S i g m u N E Kapp :TRIANGLE I 9 3 6 Official Publication of Sigma Kappa

'Board C 0 N T E N T S

Come to Colorado for Convention-Here's How ...... 83 of Colorado Recipe for Convention Sounds Good-Come and Test It...... 86 We Want Your Men ...... -...... 88 e ditors These Outstanding College Members to be Delegates at Troutdale ...... 92 A Sigma on the Inside ...... Elizabeth Be~kett Bousfield 98 Editor-in-Chief Our Founder, Miss Coburn, Plans a Museum for Skow- hegan, Me ...... 99 FRANCES WARREN BAKER Should "Hell Week" Be Cut? ...... Catharine Hawley 100 (Mrs. James Stannard Baker) Order Your Brave Maroorz Now ...... 101 40 Sunset Avenue Edithe Herbst Runs One of the First Scientific Nursery Amherst, Mass. Schools in South ...... Irma Rayburn Vaudoit 102 Mexico, Land of Strong Contrasts, Is a Good Neighbor to College Editor Know ...... Ruth Dickey Lingle 103 California Conference Was a Good One ...... ERDENE GAGE ...... Ruth Norton Donnelly 105 177 Arnold Avenue Texas Centennial Celebrations ...... Edgewood, R.I...... Hettie Lee Bryant Winsett 106 109 Attend the Fourth Annual Northwest Regional Confer- ence ...... Henrietta Bmce 107 Alumne:e Editor A School Beside the Sea ...... harzcis Leslie Wigmore 108 RuTH NoRTON D oNNELLY A Sigma Kappa Contributes to Federal Arts Project ...... Rossie Moody 109 (Mrs. Bernard D onnelly) Genealogical Hints ...... Winifred Lovering Holman 111 2150 Third Street Send Names of Prospects to These Rushing Chairmen ... . 117 Napa, Calif. Editorials ...... 118 Hazel Jax Leads Houston Panhellenic ...... 119 Alumne:e Club Editor Cited for Interest ...... 120 Milestones ...... 124 EDNA MONCH PARKER With Sigmas Everywhere ...... 127 (Mrs. Robert ] . Parker) 131 960 Bay Street, Apt. 6 i~ft1:~:s :: ~ :: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ... . 132 San Francisco, California With Our Alumna= Clubs ...... 134 With Our Alumna= Chapters ...... 135 Ex~hange Editor With Our College Chapters ...... 141 Directory ...... 155 MARIAN SE CHEVERELL HEMINGWAY (Mrs. J. Rene Hemingway) 873 Cherry Winnetka, Ill. SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in ¥arch, June, October, an~ J?e­ cember at 4SO Ahnaip street Menasha, W1s., by George Banta Pubhshmg Philanthropy Editor Compa~y. official publisher; for Sigma Kappa Sorority.

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Vol 30 Edited by FRANCES WARREN BAKER No.2

Come to Colorado for Convention-Here's How! 1 THE CRY is "Westward HO!" this fertile fields of Iowa, across the Mississippi summer to the Forty-Ninth lnterna· and Missouri River to Omaha, then on tiona! Convention of the Sigma Kappa through the State of Nebraska. This is the Sorority, which will be held from August natural thoroughfare which was followed by 31 to September 3 at Troutdale-in-the-Pines, the Buffalo, the Indian, Fur-traders, explor­ Evergreen, Colo. ers, Mormons and the gold seekers of '49. Come to the land of the Rockies and join Entering Colorado at Julesburg, the line turns with us in making this convention the most south to Denver "Queen City of the Plains." 1 helpful, the most inspiring and constructive The schedule follows: · we have yet held! You will not want to miss Lv. Chicago ...... 11:59 p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 .C.&N.W. I the rich experiences and delightful lingering (Sleepers open for occupancy 9:30 p.m.) Ar. Omaha, Neb ... .4:00p.m., Sun., Aug. 30.C.&N.W. 1 memories which will come to you through Lv. Omaha, Neb .... 4:25p.m., Sun., Aug. 30 . .. .. U.P. your attendance at the Convention and a trip Ar. Denver, Colo .•. 7:00a.m., Mon., Aug. 31. .. .. U.P. to Colorado. All routes in the east will con· Upon arrival at Denver breakfast will ~e · verge at Chicago, Illinois, where the caravan taken at the Station dining room. Party w1ll will form and take the Overland Route to then leave in special automobiles via Bear · Denver. Creek Canyon and arrive Troutdale, our For your convenience, we are again show­ headquarters, shortly before 10:00 a.m. ing the Official routes and fares from princi- (Auto fare-$3.00 round trip) 1 pal points: Members from Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon­ For accommodation of officers, delegates sin, New York, New England and other 1 and members, it has been decided that the Eastern and Southern States will join the Chicago and North Western-Union Pacific party at Chicago. Those from Iowa, N_e­ . R.R. lines will serve to the best advantage, braska, Minnesota and North Dakota w1ll and we have accordingly made arrangements join at Omaha. I to utilize their service. From Chicago "The Members from Missouri, Kansas, and sur· Mountain Bluebird" a splendid train, will rounding territory, may travel together direct carry special "Air-Conditioned" sleeping cars as follows: for our Party, to Denver. Our train will carry Lv. St. Louis ...... 9:10 a.m.,Sun., Aug. 30 .. Wabash ~n observation-lounge car, dining cars and Lv. Kansas City .... 5:30p.m., Sun., Aug. 30 . .... U .P. Lv. Lawrence, Kan .. 6:21p.m., Sun., Aug. 30 . .... U.P. I every convenience to make us comfortable. Ar. Denver, Colo . .. 7:30 a.m.,Mon., Aug. 31. . .. . U.P. The Overland Route is the most historic 'Our trai n leaves from the Chicago & North Western 'and picturesque route. We pass through the Terminal, Chicago. I Pacific Coast members may leave on sched­ Round-Trip Railway Fares ules shown below. The entire western group Approximate lowest round trip first class from points shown will trave~ from Chey­ fares from prominent stations are shown be­ enne to Denver on the same tram. low. Except as indicated, these fares are Lv. Seattle, Wash ... 4:20p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 ..... U.P. good for 16 days from date of sale. Consult Lv. Eugene, Ore . . .. 4:25p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 ..... S.P. your local Ticket Agent for other fares bear­ Lv. Portland, Ore ... 9:35p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 .. . .. U.P. Lv. Spokane, Wash .. 9:45p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 ..... U.P. ing longer return limits. Be sure your ticket Lv. San Francisco .. 8:00p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 ... . . S.P. Lv. Berkeley, Calif.. 8:57p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 . .. .. S.P. is routed from Chicago via the Chicago & Lv. Los Angeles .... 8:00p.m., Sat., Aug. 29 ..... U.P. North Western Ry. to Council Bluffs, thence Ar. Denver, Colo ... 10:30 a.m., Mon., Aug. 31 .... U.P. Union Pacific R.R. to Denver. Tickets may Members will be met at Station by special be routed on the return via the same or via cars proceeding at once to Troutdale, ai:riy­ any authorized route. Members desiring to ing there before lunch. Our. host~sses. will visit Colorado Springs may do so without meet all trains-so look for g1rls w1th S1gma additional charge, by having Colorado Kappa pins. Springs made destination of ticket at time Convention-Monday, August 31, to of purchase. Thursday, September 3, Inclusive Ann Arbor, Mich. $45.35 Milwaukee, Wis. . 36.40 Boston, Mass ... .. 82.75 Minneapolis. Minn. 31.00 Buffalo, N .Y.... . 57.75 Nashville, Tenn. . 42 .00 Some may need to leave Thursday evening. Berkeley, Calif. .. 57 .50* New York, N.Y .. 75.10 The others, immediately after breakfast at Chicago, Ill...... 34 .20 Omaha, Neb. . ... 19.60 Cincinnati, Ohio .. 45.60 Portland, Me ... .. 89.30 Troutdale Friday, September 4, will again Cleveland, Ohio .. 49.55 Portland, Ore ... . 57 .50• Columbia, S.C. .. 61.95 Pittsburgh, Pa. . .. 55.30 board our special cars returning to Den­ Columbus. Ohio .. 48.30 Philadelphia, Pa. . 71.05 ver, the mile-high Capital of Colorado, world Detroit, Mich ... .. 46.50 Rochester, N.Y ... 60.70 Durham, N.C. .. . 64.35 San Francisco, famous convention and tourist center. Lo­ Hartford, Conn. . . 77.10 Calif...... 57 .50• Indianapolis, Ind .. 41.20 Seattle, Wash. . .. 62.50• cated close to the eastern foothills of the Jacksonville, Fla ... 62.35 Spokane, Wash . . . 53.30* Rockies, it is the gateway to the National Kansas City, Mo .. 19.60 Syracuse, N .Y .. . . 64.30 Knoxville, Tenn. . 50.20 Tallahassee, Fla ... 56.95 Parks. Here, the day is left open to do as we Lansing, Mich. . . 44.15 Tulsa, Okla ...... 26.50 Lincoln, Neb. . .. 16.85 St. Louis, Mo .... 30.10 please. One point of interest will be Iota's Los Angeles, Calif. 57.50* Tuscaloosa, Ala. . 45.05 attractive chapter lodge. Lynchburg, Va. . . 63 .20 Washington, D .C. 68.95 Memphis, Tenn ... 35.85 How to Come Home * Summer Tourist, October 31 limit. All types of round-trip summer tourist The above fares were in effect during the tickets to Colorado permit diverse routings; 1935 season. 1936 fares are not, as yet, avail­ that is to say one railroad may be used on able, but it is expected, they will be approxi­ the going trip to the destination, and an mately the same as in 1935. entirely different railroad used on the return trip. The Burlington Route might be used Hotel Rates from Denver to Chicago returning. The Bur­ lington will operate a streamline overnight $20.00 for four days-($5.00 a day). sleeper between Chicago and Denver and C01wention Registration Fee Denver and Chicago. This will be a distinct departure from the present type of rail trans­ $5 .00 portation. The train is now under construc­ tion, and will be operating at least by the Post Convention Tours middle of the summer. Members may desire to visit Colorado For those desiring to return home before Springs for a day, visiting Pikes Peak and Labor Day, we will arrange special sleeping Garden of the Gods. Other scenic attractions cars via the Burlington Route, leaving Den­ of the West may be visited from Denver at ver, 5:00 p.m., Friday, September 4, arriving additional costs. However, in this publication Chicago, at 7:15p.m. Saturday, September 5, it is impossible to give complete detailed in­ in time to connect with trains for the East formation. Any Chicago & North Western or and South. Those returning via Kansas City Union Pacific Representative will gladly fur­ and St. Louis may leave Denver 5:00 p.m. nish information and costs, in event you de­ arriving St. Louis at 5:45 p.m. following sire to extend your trip to Yellowstone, Zion, afternoon. Western members may leave at Bryce and Grand Canyon National Parks, 5:45 p.m. for return journey. California or the Pacific Northwest.

84 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE One of Colorado's Gems

Those who have written to Alice Hersey All delegates, both Eastern and Western, , Wick that they will attend convention will re­ should consult their nearest Chicago North , ceive full information from the Northwest­ Western or Union Pacific R.R. representatives ' ern or Union Pacific Railroads about the con- for quotations and assistance in planning their vention trip and suggested trip extensions trip. after convention. Dining Car Meals Reservations You will find attractive prices in Dining car service. "Meals that appeal" Club break­ In making reservations with our party from fast can be had for 50 cents ; table d'hote Chicago, please advise in your letter Pull­ luncheons 75 cents; and dinners $1.00 and ' man space desired, together with the names up. Also a la carte service. and addresses of all members who will oc­ A reduction has been made in Pullman . cupy the space. Address your requests to Mr. fares from the Midwest to Denver. Purchase H. G. Van Winkle, G.A.P.D ., Chicago & local Pullman from your Home City to points , North Western R.R. , 148 S. Clark, Chicago, shown below and round trip from there to Ill. Denver: Others who will not join the party from 1 Pullman Fares- Limit 16 D ays Chicago may address any Chicago & North From: Lower Upper Western or Union Pacific representatives, who Chicago, Illinois ...... •...... $13.05 $10.45 will be glad to arrange railroad and Pullman Kansas City, Mo...... 7.65 6.15 Omaha, Neb...... 7.65 6.15 reservations. St. Lou is, Mo ...... 12. 15 9.75

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JUNE, 1936 85 Colorado Recipe for Convention Sounds Good-Come and Test It

E WISH to remind all delegates Afternoon-Business session and sisters who are planning to at­ Evening-Picnic supper and singing con­ W tend the 1936 Colorado convention test of Sigma Kappas that we should appreciate a notification of their plans as to when they are· Friday (September 5) arriving, by what mode of transportation, etc. Morning-Breakfast Such information may be sent to Charline Convention disbands Birkins, 2351 S. Clayton, Denver, Colo. She will also supply any information you might And dt all odd moments need. If you are arriving by train, Lenore Fun-Sin gin g-Sociability­ (Mrs. Dallas) Cook, 1608 Cherry, Denver, New Friends-Old Friends! should also be notified so that she can ar­ range your schedule. You will find a notifica­ Procedure tion blank to fill out in this issue of the TRIANGLE. USE IT! More round-tables, less of sessions and There will be a compulsory registration fee formal discussion. More time afternoons for of five dollars for those who arrive at Trout­ recreation. But since our time is very short dale without assistance from the Denver chap­ (four days together) let us get down to the ter; others will be charged an additional sum swing of events at once, come rested and of three dollars. Alumna: members are ex­ ready to help us have a splendid time (do pected to have their national dues fully paid not have to do two days' sleeping to get for this year in order to obtain registration, ready!) and this Convention will be a ban­ as all members must be in good standing. ner gathering with wonderful memories. Let's As noted in the schedule, registration will make new friends and renew the old acquaint­ be Monday morning at Troutdale, under the ances, in the friendly spirit of Sigma. supervision of Marguerite Dee, 380 S. Vine, Denver. Exhibits Co nvention Schedtde Each alumna: and college chapter is asked to bring a poster illustrating its Public Rela­ Monday (August 31) tions Project, or a chapter-book of events, Morning-Registration with snap-shots, clippings, or collection of Afternoon- Opening meeting; Business chapter photographs, pictures of house, house session mother, parties, etc. as many as you like. Each Evening- Birthday dinner; Philanthropy delegation will be responsible for its own program exhibit going and returning. Each delegate will be asked to bring a de­ Tuesday (September 1} scription of rushing parties and accessories Morning- Business meeting and round­ used, devices for entertaining rushees and table discussion pledges. Afternoon-Initiation Each delegate will be asked to bring plans ' Evening- Pearl banquet for chapter programs-"true and tried" or W ednesday (September 2) new ideas, either formal programs or those Morning- Business session and Round- taking the form of "Fireside Parties." table discussions Afternoon-Model meeting · Bring your rackets! Twilight-Founders' memorial service All who are tennis-minded are asked to Evening-Dance and bridge party bring their rackets-as plans are afoot for a tennis tournament under the direction o Thursday (September 3) Anna McCune Harper, who was Number One Morning- Round-tables tennis player of the United States in 1931.

86 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Group Picture of Iota of Sigma Kappa Hostesses for the 49th annual International Convention First row (front): F~orence May Cosner, Edith Kirkman, Betty Schaetzel, Gertrude Berthold, Lois M1/ler, Ed1th Stocker, Lors Bradfield. Seco_nd Row: Antha Ericke, Muriel Shadford (Panhellenic representative) · Helen y ales treasurer· Genev1eve W ~yrauch, secretary; Marguerite Duke, vic_e-president; Lois Gill, pre;ident; Mrs. I. B. Grounds: hou~e-mother, Mary Syler, Bat·bara Schaetz-el, Mar~an Carlyon, Mary f ane Adams (D. U. Panhellenic presrdent), Evelyn Kepler, Irma Stackhouse. Third Row: Zelda Stur"!-Triplett, Martha Sanders, Klyta Conrath, Dorothy Funk, Mm·ian Romersa, K~thryn An~r.ews, Betty Trmm, Margaret Kepler, Emmabelle Getzendaner, Bonnie Lovett, Do1·is Cum­ mrngs, Vrrgmra Montgomery, Helen Margaret Garner. Fourth _row (back): Evelyn Selky, D?rothy Ryla'!der, Ellen Peterson, Marjo.rie Birkins, Dorothy Dea­ totz, Hamel Orth, Ruth Scofield, fosephme McK1ttrrck, Beatrice Dobbins Carol/ Hutchins Alice Carlyon Margaret Walters, Gwendolyn Gwinn, Jessica Barnard. ' ' '

Gilt for the Lily culottes, anything to "rough" it in, which There comes a time in every woman's life won't snag. where she is simply stumped as to what to Though we have progressed a bit beyond wear. the wild Indian stage out here, practically To forestall any such moments of turmoil any costume goes in the way of sports. Of for the many of you who will wend your course we hardly advise wearing riding pants way to Troutdale-in-the-Pines this summer, in swimming, but outside of that slacks, we have endeavored to compile a list of togs shorts, or any old pick-up costume will see which we consider suitable for the events we you through a morning of tennis or golf, have planned. The exact state of weather is though for your own comfort the conven­ a bit unpredictable at such a between-season­ tional togs for horse-back riding and swim­ time, so it will be wisest for you to include ming will be best. both heavy and light outfits in your wardrobe. To discard the facetious mood-we wish Not fur coats and woolen underwear, you un­ to remind you that the initiation ceremony derstand, but at least a light tweed coat, for and Pearl Banquet will necessitate bringing our mountain breezes are apt to be a bit sharp something white along. The inclusion of a ' at that time of the year, especially if you make formal dress for the banquet and dance just any extra tours above timberline. about finishes the list, although you probably Since we have planned a picnic in the hills ought to be cautioned to bring with you either ~s one evening's entertainment be sure that a heavy silk dressing gown or flannel bath­ your slippers don't all run to French heels robe, because mid-night chats with new-found and cut-out toes. A good heavy pair of flat­ friends might prove a bit cool, otherwise. heeled "Gun-boats" will serve the purpose, Bring what you have on hand and enjoy ()r, if you have a pair of mountain boots and yourselves without wardrobe-worries. We're , room to pack them in, so much the better. going to be so busy enjoying ourselves that - Also include woolen skirts, knickers, slacks, we just won't have time to think about clothes.

JUNE, 1936 87 We Want Your Men

O, CLAUDIA, this is not an article We are not altogether selfish in inv1tmg dealing with advice to the love-lorn. you since we feel we have many interests to N Instead we address it to the husbands offer. The mere name of our selected site, and fathers of Sigma Kappas everywhere for Troutdale, is enough to set any man adream­ the paradoxical reason that we don't want ing of catching one "that long!" Then those them to remain everywhere, but instead to of you to whom the click of a "brassie" is concentrate themselves around an idyllic music in your ears will prick them up to learn spot called Troutdale-in-the-Pines, Colorado, of a perfect "rip-snorter" of a golf course August 31 through September 3. which will try the skill of even you "sixty­ We feel it would be a grand opportunity niriers. " To those of you who enjoy an in­ for us to become mutually better acquainted, vigorating swim may we mention the spar­ for we are cognizant and deeply grateful for kling outdoor pool at the lodge where, even the fact that many of our male relations are as late as convention date will be, you can as Sigma-loyal as any young initiate whose put the finishing touches on that summer's bosom bears our triangle. tan of yours. Of course Troutdale rests in a

Echo Lake-Colorado

88 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE · veritable maze of mountain trails on which Get acquainted ! ! ! ! ! Realizing that ~ you can take early morning hikes or canters perhaps some of you convention-bound Sig­ , before breakfast. I shan't say "to work up an mas (no pun intended) might feel a bit shy appetite" for the simple reason that in the at the prospect of so many unfamiliar faces cool mountain air an appetite is something at our conclave this summer, we Iota girls · you endeavor to appease rather than stimulate. got together and put on our cheeriest smiles If you seek a whole afternoon's entertain­ of welcome and "watched the birdie" so that . ment while your wife or daughter is closeted you might have a chance to scan this picture with convention business, there are scads of on page 87 of this issue of the TRIANGLE, automobile tours during which it is possible and sort of "get acquainted" with one group , to go above timber-line in a few hours time, of Sigmas besides your own, even before you , reaching peaks where islets of snow remain set foot in Colorado. from the previous winter. We've been planning so long it hardly I can only hint at a few of the many pleas­ seems possible that convention time is almost ' ~res which await you in cool Colorado dur­ with us! Our marvelous alumnre group, of mg convention time, and I know that that which we are so justly proud, has been busy 1 wily Rollie Bradford (the genial fellow who at work for ages, planning all sorts of pleas­ has so. kindly agreed to play host to you while ant entertainment for us together, so that we Sigmas are engrossed with our work) we feel free to guarantee to one and all the has many interesting plans for your stay. jolliest time possible this summer at Trout­ .so, pack up your shaving kit anq extra dale-in-the-Pines. ~ h1rt and tell your Sigma Kappa that she Come one, come all-for we can hardly , Isn't the only one who's entitled to get some wait to make true Sigma friends of you and fun out of this convention! you and you ! ! ! ! I JUNE, 1936 89 Convention Credential Cards Every Sigma Kappa at convention, whether ter. Please get these cards as early as possible, delegate or visitor, must have a credential from the Grand Secretary, Mrs. Alice Hersey card properly signed by officers of her chap- Wick, 2521 South 21st street, Phila~elphia .

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Confirmed Conventionites gigantic jumble of sky-splitting mountains, her lengthy list of varied attractions-all Confirmed conventionites (those who have bathed in the crystal clear, keen air of the attended three or more national conventions Rockies. Why try to describe it to you? Pack compose this intriguing "lawdge") are ex­ your bags and come to Convention and see pecting to turn out in full force at Troutdale. some of our delightful scenery. We are ex­ Plans are afoot for a special luncheon meeting tending, also a special invitation to the hus­ for all these rabid convention-trotters to let bands and families of the alumna:. them reminisce chattily about this time-that time-and the other time. Convention Committees Chairman: Charline Birkins Colorado 2351 South Clayton street, Denver, Colo. Superlative Colorado almost overworks the Hostess: Peg Bradford suffix "est" and the adverb "most." The Registration: Marguerite Dee world's highest incorporated town, most curi­ Dismssion Groups: Lorah Monroe ous valley, most productive molybdenum Entertainment: Carol Jones mine, highest suspension bridge, only canyon News and Publicity: Dorothy Funk that has two streams running in opposite di­ Transportation: Lenore Cook rections, etc. Finance: Josephine Harvey But the real picture of Colorado lies not Initiation: Carol Tydings in this incomplete list of specialities selected Entertainment for Husbands: Rollie Brad. because they are world unique, but in her ford ·

Main Lobby-Troutdr./e.in-the-Pines

90 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE T,·outdale-in-the-Phzes, Estes Park, Colo1·ado C01zvention Headquarters

IF YOU'RE COMING-SEND THIS AT ONCE

Please fill in and mail to Charline J. Birkins, 2351 South Clayton St., Denver, Colo., if you are coming to Convention. Name...... Chapter ...... Address: Street ...... City ...... State ...... Dele gate: ...... Visitor ...... Any preference for roommate: ...... ? If so,

Name ...... · · ·· ··· · · · · ····· · ·· Are you a member of the College or Al11mnte Chapter ...... ? Date you expect to arrive in Denver ...... Coming by train ...... or automobile ...... ?

JUNE, 1936 91 These Outstanding College Members I To Be Delegates at Troutdale

Delta Lambda Doris J. Fralic, '37, will represent Delta. Roxana Holmes, president-elect for the She is president-elect of Boston university coming year, will be a senior next fall, major­ Panhellenic, treasurer of the Latin club, a ing in economics. She is very active on the member of Student counselling board, and is campus, especially in Treble Clef, women's president of Delta chapter. choral society. This past year she has been a Junior manager for Treble Clef and next Epsilon year she will be social chairman for the same Elizabeth Jones, a junior in Home eco­ group. She has also been on the Music Coun­ nomics, was recently elected president of Ep­ cil this year. Recently Roxie was elected silon. "Betty" is a member of Women's corresponding secretary for Prytanean, the Chapel association and is interested in danc­ junior-senior women's honor society. Mortar ing and sports. Board, senior women's honor society, has just Dorothy Biddick, a sophomore in Liberal elected her into membership. Besides her cam­ Arts, is a member of the W.C.A. board and pus activities, Roxana enjoys several sports, has played W.A.A. basketball. She received especially horseback riding and tennis. She the activities cup, awarded by Epsilon to the has been busy at the house this year, too, with sophomore who was most active during her the position of rush chairman. freshman year. "Biddy" is interested in so­ ciology, likes to read, and is fond of all sports, Mu both as a participant and as a spectator. Marjorie Johnson, Mu's delegate, is our new "Prexy." Although diminutive, she has a Iota sunny disposition and smile, a real under­ Lois Gill, who is Iota's president-elect, is standing, and a charm that is unsurpassed. interested mainly in sports and drama. She She is a real Western girl-a "square-shooter" is a member of the Drama club and of Iso­ who has been a counsellor for three years at topes, honorary chemical fraternity for wom­ a Campfire girls' camp and this summer has en . She has served as secretary of the dormi­ had the honor of being chosen "Princess" for tory council which is the governing body of the final week. Her deepest interest is Mu the two dormitories, and is a member of the chapter, but she also has participated in Templin Hall club. Lois is majoring in Libra­ A.W.S. and Y.W.C.A. activities-and still rianship and plans to attend D. U. Library had time for a constant "certain someone." school next year. Lois is noted around the We all think she is "tops" and a true ·sigma house for her little pep talks and for being Kappa. "the life of the party." Barbara Schaetzel is a Sigma Kappa daugh­ Nu ter, has a sister, Betty, who is also an Iota, Grayce Cookson, '37, Waterbury, Conn., and has two Sigma Kappa aunts. Barbara, has proved herself well fitted for the duty and better. known. as "Bobbie," has been corre­ privilege which is her's as delegate to Con­ sponding secretary and intramural manager vention. She served during her sophomore in the chapter, and at present holds the office and junior years as treasurer of the chapter of vice-president. On the campus her interests and did an excellent job. This year she was are mainly in sports and she was recently ini­ chairman of the Formal, managing her task tiated into the Rilling Athletic club, national in her customary efficient manner. Grayce has honorary for women. "Bobbie" is active in been active in campus affairs, playing W.A.A. the Women's Athletic Association, and is volleyball, archery, and golf. She was on also a member of the German Club, Press Dean's List, and is a member of the Women's Club, served on the Mentor council. Forum and of the Mountain Club.

92 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Xi Rho G.ladys Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo., will be Xi's Claudia Sommers will represent Rho. She's offioal delegate to convention this summer. five feet four inches tall, with dark brown Gladys, who will be a senior next year, is hair and brown eyes that sparkle with fun. very popular on our campus as she has an Being from Maryland she has the "get up attractive personality and ·appearance, and i~ and go" of the North, and the charm of the full ?f "pep." She is a major in psychology, South:-a perfect ~ombination. If you want and ts a member of Phi Chi, honorary psy­ anythmg done qmckly and well, Claudia's chological fraternity. She is also a member the. one to do it. She has loads of good ideas of Jay Janes, girls' pep organization. She at­ whtch should help at Convention. tend.ed the St. Joseph Junior College before Next year Claudia will be a senior at Ran­ com.mg. to K.U. and :was active in many or­ dolph-Macon and will be vice-president of gamzatwns there, bestdes being editor of the the chapter. school paper. Gladys' main hobby is reading. She also writes some very clever poetry. Sigma Omicron Josephine Morgan will be chapter delegate. Omicron is rightfully proud in sending her president, Gertrude Elliot, as delegate. Tau Throughout her college career she has evi­ Delegates to convention from Tau chapter denced great interest in dramatics and has will be Mary Margaret Hudsman, president, · been recently elected a member of Pen Paint and Marietta Conklin, secretary. Mary Mar­ and Pretzels, honorary dramatic society. Sh~ garet is a junior in the school of business holds a prominent position on the campus as administration, a member of Phi Chi Theta president of All-Around Club, having been and serving her third term as president of previously Vice-President. Next year will see the house. Marietta is the daughter of the her as marshal of the class of '3 7 for a fourth head of the psychology department, a sopho­ term. She is also a member of our swimming more and a transfer from the University of team. Poetry and Marionettes are among Oregon. Gert's hobbies. After much whittling away, she recently put together some life-like pup­ Upsilon pets, which performed The Taming of the Kathryn Coppedge, president of Upsilon Shrew for a very appreciative Junior Day au­ chapter, was born in Boise, Idaho, and went dience. Get her to tell you about her pro­ to Junior College there before attending Ore­ tegees sometimes, for she really is great fun gon State. She is taking Home Economics and most entertaining. and plans to be a food demonstrator for a As a second delegate we are happy to send newspaper. Horseback riding is her favorite Gladys Gatchell, a very capable member of sport. During her first year she played in the our Advisory Board. Gladys had a successful college orchestra. "Kay" has blue eyes and four years at Tufts and was graduated in 1925 naturally wavy brown hair. She is about five as a Phi Bete. Returning on a teaching fel­ feet two inches tall. lowship for two years, she received her mas­ ter's degree in 1930. Sigma has taken up much of her valuable time which she has Phi given willingly, serving as Corresponding Sec­ Dorothy Fisher of Providence, Rhode Is­ retary of Boston Alumna:: Chapter, as regis­ land, is Phi's delegate to the convention in trar and treasurer of Region l's 1935 Con­ Colorado. She is tall, dark, blue-eyed and has vention, and as a delegate to Saranac Con­ a vivacious, winning smile. In the sorority vention. Gladys is acting as Business Manager she has held the offices of president of the of the Brave Maroon, an anthology of poems pledges, member of the executive committee, which each Sigma will be proud to own. Be­ alumna:: editor, corresponding secretary, re­ sides these activities she acts as her husband's cording secretary and vice-president. She is a secretary, so you can well imagine her spare born leader and is respected by all the girls. moments are few. However, she has time for On campus she has been a member of the such hobbies as tennis, roses, and Irish Setter rifle club, a member of the Home Economics puppies. Club, Glee Club and a junior counsellor.

JUNE, 1936 93 Elizabeth Drummond of Wellesley Hills, man Club. Anna is athletically inclined. Her Massachusetts, is to join the happy throng in favorite sports are swimming, riding, fishing, Colorado. She has been one of Phi's most ac­ and playing ping-pong. She has many intel tive members, both in the chapter and in cam­ lectual interests; and she has traveled exten­ pus activities. In the chapt~r she has held .the sively abroad and in the United States. Patty offices of registrar, recordmg secretary, ViCe­ Sams has been quite active in campus affairs president and is at the present time president. and various social activities on Florida State She is a most amiable hostess at all of our campus. Her hobbies consist of dancing, play­ social functions, and always has a smile and ing golf, knitting, reading, and swimming. kind word for everyone. On campus we find her in debating, the Home Economics Club, Alpha Beta the president of the junior counsellors, a cheer Marion Kamprath, chapter president, will leader and a senior representative to Women's be the chapter aelegate. It is hoped that five Student Council. or six girls will get a car and drive West too--but the car must be coralled first! Psi Psi chapter's convention delegate is Lois Alpha Gamma Roehl. ... Psi's new president and all-round Five feet five inches tall, slim, with light good pal. Dark brown-golden glinted hair brown hair, brown eyes, and the sweetest . . . large, merry hazel eyes that can scare a smile is Alpha Gamma's delegate, Dorothy­ pledge half out of her wits if she's done ~orne­ ann Schuffert. She is a native of Centralia, thing naughty-or make her feel simply Wash., and is to be a senior next year at scrumptious- that's our Lois. Five feet ~ve Washington State College. Dorothyann's ac­ -Lois is dignified and merry at turns. Quick­ tivities are many. She is president of Panhel­ ly sympathetic, Lois is always busy with every­ lenic, president of the Eurodelphian Club, one's problems and her own too. She's fond secretary of Mu Phi Epsilon, newly elected of golf, swimming, and archery. president of the sorority chapter, and a com­ She's smart, too. A Junior in Pre-Law­ mittee worker for A.W.S.C. council. T - ~ Lois takes top-notch honors in any subject. year she was a Spur and their delegate to .1e Takes it all as a matter of course, though. national convention. Her hobbies are swim­ Besides being president of Psi . . . Lois ming, boating, and golf. has worked on Orientation since her fresh­ man year. She is Group Chairman of Orien­ Alpha Delta tation for 1936. She was Chairman of Ticket Dorothy Foster, Fountain City, Tenn., and Sales for Panhellenic ball this year. She has Frances Haynes, Milan, Tenn., will represent worked on the Badger from her freshman Alpha Delta. year on. She was Contact Chairman for get­ ting college women jobs during the past year. Alpha Zeta She went to the Regional sorority convention Marion Bean and Elsie Harrington are the at Chicago in May 1935. delegates, and Roberta Edwards and Eliza· She was on Women's Affairs committee last beth Page are alternates. year and Marching chairman of Senior Swing­ out this year. Alpha Eta . She and our past president, Rose Wichert, An ardent girl scout worker is Alpha Eta's won the first and second round of the Wis­ president and convention delegate, Joyce consin Union Bridge tournament, playing for Paul. Last summer Joyce was a counselor at the house at the Memorial Union. Lois lives Camp Greenwood, the girl scout camp at in Wauwatosa, Wis. Buffalo, Minnesota. Joyce has long brown hair, which she wears in a braid around her Omega head. Presiding at chapter meetings during Anna Glen, president of Omega chapter, the past year, she has been a picture of dig· and Patty Sams, secretary and former treas­ nity and poise. But Joyce is not all seriousness. urer of chapter, have been chosen as our dele­ There is a constant twinkle in her eyes that gates to convention. Among the honors Anna tells of the fun-loving nature that is hers. has received are: freshman commission, Those who know her well will say that one of French honorary, and a member of the Ger- her weaknesses is ice cream cones; another-

94 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE hamburgers! Under Joyce's excellent leader­ She has a fine sense of humor and is able to ship, the chapter has come through a trying adapt herself to any situation which may arise. year with flying colors, although having no Marian is the type of girl whom you will al­ chapter house while waiting for a new one to ways be glad to count as one of your friends. be built. Alpha Eta is very proud of its presi­ Crystal Haynam, pledge captain of Alpha dent and convention delegate. Don't miss Iota, has the qualities of leadership which meeting her at convention this summer. make her admired and respected by all who A sincere personality, a smiling face, a know her. She knows exactly when to be seri­ spontaneous laugh-blend well and you will ous and when to be gay. She is firm in having have a glimpse of one of the prides of Alpha her orders obeyed without causing hard feel­ Eta, Betty Peterson. But from that description ings. Her enthusiasm in anything she under­ you could not know her sterling character, her takes is unlimited. Crystal has been an active interest in activities, her prominence on the member of Panhellenic Council and has campus, and her deep-felt devotion to served as a Big Sister. She is keenly inter­ "dawgs." "Peter" is the newly-elected presi­ ested in sports and has been invaluable as a dent of her class organization, "Tam o' Shan­ member of the Sigma Kappa basketball team. ter." She is very active in the Y.W.C.A., for She always has a cheerful word and a .quick she is on the sophomore council and an ef­ smile for anyone she meets. ficient manager of many teas and meetings. Her high scholarship as a freshman warranted Alpha Kappa her a coveted place in the membership rolls We are only sending one official delegate of Sigma Eta Sigma, the freshman honorary to convention, our new president Mary Caro­ sorority. In Sigma Kappa, "Peter" has been lyn Hollman, from Omaha. Mary Cary, as we a very capable rushing chairman for the past Alpha Kappa's affectionately call her, is a year. She is tall and slim, with blonde curly girl with energy and enthusiasm which never hair and dancing brown eyes. Be sure to meet seem to run out. She is a junior in Teachers her when you go to convention, for she's well College majoring in Commercial Arts. She is worth meeting. •P, prominent in Kappa Phi, a Methodist organi­ Alpha Theta zation on the campus, in which she has held the office of secretary and has just been elected Alpha Theta's delegate to Convention is president. She is also a leader .in the you~g the president of the chapter Helen Caldwell­ people's group at St. Pauls Methodtst that speaks of her abilities. When one first Church. Mary Cary originally came to us from looks at her one sees a petite brown-eyed, Oklahoma and still retains a bit of a delight­ curly-haired blond who looks like the picture ful drawl. As our rush chairman her en­ on an old fashioned lacey valentine. Her eye­ thusiasm and conscientious spirit have kept brow~ swoop (that's the word) above her our spring rushing alive and prospering. Her dancing eyes giving an elfish look to her face. pet hobby seems to be collecting dogs of the Daintiness is the key-note of her appearance. what-not variety. In a word, Helen is a sophisticated, old-fash­ ioned girl. Alpha Lambda Alpha Iota Lillian Preuss, '38, assured and capable Marian Lindsey and Crystal Haynam will president of her class ~nd swimming captain, be our official delegates to Convention. Mari­ is known to many Stgma Kappas through an, president of Alpha Iota, has been very her sister Katherine Preuss, '34. Lillian en­ active in campus affairs as a member of the tered college in 1934, was pledged by Sigma Freshman Y.W.C.A. Council, Orchestra, Kappa and immediately plunged into a num­ Women's Varsity Debate, Miami Chest Cap­ ber of activities. Dashing in both looks and tain, Big Sister, and Sophomore Councilor. actions, Lillian made fame for her swimming She was recently elected treasurer of Pan­ and for her spirited leadership of the class of hellenic Council, a member of the Student­ '38. Lillian not only swims, but plays basket­ Faculty Council, and Women's League. She ball, baseball, hockey, and other sports. Never has also been active in campus politics as a shaken, she is always frightened when she has leading member of the Liberal Party. But to play the violin in public-:-the violin _is her these activities do not take up all of her time. hobby. "Lil" is an economiCs and socwlogy She is fond of golf, tennis, and basketball. major.

JUNE, 1936 95 Gertrude Werner, '3 7, our popular and the twelve discussion groups which are a part charming new chapter president, won a schol­ of the freshman lecture system on campus. arship to Adelphi and has continued in ener­ "Kirky," her most common name. Famed far getic lines ever since, being one of those and wide for her skill in planning menus i people who always get on the dean's list. She everybody is glad to have her in charge of has held several offices and especially likes menus for rushing parties. likes to play ten­ basketball and track. Her deft fingers and nis and dance. Also rather fond of Bob. quick brain make her a promising chemist, louise langdon is our second delegate to while her friendly manner and attractiveness convention. But she's never called louise, al­ assure her social success. ways "Sally." Psychology major. President of Tower Guard, honorary for sophomore wom­ Alpha Nu en, last year. Member of Orchesis, national dancing honorary. Plays a fiddle, and plays Grace Nelson, Shelby, Mont., is our offi­ it well. Newly elected Panhellenic represen­ cial delegate to convention. Ada Decker, tative. Rushing chairman now. Plays tennis. Wind River, Wyo., may go as second dele­ Most interested in people. Spends a part of gate. Grace Nelson, '38, our newly-elected her summer every year with her sister and a president, is a member of Spur, a sophomore friend conducting a camp near their home for women's honorary association and treasurer neighborhood children who cannot afford to of the Associated Women Students. Swim­ go to a regular camp. Will be a counsellor l;lling and tennis are two of Grace's hobbies. and teach crafts at Waldenwoods Camp early She was a member of our swimming team in in the summer this year. Home: Hubbards­ intersorority swimming meet. She was on cos­ ton, Mich. Junior next year. tume committee for a university show last year, and this year managed a style show given Alpha Upsilon by the Spurs. For the past year she has served as rushing chairman. Saxon Benjamin, black-eyed and vivacious, is Alpha Upsilon's delegate to convention. Alpha Pi Prominent in campus affairs, her activities in­ Gwendolyn Williams is the official dele­ clude: Y.W.C.A., French Club, Dakota Play­ gate from Alpha Pi chapter. Jane Burkhardt, makers, Secretary of the sophomore class, Hazel Parks, and Frances Jane Burr are W .A.A. Secretary-Treasurer, Representative hoping to attend too. of North Dakota at National Physical Educa­ tion convention at St. louis, Women's Glee Alpha Sigma Club, and Madrigal Club. Sax is such a favo­ rite in our group that we hardly envy-well, Alpha Sigma sends to convention her presi­ not very much-her chance to go to Colorado dent, Doris Hill and vice-president, Mary to meet Sigmas from everywhere. We expect Elizabeth Grounds. "Dorie," a member of the her to tell us all about it when she returns May Court, is a grand peppy girl who will next fall to take over her duties as chapter lead Alpha Sigma through next year's activi­ president. ~ies and who will undoubtedly knit her way mto the hearts of all our Sigma Sisters. "Did­ Alpha Phi dy" Grounds has just returned from a thous­ Starla Parvin, Alpha Phi delegate to the and mile varsity debate trip through the Convention, is twenty-two years old in June, a Sout~ , reaching points as far south as Georgia. junior in the University of Oregon, and comes She 1s a sophomore, is active in various intra­ from Portland, Ore. She has been active dur­ mur~l sports, is gifted with musical ability ing her three years in school, and is well­ and IS one whom her chapter will be proud to known for her organizing ability. She is ener­ have represent them this summer. getic, poised, and fair-miQ.ded. She was a Thespian and Kwama, which are the fresh­ Alpha Tau man and sophomore groups consisting of stu­ President Betty Kirk is one of Alpha Tau's dents outstanding in activities, leadership, and delegates to Convention this summer. Home: othe; qualities such as initiative, loyalty, schol­ Vassar, Mich. Senior next year at Michigan ars~lp, etc. She served as secretary of the As­ State. Institution major in the home econom­ soCiated Women's Students during the past ics division. Panhellenic representative for rea~, 1935-36, and as vice-president of the Sigma Kappa this last year. leader of one of Jumor class. Starla has worked in the

96 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Y.W.C.A. as a member of the Upperclass Honorary Athletic Fraternity. She has been Commission, and as chairman of transfer stu­ representative of the Athletic Board for two dents. She has been chairman of several com­ years, and is now vice-president of it. She mittees, such as chairman of refreshments was our ch-apter president last semester, and for Freshman Class Picnic, chairman of food, is now president of the Panhellenic Council; Waffle Wiggle dance, etc., displaying always this year she was Junior Panhellenic delegate. a cooperative spirit not only as a leader, but Her hobbies are horse back-riding, baseball, as a fellow worker. Starla has had experience and stamp collecting. in meeting and working with people, and we feel she is qualified to cope with the respon­ sibilities of the Convention. Alpha Omega Our delegate is the president of the chao­ Alpha Chi ter, Margaret Irwin of Moulton, Ala. She Jane Burns, Utica, Ky., and Vera Steven­ maintains a high scholarship, is a member son, Somerset, Ky., will represent Alpha Chi. of Panhellenic and Women's Council. She is Jane, a senior, is a lovely girl with a mag­ an Education major and likes to play piano. netic personality. Each year she has held a position as a class officer as well as winning Beta Gamma other c-ampus honors. She is prominent in dra­ Gladys Tucker or "Glad" as she is affec­ matics, tumbling, basketball, and the Christian tionately known to her many friends is a organization. prospective senior at the University of Mani­ Vera Stevenson, a junior, is loved by all toba and has recently been elected president Alpha Chi chapter for her time and energy of Beta Gamma. She has had three busy and are spent in making Sigma Kappa go. She useful years at college and in her sorority does the little things that really count and is having taken an active part in the Glee Club thoroughly dependable. She is a brilliant stu­ and curling of our university and having dent, having made the highest grades in her served as pledge trainer and vice-president class last year. in the chapter. Her interests are varied and Alpha Psi many, and in them all she is conspicuous for her dependability and helpfulness. Our two official Delegates are: Eleanor Huntington and Billie Ritchie. Ellie has one of the most pleasing person­ Beta Beta alities on this campus. She is popular with the Beta Beta is sending as official delegates to sorority and with others on the campus. She convention Cornelia Rose Yoder and .Sarah has done work for the Y.W.C.A.; she has Elizabeth Matthews. Cornelia is a freshman in been interested in, and has done work for the the school of arts and sciences. She is inter­ Inter-racial Club; she organized successfully ested in all types of sports, was a regular on the Movie Club on this campus ; she had the championship team in the girls' intra­ charge of designing the costumes for May mural basketball tournament last winter and Day; and now she is our chapter president. entered the tennis tournaments this past Her hobbies are sewing and drawing; she is spring. She is a member of Hypati?n Literary really very clever in these lines. We do not Society Glee Club, Chapel Choir, K.S.K., know what we would do without her, because W.A.J..., Lutheran Students Association and she is a grand person to go to for advice in the Y.W.C.A. most any matter. Sarah Elizabeth Matthews is a junior in the There is not a single person on this campus school of education. She is vice-president of who does not know and love Billie Ritchie. the chapter and directs the training of the She has one of those personalities that is al­ pledges. She is also president of the Luther.an ways sunny and always ready to help anyone. Students Association, historian of the Qum­ She has been very active during her three tillian Club, a member of the Hypatian Liter­ years here, and besides her activities she has ary Society, W.A.A. and the Y.W.C.A. received good marks. She is a member of the Sarah's hobby is knitting. Both have won the Delta Phi Alpha Honorary German fraternity, right to be a delegate by their untiring efforts and a member of the Delta Phi Rho Alpha in behalf of the chapter.

JUNE, 1936 97 A Sigma on the Inside By ELIZABETH BECKETT BOUSFIELD, Alpha '30

Elizabeth Beckett Bousfield, Alpha 1930, and her husband, the Rev. Neal D. Bousfield, became asso­ ciated with the Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society on October 1, 1935. Mr. Bousfield travels on the "Sunbeam," and has as his special charge the light houses and coast guard stations. Thetr home is .at the Mission House itself in Bar Harbor. For the first time in our history a Sigma Kappa rs actually rn­ stalled at Mission Headquarters. Mrs. Bousfield has written f-or us an account of activities as she, to­ gether with the other staff workers, has seen and lived them. Her article, so comprehensive and so full of warm interest will make the heart of every Sigma thrill to think that this splendid work is our Philanthropy. Read the article a second time. We know that you will be moved to increase your pledge and your contributions. Read it a third time, and then send in that increase at once to the Central Office . . . . NELLIE BIRKENHEAD MANSFIELD

OLLS, contributions, a chance to spend a On one of our islands the most distant from the summer on the coast of Maine as a vaca­ mainland is a man who has been blind for many D tion school worker, or even a possible trip years. Recently the Mission has been able to in­ on the Sunbeam sometime to see a little work of terest a group of young people in learning the the Mission-that was what the Maine Sea Coast Braille System for the purpose of corresponding Missionary Society stood for to me and my associ­ with him. ates while in active membership in a college chap­ You all know of Miss Rand, our Sigma repre­ ter. sentative, who is the pastor of a little church, and Now closer contact with the Mission is con­ the center of community life on one of our islands. stantly revealing to me its great service for lonely She is also director of the vacation schools, and in fishermen, isolated families, struggling communi­ charge of the "Christmas Cheer." She has to help ties in remote localities, and the custodians of our her in her work, a car which she affectionately shores-the lighthouse keepers and coast guards­ calls "Mephibosheth" because as she says, "Like men. Thus I am writing to share this closer fel­ the Bible character 'he is crippled in both legs.' " lowship with you who ·must of necessity depend Then she adds, "For all that, it is a rattling good on others for information concerning our national Ford.'' philanthropy. She says in a recent letter, "He has done his My husband and I came on the field in late 'Sunbeam' duty in carrying tonsils and adenoids September. Since the Mission House is our home, to the hospital, and driven a blind and deaf old we found ourselves immediately in the center of lady through the glories of the autumn foliage­ activity. Long before the Rev. and Mrs. Guptill, all unseen by her-(her only comfort is smoking the Superintendent, and his wife, the Office Secre­ her clay pipe and a chew of 'bacco). Mephibo­ tary, returned from their vacation, the Mission's sheth enjoys association with young people for he reception room was piled high with boxes and takes five pupils daily to and from high school, bundles waiting to be listed, sorted, and assigned. who otherwise could not go." These boxes contained sweaters, socks, mittens, Before Thanksgiving, Miss Rand arrived at the babys' warm clothing and coverlets, many of which Mission House to start the gigantic task of select­ were hand knit. There were also many boxes of ing, assigning, and shipping, with the aid of an warm used clothing, all in good condition, to be assistant, the gifts for 2300 individuals. I wish sent to the right new owner of corresponding that every Sigma could have been in my place that measurement. The magazines and books also made month to see the boxes and boxes of gifts-cloth­ an imposing array. All of these things, and many ing, dolls, toys, books-which you and others so more were, long before Christmas, shipped by the generously provided. Sunbeam or parcel post to the many along our But more than that, I wish you could have had coast. Almost any day at the Mission House seems my opportunity to become acquainted with Miss like Christmas, with well-laden postman, the ex­ Rand. At work before eight, often as early as pressman, and the parcel post truck, which rarely seven-thirty, and busy until five-thirty or six at fails to stop twice a day to leave bundles, and to night. Indeed she was even back at work several take others back to the office for re-shipment. evenings, so anxious was she to have all gifts The wide scope of the Mission's service might reach their destinations in time for Christmas Day. be suggested by some of the following cases which Often my little daughter, Martha Jane, nearly two have come to my attention these last three months: years of age, went into the shipping room to "see Several times this fall has the Sunbeam been dolly," and I fear was often in the way before we called to get a patient to the hospital at once. One discovered that she had strayed from sight. But such stretcher case was brought across French­ her presence never appeared to bother Miss Rand. man's Bay in a sleet storm which covered the deck Often we caught glimpses of the joy in the with glare ice and froze the cabin doors closed. hearts of many a little child, because Sigma has Add to that high seas, and you may imagine what continued to keep faith with its Founders, by see· that trip was to the girl patient the age of many ing the pleasure Martha Jane found in just being of our college freshmen. Were it not for the Sun­ able to stand and look at the piles of toys and beam, the trip would have had to be made in a "bookies" and the favorite shelf of dolls. We small open boat. No wonder the coastal people realized that if she who was so well provided for, bless the Mission and those who make it possible! loved those Christmas things so much, how mucb

98 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE more they must mean to those lonely tots with so who is taking over some of the routine travel on few of the joys of life. the. Sunbeam to give Mr. Guptill time for other Equally dear to those she serves is Mrs. Muir duties. Mr. Bousfield also has as his special charge who teaches on an outer island and is pastor of her th~ lighthouses and coast guard families and cer­ community. With her kindly personality, her teach­ tam scattered churches along the coast of Maine. ing methods, her school, with its course in "'Sailor­ You are better acquainted with Mrs. Annie craft" directed by a retired man from the Navy, and Guptill, for it is to her that you send all your her rhythm band of bells, sticks, cymbals, tam­ correspondence, your boxes of clothing and bourines, etc. which Mrs. Muir herself has de­ "Christmas Cheer," and your. contribution;. The veloped, is famous throughout the state as a model Rev. Orville ]. Guptill, the Superintendent of the country school. Sigma may well be proud of its Mission, too, is well known to you all for he share in the support of this work. heads up the work, keeping the whole range of Space does not permit me to tell what I have activities tied together in a united whole and in already learned of the other workers: The Rev. directing and assisting each of us . Arthur Sargent, the pastor of a wide territory of And so it goes, whether the work is ice break­ isolated villages; Mrs. Nettie Goodhue, his sister, ing, nursing, teaching, preaching, ministering to who is pastor and teacher on a lonely island of living or dead, in the many aspects of the life six families; Mrs. Alice Peasley, head of the rug of the Mission. It thus enriches the lives of the industry and pastor of a scattered district. And many souls it serves, and is blessed in return. May there are two nurses, Miss Grace Wilbur and Miss you who stand behind us also be blessed for your Marie Smith, who care for the sick, teach classes share in this great cause. in first aid, hygiene, physical education, and do In the words of our Superintendent, Mr. Gup­ all in their power to raise the general physical, till, "In the spirit of our Master to each isolated moral, and social level of the people with whom ham let and the ultimate family, let us go for­ they come in contact. There is also my husband ward." ~~------~{!}~------~ Our Founder, Miss Coburn, Plans a Museum for Skowhegan, Me. This clipping from the Lewiston (Me.) few years in connection with her forthcoming Evening Journal tells of a fine piece of civic volume on the history of Skowhegan. The house itself, Miss Coburn hopes to furnish work which Miss Coburn is undertaking. wi th a carefully selected assortment of furniture and fittings that were actually used in Skowhegan a century or so ago, and to have on display ex­ 100 YEAR OLD HOUSE TO BE amples of domestic handicraft and other items of SKOWHEGAN MUSEUM interest of former days. Thus oldtime furnishings in proper setting Miss Louise H. Coburn Plans to Renovate might delight the visitor while the storehouse of historical material would delight the student. Miss Tilton Cottage-To House Valuable Coburn has not worked out the details of the ad­ Records and Typical Furnishings ministration of this proposed museum yet. of the Period In addition to the house itself, the adjoining land on the river bank has been purchased and deeded SKOWHEGAN, July 27-The Tilton house, a to the Somerset Woods Trustees to be kept in small brick dwelling of cottage type, located be­ perpetuity as an attractive setting for the museum. tween the foot of Neil Hill and the bank of the The Tilton house is located on the first lot sold Kennebec River in Skowhegan, will become a from the Neil Farm and was bought by Samuel museum for Skowhegan and a safe depository of Philbrick in 1810. He with his brother Joseph, con­ all kinds of documents and clippings and maps ducted a pottery here for many years. The lot was 1 pertaining to the history of the town of Skow­ sold to Aaron Spear, a blacksmith, in 1839 and hegan, if the plans of Miss Louise H . Coburn of the present brick house was probably erected at Skowhegan come to maturity. This house is but a that time. The next owner was James H. K. Lord, ' short distance from the home of Miss Coburn her­ also a blacksmith, who reared a family of ten self. It was built about 100 years ago. children in the house. The Rev. George H. Eld­ The house is now undergoing renovation. Miss ridge lived in the house for a time. It was sold in Coburn proposes to build an ell in the rear con­ 1864 to Abraham T. Tilton. Tilton and his wife forming in architecture to the house, but in re­ and his daughters, Sarah and Abbie, lived there ality a fire-proof vault of brick, steel and concrete many years. Afterward it was owned for a time construction, with suitable shelves and filing eq uip- by the Skowhegan Pulp Co. and then by the Maine ! ment for the great mass of historical data which Central Power Co.-Lewiston (Me.) Evening Miss Coburn has been collecting during the past Journal. 1 JUNE, 1936 99 Should "Hell Week" Be Cut? By CATHARINE HAWLEY, Mu

ONVENTION discussions always bring This schedule is maintained quite rigidly. Dur­ forth the new and the traditional; new ing our last Pledge Training week we were for­ C ideas on old subjects are presented, and old tunate in having the Dean of Women talk to thf facts are applied to new situations. Thus it is not pledges as one of the constructive afternoon dis­ 'surprising that an hour of the Region VIII conven­ cussions. One evening meal was devoted to a rush­ tion was devoted to discussion of a week called ing dinner at which chapter members played the coeducationally "Hell Week" but conservatively part of rushees. The week is started by the JuniOJ "Pledge Training Week!" At this time the sugges­ Class which usually gives some kind of a party £01 tion was made that this period of intensive training the pledges-but the pledges do not know what i: be cut down from one week to three days. The to take place. On Sunday evening the pledges an opinion seemed to be that the longer time was an individually called before the chapter and given unnecessary waste. Yet, it seems to me that pos­ verses to read. These verses are summations of botl sibly the aims, attitudes and ultimate achievements the girls good and bad points. She is to recite thi! of pledge training week would be lost if the time each time she addresses an active. These verses ar1 were to be so cut down. not harsh-but are to the point-and seem t1 First let us consider what pledge training week achieve the desired end in a kind way. Our hell is and how it is conducted. As a member of Mu week is not carried on out of the House in am Chapter, I shall select my illustrations therefrom, way. In ilie House a girl may not receive eith ~ not being familiar with the systems used at other telephone or personal calls from boys-on thl chapters. The superficial aim of "hell week" is to campus however she may do as she pleases. Thi test the girl, but the real aim is to so develop her last night of the week each girl is brought before : that she becomes an integral part of the whole--a court. One active is chosen to do the speaking fo true Sigma Kappa. Of course this process can not the chapter. She compliments the girls and suggest all be accomplished in one week-the months pre­ to them ways in which they may improve. Thes1 ceding pledge week will lay the foundation on suggestions are the majority opinion of the activ which the process may be crystallized during this chapter. The actives have an unwritten law of neve one week. Pledge life may be compared to a speaking of what is told the girl that night. He bridge. The months preceding hell week are the sister pledges do not know unless she chooses to tel piles, driven deeply into the sand and mud bot­ them-as only one girl is taken at a time. Court i toms, around which cement foundations of pledge followed by a spread in the front room. training week are poured. The cables, and steel Mu chapter has found that the activities o structures built on the cement foundations comprise pledge training week solidify the harmony an the rest of sorority life. At graduation the girl com­ unity in the House for which the three montli pletes her bridge--the _bridge_ of Sigma Kappa previous have laid the foundations. It is durin tdeals, tradttlons and fnendshtp-one which she this week that the real friendships are formed. Du1 may travel the rest of her life. Is it not important ing hell week they work together to produce skit. then that the cement foundations be firm? songs and various entertaining acts as well as pe1 Mu chapter tries to make pledge training week forming other assigned duties, thus becoming one of the most memorable and impressive weeks cooperative whole. !n a girl's . life. J?uring the time the pledges are As an individual each girl is aided. She has t mstructed m soCla! conduct, sorority history and be a good sport in order to be a part of her clas! t~ a ditions , the ~ims and ideals of a college educa- · She learns "to take it" in that she discovers that th ho~ , and what 1t really means to be a Sigma Kappa. wishes of a group must come first. Also she is calle Th1s may sound formidable, but there is also the upon to develop her own talents. She learns to liv humorous and entertaining element. Pledges are cheerfully and tactfully with others. She learn requ~sted to recite amusing verses, to interpret im­ loyalty-to a cause, her sorority ideals, and to posstble events, and present individual acts when group, her sisters. call~d upon to do so. A typical day of a Mu pledge The effect of pledge training week on the chap durmg "Hell week" would be: ter members is also beneficial. They learn wher 6: 15-rise they are weak and what are the problems co 6:15 to 6:30-exercises fronting them to keep the House united. They firi 6:30 to 7:00-dress 7:00 to 7:30-study out what girls are tending to clique together ~ 7:30 to 8:00-eat unite these groups rather than letting them d1 8:00 to 12:00-dasses (study_ during free periods) velop, often resenting each other. The weakness! 12:00 to 1:00-Lunch (obeymg requests for entertain­ ment) . of the individual pledges can be studied an 1 :oo to 4:00-classes (study_ during .free periods) remedied. The actives realize their importance i 4.00 to 5.00- Tal_ks and diScussiOns with officers of instilling Sigma Kappa ideals and traditions in tli the house_. adviSory board, house mother or inter­ girls. · ested outSide persons. 5:00 to 5:30-assignment of stunt for dinner Lastly, hell week unifies the freshman class i 5:30 to 6:00-presentation of stunt such a way that they will cooperate for their fo 6:00 to 6:45-ainner years in college. 6:45 to 7:30-pledges and chapter mingle the pledg- es entertain and all sing and dance. ' Thus, reviewing the facts presented, I belie 7:30 to 9:30-study that pledge training week should be continued f~ 9:30 to 10 :00-prepare for bed the full seven days instead of being cut to onJ 10 :15-in bed. three.

100 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGU Order Your "Brave Maroon" Now HE velvet pansy's brave maroon and sion of one phase of Sigma activity, in com­ the heart of the amethyst" is such a plete accord with one of Sigma's earliest T happy choice of words to describe the traditions. Sigma Kappa colors. Such was the thought Here are some facts about "Brave Ma­ of Ethelyn Miller Hartwich, Iota, when she roon" which you will want to know. All sec­ replied to Lillian Perkins' request for sug­ tions of the country and most chapters are gestions for a name for the Anthology of represented. There is poetry by some of the Poetry with the two words which we now college girls as well as by the alumn~, and recognize as its name-"Brave Maroon." by two of the Founders. A few weeks later, Sister Hartwich fol­ The foreword is by an outstanding Maine lowed up her suggestion with this poem, poet, our beloved Founder, Louise Helen which you will find in the Anthology. Coburn, and is a simple and lovely expression of the purpose of the volume, and what BRAVE MAROON Sister Coburn believes it may accomplish. Color of velvet, "Brave Maroon" is a limited edition. It is Color of wine, the one book to be published in 1936 which Leaves of the ivy It Stained in the vine. every Sigma Kappa will want to own. will be presented to the sorority at Convention. Brave maroon for the radiant heart­ Brave maroon for the hours apart; Until 10 days after this TRIANGLE is m Living and l.ot,ing through singing years,­ Finding the hope in forsaken tears. your hands the price will be as follows: Emblem of courage, $1.25 per volume, including postage. Essence of song; $5.75 per 5 volumes, including postage, Promise revisioned, when sent to one address. Pledge of the strong. After July 1, the price will be higher, or That is just a sample of the lovely poetry at the following rates: you will find in your copy of "Brave Ma­ $1.50 per volume, including postage. roon. " There will be over one hundred fifty $7.00 per 5 volumes, including postage, other poems and more than eighty other when sent to one address. authors, far too many to list here. Every poem In order to be sure of securing your copy has been carefully chosen, and you may be of "Brave Maroon" send your order, accom­ sure that the Anthology will be one that panied by check or money order, to Mrs. every Sigma will be proud to own and dis­ Gladys Gatchell AT ONCE, using the fol­ play. "Brave Maroon" is a splendid expres- lowing order blank.

MRS. GLADYS GATCHELL 41 Century street, W. Medford, Mass. (Date) ......

Enclosed is check (Make payable to Gladys Gatchell) for $ ...... , covering money order ...... copies of "Brave Maroon" to be shipped on or about August 15 , 1936, to the following: (Name) ...... · .. -- · · ·- (Street and Number) ...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · (Town or City, and State) ...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · PLEASE PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS PLAINLY Order sent in hy ...... (Name) ...... (Address) ...... (Chapter)

JUNE, 1936 101 Edithe Herbst Runs One of First Scientific Nursery Schools in South By IRMA RAYBURN VAUDOIT, Pi

NE OF our number, Edithe Kruse grounds. The outdoor playyards, as well as Herbst, Alpha Xi, '26, has thrown the indoors, provide separate playspace fo r 0 in her lot with the newest member children of three, four, and five years of age. in the educational world, that of nursery The spacious grounds lend themselves to the school. Following her two years of graduate various outdoor activities so desirable for work, at the University of Iowa, she, to­ young children, as gardening, care of plants, gether with her partner, Laura Remer, opened raising and care of pets and animals are in Houston, Tex, one of the first scientific especially emphasizeo. The directors are de· veloping the out-of-door facilities with a view towards planning a natural, country play lif~ for these young children. In order to establish correct eating habits, pediatricians frequently recommend that the children have one meal served at school. In accordance with this teaching, the .noon meal is offered at the Oaks School and many mothers avail themselves of this opportunity. Individual records of each child's growth and development are kept and these are periodically discussed with the parents. In this way an effort is made to foster parent education and to carry nursery school meth· ods into the home. Edithe Kruse Herbst, Alpha Xi, with Another feature of this private school is Jack, Helene, Grant the training of kindergarten and nursery school teachers. It is · affiliated with the Uni­ nursery schools in the South. Their school versity of Houston in that the university opened in 1932 with an enrollment of three grants these assistants credit for their train­ in the nursery school and fifteen in the ing. During this year eight girls have been kindergarten. In 1936 the enrollment had in training. increased to fifty. In March, 1935, due to Mrs. Herbst will be remembered as Edithe the rapid growth in enrollment, Mrs. Herbst Kruse Herbst, '26, who majored in Home and her partner purchased an acre and a half Economics and Nutrition. In 1923 she was of ground in the Riverside Addition. The married to Siegfried Herbst, a student in large early American house on the property the College of Medicine. It was following was moved to one side and has been re­ his death while a practicing physician in modelled into a comfortable home for Edithe Northwood, Iowa, that Edithe, together with and her three children, Jack, Grant, and her children, returned to the University o£ Helene. On the acreage was built a model Iowa for graduate work. She majored in nursery school-building containing three Child Psychology and Nursery School Edu large 18 x 28 ft. playrooms, kitchen, bath, cation and received her M.A. degree in June, office, and sleeping quarters, and a roof gar­ 1932. While completing her Masters she den. Each playroom is equipped with in­ taught as an assistant in the University Nurs­ dividual lockers and observation screens. The ery schools. object of the screens is to make it possible Edithe extends an invitation to Sigma sis for parents and visitors to observe the chil­ ters to visit her school while attending the dren without being seen. An exit from each Te~ as Centennial this year. The address i room leads directly to the separate play 3204 Rosedale, Houston.

102 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANG Mexico, Land of Strong Contrasts, Is a Good Neighbor to Know By RUTH DICKEY LINGLE, Tau

Ruth pic~ey Ling!e, a charter member of Tau chapter _and present president of the newly formed state organrzatron of Srfma ~appa alum'!te, tal~ed on Mexrco before the public relations tea and pro ram, January _11, Blocks audrtorrum, Indran~polrs. Part. of the ta_lk follows. She has become quite an autZority ~ n Mexrco and her arts, and has beau:iful w'!res rn the prrvate shop that she conducts in her home. She rs bu_yer fo~ L. S. Ayres and Co., Indranapolu, as U'ell as many private groups. She expects to return to Mexrco agam soon.

HE LATE Will Rogers wrote, ''Quaint Mexicana! The thing that strikes me is T that we go away over to Europe and prowl all around hunting for odd and differ­ ent things, and here they are at our very door­ step. I was all around in Spain, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Holland and all of them, and there is more quaintness and different things to see in Mexico than I saw in the whole of Europe." I hope I can help to convince you that Mexico is an excellent neighbor to know. What I say about Mexico cannot be taken to apply in toto, as Mexico is a land of con­ trasts; a land of cruelty and gentleness ; a land of luxury and squalor, it is sophisticated and naive. The population is sixteen million and Ruth Dickey Lingle thirty thousand of this number are Ameri- , cans, living in the capital. The native in­ on main highways unless they are familiar habitants are divided into three distinct with mountain, canyon, and dry river bed groups, the pure Indians, the Creoles, and the driving. A road, to the Mexicans, means any­ Mestizos or mixed bloods. thing passable with the aid of six burros and The pure Indians, who make up forty a ton of mewquite. percent of the native inhabitants, can neither In November, I went with a party of read nor write, yet they speak two languages, thirty-one on the first bus trip inland to the Aztec and the Spanish. The Aztecs Hermonsillor, the capital of Sonora. Hermon­ reigned from 1091 A.D. to 1521 A.D., the sillo is famous for its rose gardens, and time of the Spanish Conquest, and Mexico orange groves. We picked limes and saw City was founded in 1325 A.D. At the time bamboo growing in great quantities. Its of the Spanish Conquest, there were more Moorish architecture and beautiful Cathedral , than 150 dialects spoken fifty of which re­ are also famous. It is a town of 20,000 and main today. It is impossible to go into the is free of taxis and American billboards. It influence the Aztecs have had on the present is a typical Mexican town, as yet uninvaded ' day people. It is especially noted in their by the American tourist. arts and in the architecture of Mexico. We stopped at the Ramos hotel, a two There are a little more than one million story building with a grilled balcony at the creoles or whites of pure Spanish lineage who front. The lobby was filled with pigskin call themselves Mexicans. The remaining in­ chairs and table. We slept four in a room, habitants are mestizos or mixed bloods, the having individual iron beds. There were no result of Spanish and Indian intermarriage. carpets or window shades. Our party filled The leaders of Mexico today are from this the hotel and caused the traditional shortage , group. of blankets, perhaps a commercial advantage · All tourists are advised by officials to stay for the sale of zarapes. We breakfasted on

JUNE, 1936 103 an upper balcony, where according to tradi­ silver and silver dangles or buttons around tion, the men were served first. the brim. In many parts of Mexico sanitation is sadly The homes are of stone, tile adobe brick lacking but Diaz did much to improve it. The two story homes are built around lovely But as a land of contradictions, let me point patios. The servants live on the first floo1 to one hygiene lesson that we might follow. and the family on the second floor. We saw many people wearing handkerchiefs The majority of homes present a similarity over their noses and mouths and learned that of sombre front with a few grilled windows, they always do this when they have a nasal in which the young girls sit, receiving call! or throat infection. from their suitors. The patios are in the back, Some Americans do not care for the highly with rooms opening on to them. Some floors seasoned Mexican food or the muddy mix­ are of beautifully painted tile, while other~ ture of half coffee and half milk that is are of dirt pounded. served. One can always depend upon good The handcrafts of the Indians is thei1 soups, chickens, fresh eggs, and tropical chief delight. They like to create. Even small fruits, however. The Mexican diet consists children are taught some trade. Michoaca mostly of beans, corn bread and fats. Butter is famous for lacquered gourds and wooden is shipped in tins from Texas. The national bowls; Toluca for basketry; Guadalajara and dish is the tortilla. The maize soaked in lye vicinity for glassware and pottery; blanket is ground in a stone metate to a thick paste, and rugs from Oacaca and more finely woven patted to a thin sheet and baked on a hot ones from Aguascaliente; Tasco is famous fo1 stone. The tortilla wrapped around meat tinware ; Guadalupe for wood carvings. highly seasoned is an enchilada, slip it into a They have an interesting market filled with corn husk and you have a tamale. Corn husks their wares. It is a very important part o are also used for wrapping paper. their life, the display of their goods at th< The Mexican dress is quite varied and market. colorful. The white Mexican is beautifully In closing, I must say that I feel what l dressed in American clothes. Often one will have said lacks so much of detail that I mus1 see an Indian woman in native dress, and appear like the foreigner who comes to N.Y her child will have store clothes on. Any­ and writes a book on Americans. Havin! thing is in style and clothes are of little worry seen a part of Mexico unspoiled by tourists to them. I will fervently reiterate Stuart Chase's word! The only Aztec item which survives is the of warning, not to you but to Mexico. "Anc sandal although bare feet are in perfectly oh Mexico, be careful of tourists in Buicks good form. The serape, a bright colored blan­ they are the most ignorant and careless o ket, is a fusion of Aztec and Spanish influ­ all earth's wayward children. Unchecked the] ence. Some are split in the center and may will litter your country with newspapers anc be slipped over the head to be used as a coat lunch boxes, they will bawl for hot dogs, theJ by day and as a blanket by night. The rebosa, will ruin your roadsides, debase and destroj a shawl, is usually blue, orange or black and your popular '

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NEW LIFE LOYAL MEMBERS Life Loyal N umber Name Chapter Chapter Numb 350 Beul a M. Hamilton Omicron 37 351 Wanda S. Veatch Alpha Phi 82 352 Helen Ives Corbett Alpha Zeta 10 353 Thelma M. Cowey Omicron 157

104 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANG California Conference Was a Good One

By RUTH NORTON DONNELLY, Lambda

ST year at the California Regional con­ rushing problems were discussed with such ference it was decided that we would vigor and interest that rushing should be Lmeet at the homes of Lambda and much improved this fall in both college Alpha Omicron for our conferences, alter­ chapters! nating one year in. Berkeley and one in Los The business was taken care of in a way to Angeles. This year it was Alpha Omicron's make each representative feel that something opportunity to be hostess chapter, and very had been gained by her attendance, but the swell hostesses they were! The East Bay and entertainment was of the "super-ultra" variety San Francisco delegates went to Los Angeles so well advertised by the whole Los Angeles in a special car attached to one of the coast­ area, which includes Hollywood! For the Los wise trains, and we all had such an excellent Angeles sisters produced a real movie star time that we promptly wished that we could to talk to us at the buffet supper with which all go together to Denver in August. they entertained us Saturday night. Francis After a large and chatty night on the train, Lederer came to the chapter house and talked we managed to get our faces on and our of his plan for peace. He came up to all various pieces of luggage assembled to get specifications for a foreign movie star; he off the train at Glendale and fall into the kissed the hands of the fortunate sisters to arms of the committee, headed by Mary Mac­ whom he was presented ; he bowed in the Comber, which was waiting for us with motor approved style; and what's more he made cars to take us to Westwood. And from then an interesting and eloquent speech for peace on no one had time to do anything except and his plan for promoting peace! Alpha leap from one to another of the excellent en­ Omicron had invited members of the Uni­ tertainments that had been planned for us. versity faculty and their wives to the party; Three meetings were arranged for the two­ in an amazing fashion the Los Angeles Sigmas day conference, all of which were presided served supper to about two hundred alumnre, over by our Regional president, Anna Mc­ co_llege chapter members, and faculty and Cune Harper. We met on Saturday morning WIVeS. for a general resume of the things we wanted Saturday for lunch the Los Angeles alumnre to discuss. We separated in the afternoon into entertained visiting alumnre at the Belair round tables on rushing, philanthropy, alum­ Country Club, while the college chapters me problems, and general financial problems. lunched together at a tea room in Westwood Sunday morning we gathered again in a gen­ village. And then for Saturday night after eral meeting to hear the reports from the meetings, the speech by a movie star, and round tables and to vote on the suggestions lunches and dinners, the alumnre from away made by each group. · were entertained by Los Angeles alumnre with From these meetings came two concrete whom they had gone to college! Some of us suggestions that the California Conference had not seen some of the Sigmas we met at adopted for themselves and are going to pro­ this conference since college days, and the ' pose to the international organization. The amount of unfinished conversation that we first of these had to do with the raising of all tried to finish was enough to make even Life Loyal memberships while the member is a statistician weary. Some of us were late for ' in college. The second suggestion dealt with a breakfast Sunday morning because we were way to make it easier for the alumna to pay still talking to our hostesses ! her Life Loyal dues. Both of these will be This is the first year we have tried the plan discussed at convention. The committee on of meeting at the college chapters, and cer­ finance headed by Katherine Schwaner Kolasa tainly the visiting delegates felt that the idea spent a good deal of thought and time on was a success. Many alumnre who had not the problem and made what the conference come to previous conferences came to this agreed were workable and useful suggestions. one, and we felt that the idea of the Region_al , Matters of alumnre organization peculiar to conference had been completely expressed m the California situation and comparative the two days we spent together. Of course we

JUNE, 1936 105 left Los Angeles so weary that we all flanned Alpha Omicron's house mother who was re­ to go right to bed on the train, and o course sponsible for the food, and the excellent plan­ we sat up half the night chatting over the ning of the Saturday night buffet supper. pleasant time we had just had ! In short it Anna Harper presided at the meetings, and was a regular and proper conference of Sig­ Ruth Anne Greig, District Counsellor, and mas.! Patty Marshall Brenner, Grand Vice-president The conference was planned by a large were there to help us with suggestions and and energetic committee, the chairman of smiles. True Mattoon, former Grand Treas­ which was Mary MacComber, Lambda. Anne urer, helped the finance committee with its Stonebraker, Alpha Omicron, Helen Johnson proposals, and made us happy by her pres­ Dow, Alpha Omicron, Maxine Elliott, Alpha ence. Omicron, helped in the arrangements, as did It was a good conference! Texas Centennial Celebrations By HETTIE LEE BRYANT WINSETT, Sigma EXAS is giving a big birthday party on Houston, the largest city in Texas, is called its lOOth anniversary, and invites the the Magnolia City because of its forests of T rest of the states to come and help her Magnolia trees with their lovely white blos­ celebrate. Texas is preparing to entertain mil­ soms. There are many interesting things to see lions of guests. We want you to know some in Houston, including the Houston ship chan­ of our plans so you will be sure to come. nel, Rice Institute and historic San Jacinto. Come and see the varied resources and enter­ Ft. Worth, once a frontier fort, now a teem­ prises of our great state, and visit its nu­ ing metropolitan city, offers its frontier show merous religious and historic shrines; for especially enacted for your entertainment. Texas has the most romantic history of any See Ft. Worth made over into a complete state in the Union. reproduction of an old-time frontier town. With 265,896 square miles in area, we Galveston and the Gulf Coast must be vis­ have miles of dogwood in blossom, long lanes ited to be appreciated. Huge ships from all of pine, holly trees, with their pointed leaves parts of the world dock .daily. Galveston of­ making you think of the Christmas season, fers the visitor unexcelled salt water bathing groves of giant cypress trees, cotton-blanketed and deep sea fishing. plantations, snow-white at harvest time, acres This is just hittirig the high spots about and acres of rose farms that produce over Texas cities. Waco, Marlin, Amarillo and nu­ one-third of the world's rose plants, lavender merous other Texas cities offer attactions. hyacinths, waxen and perfumed, the Franklin Now for Dallas and the Texas Centen­ Mountains towering over El Paso, the world's nial Central Exposition. Dallas is popularly greatest oil fields , Juarez, with its curio shops, kr.wwn as the metropolis of the South and bull rings, missions, and colorful market rightfully so, for Dallas, with its impressive places, is just across the Border from El Paso smokeless skyline, its population of 325,691 and the Valley, where the Franciscan Fathers (greater Dallas), is the banking and whole­ water their gardens from irrigation canals sale center of the Southwest. near the oldest missions in the United States, The Texas Centennial opens June 6, closes namely those of Y sleta and Socorro. The Rio November 29. The Texas Centennial will be Grande River, where you hear legends of a twenty-five million dollar show and will Billy the Kid of the old cattle days, the In­ depict progress of Texas during the past 1~0 dian ceremonial legends and dances. years. The Centennial grounds will comprtse San Antonio, romantic, colorful, offers a approximately 200 acres of beautiful build­ host of interesting and historic attractions. ings, exhibits and interesting things to see. The old Spanish Governor's Palace, the mis­ Sigma Kappas everywhere, Texas invites Y?~· sions, including the Alamo, dear to the heart and we of Sigma chapter urge you to viSit of every Texan, Randolph Field, called the us and help us celebrate this big occasion. If West Point of the air, these and numerous you go to convention, come on by Dallas and other interesting spots bid for your attention. see us, the latchstring hangs outside.

106 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE 109 Attend the Fourth Annual Northwest Regional Conference

By HENRIETTA BRUCE, Alpha Phi

RACTICAL suggestions to improve ances supplemented the interesting morning our organization, a grand get-together, and afternoon discussion meetings which were P and a total attendance of 109 Sigma presided over by District Counselors, Kathryn Kappas were the high lights of the Fourth C. Rutherford and Theodora Budwin. Annual Northwest Regional Conference held Recommendations made to the Northwest at Corvallis, Ore. April 3-5. section of Region VIII touched on the estab­ Eta, Lambda, Mu, Upsilon, Alpha Gam­ lishment of a Panhellenic fee prior to a girl's ma, Alpha Nu, and Alpha Phi college or being rushed ; suggested how to improve alumn::e chapters were represented through meetings of future Regional Conferences ; and members attending. Officers present included offered a plan to keep college chapters in­ Bertha Whillock Stutz, Grand Treasurer, Cor­ formed of the whereabouts of alumn::e. The vallis, Ore.; •Anna McCune Harper, Presi­ latter suggestion recommended that each dent, Region VIII, Oakland, Calif. ; Kathryn alumna send to her chapter early every fall Catron Rutherford, Counselor, District I, term, a large self-addressed, stamped en­ Portland, Ore. ; and Theodora Budwin, Coun­ velope, so she might receive news of the selor, District II, Spokane, Wash. chapter and chapter letters and at the same Upsilon, the hostess chapter, opened the time afford her chapter with an active check conference Friday evening by entertaining on her address and activities. with a buffet supper, followed by an informal Some of the more important recommenda­ open-house dance. tions to the International Organization were: After the Saturday morning discussion ses­ that the present detailed type of sorority ex­ sion, a "Sigma Kappa Family" luncheon was amination be eliminated and a thorough dis­ held at the Memorial Union Tea Room on the cussion of vital facts in chapter meetings or campus. The luncheon, a no host affair, a more general, constructive-thought exami­ honored mothers and patronesses ; and Mrs. nation be substituted; and that a plan for in­ George W. Peavy, wife of the president of creasing Life Loyal memberships similar to Oregon State College, and Mrs. Kate W. the recommendation of the California meeting Jameson, Dean of Women, were special be adopted. The general idea of the plan to guests. Bertha Whillock Stutz conducted the increase Life Loyal memberships is to allow informal program which consisted of a few for monthly payments by a college member brief talks and introductions of groups and so that she may be Life Loyal by graduation individuals. Out-of-town mothers and patron­ time, and to allow alumn::e members to ac­ esses were entertained after the luncheon by cumulate the Life Loyal fee by installments those living in Corvallis with a tour of the paid to the alumn::e chapters. campus and a tea at the home of Mrs. Arthur An interesting addition to the conference K. Berman. was the Maine Sea Coast Mission Exhibit, The afternoon discussion session cul­ which was sent to Corvallis through the cour­ minated in a banquet Saturday night at the tesy of the San Francisco Alumn::e chapter. Hotel Benton. Betty Lynd Thompson, Eta, The display consisted of about twenty-five ar­ was toastmistress for the inspiring program ticles, such as rugs and pillows, the handwork "A Quest for Values." of the women of our national philanthropy. Saturday evening was spent in additional Plans have been made for the exhibit to be informal discussions and entertainment at the sent to the various Northwest chapters in­ chapter house. A last get-together at break­ terested in having it. The articles on display fast Sunday morning officially closed the con­ will be sold to buyers after the tour is over. ference. Next year's conference will be held in These delightful opportunities to renew old Eugene, Ore., with Alpha Phi chapter there friendships and make new Sigma acquaint· acting as hostess. jUNE, 1936 107 A School Beside the Sea By FRANCIS LESLIE WIGMORE, Lambda '34 UGGED sea coast with surging ocean Inland the redwood belt is of special in­ beating incessantly on huge crags­ terest to a botanist for the ferns and flowers Plnow and then a jagged break in the grow in luxurious profusion. The ocean fogs cliff leading down to crescents of smooth, keep the forests constantly moist and vegeta­ sandy beach, gentle hills sloping down to the tion flourishes everywhere. Huge rhododen­ shore line with small groves of giant red­ dron shrubs covering acres are found in cer­ woods towering over the other trees and beau­ tain sectiens, which in the spring turn into tiful rhododendrons-this is the setting of one large mass of gorgeous bloom. Then in Fort Bragg. It is one of the most westerly favorable places there are every description of points in the United States and on a clear day mushrooms. I keep getting new specimens of it seems as though I could see almost to China. edible mushrooms, varieties never sold in the ordinary market. Once some of these delicate­ ly flavored ones have been tried the commo:1 variety seems flat and tasteless. The city of Fort Bragg has a_ population of over 3,000, with many Finns and Italians. In high school we have about 40 per cent Finns, 30 per cent Italians, and 30 percent of "Duke's Mixture." The first day of school I was at a loss to pronounce most of the Finn­ ish names. Many of these names are very odd, somewhat similar to Japanese names. Not only the family name but the given name is unusual, and it is hard to tell whether it is John Doe or Doe John. - As you may have guessed the chief occupa­ tions of Fort Bragg are fishing and lumber­ ing. There is a large lumber mill in town and the woods adjacent are netted with old logging roads which lead into the forests and lose themselves in underbrush of huckle­ Francis Leslie Wigmore, Lambda, berries and ferns or terminate at some long daughter of f ,·ancis Mm·sha/1 Wig­ unused saw mill. A short distance down the more, former TRIANGLE Editor, and niece of Grand Secretary Patty coast is the Noyo river and its fleet of fishing Marshall Brenner. boats. For those who know and love Fisher­ man's Wharf in San Francisco this view will I was fortunate to obtain my first teaching bring fond memories. Here in the protection position in this little-known wonderland on afforded by the wide mouth of the Noyo river the California coast. I teach Biology and no are clustered fishing crafts of all sizes and better place could be found for studying Na­ descriptions. ture. Here one has at her disposal all the The entire country is a paradise for hunters teeming life of the ocean, and also the inter­ and fishermen. At any season there is always esting life found in the redwood area. At ebb some new game to be found. tide the beach is alive with marine specimens, For amusements other than hunting and and the many rocks furnish excellent homes fishing there are beach parties, picnics, an ex­ for numerous kinds of sea animals and plants. cellent theater, swimming, boating, and horse­ A salt water aquarium in the class room is back riding. There is a community club house one of the dreams of every live science teach­ to which all the teachers belong and most of er, but sea animals are extremely difficult to the townspeople. Here there is a fine swim­ keep alive and to care for inside. Here at ming pool, basketball court, and large recrea­ my very front door I have the largest equa­ tion room. The mountains back from the coast rium for sea animals in the world. offer hundreds of ideal picnic spots.

108 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE A Sigma Kappa Contributes to Federal Arts Project By ROSSIE MOODIE, Alpha Eta

(R?ssie Moodie ma~e a brillian_t record at the University of Minnesota, where she was a member of Pht Beta Kappa, Pht Kappa Pht, and Mortar Board-and we predict success for her in her fields of sculptonng and modelltng. She has studied these arts under Peterpaul Ott director of Evanston Academy of Fine Arts.) ' OORDINATION between artists and exhibited. This is available to any tax sup­ a national government is no new ported institution in the state, at present, for C thing in countries other than our own, the very nominal cost of the materials. It but here it is something of a novelty. In its seems to me a very fine set up. As the entire experimental stage, there are, of course, many organization is comparatively new there are faults, but improved and broadened by ex­ many who do not know about the Federal perience, it should prove worthwhile not only Art Project and how it operates, and have to the artists but to the general public whose taxes support the government. I am referring, of course, to the Federal Arts Project under the Works Progress Administration. This project includes theater, music, dancing, painting, and sculpture. For the last three months I have been one of the creative artists employed to assist in the Federal Art Studio for painting and sculpture in Chicago. The project is impor­ tant, first, because it is a means of subsistence for a large number of artists formerly on re­ lief rolls; but, more important than that, it is providing these artists an opportunity to do those things for which they are fitted and in doing creative things, life again assumes a purpose which during years of depression had almost been forgotten. On the other hand, what is far more important perhaps to most people, is that the state and nation Rossie Moodie Working on One of Her will be vastly richer for the works which Models in Her Studio Apartment these artists are creating. There are about three hundred artists in the therefore not taken advantage of it. Eventu­ studios where I work. We have three floors ally the hope is that some sort of a perma­ ' of a rather large office building on Lake nent thing may be worked out which would Michigan. One floor is devoted entirely to be completely self-supporting. mural painting, another to easel painting and Being associated with the project has been commercial work, and a third to sculpture a thrilling experience for me-my work has (including modelling, plaster casting, wood ranged from assisting in making models of carving, and stone cutting) and the making clay for large panels to be carved in wood of dioramas (which became so popular both for a library, to drafting, and work in the as a means of entertainment, and education, diorama department. We are doing a scale during the recent Chicago World's Fair). model of Burnham park (a permanent amuse­ All benches, tables, easels, armatures, picture ment park on the site of the 1933-34 World's frames, and· diorama shells are made by a Fair) showing present: and future buildings, crew of carpenters who also work in the lagoons, and landscaping. Some interesting studio. There are galleries on each floor in dioramas and animated maps are being done which the work being done in the studios is for the Tennessee Valley Authority (which

109 JUNE, 1936 Arlene Snure discussed in the last TRIAN­ GLE). Four animals, very well done in stone, designed and executed by our sculptors and stone cutters will add much to Chicago's fine Brookfield Zoo. A group of panels done in rather subtle and simple manner are being modelled for the Field Museum. Panels, sin­ gle figures, groups trophies for schools, foun­ tains, sundials are being comoleted every day. The scale ranges from tiny figures, trees and buildings three-quarters of an inch and less to figures and groups twenty and more feet high. It is not only the work at the Federal Arts Studio Where Federal Art Project Is Carried On Studio that makes each day an interesting one, but also association with o1;1e's fellow workers. Greek wood · carver in making the famous There are modernists and conservative artists, model of the ship Constitution are a con· there are young eager artists and those who tinual source of interest and amazement to are older and more experienced, and yet the me. feeling of harmony and good fellowship is Because the belief that beauty and its appre­ remarkable-so-called "artistic temperament" ciation are an essential part of life, is funda­ is conspicuous by its absence. Stories of the mental to my philosophy, I think that the ar­ apprenticeship of a wood carv<;r in Denmark, tists, through the channels that the Works of a sculptor in France and Italy, of a jeweller Progress Administration has provided, are in Germany, and the experiences of a boy contributing much that is vital to the state. learning plaster casting in a Chicago shop, the And so for me, WPA project 10,002 has account of work on the largest monument in taken on a significance beyond mere words Budapest, Hungary, the experiences of a and numbers.

City Park in D enver

110 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Genealogical Hints By WINIFRED LOVERING HOLMAN, S.B., Delta '22* E PROFESSIONAL genealogists societies-and also by the legal profession are often asked what steps are to -that information about one's family may W be followed in order to assemble be accepted for just three generations; about one's ancestral lines in this country. My as­ one's self, parents, and grandparents. Be­ sumption is that this little article is for the yond that, records have to be established by purpose of helping amateurs, those that re­ documentary evidence. Certain patriotic so­ ally prefer to do the research themselves and cieties narrow this still further, by demand­ also those that in these present depressed ing proof of the birth of the grandparent times do not feel that they can afford the through whom the line descends. Keep these services of the reputable genealogist. facts clearly in mind when accepting state­ The first step is to get together in some ments. If we do get back to the grand­ concrete form all the information one has parents it depends upon the age of the per· at hand and is able to obtain through corre­ son securing the data and also whether one's spondence and personal interviews with the parents married late in life in each instance, members of the family-preferably the older and whether the line comes through a and more interested persons. For the sake younger child in each case as to how far back of brevity and also to enable one not to this three generation limit extends. But at any miss any of the salient points, it is well to event we are ready to start. arrange the data on one of the many fine And now we naturally come to tradition. charts that have been printed for the purpose. There is an old adage that there is no smoke I personally have my own chart. In filling in without some fire, and personally, I always these charts it should be borne in mind, that try to keep this idea before me, if the asser­ places are often just as important as actual tions made are not too absurd. So it is an ex­ dates, that is; the place of each birth, death, cellent plan to jot down the various traditions and marriage given. Secure all names in full presented by members of the family and 1 when possible for often the middle name others, and then perhaps a year or so later, is of aid. However about the time of the to compare the results with the original tra­ Civil War it was customary to give the name dition. If there was sufficient space I could of the doctor who officiated at the birth of give many instances of this comparison. the baby to it for a middle name. On the A fourth point in these preliminaries in back of the chart may be written the names exhuming one's ancestors, is one I take up and dates of births of the children in each rather fearfully-! am bound to tread upon generation, for names of children are often someone's toes. And that is the ever present indicative of their ancestry. In addition, to delusion of grandeur. If my name is Brown, the chart that gives the various direct lines and there is an excellent and worthy family back to the immigrant ancestor, there is also of the name, I am of course, a member of a set of charts, such as I use in the compila­ that family. I shall not mention armorial tion of genealogies. A blank to be filled bearings in this connection and the absurd­ in by the individual, another for the parents, ities in regard to them that ignorant and and another for the grandparents; these likewise gullible persons "swallow whole." charts are more specific and call for some bio­ Perhaps it is well to approach one's ances­ graphical detail as well; and can often be try rather skeptically. Not with the idea of used to good advantage in attempting to ob­ the ''hung-upon-the-tree-for-sheepstealing,'' tain information from some relative. -that is such an old chestnut-but with the It is generally held by the various patriotic conception that most of the early settlers were pretty much the same; honest, courageous, * Sister Holman has been in the profession decent, and religious old souls, decidedly not nearly 15 years and besides having various arti­ cles published in well known periodicals to her of the elite and illustrious portion of society credit, she is also the compiler of such works as that some of us might try to bring out. Scat­ The Burton Genealogy, Briggs Family Notes, Rem­ tered among this farming and hogreving ick Genealogy, co-compiler of The Bullen Gene- , alogy, etc. See also "Principal Women in the stock are some shining lights, some of better United States."' (Mitre PreJS, London, 1936.) blood and education than the rest-a few

JUNE, 1936 111 Colonial Governors perhaps, possibly an considered. Our western cousins must count early parson or attorney,- all of whom we may on buying many postage stamps, hindered as point to with pride, but in the main we are they are, as both their ancestry and the rec­ descended from the respectable and simple 'Ords are here. How anyone living on the folk first described. I do wish to bring out plains can pretend to compile a genealogy that as a whole, the average of breeding and on an eastern or southern family, without culture in the South was no better than that working in the locality either in person or in the North. I cannot emphasize this point by proxy is beyond understanding. Corre­ too much. But this "delusion of grandeur" spondence would entail writing to distant is a subject in itself and can only be men­ members of the family, to the local old per­ tioned here. son who knows all about the family or the My fifth point is that if the amateur has locality (or thinks he does!) , to libraries, to a correct knowledge of the historical, eco­ town and county clerks, and the like. A hint nomic, and social background of the period in this respect, when first writing make the in which he is dealing, he will have an ex­ letter brief, always enclose a self-addressed cellent start in the search. This knowledge and stamped return envelope, and in case may not be necessarily the result of college of a public official, enclose also a small check courses, but it can be obtained by a perusal to show that one's intentions are honest, of contemporary accounts, either printed or above all be as polite as your Puritan con· manuscript, the reading of certain authors, science will permit you to be. These are and the study of certain histories, such as Tre­ "A.B.C.'s" of course, but then this is really velyan's fine works and others of that type. an "A.B.C." talk. There is a popular process right now of tear­ As to personal research in original rec­ ing down, de-bunking we call it, of all that ords. One must have some idea of the gene­ we have been brought up to think as honor­ alogical history of the locality itself-what able, but I notice that the authors of this town is the family in, what towns has that communistic literature do not bear the names town been in, and what counties has that of the old families-not rightfully at any town been in since its inception? A farm may rate. have been on the same spot for a hundred How Depends on Where years or more, but have been under the juris­ diction of several towns, several probate dis­ The next step in this search depends both tricts, and several counties. Become familiar upon the locality of the ancestry and the with Gazetteers and Postal Guides if you wish residence of the searcher. If the ancestry is the complete "low down." Three different in New England and the amateur also lives county seats had to be visited and two differ­ there the task is easier, for New England ent town offices, in order to get the story has often been described as the "genealogist's of one family that lived in one farmhouse paradise," due to our system of keeping pub­ in New York State for only a period of lic records and our fine historical and gene­ thirty years. And in the case of some of the alogical collections available to all. western states, one must also be familiar with In general then, the searcher has the bene­ the way in which each particular state was fit of these collections, the various local libra­ fashioned. ries, state collections-they are doing fine And now we come to the third section of work in this latter respect in the West-and these so-called steps-published sources. other repositories of records. The best collec­ tions are of course quite catholic and contain Use Sense With Genealogies all printed material on all sections. But there are others that more or less concentrate upon In the use of genealogies it is well to use a certain locality and if one's ancestry is in sense and judgment. I will take this matt~r that section one must plan to work in that up later. But I do wish to point out that 1f particular collection before exhausting the the family one is interested in hails from subject. It is a good idea to block out on New England, why waste time going through paper the plan of action for each lineage, a compilation pertaining to a Virginia fam­ this will save time and also prevent repe­ ily, or one whose immigrant ancestor came tition of research. over long after our particular family is known Then in the event that one cannot travel to have come to the promised land ? No there is correspondence upon the case to b~ matter how well done a genealogy appears to

112 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGL be, if published vital records apply to the of the various state historical societies. statements made, it is well to check all dates ~nd now it is fitting to consider the manu­ although we-in-the-know realize that ofte~ scr~pt sour.ces available at Libraries and His­ this latter source itself, contains errors. toncal Sooeties: After the genealogies have been consulted There are first the typed or handwritten and checked with the vital records we can coptes of deeds, probate, land grants, church consider and examine all histories and other published material dealing with the known locality. I. may state here that the expert, through h1s knowledge on the subject, has many short cuts that eliminate much of this ex~min~tion of published sources, but this article IS not addressed to him. The new in­ de~ in the libr.ary of the New England His­ tonc:Gene~log!Cal Society concerning locali­ ties IS admtrable and to my mind one of the finest steps taken recently by any library to help the amateur searcher. · T?en there .are fine historical and gene­ alogiCal magazmes dealing with the specific localtty,. our own magazine1 deals particu­ larly ~1th all New England, the Virginia Magazme and the William and Mary Quar­ terly with Virginia and The New York Gen.ealo g_ical and Biographical Record, pri­ Bachrach photo ~anly with New York, Jacobus's fine maga­ Winifred Lovering Holman zme, The American Genealogist, embraces all the country, hence is of interest to all and so records, cemetery inscriptions, Bible records, on. It is a great loss that some ;f these and so on. In using these one must give full ' periodicals have been discontinued for in­ credit to the ' individual who went to this stance t?e Bangor H!storical Maga~ine and l~bor and presented the results to the pub­ the Mame Genealo gtcal and Historical Re­ liC, but one must also realize that there is al­ corder must always be consulted in doing re­ ways the possibility of error in any copy, and s~arch in Maine, but both are no longer pub­ the more records are copied, the greater the lished, to cite just one example. cha~ce f?r error. There are also copies of There are the published census records family htstones and genealogies, and notes printed by the Government of the Census of made for the compilation of the like and for 1790 (those not destroyed when the British histories. burned Washington), and one of the quar­ Best of all are the actual records them­ terlies referred to above is now publishing selves that have been given or loaned to such I the 1800 Census of New York State. With institutions. They are always a real find and census records, must also be considered direc­ although unindexed, I think that often in tories. the case af a difficult research it is an excel­ If ?ne is interested in patriotic services, lent idea if there is no index and a page to even tf one is not a "joiner," most of us are page hunt is entailed, so much information may be picked up on the way. pro~d to find that our ancestors fought for 1 do not need to stress that in working , thet~ cou~try, we have the published rolls dealmg w1th the various wars. There are also in any collection of material on any subject the records published by the various states it is well to know how inclusive the con­ 1 such as our Massachusetts Bay Colony Rec­ solidated index is, provided there is such an index. And I wonder how many people real­ ords and Acts and Resolves. As a rule each ize how very expensive indexing is? ~ tate has published some official records of As to the actual original sources them­ thi.s sort, or it has been accomplished through pnvate contributions through the agencies selves: It is well in starting to become familiar with the various reports on the public rec­ 1 'The New Enf!,land Historical and Genealof!,ical Ref!.ISier, now in its ninetieth volume. ords, for instance we have several of these

jUNE, 1936 113 reports here in this commonwealth. The larger yards; it is also an excellent plan to Mat·yland Histot·ical Magazine is publishing try and find out the name and address of the such a re.port on the early wills and deeds present owner of the lot. In considering a in that state. Armed with our knowledge stone, copy the records of the stones in the with just what is on file, we have a good immediate vicinity, they may contain valu­ armour in which to assault the public record able clues. Chalk and the use of the finger offices, that, and the use of great politeness, tips help to read the more obscure inscrip­ for in many sections, the custodians are not tions. of American blood and are not interested, There are many other records that might nor do they really know in many cases, what be cited· here. Court Minutes, Rent Rolls, records they have in their care. Land Grants, Orphan's Court, Apprentice­ ship Records (these last more particularly There Are Records and Records applying to Southern research), etc., must all There are many different types of original be considered. There are Bible records, and records. There are the deeds and the probate here it is wise to obtain if possible a photo­ (this last known as Surrogate in some states) . static copy of the family record, as it shows Sometimes there is a fine consolidated index what is written by one single hand and that of deeds, grantors and grantees being in­ point is often important. In copying such dexed separately, but more often the old Bible records also copy the title page in order records are indexed· by the volume. So we to show when and where it was published. must find out just what system the index Then there are the pension and bounty land is based upon-provided there is an index. rights issued to veterans and heirs for mili­ New England was quite methodical (due to tary services; also the census records, all in the Dutch influence?) and we generally do Washington. Obtain the name of some accu­ have indexes, although they have not always rate record searcher there to make these ex­ been well kept and are sometimes, as at New aminations fo~ you. (Please note that there is London, lost and never replaced. a difference between the record searcher and Then there are the records of the various the genealogist.) Such .searchers will note faiths. Of these, I suppose tlie Friends, or the genealogical clues as the Government in Quakers, have the finest records, and they as sending you the records will not do. Not only also the Roman Catholic, the Episcopalian and descriptions of services are contained in these Unitarian faiths, are consolidating ther rec­ pension applications; but also the depositions ords which is of great help to the searcher. of friends and relations, and finest of all, 1 wish to emphasize that church records are s~metimes the actual pages from the Family not . public recor~s, but the cherished pos­ Bible were filed. Photostatic copies may bE sessiOn of the faith, and generally a fee is obtained from the Government of these rec­ expected in order to use them. The Catholic ords. There is also material to be had by writ­ records are beautifully kept and rhe person ing to the War and Navy Departments and who searches them for us is an educated man. other government offices in Washington, or It is about as expensive to search the Friend's by having the record searcher go there fo1 records oneself as to have their custodian you. There are also, if the ancestor was a make the search. college man, the matriculation records of th( various colleges, and the service academiesl Beware Cemetery EYidence! 1 am often askea to state how the original records available to the public compare in th~ There is danger for the novice in the various sections and this I will endeavor to search of cemetery records. Many times stones answer briefly: are erected years after the person has died and . L ~irst New England. We have here tin the statem~nts on the gravestone are untrue; ~Istoncal and genealogical societies and prac double datmg must always be considered in tlcally every section of these six states con reckoning dates of birth-and this last ap" tains one. Then one must consider the deed plies to all other old records as well.Z Be­ and probate: · sides the actual gravestones, records of inter­ In Rhode Island each town has its ow ment are of value, and are available in the land and probate records which often mean4 • Briefly double dating may be explained by the ary and the 21 March were written as 1749-50 fact that prior to 21 March 1752 the New Year September was the seventh month November th began on that date, hence dates between 1 Janu- ninth, etc. '

114 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGU that a number of places must be visited for guardianship; also note that twice the Cum­ records, as the families moved, or the towns berland Probate has perished by fire. broke off. This is a poor system and it is Returning to the Old Bay State, we also too bad that it has never bPen abandoned. have a county system, but even here are some The records are often poorly housed and catches. In doing early Essex County or south­ often good indexes are lacking. To my mind ern New Hampshire work, recall that not the county system providing a safe reposi­ only must the Essex Deeds be examined tory for the preservation of records and with but also the Old Ipswich and Old Norfolk a good consolidated index is a better plan. Records; that when we search the deeds at Connecticut has the land records in each Pittsfield, we have not covered all the deeds town and the probate records in districts­ available for Berkshire County ; that the early over 160 of these districts. A fine effort has Hampshire Deeds are filed at Springfield, been made for centralization and safety in while the early Hampshire Probate is at the deposit of the actual probate papers from Northampton, and so on. most of these districts at the Connecticut I have mentioned the vit~l records kept State Library, where they are splendidly by the towns and filed at the various town housed and indexed. But it means that three clerks' offices, and the various collections of places must now be considered for these rec­ vital records on file at the different state ords, the towns or cities for the deeds, the capitals, generally under the auspices of the districts for probate records, and Hartford Board of Health. And in passing, I will state for the actual original papers. At this said briefly that in Massachusetts, we have at our library is also the Barbour collection of vital State House the Bureau of Vital Statistics, records covering the entire state. commencing in 1842 and indexed. However the records of Boston are imperfect after Vermont Has Fine Records 1750, and there is a real gap in them as w~ll , so that is why the church records as copted Vermont took over the Connecticut system and on file at the City Clerk's office have as she was largely settled from that state. such great value. There are also a few rec­ There has been an effort made to consolidate ords of early Boston deaths at -the City Hall the probate resulting in a system of double that have not been published. shire towns. Vermont through the influence II. The so-called Middle Atlantic States, of one citizen has the finest vital record col­ such as New York, New Jersey, etc., possess lection we have, outside of Massachusetts, the but few town vital records and one must records being arranged alphabetically on rely on other sources. I think that the law cards, and cross indexed. Some church and for the registration of vital recor?s was not cemetery records are also included in this in effect in New York State unttl 1886;­ index. and in New York we have the Surrogate in­ New Hampshire has the county system, but stead of the Probate. New York was based her deeds and probate records prior to 1772 upon Dutch Law and until the subjuga~ion are filed at Concord with the splendid Sar­ by tlie English there are no rec~rded wt!l~ , gent index as a guide; her vital records and a will was signed before a magtstrate unttl town records-many of them- are at Con­ that time. This was followed by a preroga­ cord also, but the fine work of photostating tive court system and the records filed at and indexing all the town records for the Albany and New York until the end o~ _the entire state that had been started and was Revolution and the departure of the Bntt~h , such an inspiration to us all has ended-it a probate system was then inaugurated, whtch costs too much money to build cement roads. in 1827 became the present Surrog_at~ sys~em~ Maine also (part of Massachusetts until Of course during the Andros admtmstratwn 1820) has a county system; but no state law all estates worth over £50 were brought to affected her vital records until1892, although Boston for action. If I had space I could de­ some earlier records are contained in this col­ scribe many differenc~s in all_ these United lection at Augusta. In doing Maine research States. One thing of mterest, m one county the amateur may recall that the early York in the Keystone State, the deeds are_ i?dexed Deeds (there was but this one county there by the given name only. Thmk of tt . until 1760) are published to about 1737. ' but that the York Wills as published do not 3 See my article in the i ss ue of January 1936 ' contain the records of administration and of T he American GenealogiSt.

JUNE, 1936 115 III. The South. The surface has just been kept town vital records in early days. The scratched upon the available material, public Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake and private, to be had in southern res~arc?. City has done remarkable work in gathering No town vital records to be sure, but nch m family records, for it is one of the tenets of records that we do not have in the North. the Mormon faith to know about one's an­ But it means right hard work to do research cestors; and that church is very helpful also there, the distances are great, the records in imparting records to those who are not are often imperfectly stored and many of members. them are unindexed. It is expensive work as The question is often asked as to how any one who has done it realizes, but it is much credance may be placed in printed by no means as impossible as it has been books: made out to be. There was an excellent par­ This is something that is only learned by ish system of the Church of England there, constant use of such books-by experience. the Diocesan Library of the Episcopal There are however a few useful ideas that Church, now in Richmond, possessing the might be imparted to the beginner. records. And the Friends records throughout Who is the compiler or author; what other the South are in excellent hands. I supp?se works has he compiled or published; what that Richmond and Charleston may be con­ are his connections and his actual training sidered the headquarters for work in the and background ? Where does he live? Did South and one must camp in these spots in he do the actual research himself or did he order to do careful research, with frequent obtain the services of some record searcher incursions to the various county seats. We and work 'by correspondence? If the work have all heard reiterated again and again is a history or a biography does a careful that during the "War-between-the-States," bibliography appear? In a large genealogy the Yankees burned the court records, but of such a list of references would be of course all the many court records that have been de­ too extensive to publish. Is his work baseq stroyed by fire in Virginia, but three were upon research of the original records, and burned during the Civil War. And as late if so, does he give verbatim abstracts from as 1907 the records of James City were these records, presenting in each instanc( burned! his reference or authority? Is the book we! IV. Middle West and further West. The indexed according to modern standards an c space of years for research is not so great is it based upon the accepted genealogicru here, but the local historical commissions in form? Is the work therefore a careful coml each state are doing splendid work to pre­ pilation of proven facts ably presented bj serve such records as do exist. Of course a person cognizant with the real science ol Cincinnati as did some other large cities, genealogy, or is it mere "chicken feed " ? burned up her records. I do not think that And a warning, just because a statemen outside of New England, and some parts of is printed do not always accept it. Many er New York and New Jersey, influenced by rors have been published again and agair settlers from New England, any section ever by the copyists.

116 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANG Send Names of Prospects to These Rushing Chairmen

ALPHA-Mary Ewen, '38; dates for rushing not set. DELTA-College of Liberal Arts: Jean MacGregor, 814 Dwight street, Holyoke, Mass. School of Educa­ catwn: Dorothy F~ench, 37 South avenue, Melrose Highlands, Mass. EPSILON-Dorothy B1ddick; home aqdress: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.; college address, 500 University place, Syracuse, N.Y. Rushing dates-Sept. 23 to Oct. 5. ZETA-Mar~aret Graves; college address, 2020 G street, N.W., Washington, D .C.; home address, Kensmgton, Md. Oct. 4-Nov. 4. ETA-Out of town rush chairman: Elizabeth Ann Goudy; home address, Fairbury, Ill.; college address,

1101 N. East street, ~loomington, Ill. Town rush chairman: Mrs. Margaret Schultz, 404V2 E. Jefferson street, Bloommgton, Ill.-home and college. First week of School in fall. THETA- Mary Harmon ; college address, 1116 W. Nevada, Urbana, Ill. · home address 302 Cass street Joliet, Ill. Sept. 4-8. ' ' ' IoTA-Mary Jane Adams; college address, 2120 S. Josephine, Denver, Colo. ; home address, 911 S. Gaylord, Denver, Colo. lAMBDA-Helen Stadtmuller; college address, 2506 Piedmont avenue, Berkeley, Calif.; home address, 1201 Oxford street, Berkeley, Calif. Summer rushing lasts until Aug. 1; fall rushing, Aug. 14- Sept. 1. Mu-Wanda Taylor, 202 Fourteenth avenue N., Seattle, Wash.-home and college. Aug. 24-Sept. 25 . Nu-Dorothea Mathison, '37; home address, 24 Meadowbrook road, Maplewood, N.J.; college address, Le Chateau, Middlebury, Vt. Dates: first two weeks of November. Xr-Gladys Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. Sept. 7-13. OMICRON-Elizabeth Buchan; college address, Richardson House, Tufts College, Medford, Mass.; home address, Lincoln road, Andover, Mass. RHo-May Beall Koogle, 4606 Nottingham drive, Chevy Chase, Md., Sept. 22-29. SIGMA-Margaret D oran, 5233 Bryan, Dallas, Tex. Early September. UPSILON-Virginia Albright; college address, Sigma Kappa, Corvallis, Ore.; home address, 1846 S.E. 47th avenue, Portland, Ore. Aug. 23 to Sept. 20 . PHI-Eleanor Carlson, 186 Congress avenue, Providence, R.I. CHI-Grace Schaffner, 174 Twelfth avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Sept. 24-28. Psi-Gretchen Voelschau, 1440 N. 40th street, Milwaukee, Wis. OMEGA-Elma Guth: college address, Sigma Kappa House, Tallahassee, Fla.; home address, Route 1, Hagerstown, Md. ALPHA BETA- June Henry and Margery Root. ALPHA DELTA-Frances Walker, 825 Clinch avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. Frances Haynes, Milan, Tenn. ALPHA GAMMA-Jeslyn Morris; college address, 402 Oak street, Pullman, Wash.; home address, Kempis Apt. B, 6th and Washington, Spokane, Wash. ALPHA EPSILON-La Vohn Larsen; college address, 233 Gray avenue, Ames, Iowa ; home address, Klemme, Iowa. Sept. 26-0ct. 4. ALPHA ZETA-Elsie Harrington; home address, Schoharie, N.Y.; college address, 150 Triphammer road, Ithaca, N.Y. Sept. 29-0ct. 10. ALPHA THETA-Virginia Lewis, Val!ey Station, Ky. ALPHA IOTA-Dorothy Sanderson; college address, 51 Bishop Hall, Oxford, Ohio; home address, 808 East Main street, Delta Ohio. Sept. 25 to Oct. 3. ALPHA KAPPA-Barbara Marston; college address, 425 University terrace, Lincoln, Neb.; home address, Pine Ridge, S.D. Sept. 10-12. ALPHA LAMBDA-Ruth Leah Pross, 1528 E. 36th street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sept. 21-0ct. 20. ALPHA Nu-Helena Eck; college address, 539 University avenue, Missoula, Mont.; home address, Box 214, Livingston, Mont. September. ALPHA PI-Helena Ruth; home address, Claysville, Pa. ; college address, Monnett Hall, Delaware, Ohio. Sept. 17-0ct. 3. ALPHA TAu-Louise Langdon; college address, Women's building, East Lansing, Mich. ; home address, Hubbardston, Mich. ALPHA UPSILON-Lillian Carter, 2124 University avenue, Grand Forks, N.D.- both home and college. ALPHA PHI-Charlotte Olitt ; home address, 1331 S.W. 12th avenue, Portl and, Ore.; college address, Alder Court Apts., Eugene, Ore. ALPHA CHI-Norma Kerr · home address 924 Audubon parkway, Louisville, Ky. ; college address, Rucker hall, Georget~wn College, Ge~rgetown , Ky. Third week in Sept. ALPHA OMEGA-Dorothy Hays ; home address, 2105 Mill street, Celina, Ohio; college address, Sigma Kappa House, 830 Tenth street, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Sept. 16-21. BETA GAMMA-June Wheelens, 231 Union avenue, Winnipeg, Canada.

JUNE, 1936 117 EDITORIALS

How to Run a Convention-To Pieces 1. Don't bother to arrive for the first day. Conventions shouldn't take as much time as they do. 2. Don't attempt to reach meetings on time. Your beauty sleep is important and you'll only have to wait two months before THE TRIANGLE will be published and tell you what happened when you were absent. . 3_. If you don't feel moved to attend all of the sessions, stay away. Half of the sessiOns will take enough of your time. . 4. Don't inform yourself in advance on any of the business. It's boring enough to hsten to discussions when the items are new to you. . 5. Don't confine yourself to the point when you do talk. If you don't know anythmg about the subject, just tell them what a good chapter you come from. At least you'll have a chance to display your new dress. . 6. Remember that your chapter is superior to all the others. This always creates a kmdly feeling of respect towards you. 7. Shun discussions of policies or legislation out of m~etings. They might make you change your snap judgments. 8. Never exert yourself to mix with the other delegates. If they can't see that you a[( worth running after, they aren't worth your time bothering with them. 9. Drop in for meals when most convenient for you. If it irritates the hotel manage ment and distresses the convention chairman, it's too bad. Their job is to furnish meals, no to dictate hours. · 10. By all means complain about your room and your roommates. The convention chair man loves to shift all delegates and records and roommates feel flattered to have been no ticed at all. 11. Don't accept responsibilities. It's so much easier to find fault with those who do. . 12. If you have attended another convention, don't fail to look up the cl)airmen of th1 convention and tell them how much you enjoyed the other convention. 13. Don't give officers any opportunity to think that you find their work satisfacto~ Make them think they're lucky to be able to donate so much of their time an,d efforts gratu1 tously- even if criticism is all they receive from you. . 14. Don't participate in any stunts or contests. It's far simpler to be nonchalant and g1 ~he impression that you could have done something far better if you had been enougl mterested. This policy requires less effort than participation. . 15. Protest strenuously every change that is proposed. This way you can keep the soront in the old fashioned ways you understand. What to Pack for Convention "What shall I take to convention?" T.hat t~is q~es t!on will be aske?· many times in the comi"ng months is a logical assumptio Log1cal ltkew1se, IS the presumptiOn that most of these queries will relate to the number ~ hats and dresses, weight of coats, species of sports apparel advisable for a sorority conve ' tion in Estes Park, Colo., in late summer. Lest y ou~ packing ardor come to an end in a maze of perfumes and powders, compacts an camer a s ~ sCissors and slippers, we nominate for your essential equipment for the Colorad convention:

11 8 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGIJ One determination to do your share in furthering Sigma Kappa's progress in all lines. One alert interest in items of business submitted for this convention's consideration, and one comprehensive knowledge of your chapter's stand on all the matters. One complete understanding of business items submitted by your chapter. It is difficult to be nonchalant when your chapter is announced from the platform as the donor and you as defender of an item you never heard of. One usable knowledge of parliamentary law. It will help in saving time and trouble. One acquaintance with business discussed at previous conventions, that you will not be one to waste time by plodding over old battle grounds. One intimacy with the chapter roll, lest "Lambda feels" and "Psi believes" disturb you unduly. One familiarity with names and accomplishments of national officers. One inquisitive nature, to annex suggestions from other chapters successful in meeting certain of your problems. One retentive memory to hold correctly all discussions and decisions of convention for your chapter. If you cannot annex this, substitute an extra pencil and a larger notebook. One urge for friendships with girls from other chapters. One rested self, so that you may enter fully into the "extra-curricular" as well as regular convention activities without loss of time in catching up in sleep. One desire to derive all the fun possible from the convention and the boat party.

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119 JUNE, 1936 CITED FOR INTEREST MARIAN SE CHEVERELL HEMINGWAY, Editor -

HE fall issue of the TRIANGLE will see painted this dread of thought-of solitude, he a new "by-line" in this department. called it-in his allegory Holiday. He showed us our fear of ourselves, our need for something, any­ T The fascinating work of watching the thing that would keep the attention riveted on an progress of the other Greeks through their outside world so different from our own as to offer publications is relinquished with regrets. We us relief from worries and the humdrum existence shall miss many things in giving up this of a disappointing world. Today this relief comes mainly from the movies and sentimental novels. work-among them, the humor of Editor Hence the publishers stow away thousands of dol­ Wilkinson which brightens The Phi Gamma lars, and we waste thousands of hours with pul ­ Delta; the modesty of Phi Kappa Psi's Shield pies . ... (newsworthy, but not "press-agenty" are ar­ Between this group, which interests the student of sociology and psychology more than that of ticles about noted members) ; the super­ literature, and the mass of books appealing to the superlatives of The Magazine of Sigma Chi; reader who wishes stimulation .as well as relief lies excellent articles of general interest in Delta a great gulf, bridged apparently only by the mystery Gamma's Anchora, Chi Omega's Eleusis, story. In a recent issue of the Atlantic appeared an essay "Lost: the Gentle Reader," an article which AOPi's To Dragma; Kappa Alpha Theta's explained this hiatus most delightfully. My analysis "Thetas You'd Enjoy"; the splendid editing of the situation\ would be "Lost: Food for the of Kappa Kappa Gamma's Key; the Panhel­ Gentle Reader." I lenic pages in The Aglaia of Phi Mu, The Record of SAE, and The Angelos of Kappa What, then, is happening to the literature of Delta. May our successor find to her liking more serious import? Has it succumbed to the intel. this game of clip and paste! lectual disturbance? Or has it grown and thrived under pressure? Even a-casual examination, such as Strong Chapters that offered by the following discussion, will throw some light on these vital questions. Generally there are three types of strong chap­ First, we may note that changes are taking place ters. There is the one that has developed its per­ all along the line; they are not sporadic. A thinking sonnel to the point where leaders of various en­ populace has become a writing populace. For every deavors exist and naturally attract strong youngsters one in our earlier literary history who wrote, thou. to it; again, there is the one which has a chapter sands today are trying to broadcast their ideas. Most adviser who sees that strength is maintained; and, of these effusions are unfinished attempts of the un· finally, there is the group who has a powerful, trained amateur; the rest are the gold which repay! loyal group of alumni, many of whom watch care­ the editor for his arduous work. Examples of both fully and are ready to step in at any crisis. types load the desk of every teacher who tries to -Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta help students to write. "Pulpies" yersus "Thinkies" Here we have, then, our two masses of moderr Such is the title of a splendid article by literature-sensational, sentimental, or thrilling fie an alumna of Delta Gamma, Margaret ti on on the one hand: Anthony Adverse and hu dreds of volumes of travel and biography on th Sprague Carhart, in the January Anchora. other. With so weighty a novel on the one side, n< We quote from it at random while we wish one can doubt which way the balance will swing that you all might read it in its entirety. Much of our output is cheap, but many of o public are desirous of nothing better. Much is i Books today seem to me to fall into two general formative, entertaining, and healing to spirits su · classes. If I may be pardoned for coining a slang fering from the restraint of slender pocket-books phrase, I'd call them the pulpies and the thinkies. well as to those more fortunate who travel in th Piles of magazines with blazing colors and emo­ body as well as in the mind. tional cover designs, renting libraries offering books One point which is perhaps worthy of mentio guaranteed not to disturb the peace of even the to the readers of The Anchora is the increased nu most vacuous reader, drug stores with shelves of ber of women whose books of travel and adventu~ dollar drivel-all these point to the demand of are now as popular as their poems and novels. It ~ the American people for a new and deadly drug, a an indication of the expansion that has come JJ thought anodyne. Many years ago J ohn Galsworthy women's interests and capacities. How scandalize

120 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLJ society in the Victorian era would have been over a Phi Mu Memorial Gateway woman's lone journey into Africa, over Mrs. King's narrow escapes in Mexico, and even over Mrs. In the last TRIANGLE we told of Alpha Lindbergh's dive into the Yangtze River. But today Delta Pi's memorial fountain to be erected women do things in travel and adventure that men on the campus at Georgia Wesleyan. Phi Mu, do and like the men, they write of their experi­ en~es. Whether our presence in large numbers too, will honor its Alpha chapter and found­ among the ranks of authors is to benefit American ers with the erection of a memorial gateway literature or not remains for you who are to be the "to indicate to the many strangers and tour­ readers and the writers of the future to determine. ists who travel the adjoining highway, just Will you throw the weight of your reading and writing on the side of the pulpies or the thinkies? what the group of handsome red Colonial brick buildings are." The Panhellenic Roll Call We give you this from The Cl·escent of Inter-fraternity Spirit Gamma Phi Beta which failed even to list The way to build up back of N.P.C. a spirit Sigma Kappa, an international sorority with which will strengthen all fraternities is to build up, each of us in our own chapters and alumnre clubs the same founding date as Gamma Phi, in an underst~nding of the fact that while it is untme its interesting Panhellenic issue some time to say that "it doesn't make an~ differe_n~e t.~ _a ago: definite, specific girl what fratermty she JOins, 1t is t.me that all fraternities are founded for the same Not long ago, a very enthusiastic member of our purpose- to help girls get the most and th~ best sorority was present at a gathering not in her own from their college experience and to make this ex­ home city. During the course of the evening, one perience mean that they will be better able than they of the guests spying the Gamma Phi crescent casu­ would have been without it to get the most and ally remarked, "What is your sorority?" A trifle the best from their life after college-; that no o ne amazed and quite convinced that "not to know my fraternity could poss ibly be the best or the n&ht badge argues yourself unknown," the wearer of the fraternity for every girl, since eac ~ need~ an In­ crescent gave the desired information. "Is it na­ dividual type of approach or emphas1s to bnng ~ ?s t tional?" was the next question. And yet the speaker effectively to her the things that are of the spmt; herself was a member of an old and prominent that no fraternity has only strong or only weak Greekletter society. All of which leads up to the chapters and that each of _any fraternity's chapters text Know thyself first, and after that study the varies from year to year, m strength; and that no s.ordrity handbook. If a sorority has no chapter in chapt~r of any fraternity can "live on its reputation" your college, the more reason that you should !e~rn or that of its national. its history; if you are ignorant _of those so~tehes There is a distinct va lue in the different ap­ lately admitted into the Panhellemc Congress It will proaches, methods, and needs of ~ifferent fraterni­ repay you to read of their remarkable growth and ties, just as there is in those of diJt:erent rebgJOus achievements. A college woman who is not well denominations but that none can be Its best self and versed in the current topics of the day is not true to that N .P.C. c;n not be the force which it should her heritage; the sorority woman who does not see be unless there is mutual respect for these differ­ beyond the boundary of her own province and who ences, appreciation for the individual achi evements is not alive to the existence, the growth, and the of each N.P.C. fraternity, and common emphas1s attainments of her fellow Greeks may be a loyal, upon the essential likenesses. . but not a progressive, member of her order. We As a fraternity each must be!Jeve-and act upon talk at length of the Panhellenic spirit. Does not that belief- th at N.P.C. and its children, College this very spirit of good fellowship demand a knowl­ Panhellenics. will never be truly strong. and th_e edge of each other and a vital interest in each position of fraternities truly beyond ques tiOn unt!l other? these inter-fraternity assooatwns accept theu obli­ gation to be not onl y groups to debate about rush­ Source of Healthy Conservatism ing rules and common problems but also groups to In a world of rapidly changing values and ideals, strengthen common ideals and standards. . such as ours is now and may continue for some­ -Amy Burnham Onken, pres1dent, time to be, it is quite essential that the conservat_ive Pi Beta Phi influences have definite focal points and rallywg grounds in order that we may not ill-advisedly be Cincinnati Panhellenic swept away from all standards and values. Frater­ nities and sororities are for college students such What Cincinnati Kappa Deltas t~ink of the focal points. Through their rituals, their community Panhellenic Association started by Stgma Ka~­ of interests, their composite and definite ideals, and pas in that city ana h~ving a~ i_ts first presi­ through their continuity in any given college, they serve as stabilizers and balance wheels. Th1 s con· dent, Frances Kirkpatnck, Cht, IS told by the servative influence is radiated throughout the stu­ Cincinnati correspondent to The A ngelos of dent body; and for my part, I believe they fully Kappa Delta: deserve a permanent and a responsible position i_n our college life, with a full consciousness of theu The biggest event of the year to Cincinn~ti responsibility. a!umnre was the organization of a c1ty _P a n~ e ll emc. -Professor Robert H. Coleman, Although the college c_hapters _of the umverstty have College of Charleston, in The long had a Panhellentc assoo atJO n for the regula­ Eleusis of Chi Omega tion of rushing on the campus, there has been no

121 JUNE, 1936 Greek-letter association for the many sorority alum­ The alumni came through with the desired nre, from colleges all over the country, who now financial support in the shape of increased paymeni live in Cincinnati. of annual Chapter National dues in fine style; the The new city Panhellenic is organized for three Chapters Collegiate, Alumni Associations and in­ excellent reasons. These are to promote social rela­ dividuals entitled to vote ratified the propositioti tionship among Greek-letter women of Cincinnati ; for the change in convention dates overwhelmingly. to engage in ~ocial an4 philanthropi~ projects; and -The Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon to stimulate mterest m the wellbemg of college sororities. Student Thought The business of the organization is conducted through an executive board, in order that all the I can't reflect on life or death open meetings of the Panhellenic women may be My future fate surmising, purely social occasions . This board is made up. of Oh no! I have no time for that representatives formed into committees, meetmg I must read Advertising. with the officers. Kappa Delta has been given a My time for thought is filled up with place on the social committee, our president, Irma My history outside reading, Kassens Henke, being the representative from this And English, Spanish, Rhetoric chapter. Everyone is keenly interested and feels that My teacher's word I'm heeding. it is sure to be a success. I wonder when I'm old and gray Well? Or maybe on the judgment day, If I will need my Rhetoric tools The Caduceus of Kappa Sigma errs in the state­ Or all these Spanish grammar rules? ment that that fraternity's new directory of 900 pages is the biggest publication of its kind to he -The Lamp of Delta Zeta issued to date. Our new book has 1,136 pages. -The Magazine of Sigma Chi Lipstick-tistics College Presidents Figures published in "The Daily Cardinal,' University of Wisconsin newspaper: On the aver The January Shield of Phi Kappa Psi re­ age, a co-ed uses enough lip rouge with each ap ports the appointment of three Phi Psis to the plication to cover 3 3 square inches; average an presidency of Ohio University, the Univer­ nual coverage: 9.68 square feet; 2,87 5 co-eds 27,800 square ~ feet yearly-"enough to paint foUl sity of Rochester, and the University of Mon­ good-sized barns." tana. Dr. Herman Gerlach James heads the -News-Week first, Dr. George Finlay Simmons the latter, and Rochester's executive is Alan Chester Val­ Tri Delta's Editor Resigns entine whose appointment is discussed in The The whole Greek-letter editorial person Garnet and White of Alpha Chi Rho as fol­ nel regrets the resignatio!1 of Amy Parmele< lows: as Trident editor. Hers is a personality whid When today a man is appointed to a college will be greatly missed at the Editor's Con faculty without a doctor's degree, it's unusual, ferences and N.P.C. This exchange edito when Ph.D.'s are to be found lurking everywhere; has yet to see a woman who can make a mor when a man is elected president of a great univer­ sity without a doctorate, that's news ! Alan Chester charming and witty toastmistress than Mrs Valentine of Phi Kappa Psi did. it when he became Parmelee. (Not even excepting the recent na the fourth president of the University of Rochester, tional convention of the League of Wome1 fifth wealthiest college in the country. However, Voters with its scintillating toastmistresses! there is no doubt that some nearby college will supply the deficiency by conferring on him the A Tri Delt sister, Dean of Women at Cornell LL.D. if it hasn't already been done. Miss Louisa Fitch, says this of her:

Illinois Wesleyan, the birthpl~ce of Tau "To say anything about Amy is, to me, almo. like talking about one of my own family. Ev5 Kappa Epsilon, now has a new president, since the day we met in Chicago in June 190; Dr. Harry G. McPherson, a member of TKE. and went to Boston as delegates from our respectiv chapters to the National Convention. we ha Con-vention Postponed for Leadership shared joys and sorrows, much work and plaJ School Two years later we were both members of t~ National Council, and since then we have held, : Decision to hold a second Leadership School various times, the same three National offices­ in Evanston in August of this year, provided alumni Panhellenic Officer, Editor of THE TRIDENT an would respond to an appeal for additional financial President. Now we are both Deans of Women, an support, and to postpone the next National Conven­ have even paralleled the similarity of our careers tion until August, 1937, subject to the approval the extent of each breaking her right arm dunn of the electorate of the Fraternity by direct vote, her first years of Deaning! when it can be held in connection with a third "Her calm poise, her delicious sense of humo Leadership School, was made by the Supreme Coun­ her keen mind and her loyalty as a friend ha cil at its meeting in January. made the past thirty-four years slip along mu

122 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGil more pleasantly than they could possibly have done proximately 289,666. Since the 1933 Congress had I not known her. I am glad she is giving up her Delta Delta Delta work. She has worked too held i?- Chicago, thirty-one new chapters have hard for too long a time. Now that she has once been mstalled, but on the other side of the more followed my lead and is doing nothing but picture-the darker one-forty-one charters Dean, I hope life will hand her a few moments of h.ave been withdrawn. Whether the depres­ plain leisure once in a while. Some day when we SIOn alone, or other contributing factors such both retire and live on our annuities, saved from our huge salaries, or contributed by the Townsend as top-heavy pledge and membership lists, or plan or similar atrocity, I hope we can both attend too many chapters on a campus, are responsi­ some Delta Delta Delta conventions where we can ble, comprised a question that concerned be concerned with no one's morals and manners Greek leaders at the Congress. The Declara­ but our own and can rock on the front veranda and reminisce and chuckle over the labors of the earnest tion of Principles, regarding the size of chap­ younger generation as it tries to settle the problems ters, was an outstanding development of the of the world. Amy is a grand friend. It is worth Congress looking toward a solution of one being a Tri Delta just to have known her." of the questions facing the Greek world to­ day. Placement Bureau Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha To augment the work being done by. its Vocational Guidance Bureau, Delta Zeta has An Alumrue Analysis inaugurated a Placement Bureau as a particu­ lar service to alumna:. "The work of the bu­ The Unusable Alumna reau," according to The Lamp, "will be to This is the "lost-sheep" alumna, the one who is find positions for those Delta Zetas who have so engrossed in the affairs of the after-college world that she is utterly indifferent to the sisterhood finished their college work and are unable to which once meant so much to her. To the sorority obtain the position or type of work they are she is a total loss and to the chapter or alumnre most interested in or are best fitted for." secretary an outer darkness into which her first class mail matter vanishes without a ripple.

Additions to Chapter Rolls: The Occasional Alumna Alpha Pelta Pi announces the installation Almost as useless is the occasional alumna. She of a chapter at Lake Forest College, Lake remains for a period of years in the outer void but by some accident suddenly bobs up at the chapter Forest, Ill. house, forms snap judgments, hands out criticisms, Beta Theta Pi is planning future expansion serves as an irritant, and then disappears into the further into Canada. unknown. The Average Alumna Delta Upsilon at its centennial celebration voted for chapters at the University of Al­ Once in awhile she answers a letter and occa­ sionally does get back to visit the chapter and does berta· and the University of British Columbia. plan some day to take an active interest in the The first national fraternity to establish a sorority. A nice woman-but one who needs to be chapter on the campus of Washington College prodded seven times to get a sign of life. in Maryland is Theta Kappa Nu. T be Good Alumna Theta Upsilon has installed a chapter at May her tribe increase. She does answer letters, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. she does send in i terns for the magazine, she does Zeta Tau Alpha recently installed its third contribute to the Pine Mountain fund and the like, and she does take a real interest in the college chapter in the state of Tennessee, Beta Omega chapter and lends its members sane and wise coun­ at Union University. sel when it is sought. Delta Gamma has installed Beta Epsilon chapter at American University in Washing­ The A-1 Super Alumna ton, D.C. The A-1 super alumna is such by divine calling, and she is rare indeed. She may be depended on to Chi Omega has installed Phi Delta chap­ do the job assigned her and do it right. The sorority ter at Mississippi State College. This is the is one of her maj or interests and she puts into its first national sorority on the campus. service the effort and thought that other people devote to amassing money, to painting great pic­ Gathering statistics for the ever-statistically tures, to solving great human problems. To the minded press was interesting, and yielded the sorority she is a gift from the gods, striving to put information that the N .P.C. delegates present into it the reality of sisterhood. She is a practical idealist and her constant effort is to create an or­ in Mississippi represented 1,958 alumna: ganization which shall realize to the fullest the groups, 1,158 college chapters, and a total underlying spirit of fraternity. membership in women's fraternities of ap- -The Um of B :I: 0

JUNE, 1936 123 MILESTONES - Alpha Tau Engagements Elizabeth Kirk, '3 7, to R9bert Perrin, ' 3 7, Michigan State, Phi Kappa Tau. Delta Thelma Strong, '36, to Dr. Harold Swenson, '30, Uni­ Mary E. Fisher, '29, to Charles A. Adams, '31, Suffolk versity of Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich. Law School. Zeta Beta Gamma Julia Ruth ·Fick, '34, to John Davis Baker, George Maisie Malison, "34, to Charlie Kennedy of Montreal. Washington University. Magnus Florence Robertson, '35, to George Edward Ke~~:r.weaver to Dr. Barton W. Richwine, '34, the Marriages George Washington University Medical School. The wed­ ding wi ll be June 16. Delta Frances Shepherd Wright to Robert Hilleary of the Winifred Lovering Holman to John Lester Briggs Ma) United States Forest Service. . 29, 1936, at Watertown, Mass. Marion Ziegler to John E. Ryerson, Theta Chi, Wash­ ington, D .C. Ep1ilon Eta Esther Palmer, ex-'39, of Appalachian, N.Y., to HowarC: Betty Davis, '36, to Frank Swartz, '37, Phi Gamma Burton, also of Appalachian. Delta. . Ill Melba Moorman, '37, to Joseph Bryant, Qumcy, . Zeta Betty Anne Smith to Robert McMillen, Kappa Alpha, Iota the George Washington University. April 25 at Havn June Stoll to John Burky, '35, Alpha Sigma Phi, Uni- de Grace. versity of Colorado. Ruth A. Remo n to George Wenzel at Seattle, Wash. Louise Moore to Robert Work of Denver. April 11. At hom ~. Juneau, Alaska. Lois Bradfield to Jack Geopfarth, '35, Pueblo, Colo. Alice Davida McAuliffe to John Edward Lee February 8. Gertrude Powell to James Dyer, Long Beach, Calif. at the Church of the Sacred Heart. At home, 2721 Adam! Mill road, Washington, D .C. Mu Celima Roi Leonard to John W . Hazard. At home, Barbara Jane Robinson, '38, to Joseph Moore, '36, Al­ 3101 P street N.W, Washington, D.C. pha Sigma Phi, University of Washington. Their marnage is planned for the latter part of the summer. Theta Irline Bissel, '37, to Ted Hitt, '35, Acacia, University of Margaret Skudstad, '33, · to Dr. C. Keith Barnes, Tat Washington. Their marriage will take place this sum­ Sigma Rho of North Dakota and graduate of Rush Medical mer. College, March 17, 1936. At home, Chicago Ill. Dorothea Lund, '34, to John Miller Tam, Philadelphia. Pa. The marriage will take place at Dorothea's home Lambda in Omak, Wash., May 29. Grace Mitchell '30 to Dr. Joseph Buckley in San Fran· cisco, May 16. Dr. Buckley is practicing dentistry in San Tau Francisco. Betty Bosier, '32, to William D. Boldrey, '32, Phi Mu Delta Theta. Agnes Floe, '34, to Robert Humphries, Everett, Wash G. Evelyn Waynich, '35, to Redver Clothier-Mishawaka, in Seattle, Wash. March 12, 1936. At home, Everett Notre Dame. Wash. Chi Molly Lockhart to Rexford E. Thoma January 12, 1936 Mary Katherine Tillotson, '36, to Eugene L. Combs, At home, Thomson Apts, Yakima, Wash. '35, Sigma Nu, Ohio State University. Margaret Dorothea Lund to John Miller Tam, May 29. Marian Cassidy, ex-'36, to Donald H. Frantz, '35, Phi 1936. At home, The Fairfax, 43rd and Locust streets. Kappa Tau, Miami University. Philadelphia, Pa. Alpha Beta Nu Virginia Willis, '34, to James Russell. Helen Easton, '33, to Philip Carpenter, '33, in Mea

124 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE P1i Athenia Andros, '33, to Stephen Rogienski. At home, Grace 1:· H all, '33_. to Welden Rhoades, Co-pilot of 15 Rue de Sassano, Paris, France. Un1ted A~ri.nes, Apnl 24, 1936, at Thorndike Hilton Chapel, Chicago. At home, 162 Breed avenue, San Alpha Upsilon Leandro, Calif. The bride was a stewardess on the ~ucille Axtell, '32_, to George Johnson, at Moorhead, American Air Lines for two years before her marriage. Mmn., Apnl 4, 193<> . At home, Crookston, Minn. Alice L. Colony to Leslie L. Koons. At home, Apt. 12, 1666 Detroit street, Denver Colo. Alpha Phi Harriet Strauss, '35, to Russell M. Darrow in June, 1936. The matron of honor was her sister, Dorothy Strauss Kathleen Shepard '34 to Dr. Jean Douglas Kindsch June Kehr, and the bridesmaids were Eleanor Gaenslen and 8, 1935. At home, 3211 S.W. Tenth avenue, Portland, Ore. Bertha Schorer, all Psi alumna:. Alpha Omega Alpha Gamma . Mary Roy Baker, ex '38, to Albert C. Windham, Phi Velm a Hutchings, ex '34, to Arden Jacklin, October 20, S1gma Kappa, 1935. 1935. At home, Wash1ngton Court, Pullman Wash. Wimbrethe Wright, ex '36, to Grover Daniels, Alpha Frances H artroft, '30, to Ross Griffith, .August, 1935. Lambda Tau, 1936. At home, Ephrata, Wash. Alice Miller, '34, to John H . Lenox Wash ington State Beta Gamma College, '37, Phi Kappa Tau, Deced.ber 22, 1935. At Norah Storey, '35. to Russell A. Jackson, May 6. At home, Pullman, Wash. home Gananoque, Ontario. Alpha Delta Eleanor Lunsford, '28, to Buford B. Bird, Delta Tau Delta, '22, December 22, 1935 . At home, Knoxville, Tenn. Births Helen Canaday, '33, to William Whitehurst, February I, 1936. At home, Brownsville, Tenn. Alpha Alpha Ep1ilon To Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ludwig (Ruth Walden, '37) a son, John Duval, February, 1936. !lis Hobbs, '33, to Richard Maurer, Alpha Tau Omega, December 30, 1933 . Delta Esther W . Grau, '35, to Iradel W. Kill November 10, 1935. At home, 1219 Smalley avenue, Muscatine, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel MacLean (Phyllis Wadrobe, Delta ex '28) a daughter, Sandra, January 23, 1936. Alpha Zeta Epsilon Margaret L. Fowler to Howard Martiens, '35, Virginia Military Institute, May 2. To Marion Wilder Basse tt, '29, twins, John and Joan, Helen Sue Bruckner, '28, to Philip Dunn Sagans, jr. February 18, 1936. Eugenia C. Gould to Charles H . Huntoon, Jr. At home, To Dorothy Bush Wertheimer, ' 32, a daughter, Jean 1874 Marloes avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio, but will move Marie, March 8, 1936. to Detro1t July 1, 1936. Zeta Alpha Theta To Naomi Crai n Jarman a son in April. Doris Enid Buyer, ' 34Vz B.S. to Dr Paul T. Eri ckson To Mabel Brunner Waller, a son. M.D. University of Minnesota. Eta Alpha Iota To Mr. and Milton Riema, (Marjorie Elton) a son, Mildred Corb to Jack Ross. At home, E. Walnut street, David Allen, March, 1936. Oxford, Ohio. Marian A. Root to D. D. Irvin Jr. February 27, 1935. Lambda At home, 1932 E. 97th street, Cleveland, Oh10. To Mr. and Mrs. E. Brown Zarley (Esther Cox '29) a Gertrude C. Hudson, '24, to Paul D. Snow. At home, daughter, Marian, March 28 in Berkelex. 907 Indian Road, Glenview, Ill. To Mr. and Mrs. William Gwerden (Melva Offenbach) a daughter, Diane Elizabeth, November 18, 1935. Alpha Kappa To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander Durbin (Ruth Annie Laurie McCall, '36, to Victor McAllister, Janu­ Joslin) a son, Michael Alexander, October 25, 1935. ary 5, 1936. At home, 719 North Lexington, Has tings, Neb. Winifred Wishart, '33, to Donald Clithero, York, Neb. , Mu September 3, 1935. At home, Buffalo, N.Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Adlebert Erkin (Blaine Marsh, '34) Beatrice Marshall was married to R. A. Tribble, March a daughter, Judith Carol, April 13, 193 6. 15, 1936, at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Alpha Nu Xi To Mr. and Mrs. John Oliver Austin (Attellia Anderson) Betty Cocking, '37, to Joseph Cremens, April 5, 1936. a son, John Magnus II, March 14, 1936. At home, Marador Apartments, Mi ssoula , Mont. To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner (Neva Ewing) a son, Harry McDregal, Jr., June 5, 1936. Alpha Xi Mae Martens '32, to Marion Krause on March 28, 1936. Pi At home 5908 Li vingston Drive, St. Louis, Mo. To Mr. and Mrs. George C. Herbert (Lucile Lyon, Pi) Alpha Omicron a son, February, 1936. Louise W. Adams, '31, to Amos J ames Buckley, Beta Sigma Theta Pi , University of California, ex '27, At Morales, Guatemala, March 2, 1936. Address to United Fruit Co ., To Mr. and Mrs J. C. Owens (Corits Crist, Sigma) a Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. 3 Marjorie G. Wilson, '32, to Victor H. Vodra. At home, daJ!loh tM~ . ~~Ju:Mi/i. :!. ~nickerbocker (Jean Mcintosh, 1022Vz Cochran avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. Sigma) a daughter April 27, 1936. Alpha Rho Ta11 Marion Taylor to Viston Smith, December 13, 1935. To Mr. and Mrs. William Sievers (Louise McCord Katherine Miller to George Winquist, November, 1935 . Yoder) a daughter, Mary Louise, February 24, 1936. Corinne Adams to Robert Taylor, April 11 , 1936. Elizabeth Garner to James Dickinson Graham, March Psi 26, 1936. To Mr. and Mrs. Evald C. Bank (Arleigh Kent, Psi, Olivia Clark to Sterling McMahan '28), a daughter, Patricia Ann, March 30, 1936. Eva Mai Haynie to J . D. Brown. Alpha Tau Omega Majel Horning to T. F. Schneider June 22, 1935, at To Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Mercer (Mary Elizabeth Stuart, home, Escanaba, Mich. '33) a daughter, Jan Stuart, April 19, 1936.

JUNE, 1936 125 Alpha c;amma Lora had accepted a new position last fall at Duke Uni· versity in Durham, N.C. as Surgical Supervisor of Nurs· To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dee Scriven (Madeleine Doyle, ing in Duke_ Ho~pital and instruct<_>r of Surgical f!Ursing '25) a daughter, Dee Scriven, Apnl 5, 1936. . m Duke Un1veCS1ty School of NuCS!ng. From the hme of To Mr. and Mrs. Harold F1tzs1mmons (Edna Pnce, her graduation from the Yale School of Nursing in 1932 ex '27), a son, Harold Dean, January 31, 1936. she had remained on the staff of the New Haven Hospital To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cody (Ruth Sobey) a daugh- where she was head nurse in Woman's Surgical ward for ter, September, 1935. . . · p t two years and Assistant night supervisor for one and one To Mr. and Mrs . Rudolph Becker (Vlfgm~a or er, ex half years. She was also on the teaching Staff of Yale '28), a daughter, Jacqueline Daisy, October 23, 1935 . School of Nursing 1932 until she left for her new position at Duke University. Alpha Delta When the '29 Colby Oracle appeared Lora's "character To Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Templeton, (Verna Sparks, sketch" began. "Where's Peg? I need her. Somebody Alpha Delta). a daughter, December 22, 1935. always needs Peg. " It was the quality of her generous To Mr. and Mrs. Floyd James, (Kathenne Ayers, Alpha affection for people, her capable judgment, and responsi­ Delta) , a son, Floyd, Jr., March 8, 1936. bility that brought her the affection and admiration of those who knew her personally and professionally. Alpha Zeta Lora was born August 14 , 1906 in West Boylston, Mass., To Mr. and Mrs. William Lodge (Lulu Richman, '27) where her father and mother now live. Both her mother, Lora Cummings Neal, and her father, Edgar P. Neal were a son. Martin. To Mr. and Mrs. H . H. Race (Grace Morris, '22) a Colby '93. Her mother has always been a loyal and active Sigma Kappa, and Lora, herself, was proud of her close sonTo Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Snider (Laura Griswold, '28) tie with Sil!ma and Colby traditions. Among the many tributes that have been paid to her, a o/.;''fS':~r~nd Mrs. Robert Thomas (Joan White, '28) a none tell of her standing in her chosen profession better daughter. than the following, taken from a telesram sent to her Alpha Eta parents br Miss Annie M. Goodrich, ret!fed dean of Yale School o Nursing and outstanding nurse of national repu­ To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Williams (Fern Snure) a son, tation . "In the passinl! of your daughter the Yale School has lost a valued graduate and the nursing profession a M¥~\,g· ;~,1\,{rs. Lester Cox (Elizabeth Doms, Alpha nurse of much promise.'' Eta '32) a son Lawrence Allan, March 27, 1936. To Mr.' and Mrs . Waldo Richards (Lucille Stacy, Alpha Eta '26), a son Edwin Neill, April 15 , 1936. Alpha l ola To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Althauser (Viola Dater) a son, Thomas, April 28, 1936. . Mildred Pratt Ruffin, Epsilon, '17. To Mr. and Mrs . Howard F. Stryker (Ruth Elame Tay­ Charlotte Leavitt Slocum, Nu, '13, died March 3, 1936. lor) a daughter, Stephanie, March 15, 1936. Mrs. A. E. Avey (Naomi Hildebrandt) , Chi, died al Columbus, Ohio, in May, 1936. Alpha Nu Ada I. Burton (Mrs. Dexter T. Knight), Kappa, '09, To Mr. and Mrs. John Houston, a daughter, April 24, died in Edgewood, R I. in May, 1936. 1936 . Alpha Rho To Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Chadwick (Mary E. Jenkins) ~pmp at b p Jfs ~xtenb eb to a daughter Elizabeth Ann,(anuary 30, 1936. To Mr.' and Mrs. Russe I Crome (Eleanor Weber) a Mrs. Grace Reaney Darden and to Mrs. Bernice Reanel daughter, Julia Ellin. February 26, 1936. Varner for the death of their father. Archibald Eldrec To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ridge (Saidee Cheeseman) a Reaney. He was -the grandfather of Grace Virgini1 son, Gordon, March 27, 1936. Reaney Birrell. Helen t'resle·• for the death of her father. Alpha Phi Venitia Laird '30 and Elda Laird Eichmeyer '33 To Mr. and Mrs. Arnett (Marian Anderson, Alpha Phi) Lambdas, for the loss of their mother who died in Myrtlr a daughter, Marylin Elizabeth, April 19, 1936. Point, Ore .. as the result of an accident. Martha Watson Allgeier, Alpha Theta, for the death o Beta Beta her father, John D. Watson. Betty Foster Schereschewsky, Omicron '38, for thr To Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dent (Margaret Reaves) a recent death of her father. daughter, Julie Ann, in February, 1936. Elizabeth Bird, Beta Beta, for the death of her fathe April 10, 1936. 1Deatbs Louise Picking, Alpha Kappa pledge, for the death o father April, 1936. lLora ~ertru'!le J}eal Jean Blish Joyner, Margaret Blish Houston, and Hele ~ Blish all of Alpha Kappa, for the death of their fathel Lora Gertrude Neal, Alpha, '29, died May 1, 1936 at in April, 1936. the home of her brother in Wilmington, Del., after a six Annette Bartels Koenig, Xi, for the death of he months illness following a critical operation last November. fa ther in Kansas City, Mo., May 19, 1936.

THE DYE LADY Blue for skies on one day blow Or green for grass and trees .. By LILLIAN M. PERKINS, Omicron From Monday through to Monday, so­ She's busier than the bees. Blue and green and indigo, Her clothes line is the gayest show Red and black and grey­ Of ever-changing flags. Never was a gayer show, Blue and green and indigo Finland to Bombay. She dyes the dingy rags.

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Past Grand President Audrey D ykeman assisted by other alumnae and college members of Alpha Honored by University of Illinois Ups1lon. W:inifred H. Owen, '34. ass isted at the initiation cere­ Because of her "record as a member of the class of monies whereby Thelm a Hov_et, Hillsboro, N.D., became 1920 at the University of Illinois and her achievements a member of Kappa Beta P1, mternat10nal legal sorority which have brought honor to her Alma Mater as a~ Grand Forks c1ty Pan hellenic held a dance May 4 ·in alumna" Audrey Dykeman was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, the Casanova ballroom. An annua l event the funds from national honorary for scholarship and activities, at Illinois. the dance were used to finance projects of the group. One She IS also a member of Kappa Delta Pi, educational affalf sponsored by the City Panhellenic was the annual honorary. dmner at wh1ch ten sororities at the University of North Dakota were represented by thei r pledges, college members, and alumnae. Part of the money received from the dance Alpha Upsilon Alumna? Doings pa~d for the trophies which were awarded to the various Evelyn Beuchler, '34, who has finished her course in groups wh_ich showed highest scholastic averages . dietetics in a New York city hospital has returned to ~rep aratiO n s are bemg made to entertam our two seniors North Dakota, and is now res1ding in Bismarck where she Alice Moreland and Gladys Skavlem, who will receive thei; has accepted a federal position and is working on WPA diplomas on June 9. 1936. There wi ll be a breakfast at the projects. She spent a few hours in Grand Forks while Ryan Hotel, a d_inner at the home of Ruth Joy Owen, a supervis ing some work and found time to visit a few of picniC and a tnp to Julia Mattson's summer home at her college friends. Lavinia on Lake Bemidji. Viola Streimikes of Fargo solicited advertisements for Winifr~d H . ()wen, '34, and former Dean of Kappa her paper the past month and incidentally visited some Beta P1, mternat10nal legal sorority, was one of the repre­ of her Sigma friends. sentatives of that organ1zation at the "Roundup" dinner During her Easter vacation, Doris Pritchard remained held at f-! otel Ryan. March 2, and attended by members at Ardoch to assist the people of that community put on of the Umvers1ty of North Dakota professional sororities. a play for the benefit of a local church. Doris is most F RANCES H. OwEN ge nerous wi th her time and talen ts. Unable to find a teaching position to her liking, Irene (Mac) MacCaffrey is staying at home in Crookston, Minn., Bradenton, Fla., Sigmas Are Happy and Proud and learning household management. Once in a while she We are so happy that four of our five pledges at finds time to. motor over to Grand Forks to visit at the Tallahassee made their grades in the first semester. chapter house and take in a dance. Bascom Knight and Mona McLea n were initiated in Feb­ Ernestine Syvertsen returned recently from a visit to ruary and Connie Howard and Marjorie Eifler will be Montana. While there she visited her sister Grace and initiated in September. fami ly who are domiciled at Fork Peck in the temporary We are proud of Ruth Lind, now at Tallahassee who village which was formed by those who are working on the was recently elected to the executive council of the c'ollege government project of building a huge dam. Government Association. The American Association of University Women had its Bradenton Sigmas miss Swollie Gunter Curry who is annual election of officer< in MRrch and among those now living at Tampa. Her address is 2422 Watrous avenue. elected to an offi ce was Julia Mattson, treasurer. Elizabeth Sponenbarger is sti ll in Europe, and every At a recent meeting of the Business and Professional time we hear from her, she's in a different country. She's Women's club Gladys D ahle was elected recording secre­ been studving at the Universities of Madrid and Paris and tary. That makes another Sigma prominent in community now we hear that she's on her way to Africa. She'll be affairs . home in August. Winifred Thorne, Portland. N.D., has completed her Mrs. Charles York and Sara Camp Norfleet are up­ work at Aaker's Business College and accepted a book­ holding the honor of the teaching profession for the keeping J'osition with a large mutual insurance company Sigmas. at Gran Forks. · Lou Chilson came home from sc hool in February and is Gladys Dahle has a new roadster which she is usi ng to now very busy being secretary for the loca l branch of the good advanta,ge in visiting all the cou ntrv schools in this St. Johns River Line. county. She IS assistant superintendent of schools and is Emily Johnson, a senior at Tallahassee, has appeared in helping the present incumbent, Miss McKean, obtain the several pfays and speech recitals this year . nomination for th at office at our June primar ies. Grand Barbara Curry has spent the winter in Paris with her Forks is a large county and it takes time and some effort sister and brother-in-law. We expect her home in June. to campaign in so large a county . HELEN SHARP Frances H . Owen was recently appointed to serve as a member of the International Relations committee of the Rlzo Ramblings Business and Professional Women's club of Grand Forks. Ethel Steere Jolliff (Mrs. E. C.). Enka, N .C. , wails She was also elected delegate to represent the club at the that she has not seen a Si,!lma in eight years. She lives state convention at Bismarck, May 22-23. She wi ll motor just seven miles from Ashev1lle and would be glad to meet there with friends and after the convention wi ll make a any sisters who five there or who visit there for vacations. tour of the Bad Lands which is one of the scenic spots of Relda Mayfield Gosnell (Mrs. John) has moved to New North Dakota. Frances was also elected corresponding York City-325 West 41st street. New York alumnae-­ secretary of Pi Lambda Theta honorary sorority in the take notice! For Relda is tall, dark, and handsome-and school of education. now a lady of leisure. Among the present semester events which have been Martha Bell Gray Helms (Mrs. J. R. ) and her husband scheduled at the chapter house none was more successful recovered from the holidays with a fl ying trip to New than the dinner party given by the alumnae for the mothers York( leaving young Grace and Jimmy Helms at home in of local girls. In spite of the inclemency of the weather a Char eston. goodly number responded to the invitation February 3 (the Sibyl Vedder Smith (Mrs. James J.) has legall y changed night the thermometer registered only forty degrees below her name to MacPherson. She and Jimmy decided on the zero) . After dinner music and conversation made the eve­ change when he became an American citizen, giving up ning pass pleasantly. Frances Weisbecker's mother sup­ his British citizenship. He is an officer on the Baltimore ~lied us w1th considerable interesting information as to Mail Linel; Sibyl is studying at Johns Hopkins for her 'Fran's" activities and duties in far off Syria. M.A. in English. The house trio composed of Saxon Benjamin, Florence Alice Hersey Wick (Mrs. Richard) has settled~r at Nickisch and Alice Moreland furnished vocal and instru­ least unpacked-in Philadelphia, though she and Dick mental music. Winifred H. 0\\'en, general chairman, was commute to Washington about every third week. Janice

JUNE, 1936 127 McKinney spent Easter weekend wi~h Dick ~nd A! . . week, but we found few women could spend three after· Hilda Forsberg Hood (Mrs. R1chard) 1s liVIng Just noons for it, so after a few weeks we changed to once outside Washington, at 601 North Jackson, Clarendon, Va. a week. We studied Matthew and finished it week before Wash ington Alumnre-haul her in for she's a grand last. But we continued the reading class three times a worker. week and two of the women are still pegging away at Fannie Louise Mitchell is teaching this year in Leighton, their lessons. They are studring the Gospel Thousand Ala. Character Lessons, which wil prepare them to read the Estelle Welles, charter member of Rho, is one of the Gospels. stand-bys of the Philadelphia Alumna: chapter and knows Last week Miss Chih and the two Misses Chang, our practically every Sigma in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . Convention evangelists, were free and so we got them to ·At Rho's February initiation. the· fo llowing alumna: conduct a short-term school here, from Monday to Satur· came back: Edith Moore and Edith D avis from Roanoke, day, afternoons from two to four. We had about twenty· Louise Pollard from Burlington, N.C., Alice Hersey Wick five in attendance, ten learning to read, the rest in a from Philadelphia, Mildred Brown Bartenstein from War­ Bible class studying James. Several of us helped in the renton, Va., and Eunice Lee, Sara Rucker, Virginia teaching. They also had singing and Bible stories. They Featherston from Lynchburg. voted to have another class next spring. Helen Sasscer, Jeanne Manuel, and May Beall Koogle This spring I have been traveling a good deal. I am attended Zeta's initiation and banquet, March 28, and a member of the boards of six of our middle schools, so were proudly presented to the Washington Sigmas by Alice have been to Shaohsing, Huchow, Kinhwa, and Shanghai Wick, who was '"pinch-hitting" as toastmistress for Ruth for Board meetings. I am also on the University of Shang· Smith, Rho's Regional President, who was down with hai Board of Directors. Fortunately the meetings were griQpe. planned so I did not have to miss either my Sunday or Gene Barnett is SJ?ending this year at the College of weekday Bible classes, except one Sunday. Most of our Chinese Studies, Peipmg, China. Distance makes no differ· schools are struggling with deficits, due to cuts or bank ence in Gene's interest in Sigma Kappa and in Rho. failures, but the principals and teachers are going bravely Mildred Penry Bigbee (Mrs. J. Frank) hopes that some on. In Kinhwa, where our boys' school lost heavily in Sigma Kappas can visit her en route to Colorado conven· the local bank fai lure, the students and teachers contributed tion this summer. She offers "a good old western cattle about $900 local currency, and they have arranged for and sheep ranch " as attraction. Her address is ZT Ranch, a temporary Joan to . pull them through. In Shao hsing Encino, New Mexico. some of the leading gentry have borrowed $1000 Mex. to tide the boys' school over the crisis and they expect to Open Letter From Mrs. Breneman, Alpha '93 make an outright gif~ of $ 1000 in the fall . From this we see that our schools are making an impress, so that Asheville N ormal and Teachers College, the local people are willing to contribute money to keep Asheville, North Carolina. the schools going. "Every cloud has a silver lining." July 30. 1935 Central Office, Sigma Kappa Sorority, June 10 Miss Edgar and I entertained the Wayland 163 0 Ala{;ama, graduating class at an evening party. Thirty-one came and Lawrence, Kansas. stayed trom seven to eleven. We played games and then served plenty of refreshments, ten

128 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Ann Downing accepted a government position and went Spain. They plan a three months' visit to the various to Washington, D.C. during March. After spending a Eu~opean countries where they intend to co llect old manu­ month in the capital city, Ann yearned for Iowa City scr_IPtS and books. Mr. Allen is interested in printing. and her old job and so she is back with us now. Dorothl Logan, '29, who is teac hing at the Santa Alpha Xis will regret to learn of the serious illness Fe Schoo in Oakland has had considerable success with of Mrs. Lillian Sharp. At the present time she is a her paintings. Several 'of her children's studies are in the patient in the University Hospital in Iowa City. Berkeley Public Library. At present she has a commission to _paint murals for a private home. Washington, D .C., Sigmas D ash to and from Katherine Schwaner Kolasa, '20, was a guest of honor at the Theta Sigma Phi Matrix tab le at the Berkeley Alaska, Moscow, and the West Women's City_ Club. Each year Theta Sigma Phi , journal­ Ruth Remon Wenzell, whose marriage took place this ISm honor sooety, has a Matrix table to which they invite spring, has gone to Alaska with her husband, who is the prominent people on the campus. an auditor for the Treasury Department. The president of the College Women's club of Berkeley Peggy Padgett Stephan has just returned from the West entertained April 28 honoring the new mem bers . Leade rs Coast and is visiting in Washington. Her husband is to of the club activities were invited as honor guests among be on dutv at the Naval Academy next fall. ~hom were Ruth Ann Grieg, '13, chairman of the Sec­ Mabel Brunner Waller returned from Moscow before tions, Katherine Schwaner Kolasa '20 chairman of the the birth of her son. She plans to return there with her Contract Bridge section, and Hele'n N~well, ' 1 5. husband in the near future. Ruth Bickford N orthrup, '29, entertained for Grace Julia Pick Pearce is going to Texas for the summer, Mitchell, '30, who is engaged to be married to Dr. where her husband, Hardy Pearce,_ plans to teach at the Joseph Buckley at a bridge shower in San Francisco, April University of Texas. Her sister Marian is engaged to 25. John Baker, the coach at Episcopal high school, Alex­ Ethel Uren , wife of Pro fessor Uren of University ot andria, Va. California, and her family have moved into their beautiful Marian Ziegler enjoyed a cruise to the West Indies new home on Arlington avenue, Berkeley. It is a Medi ­ this spring, stopping at Nassau. Port au Prince, Kingston terranean type house commanding a view of th e enti re and Havana. Her fiance, John Ryerson, is associate editor bay. for Kiplinger's Washington Agency. Upon her return from the Los Angeles Regional Con­ Alma Barker and her sister spent an en joyable week feren ce, Katherine Schwaner Kolasa. '20, assisted bv Mar­ with Mary Newcomb Cornwell at her home in Lincolnton, jorie Bouner Towler, '20, entertai ned several of the "Kaffee KC. . Klatch-ers'' at a tea to tell them news of their friends Peggy Evans Powell is moving to New H aven, Conn., and contemporaries whom she met in Los Angeles. The due to the transfer of the Resettlement Regional Office , "Kaffee Klatch" was the name of a group of alumn re with which her husband is connected, to that citv. who met regularly before the present East Bay alumnre Florence Moses Pughe is going to Hawaii to li ve . Her association was organized . Among th ose who were present husband is to be stationed at one of the army posts. were Minnie Bunker. Leonore Barstow, Ethel Uren, Doro­ Maxine Rolle Goodyear was ill with a streptococcus in­ thy McKillop and Florence Colby Battrom. Among those fection of the throat, for almost a month. Thanks to the who belonged to the group but could not be present were care of her specialist, our own Nell Enlows, she recovered Edith Ligda, Grace Waterman, Helen Jensen, Irene Popert, completely. Connie Parsons, Elda Eggert, Jean Smith and Lulu Arm­ Dorothy Sornbon'!er reports that work on her new home strong. is progressing rapidly. The plastering was just finished Connie Parsons left immediately after the affair by air­ when we last saw her. plane to attend th e regional conference of Washington Isabella Brown Krev and her mother are going to the and Oregon. World Sunday Schoor Convention in Oslo, Norway, this Patty Marshall Brenner, grand vice-president, left re­ summer . cently for a visit with her sons at Annapoli s. Martha McAdam, an artist member of the Washington Pianists' Club, made her third festival appearance, at the Boston Sigma, Mary Parker Dunning, Makes Foundry Methodist Church. Mav 2. Radio Debut on New England Press Lucy Wooley spends much of her time producing puppet shows for the Junior League of which she is a member. Women's Program The floods along the Potomac Ri ver wiped out two In January Mary Parker Dunning made her debut on the su mmer cabins where many Sigmas have spent pleasant air. 'the program, over WEE!, was the fifth of a se ri es hours. Lee Hardell and Alma Barker both lost their by the New England Press Women's Associati on entitled camps which. they had had for many years. ''Interviews with Eminent Bostonians.' ' Grace Havey, Omicron, '28, had one of the leading Mrs. Paul Fraser, Alpha Sigma, Speaks on "The parts in the spring flay of the Tufts Graduate Dramatic Societv, " The Squal . " Trend of Modern Literature" Katherine Baker, Delta, took a South American cruise Mrs. Paul F. Fraser (M. Phvllis St. Clair, Alpha) , during her Christmas vacation . She returned wi th several Westbrook, Me., spoke on "The Trend of Modern Litera­ reels of movies, colored and otherwise, showing views nf ture" at a meeting of the Seekers Literary Club March 3. the five countries she visited . Mrs. Verne Melanson (Janet Chase, Alpha '28) , Joanna Parks, Delta, '07, visited Sara Collins recen tl v. Methuen, Mass. and Mrs . John Parker Holden (Anna Pauline Nevers, Delta, '35. and Margaret Brainer cl, Macomber, Alpha, ' 31) Hartford. Conn. , visited Mrs. Omicron, '35, are stud y i~g at ,Simmons College. . . William Macomber (Marguerite Chase, Alpha, '27), in Elizabeth Chagnon, Om1cron, 35, has taken a poSition February. with the N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co . Mrs. Donald Small (Marjorie Dearborn, Alpha, '3 1) Elizabeth Foster Schereschewsky. Omicron, '32 , is teach­ Bath, Me. , called to see Mrs. Wayne Roberts (Alice ing in the fourth grade of the Suffield School, Suffield, Linscott, Alpha, ' 31) when she was in town recently. Conn . where "Sherry" is headmaster of the lower school. Eleanor Butler, Alpha, '29 spent part of her February Irene ' Hall, Delta. spent her Christmas vacation with vacation with friends in New York Citv. her family in Florida. Ten of our members belong to the Portland College Kathryn Aller, Alph~ Gamma, '34. is doing res~arch Club. The Ballet Russe was presented in City Hall March work in the laboratory k1tchen of Lever Bros. 1n Cambfl dge, 26 under the auspices of the Portland College Club. Mass. Katherine E. Briggs, Omicron, '18, former secretary of the industrial department of the New Bedford Y.W.C.A. Ervena Goodale Smith, Alpha, Colby College has been made a member of the staff of the Mexico Citv Secretary, Addresses Undergraduate Y .W .C.A. She has written home of her visits to the old Mexican cities of Cuernavaca, Churubusco, to an old Luncheon Aztec convent, to a bull light, and to a Mexican wedding. Mrs. Joseph C. Smith (Erven a Goodale, Alpha) , Alum­ Her address is 110 Articulo 12 3. Mex ico, D.P. ore Secretary of Colby College, was the guest speaker at Among the many Boston Alumnre chapter members the annual luncheon for Colby undergraduates held at who plan to attend conve ntion in August are Rubv Emer­ the Columbia Hotel March 28. son. Irene Hall, Margaret Cochran, Gladys Gatchell , Betsey Winchell, Alpha. attended art school and busi­ Nellie B. Mansfield. Grace Havev, Helen Sa lmon. Lillian ness college in Portland this year. Perkins, Helen Tackson, Frances Vanlderstine, Dorothy Cyr, and Anne Wolfe. All Kinds of News About Bay Cities and Lambda Chapter Sigmas Sigma Kappas Carry Off Prize at Tri-Delta Dorothv Caswell Allen, ex-'32 and her husband, Lewis lnte1·-Sororities Song Contest Allen, left San Francisco the early part of April for New Singing a pleasi ng litt)e song, the words of which York where they remained a few days before sailing for were written for the occasiOn , the S1 gma Kappa ensemble

JUNE, 1936 129 was successful in winning the annual Tri Delta inter­ we alwars enjoy her readings and skits. We know rad :o sorority song contest, Wednesday evening, at the Uptown work wi I make fine use of both talents. Ruth Snow, Alpha Beta, ex-'35, is working in the oflic( Thfh~r~ontest was art of a happily planned program at the Globe Plaster Company-don't get stuck up, Ruth! sponsored by Delta I)elta Delta sorority for charity pur­ As a district supervisor for the Rural_ L1brary ServicE poses. During the regular vaudeville the orchestra played project under the Nat1onal Youth Admm1strat10n, Ad ; the university song, a Tri Delta song and all present Stanley Alpha Beta, '24, travels around five counties. joined in a rousing "Iji." . Hele~ Flower, Alpha Beta, '34. attended a housepartj Competing in the contest were three g1rls from each at Hamilton College the weekend of May 8. sorority entering: Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gan,>m~, p, Ann Gribble, Louisville Sigma, Supervises the Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, Zeta Tau Alpha.-Wmn1peg, Manitoba, November 14, 1935 . Making of Suits by Earnest Knitters Each year Delta Delta D elta at the University of Mani­ Ann Myers Gribble, Alpha Theta, is a partner of thE toba sponsors a Song Contest, the proceeds are given to "Trudv-Ann" Knit Shop. For several years she has super­ charity This year's contest is the fourth such contest at vised the struggles of many ambitious knitters. that school. Last ye ar the cup, donated by Tri Delta, was Marion Stoll, Alpha Theta, is director of the Oakdal< won by Pi Beta Phi. Tri Deltas are hostesses and furn1sh Community center. She superviSes such actiVIties. as dra­ any entertainment other than the smgmg. matics, handicraft, sewing, cooking, square dancmg, an d social clubs. Lois Durham. Alpha Theta, has opened a model agenC) Mary Sloan Wilbur, Palo Alto Sigma, Spends in Louisville. She supplies models for style shows, news­ paper advertisements. etc. Exciting Vacation at Boulder Dam Mona Jenkins, Alpha Theta, has returned from Florida Mary Sloan Wilbur, Pi, and her husband Dr. Bl'ake where she spent several months. Wilbur had an interesting vacation, Easter week, in a Kathleen Edinger Schell, Alpha Theta, returns to St trip to the desert and Boulder Dam. To add thrill to the Paul, Minn. in May. venture, the ferry boat that tours the dam and river broke Marjorie Fort Hereford, Alpha Theta, is operating l its paddle wheel, which necessitated a launch's /oing tea room where she has a reputation for epicurean de for help. But the launch ran out of gasoline an was lights. stalled until a search party went to find the leery. Two Verna Buyer Burr has returned to Detroit, after ' days and two nights of the Wilburs' vacation were spent visit in Louisville. where she attended the wedding o' on the watery domain. • her sister Doris Buyer, Alpha Theta, to Dr. Paul T Esther Miller Gerken, Pi, and her husband, Elon, Erickson. covered 3300 miles in a ten-day trip that took them as / far south as the Carlsbad Caves in New Mexico, into Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. Esther reports staying a Chicago Sigmas Regret Departure of Frances day in two different places, so figure for yourself the Baker, Triangle Editor, for New ground covered per day, England Residence Not only members of the Southside section, but al Houston Sigma Makes Pilgrimage to Gardens Sigma Kappas in Chicago, will keenly feel the absencl of Frances Warren Baker, Psi, who has moved East. of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Grace Hall Rhoades, )Psi , will also be missed from thl Lyndith Geery Barkley, with se veral friends made the southside, as after her marriage to Co-Pilot Weld01 annual pilgrimage to the beautiful gardens of Louisiana, Rhoades she moved to San Leandro, Calif. Mississippi, and Alabama this spring. She later made a Sigmas in Chicago, as everywhere find many ways t1 trip to Fort Worth with her husband. amuse themselves as well as contribute their talents t, Louise W ynn Blanton spent several days in Hot Springs, community welfare: ;ane Hendrich Moorehead, Tau, i Ark., attending a Chamber of Commerce convention. They director of a group o Brownies in Evanston, while. Esth~ returned via Longview. Texas. to celebrate the tenth an­ Woodley Spaulding, Iota, does substitute teachmg 11 niversary of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce. Evanston. Edith Herbst and some friends spent several days in Marian SeCheverell Hemingway, Psi , has been activ Monterrey, Mexico, this spring. in the League .of Worrien· Voters all winter. She i_s al~ l Cathenne Berry has just returned from a short trip with an active alumna of Psi chapter and spends much tJme 11 friends to San Antonio for the Flower Fiesta. While there Madison. the group was the guest of Catherine's parents Mr. and Isabel Hersog Satterthwaite, Epsilon, had a large an Mrs. A. 0. Carden. fine exhibit of portraits at the Evanston Woman's club. In April Catherine attended the Regional Conference of Florence Jackson Clough, Theta, left March 13 froG Girl Scouts in Lubbock, Texas. As regional chairman of New York for a twenty-five day cruise on the S. S. Scam Brownies, Catherine assisted in giving a training course pen American Caribbean line and returned just befor to Brownie Leaders. After leaving Lubbock she and a Easter. She visited twelve of the Leeward and Wind-..:ar1 friend drove to Nachez, Miss. , and Mobile, Ala., return­ islands, Georgetown, British Guiana and Paramanb~ ing home via New Orleans, La. , to enjoy the annual Dutch Guiana. Florence and her husband, Sherman, hav pilgrimages of homes and gardens in those sections. traveled extensively and thev both consider this journe Virg~ma Turney is enjoying a visit and rest in junction, to be the finest and most educational they have made s Tex. Houston alumnre m1ss their former president! far. Helen McClintock Anderson, Theta, and her husban recently returned from an enjoyable trip to Californ1 a Easter Vacation Gives Buffalo Sigmas Helen Wright Bingham, Iota, took two journeys thiS w1 Opportunity for Travel by ter, to Cleveland and to New York. Land and Sea Some New York Sigmas Get Married, Some Easter vacation foun'd our travel-loving Sigmas boarding tra ins-and also, going to sea. Mildred Mabee, Alpha Have Babies; All Are Busy Beta, '25 , journeyed to Boston; Irene Wendling Eardman, Catherine Fallon. Alpha Lambda, is engaged to Herma Alpha Beta, '22, to Washington and Richmond; Grace Heemstaff of Floral Park. Heacock, Alpha Beta, '24, and Isabelle Wetherbee Alpha Olive Noelsch, Alpha Lambda, is engaged to Norma Beta, '26, to Nassau and Bermuda ; Betty Spencer' Alpha Pfippinger of Jamaica. Zeta, '32, to Havana, Haiti , and Jamaica. Grace,' our ac­ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mulheron (Marie Moen, Alph complished travel agent, took a party, including Isabelle Lambda) announce the birth of a daughter, Cathenn< and her mother on the S. S . Geor/!, ic; she reported "a fine December 193 5. crowd and a lovely trip'' and Is abelle seconded it. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Pollock (Ethna Norris, AlP.H Betty has " gone Swedish" in earnest. This was her Lambda) onnounce the birth of a daughter, Ethna Lou!St second trip on the S. S. K ungsholm (this summer there April 3, 1936. will be a third) and she enjoyed every minute of the two Ruth Combs , Alpha Lambda, and Charles' Kable we weeks. From a reliable source we learn that she "read" married March 21. They will be at home in the Ke the "Rubaiyat" in Swedish-knowing the English version Brevoort Apartments, Kew Gardens, N.Y. so well she did understand what was printed 1n the book. Myvanwy Dewhurst has been treasurer of the For And she has invested in a Swedish grammar. We wonder? Hills Women's Club for the past year. She will serve ' Muriel Maclean, Alpha Sigma, '31 , has joined the chairman of the Motion Picture Committee next yearh. staff of WBJ,iN, the Bftf/alo Evening N ews broadcasting Marion Shirkey has been elected co-chairman, Wl_th . < stat1on. She IS both wntmg cont1nu1ty and takmg part in husband, of the Twenty-Thirty Club, a new orgamzat1 broadcasts. Muriel h'as written a great deal for magazines, in the Rockaways. and has been a stand-by for the program chairmen because Elsie Anderson was married in February.

130 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANG~ PLEDGES - Epsilon Phi Esther Armstrong Judith Heitman, '39, 855 Ostrom avenue, Syracuse, N.Y. Nancy Barrows Elsie Carpenter Zeta Ruth Chase Helen Seraichekas M ~ry Armstrong, 2455 39th place, Washington, D .C. Viola Snow Eltzabeth Burnett, 1204 Newton street, N.E., Washing­ ton, D.C. Omega Mary N orris, 3733 Massachusetts avenue, Washington, Charlotte Angier, 11 53 S.W. 7th street Mi am i, Fla. D.C. Ltl!tan Taylor, Mayo, Fla. ' D.gorothy Spiedel, 221 Rittenhouse street, Washington, Marian Whittaker, 16 32 P street, Washington, D.C. Alpha Gamma Ellen Zirpel, 3908 Jennifer street, Washington, D.C. ey Ayers, '39. 1722 B street, Pullman, W ash. ane Deggller '39, Route 2, Chehalis, Wash. ~arnet Kay, 139, Seattle, Wash. Eta Virginia Parker, '39. 818 N. Adams T acoma Wash Maxine Tuttle, '39, Chelan, Wash. ' ' · Gwen Brown, '39. Chatsworth, Ill. Jayne Flint, '39, Lombard, Ill. W~h:o Van Austene, '37, 1841 E. Fourteenth, Spokane, Mary Gullett, '39, Roberts, Ill. Mary Foster, '38, 132 4 W. Mulberry street, Blooming- Alpha Delta ton, Ill. . Ernestine Swafford, Pikesville, Tenn. Marguerite Kimball, '38, Rosamond. Ill. Frances Walker, Knoxville, Tenn . . Mattie Belle Thomas, '38, 108 E. Walnut street, Bloom­ tngton, Ill. Alpha Epsilon Barbara Weaver, ' 38, Mobile, Ala. Elinor Vannote, Ames, Iowa Genevieve Van Horn, Ames, Iowa Mu Alpha Iota Marguerite Anderson, '39, 39 15 Thirty- ninth avenue, S.W., Seattle, Wash. Marilynn Brown, '39, Lake Bluff, Ill. Lee Asseltine, ' 39, 2617 W. Seventy-seventh, Seattle, Urdyth Kern, '39, Bellevue, Ohio Wash. Merle Van Oster, '39, Elyria, Ohio Norma Chadwick, '39, 906 E. John street, Seattle, W as h. Jayne Tingwall , '39, Lake Bluff, Ill. Marguerite McBride, '38, 352 Blai ne street, Seattle, Norene Zbornik, '39, Cleveland, Ohio Wash . Martha McKibbon, '39, Fall Citv, Wash. Alpha Nu Marv Morgan, '39, Burton, Wash. Joyce Paulson, '39. Sand Coulee, Mont. Phyllis Schorr, '39, 215 E. Fourth street, Ontario, Calif. Claretta Dunn, '37, Great Falls, Mont. Dorothea Spear, ' 38, 190 S. Second East, Provo, Utah. Lynn Wigen, '36, 1408 E. Forty-second street, Seattle, Wash. Alpha Omicron Dorothy French Xi Hortense Ogden Ruth Rogers Clarice Crawford, ' 37, Springhill, Kan. Arleen Irvine, '39, St. Joseph, Mo. Alpha Tau Betty Graham, '39, Mifwaukee, Wis. Josephine Battles, '37, 720 Woodworth, Alma, Mich. Irene Kistler, ' 39, Kansas City, Mo. Alpha Chi Dorothy Greene, Georgetown, Ky. Omicron Lucille Morgan, Georgetown, Ky. Margaret Thompson, '37, Melrose, Mass . Anno Ia Nickell, Loui sville, Ky. Charlotte Fagginger-Auer, '39, Berea, Ohio. Mary Phillips, Harr odsburg, Ky. Elizabeth Arey, '39, Salem, Mass. Carolyn Rogers, Frankfort, Ky. June Davis, '39, Brockton, Mass. D oris Smith, Owenton, Ky. Marjorie Lamont, '39. West Medford, Mass . Virginia Snyder, Louisville, Ky. Beta Beta Tau Elizabeth Caston, '40, 1217 College street, Columbia, Martha Haehl, '39, Bloomington, Ind. S.C.

HIGH WALL High wall, . Stt·on?, wall of will, H old back this dark river Of memory, lest flood wate,-s D•·own me.

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Delta Omicron Marjorie Pickard, Graduate, Hopedale, Mass. Helen Elizabeth Mauchly, '37, 107 E. Bradley Lane, Bethana Rees, Graduate, West Newton, Mass. Chevy Chase. Md. Dorothy French, '37 , Melrose. Mass. Barbara Porter '37 So. Hamilton, Mass. Ruth Lawrence, '37, Newtonville, Mass. Barbara Obdyke clarke, ' 39, 56 Oak street, Ellsworth, Martha Jean MacGregor, '37, Holyoke, Mass. Me. · h Elizabeth Milk Letson, '39, Dorchester, Mass. Marjorie Finger, '39, 14 Mystic avenue, Wmc ester, Mass. Elsie Paulson, '39. Sharon, Mass. Ruth Avis Gilbert, '39. 20 Pearl avenue, Lawrence, Mass. Epsilon Nancy Josselyn Hall, '39. 12 Winslow road, Winchester, Jean Allatt, '39. Nanuet, N.Y. Mass. laura Coss, '39. Syracuse, N .Y. Virginia Fales Lane, '39, Foxboro, Mass. Betty Farber, '39, Syracuse, N.Y. Janet Lothian Maclachlan, '39, 31 Whitfield road, W. Lila Jones, '39, Rockville Center, L.I., N.Y. Somerville, Mass. Helen Lovegrove, '39. Cornint:. N.Y. Helen Rextrow Maulsby, '39. 98 Woodland avenue, New Esther Palmer, '39. Appalachian, N.Y. Rochelle, N.Y. Elouise Seeger, '38, Lancaster, N.Y. Mary Bonner Pierce, '39, 40 Oak street, Newport, Vt. Helen Smith, '38. Lancaster. N .Y . Rachel Louise Pierce, '39, 567 Rockdale avenue, New Ruth Van Ness, '39, Wickoff, N.J. Bedford, Mass. Persis Maynard Proctor, '39. Little East Neck road, Zeta Babylon, N.Y. Margaret Foote, 1629 Columbia road, Washington, D.C. Tau Katharine Ann Frazer, 4518 Ridge street, Chevy Chase, Marian Pentzer, Bedford, Ind. Md. Betty Beaver, Huntingt~n. Ind. Helena Shaffroth, 1728 New H ampshire avenue, Wash­ Marigail Porter, West ~ort, Ind. ington, D .C. Helen Sharp, West Port, Ind. Theta Mary Louise Miller, Evansville, Ind . Betty Buck, '3 7, Lacon Ill. Ruth Rodabaugh. Winnona, Ind. Mary H armon, '37, Joliet, Ill. Dorthy Scoles, Warsaw, Ind. Helen Smith, '37, C1cero, Ill. Lois Greenwood, Harlan, Ind. Barbara Skinner, '39, Berwyn, Ill. Emilie Hrdlicka, '3 7, Chicago, Ill. Phi Marguerite Buckingham Lambda Alexandra Dobrolet · Sarah Waldner, '39, Taft, Calif. Natalie Gardener Alta Eggert, '37, Dixon, Calif. Winifred Gregson Juliet Baxter, '39, 33 Bowling drive, Oakland, Calif. Elizabeth Hoag Vinita Betts, '39. Visalia, Calif. Helen Houlder Florabelle Marsh, '39, 315 Park View Terrace, Oakland, Agnes Laventure Calif. Lucy Lawrence JoseJ?hine Steele, '37, Yreka, Calif. Ruth Tyler Munel Stoll, '39. 959 Tulare, Berkeley, Calif. Chi Marian Thiele, '39. 668 Calmar avenue, Oakland, Calif. Frances Turman, '39, Willows, Calif. Elizabeth Eva Burgess, '39, 1407 Madison avenue, Louise Yelland, '39, Clarksburg, Calif. Columbus, Ohio Alpha Beta Mu Martha Zimmerman Peggy Barton , '39, 1023 E. Sixty-fourth, Seattle, Wash. Joan Gates Ernestine Duncan, '39. 4122 Corliss avenue, .Seattle, Ruth Wegener Wash. Ruth Frey Nona Fummerton, '39, 7333 Keene Way, Seattle, Wash. Margaret Jane Kenyon, '38, 710 S. Eighteenth avenue, Alpha Gamma Yakima, Wash. Lucille Thompson, '38, 1237 Seventh, Bremerton, Wash. Virginia Ketcham, '39, 1553 Interlaken boulevard, Aimalee Zimmerman, '37, 211 West Fourteenth street, Seattle, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Jean Patterson, '39, Yelm, Wash . Arlene Fischer, '39, 3822 North Seventh street, Tacoma, Janet Prowell, '37. 6303 Seventeenth, N .E., Seattle, Wash. W as h. Jean Richmye r, '39, Hamilton, Wash. Virginia Sonne, '39. 4616 Eastern avenue, Seattle, Wash. Patricia Sutphen, '39, Gooding, Idaho Alpha Delta Nu Laura Melton, Camden, Tenn. Mary Jo Moran, Franklm, Tenn. Isabelle McCann, '37, 70 High street, St. Albans, Vt. Ruby Reeve. '37. Aqueboque, L.I., N.Y. Alice Bassett, '38, 129 H ampton road, Syracuse, N.Y. Alpha Zeta Beulah H agadorn, '38, 4 Catalpa drive, Albany, N.Y. Nancy Disbrow, '39, 385 E. Mosholu parkway, Bronx, Dorothy Simonds. '38, 8 High street, Middlebury, Vt. N.Y. Helen Thomas, '38, 25 Ascadilla road, Worcester. Mass. Charlotte Lehr, '39, 603 High street, Naugatuck, Conn. Helen Burgess, '39, 36 Carlton avenue, Port Washing- Alice Pitcher, '39. Maine, N.Y. ton, L.I., N.Y. Alice Rees, '39, Fillmore, N.Y. Eleanor Caldwell, '39, 17 Fairfield avenue, Florence, Edna Schmidt. '39, 271 Moffat street, Brooklyn, N .Y. Mass. Elizabeth Scofield, '38, 11 4 The Parkway, Ithaca, N.Y. Arthena Gregg, '39, Westminster West Vt. Virginia Sturtevant, '39, 335 Lincoln parkway, Buffalo, Madaline Ulil, '39, Newton road, Woodbridge, Conn. N.Y.

132 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Alpha Eta Alice Waldo. '39 Nellie Bardwell, '38, Excelsior, Minn. Sally Wallerick, '39 Marion Johnson, ' 38, 2083 Stanford avenue, Saint Paul, Mmn. Alpha Sigma Betty Schaefer, '39, Freeport, Ill. Betty Morris, '39 E~el y n Setre, '38, 4008 Barfield avenue south, Minne­ Ethel Talley, '39 apolis, Mmn. D~rothY. Lee, '37, 5336 Russel avenue south, Minne­ apolis, Minn. Alpha Tau Mary Jean Lindsey, '39, 3232 Girard avenue south Min- Mina Hahn, "39, Coopersville. Mich. neapolis , Minn. • Hazel Rogers. "37 , Gaylord Mich. Lorraine Sprague, '37, Ithaca, Mi ch. Alpha Iota Laura Tell, "38, 13520 Griggs, Detroit, Mich. Uld~ Buckley, ,'38, Lakewood, Ohio Une1ta Cleary, 37, Montclair, N .J. Alpha Upsilon Ha~ie Fuller, '38,, Perrysburg, Ohio Dons Guthnecht, 3 7, Youngstown. Ohio Florence Nickisch, Wishek, N.D. Crystal Haynam, "38 Shaker Heights Ohio Lillian Carter, Grand Forks, N.D. Helen Miller. '38. Celina, Ohio ' Sedohr MacDonald, '37, Toledo Ohio Alpha Chi Ruth Saunders, '38, Dayton, Ohio Jenna Elizabeth Arnold, Falmouth, Ky. Jean Asher, Pineville, Ky . Alpha Kappa Persis Chrisman, Dayton, Ohio Fr~nces Brown, '39, Haigler, Neb. Lenora Daniels. Owensboro, Ky. Wmtfred Henke, '39, Wray, Colo. Lois Estes. Shelbyville. Ky. Genevieve Hoff, '38, Wisner, Neb. Christine Lancaster Georgetown Ky. Alta Kohlscheen, '39. Avoca. Iowa Evlyn Lewis. Georgetown, Ky. ' Frances McQuillan, '38, 1345 H street Lincoln Neb Katherine Penn, Frankfort Ky . Barb~ra Marston, "39, Pine Ridge," S.D . ' · Elizabeth Sanders, Greensburg. Ky. Lorame Schuck, 38, 1429 C street, Lincoln, Neb. Maurice Sturghill. Pikeville. Ky. LeObra Wheeler, Hazard, Ky. Alpha Nu Ruth Gormlev, '39, ,328 E. Main street. Missoula, Mont. Alpha Omega Harnet Templeton, 36, Big Timber, Mont. Ruth Coapman, 25 Eastland avenue, Rochester N.Y. Mary Neil Ventrice, Clayton, Ala. ' Alpha Omicron Portia Banning, '37 Beta Beta Alberta Buhse. '37 Ethel Ellison. "39 , 1431 Senate street. Columbia. S.C. Marge Clark, · 39 Adelaide Tay lor, "39, 1520 Blanding street, Columbia, Catherine Cotter '39 1 S.C. Virginia Moss, 38 Cornelia Yoder. '39, 320 Walker street. Columbia, S.C.

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To Ruby Carver Emerson Try This New Song Our Founder's Daughter and Our Grand President Words by HELEN SHARP, Tau To the tune of "Liebestraum"' By FRANCIS M. WIGMORE, Lambda 0! Sigma Kappa how I do adore thee You are my guiding star Down the vista of the years Y.o u came to me from out the golden past Bright a candle's gleam appears! Leaving the gate ajar See five maidens in its glow You brought me happiness Who dreamed a dream long years ago. And now I know that you will always be 'Twas their dream that came to be My own fraternity. Sigma Kappa history; Honor to them we would show For their dream of long ago. Correction That gleam spread to farthest s bore, And their dream lives evermore; On page 74 of the Spring issue of the TRIANGLE Now a Founder's daughter true the words to a new song, to the tune of "Adieu, Lights the lamp for us anew. Adieu, Kind Friends, Adieu,"' were attributed er­ roneously to Margaret Early, Alpha Iota. Margaret Ever faithful let us be sent in the song along with her chapter letter and To their dream of prophecy­ the editor mistakenly believed her to be the author. Ruby Emerson, to you The words were written by Alpha Iota pledges and Here's our love and homage, too. the song sung by them at a banquet.

JUNE, 1936 133 INITIATES _ ,

Delta Omicron Marjorie Pickard, Graduate, Hopedale, Mass. Helen Elizabeth Mauchly, '37, 107 E. Bradley Lane , Bethana Rees, Graduate, West Newton, Mass. Chevy Chase, Md. Dorothy French, '37. Melrose. Mass. Barbara Porter '37 So. Hamilton, Mass. Ruth Lawrence, '37, Newtonville, Mass . · Barbara Obdyke Clarke, '39, 56 Oak street, Ellsworth, Martha Jean MacGregor, '37, Holyoke, Mass. Me. Elizabeth Milk Letson, '39, Dorchester, Mass. Marjorie Finger, '39, 14 Mystic avenue, Winchester, Mass. Elsie Paulson, '39, Sharon, Mass. Ruth Avis Gilbert, '39, 20 Pearl avenue, Lawrence, Mass. Epsilon Nancy Josselyn Hall, '39, 12 Winslow road, Winchester, Jean Allatt, '39, Nanuet, N.Y. Mass. laura Coss, '39, Syracuse, N.Y. Virginia Fales Lane, '39, Fo:;

132 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Alpha Eta Alice Waldo, '39 Nellie Bardwell, '38, Excelsior Minn Sally Wallerick, '39 _Marion Johnson, '38, 2083 Sta,;ford a~enue, Saint Paul ~~- . Alpha Sigma Betty Schaefer,, '39, Freeport, III. Betty Morris, '39 E':'elyn Setre, 38, 4008 Barfield avenue south Minne- apolts, Mmn. ' Ethel Talley, '39 D ~ roth )l Lee, '37, 5336 Russel avenue south, Minne­ apolis, Minn. Alpha Tau Mary Jean Lindsey, '39, 3232 Girard avenue south Min- Mina Hahn, '39, Coopersville, Mich. neapolis, Minn. ' Hazel Rogers, '37, Gaylord Mich. Alpha Iota Lorraine Sprague, '37, Ithac~. Mich. Laura Tell, '38, 13520 Griggs, Detroit, Mich. Ulda Buckley, '38, Lakewood Ohio Unei~a Cleary, ,'37. Montclair, 'N .J . H at~te Fuller, 38, , Perrysburg, Ohio Alpha Upsilon DoriS Guthnecht, 37, Youngstown, Ohio Florence Nickisch, Wishek N.D. Crystal Haynat,n. '38, Shaker Heights, Ohio Lillian Carter, Grand Forks, N.D. Helen Mtller, 38, Celina Ohio Sedohr MacDonald, '37, 'Toledo Ohio Ruth Saunders, '38, Dayton, Ohio Alpha Chi Jenna Elizabeth Arnold, Falmouth, Ky. Jean Asher, Pineville, Ky. Alpha Kappa Persis Chrisman, Dayton, Ohio Fr ~n~es Brown, '39, Haigler, Neb. Lenora Daniels, Owensboro Ky. Wmtf~ed Henke,, '39, Wray, Colo. Lois Estes. Shelbyville, Ky.' Genevteve Hoff, 38, Wisner, Neb. Christine Lancaster, Georgetown Ky. Alta Kohlscheen, '39, Avoca Iowa Evlvn Lewis, Georgetown, Ky. ' Frances McQuillan, '38, 1345' H street, Lincoln Neb. Katherine Penn, Frankfort Ky. Barb~ra Marston. '39, Pine Ridge,· S.D. ' Elizabeth Sanders, Greensburg. Ky. Lorame Schuck, '38, 1429 C street, Lincoln, Neb. Maurice Sturghill, Pikevi lle. Ky. LeO bra Wheeler, Hazard, Ky. Alpha Nu Ruth_ Gormlev, '39, ,328 E. Main street, Missoula, Mont. Alpha Omega Harnet Templeton, 36, Big Timber, Mont. Ruth Coapman, 25 Eastland avenue, Rochester, N .Y. Mary Neil Ventrice, Clayton, Ala. Alpha Omicron Portia Banning, '37 Beta Beta Alberta Buhse '37 Marge Clark, '• 39 Ethel Ellison, '39, 1431 Senate street, Columbia, S.C. Catherine Cotter, '39 s.t.delaide Taylor, '39. 1520 Bl anding street, Columbia, Virginia Moss, '38 Cornelia Yoder, '39, 320 Walker street, Columbia, S.C.

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To Ruby Carver Emerson Try This New Song Our Founder•s Daughter and Our Grand President Words by HELEN SHARP, Tau To the tune of "Liebestraum" By FRANCIS M. WIGMORE, Lambda 0! Sigma Kappa how I do adore thee Down the vista of the years You are my guiding star Bright a candle's gleam appears! You came to me from out the golden past See five maidens in its glow Leaving the gate ajar Who dreamed a dream long years ago. Y ou brought me happiness And now I know that you will always be 'Twas their dream that came to be My own fraternity. Sigma Kappa history; Honor to them we would show For their dream of long ago. Correction That gleam spread to farthest shore, And their dream lives evermore; On page 74 of the Spring issue of the TRIANGLE Now a Founder's daughter true the words to a new song, to the tune of "Adieu, Lights the lamp for us anew. Adieu, Kind Friends, Adieu," were attributed er­ roneously to Margaret Early, Alpha Iota. Margaret Ever faithful let us be sent in the song along with her chapter letter and T o their dream of prophecy­ the editor mistakenly believed her to be the author. Ruby Emerson, to you The words were written by Alpha Iota pledges and Here's our love and homage, too. the song sung by them at a banquet.

JUNE, 1936 133 WITH OUR ALUMNAE CLUBS EDNA MoNCH PARKER, Editor - Bakersfield Alumnre Club New Castle, Pa., Alumnre Club Miriam Burt Gurr is Citv Park Commissioner of Bakers­ The New Castle Alumnae Club met at the home of Lois field and President of the Faculty Wives. Arnold on April 17 after being compelled to discontinue Ida (Jerry ) Mildrum, Alpha Epsilon. is head of the meetings during the most severe J>art of the winter. We domestic science department of Wasco High School. hoped for a full turn-out, but unforeseen difficulties pre­ Lois Walker is so far improved in health that she prac­ vented Ruth Rowse Davenport and Louise Johnston from tically commutes between Bakersfield and Los Angeles and coming from Sharon, and Marion Johnson of Carleton rides horseback constantly w1th Maqone (Jerry) Lee, had just a few days before accepted a positiOn as fil e Alpha Omicron. clerk in the State Library at Harrisburg. Mary Doris McCarthy Corwin, Alpha Omicron, is a But we were glad that eight of us could get together. recent addition to our membership. She is head of the After a period of chat about who was doing what, we had art department of a store in Bakersfield. . a short business meeting at which time the following offi­ Marian Clymer Shreve is President of the Delphian cers were elected: Blodwen D avis, President; Dot Kirk­ Society. bride, Vice-President; and Lois Arnold, Secretary-Treas­ Mary Harris Day was a· recent visitor to Seattle. urer. Hope Lockridge Wheeler, Lambda, expects to attend con­ The evening continued with the playing of "Monopoly" vention. after which prizes were awarded "Billie" Wallace, Dot Winifred Hunt Waldner's daughter pledged Sigma Kirkbride, and "Blod" Daiv. Supper was served at a Kappa at her mother's own chapter, Lambda. long table in the living room with sorority colors pre­ M ARY HARRIS DAY dominating in the menu and decorations. Plans were formulated during the evening for an evening bridge party to be given for the college chapter, Alpha Sigma, the patronesses> and pledges either in New Wil­ Dixon, Ill., Alumnre Club mmgton or New Castle about the middle of May. Frances "Skip" Chapman and Lois Arnold were put in charge of The Dixon Alumn:e Club has gone along quietly and arrangements. re~:ularly · with its meetings even during the very severe wmter that we experienced around here. We were snowed LOIS D . ARNOLD in foL days but only once was it necessary for our out of town members to miss a meeting. We have continued to have our early supper meetings Newport, R.I., Alumnre Club and after our always delicious meal, we play currently popular games, the knitters knit and we discuss every Blissfully escaping from the recent floods, southern angle of politics, the present generation and Sigma Kappa Rhode Island continues merrily on its way. news and just generally enjoy ourselves immensely. Way back in February we had a St. Valentine party at The February meeting was held at the home of Josephine the home of Marian Vayro in Newport. After the business Nichols, the March meeting at Frances Zoeller's and the meeting we played two tables of Monopoly, and enjoyed April one at Louise Trautwein's. At this latter meeting we Valentme refreshments. were fortunate to have a guest-Fanny May Brooks. We Our March meeting, at the home of Virginia Crandall discovered that she was to be the speaker at a Home in Newport, was a social one at which we entertained the Bureau meeting in Dixon on the same evening we were to alumn:e members of Chi Omega and Delta Zeta. This was be together so we asked her to have supper with us . We our first attempt at a get-together and it was voted a grand enjoyed having her so much that we hope we may arrange success by all. The St. Patrick's theme was carried out m some of our future meetings to coincide with her appear­ the refreshments which were served by Virginia Crandall ances in Dixon. and Alice Gladding. FRANCEs ZoELLER We went literary in April at our meeting with Betty Hearne of Newport. After the business, we had book reports by indi·v1dua l members. Pearl Buck's new book, Grand Forks, N.D., Alumnre Club "The Exile," brought forth some grand di scussions on oriental customs, family life and religion. We hope to Caroline Moore was hostess to Alpha Upsilon club continue these reports as we all enjoyed them . . members March 4, in her new apartment at 621 Cotton­ Best wishes to you all for a very happy summer w1th wood street. Caroline is keeping house for her brother lots of sunshine and swimming. James who has come back to the University to do some MARIAN M . VAYRO graduate work. In spite of our usual lengthy discussion of financ~s we managed to do a bit of visiting a~d appreciate the n1ce lunch wh1ch was served by Carolme. It is a Wichita, Kan., Alumnre Club regrettable fact that only six appeared for this meeting and it was not a cold night either. The Sigma Kappa Club of Wichita so small now that it April 23, Margaret Barto, '34, entertained our club at scarce can be called a club, had the last meeting of the the home of her uncle and aunt Dr. and Mrs. Robert year at the home of Mrs. Bill Burris, 4322 East Waterman, Ogilvie. After routine business waS disposed of we visited Thursday, April 23. Despite the fact that we have onlv and enjoved looking at Mrs .. Ogilvie's collection of an­ five members, the rest of our original group having moved tiques. Th1s was one of the mcest meetings of the year. out of town, we are determined to keep our organization. as The next event scheduled for our program is Engineer's active as possible, and will continue to send a representative Day, _May I. One of t~ e interesting features of the day is ta Panhellenic as usual. Mrs. Silas Winkler was chosen the VISit to the Ceramics department where we see Miss for that office, her term to begin next fall. One reason Margaret Ca.ble and Julia. Mattson mold clay into the for our desire to maintain the small organization we now most mterestmg shapes. Bes1des this demonstration of their have is that in four fears a Sigma Kappa will be eligible ability we can see all manner of beautiful work displayed for the presidency o the Wichita City Panhellenic, and in the art exhibit on the second floor of Babcock Hall that it would be fifteen years before we would again ~ave Miss Cable and Julia have designed some beautiful bowls that opportunity. The second reason is that the group IS so and made many models of fl owers, fruit and animals sym­ congenial and we do have such good times at our little boli ca l of North D akota. informal gatherings. FRANCES H . OWEN HORTENSE B. CAMPBELL

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Bay Cities for our waist measures. Many of ns att ~ nd c d the joint initiation and banquet of Plans for our new chapter house are inspiring enthusi­ Delta and Omicron at Hotel Brunswick in Boston April astic work. Committees are working and all California 18. We were reminded at the banquet of our many members Sigma Kappas are discussing plans and finances. At our with present or past national connections: Ruby Carver March meeting, held at the home of Ruth Ann Grieg, Emerson, grand president; Hila Helen Small, past grand we heard that the Mothers' Club of the college chapter president; Sara L. Collins, past grand vice-president; had offered to raise one half of the money due on the Nellie B. Mansfield, chairman of international philan­ purchased lot if the alumnre group would pay the re­ thropy; Lillian M. Perkins, chairman of poetry. The mainder, which, of course, we decided to do. Boston alumnre scholarship spoons were awarded to We held our annual Spring luncheon April 25 at the Pauline Nevers, Delta, '35, and Irma Illingworth, Omi­ Women's Athletic club. Margaret Laidlaw Black, ex-'32, cron, '35. gave a most entertaining reading from The New Yorker. The highlight of our spring meetings was the celebration Anna McClure Harper, '24, reported on the Los Angeles of our thirtieth birthday April 25 at the Boston Univtr· Regional Conference and Ruth Ann Grieg, '13, told of sitv Woman's building. A short business meeting was the developments in the plans for the new house. Katherine followed by a dinner with a birthday cake gay w1th its Schwaner Kolasa, '20, described the annual Panhellenic thirty candles. Maude Abbot Hawkes, our cha\'ter presi­ Spring East Bay luncheon held April 17 at the Women's dent, was the gracious and clever toastmistress ca ling upon Athletic dub. She emphasized the success of the round the past presidents to aid us in "Recapturing History." table discussions on sorority problems held after the This was done most efficientlv in spite of the fact that our luncheon. records of the early years had been lost in the Chelsea Another successful spring luncheon can be attributed fire, and also that our memories someti mes do play us again to the fine work of the committees under Helen strange tricks . Sigma songs were sung under the leadership Wilsey Shelton, '33 chairman. The flower decorations of Sara L. Collins. Ethel Larm, president of Region I, were arraneed by Mildred Winslow, Frances Clarkson and was our guest. We are quite proud that, on this occasion , Georgia Williams. San Francisco alumnre were well repre­ so fraught with Sigma memories, our Grand President was sented and Katherine Caswell Foster, '28, came from with us-not in her official capacity, but as "Ruby," one Sacramento to attend. Our honor guests were Mother of the chapter's members, and one of its past presidents. Ware, housemother of Lambda chapter, Minnie Bunker, The committee in charge was composed of Ruth G. But­ Alpha, and Peggy Dygert. ters, Maude A. Hawkes, and Nellie B. Mansfield, chair­ Concluding the meeting came the election of officers for man. Maude had charge of the program ; Ruth, of decora­ the coming year. For president Helen Curry Federichi, tions and the cake; and Nellie of the dinner and general ex-'31; vice president, Carol Prifold Harrison ; recording arrangements. secretary, Agnes Leathers Bowman, ' 31; corresponding Since its founding by Grace Ada Small Houlder in 1906, secretary, Olive Burwell; treasurer, Marion Winchester Boston alumnre chapter has had twenty-two presidents. King, '25; publicity chairman, Rosmary Forgie Martin, Red roses were used as a tribute to the twenty living ex-'32; TRIANGLE correspondent, Helen Wilsey Shelton, presidents and white carnations for Grace Small Houlder '33. and Virginia Mabry. To those of us who were privileged Sunday, May 3, the college chapter, the alumnre and to attend came a benediction down through the years and their husbands and the Mothers' club met together at a a stronger sense of the same loyalty and service so ch ar­ buffet luncheon at the chapter house to discuss the build­ acteristic of all who work for our beloved sorority. May ing of the new house. The architect's plans were displayed we of the present be an inspiration to those who follow us, and Ruth Anp Greig, '13, and Ruth Norton Donnelly, carrying on the same noble ideals that have been our '25. explained the orogress of the financial arrangements. heritage. This meeting concluded our spring program and Sigma ETHEL M. KELLEY Kappas said good-bye until the fall when activities will begin again with renewed energy and enthusiasm. Buffalo GEORGINE FINK THEISS As variety is the spice of life, this spring was a full­ flavored one for Buffalo Sigmas. The February meeting Boston was an evening musicale at the home of Annarnarie Sauer­ We met at the home of Elizabeth Davenport in Arlington lander, Alpha Beta, '28. The well known blind pianist, in February. Gladys Gatchell gave a most interesting talk Patricia Boyle, was our guest arttst and tt seemed un­ on "Movies Go Selling." Then "Libby" assisted by believable that she could not see the keyboard, she played Eleanor Lester, Kathryn Aller and Margaret Cochran so beautifully. She was most generous about granting served a delicious supper. A food sale was held by the special requests and we were so pleased to hear several finance committee with Frances Van Jderstine in charge. numbers in addition to the program she had planned . Sarah The annual Boston City Panhellenic bridge this year took Ellen Rider, Alpha Beta, ' 32, sang an aria from Madame the form of a dessert-bridge March 7 at the Boston Butterfly and for it she wore a Japanese costume that had University Woman's Building. An additional feature was a been brought from Japan for Beatrice Carney Behrens, lashion show with many of the group acting as models. Alpha Beta, ' 29. Bea told us about the interesting details The proceeds was used to buy a grand p~ano for the of the dress, including wig and shoes. sorority groups living at "131" (Commonwealth avenue, Because of the historic blizzard, and record snow fall, of Boston), and a gift of $50 to the Tufts Alumnre hall fund. March 17. 1936 the March meeting was called off. Elizabeth Davenport is our delegate to Panhellenic, with In April, the 'meeting was held. at the " Elm-Nor'' t_ea Irene Hall acting as alternate. room. After dinner we had a busmess meetm!:, the ch1ef Waban was our destination in March at the home of topic being the annual bridge party-the . discussion of Mary Parker Dunning, Omicron '02, who spoke on "The which lasted long enough to take up the t1me of a pro- Country of the Golden Dragon." We greatly admired her red satin costume made two hundred years ago for a grA_":,·d on the first Saturday in May-the " Third Annual Chinese bride, with an elaborate headdress which included Alumnre Bridge, Tea, and Fashion Show to be gi ven b_y a shower of ornaments. Mrs . Dunning had arranged, on Sigma KapJ>a Sorority." Held _at )'Jorton !) all on the Uni­ her buffet, tiny models showing a gay bridal procession. versity of Buffalo campus, th1~ IS the b1g e ~e nt of the Following her talk. supper was served bv Lillian Bowker, year for it must be successful tf our treasury IS to fulfill Sara Collins, and Ethel Kelley. Due to the serious illness the pledges to the Maine Sea Coast . Mission and the of her mother, Hazel White, the chairman hostess, was scholarsh. iJ? fund. Over fifty tables of bndge (at l east one unable to be present. There was much fun when Lucv of rummy) assured us of the success. The fas hiOn show Gage for the finance committee charged a penny an inch was sponsored by the Wm. Hengerer Co. and the eleve n

JUNE, 1936 135 models were Sigmas, college and alumnre. Fashions were Taylor Jacobson, the outj:oing president, introduced the showo in groups making complete wardrobes for the girl new president of the Chicago alumnre chapter, Mrs. ]. in school, girl graduate, business girl and vacationist. Rene Hemingway (Marian SeCheverell, Psi), who m In addition to giving entertainment for one afternoon turn introduced the new chairmen of the various sections: the committee, of which Helen Flower, Alpha Beta, '34, west, Mrs. W. I. Connell (Marie Sullivan, Alpha Ep­ was chairman, wanted to help the prize wmners in their silon) ; south, Mrs. Herman H. Fajen (Marjorie Ward, entertaining. Prizes were wooden hoes-d'oeuvre dishes with Alpha lambda); north, Mrs. P. 1. Sommerlad (Aida gay colored toothpicks all ready to hold a tasty bite. McCauley, Iota); and north shore, Mrs. J. lyman Bing­ The tea table was centered with a lovely bouquet of ham (Helen Wright, Iota). spring flowers in sorority colors. Alpha Beta patronesses The high light of the evening was the program provided poured . While we paid a small sum for each person served by Agnes Jones, Alpha Eta, danseuse; Mary Butler, Theta, tea, the cakes were donated by members. Everyone present and Mrs. G. D. Olmstead (Thelma McMurray, Alpha had a delightful afternoon-and next year there will be a Kappa) who each sang a group of songs; and Mary Hart­ "Fourth Annual Alumnre Bridge." ley, Iota, and Ruth Jacobs, Alpha Mu, who played several AnA K. STANLEY piano selections. Mary Butler has previously given of her talent to our annual banquets, and we look forward to Chicago hearins this gracious Sigma Kappa. Thelma Olmstead's voice IS old in musical circles on the north shore. but it The Southside section of Chicago alurnnre, under the was new to most of the Sigma Kappas. May we hear able direction of louise Holton, have had unusually suc­ more from her on future occasions! We hope to have a cessful meetings this winter. The bridge luncheon in full evening's dance recital by Agnes Jones next year. Mandel's Gold room for all sections, which the South­ The committee responsible for the banquet was com· side sponsored, was well attended and thoroughly enjoyed. prised of Ada-Mae Gansz, Theta; Helen Wnght Bingham; Marjorie Ward Fajen, Alpha lambda, who came to Mrs. Frank Teegarden (Alice Van Sands, Theta) ; Marion Chicago from New York last year, has been an active and Bigelow, Alpha Epsilon; and Aida McCauley Sommerlad. valued member of the Southside section. Their March The dinner-dance in the Marine dining room of the meeting was held in her home. Ed<:ewater Beach hotel in March, sponsored by the North­ Many Southsiders held prominent places in the Easter side section, was a gay and memorable event. parade, no doubt due in part to the fact a guest speaker, The newlv organized Northshore section are finding their a fashion stylist, gave the girls valuable tips on what to dessert-luncheon bridge meetings something not to be wear with their Easter clothes at the April meeting at missed at any cost. Meetings have been held at Frances Julia Simonson Gault's home. . langdon's with Esther Spaulding assisting, at Alice Tee­ The Westsiders held one of their famous pot luck sup­ garden's with Marion Coulter assistinl$ and at Marion pers at Ruth Horner Holt's in March. A miscellaneous Hemingway's with Ruth Hardacre assisting. The latter shower was given for Marge Skudstad (now Mrs. Barnes­ was a telephone bridge for the benefit of Psi chapter. see .marrial$es). Marie Sullivan Connell brought to the Marion Coulter won one of the grand prizes. Apnl meetm,g at Ruth Jacob's some moving pictures of Prospects for Chicago alumnre chapter look exceedingly Colorado which of course were of special interest because of bright for next year with the following officers to lead convention. Comedy relief was provided by one obstrep­ and inspire: Marian SeCheverell Hemingway, Psi, president erous reel which insisted on running backwards and of Chicago alumnre chapter. For the Northside; Aida music was obligingly furnished by the audience. ' McCauley, Iota, chairman; lois Blake Davenport, Theta, The Westside section gave a bridge party at Janet secretary; Hazel Saul, Theta, treasurer. Marie Sullivan Taylor Jacobson's home May 20, the proceeds to be given Connell, Alpha Ep.,;i'lon, will be chairman of Westside to nearby cha_pters. section and Ruth Swanson Baxter, Iota, secretary and . Sixty-three dollars raised at a bridge benefit is Chicago's treasurer. Marjorie Ward Fajen heads the south side. biggest news! Credit for this successful enterprise goes to MARIAN BIGELOW the west suburban section whose members planned, man­ aged, and worked hard to carry out this money-raising proJect. Cincinnati Under the able direction of the chairman of the section Although we are listed among "Missing letters," we Mrs. Cleveland J. White (Mil?red Daly, Alpha Kappa): have been having our regular meetings in Cincinnati this and. Mrs. A. J. Clark (Manon Faust, Xi), who was year. In September, we exchanged summer experiences at chairman of the party, all details were carried out to the home of Helen Taylor who was assisted by Elva Gerwe, perfectiOn . The committee on ticket sales, with Mrs. lester Ruth Ann Koch. and Jean Lammert. Holt (Ruth Horner, Theta) as chairman sent tickets to The next month we were entertained by Viola Alt­ alum_nre members of Psi chapter and Thet~ chapter, living houser and Ruth Elaine Stryker, who are both verJ busy, Within the Chicago distnct, askmg for their cooperation, now. entertaining someone else. Who? look un er the Since the proceeds of the party were to go to the building "Milestones." funds of those respective chapters. A long paragraph could Our next hostesses were Thyra Shulte and Ida Glasser. be wntten on the response to these letters; suffice it to The Christmas party was at the home of Hazel Jones say that the usual loyal alumnre were the only ones to with Florence Burgess, Mildred Spry, and Helen Harvey as return a check-to say nothing of returning unused tickets. co-hostesses. Mrs. Roland Jacobson's (Janet Taylor, Psi) spacious Two new alumnre from Alpha Iota, Hazel Keeling and Oak Park ho?'e was the scene for this happy affair. Twenty Virginia Bennett, had the January meeting. ta~les of bndge were tn play for the twenty attractive Frances Kirkpatrick and Caroline Smith were our host· pnzes donated by various west suburban members. The esses for the next meeting, at which we elected new officers dessert of cakes and coffee did great credit to the culinary for next year. art of the Oak Parkers, ~nd the attractive tallies made by The new officers are: president, Mary Struke; vice­ Mrs. John Kumler (LOIS Wdson, Theta) displayed to president, Hazel Jones; secretary, Ruth Ann Koch; advantage Sigma. Kappa's Greek letters and colors. treasurer, Helen Taylor; Panhellenic representative, Elva The money !"'sed through the sale of tickets was aug­ Gerwe; alternate, Virginia Jones; and TRIANGLE coree· mented by sellmg chances on a luscious looking cake made spondent, Mary Wright. . by Mildred White. One look at the cake was all the In addition to these meetings, we have been having sales talk n~cessary for wresting stray dimes and quarters Panhellenic meetings. The Sigma Kappas were well repre­ from the bndge plavers. sented at these meetings, not only in number, but because Other members who deserve especial kudos for their Frances Kirkpatrick was chosen to be the first president. efforts on the behalf of these two chapters include Mrs. Since the Sigma Kappas were the inauguraters of Pan­ Fred N. f!axter _(Ruth Swanson, Iota), Mrs. W. J. Con­ hellenic in Cmcinnati, and because Frances has proved an nell (M;ane Su!IIvan, Alpha Epsilon). Mrs. John 'Forslew excellent person for this office, we feel that the honor was (Vugmia Jamison, Theta), Mrs. laird Mace (Ruth well placed. Brown) Eta), Mrs. Everett Groves (Ruth Clouse Alpha We were glad to have lola Jane Risenberger, regional ~~- . president, in Cincinnati. Although we didn't have the Too _few Sigma Kappas turned out for the banquet at pleasure of having her as a guest at a meeting, the officers the .S:hicago Woman's Club Friday evening, June 5. "Too did have her as their guest at luncheon. . few because many more would have enjoyed the ex­ Everyone is looking forward to seeing Ruth Little cellent program arranged bv the committee of north side lawson in June. and n~r~h short:: members. Hostesses for the evening were H. HARVEY the. retJttng cha1rmen of the various sections: north shore Alice Van Sands Teegarden; north side, Ada Mae Gansz : Dallas south, lo.mse Holton (Psi and Omega) · west Mildred Dalv White. ' ' Dallas is all agog with our Texas Centennial Celebration. Texas is 100 years old, and as the state fai~ is always held Following a superlative dinner, Audr~y Dykeman gave us in Dallas, the Fair grounds are being used for the big a short talk on the com.mg convention and urged the Centennial. We are planning a bill banquet some time attendance of as many Chicago alumnre as possible. Janet during the celebrations, a homecommg or Founders' Day

136 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE banquet. So if you plan to visit Dallas, and we hope honored the initiates and colle_ge chapter with a dance that you will, write us and we will tell you about our after the banquet at Cherokee Club. plans. Do come by on your way to or from the national EUNICE LUNSFORD convention in Colorado Springs, or plan to spend your vacattOn here. HATTIE LEE BRYANT WINSETT Louisville _ Along_ with the times, the Louisville alurnn:e chapter IS mJlatmg. Our attendance at meetings is growing, and Eastern Iowa activtttes are mcreasmg a tribute to our new president Old man winter played havoc with our plans for Febru­ Sally Sherwood Keith! We have been successful m severai ary and March meetings but we managed to get them in money raising projects. Our annual scholarship bridge was after many postponements. Martha Moermond and Hilde­ qmte an alfaJC-both socially and fin ancially. By attending garde Marousek entertained at the Town and Gown a local laundry, we earned fifteen dollars which was tearoo"? quring February. and in March Marie Phillips donated to the college chapter. A dance was promoted by Boyle mv1ted us out to her home to spend the evening. the alumn:e chapter, the proceeds of which began a con­ The May meeting was a picnic. ventiOn fund . Margaret Brown acted as chairman. FLORENCE McDO WELL We were happy to be able to subscribe to the Fowler memorial in honor of the late Dr. E. B Fowler head of the English department, University of ·Louisvill~. and Houston husband of our patroness, M rs . Fowler. The memorial is Houston Sigmas feel most important after having cele­ to be in the form of a reading room as an addition to brated their sixth anniversary of the founding of the the Un1vemty l1brarv. The nucleus of the room wi ll be the alumn:e chapter February 27. personal library of Dr. Fowler. With five Sigmas from scattered chapters meeting at the Our May meeting wi ll be a luncheon at the new home home of Irma Rayburn Vaudoit' s, Pi, the first meetmg was of Dorothy Hagemann with the graduating members of held. The number has since grown to thirteen with the the college chapter as guests. A feature of this meeting membership fluctuating from bme to time. We are sorry will be the presentation of awards by the alumn:e chap­ we haven t been able to keep all those Sigmas who ter, to two members of the college chapter, to the most have lived in Houston for short periods with us always. outstanding girl and to the girl with the highest scholar­ We do boast of 100 per cent membership. There are no ship. inactive Sigmas in Houston! DoROTHY HAMBLETON HAGEMANN This February the meeting was again held at Irma's in the form of a birthday tea with candles and a cake to mark the auspicious occasion-also celebrating the in and Nashville out going president, Catherine Bogart Berry and Vir­ SPRING LETTER gmia Turney as well as honoring Hazel Weingandt Jax, Dear Girls: who has recently been elected QreSJdent of city Panhellenic. I just can't wait to get started. There's so much of a The other new officers installed were Libby Fillipi Walton newsy nature to get into print. Nothing sharpens the end Alpha Nu, vice-president; Gwendolyn Lyford Spencer: of a reporter's pencil like news about weddings and Et~. secretary: L uc...llttl ueer¥ tlarr

JUNE, 1936 137 SuMMER LETTER Our November rummage sale went over with a bang­ There's so much astir with the tenth birthday celebration customers clamored to enter the little store on Second uf Alpha Rho, plans for convention, iris festival, luncheons avenue in Manhattan early Thursday afternoon and salts spring dance, weddings, babies, and graduations (to men: continued at a fast and furious pace until late Saturday tton only a few activities) that it's hard to organize a afternoon. Melba Rosen, Evelyn Holmes Marie Hathaway letter. I can feel it coming on in a helter-skelter fashion . Sue Hetherington, Muriel Plate and ;everal other loyai The big event of the season has been the observance SISters labored long and diligently fitting and pleasing our of Alpha Rho's tenth birthday May lS-16. The dance on customers. Net _profits over one hundred dollarJ. We Friday night, May 15, at which the college chapter was hope that we will send a delegate to convention. hostess was followed by an informal luncheon at the Our January program was presented by Alberta Bennett sorority house on Saturday, a banquet a Ia grande mode Epsilon, who supervises a summer group of America~ Saturday night, and a tea on Sunday at which all re­ girls and boys in an English country home. Her anecdotes ceived . the congratulations of the University community are extremely amusing and the project has every chance of and. fnends. The banquet honored especially the charter beco'!'mg an InternatiOnal .mst1tut10n as she is also having 1n1ttates of Alpha Rho. Mrs. Darden served as toastmistress. Engltsh boys and g1rls 10 New York C1ty at various We were happy to have as guests a number of out-of­ times dunng the winter. Alberta's real "Job" is that of town visitors for the weekend. The series of events was head of the School and College department in the Bilt­ an expression of the sincere pride which we feel after more hotel in New York City. She is general chaperon having had ten years' experience in Sigma Kappa. of all college and school people, who make the Biltmore Plans for lurlme Richardson's wedding are very inter­ the1r headquarters while v1sitmg our fair city. estmg. A number of entertainments are being planned in We are very proud of our cooperation with the Ntw her honor. York C1ty PanhelleniC havmg fourteen Sigmas listed as Surprise! Surprise! Corinne Adams and Robert Taylor members . motored to Kentucky and were married sometime in Manhattan, long Island and Brooklyn-bridge clubs April. Add to this the news of Olivia Clark's marriage have been meetmg regularly and the treasury appreciates to. Sterling McMahon, Elizabeth Garner's marriage to the results. D1ckmson Graham, Eva Mai Haynie's to J. D. Brown The annual bridge was held February 1 in the "Tree and I know you're atingle with the joyousness of ro: of life" and "Blade" rooms of the Beekman Towers A mance. If I were a clever reporter I'd make subtle reference beautiful dress was donated by the Mary Wardman shop to as many as three other AIP,ha. Rho Sigmas who will and won by Mrs. Hellwig. The climax of the afternoon be marned ere long, but you ll Just have to await an­ was a fashion show presented in the ball room, after tea nouncements. had been served. The gowns loaned by the Hallie Lyon Wei~ well "lulu's back in town!" Oh, I'm sorry, I shops were modeled by Alpha lambda actives and Ntw apolog1ze. I meant to say that Frances Alexander is back York City alumnre. Their coiffures were donated by tht in Nashville and we're all so glad to see her after a Naomi Ford beauty salon. A large group of Kappa Alpha long absence. Frances is working at Vanderbilt Hospital Thetas, who had a luncheon that day, were inv1ted to the fasl\10n show. th1s s"mmer ~nd in the fall will begin some post graduate study 1n nursmg. . _March meeting was informal because of Alpha lambda lo Adams has been kiting here, there and yonder again. InitiatiOn wh1ch we. all attended. It was followed by a Up to day before yesterday she had in the last two months tea !n honor ,of the 1mttate, Ethel Thomson. A delightful spent a week in Chicago and another week in Ft Madison' VIOlm solo by llll1an Preuss entertained us during the Iowa. By day after tomorrow she may have added Bosto~ tea. and New Orleans to her list of places recently visited. In New York City, you n'!ay attend a Panhellenic tea Mary Walker and Avon McMurry enjoyed a visit to any Sunday afternoon, from 4-6 at the club rooms in Alpha Omega for their initiation. Mary has also read a Beekman Towers. A different sorority acts as hostess each paper before a meet1ng of the Tennessee Philological So­ Sunday. ciety held in Murfreesboro. April 5, was Sigma Kappa Sunday and the Sigmas Babies! The dear creatures! Congratulations and a lot turned out in a body. Tea was served from 4-6 but no of love to Jenks and Claude Chadwick, Eleanor and one. wanted to leave before nearly 7. We were more than Russell Crowe, S~1dee and Go.rdon Ridge, liz and J. C. deltghted and honored by the visit of our Grand President, West, and to the1r babies. Mrs. Ruby Carver Emerson, who made the trip from _Wilma Huntley had a delightful stay in Florida this Boston Just to g1ve us a greeting that afternoon. Hester wmter and almost sooner than she had taken off her hat Sondergaard, Alpha Eta, who is with the Theatre Union m Nashville she was off to Virginia. m . New York gave a very interesting talk about strikes, W1th due apologies to all of you and to the editor for stnke-breakers, scabs and their relation to us as the not having had my last letter in soon enough to get ::women shop~;~rs." Mr.s. Railing, the "Vass Family's'' published I'll sign off with the whisper that your reporter Mammy lou of rad10 fame entertained with several IS playmg. hooky from. her laboratory tomorrow to go on very humorous readings. Our Panhellenic guests enjo,ed a real _fishmg tnp. let s hope the big ones won' t get away the tea as much as the Sigmas. thiS time. KATHERINE ANDERSON Our theatre party and buffet supper will be as huge a success. Supper served in Melba Rosen's penthouse apart· ment-" Bitter Stream"-at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Nebraska and back-stage after theatre as guests of Hester Sonder­ The lincoln alumnre chapter gathered at the chapter gaard. house for our February meeting. We met in March at the Spring rummage sale--Caroline Uzmann, chairman-was apartment of Elsie Hershberger with twenty present. very successful. Held April 8-9-10 in a tiny shop_ on On the followmg Saturday we took the nine new initiates Second Avenue in Manhattan. Ma~y of the New York of Alpha Kappa to see "Colleen" starring Dick Powell alumnre asSISted as salesladies errand-girls and donors of and Ru~ y Keeler. Afterwards we took the girls to Selma clothing and miscellaneous ru;,mage. Puckett s home for tea. May bnngs our Metropolitan activities to a close with The April meeting was held at the home of Christine our. annual luncheon and May meeting. The luncheon will Carlson. We elected the new offi cers: Elsie Hershberger, be m the main dining-room of the Beekman Towers. The pres1~ent ; . Ava Lee, v1ce-pres1dent; Viola Hoff, secretary; program wlll be presented after the annual meeling and Evel)n Ph1ll1ps, treasurer; and LOUISe Van S1ckle, public1ty w1ll conSISt of several readings by Evelyn Nelson Holmes, cha~rma':' . Chnstme tells us that Angeline Anderson 'has Alpha Eta. mo~ed mto her . new home now and we are all most New Jersey alumnre will join us for luncheon and anx10us to see 1t. These Carlson girls are such clever meetmg. hostesses th ~ t I am sure someone is always trying to MARION BORNER SHIRKEY wrangle an JnVJtatiOn. ~e have lost several of our alumnre to other chapters th1s year. Betty Lyman Van Kat (Mrs. J. A. Van Kat) Palo Alto has moved to Eau Claire, Wis., and may be reached in Dorothy Bower with Zelda Wickersham Hayes enter· care of the Eau Claire News Agency there. Florence tamed the group at Dorothy's Menlo Park home February Zelmer Bolen (Mrs. Jack Bolen) has moved to Omaha 8. Those who remember the Bower home will be interested but that is clos~ enough for her to get down once in ; to know. that it has been made into a duplex with a while. And Millicent Jaecke Fowler (Mrs. Charles Fowler) wmg built on from. the living room, giving an additional has moved to lmcoln with her husband and their two bedroom a!'d the k1tchen for the family. It was a grand children. 1dea, so 1f any one ts planmng a remodeling sprtt, WILLA-CLARE McQuiLLAN she would do well to get in touch with Dorothy's mother. At the_ March meetmg an exhibit of the Maine S

138 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE keeping. It was the "windiest day of the season" and we are about swept off the top of the hill in getting to San Francisco the house. Once inside, the cosiness made us for11et all The Regional Conference at Los Angeles and the exhibit March gales. Those who have seen a Seacoast exhib1t will of the Mame Sea Coast work have taken up our interest appreciate the perfection of handwork in everything placed during the spring months. on disl'lay. We are ordering a quilt to be raffled at the Two of our members, Lelia Peugh and Lulu Mann end o the year. Armstrong, were able to attend the Regional Conference April was one of the "bright spot" meetings, when held the weekend of March 15. They came back with Artemesia Powell Rabbett opened her home in Palo Alto for such glowing and enthusiastic reports of the benefits (and a spring luncheon. Mary Sloan Wilbur was co-hostess. The fun) of a Regional Conference that those of us who had luncheon was served buffet with five tables on the patio. to stay behind and work or tend babies or whatever else The proceeds from the luncheon were quite satisfactory as there is that keeps one from going to conferences were most of the food was donated. Artemesias garden is encouraged by the news that the next conference ~ill be $Orgeous, and it is hard to say whether the guests en­ held in Berkeley. The closer union and friendship be­ JOyed the luncheon or the garden most. We had three tween our chapters as fostered by these conferences is a guests-Ruth Norton Donnelly, TRIANGLE alumnre editor; thing which will strengthen our sorority in every wav. Anna McCune Harper, regional president; and Ruth Anne Our representatives gave their reports to us at the March Ware Greig, district counselor-all members of Bay Cities meet1ng held at the home of Laura Beswick. Lelia told alumnre. Peg Fagg, Josephone Davenport and Van Hanson us of the social side of the conference while Lulu pre­ came from the San Francisco alumnre chapter. Ruth Don­ sented the various items of business discussed. nelly entertained us in her impromptu manner with a This was a red letter night for us because at th e same talk on Sigma Kappa gossip. meetmg we had the exhibit of the M aine Sea Coast DEBORAH HICHBOR N RAYNER Mission work. We found th at this exhibit explained many of our q~estions as to how things were done and much of our time was spent in examining the handwork and Portland, Me. posters. Despite the icy streets and sidewalks, quite a few Grace Mitchell entertained us at her home in April. Sigmas met at the home of Nellie M. Dearborn, Alpha, The tone of the conversation at this meeting was almost February 26 . strictly vacations, which made us realize th at our year is March 25. the Portland Sigmas went over to South comi ng to an end and that our chapter wi ll soon outgrow Portland and were graciously entertained by Mrs. William th e baby class. We sincerely hope that we have added Macomber (Marguerite Chase, Alpha). Plans were made something to Sigma Kappa by our existence as an alumnre for a bridge for the benefit of the Sea Coast Mission, whic h chapter and we look forward to a new year with real is to l::e held in April at the factory of a local ice mterest. cream company. RUTH B. NORTHROP JuLIA WINSLOW Spokane Portland, Ore. Spokane alumnre chapter is pleased to add to its group The February meeting was a buffet supper at the home Mrs. H . Bartlett Sayer (Rose Brown. Lambda '24). Mrs. of Mildred Borgeson. An interesting talk on modern Sayer was affi li ated with the Portland alumnre chapter be­ Jap an was given by a Japanese woman now living in fore coming here last fall. Portland. who had recently revisited the country of her Ruth Kelsey Harris and Beth Lane Farr have opened a birth. The March meeting was held at Margaret Johnson's tea room and antique shop in the Broadmoor apartments home, with refreshments served after the talk on spring in Tacoma. We miss them at our meetings but wish fashions given by Mrs. Cooley, stylist for Young's Gown them success and good lu ck. Shop. Plans were comJ?leted for the spring rushing tea During the Panhellenic Congress held here in Februar' which we gave. at Dons Giles' home. for girls planning we had the pleasure of meeting Genevieve McNiece a }~llnter the University of Oregon or Oregon State in the college delegate from our Alpha Phi chapter. ALICE MILLER April 20 was the date for the buffet supper at Estelle Wheeler's. Mrs. Heitmeyer, a member of the Consumers Council, told us many things about buying from the Twin Cities standpoint of the consumer, from cold creams to silks. Twin Cities alumnre are a delighted group because the New officers were elected: president, Ardella Arrasmith ; hope chest benefit was a financial success. There will be vice-president, Mildred Hardy; secretary, Helen Smith; another opportunity for all true Sigmas to assi st at a later treasurer, Harriet Klump ; and TRIANGLE correspondent, date. Two meetings were spent in anticipation of the results Henrietta Bruce. Reports of the Regional Convention were of this benefit. Programs were pleasant affairs at both the g1ven, and open discussion of several matters interesting to February and the March meetings. Marv Frazee. Alpha all lasted far into the night. We were glad to have Ruth Eta, ex-'32, gave the highlights of the fashions for Canfield with us again, after quite a siege in the hos­ early spring and summer. It was good to have this pital. material presented in condensed and colorful form bv one DoROTHY THAYER who is an example of stvle and fashion wiselv chosen to enhance the charm of the wearer. Vera Altemeier Stephens, Alpha Eta '23. was the hostess in whose home St. Louis this meeting was held. It is· a pleasure to be entertained In a few days we shall meet at Esther Holsen's house there. for ou r last meeting until next September. We shall say to Dorothv Dodge Had li ch, Alpha Eta, ' 25 , spent a great each other, "Bye--have a good time, and I do hope you deal of time and energy on the hope chest project and get to take that trip you are planning," and "Wouldn't it it was to her home that thirty-two Sigma Kappa sisters be fun for a crowd of us to go to Convention? Let's try!" trooped for the March meeting. The evening was in a We shall elect our officers for next year and wander hub-bub of anticipation, tickets for the chest were being around Esther's lovely grounds enjoying her flowers. (Hope checked in, and there ·were many topics to be discussed thev are in bloom now. Her roses were exquisite last year.) about the new chapter house. The winner was a voung We are so sorry that Jane Cahill has not been ab le to Minneapolis woman who held a ti cket sold by Evelyn attend our meetings for some time. She had an operation Paulson. Alpha Eta '26. Evelyn wi th the assistance of in February and hasn't been able to get out of her home her mother disposed of more than three hundred tickets­ at all since. We are hoping she will regain her health three cheers for the Paulson's-salesmanship and per­ and strength very soon. sonality! Our book-shelf at St. Luke's hospital is growing larger. In April we ventured out of the cities to Mildred It really is an interesting project. Dorothy Kuhlman enter­ Leek's lovely · take home to enj oy ourselves. A rather ~ained us in April->nd the fried chi cken just melted lengthy business meeting took the most of the evening and 10 our mouths! Two librarians from St. Luke's spoke to pleasant conversation group followed with delicious re­ us after the dinner, and they and their talks were both freshments served by Helen Ives Corbett, Aloha Zeta, ' 23; interesting and amusing. Catherine Kuehne Hooper, Psi , '28; and Mildred Clark Mabel Kunus is going to give a bridge party this Leek, Alpha Eta, '23. Saturday, a kind of a benefit bridge for Theta chapter. The Twin Cities Panhellenic Association held a bridge­ She is expecting Sigma Kappas and their friends from West benefit at Atkinson's Tea Room March 20. Sigma Kappa Frankfort, Marion, Litchfield, and Belleville, Illinois to was represented bv an attendance of sixteen which was come to her East St. Louis home. Marge Ayers. Betty the quota for each of the sororities. Helen lves Corbett Clark, Marge Lipfman, Betty Bean, Esther Holsen, Dorothy has been a splendid represe ntative for our organization· in Kuhlman, Haze Coffey, Margaret Forsyth, Gertrude Panhellenic and we were proud of the part which she Lynch and several others of us are going over from here. had in arranging this successful benefit. The money was MARION DoDGE H ELLM ICH for the establishment of the Sigerfoos Scholarship Fund

JUNE, 1936 139 in honor of his assistance and advice for the Panhellenic is investigating the "Red Rider" with a view to its repeal. association. May 17 there w1ll be" a tea at the home of Mary Proffitt Many of the alumnae joined the fun at the dinner­ to which the college chapter is invited. ' dance which the college chapter held at the Curtis hotel ALMA BARKER in Minneapolis. The dance was held on Leap year day which provided some of the merriment. The members of Winnipeg the Alpha Eta association board, the Alpha Eta building Some of our meetings during the past months have committee, the college chapter advisory board, the alumnre been of a serious nature and others designed solely for officers and the alumnre rushing chairman and her pleasure. Our meetings with Mrs. Helen Ives Corbett­ assistant were entertained at a lovely tea at the home of they seem a long time ago now-were a combination of Jane Bossen, a college chapter member. The colle~e chap­ both. We certainly enjoyed meeting her and showing her ter have been rather handicapped for entertaining this off at our reception. We gained much valuable advice from year, the meeting room is not conducive to charm of her too . atmosphere. Both the alumnre and college chapter are Then came one of our more serious meetings, though the anxious for the completion of our new Sigma Kappa speaker was so interesting that it was very pleasant as well. residence. We decided that we were very ignorant on the subject Maq;aret Stinson, Al{'ha Epsilon, has been in the cities of social Credit and must do something about it. Ac­ this wmter with her ch1ldren. She has come to several of cordingly Mr. Johannson, the father of one of our mem­ the alumnre affairs and we are happy in the news that bers, kindly consented to enlighten us . she will most likely be with the group next year. It IS a We enjoyed an evening of bridge at the home of Mar­ pleasure to welcome Alberta Leeper McNeal, Theta, to garet Johnston. the Twin Cities Alumnre. If there are any more Sigma At a business meeting at Marjorie Dick's home we dis­ Kappa members in this vicinity, please make yourselves cussed an award to be given to the most active of the known! college chapter and appOinted a committee to arrange an MARGARET G. SHEPARD entertainment for the grads. We held a party at Norah Kernaghan's home for Norah Storey who is to be married soon. If Norah cannot cook Washington a good meal now, it is not the fault of the Sigmas-we cer­ The high light of the spring season for Washington tamly provided her with enough kitchen utensils. alumnre was the initiation held at the Shoreham hotel We are all making plans for our vacations now. Miriam March 28. Ruth Smith was to have been toastmistress, Margarson is to sail on the new Queen Mary, and we but because of illness she was unable to preside. Her will certainly have to hear all about it when she comes place was ably filled by Alice Hersey Wick, who came to back. town for the occasion. . KATHLEEN BETTS The toast scheme depicted types of Sigmas from all sections of the country. Ruth Critchfield described the "Descendants of Squaretoed Americans" ; Betty Lindsay Worcester paid tribute to the "Daughters of the South ' ; Peggy The December meeting of the Worcester alumnre chap­ Graves to the "Children of the Prairies" and Estelle ter was its annual Christmas luncheon for the college Sig­ McCord took us "Over the Oregon Trail." Isabella Krey mas in the vicinity. This year we entertained Marian Hook. led us along the "Path of Mission Bells" and Clara president of Nu chapter, and Helen Thomas and Catherine Critchfield welded them, as only she can, into "Sigmas Severance, also of Nu. The girls were given violet All." corsages as favors. The.J.uncheon proved to be an enjoy­ Among those present at the initiation and banquet were able reunion with several members of our alumnre chapter the following members of other chapters: Rebecca Tan­ who are able to attend only this meeting. sill, Alpha Delta : Gretchen K. Johnson, Theta; Evelyn For our February meeting, fifteen food-laden Sigmas Larsen Jones, Mu; Hattie May Still, Beta Beta ; Helen gathered at the home of Lo1s Curtis for a delicious pot­ Ramer Koogh, Rho; Blanche Crapo, Kappa. luck supper. And what a tempting array of food there Our April meeting took the form of a panel discussion was! After our supper, a business meeting was called to of the so-called " Red Rider" to the District of Co­ order by our president, Marjorie Frye. Mrs. Neal told us of lumbia appropriation bill, which requires all school em­ her vis1t to Duke University and of her friendly meeting ployees, from sweeps and janitors up, to sign a statement with some of the Alpha Psi girls. We left the meeting that they have neither taught nor advocated Communism, wishing our hostess a most ·pleasant vacation in Florida, before they receive their monthly salary checks . The dis­ where she is going with her children for a few months' cussion was led by Elva Coughline Wells. who had spent stay. two days at sessions of the Congressional Committee which ALICE COLE

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140 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE WITH OUR COLLEGE CHAPTERS ERDENE GAGE, Editor - With this issue Ye College Editor comes to. the end of her first year in that capacity. The occasion must not pass Without a "thank-yo~!." The contacts with the various college correspondents have been fun. Matenal sent m by them has .Im!;'roved noticeably in content and set-up during that year; and the many personal letters have been mtngumg and enlightening. Especially must Ye Ed express publicly her thanks to Frances Warren Baker. Not only has she given constant encouragement, but when illness prevented Ye Ed do10g her share m the las t Issue of the TRIANGLE "Speed" took the job over and did it-graciously' E.G.

Things A re Looking H igh fo r A lpha Goose. We then held pledge services for Elsie Paulson, '39, of the College of Liberal Arts. The second week Sigma's prestige on campus has been further heightened in April we pledged Bethana Rees and Marjorie Pickard. by the fact that so many of our members hold offices Wheaton alumnre who are taking graduate work this of responsibility and prominence. Janet Lowell, '38, was year at the College of Liberal Arts. cho~en W.A.A. vice-president; Winnifred White, '36, We had our spring initi ation at the Hotel Brunswick cha1rman of the Colby Concert Board ; Lora Cummings, in conjunction with Omicron chapter and , initiated all '37, Eleanor Ross, '37, Janet Lowell '38 and Pauline seven of our pledges. At the formal banquet following Pratt, '39, had leading parts in the May bay operetta; initiation the speakers from o ur chapter were Flora Col­ Agnes Carlyle, '36, Martha Bessom, '38, Elizabeth D ar- son, '37, and Elizabeth Letson, '39. Other social affairs were a chapter dinner at the Hotel Graylin in February, a Monopoly-Bridge for chapter and alumnre February 15, a rush partv (Monopoly and other· wise) March 4, and a Monopoly-Bridge again April 25 . The chapter, ably assisted by various members of the Boston Alumnre chapter, held a very successful rummage sale in Somerville late in March. April 25 two members of the chapter, Phyllis Adams, '37, and Elma Hutchins, '36, attended the thirtieth birth­ day party of the Boston Alumnre chapter. In February Phyllis Adams, a junior at the School of Education, was one of five undergraduates elected to Alpha Gamma chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, national honorary fra ternity for women in the field of education . In the operetta "The Belle of Bagdad, " which was given by the School of Education Glee Club, Elma Hutch­ ms. '36. had the lead ing role, and Dorothy French, '37, T h:ree AIph as Are lV omen Class Presidents and Ruth Lawrence, '37, both sang in the chorus. Phyllis Adams, '37: was elected vice-president, and Left to right: Senior-Lois Katherine Lund, Ruth Lawrence, '37, was elected as secretary-treasurer of Alpha, '36, Freeport; Junior-Elizabeth Wilkin­ a newly formed chapter of the Y.W.C.A. at the School of Education. In company with Anne Chalfant, '37, sec­ son, Jamaica, N.Y. ; Sophomore- Anna Abbott retary of the Y .W.C.A. at the College of Liberal Arts, Stobie, Alpha, '38, W ate.rville; Freshman-Pauline they went as delegates from Boston University to a Lead­ Pratt, Pot·tland, Alpha, '39. ers Conference at the University of New Hampshire in Durham the first weekend in May. The B.U . Sigmas are already planning their summer ling, '39, and Dorothy Trainor, '38, made the Dean's vacations. Dorothy French, '37, plans to be a counsellor Li st; Martha Bessom, '38, deputation chairman on the at Camp Four Winds in Plymouth, and Phyllis Adams, Y.W.C.A. cabinet. Our pledges have bee n very active, '37, will return for her third summer as a counsellor at serving on committees, singing in the Glee Club, tak ing Camp Wampatuck, South H anson. Anne Chalfant, '37, part in dramatic productions, and are a grand group of will spend the summer at the Isle of Shoals off Ports­ girls. mouth. N.H. and Bettv Letson, '39, will vacation at Our finan cial condition was improved by the bank's Hamilton, Mass. D oris Fralic, '37, will spend the sum­ partial payment of back dividends. The Waterville Alum­ mer with her parents in Bridgewater. Nova Scotia. ore chapter provided the necessa ry funds with which to In June all the members of the chafter hope to go to redecorate our rooms in the sorority colors. a houseparty at the summer home o Katherine Baker, Socially we have had fun, too. Our formal dinner '36, at Scituate. dance in J anuary was exciting and successful. A sporting At the beginning of the second semester we elected Lil­ party held out in the country in February afforded a lian Sundin, '37, president; Anne Chalfant, '37, vice­ grand opportunity for a good get-together with plenty of president ; Elma Hutchins, '36. recording secretary; and skiing and tobogganing and spills. A spring. pi cni c held Phvllis Adams. '37, corresponding secretary. at a member's camp on a nearby Lake was h1 lanous. Dorothy Erikson, '38, has become a member of the Eleanor Manter, '36, Louise Weeks, '38. and Anna Mathematics Club, and Anne Chalfant of the Poetry Stobie, '38, spent their Easter vacation in Bermuda. Club. With such progress finan cially, socially, and scholas­ PHYLLIS ADAMS, BoJi on UniverJity tically there's no doubt that Alpha will have a won­ derful year 1936-1937. "Silly" Mascot Shares Epsilon's Honors MARTHA BESSOM, Cc/by Collef(e Most sororities and fraternities think that one Phi Beta Kappa is something to talk about. Epsilon was plenty A ft er Busy Spring D eltas Plan V acations proud when two seniors, Violet Warren. retiring ch apter We started the second semester with informal rush­ president, and Catherine Matthews were elected. Speak­ ing, and pledged five girls. March 9 we held a pledge mg of honoraries, Doris Konecke, '36, was made a dinner at the Old Plantation, followed by the pledging member of Boar's Head, honorary dramatics fraternity; of Dorothy French, '37 and Ruth Lawrence, '37, both Esther English, ' 37, was initiated into Tau Sigm> Delta. juniors at the School of Education. The following week honorary architecture and allied arts fraternity, for which we held another pledge dinner, this time at the Black only three juniors are chosen each year; and Ruth Buck-

JUNE, 1936 141 Jey, '38, was pledged to Theta Sigma Phi, honorary and June dance, June 8 at the Kenwood Country Club. We professional journalism sorority. Ruth has been retained are hoping to have our Tune initiation June 13, although to serve as a member of the junior staff of the Daily plans are not yet compfeted. June 17 has been set as a Orange university newspaper, next year. tentative date for the annual joint meeting of the college As for other activities, Ruth O 'Dell, '36, who was and alumnre chapters. Edna Koontz has graciously offered chairman of the Women's Day l?ageant, wrote the pageant her home for the meeting at which time convention plans herself, basing it on "Alice In Wonderland." Gladys will be discussed at length. Morgan, '36, took the I? art of the unicorn in the presen­ Much as we'd all love to attend the convention in tation. Julia Freeborn, 3 7, was elected vice-president of August, we will have to be content with sending repre­ the English club, one of the most active organizations sentatives who will tell us what a glorious time they on the campus. had. Three sophomores were chosen for the second cabinet ELIZABETH M. LINDS AY of the Women's Chapel Association. Dorothy Biddick is The George Washington UniverJity in charge of the Lighthouse committee, established for aiding the blind in Syracuse; Ruth Simonson heads the Old Ladies' home committee, and Norma Lockwood, Thirtieth Anniversary Celebrated by Eta the Girl Scouts. Initiation services were held February 22 at the home Ruth Simonson was elected hockey manager of the of Erma Means, alumna, for Melba Moorman, '37. Mar­ W.A.A. She also won our admiration by the energetic l'aret Schultz, '37, Rosemary Hieser, '39, Lola Chapman way in which she sold Girl Scout cookies. It became 39, Nelda Moorman, '38, Jeannotte Johnson, '37, Evely~ quite natural to see Ruth rush downstairs, sample in hand, every time the doorbell rang. Shirley Garrett, '38, is a member of the executive committee of the sophomore discussion group. Helen Lovegrove, '39, has been active all year in freshman debating. Lydia Hughes, '36, received a shingle for three years' work in Hendricks chapel choir. At the initiation banquet March 15, two cups were awarded, one to Elouise Husted, '38, for having main­ tained the best scholarship record during her freshman year, and the other to Dorothy Biddick, for being out­ standing in activities during her freshman ye ar. Present at the banquet was regional president Mrs. Harriet Finch Pease of Schenectady, an alumna of Epsilon. A tea was given March 9 in honor of Mrs. Williams, house mother. An informal ·dance was held March 20. Epsilon participated in the step-singing contest con­ ducted annually In connection with Women's Day. The Sigma Kappas defeated Theta Phi Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha in the primaries, losing to Kappa Kappa Gamma in the semi-finals. Eta's Fathers' Day D!nner Oh yes ! We nearly forgot! Epsilon ha5 a new mascot. Harriet Kinde, '38, was the recipient of a beautifully silky cat, named "Silver, "Silly" for short. Greening, '39, Lucille Heiple. '39, Bett/ Hildeb randt. RUTH VAN NESS, Syracuse UniverJity '39, Helen Storm, --09, Ruth Squires, '39, and Virginia Ficklin, '39. February 22 was Eta's thirtieth anniversary, so this year Zeta Plans Meeting with Alumnre our annual initiation banquet was also a chapter birthday . As has alread7 been reported, Zeta tied for first place party. The light from thirty candles made the tab les most in scholarship at G.W. las t year with Kappa Kappa attractive, and, as the toasts were made, each of the five Gamma (for which we were awarded the Panhellenic speakers lighted a candle in honor of one of Sigma's scholarship cup for half the year, and the national Sig­ founders. ma Kappa scholarship cup). This year, we are sad to A slumber party at the house and a tea at the home report that we were defeated by the Kappa's by a fraction of . Mrs. Ruth Kenshaw Whitmer, Eta's first initiate, of a pomt. also honored the new initiates. With summer fast approaching, Zeta looks back on Elizabeth Ann Goudy, '38, was chairman of the Student another happy and busy year. Three pledges were initi­ Union Leap Year Dance. ated March 28 at the Shoreham hotel, and seven more are We are proud that Maryfern Martin, '36, was a mem­ hoping to be initiated in the early summer. ber of the cast of "Outward Bound," the successful pro­ The March initiation was a model initiation for which duction of Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatic frater­ we had visitors from several of the other chapters. Ruth nity. Gretchen Phelps, Jeannette Johnson and Barbara Smith, our toastmistress for the evening, was suddenly Smith were in charge of properties. ' taken ill, and our beloved Alice Hersey Wick graciously Beth Shorney, '37, is a "straight A" student and was stepped in at the last minute. The toast scheme was a participant in the popularity contest at the President's "Nationalism," and was planned to show how Si!lma Ball. Grace Boies, '3 7, gave a radio organ recital over Kappa girls in all sections of the country have combtned WJBC recently. to make Sigma Kappa what it is-a truly representative Our fathers were entertained at a dinner at the chapter national sorority. Clara Critchfield capped the climax with house, March 22. Melba Moorman was in charge of ar­ a beautiful toast to national Sigma Kappa which none of rangements. Our annual Mothers' Day dinner was held us will forget for years to come. May 3. Several Zetas have been prominent in campus activities. Eta has renewed her interest in athletics. Melba Moor­ Peggy Graves, our rush chairman, was recently elected man, '3 7, proved an able captain and had the co-oper­ to Hour Glass and Sphinx for her high scholarship and atio n of an enthusiastic crew of ~olley ball players. The activities. She has just returned from Minneapolis where team is now the undefeated champion of the Intramural she was the G.W. representative to the national convention tournament. of the Athletic Federation of College Women. She re­ With only fiftv miles between Theta and Eta chapters, turns to take her place as the new president of W.A.A., we felt we would like to know each other personallY, so succeeding Ruth Critchfield, another Zeta of whom we we "exchanged" dinners. Theta entertained us March are justly proud. Ruth is a member of the G.W. Student 25,_ and we entertained them April 21, with Rosemarv Life Committee. and retiring vice-president of the student Hetser, ' 39, as chairman for the dinner We are all council. She will be graduated this June and we will be looking forward to another enjoyable "e~change" next sorry to see her leave. Frances Ridg,;ay, our chapter year. prestdent, ts the new treasurer of W.A.A., and Leila The new officers for the college chapter are: Virginia Holley has just been elected to the senior council as repre­ Mammen, presi dent; Virginia Shannon vice-president; sentative for the School of Education. Beth Shorney, recording secretary; Gretchen Phelps. Zeta was awarded the tennis cup at the Panhellenic treasurer; Margaret McD orman, corresponding secretary; prom March _13. Panhellenic activities are now essentially Jeannette Johl)SOn, TRIANGLE correspondent; and Dorothy concerned wtth the sponsorship of a moonli!lht ride on 'rurner, htstonan. the Potomac May 22, and wtth the discussiOn of rush JEANNETTE JoHNSON, Illinois Wesleyan Univeriity rules ~or next fall. Several radical changes are being made tn an effort to make rushing less complicated for both sorority girls and rushees. Thetds Bowlers Win Gold Cup Plans are now under way for June week. The success Theta had the pleasure of having Lorah Monroe and of our dance December 30 in the Bamboo room of the Eliza Burkholder as guests during the latter part of Willard hotel has encouraged us in our plans for our March, and soon afterward had a splendid time at an

142 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE exchange dinner at Theta chapter for Eta chapter. We Lambda Thrilled About New House Plans did enJOY meeting them. Two special honors have come to our members. Theta We are all thrilled about the plans for our new house. chapter's bowling team, composed of Kay Kuhnen, "37, We are hoping that we shall be ab le to move into it by Alyce Kloos, '37, Jane Huey, ' 38, and Caroline Huey, this coming October. On May 3 the alumnre and the '36 won first place in the mtersorority bowling tourna· college members and their parents met at the house for me~t and received a lovely gold cup. Christine Schwartz a buffet dinner and to discuss the plans for the new recently received a scholarship from Wellesley College for house. We thmg building wi ll commence sometime in graduate work there. Kay Kuhnen, '37, is candidate for June. women's business manager of the 11/io. Our pledges were honored by a dance at the house We have been preparing for Mother's D ay weekend February 7 which everyone agreed was one of our best. and the university and chapter provide many kinds ··of Ten were initiated February 15. Ruth Norton Donnelley entertainment for o?" Mothers. The chapter will have was the toastmistress at the initiation banquet. its annual Mothers Day banquet, whtch we are sure February 29 we all had a hilarious time, for it was will be enjoyed by all. the day of the "Big C Sirkus," which comes but once CHRISTINE ScHWARTZ, University of Illinois every four years. Lambda entered a float in the parade; a portraya l of a Japanese garden. That night at the "sirkus" dance we were very proud to be presented with Queenly Iota Bursting with Pride a loving cup for the most attractive fl oat in theJ'arade. Iota is very proud of her two May Day Queens who Easter morning those living at the house ha a lively were chosen at the annual May Day celebrations at Den­ time looking for Easter eggs in the garden, and then en­ ver university. Mary Syler, our president, Was crowned JOyed an Easter breakfas t together. May 28 the juniors Queen of the May by the Chancellor at the morning fes ­ honored the seniors at the traditional junior-senior ban­ tivities which preceded the Honors Convocation. And quet. The seniors were given silver bud vases as fare­ Lois Gill, Iota president-elect, was crowned Queen of the well presents. Sue Wallace, outgoing president, read a D Club dance that night, which was given 1n honor of poem in which the seniors left their most outstanding our new football coach. Lois is truly a member of the characteristics to certain juniors. Dickie Searle, who had royalty, having also won the honor of Queen at the written a clever senior prophecy, read it much to the junior prom. enjoyment of all. So many of our members win places on the honor Two more girls have bee n elected to activity honor roll each month that we almost burst our vest buttons societies. Roxana Holmes was elected to Mortar Board with pride. Three of our junior girls were tapped to and Mary Adele Clark was elected to Prytanean, junior Kedros, sen ior women's honorary. They are Irma Stack· and senior women's honor society. Our junior class shows house, Evelyn Keiper, and Mary Jane Adams. Mary Jane evidence of being active on the campus next year. We was also elected president of panhellenic council for are proud of Ida Noack who was elected Women's Rep­ next year. Gwendolyn Gwinn and Ruth Rose have been resentative for next vear. In that position she will work pledged to Alpha Lambda Delta, national honorary fra­ in co-ordination with the vice-president of the student ternity for freshman women. Barbara Schaetzel has been body. Several others received important senior appoint­ initiated into the Rilling Athletic Club. Phi Gamma Nu, ments. Helen Stadtmuller is to be chairman of person­ national commercial sorority, has pledged Florence May nel; Mary Turnbull is to be women's director of Peli­ Cosner, Margaret Hillyard, Evelyn Kepler, Helen Stack­ can, the campus humor magazine; and Mary Adele Clark house, and Catherine Stephenson. Antha Ericke and Alice is to be challman of the community service department Carlyon were initiated into Tau Kappa Alpha. national of the Y.W.C.A. All of our sophomores who are active forensic fraternity. Mary Syler and Josephine McKittrick on the campus recei ved junior appointments and the were listed in " Who's Who in American Universities and freshmen received sophomore al?pointments. We feel that Colleges for '35-'36." Cophine Smead has been initiated we have all achieved our goals In activities this year. into Delta EJ?silon, honorary scientific fraternity. MARY ADELE CLARK, University of California We entertamed our dads at a banquet in March. Dinner was served at the Student Union Building, and then we adjourned to our chapter house for games. Several of Mu Pictures Incorporated Keeps Cast Busy the out-of-town girls brought professors and it was a Mu Pictures Incorporated has spent a most industriot 1 funnv sight to see some of them trying to pin the tail quarter year. All sets have been in use ; kleig and foot · on the donkey! That served as an ICe-breaker all right! lights have been used in abundance and stellar roles have The Mothers' Club entertained us at dinner one evening at an "impression" party. Many laughs were afforded by the little rhymes each girl made up to introduce herself to the mothers. Everything we do lately is with convention in mind. When the Packard Motor Co. had their National Ladies" Week, March 16-21, a prize of $100 was offered to the mothers" club on the campus which brought more than 400 women to their showrooms during that week. With the mothers' club, the alumnre chapter, and the college cha9.ter all cooperating we had 700 women there, and eastly walked away with first prize. During spring vacation we were going to give th e house a good old-fashioned spring house-cleaning. But a heavy spring snow dampened our ambitions and we had to postpone the big event. February 14 the pledges and new initiates of Iota gave a Hearts and Darts dance at the chafter house . Hun­ dreds of red paper hearts and darts of a 1 sizes were h1,10g from the cei ling, and the programs were little red and white hearts made by the pledges. In March everyone seemed to be feeling in just the right mood for our • Gingham and Cord dance and a hilarious time was had by all. At the recent annual chapter elections Loi s Gill was elected president for next year; Marguerite Duke, vice­ president; Genevieve Weyrauch, secretary; Helen Yates, treasurer· and Muriel Shad ford was chosen panhellentc represent~tive, to succeed Betty Schaetzel who resig ned . Ellen Peterson, a pledge of fall quarter, is bac k in school for the spring quarter. She underwent an appen­ Wanda T aylor, Mortar Board, dicitis operation in December. Phyllis Locey, who was Zeta Phi Eta, Varsity president of our pledges, has left to make her home tn Corvallis, Ore. Her father, Coach Percy Locey, resigned D ebate Squad as football coach here at D.U. , to take an administrative position at Oregon State College. Phyllis is one grand girl whom we will miss a lot. Cophine Smead, of the been played by several members. First .in importance was college chapter. and her sister, Julia, an alumna, left initiation on set number one. The filmmg was concluded with their family in March for three weeks on a Canb­ February 8, when nine girls terminated three months of bean cruise. We enjoyed hearing about this trip one conscientious training. These neophytes were V1rgm1a Sonne, Jean Patterson, Margaret .J ~ ne Kenyo n, Nona • evening recently. Fummerton, Peggy Barton, Vllginta Ketchum, Janet RuTH RosE, University of Denver

JUNE, 1936 Prowell, Patricia Sutphen, and Ernestine Duncan. As birthday. Nine girls were initiated in the afternoon and featured players, they were honored at a dance at the that night we had our formal initiation banquet at the chapter house on the same evening. Middlebury Inn. Sunday morning followin!h the initiates Unusual conditions prevailed on set two and a heavy attended their first meeting of the chapter. The customary snowfall February 17 determined the shooting of the breakfast was impossible at that time, but a later initiation next scene. The entire company was invited to the sum· was cause for a Sunday morning breakfast of waffles and mer home of its president, Maxine Martin, to indulge in maple syrup! an ice-skating party. All accepted gleefully and an un· · The annual formal dance was the center of our atten· usually enjoyable evening was had by all. Over half tion during April. What if people do insist on pulling of the company then moved on to set three. Here a more down balloons fifteen minutes after the music has started? sophisticated scene was being directed by the alumnae . When spring finally does arrive in Vermont, there is A formal supper dance was presented Februar{ 22 and always a new burst of life. Nu, not the least of those shot without an error. The college members o the cor· rejoicing, celebrated with a fatroness tea at the house. poration · were more than grateful to the retired actresses Then followed the traditiona junior week with its band for their party and set number three has many a tender and concert and Step singing just outside Old Chapel. The happy memory connected with it. senior beefsteak fry will wmd up our social activities for March 6 the cast deserted the lot to attend the All· the year. Reports have it that the scene of this historic University formal, Cadet Ball. The cast was naturally event will be laid near one of Middlebury's most fa. very interested because Barbara Robinson, '38, was secre· mous landmarks, commonly known as "Passion Puddle." tary of the committee on invitations and Mu lot had It is with regret that we say goodbye to our members been loaned for several meetings. Returning to the lot the of the class of 1936. To Manon Hook, who has served cast divided into several groups to visit sets four and so faithfully as president, to Frances Whitwell. who was five where men's-guest dinners were conducted. The last away from us during her junior year when. she studied of these followed an afternoon tea dance, another event in France, and to Marjorie McCann who returned to us for which the cast was glad to desert the lot, as Essey in January after being forced by illness to leave college. Tucker, '38, had been business manager for it for the We can but model ourselves after their example of line organization "W Key," an underclass women's activity womanhood and service to the college and Sigma Kappa. honorary. BEULAH H. HAGADORN, Middlebury Col/eKe Thus the scenes were successfully shot on all the sets within our own lot. On other lots however many of Mu Incorporated played stellar roles. Those achieving such Xi Presents "A Moderni:{ed Trudi Schoop" honor were: Nona Fummerton, '39, pledged to "W Key," Xi is proud of having three little sisters, Arleen Irvine, and committee member for the Schnabel concert; Lynne Clarice Crawford, and Betty Graham as pledges m the Wigen, '36, chairman of Public Health Nursing Club house this semester. formal ; Leah Kirkland, chairman of religious education Eight members of the chapter gave a clever skit at the department of the Y.W.C.A.; Wanda Taylor, ' 37, annual Intramural Carnival. It was called "A Modern· pledged and initiated into Mortar Board, winner of the ized Trudi Schoop" with Lucille Sharpe and Arleen Jr. " W Key" plaque for being the outstanding junior woman vine having the solo dancing parts. Our booth of archery on the campus, and pledged to Zeta Phi Eta, speech and and balloons was one of the most attractive and popular dramatics honorary; Essey Tucker, '38, chairman of ones at the W .S.G.A. Carnival. membership for the Y.W., and chai rman of the A.W.S. ·All the college members drove to Kansas City in April concert presenting Nino Martini ; Eva Marie Earley, '36, to meet with the alumnae chapter there for a buffet sup· secretary of Senwr Week and receiver of an A.S.U.W. per. The Mothers Club later gave a delightful covered plaque for a year of service on the student board of con­ dish luncheon for'Ys. We m turn entertau;ed both mothers trol; Catharine Hawley, '37, elected corresponding sec· and fathers at dinner on Mother's day. retary of Gamma Alpha Chi, advettising professional, also Lucille Sharpe has won many swimming honors this member of committees for junior prom and all-university year. She won several first places in the state telegraphic sports informal; Elizabeth Ness, '38, selected as mem­ meet, and gave a swimming demonstration at the hiflh ber of. all-university vodvil cast where she played several school play day. A'fleen Irvine was elected into Tau Sig· accord~an numbers; Marguente Anderson, '39, high Col­ rna, dancing sorority. umns (monthly magazine of the university) salesgirl The annual spring formal was given at the chapter selling over 115 Col11mn! in the month of March · Bette house May 23. We had as our guests a number of out· Campbell, '38, was elected treasmer of Gamma' Alpha of-town rushees. Chi. All of these stars returned to Mu lot pleased and BoNNIE ]EAN DANIELS, UniverJity o/ Kamat happy. On their lot they saw Irline Bissell, '37, presented with the Mothers' Club award for high scholarship for the Omicron Certainly Has Varied Interests second consecutive year. Again on their own lot, the Omicron was highly successful in rushing this spring, cast elected their new officers. They are: president Mar­ pledging fifteen girls. A joint initiation and banquet w1th jorie Johnson ; vice-president, Catharine Hawley; ~ecord· Delta chapter was held April 18, at the Hotel Brunswick Ing secretary, Edythe Draper; treas urer, Bette Campbell · in Boston. We initiated twelve girls. The scholarshiP. assistant treasu:er, Jea~ Patterson, carr~ing out the prece: award was given to Irma Illingsworth, Omicron '35. Apnl dent of her Sister. Shirley; corresponding secretary, Vir· 20 pledging was held for Elizabeth A'fey, '39, followed ginia Grant; registrar, Leah KICkland; and Trianf!,le correspondent, Margaret Jane Kenyon. They will take by an informal tea. . office the latter part of May to retire next February. April 13 the Sigmas entertained the local Alpha X1 The first weekend in April sixteen members on Mu chapter at our rooms with skits, games, and songs. These lot traveled to Upsilon, Corvallis/ Ore., to the Region evenings are promoted by PanhelleniC to provide fnendly VIII convention. Also several o our alumnae accom· relations among sororities. panied . us. The visit to Upsilon lot was valuable and This winter Marjorie Johnson, '36, and Dorothy S~e· mtereshng and many important sides of sorority life kamp, '38, represented Omicron on the college vamty were. discussed. Our stars, Wanda Taylor and Maxine basketball team. Martme, conducted several of the discussions there. Mem­ Gertrude Elliot, '37, and Betty Buchan, '37, and Vir· bers . of Mu lot are very grateful to Upsilon for its ginia Besse, '3 7, constructed and controlled marionett~s hospitality. which performed parts from " The Taming of a Shrew. ' Thus events of Mu Pictures Incorporated have come to The puppets were presented by the play production class a pleasant conclusion. Outside the lot prestige has been April 29. gamed by the individual stars for both themselves and Om new officers for the coming year, chosen April 27, Mu chapter. Within the lot greater harmony and activity are: president, Gertrude Elliot; vice-president, Doris Bon· are being attained .. Between the new officers, the stars ner; recording secretary, Mary Pierce ; corresponding sec· and the solid backmg of the chorus, Mu Incorporated is retary, Persis Proctor; treasmer, Dorothy Seekamp. lookmg forward to even bigger and better pictmes. Betty Schluss, '36, was chosen Tree Orator for Jack· son commencement exercises and Marjorie Johnson, '36. CATHARINE H AWLEY, UniverJity of Wa!hinf!,ton was elected to the senior banquet committee. Many members of Omicron are active in Glee Club and Beefsteak Fry at "Passion Puddle" for Nu have sung at many concerts around Boston. They par· ticipated in the Fiftieth Anniversary which commemo· Nu chapter rang out 1935 with a tea dance at the rated the founding of the Tufts Glee Club. chapter house, with Katharine Severance, ' 38, as chair­ Extracurricular awards and announcements of honors man. In true Vermont fashiOn members and guests of went to Sigmas on Junior Day, May 2. Virginia Besse, the chapter went on a sleigh·rid e one raw evening in '37, and Gertrude Elliot, '37, were chosen for Pen, January. We had a riotous good time and afterward Paint, Pretzels, senior honorary dramatic society. Betty :ftht A~ the house for hot chocolate and all that goes Buchan, '37, is to be feature editor for The Tu/1! Weelly and Jackson editor of the class annual, the jumbo Boo •. Initiati on of new members took place on Washington's Gertrude Elliot, '3 7, was also chosen president of the All

144 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Omicron Chapter, Jackson College, Massachusetts

Around Club, a social organization, and 1S marshal of least it is distinctive for the Southern Methodist campus. her class. For excellence and EOntmued interest in sports Three of our number were chosen to Mortar Board at Marjorie Johnson, '36, and Ruth Sherry, '36, were the calling out service April 20. They were Florence awarded blazers. Olivia Faulkner, j osephine Morgan, and Leita Reeder. Barbara Clarke '39. is secretary of Jackson Student This happens to be the first time in the history of Mortar Council. Janet Maclachan, '39, was chosen treasurer of Board on the S.M.U. campus that three from one chapter her class and Marjorie Finger, '39, is class representative were chosen. to All Around Club. Another honor that we are quite proud of is that A Field Day for intramural competition in various sports Josephine Morgan, president of our chapter, was elected was held May 9. Sigma had co-captains, Faith Atwood, secretary of the student body at the recent election. And '36, and Helen Sharp, '37, who took charge of Omicron's besides that, Adeline Dickinson, vice-president of our participation in the five sports. Doris Bonner, '38, was chapter, was elected president of the Woman's Self on the supper committee. Governing Board. A Mothers' Day formal tea was held May 10 under Margaret Doran, rush captain, was elected president of the direction of Betty Schluss, social chairman. Our pa­ the Mustang Sports Association, which is the girls' ath­ tronesses and Mrs. Sargent, a member of the faculty, letic association down here. She has herded the rest of were invited to meet the mothers. the chapter into winning the runner-up cup in basketball RuTH SHERRY, ]ackso11 Collef(e and we are hoping to win the sport's plaque given to the sorority which wins the most points in the different sports . Rho's President Wins Alice Wick's Award To prove that we do other things down here in Texas Although Rho sent no chapter letter this issue the besides extra-curricular activities Sigma Kappa had the following piece of news is interesting. "Helen Sa;scer highest average of any sorority or fraternity on the cam­ Rho's _president this Y.ear, won the award offered by pus. If we can do that again, we will win the scholar­ Alice Hersey Wick for 'the girl who had done the most ship picture given by the city Panhellenic. And three of for the welfare of Rho chapter during her college year.' our number made Alpha Theta Phi, the organization on Sasscer has been an outstanding member of Rho all four our campus that corresponds to Phi Beta Kappa-Mar­ years, and by vote of the chapter itself, received this garet Whitten, Margaret Musselman, and Florence Olivia add itional honor, presented at the annual farewell-to-the­ Faulkner. Leita Reeder was chosen to Kappa Tau Alpha, seniors party." Incidentally the votes were cast by secret honorary journalistic group. ballot and sent to Alice Hersey Wick by an alumna­ Louise Williams and Le1ta Reeder made up the varsity's so the results were unknown to the chapter itself until the presentation was actuall v made. E. G. Rho will miss her ' 36 Seniors tremendously: Helen Sasscer, who has been prominent in activities all four years, president of the chapter· Althea Maxedon, to whom we pomted w1th pnde as Panhellenic President; Margaret Fletche_r who gave our pledges most excellent training; and V1rg1n1a Taws, who attended the May Queen as a member of the Court in Randolph-Macon's traditionally lovely May Day. Peg Stemler, our president for next year, carries on a wortny tradition by winning a summer scholarship to the Umvers1ty of He1delberg. When she returns in the fall. she is to teach a class of German at one of the Lvnch­ burg High Schools, in addition to her chapter duties, bemg preSident of the German Club, and a few studies. Claudia Somecs ha< f,een elected convention delegate. Claudia is small and dark, with a twinkle in her e)e and an abundance of pep. She is our new vice-president. Lorna Hou ~thta lin g is secretary; Mary Bealle Koog le. rush captain; Jeanne Manuel, TRIANGLE editor; and D oro­ thy Nance, treasurer.

Here's Right Interesting News from Sigma G1·oup of Sigma Chapter-ites Who Attended Here is the report of Sigma's activities and we are right Easter Camp proud of ourselves! But we really have had some lucky breaks. wom'en's debate team at the University. They participated We Texas Sigma Kappa's have been quite busy doing in six tournaments ranging from Abilene, Texas to Con­ everything but studying for the last few months, and we way Ark. They won the first place cup at a tournament are right 'fraid for the scholarship averages to come out at Natchitoches, La., and a second place cup at the a.fter th1s semester, but maybe our eight new initiates tourney at Durant, Okla. At this meet, Sister Williams smcc March 3 will bring up the average since among brought home the second place speaker's medal. Sister them IS one Alpha Lambda Delta, Ruth Zumbrunnen, Reeder had the highest percentage counting wins and and a good many A students. Those initiated were Marion loses of any girl debater at S.M.U. Honea, Lois Ray, Ethel Pearl Mitchell, Dorothy Sue When the "Who's Who for College and University Butler, Margarete Roberts, Ruth Swift, Dorothy Dell Students in America" came out, Sister Reeder's biog­ Watts. and Ruth Zumbrunnen. raphy was included, the only junior girl from Southern A distinctive honor was placed on Sigma chapter; at Methodist who made it.

JUNE, 1936 145 More activities: Pannie Norman was initiated into Eta sentatives from Alpha Phi, Alpha Gamma, Mu, and Sisma Phi; Ruth Zumbrunnen and Ruth Swift were Ursilon attended. Friday night the visitors were enter­ initiated into Delta Psi KapQa; Sister Swift was in­ tamed with an open-house dance. The morning session vited to pledge Zeta Phi Eta; Sister Whitten was elected April 4 was led by Kathryn C. Rutherford, district rresident of Gamma Sigma, honorary education organ­ counselor. Harriet Forest Moore was selected conference Ization; Elizabeth Hardy was initiated into Beta Pi secretary. Various business matters and ten-minute dis­ Theta; Dorothy Dell Watts was elected secretary of the cussions of ten pertinent guestions followed. Lunch was freshman division of the Y.W.C.A. and also activities served at the Memorial Union tea room, with Bertha chairman of the Pastor's Kidd's club; Sister Reeder was Whillock Stutz presiding. Special guests were Mrs. G. W elected treasurer of Zeta Phi Eta, and co-vice-president Peavy, wife of the pres1aent of the college, Mrs. Kate W: of the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A.; Sisters Faulkner, Reeder, Jameson, dean of women, and mothers and patronesses. and Morgan will aid in carrying the Daisy Cham for the Theodora Budwin, counselor of district II, presided at seniors on Senior Recosnition Day, an S.M.U. custom the afternoon session. A report of the northwest Pan­ which gives the thirty Junior girls with the highest av­ hellenic meeting was read. Trai"ning for alumna-ship erages that privilege (but we have to make the chain!). finance, rushing, and odds and ends were discussed. ' Sister Black was elected to Senior Arden Club. A formal banquet was held at the Hotel Benton Sat­ Five of our number received M awards at assembly urday night. The theme for the toast program was "A early in May. These awards are given by the University Quest for Values," Lilly Nordgren Edwaras was toast­ to students who have done outstanding work in different mistress. Officers present were: Bertha Whillock Stutz activities for the past year. Sister Williams received a grand treasurer; Anna McCune Harper, ]:>resident of small M for work in debate ; Sister Black received a region VIII; Kathryn C. Rutherford, and Theodora small M for work in Junior Arden, the dramatic club ; Budwin. Sister Musselman received a large M for presidency of The spring formal was held at the Hotel Benton the Y. W.C.A. ; Sister Morgan received a large M for April 17. being a member of the student council; and Sister Reeder New o"fficers of Upsilon chapter are: Kathryn Cop­ received a large M with an emblem of service on it for pedge, president; Ruby Scullen, vice-president; Helen work on debate, being chairman of the student council Peterson, secretary; and Louise Cummins, treasurer. chapel committee, and work on S.C.R.A. Three _girls were initiated April 2~. They are Winifred We have also pledged two new members in the past Gibson, Kathryn Mead, and Martha Schlapkohl. A formal few months, Reba Al:iicht from California, and Carolyn banquet followed initiation. Smith from Dallas. And don't think we aren 't really Beth Joy and Louise Baldwin were pledged to Phi proud of them! KaQpa f>hi. Virginia Albright and Ruby Scullen were Our social committee has been functioning in a big pleaged to Theta Sigma Ph1. way for the past few months with Carolyn Patten at Sig'!'a Kappa W

What Ho! Singers and Dancers at Tau Marcella Bentzen and Mary Louise Miller were in the I. U. Revue, a campus musical show. Their dance was done to "Jazz Fantasy," a musical number composed by Helen Sharp, a new initiate in Tau chapter. Laura Wright, Mary Louise Miller, and Marcella Bentzen have become members of Terpsichorean, an honorary dance club for women. They took part in the annual dance recital which was presented on the campus March 24. Dorothea Larsen, Leah Short, Helen Sharp, Marigail Porter, and Betty Mead sang in the university chorus and glee club during the state high school Musical Fes­ tival which was ~eld in _Bloomington AJ?ril16, 17, and 18. Tau chapter IS holdmg song practiCe every night to prepare for the university sing, which is to be held soon after the date this is written. They are to sing "Danny Boy" and a song written by Helen Sharp. Soloing an airplane after only three hours and twenty minutes of instruction when she was sixteen years old is one of Lois Greenwood's diverse achievements. AI: though h~r father has bee,n an aviator for years, Lois s'?lo~d Without her family s knowledge while she was VISitmg her aunt, Mrs. Paul Klemm, in South Bend. S_oon after her first solo, Lois piloted her father from the1r home near Fort Wayne, Ind. to a football game at Notre Dame. She has several cross country trips, accom­ panied by her father, to her credit. However, flying is only one of this freshman's activi­ Helen Baclawsk, Phi, Honorary ties. She entered Indiana University on a scholarship has Co-ed Colonel of R.O.T.C. been initiated i_nto Alpha Lambda Delta, a national h!'norary fraternity for freshman women, and has been g1yen Mortar . Board Fre~hll!an Recognition for scholar­ letters "l: K" on a dainty chain. The "Founders Play" ship, leadership, and activities. She 1s a member of the and songs made up the entertainment of the evening. :w"omen's Athle,tic Association •. Hi~ing Club, and Ocean­ We have pledged fifteen . May 2 nine were initiated at lde_s, !' 'Yomen s h'?norary. SWimming club. In addition, the chapter house. The annual banquet was held at the Lo1~ IS mterested m music, and is a member of the Kingston Inn with the toasts bui It around this quota­ University Chorus and is an enthusiastic player of the tion: "Life has loveliness to sell-All beautiful and acc,ordiOn. Wh1le she was a member of the Arno Grun­ splendid things." You can imagine its effectiveness with ert s a~co r d.wn band of Fort Wayne, she played at the not only many alumnre present (including our beloved Worlds Fa1r and the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Dean Peck) but also our grand president, Ruby Carver BETIY MEAD, Unrveruty of Indiana Emerson, and past grand president Hila Helen Small. Special interest this year was engend~red by the initiation Upsilon Is Hostess to Regional Conference of Helen Houlder, mece of Hila Helen Small and daugh· ter of Grace Ada Small Houlder (see p. 3~9 of Sigma The Northwest Regional Conference met at Corvallis Kappa History). Those at the banquet will long_ re­ as guests of Upsilon chapter April 3, 4, and ~- Repre- member the tender presentation by Sister Small to Helen

146 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Phi Chapter, Taken in Corner of the Chapter Room

Houlder of a white carnation-a carnation which had a circle and sing Alma Mater and Sweetest Violet, then symbolized the love of Boston Alumnae chapter for Grace give the grip and yell-well, somehow it ends the day Ada Small Houlder at its thirtieth anniversary celebration m a satisfying manner. the week previous. At the house afterward, everybody Our colorful May Breakfast was well attended by climbed into pajamas and danced for a while then students, members of the faculty, and people of King­ gathered around the fireplace and indulged in sorority and ston village. college songs. This is as much a part of initiation period There has been quite a run on the Watson House lately u is the banquet itself; and when we finally stand in as the senior girls of the Institutional Management course have been officiating. Such menus and good food! The Sigmas taking part in this are: Lucille Clarke, Camille Leclerc, Anna Blackinton, and Corrinne Gallaher. A tea was given in the chapter house in honor of the former campus dietitian who is also a Sigma Kap12a alumna, Mrs. Sternberg (formerly Elizabeth Stillman), who has moved to Chicago to live. We were all' quite delighted this year when one of our juniors, Helen Baclawsb, was elected Honorary Co-ed Colonel of the R.O.T.C. We presented the play "M{ Irish Cinderella" in Ed­ ward's Hall May 20. All o the parts were taken by members of the chapter. Eileen Miller, '38, has been elected assistant hockey manager for the year ' 36-'37. Betsy_Hoag, '39, has been elected secretary and treasurer of Women's Student Gov­ ernment. Betty Drummond, '3 7, was elected program chairman of the Home Economics Club. Lu cy Law­ rence was elected assistant manager of basketball. Agnes Laventure, '39, was elected treasurer of the Home Eco­ nomics Club. Eileen Miller, '38, Peggy Peckham, '37, and Helen Baclawski '37, took part in the chorus of "H.M .S. Pinafore.' 1 Eloise Bills, '36, played the part of Hebe. Betty Drummond, '37, Bettr. Wells, 36, Elinor Wil­ liams, '38, and Lois D olbey, 37, spent a very en/·oyable weekend in Boston at the initiation and banquet o Delta and Omicron chapters. LOIS DOLBEY, Rhode !J/and State College Chi Spurns Superstition of Friday and 13 Spring quarter brought to the bhio State campus an event of great importance to sorority women-the Urban Helen Houlder, daughter of the PanhelleniC Convention which was held here April 17 late Grace Ada Small Houlder and and 18-and also a very charming visitor in the person of Margery Root, a Sigma Kappa from Alpha Beta niece of Hila Helen Small, past chapter and delegate from the University of Buffalo Grand President, was initiated into Panhellenic Association. Several of the Chi girls attended Phi chapter May 2. She is majoring the meetings and we felt that we gained much of value from them. We were especially interested in the plan for in home economics at Rhode Island limiting the membership of chapters. State College, after two years at The Panhellenic Prom which was held in connection Meredith College, N .C. This carries with the convention took place April 17 at the Neil House in downtown Columbus. out the plan of the trust fund in Chi has also been participating in its own social ac­ honor of her mother which was tivities. The pledges sponsored a radio dance Friday, collected twelve years ago to edu­ March 13 and decorated the house in green and white, cate the daughter of Mrs. Houlder, in honor 'of St. Patrick's D ay. Our SJ2ring Formal was held May 9 at the chapter hous~. whtch 'Yas decorated who was an early editor of the Sig­ with spnng flowers for the affa~r. Our Vtolet Rushmg ma Kappa Triangle and the one Tea for Columbus high school seniors took place May 24. who selected the Maine Sea Coast Eve n though we failed to make the fin als of the In­ Mission as the sorority's National terfraternity and Intersorority Sing we had a lot of fun Philanthropy. taking part in the elimination tryouts March 4. Our two

IUNE, 1936 147 and Psi chapter joined all the alums on hand for a right songs were the Sigma Kappa " Rainbow Song" and "The merry time! Old Refrain." Sharps and fiats were aired in Psi chapter for the Initiation was held April 25 for Eli zabeth Burgess. annual "sing"' for fraternities and sororiti es Ma y 17. The chapter house has a _greatly improved appearance Gathered 'round the piano, with Annabel Follette direct­ now that there is a beautiful new rug m our h vmg ing, Psi chapter sisters were determined to win first place room a gift from the Mothers' Club. Mary_ Tillotson was recently appointed to the Senior in the contest. Class Dress Committee by the Ohio State Senior Presi­ CATHERINE FowLER, UniverJity o/ WiJconJin dent. Our musical member, Anne Burket, was pledged to Delta Omicron. honorary music sorority. Omegans Tra'Vel and Study in Europe GRACE SCHAFFNER, Ohio State UniverJity Two members of the Omega chapter have spent the past winter studying in Europe, Elizabeth Ann Sponnen­ barger and Barbara Curry. The former has been stud ing Psi Pats Own Back and Goes Dreamy-eyed in Madrid ; the latter in Paris. Both have had a ,;•on• Third place for Psi chapter in scholarship comes first derful year judging from their letters. in our news this time . The chapter is patting itself on The following is part of one of the letters written by the back this term for showing such a good standing in Elizabeth Ann Sponnenbarger to the chapter: a college atmosphere fu ll of spring formals and other "We are certainly having a lot of excitement here in social activities. Next on our bill-of-fare comes the pledge formal March 13. In spite of winter"s fic kle weather, the g irls appeared in the gayest attire and everyone was happy to see the newest sisters having such a good time. Jane Greer, '37, was elected to Mortar Board. Rose Wichert, '36, past-president of the chapter, made us beam with pride when she became a member of Phi Kappa Phi. Rose, as president of Theta Sigma Phi, hon­ orary Journalism fra ternity, presided over that fraternity's Matrix b a n ~uet March 17. The Mad1son, Milwaukee, and Chicago alums gave a " telephone" bridge party April 2 to help the chapter out. Scores were telephoned in to the Madison head­ quarters, Psi chapter, and everyone seemed to - think the idea was grand and the party itself even better. Carol Field was in charge, and · took care of all the scores as they came in. Our "ace" bridge players this semester are Rose Wichert and our new pres1dent, Lois Roehl. Lois and Rose came out on top in a recent Memorial Union bridge tournament, proving that high-ranking scholars may also be "tops"' in bridge tournaments. Parent's weekend, M ay 22, 23, and 24 had Jane Greer gurdmg it to success as one of the main events in Wis-

Elizabeth Ann Sponnenbat·ger, Omega, lVho Writes of Travels Madrid as well as all over Spain. You see next month are the big elections here· in Spain and everyone is all worked up over the situation. You know Spanish students always take such an interest in elections-and in several of the schools here in the ci ty they have been having a lot of trouble-such as riots and what not. Everyone thinks all the schools and the University wi ll close soon and they will probably have a twenty day vacation. For two reasons-one so the students can go borne and vote and the other so they can sort of keep the build­ ings intact. Yesterday out in the University they had a lot of trouble (I mean in the Facultad de letraJ y fil­ osofia), where I go to .chao! there are several divisions, law and what not where they have been having trouble before and its just started in my section. Anyway, some students attacked the dean of the school and they started shooting pistols in the halls and what not. As fate would have it I was not out there yester

148 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE all of her subjects. Her average rates second highest on Activities! Activities! At Alpha Gamma the campus. Anna Glenn, newly elected president of the chapter, was tapped for French honorary society, and Activities! Activities! Sigmas of Alpha Gamma chapte r Carol Rammage, recently elected secretary of the chapter are more mdustrt() US than ever. Under the chairmanship' of was tapped for sophomore council. ' Velma Blankenship, a successful benefit bridge party was Ruth Lind, recently elected vice-president of Omega given February 14. Jeslyn Morris, in charge of the ti ckets chapter, was tapped for the executive cabinet of the for this annual affair, turned in $50.00 to the Pullman Y.W.C.A. Children's Library. The second weekend in the month of May found our Making honor roll this las t semester were Dorothya nn members 10 the midst of some extensive rushmg. Rushing Schuffert, J anet Hulteen, Olive Hartvigson and Aimalee began Friday night with a party at the chapter house. Zimmerman. Olive and Aimalee made a~ honor hour. Saturday morning a picnic was given at Wakulla Springs Olive H artvigson, '36, placed first in a business letter and was followed by a formal tea given that afternoon 10 contest for colleges sponsored by Business Educa ti on honor of the rushees and the patronesses of the chapter. World. She is a member of Gamma Beta national women 's Saturday evening dancing was enjoyed by everyone· and professional economics honorary. Retu;ning this year to Sunday morning a breakfast was given. The breakfast was complete her college course, she h as been acti ve in a partiCularly lovely affair and the tables and favors were Y .W.C.A., leading the Race Commission, and Olive has in keeping with a May day motif. also served on the election board for the Associated Charlotte Angir, '39, and Lillian Taylor, '39 were W omen Students. pledged and will be initiated in October. ' Two Sigma Kappas were elected to offices during the BASCOM AL EXA KNIGHT recent class elections. Lucille Thompson ' 38 , is on the Florida State College for Women executive committee of the sophomore class, and Arlene Fischer, '39, is serving on the social committee of the Look at the Honors Alpha Beta Has Won freshman class. At the Matrix T able, an annual formal dinner given As usual, being so nea r the end of the semester, we by Theta Sigma Phi, honoring outstanding upperclass Alpha Betas are unusually busy. Our two seniors, Nancy women, Dorothrann Schuffert, Barbara Jea n Ward Eliz· Lou Knowton and Dorothy Swartz, are busy taking abeth Miller, Jes lyn Marries, Norma Peterson, Velma Blankenship, and Olive Hartvigson attended. Dorothyann Schuffert, outstanding junior on the campus, and presi­ dent of Panhellenic this year, was .elected secretary of Mu Phi, women's music honorary. She is president of the Eurodelphian Society. music and fine arts honorary. Jean Richmye r, 39, is taking acti ve part in campus affairs by serving on the Chinook staff , belonging to the Ad Club, and making the hocke y, basketball, and fl oat· ing figure, an entertainment given Mothers' Weekend. Besides Jean, Viriginia Parker, Mayo Van Austene, and Vera Thompson will take part in the sw imming exhibition. A tea was given by Omicron Nu in honor of home economi cs students, with Velma Blankenship in charge. Arlene Fischer, '39, is active in Y.W.C.A. , acting on the publicity committee. She is also working on the Ever· green staff, the tri -weekly f.aper issued bv the college. j oey Ayres, '39, has been e ected into Orchesis, national d ancing honorary. With four new members, the ever-active Sigmas of W ashtngton State College express their thanks and best wishes to the Spokane alumnre chapter for its generous help during the year and for the ass istance given to make the benefit bridge party a success. BARBARA JEAN WARD, State College o/ W aJhinKion

Violets Blanket Campus for Alpha Delta Hello, everyone! Spring is here in full swing. U.T.'s campus is beautiful; we certainly wish each of yo u Betty Maloney, Alpha Beta, might be able to see and enjoy it. Alpha Delta Sigmas certainlr have not had time to Moving Up Day Queen get spring fever this year. Apri 17 and 18. the Univer· sity home economics department held open house dunng senior comprehensive exams and preparing for gradu· the annual school days. This is the time when all of the ation. high schools in East Tennessee send their most talenterl The elections of the weekly paper, The B ee. and of students to compete with each other in var ious sub­ the monthly magazine , The BiJon, were held recently jects. The highlight of the entertainment was the Fas hion and we are well represented in the outcome. On the Bee, Parade featuring several of our members. The garments Ruth Janes was elected business manager and Evelyn worn had been designed and made in the department's Robinson assistant news editor. As for the Bi1011 , all the textile classes. positions held by women are held by Sigma Kappas. On April 19 we gave a tea for the faculty, their wives Doris Yeager is editor, Irma Arend is managi ng editor, and husbands and the Knoxville Sigma Kappa mothers Joan Gates is secretary and treasurer, Evelyn Moseley is at the home 'of Louise Sanders H ale's mother in West assistant exchange editor, and Ruth Frey is a member Hill va le. of the editorial staff. Ten g irls from our \'ledge and co llege groups who form April 24 , the annual Home Concert was held . It is at a chorus to " Stardust ' were selected for one of the five this affair that the Cap and Gown, honorary senior so rority stunts to be presented at Carnicus finals May I. women's society, taps its members for the coming year. Orchids to Mildred T arwater and Carrie M ae Sledge for Out of the four girls tapped this year two were Sigmas. their untiring efforts to make this undertaking a success. They were Ruth Janes and Margery Root. In addition to May 2 was a big night for us. The actives entertained the tapping ceremony Cap and Gown awards a ring to the pledges with a banquet at 6:30 at the Cherokee the most outstanding freshman. This year the ring went Country Club, and at 9:30 the alumnre and pledges gave to one of our members, Irma Arend . us a d ance. The mai n feature of this was the special A Debate Conference was held here recently. A great Sigma Kappa no- break wi th arrangements of " Sigma many colleges were represented and the conference was Kappa Love Girl" and "Sigma Kappa Waltz Song. " a great success. Bertha Richert, manager of women's de· The freshman sc holastic honorary sorority, Alpha bate, contributed greatly to that success as did Joan Lambda Delta, has elected Sue Stanton, a pledge. This Gates and Irma AJend. yea r there were onl y nine to make the requtred mark of Moving Up Day was May 2. Betty Maloney, who was 3.4 average for two quarters , therefore we have reason recently elected to the Board of Managers, was a can­ to be proud of Sue. didate for Moving Up D ay Queen. Alpha Beta's flo at Frances Walker, Knoxvi lle, and Ernestine Swafford , Illustrated the song "Sing An Old FashiOned Song to a Pikesvi lle, have become Alpha Delta pledges this pas t Young Sophisticated Lady." The fl oat was an arbor set hope to see each other there, so-"ON TO THE tn a garden with the young sophisticated lady in the q u i.~ter~s arbor and several old fashioned ladies and gentlemen in CONVENTION.'' the garden. AN NE REYNOLDS, UniverJity of Buffa lo CECE LI A BURCHFIELD, UniverJily of T enneuee

JUNE, 1936 149 services May 16 at the Curtis hotel. These three wee< Alpha Epsilon Has President of W.A.A. Evelyn Setre, Dorothy Lee, and Mary Jean Lindsey, all Ella Mortensen, '36 was initiated into Omicron Nu, of Minneapolis. The theme for the combined Birthday and she and Dorothy Brown, '36, were both initiated into and Initiation was Candlelight. Phi Kappa Phi. February 24 Panhellenic held its Songfest, which ha3 The pledges entertained all the other sorority pledges become an annual event since its beginning last year. on the campus at a tea March 22. . Members of the music faculty acted as judges, and the The first annual sorority relays, sponsored by the vafSity winning sorority was presented with the cup with its "I" club, were held April 18. We received a trophy for name engraved on it which it may keep until the Songfes the second place. the following year. Sigma Kappa was represented by the Helen Alexander, '3 7, was elected president of the college chapter under the direction of Barbara Moody. W.A.A. She attended a convention at Minneapolis April Colored triangle scarfs, symbolic of the song Down al 23·25 and visited Alpha Eta chapter. th~. Rainbows End, lent a bit of color to the ;lark dresses April 29 a dinner was held to celebrate the fifteenth worn by the girls. The group also sang Sigma Kappa ann1versary of Sigma Kappa on Iowa State campus. Pol· Girl. Another all sorority affair was the Panhellenic lowing closely was initiatiOn May 2. Ball April 24. The last social function of the season was our house Evelyn Setre is spending the summer traveling abroad formal, May 30. with her father. Leaving June 9, she will not return' until Officers of Alpha Epsilon for the coming year are: Beth September. She will spend considerable time visiting Ellen Brown, president; Geraldine Donohue, vice-presi· relatives in Norway. dent; Dorothea Schneider, secretary; June Boerner, treas· A mothers' day luncheon, a violet hunt and Senior urer; and La Vohn Larse n, rushing chairman. breakfast, and a spring formal will end our social affairs GERALDINE DONOHUE, Iowa State College for the year, but we are looking forward to a grand time in our new house next year. ]EAN BRONSON, University of Minnesota Alpha Zetas Boast That They Are Di<<'Y Alpha Zeta, after spending a good share of the winter Alpha Theta Tells of Trophies and Orchids and early spring redecoratmg the house, is now be· coming rather dizzy with the whirl of activities before the Six members of Alpha Theta have recently brought the end of the college year. These activities have included a girls' basketball tournament successfully to a close. This faculty tea where we all had a grand time getting. ac· quainted with our professors ; a buffet supper for e1ght rushees · a formal dinner for our patrons and patronesses; and a formal dinner for the Dean of Women. Our initiation banquet · was held at Willard Straight Hall directly after the initiation at the house. The pro· gram following the banquet was presented in a umque way. The speaker for each class was introduced as a participant in a Shakespearean play and her speech fol· lowed the thought of a quotation from a given play. Alpha Zeta was hostess to the University women for tea held April 23 in Willard Straight Hall. This was ·the last tea of its kind and there was a record crowd. Our SJ>rinll formal dance_,. April 2 5 in the Memorial room of W1llard Straight Hall was an event to which we looked forward with much anticipation. The Panhellenic tea was well attended and the song contest between the sororities was enjoyed equally by participants and audience. Founders' Day was again celebrated at Taughannock Falls with stunts by the freshmen and sophomores; the seniors "taking off' the juniors; and the juniors giving the seniors gifts. We were delighted recently by a visit from Mrs. Harriet Finch Pease, our Regional President. The officers for the following year have already as· sumed their responsibilities. The officers are as follows: president, Manon Bean; vice-president, Roberta Ed­ wards ; recording secretary, Carol Hallock ; corresponding secretary, Elizabeth Page; treasurer, Ruth Barclay; rush­ ing chairman, Elsie Harrington; social chairman, Sylvia Moore ; scholarship chairman, Constance Grant; activities chairman, Ruth Davis ; TRIANGLE correspondent, Alice Pitcher; registrar, Emily Wilcox; historian, Gertrude Bramley. Marjorie Kane, '36, president of WSGA in 1935, at· tended the National WSGA convention. Margaret Ed­ wards, '36, elected member

150 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Stunt-Day, sponsored by Alph~ _Theta, on Belknap After election April 27 the followin~ girls were in­ ampus of the Un•vers1ty of LoUisville was an all-uni­ stalled: . Mary . Carolyn Hollman, pres1C:Ient; Genevieve r~ity affair March 19. Fraternities, local organizations, Hoff, V1Ce-pres1dent ; Frances Brown, recording secretary; d1v1dual students, and faculty members co-operated in Lorame Schuck, corresponding secretary; Winifred Henke, aking this event a success. Children in clown suits TRIANGLE .correspondentl i Frances McQuillan, registrar resented a novel feature of the advertising. and. h1stonan, and Baroara Marston, social and rush As a symbol of achievement! the Alumna:: Association chauman. awarding each week one dol ar and an orchid to some April 11 saw Annie Laurie McCall married to Victor !utstanding. leader. ~warded in the League Room on the McAllister at the home of the bride's aunt, Miss Eleanora ~pus, th1s pnze IS g1ven to a student who has per­ Miller, here in Lincoln. Annie Laurie looked very sweet ormed some notable service to the schooL The first to and lovely in her long white gown and veiL The bride's !eceive this honor was Margaret Major, chairman of the sister and a friend of the groom were the only attendants. fh,lnt-Day progra!l'· Miss Major, as well as succeeding Since the wedding took place during spring vacation only 1nze wmners, will have her p1cture appear in the stu­ a few of the loyal sisters were present but they turned out lent publication. en masse and wished her all the happiness in the world. University of Louisville Mrs. McAllister is continuing her school work until june when she will be graduated and then will go to Hastings, Neb., to join her husband. Sisters Are Presidents of Alpha Iota MARGARET MARSTON, University of Nebraska This year the circus theme was used for our Miami ... ampus Carnival. The various sororities and fraternities rere represented by freaks and freak shows Thursday For Literary People Page Alpha Lambda ?. ight before the Carnival, and by booths at the carnival. Literary people! Members of Alpha Lambda chapter 1\lpha Iota gave a shadow operation entitled "Stomach were recently startled to see the poems of one Dorothy ifrouble" or "To be or not to be--that is the question." Quick in several issues of a prominent metropolitan news­ Through the work of Pearl Kirschner and our pledges paper. So was Dorothy i with all due praise and al'ologies ·he stunt was a success. to the poetess, we actmit that there are two Dorothy Marilynn Brown acted as barker for our booth. Little Quicks. After much sly and subtle probing, we did find ooxes were hung at eye level around the sides of the out that our Dorothy Quick, '38, occasiOnally writes oooth . Strings of Christmas tree bulbs ran from the box poetry for her own enjoyment, but that she writes officially to box furnishing lighting. Inside the boxes were pic­ only as our chapter historian, in which capacity she con­ tures of outstandmg students. Sayings below the pictures tributed to the college year-book. Dorothy is the new made the identity and idea clear to the spectators who advertising manager for the Y.W.C.A. walked around' the booth, and looked into the boxes. However, unless Mary is masquerading, thefe are not Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated with a tea at the two Mary Maggios. To readers of Adelphi's newspaper home of our charming I>atroness, Mrs. W. H . Shideler. and annual literary supplement, Mary's poems and her Mrs. Sanderson from Delta, Ohio, Dorothy's mother efforts as _guest wnter of a certai n humorous column are was a guest at our tea. Mrs. Ross, formerly Mildrea1 familiar. For the coming year, Mary, '37, was given her Corb, an alumna of Alpha Iota, was presented a silver choice of three columns on the paper but chose one in tea set as a wedding gift. which she had not ye t appeared-tne1 gossip column. Alpha Iota was g•ven proof of its activities outside the Some of Mary's poems are appearing in Sigma Kappa's social realm when at assembly our president, Marian anthology. Rosalie Prime, '37, also was invited to 10in Lindsey, was called forward to receive the scholarship the literary staff of the college newspaper, and will begin cup . This cup is given to the sorority which has the work as book editor. highest record in scholarship for the previous semester. More honors? Oh, yes, Lillian Preuss, '38, was elected Grades of both pledges and members are considered. class president for the third consecutive time ; Veronica An article in the Miami Student, our campus paper, Koloseus '38 was elected class executive; Aida Lando, announced the p)Cesentation of the Sigma Kappa Scholar­ '37, was macte1 aU-college tennis manager; and Dorothy ship Award to Miss Ellen Buyer. Alpha Iota gives this Stappert, '38, was selectea to be on Adelphi's daisy chain. fund to an outstanding upper class girl selected by the What else have the Alpha Lambdas been doing besides University Scholarship Committee. chewing pens, taking up mallets, and posing for pictures? Dorotha Redman, '36 (chapter president last year) Most important to us was the pledging of Helen Andrews, has been outstanding during her college days at Miami '39 and Veronica Koloseus, '38, in February. Then University. For her many activities she was given the there were plenty of parties. Several of our members went highest possible honor-selection for Mortar Board. She to a Panhellenic bridge, and Gertrude Werner and Aida was also elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Lando, both '37, had charge of the candy booth at an It is not often that a sorority has sisters as members Adelphi alumna:: bridge. The chapter had its annual at the same time such as Alpha Iota has in Marion mother-daughter tea in the college's new co-operative Lindsey and Dorothy Lindsey . Still more unusual-Marian house and managed to get by without breaking a dish! was elected chap ter !resident for the coming year while jeanne Ellert, '36, was chairman of an amus.ing and her sister was electe pledge class president. Marian was highly successful student-faculty party at Adelphi. Ready recently elected treasurer of the Panhellenic Association for a new year with our recently elected officers, Gertrude and representative to the Student-Faculty Council for 1936- Werner, Mary Maggio, Rosalie Prime, Betty Carey, and 193 7. She was sent to the Regional Convention is Cleve­ Betty Leonara , we are sorry_ to see Jeanne, our only land last year and this year she j>lans to attend the graduate, leave the campus. The year-book ~aptioned her National Convention in Colorado. Dorothy will accom­ picture, "One smile from her would bamsh care, So pany her. charming is my Jeanne." With such smiles, Jeanne has MARGARET EARLY, Miami University served us as president for two years. We have selected her as chairman of our alumna:: board. jEAN MAKAY, Adelphi Co/lege Alpha Kappas "Go Western" and Win Honors Initiation for our pledge cl ass was held March 7 this year followed by a beautifully planned banquet at the Alpha Nu Competes for Decoration Prizes Garden Room of Hotel Lincoln. Mary Carolyn Hollman Grace Nelson '38, our new president, was elected acted as toastmistress; president Margaret Marston wel­ secretary of the 'Associated Women Students. She is also comed the new initiates, and Barbara Marston gave the our delegate to national convention. Ruth Gormley, '39, response. Luvicy Hill, of the alumna:: chapter, presented became a charter member and also treasurer of Delta the awards for high scholarship and high activi ty. Wini­ Sigma Lambda. freshman honorary society. Helen a. Eck, fred Henke received the first and Genevieve Hoff the '3 7, was elected treasurer of Phi S1gma, honorary bwlogy latter. fratern•ty. Alpha Kappa went "western" for her sprin~ party at The pledges gave a May day tea for all the pledges of the chapter house and everyone had a lovely bme "Wa­ other sororities. The table was decorated with small figures hooing' under strings of yellow stars and a paper moon, around a May pole, surrounded by spring flowers. amid cactus cutouts, and around the old corral. The The college members and pledges gave a shower for our basement was decorated as the inside of the ranch house three married members, Betty Cremens, Hazel Stewart, and punch was served to the thirsty "ranchers" from and Katherine Griffith, May 11. earthern-ware bowls and tin cups. Panhellenic formal was held April 25. Hazel Rice was April 16 was the date of the eighth annual honors chairman of the entertainment committee and Margaret convocation of the University of Nebraska and we are Johnston was on the ch aperon committee. proud that three of our girls received honors. Annie We are making plans for rushing girls from all over Laurie McCall McAllister was recognized for superior the state who are coming here for track meet. We plan to scholarship in the senior class, having been on the honor hold open house after the afternoon meets. Also we. are list for four years and also received Phi Beta Kappa. busy working on decorations for track meet. We rece1ved Both Winifred Henke and Mary Carolyn Hollman were second place las t year and are working hard for first this recognized for high scholarship. year .

JUNE, 1936 151 We held our spring formal in the gold ballroom of our After the collelle members and alums were duly "col­ new Student Union building, April 18. The ballroom was lected" in Nashvdle, our good time began. The opening so large that we were able to invite personal friends and note of the three day celebration was the annual formal also gtrls tram other sororities. spring dance at which Jimmy Gallagher's orchestra Easter morning, chapter members entertained pledges played. The dance was given in Alumni Memorial hall: at a breakfast at the house. Afterwards we had an egg The second event of the celebration was the formal hunt and then everyone was off to church. banquet, held at the James Robertson hotel. The banquet LOLA NEWHOUSE, Univenity of Montana honored the charter members and had as its theme. "Ten Years, Looking Backward and Forward." Mary Walker. our district counselor, was responsible for the fine program Heavenly M'other Goose Venetian Style given there. Although designed as formal, the banquet Novel themes were the high-lights of the mid-year rush became a very informal "meeting ground" when we began season at the Alpha Omicron chapter. Monday night moving around, greeting old fnends and making new Mother Goose was used as the theme while Tuesday ones. found the chapter house bedecked in Venetian style. The fina l event of our program was the Panhellenic Wednesday glorified the old fashioned gi rl and Thursday Tea, given at the chapter house on Sunday afternoon. was invaded with a Heavenly atmosphere. Friday, in the Invited guests included all officers of college and alumnre usual A. 0 . manner, the house was made to resemble a chapters on the campus, unaffiliated Greeks, faculty mem­ supper club. The end of rush week found us with three bers, and friends of -the sorority. new pledges, Ruth Rogers, Hortense Ogden, and Dorothy We consider that our celebration was extremely suc­ French. The fo llowing week, presentation was held at the cessful and hope that our alums enjoyed all the events chapter house. as much as we did, for without their co-operation such a Ellen Robinson was elected to Spurs, Sophomore Wom­ program as ours would have been impossible. We are en's honorary, early in February. grateful to Mrs. C. M. Darden, who, although she is not The outstanding event during this quarter was the an Alpha Rho worked untiringly with us in making our regional conference which was held in Los Angeles. plans successful. Her frequent references to "blessed Eta" Seven college members and one pledge from the Lambda have made her none the less a real worker for Alpha Rho. chapter and several alumnre were present. The Los Our sincere thanks go also to Dolores Adams who orig­ An~eles alumnae turned out in goodly numbers, 153 being inated the plans and worked to carry them through SUC· regtstered at the conference. Business meetings occupied cess fully. the greater part of the time but alumnre and actives found One of the major events on our calendar for the past time to renew old friendships and make new ones. few months was the initiation of Jane Allen Young We were fortunate to have the exhibit from the Maine May 2. Following the initiation services, a formal dinner Sea Coast Mission in time to be shown at the conference. was held at the chapter house. and delighted to have Grand Vice President Patty Marshall Congratulations and best wishes are in order for Mrs. Brenner present. The outstanding event of the convention and Mrs. Robert Taylor, who were quietly married April was the buffet supper Saturday night. We were quite II, 1936. Mrs. Taylor was formerly our own Corinne honored to have Frances Lederer, noted motion picture Adams, while Robert is the brother of Mary Taylor of the star and advocator of world peace, as our guest speaker. college chapter. Members of the U .C.L.A. faculty were also guests. We are well represented in the newly organized Pre· Initiation was held March 26 at the chapter house. Med. Club for girls. Three of our freshmen were among Those who were initiated at this time were Portia Banning, the first to join after its organization. These girls, Lois Alberta Buhse, Marge Clark, Catherine Cotter, Virginia Powell, Maud McCall, afld Avon McMaurry represent a Moss, Alice Waldo, and Sally Wallerick. Alice Waldo's larger number than from any other sorority on the campus. mother, who is a Sigma Kappa, was present at initiation, ELIZABETH SCRUGGS, Vanderbilt UniverJity as was True Matoon from Lambda. After initiation. a formal banquet was held honoring the new initiates. Doris Ward was toastmistress. Three Alpha Sigmas Among Campus Beauties The A.O.'s Mothers' Club sponsored a play at the Alpha Sigma is proud to announce that Doris Hill and Gateway Theatre in Hollywood, April 17, to raise money Grace Bell have been chosen as May Queen attendants. for the house. The theatre was filled to capacity and Grace Bell was also chosen as the junior class beauty. everyone enjoyed the play. Refreshments were served The newly elected officers for the coming year are: afterwards. president, Doris Hill; vice-president, Mary Elizabeth Portia Banning was recently pledged and Catherine Cot­ Grounds; secretary, Sue !tons; corresponding secretary, ter initiated to Phi Beta, National music and drama honor­ Mary Jane Stevenson; treasurer, Dorothea Porter. ary, Portia i ~ well known for her interpretive dancing Initiation was held May 2 for Betty Morris, '39. and wh1 le Catherme has taken an active part in dramatics. Ethel Talley, '39. After the formal initiation a dinner She has played 1mportant parts in several motion pictures was held at the Tavern. and IS heard every Sunday over the air. Barbara Williams April 25 was Mothers' Dav on our campus. All our has been initiated into Philokalia, art honorary. Alice Mothers were here for the day and some stayed over Waldo was presented the scholarship plaque for the new night. A luncheon was given in their honor at the Castle­ mJtJate class and Els1e Forbes for the Initiate class of ton hotel in New Castle. The program following the October, 1935. luncheon, arranged by Margaret Sloan, consisted of The annual spring dinner dance was held at the Welcomes to our Mothers by Doris Hill and .Janet Wood. Beverly-Wilshire Hotel April 24. Virginia Dumm was in a Response by Mrs. Hill, a piano solo by Bettv Morris, charge of the arrangements. and the closing numbers by the quartet. Mary Jane Joy Breakfast was held at the chapter house May 3. Stevenson was in charge of all arrangements. Each Mother Pledges entertained by modeling clothes which showed the received gardenias. change_ m style smce 1929. They also illustrated the type Clara Brown was selected as one of the members of the of mus1c wh1ch was popular dunng the same period All-Star basketball team of W.A.A. The Bridge Benefit May 9 was held at the O~kmont Country Club m Glendale, Calif. Y . ~2'.1~ne Stevenson was elected vice-president of the ELSIE FORBES, University of California at Los Angeles Arrangements are being made now for the Alpha Sigma Spnng Formal by Dorothea Porter and Doris Hill. We are all looking forward to the national convention Alpha Rho Celebrates Its Tenth Birthday with much enthusiasm. We have selected as delegates to The most important news that Alpha Rho has had to the convention, Doris Hill and Mary Elizabeth Grounds. rep~rt for a decade is . found in the account of the cele­ MARGARET SLOAN, Westmimter College b~atwn of the tenth ann1versary of our founding at Vander· bdt. That phrase " for a decade" may sound as if we w~re JUSt commg out of our shell in order to do some­ Alpha Tau Supplies Variety of News Indeed th~ng for , our correspondent to write about, but that cer­ The thirteen graduating seniors completely dominated tamly tsn t so, for we have always been active enough to the scene on the Alpha Tau stage during spring term. A fill several columns. However, we mean, by these -three battle of wits went on with seniors and underclassmen ":Ords, that our celebration was so successful and pro­ vying. for the honor of being the more mysterious and VIded so much real "fun" for everyone that it almost tantal1zmg. Neither group would reveal the plans it had obltter~tes the memory of many of our other activities; at for the party hononng the other group. It is an Alpha leas~ . tt makes them seem very small in comparison . Tau tra~it10n to have these. two parties each spring term. FlfSt, we had a general roll-call of all Sigmas of The semors offered suggest1ons for the gifts they would Alpha Rho, through the medium of attractive letters which ltke, and the other college members responded with qUJZZ· were sent to every member. whether she resided in Nash­ ical smiles, misleading "hints," and an exchange of vdle or tn some d1stant place. These letters told her of many wmks among themselves. the celebratwn and requested that she be present. A very At the May Morning Sing, May I, at the foot of enthus~ast 1 c response greeted these lettero-much to the Beaumont To":'er, M1ch1gan State celebrated one of its deltght of us all. traditiOnal spnng events. Besides a concert of song by

152 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE glee dubs and the A-cappel_l_a choir to greet the arrival_ of 9ualms that the weather may not permit swimming. Julia May, the program induded the tapping of new members JS tnstructor of ceram 1cs at the University. by Mortar Board, and Tower Guard, local sophomore Recently elected members of the W.A.A. board are Ruth honorary for women. Mortar Board is the highest honor Klem and Gladys Arveson. possible. to a woman at Michigan State, for only five wom­ . Alice_ Moreland was initiated into Matrix, honorary en attamed the h1gh requ1rements for membership this JOurnalJsm group. year. Of these, Lawain Churchil_l_, '37, was one. Are we LILLIAN CARTER, University of North Dakota Alpha Taus proud of her! Tower Guard considers scholar­ ship, leadership, and service in selecting its members. Wilma Hanby, '39, was elected to Tower Guard . Alpha Phi Sponsors Organ Recital Two Alpha Taus were initiated into Omicron Nu. Alpha Ph} initiated this sprif!g Gayle Grebe, '39, Julia Mary Barden, '37, and Lawain Churchil_l_, '37. Both of La Barre, ?7, Mar ~ Hunt, 37, Mary Hampton, '39, thes~ girls will also have the opportunity of attending Dorothy ,Gmwold, 39, Tacy Sherwood, '39, Lucille Menll-Palmer school 10 Detro1t next year. Lawain Fowkes, 37, Jean Urfer, '39. Jean Bay, '38, and June Churchill, '37, was also elected chairman of Spartan Hust, '39. Women's League, an organization. for all college women, The freshmen treated other members of Alpha Phi to a wh1ch a1ms to establiSh good feeling among sorority and sophiSti cated formal dmner dance with a setting of black non-soronty g1rls. and si lver and all the a tm osphe r~ of a supper club. The Beverly Smith, '38, was elected to Liberal Arts Boa rd; dance was held in the Eugene hotel April 17. this board assists a faculty committee in selecting the An organ recital was sponsored by Alpha Phi as a college lecture courses. campus vesper service Sunday evening March 8. Stacia Alpha T au has elected these officers: Elizabeth Kirk Parvin, '3 7, was in char~e. ' '37, president; Edwyna ChatteHe, '38, vice-president: Genevieve McNeice, 38, was pledged this month to Leora Horning, '38, recording-secretary; Irene Brewer, '38' Ph1 Theta Upsilon, junior women's activity honorary. treasurer ; Jane Barringer, '38, corresponding-secretary. ' Starla Parvm, '3 7, was elected vice-president of the junior Alpha Tau initiated four girls May 2. Initiation ban­ class to serve the remainder of the year, replacing an officer quet was held at Sandy's. Mrs. Fern Kinton Line. new elected last year who proved to be ineligible. Dorothy member of the advisory board, gave the main address. Dill, '37, and Ruth Weber. '37, were appointed members The program covers displayed mediaeval castles. " Squire" of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet. Virginia Scoville, '37, has one laura Tell, ' 38, expressed the sentiments of a squire who of the tmportant roles in a current campus production is aspiring towards knighthood . This was in response to entitled " Dinner at Eight." " Knight" Frances DaviS, '36, speech of welcome from Twenty-live members of Alpha Phi attended the district the college members. Opal Lewton, Alpha Kappa, and conve ntion at Upsilon chapter house in Corvallis. Ore­ now employed as supervisor of primary schools in Lansi ng, gon, April 3·5. spoke for the alumnre of the round-table. Dorothy Ander­ A faculty dinner, and a dinner for Sigma Kappa broth­ son, '3 7, was toastmistress. Louisa Ridgeway Davis, dis­ ers were the highlights in the social affairs of Alpha Phi tnct counselor, was a guest for the initiation events. since February. Mothers were guests of honor at a dinner at Sandy's, RUTH WEBER, University of Oregon May 9. They were escorted by their daughters and re­ ceived corsages. During spring term at Michigan State outstanding music Leap Year-And Alpha Chis Paid and Paid students present recitals. Margery Loring, '39, a voice Sigma Kappas at Georgetown held no open houses student, took part in one of these recitals. and Gwendolen during February due to the reverse order of social affairs. M1Her, '36, a piano student, participated in two, one being It being Leap Year, the llentlemen on the campus changed a concerto with the college symphony orchestra. things somewhat, and 1t was the women who did the A unique and clever literary meeting was provided by asking and paying for dates while the men stepped into the the pledges one night of winter term. They gave an Art women's shoes and were hosts to open house guests during StudiO party. Features of the party included shining the the Leap Year month. gu~st shoes to the a~companiment of a hand organ, finge r February 20 Alpha Chi gave a formal tea in honor of pamtmg, and draw1ng of the guests profiles. Another the Woman's Association of Georgetown College. We literary meeting was given over to Ann Wheeler, Alpha enjoyed the affair and hope to entertain our "town Mu, who reported on the book Mrs. Astor' s H orse. At mothers" at least once each year as part of our Public one meeting the seniors gave an impromptu radio broad­ Relations program. cast, induding such famous persons as the Voice of Alpha Chi held its second initiation February 22 when Experience, Betty Crocker, and Clara, Lu, n' Em. seven girls joined our happy band. Zelma Monroe was A novel rushing party during winter term was the here as our national representative. Many enthusiastic "College Party," wh1ch gave those attending it the op­ alumnre were here for the initiation and banquet which portumty to get an entire college education in one evening. followed at the Lafayette Hotel in Lexington. It is a Among other rushing parties were a taffy-puB, a sleigh tradition that after initi ation Saturday the chapter goes nde, and a theater pari1 during winter term and a Sun­ in a body to the Baptist church services Sunday morning. day morning breakfast h1ke in the spring. February 26 the sorority entertained with a shower in An important weekend for Alpha Taus was that of honor of Frances Sparks whose marriage to Joe Johnson May 30 and 31. The term party was held in the Union took place this month. Ballroom Sahlfday night, and the annual breakfast cele­ During March the Dramatic Club of Georgetown Col­ bratmg the blfthday of the chapter was Sunday morning. lege presented "A Murder Has Been Arranged." Among The pledges were guests of the col_l_ege members at an the leading characters were three Sigma's: Dorothy Belle Open House dance April 25. Thompson, Alice Ford, and Frances Knight. After the BEVERLY SMITH, Michigan State College play Alice Ford, newly elected president of Alpha Chi, entertained the cast with a buffet party. The physical education classes of Georgetown College Snowflakes and Swimming at Alpha Upsilon under the direction of Dorothy Thompson, president ol In the middle of North Dakota's cold wave Alpha Alpha Chi, gave an exhibition April 3. And here I would Upsilon danced beneath gigantic paper snowflakes and like to announce the election of Dorothy Belle as head of silver icides at its annual snowflake dance, February 21. the Physical Education Department at Georgetown College February 29 initiation was held for Florence Nickisch and next year. This is quite an honor and a thrill to Sigma lillian Carter with the banquet in the Flickertail room at Kappas who will be glad to have her here after her gradu­ the Dacotah hotel. ation in June. Saxon Benjamin, our president-elect, has been more During April the chapter entertained the co llege varsity than going places. She was representative of North Dakota football team with a foo tball party. The recreation room at the National Physical Education convention in St. was decorated with orange and black Georgetown pen­ louis last month. At the present time she is touring the nants, etc. The idea of a football field and game was state and part of Minnesota as a member of the Madrigal carried out and each team had a sponsor and cheering Club. And to top it off Sax is our delegate to convention. section. At the half, popcorn was served and at the end Gladys Skavlem was chosen as one of the senior prom of the game hot dogs, buns, pickles, and coca cola were "stars" whose four foot picture in a star-shaped frame served from stands . All day suckers were given as prizes formed part of the decorations at the senior prom. Nina to the winning side! Thoreson, a pledge, has been chosen as a candidate for On the Honor Roll, Club programs, Baptist Student Engineers' Ball Queen. Union Council, and in various honorary campus posi· Sigma Kappas appearing in the Flickertail Follies were tions will be found the names of our group. Saxon Benjamin and Ruth Klein who presented a Micky­ We had our annual fish fry April 2-l. Guests assembled Minnie Mouse act. at the house and hiked to the piCnic grounds where fish, Julia Mattson, alumna and house mother, has invited muffins, salad, and coffee were served. the chapter to spend the weekend of May 16-17 at her To end a good record we held our third initiation April cottage at Lake Bemidji, Minn. This has become an annual 25. After initiating the four new girls we have twenty-five outing which the girls anticipate with pleasure-and some college members. With our new initiates and the largest

JUNE, 1936 153 chapter in the history of Alpha Chi, we hope to make next M.S.C.W. Women's Debate Team also were guests of year the most successful in the life of our group. Alpha Omega when their team debated against the Uni­ FRANCES KNIGHT, Georgetown College versity of Alabama Women's Debate Team. Alpha Omega is proud that Mary Ellen Hornsby was chosen to be a member of the team this year. Alpha Psi Features Sunday Night Suppers Dorothy Hays had the title role in "Princess Ida," the Alpha Psi chapter initiated Catherine De Huff, Betty Gilbert and Sullivan opera presented this year in April Rescorla, Nell Puckett, Betty Koehnlein, Virginia by the combined Glee Clubs of the university, under the Weischer, Dorothy Wilkins, Janet Rettew, and Ruth Sim­ direction of Uncle Tom Garner. mons at the spring initiation. The ceremony was followed New officers of Alpha Omega for the coming year are: by a banquet at the Washington Duke hotel. The toast Margaret Irwin, prestdent; Dorothy_ Hays, vice-president; scheme was worked up to resemble graduation ceremonies, Merle Byars, recordin~ secretary ; Norvelle Norman, cor· with lavender and maroon mortar boards diplomas, and responding secretary; Geraldine Gardner, treasure. all the usual speeches. Clara Critchfield, Zeta, ended the Margaret Irwin plans to attend Sigma Kappa's National pro~;:ram with an inspiring address welcoming the new Convention this summer to represent Alpha Omega. mit~ates to Sigma Kappa. April 8 a dance was held for DOROTHY HAYS, UniverJity of Alabama the initiates at the Ark. The chapter gave a tea for patronesses March 12 , and Beta Beta Gives News of Alumnte Club a Cabin Party April 19. Aside from these events, the usual Sunday night suppers and breakfasts twice a month Initiation service was held March 17, at the Hotel have been continued. Columbia for Ethel Ellison Adelaide Taylor, and Cor· We are proud of Billie Ritchie, who is next year's nelia Yoder. It was followed by a banquet, which carried Panhellenic president and vice-president of the W.A.A.; out the sorority colors. The theme of the banquet was the Mary Bender, treasurer of the W.A.A., Charlotte Mark- triangle. Josephine Timberlake, one of Beta Beta's alum· nre, was the toastmistress. Toasts were given by Cornelia Yoder, Effie Campbell, Ruth Gayden, and Elizabeth Har· vey. After an informal rushing season Beta Beta pledged Elizabeth Caston, '40. Outstanding in activities this winter is Bennie Greye Lewis, who won the girls' singles tennis championship on the campus. Elizabeth Harvey was the captain of the winning basketball team in the campus tournament. Eliza· beth Warren received a bid from Phi Beta Kappa. Sarah Matthews was elected historian of the Quintillian Club, honorary educational club. After finishing school the first of February, Bennie Greye Lewis went to Washington and stayed several weeks. When she returned, she was elected president ot the alumnre club. Other officers are as follows : vice· !'resident, Margaret Reaves Dent ; corresponding secretary, josephine Timberlake; recording secretary, Mary Ford; treasurer, Elizabeth Bird-;--histonan, Ruth Gayden; active counselor, Agnes Hughes. Another of our alumnre enjoyed a delightful trip. Josephine Timberlake went to Mobile, Alabama. to be a Initiates of Alpha Psi bridesmaid in her brother's wedding. Before coming home she went to the Mardi Gras Festival. ham, who holds an office in the Town Girls' Club. and We were sorry to lose three of our college members last Catherine De Huff, who is to be sophomore soccer man· February because of graduation, but they are active in ager. the alumnre club. Agnes Hughes is teaching, Bennie JEAN BROWN, Duke UniverJity Greye Lewis is working, and Elizabeth Warren is taking a business course. The Chapter is glad that they are still able to be with us. Warning-Don't Argue with Alpha Omegas! MILDRED MATTHEWS, University of South Carolina Alpha Omega held an initiation April 25 for Ruth Coapman, Rochester, N .Y., and Mary Neil Ventrice Clayton, Ala. We were fortunate in having with us ou; Despite Cramming Beta Gammas Make Waffles beloved district counselor, Mary Walker, and also Avon The Beta Gammas in these past months have been McMurray, Alpha Rho. A breakfast was served following concerned with university exams and have not had as initiation at the McLester hotel. much time as they would have liked for sorority life In M:rch Alpha Omega gave a dinner-dance for rushees other than the usual meetings and Sunday afternoon teas. The Federated Women's Clubs of Alabama met on ou; Now that is all over and at the time of writing we are campus in April and Alpha Omega entertained several of planning several spring parties and a shower for Norah the members at dmner during their visit. Storey, · 3 5. In Feliruary we had a waffie supper to which The State High School Debate Ch_ampionship was won we brought our friends. thts year m March by four Huntsvtlle, Ala., girls who A group of our girls have been taking part in the inter· ma~e the Alpha Omega chapter house their headquarters sorority basketball. whtle on the untverstty campus. Two girls on the MAURINE HADDELAND, University of Manitoba

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By ]AN ISBELLE FORTUNE By LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON You are a thousand miles away, In another lifetime I shall lo ve you less ; But when the sun dips. low, Love you with light laughter, never to excess· I know your thoughts are meeting mine Free myself of sorrow by keeping heart-whdle; In that resplendent glow. C~eat my heart of rapture by fetterin~ my soul; Gzve you careless answer and meaningless caress. And when the evening star comes out, Another life I'll be so wise-and so miss happiness! Serenely white and clear, I feel your heart's sweet whispering -Exchange Clos e to me and dear. -Exchange

154 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY Founded at Colby College, Maine, in 1874 FOUNDERS District 2: Alpha Rho, Alpha Omega, Sigma, Memphis Mas. L. D. CARVER, nee Mary Caffrey Low (deceased). Alumnre, Nashville Alumna:, Dallas Alumna:, EUZABETH GORHAM HOAG (deceased), Houston Alumna:. MRS. }. B. PIERCE, nc!e Ida M. Fuller (deceased). DiJtrict CounJelor: Mary Walker, 1711 Villa pl., LOUISE HELEN COBURN, Skowheg~an, Me. Nashville, Tenn. Mas. G. W. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann (deceased). REGION IV-PrtJident: Ruth L. Smith, 8391 Cedar road, Silver Spring, Md. District 1: Omega, Beta Beta, Miami Alumna:, Tallahas­ GRAND COUNCIL see Alumna:, Orlando Alumna: Club. Grand Pruident-Mrs. Ruby Carver Emerson, 72 Payer­ District Coumelor: Mrs. Elena Copenhaver Watson, weather street, Cambridge, Mass. 409 W . Tuscaloosa street, Florence, Ala. Grand Vice-PrtJident-Mrs. Patty Marshall Brenner 1044 District 2: Zeta, Rho, Alpha Psi Washington Alumna:. Hamilton avenue Palo Alto, Calif. ' District Counselor: Mrs. Isabella Brown Krey, 4606- Gr11nd Secretary-Mrs. Alice Hersey Wick, 2521 S. 21st 15th street N.W., Washington, D.C. street, Philadelphia, Pa. REGION V-PrtJident: Lola Jane Rosenberger, 512 Web­ Gr11nd TrtaJurtr-Mrs. Bertha Whillock Stutz, 627 S. ster street, Mishawaka, Ind. Third street, Corvallis, Ore. District 1: Chi, Alpha Iota, Alpha Pi, Central Ohio Gr11nd Counulor-Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Front street, Alumna:, Cleveland Alumna:, Cincinnati Alumna:. Bloomington, Ill. DiJtriha Upsilon, Alpha Eta, Beta Gamma, Mrs. Rhena Clark Marsh, 231 Boulevard, Scarsdale, N.Y. Twin C1ties Alumna:, Winnipeg Alumna:. Mrs. Sarah B. Mathews Goodman (deceased). District Cotmu/or: Mrs. Helen Ives Corbett, 244) Mrs. Grace Coburn Smith (deceased). Sheridan avenue S., Minneapolis Minn. Hila Helen Small, Concord road, Wayland, Mass. District 2: Xi, Alpha Kappa, Omaha Alumna:, Kansas Mrs. Eula Grove Linger, 97 UniverSity avenue, Buffalo, City Alumna:, Nebraska Alumna:, St. Louis N.Y. Alumna:. Mrs. Ethel Hayward Weston, 98 Weston avenue, Madison, District Counselor: Mrs. Mary Lorett Bozett, 1391 S. Me. Clayton street, Denver, Colo. Lorah S. Monroe, 614 E. Front street, Bloomington, Ill. District 3: Iota, Colorado Alumna:, Tulsa Alumna:. Mrs. Mary Gay Blunt, 303 Seventh avenue W., Alex­ DiJtriCI Counulor: Mrs. Ethel Thomas Bowen, 2013 S. andria, Minn. Marion, Denver, Colo. Audrey Dykeman, 6244 N". Oakley avenue, Chicago, Ill. REGION Vlli-PrtJident: Mrs. Anna McCune Harper, 283 Park View Terrace, Oakland, Calif. District 1: Mu, Upsilon, Alpha Phi , Puget Sound Alum· FIELD ORGANIZATION nre, Portland, Ore., Alumna:. REGION !-President: Ethel Larm, State Teachers Col­ DiJtrict Counselor: Mrs. Kathryn Catron Rutherford, lege, Worcester, Mass. 3913 N.E. 33rd, Portland, Ore. District 1: Alpha, Nu, Waterville Alumna:, Portland District 2: Alpha Gamma, Alpha Nu, Spokane Ahmnre, Alumna:, Boston Alumn:r. Walla Walla Alumna:, Yakima Alumnoc . District Counselor: Mrs. Nelle Alexander Adams, 162 District Counselor: Theodora Budwin, 403 Waverley Loomis street, Burlington, Vt. place, Spokane, Wash. District 2: Delta, Omicron, Phi, Worcester Alumna:, District 3: Lambda, Alpha Omicron, Bay Cities Alumna:, Rhode Island Alumna:, Hartford Alumna:. Los Angeles Alumn~ Sacramento Alumna:, Palo District Counselor: Irene Hall, 72 Lincoln road, Med­ Alto Alumna:, San uiego County Alumna:, San ford, Mass. Francisco Alumna:. DiJtrict Counselor: Mrs. Ruth Anne Ware Greig, 14~ REGION 11-PreJident: Mrs. Harriet Finch Pease, 855 Hillcrest avenue, Berkeley, Calif. Central Parkway, Schenectady, N.Y. District 1: Epsilon, Alpha Beta, Alpha Zeta, Buffalo STANDING COMMITTEES Alumna:, Central New York Alumna:, Rochester International Finance Board Alumna:, Schenectady Alumna:. Gladys Hamilton, 1222 Summit, Apartment 209, Seattle, DiJtrict Counulor: Elizabeth C. Spencer, 974 Am· Wash., Chairman. herst, Buffalo, N.Y. Mrs. Bertha Whillock Stutz, 627 S. Third street, Cor- District 2: Alpha Lambda, Philadelphia Alumna:, New vallis, Ore. Jersey Alumna:, New York City Alumna:. Ruth E. Litchen, 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan. DiJtri

Have You Married or Moved? CENTRAL OFFICE, SIGMA KAPPA SORORI1Y, 1630 Alabama, LAWRENCE, KAN. Please change my address or name and address on the files as follows: From-College Chapter ...... Initiation number Name ...... Address ...... City ...... State ...... To Name ...... Address ...... ·...... City ...... State ...... Date . (~i ~~~di~g· i~f~~~a-ti~~) ...... · . .. . · ...... Date .( ~i ~;r~i;g·e: .if ·s~~di~g ·i~f~;~~ti~~. ~b~~t ~a·r~iag~) ...... 6-36 COLLEGE CHAPTER DIRECTORY

Chapter Institution Corresponding Secretary President Chapter Address

Alpha ...... • Colby College Polly Pratt Mary Ewen Colby College, Water­ Beta and Gamma-Consolidated with Alpha. ville. Me. Delta ...... • • •• Boston University Phyll1s M. Adams Barbara E. Rice 688 Boylston St., Bos­ ton, Mass . Epsilon ...... • • . Syracuse University Ruth Buckley Elizabeth Jones 500 Un1versi ty Pl., Syracuse, N.Y. Zeta ...... Geo. Washington Univ. Eleanor Carroll Jeannette Gi lbert 2020 G St. N .W ., Washington, D.C. Eta ...... • Illinois Wesleyan Univ. Margaret McDorman Virgin ia M ammen 1101 N orth East St., Bloomington, Ill. Theta ...... • University of Illinois Christine Zoller Kath ryn Kuhnen lll6 W. N evada, Ur­ bana, Ill. Iota ...... • University of Denver Irma Stackhouse Mary Syler 2120 S. Josephine, Den­ Kappa ...... Owing to University ruling, charter surrendered in 1911. ver, Colo. Lambda ...... Univ. of California Nancy E. Nightingill Roxana Holmes 2506 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley. Calif. Mu • ...... Univ. of Washington Edythe A. Draper Maxine Martin 4510 22nd Ave. N.E., Seattle, Wash. Nu ...... • . Middlebury College Ruby Ree ve Marion A. Hook Pearson's Hall, Mid· dlebury, Vt. Xi • • ...... University of Kansas Gladys Irvine Mary Alice Graham 162 5 Edgehill, Law­ rence, Ka n. Omicron ...... La ckson College Persis Proctor Gertrude Ell iot 128 Curtis St.. W. Pi ...... ~ b a rter suspended upon request ot chapter. I 93 1. Somerville, Mass. Rho ...... Randolph-Macon Worn- Lorna Houghtaling Marg aret Stemler R.M.W.C., Lynchburg, an's College Va. Sigma .. ..•...... Southern Methodist Pann ie Norman Josephi ne Morgan Sigma K"Ppa Box, University S.M.U ., D allas, Tex. Tau ...... •.. .. Indiana University Marcella Bentzen Mary M. Hulsman Sigma Kappa House, Jordan Ave ., Bloom­ Ington, Ind. Upsilon ...... • Oregon State College Catherine Lathrop Dorothy Bruns 231 N. 26th St., Corvallis, Ore. Phi ...... •...... Rhode Island State Margaret Peckham Elizabeth Drummond Sigma Kappa House, College Kingston, R.I. Chi ...... Ohio State University Anne Burket Nell L. Radabaugh 205 1 I uka, Columbus, Ohio. Psi ...... · University of Wiscon- Doris Bandlow Lois Roehl 234 Langdon St., Madi­ sin son, W is. Omega ...... Florida State College Vivian Marshall Emily Johnson Sigma Kappa House, for Women Tall ahassee, Fla. Alpha Beta ...... University of Buffalo Margery Root Marion Kamprath Norton Hall, Univer­ sity of Buffa lo, Buf­ falo, N .Y. Alpha Gamma · · · W ashington State Col- Jea n Richmyer Dorothya nn Schuffert 4 0~ ?sh~ St., Pullman. lege Alpha Delta University of Tennessee Mary Joe Moran Dorothy Foster 1622 W hite Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. Alpha Epsilon · · · Iowa State Colle~e Beth Ellen Brown Dorothy Brown 233 G rey, Ames, Iowa. Alpha Zeta · · · · · · · Cornell University Elizabeth E. P~g e Jean Kilkenny 150 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, N .Y. Alpha Eta · · · · · · University of Minnesota Jane L. Bossen Joyce Paul 403 2 Brya nt Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Alpha Theta · · · · University of Louisville Dorothy W endling Jean Jones 214 1 S. First St., Louisville, Ky. Alpha Iota . .... · Miami University Doris Gutknecht Mari an Lindsey 25O~i ~ ~ s Hall, Oxford, Alpha Kappa · · · · University of Nebras ka Lorai ne Schuck Mary Carolyn Holl man 42 5 University Terr. Lincoln . Neb. Alpha Lambda . . . Adelphi College Betty Leonard Gertrude W ern er 22 1·05 W alnut street. Queens Village, N.Y. Alpha Mu · · · · · · University o f Michigan Charter suspended until condi tions on campus shall wa rr ant re·estab- lishment of chapter Alpha Nu · · · · · · · University of Montana Lola N ew house !Winifred Keyes 1539 University Ave. , M1ssoula, Mont. Alpha X i · · · · · · · University of Iowa Charter suspended until conditions on campus shall warrant re-estab- lis hment of chapter Alpha Omicron · · University of California Ellen Louise Herbert Dorothy Just 726 Hilgard Ave. , W est at Los Angeles Los Angeles , Calif. Alpha Pi Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Jane Burkhardt Frances Burr 160 W . Winter St., Delaware, O hio. Alpha Rho . · · · · · Vanderbilt University F ranees Scruggs Elizabeth Peeler 110 23rd Ave. N., N ashville, Tenn. Alpha Sigma · · · · Westminster College Mary Jane Stevenson Doris E. Hill Hill side, N ew W il­ mington, Pa. Alpha Tau . · · · · · Michigan State College Jane Barringer Betty Kirk Sigma Kappa House, E. Lansi ng, M ich . Alpha Upsilon . .. · University of N orth Lilli an Carter Alice C. Moreland 305 Ham line. Grand Dakota Forks, N .D . Alpha Phi ...... University of Oregon Corin ne LaBar re Starl a Parvin 176 1 Alder, Eugene. Ore. Alpha Chi ...... Georgetown College Mary Emma Weakl ey Alice Ford Sigma Kappa House, Georgetown. Ky. Alpha Psi . . ..• .•• Duke University Elea nor Huntington Cami ll a Ritchie Box 391. College Sta· ti nn. Durham. N .C. Alpha Omega . . . . University of Alabama Norve lle N orman Margaret Irw in 830-10 street, Tusca· loosa, Ala. Beta Beta ...... University of South Effie Campbell LaVerne Hughes 1610 !>enate St., Co­ Carolina lum bia, S.C. Beta Gamma .. ... University of Manitoba Claire T isdale Nellie Mae Burmaster Sigma Kappa Sorori ty, Suite 15 , .Vaughn Apts., Winnipeg, Man., Canada. ALUMN.tE CHAPTER DIRECTORY

Chapter President Secretary Date of M~tti•g

Ann Arbor .. • · · · Dorothy Shapland, 112~ White St., Mrs. Marion Griffin Royce 426 Ann Arbor Mich. Spring St., Ann Arbor, Mien.1 Bay Cities ..... · · Mrs. Betty Bimrose Stafford, 1771 Olive C. Burwell, 2404 Dana St., First Thursday, Beverly Place, Berkeley~ ,Calif. Berkeley, Calif. 7:30 P.M. Bloomington · · · · · Mrs. Madeline Metcalf Mace! 107 Virginia Johnston, 1204 East Grove Second Friday, 6:00 East Cherry St., Normal, I I. St., Bloomington, Ill. P.M. Boston • · · • · · • · · · Mrs. Maude A. Hawkes, 27 Howard Mrs. Gladys S. Gatchell, 41 Century Telephone Arlina· St., Arlington, Mass. St., West Medford, Mass. ton 29~1 Fourth Saturday, 3:30P.M. Buffalo . • •.•••.•• Mrs. Margaret Anthony Buchholtz, Alice Lin~, 50 Freuhauf Ave., Sny· Third Monday. 6! W . Oakwood Pl., Buffalo, N.Y. der. N . r . Central Michigan Frances Sullivan, 1110 Eureka, Lans­ Grace Hoxsie, 604 W. Michigan, E. Last Tuesday. ing, Mich. Lansing, Mich. Central New York Mrs. Charles Holcombe, Redfield Mrs. E. C. Hommel, 309 Bradford Telephone ~- 7278. Ave., Fayetteville, N.Y. Blvd., Syracuse, N.Y. Second Tuesday Evening. Central Ohio . . . . . Janice Kirk, 192 12th Ave., Co· Anna Jane Boswell, 93 E. Frambes, Telephone Kiags. lumbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. wood 2987. Second Tuesday. Chicago ...... Mrs. James Rene Hemingway, 873 Ada Mae Gansz, 5831 Winthrop Call Rogers Park Cherry, Winnetka, Ill. Ave., Chicago, Ill. 6241. Cincinnati ..• · • · · Frances Kirkpatrick, 406 Springfield Mrs. Elva Hannah Gerwe, 171~ Second Saturday, Pike , Hess Apts. 2, Wyoming, Northcutt Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. Ohio. Cleveland •. · · · · · Mrs. Josephine Beatty Bindc;r~ 2~96 Evelyn Coates, 44~ 1 E. Blvd., Cleve· Third Saturday, Ashurst Rd., University 1'1eights, land, Ohio. 1:00 P.M. Ohio. Telephone Kenmore 4712-W. Colorado . . . . • • . . Winona R. Keyes, 2236 Cherry St., Mrs. Carol Hanks Tydings, c/o D. Second Monday, Denyer, Colo. U. Law School, 211·15th St., Den· 8:00 P.M. ver, Colo. Dallas .•.. · · · · · · · Mrs. Cecil Osborne, 472~ E. Side, Mrs. Dorothy Bedwell Kneeland, Third Thursday, Dallas, Tex. 3455 Shenandoah. Dallas. Tex. Detroit ...... · Mrs. J. Allen Hunter, 621 Fisher Mrs. Russell Cole, 1501 Burlingame 6:30P.M. Rd., Grosse Pointe, Mich. Ave., Detroit, Mich. Fourth Monday Evening. Telephone Town· Eastern Iowa •. • · • Salome Foote, 4 E. Prentiss, Iowa Florence McDowell, 107 Old Capitol, send 7-~477. City, Iowa. S.U.I., Iowa City, Iowa. ---;:..-... Third Wednesday, Georgetown . • ..• • Mary Louise Robey, 327 Fountain Anna Mae Heath, Georgetown, Ky. Call Secretary. Ave., Georgetown, Ky. Hartford Marion Drisko, 181 Sigourney St., Mrs. Dorothy Brown Dooey, 200 Call President. Hartford, Conn. Collins St. Hartford, Conn. Houston Mrs. Donald Berry, 110 Oak Pl., Mrs. Gwendolyn !-yford Spencer, Second Monday of Houston, Tex. 5009 Claremont, Houston, Tex. each month, 3:1' Indianapolis •••• , Mrs. Kathleen Fox Willis, 561 N. Edna Mae Katzenberger, 1106 Ewing T6i~~-· Wednesday Gray St., Indianapolis, Ind. St., Indianapolis, Ind. evening. Iowa . • . . • . . • • . • . Netha Kessler, Altoona, Iowa. Ella Gertrude McMullen, Cherokee, Iowa. Kankakee .••.. • .. Eleanor St. Germain, 230 N. Schuy­ ler Ave., Kankakee, Ill. Kansas City . • . . . . Mrs. Mary Hoge Starrett, 4718· Mc­ Ruth Hoffer, 2633 Forest, Kansas Second Tuesday. Gee St., Kansas City, Mo. City, Mo. Telephone Lo 2148 Knoxville ...... Mrs. Mary Crowell Peters, 302 Ken· Mrs. Gladys Smith Roehl, 2214 Ter­ Second Wednesday. yon Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. race Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. Los Angeles •.. . •• Mrs. Mary Kauffman McCombe, Box Marjorie Wilson, 1022~ Cochran Fourth Saturday. 777, Bishop. Calif. Ave., Los Angeles. Calif. Louisville •...•••• Mrs. Sarah Sherwood Keith, 2~ ~0 Mrs. Pearl Carter White, 1709 Rose­ Kings Highway, Louisville, Ky. Second Monday, wood, Louisville, Ky. 0 Madison ...... Mrs. Lillian Netzow Olds. 1726 Van Edith Reppert, 1721 Regent St., Th~~a .J~t~esday. Hise Ave., Madison, Wis. Madison, Wis. Memphis ...•. ••• Mrs. Florence Ellfeldt Enrig_ht, U72 Mrs . . Miriam Thomson House, 1336 Overton Park, #4, Memplits, Tenn. Eastrnoreland, Apt. 4, Memphis, Tenn. Miami •..••. • ..•. Mrs. Dorothy Porter Schneider, 77 Mrs. Florence Wharton MacVicar, First Saturday. N.E. 52nd St., Miami, Fla. 2044 N .W. 27th St., Miami, Fla. Milwaukee ..••••• Eleanor Gaenslen, 3034 N. Prospect, Maq~aret Miller, 2741 N. 44th St., Milwaukee, Wis. Telephone West Mtlwaukee, Wis. 0783. First Monday, 7:30 Nashville Martha Halloran, 1809 Broad St., Mrs. Betty Kerr Buchanan, 3709 Nashville, Tenn. FiistM. Saturday of Central Ave., Nashville, Tenn. each month, 1 :00 Nebraska Louise Van Sickle, 1916 Ryons St., P.M. Mrs. Viola Heyne Hoff, 2819 Gar­ Third Tuesday. Lincoln, Neb. field, Lincoln, Neb. New Jersey ••...• Mrs. Florence Opie Ring, 6' Ran­ Mrs. Barbara Conant Oakley, 24 Call Secretary. dolph Pl., S. Orange, N .J. Fairview Ave., Summit, N.J. New York City .. Mrs. Melba Paige Rosen, 14~ West Mrs. Marion Borner Shirkey, 239 First Saturday. ~5th St., New York City, N.Y. Beach, !28th St., Rockaway Beach, L.l.. N .Y. Omaha •. . . .. •• . . Mrs. Kathryn Dirks Kendall, 312 Alice V. Zi=er, 3170 Fowler Ave., First Saturday, 1:00 N. 48th St., Omaha, Neb. Omaha, Neb. Palo Alto ...... Dorothy Bowers, 817 Partridge Rd., Mrs. Esther Miller Gerken, 231 Saturday Menlo Park, Calif. Washington Ave., Palo Alto, Calif, Se~~~d Philadelphia • ... • Mrs. Katherine Wright White, ~133 Margaret Bishol', 4!6 Queen St., Hazel Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Se;~~~ PS~turdar. Pliiladelphia, Pa. Tele. Tennessee Pittsbur&h • ...... Margaret Duncan. 116 Richey Ave. 24,8. Mrs. Alice Wayman Trent, 239 Mayflower 2680. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Bower Hill Rd., Mt. Leoanon, Pittsburgh, Pa, Third Saturday. Portland, Maine . . Nellie Dearborn , 105 Oakdale, Mrs. Grace Farrar Linscott, 197 Every other month. Portland, Me. Prospect St., Woodfords, Me. Portland, Ore. . . . Mrs. Alice Lively Shoemaker, 1405 Mrs. Ardella Hodges Arrasmith, 4324 Third Monday. S.W. Parke Ave., Portland, Ore. N.E. 40 Ave., Portland, Ore. Chapter President Secretary Date of Meeting

Puget Sound Mrs. Alice Baxter Vedova, 1738 Mrs. Elaine Marsh Erken, 3719 W. First Tuesday. Boyer, Seattle, Wash. Dambridge, Seattle, Wash. Rhode Island ••. . Helen Grout, 72 Daboll Street, Provi­ Mrs. Genevieve Fogarty Lombardo, First Tuesday, 7:30 dence, R.I. 61 Bailey St., Cranston, R.I. P.M. Rochester ...... Mrs. Marjorie Peacock Harper, 43 Mrs. Kathryn Harris Zobel, Elm· Second Wednesday. Dover Rd., Rochester, N.Y. grove Rd., Rochester. N.Y. Sacramento •.••... Claire O'Brien, 2115 E St., Sacra­ Marjorie Goulding, 2820 24th St., Call Secretary. mento, Calif. Sacramento, Calif. Saint Louis ....•. Mrs. Esther Giltrude Holsen, 444 Mrs. W . F. Hellmich, 6036A South­ First Friday. Clark St., Kirkwood, Mo. west St., St. Louis, Mo. Sao Diego County Mrs. Helen Farrar Dismukes, 4033 Mrs. Susan Tyler Cramer, 3207 Mc­ Third Saturday. Alameda Dr., San Diego, Calif. Call St., Pt. Lorna, Calif. San Francisco •... Mrs. 0 . H. Davenport, 299 Edge­ Grace Mitchell, 3284 Jackson St., wood . San Francisco, Calif. San Francisco, Calif. Schenectady Mrs. Elizabeth Kellogg Turnside, Betty Gage, 1100 Palmer Ave., 1426 Myron Ave., Schenectady, Schenectady, N .Y. N.Y. South Bend Mrs. Joseph Lang 222 E. Bartlett, Geraldine Hatt, 2006 S. Michigan South Bend, Ina.1 St., South Bend, Ind. Spokane •• • ...••. Mrs. Juanita Piersol Warren, 126 Olive Hudson, 817 W. Kiernon. Second Tuesday 24th St., Spokane, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Evening. Tallahassee ••••.. Marion Young c/o Fla. St. Col. Li­ Eunice Parker, 415 W. College, Tal­ Call Secretary. brary, Tallanassee,1 Fla. lahassee, Fla. Tulsa •...•.••... Mrs. A. B. Jewell, 807 S. James­ Mrs. Harry Sewell, 847 S. Indian· town, Tulsa, Okla. apolis, Tulsa, Okla. Twin Cities ...... Margaret Sheperd, 1816 Iglehart Dorothy Daniels, 4801 Dupont Ave. First Tuesday, Ave., St. Paul, Minn. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Walla Walla ••.. Irene McCown, Waitsburg, Wash. Dorothy Allison'wMarcus Whitman Hotel. Walla alia Wash. Wuhington ...... Helen Jones, 1133 Euclid St. N.W., Mrs. Jane Bogley Maddox, 120 Telephone Wiscon· Washington, D.C. Wooten Ave .. Friendship Heights, sin 2905 Md. Chevy Chase P.O. Waterville ..••.•• Mrs. Ervina Goodale Smith, 12 Park Barbara Bridges, The Melcher, Wa­ No regular meeting. St., Waterville, Me. terville, Me. Winnipeg ...... Marjorie Dick, 145 Montrose St., Norah Kernaghan, 112 Ethelbert St., Winnipeg, Mao., Canada. Winnipeg, Man., Canada. Worcester , •••.••. Marjorie Frye, 19 Pleasant St., Barbara Cole, 2 Westdale St., Leicester, Mass. Worcester, Mass. Yakima Valley ••• Peggie Riley, Route No. 2, Yakima, Molly Lockart, 11 Hall Ave., Ya­ Wash. kima, Wash.

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