Jfte Cover ~clure The Mission style bell tower of the main entrance of San Diego State college is typical of the Spanish-Moorish architecture on the 225 acre campus at San Diego, Calif. Founded in 1897, the college now has an enrollment of 3,124 men and 1,481 women. Degrees awarded are AB, BS, BE, and MA. The college has Divisions of Education, Fine Arts, Health and Physical Education, Languages and Literature, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Beta Psi chapter of Sigma Kappa was installed on this campus in February, '50. The chapter really began forty-seven years ago when the Triton Rowing club was formed in 1903. Later the college assumed the athletic activity responsibilities and in 1924 the Triton Rowing club became a Greek letter social sorority known as Tau Zeta Rho. In 1949 the college's local sororities received permission to petition national organizations for membership and Aug. 19, '49 Tau Zeta Rho became a pledge chapter of Sigma Kappa. Other NPC sororities at San Diego are Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Chi Omega and Alpha Chi Omega. National fraternities include Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Sigma Kappa, Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Pi Beta Tau; Sigma Phi Epsiion, Theta Chi. SIGMA KAPPA &iang/e October Jl95'0 Official Maga%ine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, x874 Editor-in-Chief, FRANCES WARREN BAKER Contents VOL. 44 NO.3 Sigmas Swarm to New England for Our Diamond Jubilee 3 FBI Advice: Investigate Groups . 20 NATIONAL COUNCIL Uphold the Fraternity System and Guard against Communist Wiles .... ... ....... ...... .. ..... · · . · · · · · · · · 21 H elen Ives Corbett-We Thank You! ........... ..... 24 National President-Katharine Tener Lowry (Mrs. Swift Lowry) 12 700 Our New Council Member . ... .. .. .. .. 25 Shak~r Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio We Must AI) Do Our Part . ... .... .......... ... .. 26 Fete Confirmed Conventionites ..... .. .. ... ...... 27 National First Vice President-Edna Our Magazine Agency Closes .. .. .. ... ......... 28 Brown Dreyfus (Mrs.· Monroe Drey­ fus) 122 Beverly Pl., H ammond, What a House Party It Was! 29 Ind. Convention Attendance .. ........... ....... ... .. 31 Mission Appreciates Our Help .......... .... ... .. .. 33 National Second. Vice President­ Alpha Omicron Celebrates 25th Birthday with Joy Breakfast 34 Ernestine Duncan Seaman (Mrs. Founders' D ay-1950 .... ....... .. .. .... .. .. William Seaman) 375 S.W. D ou'l­ 37 las, Cedar Hills, Beaverton, Ore. She'll Direct Public Relations .......... .. ........... .· 38 Two Sigma Kappa Home Service Experts Win McCall Awards . 39 National Counselor-Marion Race Cole (Mrs. Russell Cole) 15516 Ap­ Chapter Houses Are Spruced Up . 40 poline St., Detroit, Mich. The Gold Triangle Awards . 41 Announcement of Installation of Beta Omega and Gamma NationaJ Secretary-Treasurer-Mar­ Alpha Chapters . 42 garet Hazlett Taggart (Mrs. Edward With Our College Chapters . 48 D. Taggart) Room 1717. ''9 East Market St., Indianapolis, Ind. Initiates . 53 Salient News of Sigmas . 55 BOARD OF EDITORS An Orchid to Jessie Bright . 61 With Our Alumnre Chapters . 62 Editor-in-Chief-FRANCES WARREN BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Baker) Milestones . 73 433 Woodlawn Ave., Glencoe, Ill. Directory . 77 College Editor-MARTHA" J EWETT SIGMA KAPPA T RIANGLE is published in the months of March, June, ABBEY (Mrs. Wallace W. Abbey) October and December by the George Banta Publishing Company, official 'publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, at 450 A}lnatp street, 104 Portland Ave., Cedarburg, Wis. Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a year; smgle coptes 50¢; ltfe subscription $15. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business Alumme Editor-BEATRICE STRA!T nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wts., or LINES (Mrs. Harold B. Lines) 234 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse 3, N.Y. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Baker 433 \Voodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. Chapters, college and alumnre must ~end manuscnpt in time to reach their respective editors before the fifteenth <;>f October, J anuary, April, and August. CENTRAL OFFICE Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national advertising should be dtrected to Fraterntty M agazwes As­ Director-MARGARET HAZLETT TAG­ sociated, 1618 Orrington avenue, Evanston, Ill. GART (Mrs. E. D. Taggart) Room Entered as second-class matter at the post office .at Menasha.. Wis., 1217, 129 East Market St., Indian­ under the act of March 3, 1879; accepted for matlmg at spectal rate apolis, Ind. of postage provided for in the act of October 3. 191 7. Top, left: MARY lou GARDINER AND CAROLYN (Srs) PLOUGH 1·eceive the award for Best College Triangle Correspondent for their chapter, Beta Rho, San Jose. Top, right: ALICE HERSEY 'iX'ICK beams as she presents the handsome silver service which is the Wick Award for most co-operative chapter to Jeanine Weaver and Kathy Hill for Alpha Iota chapter, Miami University, Ohio. Bottom, right: ]OAN SAWYER PHILLIPS, <I>, and Ruth Jenison, cl>, Rhode Island alumn<e, charmed us all as they sang "In the Good Old Summer Time" and "Meet Me in St. Louis." Bottom, left: Mu CHAPTER, University of Washh1gton, one of the furthest-away groups, took the honors for having the largest delegation from a chapter not in the hostess province. And a few are missh1g here for there were thirteen collegiate Mu' sat Swampscott. Sigmas Swarm To New England For Our Diamond Jubilee By FRANCES WARREN BAKER, Psi, TRIANGLE Editor, with the help of JANET McDoWELL, Zeta, SYLVIA HAMILTON, Alpha Delta, BETH BECKETT BoUSFIELD, Alpha, CHARLEEN PALMER, Beta Eta and ALICE HERSEY WICK, Rho ACK to New England, where the so­ college chapters was announced: Gamma rority was founded seventy-six years Alpha chapter at Colorado College of Edu­ B ago at Colby college, came nearly 500 cation, Greeley, Colo. Another new chapter Sigma Kappas to meet seriously and mingle will be Beta Omega at Omaha university. sociably at New Ocean House, Swampscott, College chapters installed since the Sun Mass., June 25-30. This Diamond Anniver­ Valley convention in 1948 include those at sary convention was the second largest in Purdue university, University of Florida, our history, surpassed only by the Golden Ohio university, Idaho State college, Univer­ Jubilee at Colby in 1924. sity of California at Santa Barbara and San The close of our Diamond Jubilee celebra­ Diego State college. Charters have been tion was fittingly marked by the publication granted to twenty-four alumnre chapters and of a new, up to date Sigma Kappa History, seven alumnre clubs during the past two years. copies of which were the official convention New Ocean House, convention site, had a favors. This most interesting volume con­ definitely "Panhellenic tinge" in June, for tains a wealth of informatio11 about the the Kappa Alpha Thetas met there before us, earliest days at Colby as well as accounts of and the Beta Sigma Omicrons just after us. all college and alumnre chapters and national The Thetas ended their convention with affairs. It was prepared by Lillian M. Per­ luncheon Sunday, June 25-and we started kins, 0, after careful, thorough research. ours officially with the Panhellenic banquet The last History of Sigma Kappa was written Sunday evening. Sunday was a busy-BUSY by Emma E. Kinne, E, and distributed at the day for the hotel bell boys, with mountains Maine convention in 1924 to mark the fifti­ of baggage going from rooms to the portico eth milestone. to be fitted into the long line of waiting cars The trip of the Sunbeam Ill, diesel motor and taxis . with Thetas attached . and ship of mercy maintained by the Maine more mountains of luggage and more cars Sea Coast Mission, from Bar Harbor, Me., to and taxis waiting their turn to get into the Marblehead, Mass., harbor, near Swampscott, hotel driveway so that the Sigmas could get so that Sigmas could see it, was another high started with "convention-ing." point of the Diamond convention. We have Our National officers and Province Presi­ all heard so much and read so much about dents missed this frenzied peak day of lug­ this remarkable ship and its predecessors since gage shifting by coming early for a compre­ Sigma Kappa adopted the Mission as its hensive and complete tour of the Balfour fac­ official philanthropy in 1918, that it was a tory at Attleboro Friday afternoon followed real thrill to "tread its boards." by a delicious dinner given at the historic Seven Past Grand Presidents and many Lafayette Inn, by L. G. Balfour, ~X , fra­ other former members of Grand Council ternity leader and long time friend of Sigma were present at this historically important Kappa. Saturday the officers held a produc­ convention. Fourteen Province Presidents tive all day discussion session or "Workshop" answering "present" to roll call set a record to perfect organization mechanics, and to lay attendance for that useful group of officers, plans for future progress. who directly supervise our fifty-seven college Many Sigmas arrived during the morning chapters and nearly 120 alumnre chapters Sunday, and saw the surrounding country­ and clubs. side, visited the Sunbeam in nearby Marble­ The beginning of the Gamma group of head harbor, unpacked, and waited on the SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 3 porches to welcome later-arriving guests. brought forth surprised and pleased com­ But the main rush of arrivals was after lunch. ments. As Peg Taggart had foreseen when Registration was efficiently handled at she thought of the bags, they were wonder­ large tables in the lobby by Alice Hersey ful all through convention for carrying the Wick, Permanent Convention chairman; assorted items that women always seem to Margaret Hazlett Taggart, N ational Secre­ carry-and we had them right from the tary-Treasurer ; Katherine White, of Central Registration desk.