Skt Sigma Kappa Triangle Vol 3

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 CONTENTS 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 More Stars for Our Service Flag . 20 Co/lege Editor Trip on the Sunbeam Shows How Maine Seacoast Mission ROBERTA APPLEGATE Works . 22 5475 Woodward Ave. • Detroit, Mich. Sigma Kappa's New Life Members . 24 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 Directory . 46 Director of Central Office MRS. EDWARD D. TAGGART (Margaret Hazlett Taggart) SIGMA KAPPA TRIAN GLE is published in the months of March, June, Room 805, 129 East Market October, and December by the George Banta Publishing Company, Building, official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, at 450 Ahnaip street, Indianapolis, Ind. Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a year; single copies 50¢; life subscription $15. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wis., or 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Baker, 289 Woodland road, Highland Park, Ill. Chapters. college and alumnz must send manuscript in time to reach their respective editors COVER-Omega Chapter at before the first of November, February, May, and September. Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to Florida State College for national advertising should be directed to Fraternity Magazines As Women, Tallahassee, Fla. sociated, 1618 Orrington avenue. Evanston, Ill. Entered as second-class matter at the post offico at Menasha, Wis., under the act of March 3, 1879; accepted for mailing at special rate of fOstage provided for in the act of October 3~ 1917 ., .. Christens New Destroyer Black Mrs. Frances Frykholm Black, M, christened the new destroyer Black, which was named for her husband, the late Lieutenant Commander Hugh David Black, who was lost when the U.S.S. Jacob Jones, which he commanded, wttr torpedoed off Cape May February 28, 1942. The ceremony took place at U. S. Steel's f!ederal Shipyard, Kearney. Lieutenant Commander Black was a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in the Class of 1926 and had served in the Navy in the Far East as well as in Atlantic and Pacific waters. When the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor he was in command of the destroyer Jacob Jones, a vessel of World War vintage, and was operating off Cape May when his ship was blasted by a Nazi U-boat. Mrs. Black and her three children have returned to her home at 606 Summit ave. N ., Seaule, Wash. Sigma Kappa Tria n g.l e 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.

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