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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Library revere Memorial Temple IAE P 0 BOX 1856 Evans ton I 11 .. · ·. Exch 8/50 Cover ~clure BEAUMONT TOWER AT MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Michigan State College was a relatively small university before World War II, but it stands today as the eleventh largest institution of higher education in the nation. Not only does it have the student body, but it has the educational philosophy, breadth of curriculum, faculty and physical facilities to match. Pictured on the cover is Beaumont Tower, a sentimental landmark of the campus, which was erected in 1928 on the site of College Hall, where scientific agriculture was taught for the first time in the U.S. Enrollment of students reached a post-war peak of 16,243 during the fall quarter of 1949. In the fall term of 1951, enrollment stood at approximately 13,593 (9,357 men and 4,236 women). Total faculty, including teaching, research and extension, numbers over 2,000. In the field of inter-collegiate z.thletics, all-around performance of Spartan teams ranks with the best in the nation. The Western Conference voiced its approval of MSC's athletic prowess when it voted in May, 1949, to accept Michi gan State a member of the Big Ten. The institution has come a long way since 1855, when it was founded as Michigan Agricultural College, first of its type in the nation. Carved out of the pines in Michi gan's Lower Peninsula on the outskirts of Lansing, this institution has a tradition in agricultural teaching and extension work that can boast no equal, for it blazed the trail for the land-grant movement which was to follow in the 1860's. In the 1920's, the East Lansing College, boasting an enrollment of nearly 3,000 students, began to flex its muscles and prepare for bigger and better things. After curricula in liberal arts and applied science were added in 1921 and 1925, it was natural that in 1925, the Aggies of Michigan Agricultural College became the Spartans of Michigan State College. Today, students have a choice of approximately seventy curricula, with fifty-eight of these offering graduate degrees. Among the courses available are agriculture, home economics, hotel administration, chemistry, physics, engineering, medical technology, nursing, police administration, business, art, pre-medicine and pre-law. The adminis tration of these courses is divided into eight main schools: Agriculture, Home Eco nomics, Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Graduate Studies, Science and Arts, Busi ness and Public Service, and the Basic College, a two-year program of general educa tion. Although the school is in every way a university, officials of Michigan State prefer to keep the term "college" to avoid confusion with their sister Big Ten member, the University of Michigan. An important factor in Michigan State's growth has been the dynamic leadership of President John A. Hannah, who is recognized as one of the nation's top educational leaders, having served as president of the American Association of Land Grant Col leges and Universities during 1949, and as chairman of the organization's executive committee in 1950. Social sororities on the campus include: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, and Zeta Tau Alpha. Our Alpha Tau chapter was installed May 28, '27 . National fraternities include : Alpha Chi Sigma, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Sigma Pt, . Delta Tau Delt~ , Delta l!psilon, ~armhouse, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Ph1 Delta '!"heta, ~ht Kappa ~tgma, Pht Kappa Tau, Pi Kappa Phi, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epstlon, Stgma Cht, Stgma Nu, Theta Chi, Theta Xi, and Zeta Beta Tau. iiGMA KAPPA 6/riangle Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Foundledl at Colby College, November, Editor-in-Chief, FRANCES WARREN BAKER Contents I VOL. 46 NO.4 Purdue Chapter Now Enj oying Its Handsome New Home 3 Washington Mu Chapter Honors Founder, Jessie Pepper Padelford . 7 NATIONAL COUNCIL Dr. Burton Knows Wordsworth . 10 National PreJident-Ernestine Dun ca n Seaman (Mrs. William Seaman) Food Is This Sigma's Forte . 11 120-94th N.E., Bellevue, Wash. Dorothy Bower Teaches in England 13 14 National Vice PreJident in Charge Children Like Her Nursery School of Alumna1-Edna Brown Dreyfus (Mrs. Monroe Dreyfus) 122 Beverly She Works in Afghanistan ........... ... .... - . 15 Pl., Hammond, Ind. Alphas Ride the Sunbeam . .... .. .... ........ .. - 16 National Vice President in Charge Life in India Is Incred ulous .' . 18 of Membership and Extension-Wava Chambers Brown (Mrs. Field Brown) Blind Girl Graduates Amid Loud Applause . 21 1024 S. Corona, Denver, Colo. Spend Summer Holding Jobs in Italy . 22 National Counselor-Katherine D unn Dean Rawls Heads State AAUW . 23 Lathrop (Mrs. Henry Lathrop) 1486 Highland Dr., St. Albans, W.Va. Hats Off to New Life Members . 24 With Our College Chapters . 26 National Secretary.TreaJurer-Mac garet Hazlett Taggart (Mrs. Edward Why a Fraternity? .... .... .. ... .... .. ... .. · . · · 40 D. Taggart) Ro om 1217, 129 East Market St. , Indianapolis, Ind. Salient News of Sigmas . 41 Initiates ................ ...... .... ........ .... 48 BOARD OF EDITORS Pledges ... ... ......... .. ... .... · · · · · · · . · · · · · 50 Editor-in-Chief-FRANCES WARREN BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Baker) 55 433 Woodlawn Ave., Glencoe, Ill. Milestones .. ... ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Directory ..... .. .......... .... ..... ......... ..... 60 College Editor-MARTHA J EWETI ABBEY (Mrs. Wallace W. Abbey) SIGMA KAP PA TRIANGLE is published in Spring, S'!-mmer, ~utumn, W!nter 408 Portland Ave., Ced arburg, Wis. b the Geor~e Banta Publishing Company, official publtshers. f?r Sig~a l'Zappa Soronty at 450 Ahnaip. street, Menasha, WIS. SubscnptiOn pnce $2 a year; single copies 50¢; life subswptiOn $15. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a busmess Alumna1 Editor-BEATRICE STRAIT nature to Mrs . E. D . Taggart, 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, WIS., or LINES (Mrs. Harold B. Lines) 234 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse 3, N.Y. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Baker 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. ~hapters •. colle11e and alumna: must ;end manuscript in time to ~each their respectJve edJtors before the fifteenth of October, January, Apnl, and August. Member of Fraternity Magazines ~ssociated. All m~tter s perta!mng to national advertising should be dlfected to Fraternity Magazmes As- CENTRAL OFFICE sociated, 1618 Omngton avenue, Evanston, Ill. Director-MARGARET. HAZLETI TAG· Entered as second-class matter at the post office . a.t Menasha, Wis., CART (Mrs. E. D. Taggart) Room under the act of March 3, 1879; accepted for madmg at sp_eCial rate of postage under the provisions _of Se~. 34-40 Par. (D) provided for ID 1217, 129 East Market St., Indian the act of October 3, 1917. Pnnted In U.S.A. apolis, Ind. Mary Ellen Rtukamp Mertz, 9, and Belly Thatclm·, 9, Ad viJory Board members P•·e• sided at the tea table at the Open _House, October 5. The Rev. E. P. IVeber, who dedicated the new chapter house: Mrs. Tillie Snyder, House Mother; Arlene Short, B~ ch.tpter jJresident; Helen Grisbau•, T, Corporation Board: l\1arl(aret Hazle// Tal( gart, ational Secretary-Treas urer: and Dr. Frank C. H ock ema, Vice PreJidcnt of Purdue unit·ersity at the dedication dinner. Purdue Chapter Now Enjoying Its Handsome New Home HE new chapter house for the four Charles Rush, chairman of the Advisory year old Beta Sigma chapter at Purdue · Board. Mrs. Sisson, Miss Grishaw, Mrs. T was opened this fall and formally Dolch and Betty Thatcher poured. Other dedicated on Sunday, Oct. 5, with a dinner alumna! assisting were: Mrs. E. T. Mertz, ®, and dedicatioi; ceremony, followed by an Mrs. T. E. Berg, Mrs. Raymond Calvert, T, open house in honor of the new housemother Mrs. Russell Flack, Mrs. Robert Goff, Mrs. and the new house. C. E. Hoxsie, AT, Mrs. H. M. James, Mrs. The Rev . E. P. Weber of the University W. A. Smith, and Mrs. W. C. Winter. Lutheran Church of West Lafayette gave a Our house is a large red brick structure short but most appropriate dedication cere in Monterey style, with a white iron grillwork mony, followed by a prayer, the ·doxology, second floor balcony. and the chapter's singing of "I Found ~K Inside the front door a vestibule is tiled Down at the Rainbow's End." in rust tile and the walls are painted the At the dinner preceding the dedication same soft shade of apricot that is used on Dr. Frank C. H0ckema, vice-president and the living room walls. The hall has a beauti executive dean of Purdue university and ful gray-beige background paper with a Mrs. Hockema; Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Na copper and silver metallic design. The car tional Secretary-Treasurer of Sigma Kappa; pet on the hall, stairs and living room is Dr. Don Mallett, D ean of Men; Miss Claire sculptured beige. The fireplace wall in the Coolidge, Assistant Dean of Women ; and living room is paneled in light wood and Mrs. Marjorie Sisson, ~K alumna who is on there are double doors of the same wood the dean of women's staff at Purdue; The leading to the dining room from the. living Rev. and Mrs. Weber, Arlene Short, chapter room and from the hall. president; Mrs. C. W . Snyder, Housemother ; Bright green, brown, and nasturtium are Margaret Leighty, chapter treasurer; and Jean the colors used in the furnishings which con Anderson, activities chairman, were seated sist of a large sectional davenport upholstered · at the head table. in a tweed material in those colors, two small Other dinner guests were members of the chairs upholstered in brown and nasturtium, chapter's Advisory and Corporation Boards two wing chairs covered in a beautiful nastur and presidents of the fraternities on campus tium, and yellow damask (these were all who had been generous with their houses last pieces from the old house done over) our year when the ~Ks were in the dormitory.