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THE CRESCENT \ OPERATION BRASS TACKS: How to Take an Exam .... page 2 DECEMBER � 1966 Profiles Willie Arnold creates a whole new world of Christmas magic as she carves storybook characters out of balsa wood. Better Homes and Gardens Features The Christmas Magic of Willie Arnold On the night before Christmas, all through the house, crea Dwarfs, The Farmer in the Dell, The Old \\ oman Who Lived tures will be stirring�fabulous fairytale creatures�in Duncan. ill a Shoe and Four and Twenty Blackbirds. a Phi lived Oklahoma. 1 lie cow will be jumping over the moon . Jack Willie, the daughter of Gamma Beta alumna, �will be climbing the beanstalk ... and the three little pigs will much of her life in Washington, D.C, where her father, Wilburn be discussing home building. Cartwright, served Oklahoma in the House of Representatives The house we're referring to is the home of \\'ilburta Cart for 16 years. She returned to Oklahoma for her college years wright Arnold (Psi '50) and the creatures are the delightful, and was graduated from the University of Oklahoma, 1950. tiny, storybook characters Willie car\es out of wood to dec Wliile living in the Psi chapter house, Willie served as presi orate the family Christmas tree. For her children, Carrie Bea, dent, received the Gamma Phi Beta outstanding senior award, and 5, and R. K. Ill, 10, she has created a \ery special world peo was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, Gamma Alpha Chi, on award pled with characters from poems, songs and fairytales for the was awarded the University's Big Woman Campus very young�and the young at heart. for two years. Her designs w^ere featured in the Bcllcr Homes and Gardens .^ftcr graduation Willie married R. K. Arnold, Jr. While he Christmas Ideas 1965 magazine. More of her ideas will be pic served as an artillery officer in Korea, she taught kindergarten tured in the 1966 issue ancl she has already started designing in Oklahoma City. After his return they moved to Duncan for the 1967 nuniber. Each article gi\es detailed instructions where he is attorney and assistant secretary of Halliburton for duplicating the minatures. Company, an oil well servicing organization. choir of \\'orking with wooden beads, sucker sticks, cork, rope, pop- Willie plays the banjo and violin and sings in the sicle sticks and balsa wood, she carves, saws, sands and paints. the First Christian church. She is a member of P.E.O., the Hes- The figures are first carved from the wood and then accessor tian Study club and is den mother to a group of energetic Cub ized with toothpicks, match sticks, beads or rope. An electric Scouts. drill pro\ides small openings to insert the tiny arms and legs. But, her favorite activity is still the liltle people she carves Bright enamel paints add the finishing touches and the results from wood. She says that working on the ornaments is a relax are myriads of tiny fanciful people who deliglu the small fry ation for her and she especially enjoys it because it combines and enhance the magic that is Christmas. her lo\e of children's literature and her love of working with .Some of her creations are: The Cow Jumped 0\er tlie her hands. She has created more than 300 ornaments since she Moon, Gingcrlnead House from Hansel and Gretel, Three began in 1961. Little Pigs, Rub-a-Dub-Dub. W'iiinie-the-Pooh, The Pied Piper Does she e\er think about making the carved figurines for of Hamelin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Piiiocchio, and The Re sale? "It would ruin my amateur standing," she says laughing luctant Dragon. New this vear are Snow AVhite and the Seven ly. ".And, besides, it wouldn't be the same." J J) J THE CRESCENT of Gamma Phi Beta Editor Volume LXVI December, 1966 Number 4 Betty Luker Haverfieu) (Mrs. Robert 'VV.) A How to Take an Exam 507 Medavista Drive Columbia, Missouri 65201 5 Art Mart in Denver O Gamma Phi Beta's 'Summer Pledges' Associate Editor O Come With Me . .. our Noreen Linduska Zahour Fly traveling secretaries (Mrs. Edward F.) 3 Jacqueline Drive y Just the Beginning Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 y New Alumnae Chapters 1 0 Grand Coundl Appointments Collegiate Assistant Editor Dianne Burdick Young 1 1 Around the World in 53 Days 3501 Wayside Drive Bartlesville, Oklahoma 1 A Sights and Sounds of Europe 1 4 Gamma Phi Beta Profiles Alumme Assistant Editor 17 By the Light of the Crescent Moon Audrey Allen Walsworth (Mrs. D. J.) O The Hand . .. Beta West Santa Fe Street 1 Helping Gamma Phi Foundation Marceline, Missouri A 1 From a Camper's Scrapbook 2,0 Grandma, Pie and Betty Business Manager Eleanor J. Sieg 2,3 In Memoriam Box 186, 630 Green Bay Road Kenilworth, Illinois 60043 aD Among Our Alumnae 4o Directory of International Officers The Crescent is published September 1, Decem ber 1, March 1, and May 1, by George Banta Com at Phi Beta List pany, Inc., official printers of the fraternity, 48 Gamma Chapter Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin. Subscrip a tion price $1.50 a year payable in advance, 40(f single copy. Send change of address and correspondence of a liusiness nature to Gamma Phi Beta, Box 186, 630 Green Bay Road, Kenilworth, Illinois 60043. Mail 1 ing lists close August 1, November 1, February The Cover and April 1. By February 25, send Grand Presi Beth Peil dent business for consideration at spring council Mary (Northwestern), soprano with the meeting. National ad Metropolitan Com of an editorial nature is to be Correspondence chats with Mme. Lotte dressed to tlie Editor, Mrs. Robert W. 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Jacobs A of On a pleasant spring day in a college classroom, two students Sword Damocles? from the same town and neighborhood�chums all their lives- The art of test-taking has become increasingly important to were taking final examinations. One was calm, methodical, and people of all ages. With stiff competition for higher education, workers thoughtful, but no ball of fire when it came to brain-power. plus the demands of business, science and industry for is The other, an overly-conscientious youth with an ultrahigh who know their stuff, the number of exams of all kinds up I.Q., drummed nervously with his pencil, had a splitting head ward of a billion a year. Dr. an anatomist at the of ache and felt his heart palpitate and his lips go dry. James Watt, University Toronto, The first boy passed the test with a comfortable mark of 85. says: "Many students have an attitude of complete antagonism The other student, though endowed with superior mental abil toward examinations. Too often, they regard a test as a sword ity, scored only 68, and had to take the course over. of Damocles hanging over their heads and threatening them Later, he said ruefully; "The strangest thing was this� I with disaster. knew the course and most answers to the test cjuestions, but "I'his fear is the worst enemy of the students. Most young are not trained in methods of examinations. It is somehow they eluded me and my mind went blank. And I people taking crammed for two weeks in preparation for this!" remarkable how few work out a really efficient system despite What accounted for the difference in their exam results? the frequent occurrence of tests. But if you have average abili and have done a reasonable amount of ^Vhy did the less-qualified youth pass, the eager-beaver fail? ty work, you probably After I asked a dozen educators and physicians about the art will pass�most do." of exam-taking, the answer became clear: it is usually the over- Parents should encourage their children, not hound them conscientious and anxiety-prone student who gets into the about tests. One lad of 16, an able student in his zoology class, a on final the greatest emotional flap over a test, though he may have the made miserable showing his and had to retake he least cause for worry. His tenseness becomes agitation and course. When his teacher asked about his surprising failure, w'orks to his disadvantage, slowing him up, playing tricks with exploded: his mental processes, and not infrequently resulting in failure "Oh, it's my mother! She nagged, nagged, nagged about pre for test. after to pass an exam he should have romped through with ease. paring the darned I'd leave the house night The other youth described above, no mental giant but a night, just to get away from her. She would moan that I was well-organized and confident person, started his preparation no good, that I'd fail.