outstanding Member" of this year. ners of the War Bond drive on the campus. Why was she chosen? Because Mimi has exerted much Eta chapter is very proud of the fact that it has won influence as a member of Sigma Kappa, executive board the three championships in intramural sports this year of Women's league, International Relations Club, a in competition with all sororities on campus. This is senior adviser, maid at the Engineers' Ball, delegate to the third consecutive year that we have won the basket the convention of student government of Southern Col ball championship, the second year that we have been leges and Universities, and also a former president of undefeated in hockey, and the first year that we have the Sigma Kappa pledges. won the volleyball championship. Dorothy Donold, '45, now heads the freshmen, Beverly Diers is a new member of Alpha Epsilon sophomores, and juniors as the new president of Delta, national honorary pre-medic fraternity, and her Harper Hall. paper on "Blood Plasma" was published in the May Mary louise Life, '46, also holds an office in Harper issue of The Scalpel, the national magazine of the fra· Hall. She was selected to be their treasurer. ternity. Helen Melton has been elected as secretary of Beta Epsilon held its annual spring formal April 10. A.E.D. for this year. Beta Epsilon had its annual Sunrise Breakfast May 1, Margot • Smith was elected as vice-president of the 1943. Out-going seniors honored were: Evelyn Atkinson, Illinois College Press assoc., a. state organization, on Roberta Dillon, Mimi Davis, Alice Cochran, June Hud April 10 at the annu,l l convention at the University of oon, Betty Jane Meredith, and Dorothy Moore. Illinois. Margot has been news editor of the campus NANCY STEWART paper this year. JUNE, 1943 33 Bernice Copeland, recently elected to Gathea, the Beta Gamma--Vni'l'ersity of Manitoba freshman women's honorary society, has been named Beta Gamma won the scholarship cup for the third con president of the group. . secutive year this spring. It was awarded at the Panhel Betty Wertz, retiring chapter preSident, ha_s been lenic tea at which we won two of the three cups awarded. elected to Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary soc1ety. Mary Shearer Maloney won the activities cup presented Edith Campbell, our new chapter p~esident, a.nd Mar by Panhellenic to the girl with outstanding activities and got Smith were initiated into Egas, sen•or women s honor high scholarship. ary society. In her freshman year, Mary was the first "Freshie" Beverly Diers has been elected secretary-treasurer . of queen on the University of Manitoba Campus, and secre Green Medallion, the sophomore honorary organ1zatJon tary of the University Dramatic Club. In her second year at Wesleyan. she was junior representative of the University's student In a recent election of Women Sports Association, union and vice-president of the Dramatic Club. She was Margot Smith was elected as vice-president and Barbara the first junior girl ever to hold the presidency of the Moore was elected as treasurer. Women's Association, the highest honor the university Jerry Magrath was our representative for the . Sopho can give a girl. more Cotillion queen-there were seven queens this year, In this, her last year, Mary is the Lady Stick, or presi one from each organized house on campus .. Jerry has dent, of Home Economics and is president of the Beta also been appointed as secretary of Panhellemc counc1l. Gamma chapter. HELEN MELTON Bea Dykes left to work as a decoder at the British Embassy at Washington, D .C. At Christmas we sent a package to the men on a sub Tau-Indiana Uni'l'ersity chaser in the Atlantic as part of our philanthropic work Tau chapter of Sigma Kappa at Indiana University is since, living in Canada, we are unable to send money starting a new semester now. Under the wartime planning, for this work to the states. our school year is divided into three semesters of equal The alums honored the graduates with a high tea length. The third, or summer semester, started on May 4. April 24, and April 8, they gave a shower for Meryl and Tau chapter had enough girls coming back to keep Krolman and Helen Francis. their house open. Lois Catter;on was a "Miss Canada" at one of the The following girls were chosen members of campus Russian Relief Dances. " Miss Canada" wears a red apron honoraries last ~emes ter : Jeanne Kendal, music honorary, and sells war stamps, and appears in the victory chorus. Sigma Alpha Iota: La Verne Victor, art honorary, Daub LOIS CA TTBRSON ers Club; Marjorie Lou Robbins, art lionorary, Daubers Club; Barbara Spong, dramatics honorary for freshmen. PROVINCE X Lambda--Uni'l'ersity of California PROVINCE IX Barbara Campbell is president, and Doris Richmond, Alpha Epsilon-Iowa State College treasurer of Prytanean (honorary activities society). Doris Richmond is president of Pi Alpha Sigma (advertising Recent outstanding positions taken by Alpha Epsilon society). and was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha (Political were the election of Mary Jean Uecke, '45, to the office Science honorary society). Doris is also in charge of of vice-president of Bit and · Spur, a riding club; and clerical work for the WOWS (Women's organized work Frances Lockwood to the position of secretary of the Child ers). Development Club. Pat Bell is president of Hammer and Coffin (humor February 26, in preparation for serenading, we par· society) and Loretta McManus is vice-president of New ticipated in Sor Dor Sing, a competitive song contest man club. between sororities and dormitories. Barbara Bell was appointed to the YWCA executive MARGARET CARROLL committee. Barbara Campbell was elected to Mortar Board. Jeanne McConeghy head of personnel and secretariat Alpha Eta-Uni'l'ersity of Minnesota for student body. Our sociol schedule included: April 3-Ghost dance; Alpha Eta's seniors were honored at the annual senior April 11-A dinner and program for our fathers ; April picnic in June, and the chapter turned out en masse to 13-The Mothers' Club held its annual bridge tea at hear Peggy Varney, last year's prexy, give her senior the chapter house; April 19-Dessert with the Delta piano recital. Zetas with an interesting talk by a WAVE; April 29- Katherine Girton has been elected to Tam-a-Shanter, An exchange dinner with Bowles Hall; May 1-Spring honorary organization for juniors. Formal at the house; May 3-Several other sororities We were all happy when, at the Mothers' Day luncheon, joined us at our house to hear three WAVES speak; our Mothers' Club announced that they were having the May 5-lntersorority at the Claremont hotel ; May 8- living room redecorated for us. A mid-semester formal rush tea ; May 13-The Juniors ELSIE SINGLEY entertained the graduating seniors at a banquet. A skit was presented in which the graduates were portJayed and Alpha Kappa--Uni'l'ersity of Nebraska a prophesy read for their future. A gift was also presented to each graduate. The will of the graduating girls was To top off the annual Ivy Day, the new initiates and read ; May 19-Faculty dinner. pledges of Alpha Kappa gave a house party for the actives May 1. Appropriately, the theme was "May flowers.'' PROVINCE XI Gwen Kelly and Mary Jane Rettenmayer received schol arships at the annual honors convocation. Betty Parker Mu-Uni-versity of Washington became a member of Alpha Lambda Delta honorary for Mu chapter is keeping in pace with the times by con her high scholarship. She ranked in the upper ten per tinuing to carry out, with renewed enthusiasm, the war cent of the freshman class. Betty has also been chosen heightened activity program it has set up for this school to serve as a co-ed counselor, is on the staff of the year. Cornhu1ker, college annual, and has been tapped as At the start of 1943 the chapter was one of the groups a member of Tassels, pep club. Florence Wilkenson is chosen to participate in the "World Students' Service our other new Tassels member. Funn" Drive. A thoroughly successful "open house" Lotis Storjohn was the candidate for Prom Queen of was held by the girls for the contJibutors to this Fund, the University, and Betty June Jensen was our entry for and the whole campus was proud of Mu' s Shirli Thomas Goddess of Agriculture. who was co-chairman of the beneficial All-University GERALDINE PETSCH event. 34 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 1 Winter rushing brought good luck to Mu with the man for A.W.S. Connie and Mary Louise Shupe were pledging of eight neophytes. Their early pledging enablecl tapped for Omicron Nu, home economics honor society these girls to take part in Pre-Initiation Week which _for senior women. Helen Koepcke, Gladys Folsom and this year was streamlined on a new and different idea, Maxine Frank were pledged to Phi Chi Theta, secretarial under Marion Hartwich's direction, entitled "How to science honor society. Become a Sigma Kappa Smoothie in One Week." Climax PAT GLENN ing the week was the initiation of twenty-one new Sigmas at which Mu was happy to have as an honor guest Grand Counselor, Irene McFarlane. Alpha Gamma-Washington State College Grand President Ruth Anne Grieg was the chapter's Elizabeth Porak, named our most valuable member, is most welcome visitor for three days. She was just in time our chapter president. She was recently elected to Phi to meet the new girls at thetr first Model chapter meeting Beta Kappa. She is also a memJ;>er of Sigma Kappa Phi and to help receive them into the sorority. Mu always foreign language honorary-and Pi Lambda Theta, na enjoys a visit from Ruth Ann and will never fail to tional education honorary. During her Sophomore year, derive so much from her understanding help and to wish she was a member of Spurs, service honorary. she might stay longer. In the house Elizabeth (Libby) has been vice-president, Individually, Mu girls have kept up the high record social chairman, rush chairman, treasurer, and corre of activity achievement which the chapter has attained. sponding secretary. "Libby" was chosen by the girls as Faye Garber, first to answer the "Call to the Colors," most valuable member because of her tactfulness. She's is now a full-fledged WAAC. Also doing their part are cooperative, has a pleasing personality. and a winning Gerry Lange and Pat Hanlon who are hard working way with the girls in the house. Her excellent scholarship members of the Seattle Interceptor Command, in addition is an incentive to all of us as a whole. to their chapter activities and work at college. In the activities field, seven of our girls have been Topping ·campus activity honors is Margaret Tupper, tapped for honoraries. They are Margaret Campbell, Mu newly elected A.W.S. vice-president, as well as a new Phi Epsilon: Betty Pehrson, Spur; Gerry Kenna, Fish member of Mortar Board and Totem Club. Shirli Thomas Fans, swimming honorary; Claire Cooper, Chi Psi, psy is also a new Totem Club member and in addition has chology honorary; Alberta Dunagan, Gamma Phi Epsi completed a successful season as Mu's campaign manager. lon, physical education honorary ; Elizabeth Porak, Phi Under her direction, Candidate Helen Richardson wa; Beta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta, Sigma Kappa Phi;· .elected senior class treasurer. Katherine McCallister, Orchesis, dance honorary. New A.W.S. Cabinet members are Shirley Henricksen, LORRAINE GOVAN in charge of house announcements, and Helen Richard son, a campus war stamp chairman. On the YWCA cabinet-council are Dorothy Hovey in complete charge Alpha Nu-University of Montana of YW Service dances and Dorin Anderson, service dance Alpha Nu is proud to report the names of members assistant. who have won honors during the spring term. New members of honoraries are Carolvn Shaw, Zeta Lorraine Thompson had the lead in the play, "Per Phi Eta; Donna Jean Nelson, Lambda Rho; and Ruth sonal Appearance," and she is active in Masquers, Uni· Benedetti, Delta Phi Mu. versity of Montana dramatic club. She is also a member Socially speaking, Mu is proud of Josephine ~iller of the Art Club. chosen as one of the finalists in the search for the Stgma Mary Margaret Farrington was initiated into Alpha Chi Sweetheart, Marjorie Esterbrook, a Pre-flight queen, Lambda Delta, freshman scholastic honorary and Kathleen and Virginia Harris and Harriet Race who were chosen Hubbard was initiated into Kappa Epsilon, national to represent fraternities in the Cadet Ball Sponsor Contest. pharmaceutical honorary. Elizabeth Fear! is the incoming vice-president of Upsilon-Oregon State College W.A.A. Our basketball team placed second in the intramural Sororities at Oregon State College co,llectively had a basketball tournament. minor casualty of war this spring when they were asked MABEL MANIX to forfeit their spring rushing period or to combine it with winter term, so instead of ha~ng dinners for rushees Upsilon entertained with desserts in the evening. Alpha Phi- University of Oregon Sixteen girls were ushered into Sigma Kappa at a ceremony February 20 . It was the chapter's good fortune Alpha Phi is really proud of the high position they to have Ruth Anne Ware Grieg, Grand President, visiting won as a :esult of making the highest grades on the us at the time. campus for girls' sororities, and the third highest among Juniors- and underclassmen relieved seniors of their all girls houses. . . official duties after installation of new officers March 1. Audrey Holliday, '45, recently elected to the 1unwr Just one day before Valentine's day was the time .~et position on the Associated Students of the Untverstty of for our winter term dance, which bad a troptcal mottf. Oregon Council, was .;n addition named prestdent of Pht And then there was the spring formal. Deciding that it Theta Upsilon, junior women's service honorary. Alv~ was more patriotic not to have an orchestra, we used Grandquist, '45, was also tapped as a member of Pht a P.A. system. We also entertained twelve rushees from Theta Upsilon after successfully carrying out a Red high schools all over the state, and one from _Caltfornta . Cross Membership Drive for students living off the Again near the top, our house ranked thad among campus. Mary Corrigan, '46, tapped as a member of sorority grades with a 2.83 average. Dunng the past Kwama, sophomore women's service honorary,. at the three terms, Sigma Kappa Upsilon chapter placed first , Mortar Board ball, was chairman of a commtttee on second and third in grades. this Red Cross Drive. The oresident of Oregon State College, faculty and During Junior-Weekend, Mary Mercier, '44, was in Upsilon· alumnre were honored at a formal dinner April charge of a campus tour, while Elise Older, '43, and her 22 and a coffee April 29, and Mother's weekend was sister Charlotte, '45, presented a Master Dance reCttal. observed May 8 and 9. Charlotte was recently elected secretary-treasurer of tbts Honors and awards flew fast and thick this spring. dance honorary. Mary Mercier and Francis Brobert, '44, Mary Louise Shupe, our new cpapter president, was attended Matrix Table, honoring outstanding women in elected sergeant-of-arms for the college senior class. Dale arts and letters on the campus. Peterson was appointed editor of next year's OSC year Alpha Phi took part in the all-campus sing during the book and pledged to Theta Sigma Phi, women:s journ~l Junior-Weekend, and many mothers were guests dunng istic honor society. Pat Glenn was elected pub hetty chatr- that time. .l JUNE, 1943 35 PLEDGES - ZETA-Barbara Dieterich '46, 3701 McKinley st. Ore. ; Carolyn Saylor '46, 9706 N.E. Skidmore, Portland, N W., Washington, D.C.; "'i'eanne Dubendorf, '45, 117 Ore.; Joan Scott, '46, Portland Ore.; Mary Wilhelm, M·aple ave., Takoma Park, Md. · Kathleen Goodwin, '46, '46, 1832 S.W. Market, Portland, Ore.; Doreen Willey, 124 E. Thornapple st., Chevy Chase, D.C.; Juanita Hall, '46 3261 Harrison, Corvallis, Ore. '46 1717 G st. N .W., Washington, D.C.; Ann Frederic PHI-Natalie Brice, '46, 15 Euclid ave., Providence, Ha;.,.kins '46 1721 N. Veitch st., Arlington Va.; Pris R.I.: Nadine Dawley, '44, Kingston, R.I.: Anna Bills, cilla Makela, ''46, 2934 McKinley st. N .W., Washington, '46, Kingston, R.I. D.C.: Jane Miller, '46, !18 Staples st. N.E., Washing- ALPHA GAMMA-Di Anne Dunn, 1280 Monroe st., ~D~ . Denver, Colo.; Margaret Jones, 8004 Laurel :•ve ., Hay IOTA-Vivian Watkins, Bessie Fisher and Jackre Mor ward, Calif.; Maida Mae King, 1907 E. st. Pullman, ris. Wash.; Gerry Kenna, 5839 Vassar ave., Se3tt!e, \'Vash.; LAMBDA-Nancy Furlong, 3962 Oakmore rd., Oak Shirley Larson, 1232 N. Pearl ave., Centralia, Wash. ;_Pat land Calif. · Patricia Gwynn 347 Warwick, Oaklapd, Merrill, Fox Hotel. Butte, Mont. ; Elva Jean Olson, K.R. Cali/.; Juanda Loysen. 630 Oak st., San FranCisco, Caltf.; I, Box 376, Kent, Wash.; Jeri Rowland, 400 Ha~na a\'e,, Janet MCMurry, Box 325, Yreka, Calif.; Alberta Meek, Aberdeen, Wash.; Darlene Senter, 103 Cleveland ave., 3123 Thirteenth ave., Oakland, Calif. : Patricia Otto, Ill Pullman. Wa.h. Joost ave., San Francisco, Calif.(· Margaret Schellenberg, ALPHA EPSILON-Mary Doran '46, Beaver, Iowa; 675 San Luis rd., Berkeley, Cali .• Esther Schmidt, 2512 Pauline Ekberg, '46, 905 East ave., Holdredge Neb. Piedmont ave., Berkeley, Calif.: Ruth Schwedhelm, 1690 ALPHA ETA-Dorothy Miller, '44, 1675 Cnarles1 ave., Twenty-third ave., San Francisco, Calif.; Winifred St. Paul, Minn. Symons. 1284 Bates rd., Oakland! Calif.: Jeanne Tinkler, ALPHA KAPPA-Elva Richmond, Lois Cowdon, Zeta 6024 Chelton dr., Oakland, Ca if.; Manan Ulrey, 581 Brown. Marian Holter. Kenwyn rd .. Oakland, Calif. ALPHA IOTA-Elaine Thome, '46, 355 E. Findlay, NU-Barbara P. Abel, '45, Chestnut Hill, Lebanon, Carey, Ohio ; Mary Lou Shade, '45, 2920 Huntington rd., Conn. Shaker Heights, Ohio; Shirley Knesal, '46, 4497 East XI-June Harries, Wakeenev, Kan.: Ruth Schofield, blvd., Cleveland, Ohio; Hertha Lawson '45; Nancy 720 Main, Ft. Scott, Kan. : Bessie Beamer, Altamont, Meily, '46, 438 Marlin dr., Pittsburgh (lo),1 Pa. Kan. ; Alice Marie Hayes, 1500 Massachusettsk Lawrence, ALPHA PHI-Pat McMartin, Red Bluff, Calif.; Shir· Kan. ; Mavis Lukert, 135 E. Main, Sabetha, an.; Mar ley Hendricks, Eugene, Ore. i_orie May, 1715 N . Thirty-eighth East St. Louis, Ill.; ALPHA PSI-Harriet Boddie, Durham, N.C.; Kath Doradeen Perry. 309 W. Fourteentn,1 Coffeyville, Kan. ryn Harbison. Biltmore, N .C. TAU--Connie Huntingtont Indianapolis ; Betty Nugent, BETA GAMMA-Dorinne Berrynill, W ynne Beres Indianapolis; Phyllis Webb. ndianapolis. ford, Marjorie Johnston, Dorothy MacLeod, Audr.y Dear UPSILON-Marjorie Chase, '43, R.R. I , Nampa, croft, Georgina Whitton, Jean Murray. Idaho : Bertie Lee Farnham, '44, R.R. I, Box 240, Cam!'· BETA ZETA-Louise Ball, Coleen Doyle, Laura bell, Calif.; Norma Jean Moore, '46, 651 Broadway, Bend, Petrone, Louellen Vrahiotes. INITIATES - DELTA-Patricia Armstrong, '46, 928 E. Fourth st., IOTA-Bette Bates, '43, 1931 S. Race, Denver, Cclo.; South Boston, Mass. ; Doris E. Bartol, · 46, 48 Beach Melba Grenfell, '46, 1264 Columbine, ;)enver, Cdo. ; ave., Swampscott, Mass.; Hazel M. Kenney, '44, 34 Joy Couch. Pleasant st., Wakefield, Mass.; Barbara Kirk, '45 , 104 MU-Ruth Benedetti, '44, 6709 Seventeenth N.W., Seat High st., Ipswich, Mass.; Lorrame E. Harney, '45, 54 tle, Wash.; Caroline Jarvi, '44, 815 Penn, Bremerton. H essel~ine ave., Melrose, Mass.; Lois V. Hogan, '45, Wash.; Geraldine Stevens, '44. 5814 Twenty-second Cambndge st., Burltngton, Mass. ; Florence A. Pickard N.W., Seattle, Wash.; Mary Erickson, '45 Box 1444, '46, Hammond st., Rowley, Mass.; Elizabeth B. Stewart: Fairbanks, Alaska ; Shirley Henricksen, '45, 5803 S. '4'1. 100 Woshin~ton st .• Malden, Mass. Sheridan, Tacoma, Wash. ; Dorotbv Hovey, '45, 5269 ZETA---:-G!adys Bottelson, '46, 1339 Quincy st. N.W., Sixteenth N.E., Seattle Wash.; Gerry Lange, '45, 2850 Washmgton, D.C.; Dorothy Hobson, '46 1505 Gallatin Twentieth st., MilwauKee1 , Wis. ; Josephine Miller, '4 5, st. N.W., Washington, D .C.; Patricia Rnox, '46, 107 Bothe!, Wash.; Darlene Sigrist, '45, 4716 Nineteenth Park ave., Falls ~burch, Va.; Eleanor Kreiger '46 N.E., Seattle, Wash.; Peggy Stephens, '45 , Granite 2511 S. Grant, Arlington, Va.; Margaret Lynn' '46' Falls, Wash.; Mary Jean Turnbull, '45 527 O 'Farrell 1 1413 N. Jefferson, ~rlington, Va.; Lois Smith: '45: ave., Ol ~mpia , Wash.; Madalyn Walratn, '45 , Bridger, 2500 24 th st. N., Arltngton1 Va.; Cecil Spaulding '46 Mont.; Barbara Wirt, '45, 6541 Seventeenth N.E., Seat 1807 Commonwealth ave .. 1\lexandria Va. ' ' tle, Wash.; Dorin Anderson. '46, 3915 Thirty-ninth ETA-Bernice C:opelan~ '46, 302 Washington, Abingdon, S.W., Seattle, Wash.; Betty Carelton, '46, 7554 Roose Ill.; Jane Davrdson, 4~. 1229 Maywood, Independence, velt way, Seattle, Wash.; Hazel Carlson '46, 2612'(2 Mo. ; Hetty Hallam 46, 11 Broadway pl., Normal, Colby, Everett, Wash.; Mary K. Davis, '4o,1 8230 Sunny Ill. ; Lou Ann Lloyd\ '46, 203 S. State st., Blooming side, Seattle, Wash.; Charlene Durha'!!t '46 Harrah ton, I1 I.; Patty Powe I, '46, 506 E. Market. Blooming Wash.; kuanita Griffin, '46, 1407 uylor' Seattle' ton_. Ill.; Margaret Ann Rapuzzi, '46, 209 W. Pearl st., Wash.; anet Hartwich, '46, 418 Loretta pi: Seattle' Abmgdonl Ill. ; •Marge Rastede( '46, Morrison, Ill. ; Wash.; etty Kilborn, '46, 8010 Twenty-seco~d N.E.: ~~eie:~r .osser, 45, Merna, II . ; Janice Snider, •46, Seattle, Wash.; Helen Kuebl 36 SIGMA KAPPA. TRIANGLE I N.E., Seattle, Wash.; Dorothy Rudolph, '46, 4310 N. Mass.; Louise Carmody, '46, 10 South ave., Webster, Twenty-sixth St., Tacoma, Wash.; Margery Senn, '46, N.Y.; {anet Curtin: '46, 117 S. Main st., Gloversville: 8214 Latona, Seattle, Wash.; Betty Lou Van Rooy, N .Y.; l' hyhs FISh, 46. 704 S. Aurora st., Ithaca, N .Y., '46, 602 N. Gay, Tacoma, Wash.; Patricia Wills, '46, Louise Green, · 46, 120 Oak st. Oakfield, N.Y. ; Betty 5240 Forty-fourth S.W., Seattle, Wash. Halpin, '46, Vanderbilt Estate, Hyde Park, N.Y.; Helen 1: NU-Lois McElroy, '44, 321 Madison ave., Erie, · Pa.; Hertwij:, '46, 1001 Clementian •t.. Utica, N.Y.; Vir· Muriel Cormack, '45, 16 West st., South Weymouth, ginia jean Howard, '46, River rd., Youngstown, N.Y.; Mass. Marion Moulton, '46, 233 Cambridge st., Syracuse, XI-Rachel Garret Weber, 5245 Rockhill rd., Kansas N .Y._; Arlene Newton, '46, 295 West ave., Pawtucket, City, Mo.; Rosemary Gooch, 1277 Polk, Topeka, Kan. R.I.; Lois Elsa Templer, '46, 231 Delevan ave., Corn· UPSILON-Bonnie Ballard, '46, 212 Hill st., Bend, ing, N.Y.; Dorothy Tinker, '46, 2 Georgetown rd ., Ore.; Mary Beckwith. '45, 1406 S.E. Twenty-seventh, Penn's Grove, N.J. : Carol Usher, '46, Tully, N.Y.; Portland, Ore.; Jane Brant. '45 17,13 S.E. Fifty-second, Dorothy Jane Wendling, '46, 8140 Woodhaven blvd., Portland, Ore.; Mary Lee Brool JUNE, 1943 37 WITH SIGMAS EVERYWHERE - whose husband was the commencement speaker at the Mrs. Harold Burton Heads Montana School of Mines. Captain Atkins is commander New Senators Wi'Yes Club of the Naval Base at Farragut, Idaho. Mrs. Harold H. Burton, honor initiate at the 1942 Lillian Kerrigan Commons, AN, has been installed Convention, was elected president of the 77th New Queen of Tirzah Chapter, Daughters _of the Ntle. ~he Senators Wives club in Washington, D .C. is also president of the Bagdad Awultary to t?e Shnne which meets monthly to sew for the cnppled chtldren. News from St. Louis Eleanor Enright Weiand, AN, and her husband and Mary Osborne Bryant, T, has added still another job baby have gone to San Francisco to make th~i~ home. to her many activities: instructing in the Engltsh de· Ensign Weiand recently completed officers tratnmg and partment at Washington university. Thelma Hodges, P, reported for active duty. is also c)oing full time teaching at Kirkwood high school, Kirkwood, Mo. Beatrice Mead, AZ, Works in Betty Clark, i', has been nominated for the College Bell Telephone Laboratory club board for the corning year. When Beatrice Mead, AZ, was an undergraduate ~t Mrs. Kenneth Klaus (Beth Allen Brown, AE); whose Cornell it seemed that many of the interesting events tn husband is a lieutenant in the army, has gone to Spring· communications happened at "Bell Laboratories." New field, Mo. Mrs. Norman Lowe has gone to Philadelphia, she is an engineer in the crystals unit group where she where her husband was transferred. feels that part of her work is causing things to happen New additions to the alumnre group include Mrs. on our battle fronts. Bea designs crystals, makes models, William Meyers, H, 3643 Washington ave., Mrs. James tests them and writes specifications for their manufacture. L. Scales, 6336 Mandel ave., and Mrs. Betty Sue Hulette, She has an E.E. degree, member of the A.I.E.E. and of 5811 Walsh. the I.R.E. Summers while at college she was a professional swim· Mary Ann Ogden, A, Heads mer in the ballet at Jones Beach; winters she worked Hartford College Club part time as a radio control operator at station WHCU. Mary Ann Ogden, A, is president of the Hartford Col· Studying and working go hand in hand in Bea's plans. lege club. After her long hours at the Laboratories she goes to Elizabeth Bean, N, is vice president and game warden Brooklyn Polytech to take a course in filters. Most of of the Two-down Badminton club of the Hartford her spare time is spent in commuting and studying, and Y.W.C.A. making plans for her marriage this summer to a Cornell Ruth Ohler, N, is an assistant leader in a Girl Scout man, an engineer in the Air Corps at Wright Field. troop. However, she still finds time to play bridge at noon and sometimes in the evenings and to take care of Klystron, Nancy Miller Heads P.T.A. Council a pedigreed Scotty who was a graduation present. Mrs. J. Ralston Miller (Nancy Miller, Al:) is president of the Hammond, Ind. P.T.A. Council which boasts of Upsilon Up to Date a membership of more than 4,000. Bernice Forest, '18, has moved to 18 La Arcada ct., Santa Barbara, Calif. where she has purchased The Roberta Applegate with AP Bookshelf Library, a sales and rental shop. Roberta Applegate, AT, college editor of. the TRIANGLE, Eula Miller Spain (Mrs. G. E.) may now be found is now with the Detroit Bureau of the Associated Press. at 257 Vernon, Oakland, Calif. Formerly she was club editor of the Detroit Free PreSJ. Ruth Steele Padden (Mrs. Edmund) directs her vic· tory gardening efforts from Handford, Calif., in order Katherine Berry on Scout National Board to be near her husband while he is in service. Katherine Berry, l:, who has distinguished herself as Ruth Johnson Newbry (Mrs. Earl), '22, acted as secre· a member of the National Board of Girl Scouts and tary to her husband during the recent Oregon legislative received a medal for her services with the Scouts is also session. finding time to be chairman of a Red Cross cutting group. Hilda Linquist Lantiere (Mrs. S. R.) was moved Edith Herbst, AZ, who teaches a nursery school, has from Corvallis, where her husband had been with the also taught classes in nutrition for the O.C.D. hospital staff at Camp Adair, to Ocean Park, Calif. Doris Reddick Joy (Mrs. E. L.) has gone from In Peterborough, N.H. Spokane to Omaha where her husband is in service. Barbara Sims Cooper (Mrs. R. L.) now lives at Sky· Sarah Alice King Proudfood, All, is living in Peter. homish, Wash. borough, N.H. where her husband is the Methodist Catherine Coshow Hoover (Mrs. Myrl) lives at 6472 minister. She keeps busy with two children, Wayne, 4, S.W. Burlingame pl., Portland, Ore. and Sandra Joan, I, teaching in the Sunday School, Ruth McClelland Gebhard (Mrs. J. E.) is dodging working in two women's societies, being program chair~ the blimps hanging around her home at Box 840, Rt. 3, man of the Peterborough Woman's club, working in the Bremerton, Wash. A.A.U.W., and doing substitute teaching at the high Beatrice Hotchkiss Maxwell (Mrs. Warren) has moved school. to 9963 Rainier A, Seattle, Wash. Mary Mcintyre returned to Oregon after spending the With Butte, Mont., Alumnte winter in California. She will be at her home in Oregon In May the Butte alumnre entertained at a luncheon in City this summer. honor of Mrs. J. G. Atkins (Dorothy Wilhelmi, AI'). Jean Hense !man Finch (Mrs. Richard) will be in 38 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Medford, Ore., while her husband is in service. Mrs. Benjamin McQuate is chairman of the Red Cross Betty Dyatt lives at 1475 Monoca pkwy., Denver, Roll Call canvassing. Colo. From Fort Wayne Alpha Kappa News In addition to her teaching duties at South Side high Harriett Woods has gone on "alert call"' at Ellington school Lucy Osborne is serving as a hostess at the Field, Tex., and has received orders for foreign duty soon. U.S.O. and on the Y.W.C.A. board. She is chairman of She is an army nurse with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. the program affairs committee at the Y.W. Irma Beatrice Marshall Tribble is instructing a class in first Ames was nominated for secretary on the slate for next aid near her home at South Miami, Fla. Bea, who was year's Panhellenic officers. Ruth Pancost bad a ten days a nurse before her marriage, has a daughter school age, visit in Baltimore with her husband who is a first lieu and a two-year-old son. The Tribbles have recently tenant in the medical corps. Ruth has been given the bought a new home in South Miami. responsible position of chairman of the Nutrition Com· Ethel May Lewis received her Master of Arts degree mittee of the Allen County Office of Civilian Defense, from the University of Nebraska in May. Her thesis and she also was recently elected to membership in Altrusa. subject was ''Index Verborum Tertulliani De Speclaculis Virginia Gaskins Moore and her husband have returned et De !dolo/atria" and was prepared under Dr. C. A. from a two weeks vacation in Palm Beach, Fla. Vir Forbes of the Classics Department. ginia has worked on food rationing and gas rationing Charlotte Kizer spent her Easter holiday in Lincoln, boards during the winter. Margaret Spiegel, who teaches Neb., visiting her parents. Charlotte is the director of an physical education at North Side high school, instructs arts and crafts workshop at Scarsdale, N .Y. While in special physical fitness classes for the Tokeim Tank Co. Lincoln Charlotte exhibited her watercolor, "River's and the North Side community. Freda Withers was Bend" and her ceramic lapel pins and gold and silver recently elected president of the Fort Wayne Academy handmade jewelry at the all-state exhibition of the of Social Sciences for 1943-44 and is also working at the Lincoln Artists' Guild, held in Lincoln April 19 to u.s.a. May 1. Bloomington Alumnte Psi Scraps Mary Bean Richards and young son Billy has moved Helen Else Hendy (Mrs. Robert) is home with her back to Bloomington for the duration. Her husband is a mother and baby for the duration while her husband is chaplain in the army. in the armed forces. Lucille Otto Goff of Eton Rapids, Mich., visited here Mrs. Edward Keifer (Gretchen Voelschau) is living at after spending six weeks with her husband, a captain Ojai, Calif., with her husband who is an officer in the in the Army Medical Corps, while he attended the navy awaiting call to active service. Medical Field Service School in Carlisle, Pa. We are sorry over the loss of Janice Anger Simpkins Dorothy Evans Morrical with her two children have who left the city with her husband who is serving with moved from Indianapolis to Cambridge, Mass., where the Air Force in Texas. she joined her husband who is working on a war as Lorraine Martin Holtz recently played a prominent part sighment for R.C.A. in the Fox Point celebration of the founding of the Mrs. Margaret Anderson recently received for the community. W .S.C.D. group of the First Methodist church the Mrs. Clarence Post (Eleanor Hannon) is kept busy outstanding books of 1942. with her new daughter. Lucille Boies Vietch's husband is in the signal corps, Mary Grace Wandrey Green (Mrs. Tom) has moved Camp Crowder. She is joining him after a trip to Ft. to town from Madison and brought her son, Billie: with Benning, Ga., with her mother and sister Martha J. her. Hutchinson Boies. to visit her sister. Ruth Timm Engle (Mrs. John) suffers the transient Marguerite Irvin left April 24 for Washington, D.C. life of the wife of a C.P.A. around income tax time. Her husband is to be assistant field director overseas. He Most often they are stationed at Madison. is in Washington for training. Rose Wichert Mead (Mrs. Sam), is in Washington, D .C. Her address is 401 S. Courthouse rd., /1rlington, Worcester Alumnte Va. Ethel Fritts, E, is secretary of the Worcester Syracuse Bette Chilsen Klocksin ' (Mrs. Robert) has moved to University Alumni club. Arkansas to be with Bob, who is in the army. Grace Smith Cutting (Mrs. Adna J.), !>., is District Betty Howland Ross is back with her parents at Director of southern Worcester County Parent-Teacher Nashotah while her husband, Bill, is in Australia. Associations, Worcester Council. Jane Field Halvorson (Mrs. Robert) and her two chil Marion Hook Nyberg (Mrs. C. Henry), N, is an in dren have moved from Milwaukee to the camp near Pen structor in surgical dressings and president of the Ladies dleton, Ore., where Bob is stationed. Aid of the Quinsigamond Baptist Church. Norma Winberg, N, is secretary of the Worcester Middlebury Alumn"' association and an assistant social CleYeland Clippi{Jgs worker for the Children's Friends Society. We are still pushing the drive for more blood donors Mrs. Edgar P. Neal, A, was hostess for the annual and our quota to Panhellenic has just about been waffle party and food and apron sale of the West reached. Each person is working her hardest to aid the Boylston Baptist Cliurch. war effort. El\en J. Peterson, A, gave a very instructive talk To wind up the end of the year's activities we are all before the Sigmas and guests on conditions in China going to have a picnic out at Blossom Hill, our local at the March meeting in the home of Frances and Mary philanthropy, to get acquainted with the girls and to Guerin, N. entertain them. We were so glad to welcome Eileen O'Hara Theis, E, Sacramento Highlights to our alumn"' group from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Vir a Kaa Brennan, AN, is enjoying her new posJtJon Ruth Brown, AI, and Crystal Haynam, AI, have been as head of the Formula Kitchen at the Sutter Maternity three times blood donors, and Katherine Lowry, a, and Hospital in Sacramento. Dorothy Walworth, e, have been blood donors twice. Barbara Kirby Nosier, A, and her children have moved Katherine Lowry has just finished a year as president of to Sacramento while her husband, Lt. (j.g.) Mark C. the Y.M.C.A. Mother's Club. Nosier is in the South Pacific. Marian Patch Smith, Ali, Caroline Smith Cage, I:, Mabel Heyne Buell, AK, has recently received word and Dorothy Walworth, e. competed in the music from her husband, who has been overseas a year, of his appreciation contest sponsored by The Cleveland Symphony promotion from Captain to Major. and Caroline had a perfect paper. Marian Smith is Sacramento alumn"' are sorry to lose Marjorie Tanton librarian for next year. McKesson, AO. She, with her two daughters, is moving JUNE, 1943 39 to Long Beach Calif., while her husband Lt. Robert S. recreation room which turned over proceeds of $21.75 to the Malverne branch of the American Red Cross. Her McKesson is overseas. son, Standish Whitman Holmes was in the cast. Lucy Gage, 0, Writes About Birds Vuginia Masterbrook Harrison has joined Sgt. Bill at Amarillo, Tex. Bill is in charge of the office of the Lucy Gage, 0, has an article on birds in the April Medical Corps. issue of the Audubon Bulletin, the third to be published. Betty Peterson writes from Evansville, Ind. (618 S.E. She has also written several articles for the Medford Riverside), that Marlys Rotnem Rossow and family have Mercury. recently moved there. Betty shares an apartment over looking the Ohio with the manager of the cafeteria of Oli-via Taylor, Z, Is Direct her company, Republic Avi ation, and congratulates her Descendant of Thomas Jefferson seW on having picked a home-ec graduate as a roommate. Olivia Taylor, Z, and her two sisters were special guests Margaret Shepard writes from Chicago that Evelyn at a preliminary view of an elaborate exhibit of Jeffersonia Setre and Ruth Owens Biddison are located there too. at the Library of Congress, April 8, as they are great Flo Lewellen writes from Washington, D.C. (2039 great-great-granddaughters of Thomas Jefferson . Miss New Hampshire ave. N.W.) " I work for the Social Taylor is counsellor of students at Anacostia high school, S~curity Board here. Until recently I have handled per formerly English teacher at Eastern high school. •onnel correspondence for the Board and am now serv ing as editorial clerk, working on the Social Security Portland, Me., Alumnce Yearbook. In line with the good neighbor policy, two Eleanor Bradlee Mitchell (Mrs. Percy D.), A, of Canadian girls (one with the R.A.F. delegation, the Worcester, Mass., spent a few days with relatives in other with the Government of India) and I share an Portland this spring. apartment. Bernice Butler McGorrill (Mrs. Virgil). A, has been From Chester, Pa ., comes a letter from Dorothy Mahle elected secretary of the municipal caucus of Cumberland McCandless-"! left my library position in Glencoe, Republicans. Ill., a year and a half ago to come to Philadelphia to Helen Mitchell, A, Houlton, Me. , visited friends in attend Pendle Hill, a graduate school of religion and Cape Elizabeth. social work conducted by the Society of Friends Laura Smith HerS I'Y (Mrs. Benjamin B.), 0, is a (Quakers) and also to do some work for the American member of the guest committee of the Woman's Literary Friends Service Committee here. This followed a project Union. . which· has opened to me and which I found vastly ab Phyllis St. Clair Fraser, A, discussed the works of the sorbing while still in Chicago during the summer of 1941 , late Stephen Vincent Benet at the W oman's Club of when I participated in a Quaker work-camp in the Negro Westbrook, Me., in March . slums of Chicago. After being at Pendle Hill for a Grace Farrar Linscott (Mrs. Arad E.), A, re ad a school year, I joined a group of friends in a cooperative paper, Highlights In Science For The Year 1942, at a venture of community work in the nearby war·boom town meeting of the Urban club. of Chester, where conditions are very touchy and un Nellie M. Dearborn, A, spent the weekend of April 9 settled. Members of our group work part time to support at a vocational guidance conference at Colby College. ourselves and spend the rest of our efforts in "neighbor hood reconstruction" (not waiting for the post-war world). That sounds more imposing than it is as this Term Room Rent $3.34 is very much in the beginning stages and we all avoid at Colby Back in 1838 talking or "advertising" until we are really rooted in our Sophia Hanson Mace (Mrs. Eugene R.), A, has given work.· It certainly is a fascinating experiment and a chal a student's term bill dated Dec. 28, 1838, to the Colby lenge to all my abilities and education. On top of all College historical collection. this, I was married in January of this year to one of my Made out to James Hobbs Hanson, father of Mrs. fellow workers." Mace, the term bill lists the following charges: Tuition, Eloise Nelson is teaching Social Studies in the senior $8; room rent, $3 .34; average of general damages, $1; high at Forest Lake, Minn. bell·ringing and sweeping, .34; use of library, .34; Helen Collins Cooley writes that gas rationing is pro monitors, .10; fuel for recitation rooms, .25; chemical moting the good neighbor policy at Scarsdale, N.Y. lectures, .50. The total for the term was $13.87. "Everyone seems to be making friends with folks nearby The same paper stated that Hanson was "excused from and promoting foursomes of bridge within walking dis prayers" 10 times, that his scholarship was "very good," tance. " An active three year old daughter, Kathleen, his attendance " regular" and his conduct "good." It keeps Helen busy. was signed R. E. Pattison, president of Waterville Col The French Quarter of New Orleans was Jane Web lege, as Colby was then known. ber's first home when she took up her new position at Hanson was graduated in the class of 1842 and Tulane last fall-"in the oldest aparatment building in became one of the famous schoolmasters of his day. the U.S . Now I've moved out by the Tulane campus As principle for 40 years of Coburn Classical Institute, not so picturesque but prettier and much, much cleaner he was known throughout New England. He edited than the Quarter. Phoebe and Ole Olson drove through several Latin text books which were used extensively here a month or so ago, en route to California. Phoebe's throughout the Country. baby is a great big husky he-man." Maurine Nicholson Basom is in El Paso, Tex. Lieu Alpha Eta News tenant Bill is stationed at the Army Hospital there, a While Ensign James Lindsay is in the service, Mrs. specialist in bone and joint surgery. Here are excerpts: Lindsay (Lenore Hadlestad ) , and daughter, Betty Mae, "El Paso is no sissy town-miners, ranchers, cavalrymen plan to live in Minneapolis. Mrs. Lindsay is serving as and straight tequila. One of its most interesting features a member of the Alpha Eta Advisory ·Board this year. is the touch of Old Mexico. Juarez, across the. border, is Her address is 4638 Wentworth ave. S. , Minneapolis. a wonderful place to go shopping and celebrating. After recoveri ng from a long illness, Mrs. George A. When I first arrived here, another doctor's wife had a Sellner (Jane Bossen), expects to return to Minneapolis reception for me and invited 350 guests; there I met all for an extended visit with her parents, who live at 4032 the doctors' wives and prominent citizen.- The first or Bryant ave. S., Minneapolis. ganization I joined was the American Association of University Women. Sigma Kappas, one from New York and one from Denver.-! have been a member of the E-velyn Nelson Holmes local Girl Scout Council for over a year. Am now Directs Children's Play Program Chairman. Our committee is responsible for Mrs . Standish W. Holmes (Evelyn Nelson, AH), setting up snappy, interesting programs for 725 scouts . I who lives at Malverne, Long Island, N.Y., directed a have a high school troop too. The Young Matron's Club children's performance of ·a Thanksgiving play in her and Medical Auxiliary also take up time. Thursday 40 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE mornings we bowl. Since January I have been taking First Aid and Nutrition. In the future I hope to take Canteen and Nurse's Aid.-We have taken in medical conventions at St. Louis, Santa Fe, and Dallas. Last April we went on a twelve day tour to Mexico City." Chicagoland A lumnre Not unheralded and unsung was the . all-Chicago dinner which North Side and North Shore members gave for the benefit of the Maine Seacoast Mission and the magazine service fund . One editor even called back to procure more information about our national philanthropy. About 40 Sigma Kappas were present to" partake of the buffet supper and a good slice of international news from college chapters and Grand Council so interestingly served to us by the honor guest, Grand Secretary Majel Schneider. The locale of this successful part}' was the new Chicago home of Mrs. J. Rene Hemingway' (Marian 1 SeCheverell, 'I') on Arlington pi. "' And the time was March 8, just before the Lenten season and meat ra tioning made big buffet dinners a trifle out of place. With the contributions received from some faithful members who could not be present plus the careful buying of the committee in charge, almost forty dollars was the amount raised . So Sigma Kappas do rally to· gether despite curtailed transportation. That you may know who some of our old faitbfuls are, the list of guests and contributors is included. Marian Bigelow (President of the Chicago Alumnre chapter), Louise Campbell, Ruth Ellen Lovrien Church, Phyllis Caul Cram, Margaret Davis, and Lois Thompson, all of AE; Dorothy Armington, Helen McClintock Anderson, Mynetta Engelland Boretti, Pauline Nichols Clarke, Florence Jackson Clough, Julia Simonson Gault, Bernice Powell Gregg, Helen Sawyer Powell, Martha Webster W a/do, AB Margaret McClintock, Marjorie Riordan, Hazel Schultz, President of the University of Ada Mae Ganz Stephen, Alice Van Sands Teegarden, Betty Buffalo Panhellenic Tendick, and Marion Woodward Whitmore, all of 9; Betty Wiley Sutherland, and Margaret Koehnlein Dohren, H ; Libby Ann Spencer Deahl, 0 ; Eleanor Gaenslen reporters is reporting for work. Jean Ragon, another Tau Alford, Frances Warren Baker, Helene Kauwertz Ewing, journalist is working on the staff of thl' Hammond Janet Taylor Jacobson, Doris Bandlow Mason, Martha Times and living in Hammond, where she is an enthusi McNess Menard, Francos Vea Milow, Fern MacDonald astic member of that ever-increasing group of Sigma Strain, and Dorothy Williams, all of 'I'; Myrtle Short Kappa alumnre on Indiana's north-eastern border. Lester, I; Mildred Daly White and Mary White, AK; Nancy Miller Miller (Mrs. J. Ralston), A:1:, is vice Annabelle Porter Gabbard, AX; Gertrude Hudson president of the Hammond PTA and recently represented Snow and Barbara Boer Irwin, AI ; Elva Covert Sawyer that group at the session of the Indiana State legislature. and Majel Horning Schneider, AT; Thelma Huston Kel· Julia Simonson Gault (Mrs. Wesley C.). 9, is president log, Z; Marjorie Clay Boye, M. · of the Hammond Panhellenic association this year. Several of our members are holding responsible posi Under the able and energetic direction of the North tions in their local woman's clubs. Ada Mae Stephen Shore chairman and her committee, interesting and in (Mrs. Douglas A.), 9, is program chairman of her formative programs have been given at each monthly club on Chicago's North Side; Alice Teegarden (Mrs. meeting. Martha Menard (Mrs. George) , 'I', is chairman Frank), 9, has finished her year as president of the and her committee consisted for the past year of Elva Winnetka Woman's club auxiliary; and Betty Sutherland Sawyer (Mrs. Victor) , AT, Martha Sweet Countryman (Mrs. Walter N.), H, has just been elected vice-presi (Mrs. Ralph), AH, and Edna Lichti Henry (Mrs. George). dent of the large and active Wilmette Woman's club AI. Edna Henry was to have given a musical program at which position eventually leads to the presidency. Ruth the March meeting, but she received orders to report Schwemm Hardacre (Mrs. Gilbert), 9, has . finished for induction into the WAVES on that day. her two year term as president of the Ravinia Woman's Marion Bigelow, AE, is back at work after several club and Frances Warren Baker (Mrs. James Stannard), weeks recuperating from an operation which kept her 'I', is the club's new program chairman. in Grant hospital for ten days. Marion is secretary to the head of a large corporation which has been turning Marjorie Boye (Mrs1 James). M, whom we seldom see at meettngs because of her many activities and three out precision instruments for the government war serv children, is completing her graduate work at North ices. western and preparing a program for her graduate re Marjorie Riordan, 9, is doing her bit for the war cital. She has also attained a desk in the violin section effort by handling correspondence in the Chicago office of the Woman's Symphony, an honor indeed, in view of the Treasury department that has charge of War of the healthy competition which goes on for a place in Bond sales to all members of the Armed Services. She that organization. is practically in the Army herself for she works under Frances Milow (Mrs. Robert W.). 'I', and Mary Kauf the direction of Army officers. man Howerton (Mrs. David R.) , Z, were models in the Thelma Kellogg (Mrs. W. P.), Z, is a resident of recent Oak Park Panhellenic bridge and fashion show Chicago now while her husband, a Lieutenant-Com benefit which raised about $1,800 for college scholar mander, is stationed here. In a desperate search for an ships. Glowing reports were received of the Sigma Kappa apartment near her son's school and within easy dis models. tance of her husband's work, she called at the Hemingway The old hymn, "Work for the Night Is Coming," needs residence and practically demanded that she be allowed to revision for Anne Douglas, T, just now. She is the staff rent one of the floors. It was not until the benefit party of the City News Bureau in Chicago and leaves her in March that she and Thelma realized that their conversa re-write desk in the morning just as the staff of day tion in October bad taken place between two Sigma JUNE, 1943 41 Kappas. Those who attended the Seattle convention on April 3 for Mrs. Morin, Grand Treasurer, faund it and especially those who took the Alaska trip--will re possible to be present as our special guest. Later in April several of our Long Island members attended a member Thelma and her husband. Janet Jacobson (Mrs. Roland A.), '1', spent the first supper meeting at the Beckman Towers arranged by the weekend of April in Madison where she saw her daugh New York , City alums. Some Sigmas from Jersey ven ter, Janet-Mary, initiated. Janet bas every reason to be tured in, too. to make a fine, large group. proud of this second generation Sig,ma Kappa in her Ruth Pross Denhard is with her husband who is an family, for in spite of a stiff pre-medic course, Janet Army Lieutenant stationed in North Carolina. Captain Mary is finding time for sorority and campus activities and and Mrs. Walter Peters (Betty Searby) are at Port Deven, making an excellent scholastic record. Mass. Our former president Mrs. Robert Seamon (Jeanne Mr. and Mrs. AI Lindbloom (Dorothy Mullin, e), Ellert) is now on her way to Florida to rejoin her have moved to their new home at 1703 W. 10,th st., husband. Beverley, a southside suburb. After corresponding with Mrs. Bousfield, we have em Florence Gunnarson Spraker, -¥, has been following barked on a project for the Maine Seacoast Mission. We her husband, Kenneth, who is a gunnery officer in the will provide decorations for parties which are held at Navy. They have been in Florida, Boston, and Missis the ,mission in conjunction with various holidays. At our sippi. la,st ' meeting we colle~ted hats, snappers, napkins, etc. whjch werec bough( o~ , made by the members for a Indianapolis Doings Fourth of July celebration. Dr. Martha Crandall, T, is in charge of the Pediatrics In a small way, y{e are helping on the home front by Ward at the City hospital. salvaging used candles · and old stockings for the Mrs. Jay Shilling, Indianapolis alumnre president last A.W.V.S., -i.hich shall, nq doubt, be converted into war year, will be the next leader of the Indianapolis Pan material. A veteran's. hospital on Long Island has asked hellenic Association. for worn but usuable playi ng cards so we are in the Virginia Casey May recently wrote a children's oper process of collecting them. ' etta, "Dandelion Jubilee" which was given by the Junior Givic Theater May 1 and 2. Dallas Doings Dorothy Steinmeicr Smalley's husband is at Camp Phillips, Salina, Kan. Billy Bibb Kay is secretary for the Chamber of Com- . Mrs. R. M. Coleman attended the Red Cross Con merce in Dennison, Tex. vention held here. Edith Moore Cogswell is in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Cage (Carolyn Smith) have moved back the Richmond Home Service Depa~ent of the Junior to Dallas from· Cleveland, Ohio. Red Cross. Dallas alums had a delightful buffet supper meeting in Anita Oldham was lobbyist for the Indiana State Teach March at the home of Kate Chester Smith with Helen ers Association at this last session of the State Legisla Newell president of Province X as our guest. We en ture. joyed her visit and news of other chapters. In April Jean Schrader Wellman and Edna Katzenberger Wright we met at the home of Esther Hill for supper and are in Los Angeles, Calif. Marian Laird presented a talk on "Case Work in the Chil dren's Bureau." Portland, Me., Alumna With the Winnipeg Alumn.r Alice Linscott Roberts (Mrs. Wayne E.), A, was We have always been so closely connected with Beta hostess to the Portland alumnre April 20 and Myrtice Gamma chapter that we have regarded every girl who Cheney Berry (Mrs. Arthur), A, of Newburyport, Mass., graduated from it as an actual member of our group, and was a special guest. Mrs. Berry attended weekend activi 1f any left the City, have felt them to be a definite loss. ties at Colby College and meetings in Bangor of the Lately, the fortunes of war, matrimony and other causes Maine Seacoast Mission. have resulted in our finding that nearly twice as many of our "members" are away as are here and so we have Portland, Ore., Alumn.r decided to establish and maintain co~tact with them by means of monthly letters, a sizable task, hence the USO Scrapbooks are the big project for Portland, Ore. t':"~ secretades. If any initiate of Beta Gamma chapter, alumnre now, one which chairman Mildred Boone hvm~ outs1de of Winnipeg has not received a letter by Borgeson, T, reports will be continued .throughout the the time she reads this, will she please write to Frances summer m?nths. M~mbers o_f the two Oregon college chap Macintyre, 243 Atlantic ave. ters w1ll JOID us m workmg on the scrapbooks during Easter weekend was a busy one for Winnipeg Sigmas, the summer months. Work on the scrapbooks was for we had as our guest our Grand Vice President enjoyed by those attending the April alum meeting at Helen Corbett. In addition to numerous small gatherings: the home of Margaret Johanse n Lehman, T. ~e honored the 1943 graduates, seven in number, at a tea m the Hud_so n 's Bay Company store on Saturday, and Long Island had ~he thnll of a really beautiful initiation to increase We Long Island alums have had a good many "doings" the JOY of Easter Sunday. Our traditional progressive lately but surely it is not difficult to pick as the "high dmner for the gradu~te~ had to be abandoned this year, light" the joint initiation of three Alpha Lambda pledges, due to wartime re~tnchons, but a charming tea proved a general ~lumnre reunion, and the 20th anniversary of an acceptable substitute, and tradition did not entirely go the chartenng of Alpha Lambda chapter on the Adelphi overboard, as the grads received their crested silver coffee campus. We arc glad that we held all of these functions spoons, as always . . The following list of chapters and indi Eta Beta Delta viduals should be added to those found in Alpha Phi Gladys McDonald the fall and winter issues of the TRIANGLE Beta Zeta as contributors to our National Philanthropy This makes a total of 32 alumnre and 27 funds: college chapters as well as 16 individuals Bloomington Houston who have contributed toward the pledged Buffalo Kansas City Cleveland Spokane $1500 for our International Philanthropy. Hartford Twin Cities We still need to have $255. 42 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE MILESTONES Engagements ALPHA-Eleanor Lee Mitchell to Philip John Mezzulo Thorpe, '43, to William Marchant, AXA, '44 ; Elinor of Port Chester, N.Y. Langraf, '43, to Stanly Stutz, :EAE, '42 ; Helen Oak- DELTA-V. Patricia Gagnon, '44, to Kenneth G. Ryd~r. · land, '43, to Robert Kelly, liKE, '44; Julia Elizabeth BJU:, Boston university ; Natalie Hastings, '42, to Wtl· · Ross to Merril Honigschmidt, Minneapolis; Nadine liam H. Stovold, East Braintree, Mass. Dawler, '44, to Harold Chafee; Gladys Bills, '44, to ZETA-Gladys Bottelson, '46, to Emil Jettmar, U. S. Samue Cully, MI!., '44. Army, Cam!'_ Butner N. C.; Marguerite Campbell, '43, ALPHA BETA-shirley Ann Mitchell, '46, to Robert to Kendall Twigg, SIIX, George Washington university, Tillman, Buffalo, N.Y. Washington D.C.; Jean Crowther, '45, to William ALPHA GAMMA-Jeri Rowland, '45 to Gene Evans, Fulton, U. S. Army, Fort Ord, Calif.; Barbara Dieterich, '45; Barbara Jean Neill, '43, to Frank Johnson, :EX. '46, to Martin Goodson, TKE, George Washington uni ALPHA EPSILON-Dorothy Castle, ex-'44, to Rex Hall, versity, Washington, D.C.; Beall Lowry, '44, to Wil '42; Janet Crosby, '45, to lames Brennan, '45, I!.TI!.; liam Reinhart U. S. Army, Fort Washington, Md. Frances Lockwood, '44, to t. Harry Olsen, '42, ex; ETA-Jean JackSon, '45, to Robert H. Bruce, ex-'45, ex. Virginia Tanner, '45, to Merle Simonsen, '44, !!.X; IOTA-Jeanette Mayer, '44, to Jack McCarthy, '44, Eileen Turney, ex-'45, to Pvt. Robert Mayo, ex- '45. University of Denver; Dorothy Williams, '44, to Bill ALPHA ZETA-Myra Morris, '44, to Durwood Carmen, Olsen, University of Denver; Elizabeth Jolly, '45, to Cornell; Lois Steele, '45, to Daryl Aylesworth, '43, Ralph Heidbrak, School of Mines; June Davis, '45, to Alfred university; Marion Williams, '45, to Thurlow Wayne Flannigan, PKA, University of Denver; Laura Whitman, '43, Cornell. Fae Martin, '43, to Alex Jaromison, :EPE; Mary Jane ALPHA ETA-Mary Jo Mueller to Joe Urlaub, Neills Fitzgerald, •42, to Clarence Eldridge, :EAE; Charlotte ville, Wis.; Virginia Larson, '44, to Rqbert Filmore, ' Fletcher, · 42, to Jack Maclear, I!.T, School of Com '43, IIT:EE. merce; Marjorie Wimberly, '46, to Gene Hehr, PKA, ALPHA IOTA-Betty Knight, '46, to Russell Polak; University of Denver. Kathleen Severs, · 43, to Major Michael L. Dan tan, LAMBDA-Dorothea Jorgenson to Warren Boone ; Mary U. S. Army; Elaine Thome, '46, to Lt. John Byers, Lynn Tuttle to Tom Cox, '42, rl!.; Mildre!'l Dunshee U. S. Army; Hertha Lawson to Pvt. Richard Hill, U. s, to Paul Smith ; Marian Ulrey to Capt. Arthur Small. Army Air Corps, Oberlin College. MU-Virginia Ketcham to Wayne D. Muller . . ALPHA NU-Jane McDonald to Howard Venetz, U. S. NU-Natalie F. Dane, '43, to Major Hamilton H. Dyer, Navy ; Dorothy Mincoff to William Riggert. University of Maine, rl!.; Doris 0. Magee, '43, to ALPHA TAU-Betty Jo Driver to William Heckrodt, Peyton Enniss. Menasha, Wis. XI-Janice Brown, '45, to Kenneth Grabast, AK'i'. ALPHA PHI-Pat Howard, '42, to Jack DuLong, '43, SIGMA--cecelia McDowell, '43, to Joe Bailey Scott, llKA; Charlotte Allen, '43, -to James Angus, Portland, '43; Elizabeth Hardr. '38, to Vincent Titterud. Ore. TAU-Norma Roof, 45 to Pvt. Lewis Gephart, Ander ALPHA PSI-Blanna Brower, '43, to W. R. Harris, Jr., son; Marjorie Cook, '45, to Pvt. Herbert Farrelt. IMP; '41; Ensign Christine Grunewald, WAVES, to Ensign Nancy Doolittle, '45b to Jerry Young, IIX; .r.leanor Jay Hartzell, Jr., U.S.N.R. Rutz, '43, to Russell eal, ex. ALPHA OMEGA-Frances Frost, '45, to Leon Fich UPSILON-Janice Moon, '43, to Jack Engle, Oregon man, '43. State college, '44, X JUNE, 1943 43 OMICRON-Rachel Louise Pierce to Frank Sewall Co to Pvt. Hartley Russell All~y._ Miami university, Feb ..3. burn, Feb. 20. At home, E. Main rd., Portsmouth, R.I. ; in Selma, Ala. ; Mary Chnstme Clark to Kenneth Bnt Justine M. Wells to Robert A. Stauffer, Mar. 20. At ton July 11 1942. At home, Cherry Fork, Oh10 ; home 36 Gloucester st., Boston, Mass. Eve'trn Braunlng to Lt. Russel Rickley, U. S. Army, XI-taura Hames, '43, to Woodward Ratliff, U.S.N. Ohio State university. SIGMA-Polly Sadler, '41, to St;t. Louis L ~ Wilds, ALPHA KAPPA-Christine Carlson to A. K. Groppe. Mar. 13; Virginia James, '33, to William Lindley; At home 20959 Woodstock ave., Fairview Village, Wilma Yeats to Mart A. O'Neal, Jr., Dec. 17, 1941. Ohio - Betty Lehman to Robert E. Breisch, Feb. 6, at TAU-Alberta M. Homann to John Cfark Jones, April 25. Boulder City, Nev. At hom~ , B.M.I., Las Vegas, Nev. ; At home, 4641 N. Paulina st., Chicago ; Elsie G1esman, Geraldine Nelson to Lt. ). Norman Umplely. '44, to Paul Hotte~stein. . ALPHA LAMBDA-Marjorie Ward Fajen to Edward C. PHI-Elizabetlj Hall to Theodore S. Clarke, Oct. 10, Nichols May I. At home, 1745 Caton ave., Brooklyn, 1942. At 1'\nme, 81 Clara Barton circle, Sylavon ct., N.Y. ; Agnes Raman to William Ploch, May I. Sylacauga, Ala.; Barbara Morrissey, '32, to William ALPHA NU-Helen Tucker '43, to Charles Rigg, 44 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE ALPHA OMICRON-To Mr. and Mrs. Eut~ene Robert ALPHA PHI-To Mr. and Mrs. Virchand Rayner (Mar Johnson (Harriet Hadley) a daughter, Manlyn Louise, jorie Myers) twins, Lois Meredith and Charles Vir· · Feb. 3 in San Bernardino, Calif. ; to Mr. and Mrs. chand, April 6; to Mr. and Mrs . James KelJ (Mau James Hawley (Mary Chisholm) a daughter, Mary rine Lombard) a daughter, Catherine Louise, une 19, Ann April 23; to Mr-. and Mrs. H. H. Trump (Mar· 1942; to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Murphy (Eldrj Wold) tha Hiltner) a son, David, April 1; to Lt. and Mrs. a daughter, Ellen Ann, Aug. 10, 1942; to Mr. and Robert S. McKesson (Marjone Tanton) a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Case Smith (Virginia Scoville) a son, Mary Kathleen, March 12. Steven Allen, April 17. ALPHA PI-To Capt. and Mrs. W. P. Carlin (Louise ALPHA PSI-To Mr. and Mrs. Kimmerle (Josephine Duffield) a son, Christopher Michael, April 5. Ad· Eaby) a daughter, Nancy Jo, Jan. 27. dress, 2651 Sixteenth st. N.W., Washington, D.C. ALPHA OMEGA-To Capt. and Mrs. William H. Crom ALPHA EPSILON-To Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Lar· well jr. (Paula Jones) a daughter, Diane Lee, Feb. 9 son (Mildred Bennett) a daughter, Ginger Lovrien, in New Britain, Conn. March 30. Address, 2099 Johnstone ave., Bartlesville, BETA GAMMA-To Capt. and Mrs. Clark Roberts Okla.; to Mr. and Mrs. Tarr (Carmen Hensel) a (Marjorie Dick) a daughter, Maryann, Dec. 31; to Lt. daughter, Mary Franc~s. Oct. 24, 1942. Address, 714 and Mrs. Reg Shelford (Gladys Tucker) a daughter, N. Stadium Way, Tacoma, Wash. Elaine, Sept. 28, 1942. 1Dtatb~ Cora Rouillard Stevens, t., died suddenly in Boston, gree in journalism in 1933, and had helped her husband Mass March 27. edit a trade journal for several years. Hllen Schneider, M, died in March after an illness of Dororhy Emerson Kennedy, 0. died Dec. 23, 1942 about a year. She was graduated from the University of after a long illness. She was graduated from Jackson Washington with a B.S. in Che111istry in 1937 and with college in 1922. a B.A. in Library Science in 1938. She was employed Nell Miles McKee, Z, died Jan. 24. She is survived for two years as assistant in the tedmology department by her husband, two sons and a daughter, and two of the Seattle Public Library. She is survived by her sisters: Mae Miles Colt. Manhattan, Kan. and Eunice parents and two sisters. Kay and Dorothy. Miles Lowderman Wichita. Kan., both members of Betty Bloom Fish, 1\I, died April 14 after a month's Theta chapter, ana1 two brothers. · illness. She was a member of Theta Sigma Phi, was Shirley Peters, Barbara Weston Noyes, A, for the death of her Keever. mother, Mrs. Ernest C. Weston, March 14. Mrs. E. L. Jay for the death of her father. Marian Wentworth, t., for the death of her sister in Helen Johnson, AH, for the death of her father and March; Mildred McCann, t., for the death of her her mother in April ; Ruth Henrici, AH, for the death of mother in March ; Ann Wolfe, t., for the death of her her father, Dr. Arthur Henrici, a member of the Uni father ; Helen Johnson Gove, t., for the death of her versity of Minnesota staff. husband , Lewis Gove, last March. Annie Laurie McCall McAllister, AK, for the death Beth Yewell, A, for the death of her father. of her father, Edward McCall. Feb . 23; Selma Newman Alice Rine Thorp, M, for the death of her husband, Puckett, AK, for the death of her mother in May; Nellie Howard Thorp. deKalf Wolfe, AK, for the death of her mother. Ruth Lingle, T, for the death of her mother, Mrs. L. M. Evelyn Goessling Bauer, >¥, for the death of her sister. Hat ve You Married!. or Moved!.? Cut this out and mail to the Director of the Central Office, Mrs. Edward Taggart, Room 805, 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Please change my address or name and address on the files as follows: From Name College Chapter ...... Initiation number ...... Address ...... · ... · · · · · · · City ...... To Name 0 ••• : • ••• 0 ••••••••• 0 ••• 0 •••• 0 •••• 0 •••••••••••••••••••••• 0 • •••• •• •• Address ...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · City ...... Are you a college or alumnre .officer? ...... Date of sending information ...... Date of marriage, if sending information about marriage ...... JUNE, 1943 45 Sigma Kappa Directory Founded al Colby College, Maine, in 1874 Central Ohio Cleveland Portage, Cincinnati, De· FOUNDERS troit Ann Arbor, Centra( Michigan, Grand Rapids, 1 MRs. L. L. CARVER, nee Mary Caffrey Low (deceased) Pittsourgh and Toledo Alumnz Chapters. ELIZABETH GORHAM HOAG (deceased) Province President-Marion Race Cole (Mrs. Russell), MRS. J. B. PIERCE, nee Ida M. Fuller (deceased) 4230 Clements ave., Detroit, Mich. LOUJSI! HELEN CoBURN, Skowhegan, Me. Vice President- MRs. G. W. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann (deceased) PROVINCE VIII-Eta, Theta, Tau and Psi Chapters. Indianapolis, South Bend, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Chicaj!O and Bloomington Alumnz GRAND COUNCIL Chapters; Champatgn-Urbana Club, Ft. Wayne. Grand President-Ruth Ware Greig (Mrs. William), Province President-Lois Roeht Redlin (Mrs. Alfred W., Jr.). 1827 E. Park pl. 11 , Milwaukee, Wis. 924'/2 S. Serrano, Los Angeles 6, Calif. Grand Vice Pruidtnt-Helen Ives Corbett (Mrs. Laurence Vice PreSident-Lura Magrath Olsen (Mrs. Reuben J.), W.), 2445 Sheridan ave. S., Minneapolis 5, Minn. 1004 N . 4th st., Maywood, Ill. Grand Counselor-Irene Dickson McFarlane (Mrs. Adrt· PROVINCE IX-Xi, Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Eta, Alpha an), 500 Lakeside ave .. S., Seatt\e 44, Wash. Kal?pa, and Beta Ga=a Chapters. Grand Secrttary-Majel Hornmg Schnetder (Mrs. I. F.), Twtn CitieskWinnipeg, Nebraska, Wichita, Omaha, 17386 Birwood, Detroit 21, Mich. Tulsa and ansas City Alumnz Chapters. Grand Treasurer-Alta Thompson Morin (Mrs. Francis Pro vince President-Fern McDonald Strain (Mrs. C. R.), H. ) , 360 E. Broadway, Fulton, N.Y. 1448 N. Park ave., River Forest, Ill. Vice President-Ruth Johnson Quistgard (Mrs. P. C. ), 6944 Prospect st., Kansas Ctty, Mo. OTHER INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS PROVINCE X-Lambda and Alpha Omicron Chapters .. Bay Cities, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Sac NPC'Deltgatt-Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Front st., Bloom· ramento, ::.an Diego, 0fange County Club, Bakers- ingtpn, Ill. • field and San Francisco Alumnz Charters. Triangle Editor-Frances Warren Baker (Mrs. James Stan Province President-Helen Johnson Newel (Mrs. Paul nard), 289 Woodland rd., Highland Park, Ill. C. ) , 1110 The Alameda, Berkeley, Calif. Director o Central 0 ffice-Margaret Hazlett Tagsart Viet President-Marian Tarbell, 1870 lOth ave., Sac (Mrs. Edward D.), 129 E. Market bldg., Indtan· ramento, Calif. apolis 4, Ind. . PROVINCE XI-Mu, Alpha Nu, Upsilon, Alpha Ga=a, Chairman of Extension Committee-Helen Ives Corbett and All?ha Phi Chapters. (Mrs. Laurence W.), 2445 Sheridan ave. S., Min Corvallts, Puget Sound, Portland and Spokane neapolis 5, Minn. Alumnz Chapters. Sigma Kappa Historian-Lillian M. Perkins, 401 Broad· Province President-Harriet Forest Moore (Mrs. James way Suite 8, Cambridge, Mass. Director o/ Alumn,. Rtlations-Helen Ives Corbett (Mrs. C. ), 2 Edgewood way, Corvallis, Ore. Laurence W.), 2445 Sheridan ave. S., Minneapolis Viet President- 5, Minn. STANDING COMMITTEES FIELD ORGANIZATION COLLEGE LOAN COMMITTEE: Pauline Gauss, 112 PROVINCE I-Alpha, Delta, Phi and Omicron Chap· N. Glenwood, Peoria, Ill., Chairman ; Mrs. Adrian I. ters. McFarlane, 500 Lakeside, S., Seattle, Wash~; Mrs. Fran· Portland, Worcester, Boston, Hartford and Rhode cis H. Morin, 360 E. Broadway, Fulton, N. r. Island Alumnz Chapters. EXTENSION COMMITTEE: Mrs. Laurence W. Cor Province Prtsident- bett, 2445 Sheridan ave. S., Minneapolis Minn., Chairman; Vice Prtsidens-Sue Tidd Heald (Mrs. W. M.), 184 1 Sal 46 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE l ALUMNJE CHAPTER DIRECTORY ~ I ChaPter Pre1ident Chapter Pre1ident Baltimore •• •. • ••. Mrs. A. L. Glantz, 917 E. 37th st., Portland, Ore, Mrs. Frank Warnock, 4240 N.E. Baltimore, Md. Halsey, Portland, Ore. Bay Cities •.•••••.. Mrs. W. H. Smith, 6147 Ocean View Puget Sound .... . dr., Oakland, Calif. Mrs. Ken Morse, 3129 E. 84th st., Bloomington .• ... Seattle, Wash. Ruth Biby, 1202 N. Park, Blooming Rhode Island ... . Miss Esther Armstrong, State Insti ton, Ill. tutions, Howard, R.I. Boston Nellie B. Mansfield, 68 Linden st., Rochester ••...... Everett, Mass. Mrs. Kenneth Slaght, 1850 South Buffalo ave., Rochester, N.Y. Mrs. Horace H . Robinso!', 347 Hum Sacramento •...••. Mrs. Edgar Kay, 904-45th, Sacra· boldt pkwy. Buffalo, N.Y. mento, Calif. Central Michigan Eunice Winans, 126 Main, East St. Louis ...... Lansing, Mich. Mrs. Russell Becker, 1323 McCut· Central New York Mrs. Rich Dean Whitney, 871 Liv· cheon rd ., Richmond Hts., Mo . ingstone ave. Syracuse, N.Y. San Diego County Central Ohio ..•• Clara Louise Goss, 5441 Hard -rd ., Mrs. Francis Grace, Gates Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, Los Angeles, Calif. Chicago .. •• • .••• San Francisco .. .. Mrs. W . D. Peugh, 90 Santa Paula Marian Bigelow, 2742 Hampden Ct., ave., San Francisco, Calif. Apt. 4-D, Chicago, Ill. Schenectady Cincinnati Mrs. Ralph Eddy, 350 Howell ave., Mrs. Jacob Green, 1309 State, Sche Cincinnati, Ohio. nectady,. N.Y. Cleveland South Bend Miss Geraldine Hatt, 2006 S. Michi· Mrs. D . C. Caulfield, 247 Arundel gan st., South Bend, Ind. rd., Rocky River, 0. Spokane ...... Colorado •...... Mimi Getzendaney, 1626 Logan, Mrs. Edward Joy, 1919 Syringa rd., #112, Denver, Colo. Spokane, Wash. Corvallis ••...•... Toledo ...... Mrs. Harold W. Morgan, 1911 Sum Helen Myers, 456 Monroe st., Cor· mit ave. , Toledo, Ohio. vallis, Ore. Tulsa . .•.••..•.. Dallas ••. • . •. •. .• Marguerite Roberts, 915 N. Tyler Mrs. E. H. Benedict, 848 S. In· ave., Dallas, Tex. dianapolis, Tulsa, Okla. Detroit . •• •...... Twin Cities ...... Miss Mildred Clarke, 3654 Bryant, S., Minneapolis, Minn. Grand Rapids .... Washington, D .C. Mrs. Arthur Lanigan, 6120 33d Mrs. Whipple Butler, 208 Lafaye tte Senior .... •• . . . N.W., Washington, D.C. rd. N.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. Winnipeg ...... Hartford Catherine Moore, 44 Garden st., Pauline Sigurdson, 98 Kingsway, Hartford, Conn. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can. Houston Worcester ...... Ethel Fmts, 363 Salisbury st., Worcester, Mass. Indianapolis •... .• Mrs. Harry May, 2010 E. St. Clair, Indianapolis, Ind. Ithaca ..•••. ••• •. Mrs. L. A. Burckmyer, 232 Renwick dr., Ithaca, N .Y. Kansas City ...... Mrs. Robert E. Brown, 7212 Madi ALUMNJE CLUB DIRECTORY son, Kansas City. Mo. Knoxville ..•... •. Mildred Dennis, 219 W. Glenwood. Knoxville, Tenn. . Chapter PreJident Long Island Mrs. Henry Rudolph, 286 1st st., Mineola, N.Y. Los Angeles Mrs. E. Douglas, 310 51/z N. La Jolla Bakersfield ...... Mrs. James Day, Box 440, Bakers· ave., Los Angeles, Calif. field, Calif. Louisville ...... Mrs. Frank VanOverbeke, 2233 Dayton ..•...... Mrs. R. L. Baldock, Apt IB, Sussex Woodford pl., Louisville, Ky. Hall, 191 Bdwy. , Dobbs Ferry, Madison .... . •... Mrs. Corwin Shell, 221 N. Pinck· N .Y. ney, Madison, Wis. Eugene, Ore. . .. . Mrs. Gordon Gedney, 23 77 Charnel Memphis ..•..... Carrie Mae Sledge, 1688 Autumn, ton st. , Eugene, Ore. Memohis, lenn. Ft. Wayne ...... Mrs. Edwin Ames, 4009 Webster st. Miami ...... Mrs. Richard Kunde, 3421 N .W. Ft. Wayne, Ind. Flagler ter., Miami, Pia. Georgetown, Ky. Mary Louise Robey, Georgetown, Ky. Milwaukee .....•• Mrs. H. H. Schwartz, 3800 N. New· Omaha ...... Mrs. Henry C. Lucas, 1823 Spence hall st., Milwaukee, Wis. st., Omaha, Neb. Nashville Mary Walker, 2109 Capers ave., Orange County, Mrs. James G. Workman, 4456 Nashville, Tenn. Calif...... Blackthorne, Lakewood Village Nebraska Mrs. LaRue Graham, 4100 Washing· Long Beach, Calif. ton st., Lincoln, Neb. Tallahassee ..•... Mrs. Royal Mattice, 925 W. Jeffer New Jersey ...... Mrs. F. 0. Dutton, 315 Cumberland son Tallahassee, Fla. rd., South Orange, N .J. Wichita ...... Mrs. '1. W . Parrott, 323 N. Yale, New York City .. Mrs. Richard T. Bell, 8 W. 71st st., Wichita, Kan. New York, N.Y. Palo Alto Mrs. Charles E. Fagg, 645 Hobart, Menlo Park. Calif. Pasadena Mrs. Frank C. Campbell, 409 La· Paloma, Alhambra, Calif. NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS Pittsburgh •••...• Mrs. Arthur M. Dawson, 46 Thorn· wood R.D. 2, Bridgeville, Pa. Ch airman: Mrs. M. C. Burnaugh. Beta Sigma Omicron, Portage •• .•...... Mrs. Nelson Seeger, 2112 15 st., Box 1296. Chicago, Ill. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Sigma Kappa Delegate: Miss Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Fran Portland, Me •..•. Mrs. Wayne Roberts, 40 Chase st., st., ~lo o mm g t on. Ill. South Portland, .Me. Sigma Kappa Editor Delegate: Mrs. James Stannard Baker, 289 Woodland rd., Highland Park, Ill. JUNE, 1943 COLLEGE CHAPTER DIRECTORY Pro;I Chapter Institution Corres. S"Y· President Chapter Address lnet: I Alpha Barbara Blaisdell Mary Low Hall Mayflower Hill, Beta and Gamma ~~~~~~:j"with Alpha Colby College, Waterville, Me.f Delta Boston University Marjorie Needham Patricia Gagnon 131 Cofmonwealtb av., Boston, Mass. Omicron Tufts College Claire Jarisch Elizabeth Webster n Talbot st., Somerville, Mass.f Phi Rhode Island State College Yvonne Hunter Eliza beth Records 1: K House, Kingston, R.I.f II Epsilon Syracuse University Elsa Heney Evelyn Larios 500 University pl., Syracuse, N. Y.f Nu Middlebury College Mary Jane Snook Mildred Brandner Hepburn Hall, Middlebury, Vt. • Alpha Beta University of Buffalo Carol Brown Ruth King 40 Montrose, Bulfalo, N.Y.f Alpha Zeta Cornell University Eunice Jacobsen Janice Engleson 150 Triphammer rd., Ithaca, N.Y.f Alpha Lambda A del phi College Vivian Martire Eileen Daly II Lincoln Rd., Granville, N.Y. III Zeta George Washington University Evelyn Miller Aune Kangas 1001 "K,. St. N.W., Washington, D.c.• Alpha Psi Duke University Bernice Thacker Margaret Elmore Box 748, College Sta., Durham. N.c.• Beta Zeta University of M aryland Betty Monocrusos Bernice Mead Box 3480, College Park, Md.f IV Omega Florida State College for Women Patricia Howard Georgie Hall 1: K !-louse, Park ave., Tallahassee, Fla-t Beta Delta Universit y of Miami Charlotte Motter Eileen Kurtz Panhel enic Bldg., t'"o Sequoia, Coral Gables, Fla. v I Alpha Delta University of Tennessee Betty Ki VI Iota Denver University Norma Rossiter Rosalie Gray 2120 S. Josephine, Denver 10, C olo.t Sigma Southern Methodist University Marcia Brooks Lola B. Wisseman :!: K Box, S.M.U. Dallas, Tex.f Beta Epsilon Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Martha Life Henrie E. Waldroup Box 301, Louisiana. Tech Station, Ruston, La.f VII Alpha Iota Miami University Ruth Juergens Betty Schaefer 1: K Suite, South Hall, Miami, Uni· versity, Oxford, Ohiot Alpha Sigma Westminster College Helen Francis Ruth Galbreath Ferguson Hall, New Wilmington. PaJ Alpha Tau Michigan State College Kay Riney Pat Wise 518 M.A.C. ave., E. Lansing, Mich.t VIII Eta Illinois Wesleyan University Janice Snider Edith Campbell 1101 N. East st., Bloomington, III.t Tau Indiana University Geraldine Schroeter Bettye Karger 1: K House, Bloomington, Jnd .t Psi I University of Wisconsin Mildred Cresswell June Cunningham >J4 Langdon, Madison, Wis.f IX Xi University of Kan&as Deloye Wagy Ida Frances Moyer 16>5 Edgehill, Lawrenc•, Kan.f Alpha Epsilon Iowa State College Peggy Reichardt Frances Lockwood >Jl Gray, Ames, lowa.L Alpha Eta University of Minnesota Katherine Girton Margaret Adams 521 nth ave. S.E., inneapolis, Minn.f Alpha Kappa University of N ebraska Lotis Storjohn Gwen Kelly 42f University ter ., Lincoln, Neb.t Beta Gamma University of Manitoba Lillian Floyd Lois Catterson Man., Q8 Kingsway, Winnipeg, Can.f X Lambda University of California at Jane McClements Marie Cummings >409 Warring, Berkeley, Calif.f Berkeley Alpha Omicron University of California at Lois Soengen Jean Sutton 7>6 HiJg,rd ave., W. Los Angeles Los Angeles Calif.f XI Mu University of Washington Frances McLaughlin Mary Alice Clarke 4510 »nd N.E., Seattle, Wash.ff Upsilon Oregon State College Clarabelle Jepesen 231 N. 26th st., Corvallis, Ore. Alpha Gamma Washington State College Betty Lou Raatz ~~be~u~~ra~thupe 6to Campus ave., Pullman, Wash.t Alpha Nu University of Montana Jean Gordon Patricia Mac Hale 201 University dr., Missoula, M ont. Alpha Phi University of Oregon Lorraine Maugham Alva Granquist 1761 Alder, Eugene, Ore.t • President's address. t Address of sorority house or rooms. PAST GRAND PRESIDENTS Florence E. Dunn, 4 Sheldon pl., Waterville, Me. Lorah S. Monroe, 614 E. Front st., Bloomington, Ill. Rhena Clark Marsh (Mrs. George A . ), 231 Boulevard, Mary Gay Blunt (Mrs. Harry) , Belle Fourche, S.D. Scarsdale, N .Y. Audrey Dykeman Van Valzah (Mrs. Robert W.), 297 Sara Mathews Goodman (Mrs. Joseph M.) , deceased Northwood rd., Riverside, Ill. Grace Coburn Smith (Mrs. George 0 .), deceased Ruby Carver Emerson (Mrs. Roswell D . H.), 72 Payer· Hila Helen Small, deceased weather st., Cambndge, Mass. Eula Grove Linger (Mrs. Merton D.), 97 University ave., Alice Hersey Wick (Mrs. Richard M.), Rt. 60, Allen· Buffalo, N.Y. town, Pa. Ethel Hayward Weston (Mrs. Benjamin T.), 98 Weston Anna McCune Harper (Mrs. Lawrence A.), 283 Park ave., Madison, Me. View Terrace, Oakland, Calif. 48 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE ,i : • . ' : I " "'· "'tl " d'~ "' "' @oAL"' " CaJuL " ~ ." " . dl!llpd UL ~L fJI.oJL tBllil!JJL * * * DOING DOUBLE DUTY Your official jeweler takes MILITARY BILL FOLD ••• Sad· pride in serving both the dle leather with 4 wings for armed forces of ·our country passes. Service insignia and also the fraternities and blind embossed on cover. sororities. . 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