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IGMA KAPPA :Jriang./e Deanna Dalbom {right) and Joan Willey, court Judy Councill {left) and Carolyn Baxley lisht jesters, and medieval queen, Brooke Curran were candles in Delta Tau's Founders' Day service at part of Xi's winning booth, at S.U.A. Carnival at ARKANSAS STATE. KANSAS. Delta Sigma's Homecoming float won the Sweepstalcn Awa WESTERN ILLINOIS with a Happy Holidays theme. a dock of the Willamette River before · the race for the OREGON ?TA WRA Intramural Crew Trophy 1s the eight-girl Upsilon team. iamma Theta won first place in Home oming Contest at LONG BEACH TATE. VOLUME 56 NUMBER 1 SPRING 1962 Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, 1874 NATIONAL COUNCIL THE COVER: Famous statue of flag raising on lwo Jima at Arlington, Va. overlooks the Potomac river with Wash National Prtsident-Mrs. Robert Lingle, 815 E. Hth st., Indian· ington Monument and the Capitol beyond. apolis 20, Ind. 3 Come--Join Sigmas at Convention III Vice-Prtsident-Mn. Monroe Dreyfus, 122 Beverly pl., Munster, 4 Guarantors of Convention Success Ind. 6 You'll Find So Much to See in Washington, D.C. 2nd Viet-President-Mrs. Arthur F. 7 There's Only One Woman Law School Dean Friebel, 3662 Wellington rd., Los 8 Upsilon Fetes Faculty at Smorgasbord .Angeles 16, Calif. 10 Appears on Senate Discussion Panel Director of MembershiP-Mrs. Ed. 11 Co-Sponsor Conference in Houston with V.A. Staff Douglas, Jr., 515 5 Deane ave., Los .Angeles 43, Calif. 12 Denver Alumnre Share Holiday Cheer 13 I Found Africa Fascinating Director of Extemion-'Mrs. G. A. 14 This Can Be Your Summer in Europe Clerisse, 3331 Osceola, Denv--: , Colo. 15 Jane Marshall-Musician, Composer, Conductor 16 She Led in Public Health Nursing National Secrttary.Treasurer-Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 3433 Washington 17 Wichita Has Two in Who's Who blvd., Indianapolis 5, Ind. 18 Marjorie Mills Named "Dame Boston" 19 Youngstown's New First Lady 20 Peoria Has Outstanding Founders' Day 21 Imagination Plus Cooperation with Rummage ~3 College Highlights 42 Pledges TRIANGLE STAFF 45 News of Sigmas Bditor·in-Chief-'Mrs. James Stan· 50 Alumnre Activities nard Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. 62 Citizenship Responsibilities of Fraternity Women 63 Milestones College Editors-Mrs. John Cole· 66 Deaths man, Meadow Estates, Wheeling, W.Va. 67 Directory Mrs. Henry Booske, 1617 Zarker rd., Lancaster, Pa. SIGMA .KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in Spring, Summer, .Autumn, Win· Alumna. Editor-Mrs. Harold B. ter by George Banta Company, Inc., official publishen for Sigma Kappa Lines, 234 Salt Springs rd., Syra· so:ority at Curtis Reed plaza, 'Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a cuse 3, N.Y. year; single copies 50¢; life subscription $15. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Curtts Reed plaza, Menasha, Wis., or 3433 Washington blvd., Indianapolis 5, Ind. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J S Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. Chapters, college and aiun;me must send manuscript in time to reach their respective editor.; before the fifteenth of October, January, .April, and .August. CENTRAL OFFICE Member of Fraternity Magazines . .Associated. All .matters p~rtaining t~ national advertising should be dlfected to Fratermty Magazmes Associ· H33 Washington blvd., Indian ated, 1618 Orrington ave., Evanston, Ill. apolis 5, Ind. Director, Mrs. E. D. Tae1art. Second-class postage paid at Menasha, Wisconsin. Printed in U.S.A. Far left, MARY FRANCES LAW, rrr, member of May Day Court at KENTUCKY WESLEYAN. Left, FRANCES DiPALMA, A<l>, Queen of Naval Reserves at FAIRMONT, W.VA. BETTY KELLEY, Homecoming Lady-in-l ing at STEPHEN F. A Sigma Queens TIN College. and Sweethearts DIANE RUHKALA, AI, crowned Sweetheart at Sweet heart Formal at CHICO. MARY BUNCE, rP, selected Homecoming Queen at WESTERN CAROLINA. SARA WOLF, rN, chosen Sweetheart of Sigma NANCY CARR, AT, GETTYSBURG. Sweetheart of Delta Tau Delta at MICHIGAN STATE. SALLY . LUCAS, AT, Harvest Ball Queen's Court at MICHIGAN STATE. Come-Join The Sigmas at Convention 1n Capital Maine's Senator, Margaret Chase Smith, A Colby, will speak at our formal Panhellenic banquet. A Sigmas from 100 college chapters and dinner honoring Confirmed Conventionites, a also alumnre chapters from coast to coast fun event which will make everyone friends will converge on our nation's capital and right away. You will meet the National Coun convene in the luxurious Sheraton Park cil members at the reception later, and still Hotel, June 30-July 5. later you will meet all the Sigmas in your Convention days and nights will be filled province at most informal gatherings. with all the ingredients which Sigmas stress Sunday, July 1 there will be the Memorial for national gatherings: super speakers, stim Service, Initiation, and the first formal busi ulating sessions, seeing Sigma officers, swim ness session, and the scholarship dinner at ming, singing Sigma songs, sight seeing, which President Wilson H. Elkins of the sports, stunts, and sociability with Sigmas University of Maryland will speak. and Sigmas and still more Sigmas from every Monday, July 2 will be filled with round where. tables for alumnre and collegiates separately Confirmed Conventionites (and that's a and then the highlight of convention-the clacking clique for sure!) concur in com formal banquet with Panhellenic guests at mending and recommending Sigma Kappa which Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, conventions as choice collectors' items. They A-Colby, will speak. and Alice Hersey Wick, convention chairman, Tuesday, July 3 will be free for sight see strongly urge other Sigmas to come often ing trips andjor recreation until late after enough to join this select group of those who noon. Margaret Schweinhaus will speak at have attended at least three national conven the dinner featuring our national gerontology tions. program. To be a Confirmed Conventionite does take Wednesday, July 4 will have business and travel (and who isn't glad to take this?) and discussion meetings and will end with an in time (but we all have all there is) and some formal fun event-the Activities and Awards cash (but what better use could there be). dinner. Your Sigma Kappa membership plus the con Thursday, July 5, convention will end after vention combination of time, travel, and cash breakfast ... then off to see more of Wash will yield tremendous satisfactions to you ington, D.C. OR off to New York City to (and fun too) . take the Jet to Europe with the Sigma Kappa Convention will open June 30 with the tour. SPRING 1962 .& 3 .& (}uaranlorJ o/ Convention SucceJJ j. Everyone is looki!lg forward ~o tJ;te Sigma Kappa Natwnal Conv~ntwn. m Washington, D.C., June 30-July 5, mcludmg particularly Betsy Stafford Neff, BZ-~ary land, who is diligently working as Ass1stant Convention Chairman and is eager to greet you at the Sheraton Park Hotel. Betsy is a confirmed "Confirmed Conven tionite" having attended six former conven tions at Sun Valley, Swampscott, Pasadena, Miami Beach, Glenwood Springs, and Bi loxi. Her enthusiasm and convention back ground enable her to help make this one of the greatest conventions of Sigma Kappa history. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Betsy Stafford Neff, BZ, is busy as local conven· she has for many years worked with Sigma tion chairman. Kappas in the District of Columbia area. As a student she was Rush Chairman and Presi Board of Beta Zeta. She has been Rush Su dent of Beta Zeta chapter. Since graduation pervisor for many chapters. her activities for the sorority have been varied Between keeping house, learning more and widespread. In 1950 she was editor of about her husband Ronald's favorite sport the National Rush Booklet. In 1951 through HORSES-and being nursemaid to Ginger, 1959 as Province President in the Maryland, their pet squirrel monkey, her day is quite Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware area a busy one in addition to teaching physical she was instrumental and influential in or education at one of the Maryland high ganizing two new college chapters: Gamma schools. Delta at Thiel college and Gamma Nu at When y~u see her at the 1962 Convention Gettysburg college. She has served on the you'll find that she is the essence of today's Advisory Boards of Zeta and Beta Zeta chap energetic youth and the epitome of southern ters and was President of the Corporation hospitality. These Sigmas Will Make Everything Go Well Arrangements for the formal Panhellenic Z, Helen Crain Houghton, Z, and Ann Herse banquet are being handled by these commit Rogers, AK. Washington, D.C. alumnre--Maxine Rolle Good· tees from the Washington, D.C. and the year, Z, chairman; Ingrid 0. Boehler, 11, Marian Northern Virginia Alumna: chapters. Butler Cunningham, Z, Penny Dexter, ~. Audrey Banquet decorations-Etta Weaver Richwine Z Brown Dysland, Z, Dorothy Sornberger, Z, Clara chairman; Alma Barker, Z, Hazel Bayne, Z, Ele;no; Widmayer, Z, and Betsy Stafford Neff, BZ, Hazel Hall Saunders, Z, Betty Akers Michael, A..Y, Gladys Bayne, Z, and Alma Barker, Z. Phoebus Palmer, Z, Marion Fowler Rasmussen Z Virginia Sansing Reid, BE, and Pat Hamiito~ Other alumna: actively working to make Crandall, BZ. · this a super-convention include: Banquet programs: Clara Widmayer, z, chair Hospitality chairman-Carol Sunderman Howell, man; Audrey Brown Dysland, Z, Louise Odineal AI, assisted by Estelle Smith McCord, Z. Pinc~ernell, Z, Kitty Hershey Layne, Z, Blanche Donna McCoy Berger, BZ-chairman for the Davtes Gere, AK, and Kay Howe McKennan, AK. Philadelphia alumnre working for the Confirmed Conventionites dinner. A la~ge group of alumna: are working on Helen Robinson from College Park and Mrs.