What to Do When (Continued on Cover ill) (Chapter officers, alumnre advisers, and province officers.-These dates are for chapters in schools opening in the fall on the regular schedule. FOR ALL OTHERS, if it is impossible to comply with dates listed below, please notify the proper person regarding date upon which report may he ex­ pected.) Forms for all reports requested in the calendar are supplied by the central office. If forms are not received two weeks before deadline, notify central office. Follow instructions to the letter and mail before closing date if possible. OCTOBER 30-Treasurer sends to central office per capita tax !-Pledge Captain places pledge program in mail report and per capita tax_for each member active to national chairman of pledge training, also at any time during the first half year, as well as sends order for hand books to central office. per capita tax for associate members, also check !-Standards chairman places standards program for bonds of treasurer, house and commissary in mail to national chairman of standards. manager. !-Membership chairman sends report to director DECEMBER of membership and Panhellenic and province president; also later pledgings as they occur. !-Scholarship chairman sends to central office, na· 1-(0n or before) Treasurer-Two weeks after the tiona! scholarship chairman and province presi­ opening of the fall term, send Tevised copy of dent a report of the scholastic ratings for the budget to chairman of budgeting and book· previous year. keeping. Upon receipt of her suggestions, mail 10-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail three copies of corrected budget to her. to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. 10-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping and sends chapter's subscription ($2.00) for Banta's JANUARY Greek Exchange to the central office. Check 10-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail made payable to the Fraternity. to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. 13-Founders' Day. lS-Treasurer places budget comparison report for IS-KEY correspondent places semi-annual chapter all departments covering first school term in mail news letter for December KEY in mail to editor, to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping to· and pictures of Phi Beta Kappas, Mortar Boards gether with report on budget revisions for new or election to equivalent honoraries during past term. school year. IS-Corresponding secretary sends revised list of FEBRUARY chapter officers to central office, copies of cur· 10-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail rent rushing rules and campus Panhellenic Con· to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. stitution to the director of membership and Pan­ IS-Registrar sends to central office one copy of the hellenic, National Panhellenic delegate and prov· names and school addresses of active members ince president. for second semester and one copy to province 30-Regist-rar sends one copy to the central office president; and names and home addresses of of names and school addresses of all active any girls pledged since October report to the members and one copy to province president; central office. province president, and director of also names and home addresses of new pledges membership and Panhellenic. t to the central office, and province president. IS-Annual election and installation of officers held Place order for year's supplies with the central between February 1S and March 1S. II office. IS-Registrar sends to central office annual catalog s· NOVEMBER report. 1- T.-easurer mails check for pledge fees to central IS-KEY correspondence places semi-annual chapter .\ office for all fall pledges. news letter for April KEY in mail to editor. 1-Music chairman sends copies of original chapter 28-Elect or appoint membership chairman and songs to national chairman of music. alumna adviser for the next school year, in­ 7-Treasurer of house corporation sends annual formation to be published in April KEY. ACT financial report, names and addresses of bouse PROMPTLY. boat'd members to central office and chairman 28-Corresponding Secretary sends name of member­ of budgeting and bookkeeping. ship chairman with college and summer ad­ I 0-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail dress as well as name and address of alumna to chairm~n of budgeting and bookkeeping. adviser to central office. ON THE 15TH OF THE MONTH FOLLOWING EACH SEMESTER OR ( '_fERM a report on budget revisions together with budget comparison figures ts sent by the treasurer to the chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. FEES FOR INITIATION are due one week after initiation, FOR PLEDGING one month after pledging. ALL FEES ARE SENT TO CENTRAL OFFICE. ti c p a 1 tJ Volume 63 ·Number 1 THE KEY + The first college women's fraternity magazine FEBRUARY. 1946, CONTENTS • DIAMOND JUBll..EE CONVENTION, MACKINAC, JULY 1-6, Published continuously 1946 . 2 since 1882 THE EDITOR REFLECTS . 3 COME TO CONVENTION •••• By Isabel Hatton Simmons_ 5 TENTATIVE PROGRAM, DIAMOND JUBll..EE CONVENTION 7 READ The Loon Feather FOR BACKGROUND ........ • . By lola Fuller Goodspeed 8 LETTER FROM NORA WALN • . 10 CLIPPJ;NGS • . • • . • . • . • . • • . • . 12 NORA WALN FUND ~ffiMAN MET NORA WALN ••.•.. By Rheva 'Ott Shryock 18 NORA WALN SPOKE AT BOSTON YWCA ........ .. .. ·' · .... By Irene Neal Railsback 20 WHERE AND WHEN TO HEAR NORA W ALN SPEAK • . 21 'WINNING IN HER STRAIGHTFORWARD TALK" ..... .. By Jean Hunnisett Hayhurst 22 >JCTORIAL SECTION ............ .. .... facing page 24 :FFICIENCY CUP CHAPTER AT MICHIGAN •............ Editorial Board . By Catherine Shilson 25 :OUNCIL CORNER •.. FRATERNITY LiKENED TO CUT AND POLISHED GEM .•........ Btj Helena Flinn Ege 29 • !AN'T BLOW YOUR TOP AND STAY THIS FIELD •... · · IN: HELEN c. BOWER, B tJ. 32 Editor-in-Chief .... ...... ............ ..... By Ann Scott 15500 Wildemere Ave., RATERNITY, AN AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL .•...•.• · · Detroit 21, Mich. 33 .... ................ By Carol Green Wilson CLARA 0. PIERCE, B N Business M anagef' :tOM SINGAPORE TO JOURNEY's END ••.•• • •.• • · · · · · · 603 Ohio State Savings Bldg., ............ By Florence Hutchinson Lansford 37 Columbus 15, Ohio \TE GEORGE ADE's KAPPA NIECE UNVEll..ED PORTRAIT 39 Lucy GuiLD QuiRK FE SPANS TWO ARMIES OF OCCUPATION · · · · · · · · · · · · 41 (Mas. AKXLJtY), r z Public Relations Chairman 'EWARDESS SEXTETTE ....... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 42 427 S. Muirfield Rd., Los Angeles 5, Calif. lMY AND NAVY ALUMNJE ASSOCIATION SIX SERVICE CENTERS KEEPING THINGS ALIVE · · · · !SABEL HATTON SIMMONS 43 (Mas. RoBERT H.), B N ..... ... .... By Elizabeth Hunt Siegmund 2239 Vero Beach Ave., ARDEN ROOM SPONSORED F OR OAKLAND USO ••...• Vero Beach, Fla . By Glatha Hatfield Latimer 44 SUZANNE SIMS, B A 643 Lawrence Ave., Detroit 2, Mich. FFI CIAL MAGAZINE OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA THE KEY is published four times a year, in February, April, October, and December, by the George Banta Publish· ing Company, official printer to Kappa Kat>!l'l Gamma Fraternity, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. The pnce for a single copy is SOc, for one year $1.50, for two years $2, and for life $15. Advertising rates on applica· to the business manarer. Report any change of address direct to the Central Office, Suite 603, Ohio State Savinrs Building, Columbus 15, '• rather than to the post office. Requesta for change of address must reach Central Office by the tenth of the month r to the date of publication. Duplicate copies cannot be •ent to replace those undelivered throurh failure to send such ance notice. The Central Office will not forward copies to your new address unless extra postace is provided by you. Items of a business nature may be •ent to Suite 603 Ohio State Savings Bid![., Columbus 15, Ohio. Correspondence of an editorial nature, as well as KEY chapter and alumnz letters, should be addressed to Miss en C .. Bower, 15500 Wildemere Avenue, Detroit 21, Michil[an. Material for publication must reach the editor before twenttbeth of December, February, August, and October. Mem er of Fraternity Manzines Associated. En~J'r' u •econd-clau matter at the post office at Columbus, Ohio, and at the post office at Menasha, Wiaconsin. ept or mailior at special rate of postage provided for in the act of October 3, 1917. Co,yright, 19~6, by Ka,,o Ko,pa Gamma Fraternity THE EDITOR · Reflects . PON THE EXCITING NEWS that Nora now is incidental to getting those 5,000 UWaln is to stay over in the United layettes. States long enough to come to convention at Meanwhile, all across the country, Nora Mackinac, July 1-6. That's diamond jubilee Waln is representing Kappa Kappa Gamma news, indeed. as no one before her has ever done. Apart Six years ago, at Sun Valley, there was a from the keen and brilliant reporting on Kappa convention to which Nora Waln which her lectures are based (We've heard couldn't come. From that convention, in the her :five times; and we know!), her personal late summer of 1940, the :first amount of the integrity and sincerity are qualities so ob­ fund begun there in her name, for refugee vious, her spiritual strength is so compelling, children, was sent to her in England. that her audiences are won, held and in­ Only now, from her beautiful letter re­ spired. As a person, as a woman, as a Kappa, printed in this KEY from The Fleur-de-Lis, Nora Waln is incomparable. Nothing that have we learned in more detail how that re­ we can do for her could be too much. membrance from all of us came, after a Between now and convention there is time night of bombing in the country where she for us to do what will mean most to her, because lived. Those who have with such happy it will be something done for othet·s. We can gratification at last met Nora Waln'only now have all those 5,000 layettes ready by July 1, begin to realize how very much of herself for Nora Wain to take to Norway when she goes she gave to administering "our" fund, as she immediately after convention.