What to Do When (For Chapter Officers, Alumna: Advisers, and Province Officers) (Continued on Co'l'eT III) OCTOBER 30-Treasurer sends to central office per capita tax !-Membership chairman sends report to director of report and per capita tax for each member active membership and panhellenic and province presi· at any time during the first half year, as well as dent. per capita tax for associate members, also check for bonds of treasurer, house and commissary 7-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail manager with information requested on blank to fraternity accountant and province president. sent for this purpose. 7-Alumna fin ance adviser places monthly report in DECEMBER mail to chalfman of budgeting and bookkeeping's !-Scholarship chairman sends to central office, na­ deputy, tional scholarship chairman, and province presi­ 10-Treasurer sends chapter's subscription ($2.00) for dent a report of the scholastic activities on blanks Banta's Greek Exchange to the central office, provided by the central office. check made payable to the Fraternity. 7-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail to fraternity accountant and province president. 13-Founders' Day. Celebrate with birthday coins. 7-Aiumna finance adviser places monthly report in IS-Pledge captain places order for hand books with mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping's the central office. deputy, 15-- KEY correspondent places chapter news letter for 15-KEv correspondent places chapter news letters December KEY in mail to chapter editor on KEY for February KEY in mail to chapter editor. stationery provided by the central office, and 20-Mail Christmas gifts to Kappa's philanthropic pictures of Phi Beta Kappas, Mortar Boards or funds. election to equivalent honoraries during past JANUARY school year. 7-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail 30- Corresponding secretary sends revised list of to fraternity accountant and provinc~ president. chapter officers to the central office, also copies 7-Aiumna finance adviser places monthly report in of current rushing rules to the director of mem· mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping's bership and panhellenic, central office, and prov· deputy together with budget comparison sheets ince pres1dcnL for each department covering income and ex· 30- Registrar sends three copies to the central office pense for first half year of operation. of the names and school addresses of all active FEBRUARY members and one copy to province president; also ?-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail n ames and home addresses of new pledges to to fraternity accountant and province president. the central office, province president, and director 7-Aiumna finance adviser places monthly report in of membership and panhellenic. Order year's mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping's supply of pledge and catalog cards and archive deputy. supplies from the central office. 7-Pledge captain sends report to chairman of pledge NOVEMBER training, !-Treasurer mails return .postal to chairman of 15-Registrar sends to central office three copies of budgeting and bookkeeping stating that letters the names and school addresses of active mem­ have been mailed to all parents of active and bers for second semester and one copy to prov­ pledge members; mail pledge fees to central ince president, and names and home addresses office for all fall pledges. of any girls pledged since October report to the . central office, province president and director of 7-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail membership and panhellenic. to fraternity accountant and province president. 15-Annual election and installation of officers held 7-Alumna finance adviser places monthly report in between February 15 and March 15. mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping'i 15-Registrar sends to central office annual catalog deputy. report on blanks furnished for that purpose. 7-Treasurer of house corporation sends annual 15-KEY correspondent places chapter news letter fin ancial report, names and addresses of house for April KEY in mail to chapter editor. board members to central office and chairman of 28-Elect or appoint membership chairman and alum­ budgeting and bookkeeping. na adviser for the next school year. 15-Treasurer sends copy of corrected budget to fra· 28--Cvrresponding secretary sends name of member· ternity accountant, chairman of budgeting and ship chairman with college and summer address bookkeeping, executive secretary, and province as well as name and address of alumnz adviser to president, and mails return card to chairman central office. of budgeting and bookkeeping stating that budg­ 28-Province president sends full report of province ets have been mailed. to director of chapter organization.

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USE ORDER BLANK PRINTED IN BACK OF BOOK October Volume 57 1940 ey Number 3 Official Magazine of Kappa l(appa Gamma The first college women's fraternity magazine ; published continuously since 1S82 Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated

The Editor Reflects ...... 269 Important! The New Constitution ...... By Miriam P. Schick 271 Set Your Life by the Unseen Star ...... 273 Who's Who Among the New ...... 277 McNaboe Trophies Honor Service as C.onvention Alumnae Awards ...... 278 Understanding Is the Key Word ...... By Dr. Dorothy C. Stratton 281 Halliburtonian Flair for Travel ...... By Geraldine Gilmore 288 Mrs. Ware Impressed Baby Chapter Delegate ...... By Mary E. Moore 291 Kappa's No. 1 Convention Habiteer Picks the Best ...... By Ida Bonnell Otstott 292 "And in Conclusion ..." ...... By Helen C. Bower 294 Mrs. Ware Says "Thank You!" ...... 301 Valedictory Poses Future's Problems ...... 302 Fund Named to Honor Nora Wain Will Aid War's Child Refugees ...... 303 Magazine Agency Winners ...... 304 Don't Let Cousin Hattie Down! Do Your Bit and Vote! ...... By Ann Scott Wilson 305 "Typical College Girl" of 1940 Is a Kappa ...... 307 Second Housemothers' School at Purdue ...... 308 Mrs. Allan to Retire as Principal ...... By Hally Prentis Nelson 309 Lee Memorial Is Restored Mansion ...... By Helen 'Knox 313 "Those 50 Years .. . Are Still With Us" ...... By Jane Bennett 317 Current Events of 1870 ...... By Betty Dougherty Dilworth 321 Red, White and Double-Blue Notes ...... 323 1940-1941 Undergraduate Scholarships ...... 324 Cedar Rapids Travel Tea Made Money ...... By Kathryn Coupland Harper 327 Chi Chapter Dedicates Library ...... By Cleora Wheeler 328 Marriages ...... ' 330 Births ...... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 331 In Memoriam, Emily Bright Burnham ...... 333 Remembering Emily Bright Burnham ...... By Ella A. Titus 334 In Memoriam ...... 337 Fraternity Directory ...... 341

Board of Editors Helen C. Bower, B A, Editor-in-Chief Clara 0. Pierce, B N, Business Manager 15500 Wildemere Ave., Detroit, Mich. 605 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus, 0. MILDRED ARM STRO NG, Alf~tmu.e Editor, 334 Merrick St., Adrian, Mich. DORRIS FISH CoYNE (MRs. LEONARD J.), A B, Chapter Editor, Thorne House, Taos, New Mexico. MARTHA COMBS KENNEDY (MRS. P AUL), 0, Publicity Chairman, 291 Southern Ave., Cincin­ nati, Ohio. THE KEY is published four times a year, in February, April, October, and December, by the George Banta Publi bing Company official printer to Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. The price for a' single copy is 50¢, for one year $1.50, for two years $2, and for hfe $1 5. Adver· tising rates on application to the business manager. . Report any change of address direct to the Central Office, 605 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus, Oh1o, rather than to the post office. Requests for chan11e of address must reach Central Office by the t e ~th of the month prior to the date of publication. Duplicate copies cannot be sent to replace those undelivered through failure to send such advance notice. The Central Office will not forward cop1es to your new address unless extra postage is provided by you. . Correspondence of an editorial nature i to be addressed to Miss Helen C. Bower• . 15500 \¥1ldemere Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Material for publication must reach the editor by the twentieth of December, February, August, and October. Entered as second-class matter at the post office a t Columbus, Ohio, . and at the post office at Men a ha, \ isconsin. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for m the act of October 3, 1917. Copyrigllt, 1940, b'' Ka('fJa K ap('a Gamma Fraternity Elizabeth Bo8ert Schofield (Mrs. Everett), M=Butler

Twenty:fourth president of Kappa Kapp:1 Gc1mma1 and first to have the title omitting "g rand, " unaer the ne1v constitution voted by convention.

A Message from the President: Realizing we are a part of the great fraternity system that is doing its share in forming the character of future American leaders, we can well be proud of our contribution. Each conven­ tion brings new inspiration and confidence to members and officers alike. It is impossible for me to describe that intangible spark of good fellowship that grows into fl aming vitality as the week of work and play progresses at any convention, especially so at Sun Valley. I only wish you might all have been there to know better the fraternity's projects and the members who direct them. Looking back over Kappa's three score years and ten I see each administration beginning and ending with a convention. They stand layer upon layer, fit corner to corner like well-laid masonry. Each new council has built upon the foundation of its predecessors. The tools are now in our hands. May we use them with skill. The future holds changes, readjustments; but along with the program for national defense let us look to moral defenses. Keep alive every attribute of character that promotes and de­ velops personal integrity, which is so indispensable to individuals, communities and countries. Each member has her part to play. The fraternity is counting on you as an active member whether in college chapter or city association. The council wishes you the happiest year of your fraternity life. ELIZABETH B. SCHOFIELD but this particular phrase was in relation Upon Changes to fraternity values, and the charge that "Those of you who are leaders must see In the constitution, accepted by the that other fraternity groups realize the 1940 convention, after two years of al­ same type of affirmative responsibility." most incredibly hard work on the part We thought of that again last August of the constitution committee, with fre­ when we read a little 34-page booklet, quent council consultation. The Irresponsibles, by .Archibald Mac­ Miriam Pheteplace Schick (Mrs. 'C. Leish, poet and librarian of the Library S.), B B~-St . Lawrence, chairman, has of Congress. written a review 'of the main points for In substance, MacLeish deplores the this KEY. Every Kappa should read passing of the man of letters, whose her article and get a general idea of kingdom has now been divided between what, it is hoped, is a revision to end the scholar and the writer, so that all constitutional revision-at least for a neither is taking the responsibility of few years. using the weapon of words at his com­ You will learn that "grand" and "na­ mand, as Milton and Voltaire did in tional" have been eliminated. Hence­ their day, in defense of those present forth the convention will be the "gen­ circumstances which threaten learning eral" convention. Increased by one, the and the ends of learning. council now has seven members, with MacLeish says that a revolution has several changes in title to signify now emerged, and that changes in duties. The associate council "It is a revolution of negatives, a revolu­ of province officers has been set up. Pro­ tion of the defeated, a revolution of the dis­ vision has been made for alumn

// // Sense is good judgment, and Kappas Upon Good Joes want that. They don't want sentimen­ tality. And the conventional rejuvenation of But Kappa Kappa Gamma without the editorial vocabulary. sentiment, and Kappas without senti­ We had heard, years ago, of "Joe Col­ ment would be unthinkable. lege." We had gathered that it was not Show us the girl or woman who says altogether smart to be too "Joe College." she doesn't want sentiment, and we'll At Sun Valley we realized that "Joe" show you one who is afraid to have her now seems to be a perfectly acceptable heart touched. Or she has her definitions synonym for a girl in college. An active mixed. from the middle west asked us what kind of a "Joe" So-and-so was when +++ you got to know her. We heard a Kappa dean of women, who knows her col­ Upon a Portrait legians, inquire in conversation with an In words, to be f()und in Van Wyck active from the Pacific coast, "Is she a . Brooks' recently published New Eng­ good Joe?" land: Indian Summer, companion vol­ Dean Stratton's keynote speech made ume to The Flowering of New England. the point that understanding is the great­ There are many word-portraits in the est thing in the world, and that since book. The one which concerns us is of we're all only human, after all, let's act Julia Ward Howe, -Boston, who was, as if the other woman were as human as with her husband, Dr. Samuel Gridley we are. Howe, foremost among the "old re­ It's just another way of putting the formers" who worked with "moral pas­ Golden Rule. Be a "good Joe" and you'll sion," far in advance of their time. find that you'll meet a lot of others like Brooks tells the story of Mrs. Howe, you, including deans of women. There working in the army camps in Washing­ were four deans, three Kappas and one ton in 1861 and hearing the marching non-fraternity woman, at Sun Valley, soldiers one day singing "John Brown's and they are very grand J oes indeed. Body." The following night she wak­ In fact, we think there were more than ened and wrote "The Battle Hymn of 500 "good Joes" at Sun Valley. the Republic" in half an hour. Brooks comments: +++ "If she never reached this pitch again, the 'good hope of humanity' was the theme of her life, and for decades and scores of years she Upon Two Words sang it and talked it until she became a na­ tional institution. Which ought not to be confused: "As long as Mrs. Howe lived, there were "sentiment" and "sentimentality." always a few apostles left to vindicate the name of earnest Boston. A small, shapeless We're thinking of the active who woman, at present, who had once been ex­ thanked a convention speaker for "giv­ ceedingly pretty, with an air of unmistakable ing us sense, not sentiment." distinction, she radiated bonhomie and wis­ Sentiment is defined as "lofty and dom. While her hat was often askew, she abounded in wit, and her reddish hair sug­ refined feeling; sensibility." · gested a fiery temper; but she overflowed Sentimentality is lofty feeling gone with intelligent goodness, warmth of heart, too far aloft into the stratosphere, and romantic feeling, even as she excelled in gone too soft, over on the emotional common sense. . . ." side. With honest pride we may remember To paraphrase that mineral water ad­ that this woman, who held fast to the vertisement, sentiment is sentimentality "good hope of humanity" to the end of "over on the alkaline side." Sentiment her days, found the aims and ideals of neutralizes emotionalism with intelligent Kappa Kappa Gamma worthy of her sensitivity. affiliation. dmro-tfani/ The New Constitution c£ummat'! ttt dt,s _/j;fajttt Chaur,s

By MIRIAM PHETEPLACE ScHICK (MRs. C. S.), B BA-St. Lawrence Chairman of Committee on Constitution and Standing Rules

HILE Sun Valley, the renowned tution gives only a brief and concise winter resort, was busy prov­ picture of the fraternity. The by-laws W ing itself to be an ideal spot for give the mechanics of organization in midsummer vacation, the 34th biennial detail. The standing rules contain de­ convention was accomplishing a few lit­ tails subject to more frequent change tle tasks set out in its program. One item was the adoption of a com­ plete revision of the constitution. A tribute is due to ·a convention of dele­ gates who were well informed and alert to every detail; and to those responsible for a remarkable feat of engineering, less than four hours of convention floor time; the presiding officer, Rheva Shry­ ock, and the parliamentarian, Elizabeth Ewing. Few of our members will find a copy of the new edition in their hands this fall. Few of those who do will have the courage to do , more than leaf through While the effect in this picture wasn't in­ the pages and murmur politely. A hope tentional, it is true that the constitution is entertained that those who are of the committee members practically worked their heads off preparing the document for official family of chapter, alumnre group the fraternity. Photographed at Sun Valley, or fraternity at large will have the wis­ they are, from left to right: Florence dom to look for changes in their duties. Moffet Milford (Mrs. Morton), M-Butler; This complete revision has "left no Harriet French, B T-West Viq~inia; Eliza­ beth Milne Ewing (Mrs. Frank), :E:-Adrian, stone unturned," and many have not convention parliamentarian, and Miriam been put back in the same place or posi­ Pheteplace Schick (Mrs. C. S.), B BA-St. tion. Lawrence, chairman. There are those who feel that all of our members should be given an oppor­ and more easily amended than the ma­ tunity to become aware, in a painless terial of the by-laws. The policies are manner, of the major changes which "should" rather than "shall" provisions, have been made. This will be an heroic adopted in the best interests of the fra­ attempt to provide that opportunity. ternity. Brevity is the only quality which can be An outline form has been used guaranteed. throughout, and legalized wording elim­ inated almost entirely, in the attempt to The Form clarify all procedures and provide a We have now a constitution, by-laws, usable document. To this end a copy of standing rules and policies. The consti- the articles of incorporation and a list 271 272 TnE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma of publications and pamphlets issued by Voting the fraternity have been included in the Chapters will be delighted to notice booklet. Much material has been relo­ the almost complete elimination of add cated to provide a more consistent and fractions in voting, in the attempt to be logical order. New articles include those consistent. The alumnce vote at conven­ on the associate council, finance, philan­ tion has also been simplified. No longer thropies, Panhellenic, and discipline an

UNIVERSITY president who is at assumed this burden, you and I, and we heart a poet, Dr. Robert L. cannot take it lightly if we are to keep A Stearns, president of the Univer­ faith with those devoted men and sity of Colorado, Kappa husband and women who have gone before us-that father, was the speaker at convention's blessed company of faithful people. opening dinner, July 2, on the terrace of "How are we to do this? In the words Sun Valley lodge. Richly appropriate to time and place was the anonymous verse which fol­ lowed his introductory remarks: -='. )tibufe fo- )teajute I saw the mountains stand, No more eloquent or graceful S ilent, wonderful and grand,­ tribute was ever paid Kappa Kappa Looking out across the land Gamma than that expressed in a sonnet · When the sunset light was falling which Dr. Stearns was inspired to write On distant dome and spire; during the days he and his family spent And I heard a low voice calling: at convention. Come 1tP higher! Come 1tP higher! He left the manuscript with Mrs. From the lowland and the mire, Ware, who read the sonnet at the ban­ From the mist of earth-desire; quet the last night, with the comment From the vain purntit of pelf, that Dr. Stearns had written it because From the attitude of self- he "had been so moved by the sincerity Come up higher! Come 11.p higher! and purpose of the convention." Thoughts Concerning the 194{) Conven- "We have come up higher, you and tion of Kappa Kappa Gamma I," continued Dr. Stearns. "By that fact Sun Valley Lodge alone we have acquired a certain per­ Sun Valley, Idaho spective. When in the course of time's fast mov­ "We are able to look objectively at ing flight, two phases of our fraternity affiliation. With all the hatreds which the war inspires, What can our fraternity do for the uni­ When freedom shrieks its protest versity? What can it do for the mem­ against might, bers? And liberty rekindles its old fires; "Kappa Kappa Gamma is essentially When hmnan hearts are tortl as n.ow they are, an educational institution. Its second How satisfying it has bem to see stated purpose is 'To cooperate with the A group of wome1t who have traveled administrative officials and faculties of far the colleges and universities in which To pledge their faith in love and loy­ alty; chapters of the fraternity are estab­ And here among these ever-steadfast lished, in promoting higher standards of hills social conduct and in advancing scholar­ R enew their vows to lmman valltes old, ly interests.' And pass the torch to )'mmg and eager wills "As leaders in American education, To carry on with fervent hearts mtd therefore, you and I must keep our bold. thinking straight, our courage high and The leadi1tg of the ymmg will ever be our spirits humble for the benefit of The measttre of ma11kind's nobility. those succeeding generations to whom ROBERT L. STEARNS we owe a great responsibility. We have 273 274 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

of St. Paul-'Whatsoever things are much changed when you see them in the true, whatsoever things are honest, fall. They will be transformed to accord whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever with the vast defense program of the things are lovely'-let us think for a United States government. We are fac­ moment on these things. ing a new era in our perpetual struggle for freedom, and our people are begin­ ning to respond.

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HE DISCIPLINE of a democracy is T much different from the discipline of the dictator nations. With the dictator nations it proceeds upon the premise­ 'You ought-you must.' The compulsion is from the state. With a democracy the discipline proceeds from within. It is based upon the realization 'I ought-! must.' It is self-imposed and consequent­ ly it is slower to develop; .but once de­ veloped, the power of a free people de­ Dr. Robert L. Stearns, president of the termined upon a common purpose is a University of Colorado. potent force that even a Hitler would hesitate to challenge. "Considering the first phase of fra­ "But time is of the essence of our ternity affiliation, its relation to the uni­ present situation and a blitzkrieg can versity, the fraternity was originally viewed by the university authorities as merely an aid to the ever-present hous­ ing problem. Now it is much more than that, an aid to social control and scho­ 'lastic betterment; and the secret of this advantage is in the devoted interest of mature men and women, young in spirit, ;tnderstanding in nature, high in ideal­ tsm. "No university can afford to lose this impulse. Those of you who are leaders must see that other fraternity groups realize the same type of affirmative re- sponsibility. · "But these ancient words sound strangely out of tune in the world as we Going down the receiving line, Virginia know it today. We see our civilization Tucker Jones Heiss (Mrs. Gustave) meets challenged. Brute force and hatreds are Amy Pitkin Stearns (Mrs. Robert L.), in the ascendency. Human life, human B M-Colorado, center. At the right Mrs. Ware is welcoming Elizabeth Milne Ewing dignity, human courage are nothing in (Mrs. Frank), !11:-Adrian, convention par­ the face of mechanized brutality. liamentarian. Of course you all recognize "A democracy is slow to move, but Clara 0. Pierce and Marian Handy! finally, thank God, it is moving in the preservation of its own idealism. When only be effectively stopped by a blitz aroused, it is a potent force. But it is defense. bound to affect our lives and the lives "There are other factors in the pres­ of our educational institutions. ent scene which we must consider. The "Your colleges and universities will be road of civilization seems to have come Set Your Life by the Unseen Star 275 to a barrier that is thrown across the path, blocking all progress. This barrier )ke Cj.ceek /Jitiues is made up of stones, each one plainly HE valuable part of history is not marked and with which we are familiar. T the mere sequence of dates and We can see them if we look. Suspicion, events, but the growth and decline of hatred, race prejudice, religious bigotry, ,spiritual and intellectual qualities of the class wars, economic advantage, in­ people. The Greeks recognized the need equality of distribution, petty prides and for these qualities and selected four unwarranted self-esteem. And by far which they described as the cardinal the largest stone in the barrier is greed. virtues. They were wisdom, temperance, "Until we remove this barrier, the justice and courage. progress of civilization is barred. Can "Wisdom today means the objective we not employ the technique of the approach to reality, coupled with human scientist? Is there not some solvent that understanding. will dissolve this wall and allow civiliza­ "Temperance means the balanced out­ tion to march on to a happier destiny? look: faith without credulity, conviction "I think there is and I think education without bigotry, courage without pug­ is the means whereby we may discover nacity, self-respect without vanity and the solvent. Surely if the educated in­ love of humanity without sentimentality. telligence cannot cope with these social "Justice means the giving of every difficulties and solve them, nothing can. man his due, the American spirit of fair But what is the educated intelligence play, which in these days carries with it and what qualities must it possess in a warning against war hysteria. order to be effective? "Courage means intellectual as well "Perhaps we can find some help if we as physical courage. go back to the ancient Greeks and see if "No man has earned the right to in­ we can learn a little from the lessons of tellectual ambition until he has learned history. to set his life to a star which he has never seen. To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists, and in darkness and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will. Then only will you have achieved. Thus only will As regularly as Kappa conventions you realize the secret isolated joy of the roll around, . we are deeply gratified to thinker who knows that 100 years from encounter those who are impressed by now men whom he never knew will be the large numbers of alumnre at con­ moving to the measure of his thought. vention, expressing by their attendance their "devoted interest," as Dr. "So much for the basic virtues of the Stearns expressed it. They are mature Greeks. women, but also "young in spirit, un­ "But to those we must add another­ derstanding in nature, high in idealism," faith: faith in the integrity of mankind, again putting it in his words. Their presence can be equally as faith in the ideals of democracy, faith in impressive to the Kappa who comes to the teachings of the great teachers of all a convention after many years. time. After Sun Valley we had a letter "We sometimes hear the reference to from a former council member, who said, "It was amazing to see the num­ St. John quoted as 'And ye shall know ber of older Kappas, such fine women, the truth, and the truth shall make you who feel that the fraternity is so ~ free.' Whereas the real meaning of the worthwhile that they are willing to passage with its context is this: 'If ye give generously of their valuable time and effort to help it to function proper­ continue in my word then are ye my ly. The memory of those outstanding disciples indeed; and ye shall know the women is one of the best things that truth and the truth shall make you I have brought with me from conven­ free.' " tion." Dr. Stearns concluded with two quo­ (C ontimud on page 326) ·f

Left to right: Emily Caskey Johnson (Mrs. Sydney Lee), B H-Stanford, director of alumnce; Ruth Kadel Seacrest (Mrs. Joe W.), ~-Nebraska, director of chapter programs; Edith Reese Crab­ tree (Mrs. E. Granville), B r-Wooster, director of membership and Panhellenic; Elizabeth Bogert Schofield (Mrs. E. M.), M-Butler, president; Elizabeth Kimbrough Park (Mrs. James), B X-Ken­ tucky, vice-president; Clara 0. Pierce, B N-Ohio State university, executive secretary; and Leonna Dorlac, .6. Z-Colorado college, director of chapter organization. Who's Who Among the New

HILE NONE of Kappa's new seven-member council really needs an intro­ duction to informed Kappas who get about and know their fraternity, W three of the seven are new to council rank and one returns to council office. New-comers are Elizabeth Kimbrough Park, Ruth Kadel Seacrest and Leonna Dorlac. Returning is Emily Caskey Johnson.

After Mrs. Park, Kappa's new vice-president, left the University of Ken­ tucky, her alumnre service for the general fraternity began with her election as Mu province president, an office she filled from 1933 to 1937. She was assistant chairman of hospitality at the 1936 and 1938 conventions, and assistant marshal at Sun Valley. Meanwhile, in 1937 she became the first chairman of undergraduate scholarships, retaining the office until her election to the council. She is married to J ames Park, University of Kentucky graduate,

Mrs. Seacrest, University of Nebraska alumna, first director of chapter pro­ grams under the new council set-up, is also of the 1933-1937 "generation" of province presidents, having been head of Zeta province in those years. She has been general chairman of scholarship for the last two years. Her husband is Joe W . Seacrest, Dartmouth,

Leonna Dorlac, as she was elected to be first director of chapter organization, was graduated from Colorado college and took her master's at Louisiana State university, where she was a co-organizer for Delta Iota. For the last two years she has been field secretary. After September, she will be Mrs. Bernard Lilljeberg, Colorado college,

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o LONGER do all convention's sil­ honor biennial awards have been pre­ ver trophies go to the chapters ! sented to the fraternity, two magnificent N Adding the name of Almira silver trophies were given to alumnre Johnson McNaboe (Mrs. James F.), associations for the first time at the retiring grand vice-president, to the com­ 1940 convention. pany of distinguished Kappas in whose First-time winners were the Chicago 278 MeN aboe Trophies Honor Service 279

Intercollegiate, among the large associa­ tions, and Fort Wayne, among the smaller groups. The first trophy is a handsome silver bowl, the second a cup of rare design, both of intrinsic worth which fittingly symbolizes the fraternity service of the Kappa whose name they bear. Each has its own leather case. Each trophy is inscribed : "The Almira Johnson McNaboe Trophy-­ Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity-for out­ standing alumnce association cooperation-In affectionate appreciation of their grand vice­ president, from the province vice-presidents who were privileged to serve under her dur­ ing 1934 to 1940." Announcement of the new awards came as a happy surprise during con-

To Gamma Rho-Allegheny ~ent the Walker scholarship cup, presented by its donor, Mabel McKinney Smith (Mrs. J, Merrick), left, to Ruth-Ellen Blake, chapter delegate, right. vention's closing session, when Ethel Of the fraternity's chapter trophy cups, awarded biennially, the Ware standards Fisher Sullivan (Mrs. John L.), Kappa cup was the only one which could be pre­ province vice-president, was given the sented at the 1940 convention by the Kappa floor. in whose honor it was given, with the "Up until a few years ago, in most donor also present. At the left Yvonne Northcutt, B M­ sections of the country, the average University of Colorado delegate, is receiv­ Kappa alumna felt very much like the ing the cup awarded her chapter from the forgotten woman," she said. "After col­ hands of Charlotte Barrell Ware (Mrs. lege days, her Kappa interests gradually Robert A.), second and ranking grand president, with the cup's donor, Lyndall diminished to the vanishing point. Finley Wortham (Mrs. Gus), at the right. "However, a Kappa, with a vision of 280 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

the value to the fraternity of a well­ integrated group of alumnce, made it her aim and purpose. to develop these latent possibilities. With a nucleus of 3,000 organized alumnce, this Kappa, by her own zeal and perseverance, in­ spired those who worked under her until Kappa alumnce can now proudly claim 148 organized groups with a member­ ship of nearly 6,000. "Because this Kappa has encouraged every alumna to avail herself of the opportunity to enjoy again active par­ ticipation in Kappa activities and has striven to point the way for alumnce associations to make this participation a privilege and a pleasure, the province vice-presidents of the fraternity felt that they wished a lasting tribute paid to their guiding light. "The result was the selection of two trophies to be given to outstanding alumnce associations. At each general convention, a large group and a small group will be selected for general ex­ With the convention in Idaho, Beta Kappa­ cellence and outstanding cooperation to University of Idaho appropriately appro­ receive the Almira Johnson MeN aboe priated the Westermann efficiency cup, proudly held by Mary Low Fahrenwald, awards. chapter delegate, center. "At this time, as a representative of the province vice-presidents who have ·served under her from 1934 to 1940, I Naboe alumnce awards for her to pre­ wish to present to our beloved grand sent to our two outstanding alumnce as­ vice-president the Almira Johnson Me- sociations." +++

By acclamation, tall, blond, imper­ "It is enough to say that none of us turbable Jonathan Duncan, manager of who came in contact with you will ever Sun Valley lodge, was elected the quite forget the charm and graciousness "Sweetheart of Kappa Kappa Gamma." evident in every individual; and praise "I did have in mind you know, to of those same qualities. evident as they send you an article," Mr. Duncan wrote are, would only be 'gilding the lily.' " to the editor late in July; "but upon While it is true that in all modesty reflection I find that what I would have space should be used to better ad­ said would have been mostly in praise vantage than singing our (plural) own of Kappa Kappa Gamma and their ex­ praises, the editor feels that such a tremely attractive representation as we message from Kappa's "sweetheart" saw it here; and that might just take ought to be shared with all the others up space that you could use to greater of the 500-plus for whom it was in­ advantage. tended. U~,)et:JfanJi"'ff Is the Key \\'ord ;:j'ce Lj"u j}fea,iau l f" )ive 'Ytht£?"

By DR. DOROTHY C. STRATTON, Dean of Wonl£en, Purdue University Convention Keynote Speaker

Dr. Dorothy C. Stratton, dean of women at Purdue university, conven­ tion guest and keynote speaker, re­ I NCE every delegate to this conven­ ceived her A.B. and LL.D. from Ot­ S tion is required to present her cre­ tawa university, Ottawa, Kansas; her dentials, I feel that it is only fair that I M.A. and Ph.D. from the University present mine. I am a member of no fra­ of Ch icago. ternity, not because as an adolescent I had firmly rooted beliefs on the subject, but because the small college which I MUST confess to you in the begin­ attended as an undergraduate did not ning that I have never made a key­ permit them. I note speech before. More than that, I shall probably never make one again. Although at one time and another I at­ tended eight universities in a vain attempt to It is my understanding that a keynote acquire an education, I did not come into speech is like a title for a talk or the contact with what is known as the "fraternity text that the minister takes on Sunday problem" until I went to Purdue in 1933 as or the platform of a political party, a dean of women. There I quickly underwent my baptism of fire. After seven years of necessary formality, but not to be taken experience which has included chapters fail­ seriously. The keynoter sounds forth as ing and leaving the campus during the de­ to what he thinks is important. The rest pression, the return of one which had been endure to the end and then promptly dormant, the establishment of a new chapter, the opening of residence halls housing fresh­ forget all about it. Let it be said here, men and the attendant readjustment in the however, that if the floor, or the plat­ women's fraternities, the building of four form, is solid, one may safely forget all new houses, experimentation with one of the It earliest quota systems, inauguration of a new about it. is only when the floor is plan of rushing, and direction of two house­ shaky and not to be trusted that one mothers' schools, I am a battle-scarred veter­ must worry about it. an entitled, in my own opinion, to the D.S.C. I have always thought that the Kap­ from eight national fraternities. pas were broad-minded. Now I know it. Asking a dean of women to make the keynote address is comparable to asking Alffj dunlamenlaf j}hif~J~f£'1 a Democrat to sound off at the Republi­ can National Convention. J

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'"' )uL; 2-9, 1940 284 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma scholarship, his attitudes, and his mental and physical health are as a whole largely deter­ mined by where and how he lives." It should be to the everlasting credit of As VITAL parts of the educational pattern the fraternities that they recognized the po­ r-\. the problems of the fraternity are those tentialities of living groups long· before the of the college also and the problems of the colleges and universities did. Colleges were college are those of the fraternity. Neither engrossed in getting endowments, in equip­ can shrug its shoulders and say to the other, ping new laboratories, in endowing new chairs "Oh, well, that doesn't concern me." I shall, of philosophy, all of which are good and therefore, talk of our common problems. important. Until fairly recently, however, they One of our most pressing needs and urgent failed to realize that one of the greatest, if problems is to learn to understand one an­ not the greatest, educational force on the other. A few years ago I was walking through campus is the day-by-day life of the student the Metropolitan museum with a friend of in his living group. mine. Suddenly this friend turned to me and On those campuses where fraternities said, "What do you think is the greatest exist, the fraternity is an integral part of the thing in the world?" Somewhat nonplussed, educational picture. The college cannot carry I countered with the first things that came to out its personnel program effectively without mind, "Health, love, learning, and so on." the aid of the fraternities; the frate1nities My friend answered, "The greatest thing in cannot function well without the interest and the world is understanding." We are desper­ support of the administration. I believe that ately in need of understanding among indi­ only when each recognizes its obligations to viduals, among social, economic, religious, the other can genuine progress be made. I and racial groups, among nations. It is not believe that as long as the fraternity con­ just important that we learn to understand tributes to the educational program of the one another-it is imperative. Unless we learn institution in which it is located, it has a this one lesson, it well may be that we shall place. If it blocks educational progress and not need to learn others; in fact, that we clings to the methods of SO years ago, refus­ shall not have the opportunity to learn others. ing to recognize the tremendous social The first step toward understanding is a changes that have been taking place, it be­ free and open discussion of problems. We comes one more millstone about the necks of shaH never solve our problems-whether they those who are trying to make higher educa­ be between individuals, between labor and tion function in the daily lives of students. capital, between fraternity groups, between The fraternity is a mighty force-for progress fraternities and administrations of colleges, or for reaction. It is not per se either good or between nations-unless and until we are or bad. Which way its strength will be thrown willing to sit down at one table and talk over depends upon the quality of its leadership, its our perplexities freely and frankly. sense of direction, and its understanding of its Wherever human beings live together place in the educational program. problems arise. It is no disgrace to any col­ I have said that the fraternity is an inte­ lege, living group, or individual to have prob­ gral part of the educational picture, and that lems. It would be a sure sign of moribundity the living group profoundly affects the think­ if there were none. The disgrace is to refuse ing and actions of its members. If we accept to face problems frankly and freely and to these theses, we must then, as a logical next try to find some solution to them. step, recognize that no forward-looking ad­ You and I cannot perhaps do very much ministration interested in the development of at the moment about relations between capi­ students and having a deep sense of obliga­ tal and labor or about relations among na­ tion to parents as well as to students can, tions, but we can do something about our however much it may wish to, wash its hands human relations closer home. Let me illustrate of responsibility for its living groups. No cne area in which almost immediate improve­ fraternity with an appreciation of its obliga­ ments could be made. Every school girl tions and opportunities can afford to be out knows that there are critical problems con­ of touch with the objectives of the trustees, fronting the fraternities and that these prob­ administration, and faculty of the college of lems ramify into the life of the college, there­ which it is a part. by vitally affecting the college administration. The fraternity is not simply a social group. What have we done about these problems so It is an educational agency. It possesses the far? ability to modify the social standards of its In February of each year the National members, their attitudes toward other groups Association of Deans of Women meets. Are and individuals, their scale of values, their the fraternity officials present at those meet­ objectives. If the fraternity accepts this con­ ings to try to understand the problems of cept of its place in the educational scene, it administrators and to familiarize themselves must "grow up." The carefree, irresponsible with current thinking in the field of higher days are over. What the fraternity does is of education? No. Why not? Probably because concern not only to itself but to the university the N.A.D.W. is guilty of being absorbed in as well. its own group, its own interests, its own prob- Unde rstanding Is the Key Word 285

We like deans of women. Everybody at Sun Valley liked convention's four deans : left to right are three: Mary Elrod Ferguson, B

tip of Nova Scotia- a friend and I stopped The second common problem of momen­ at a little inn for luncheon. It was far from tous importance is, "Do we really believe in the beaten track, located on the seacoast. democracy, or is it something we simply talk While waiting for luncheon we looked at the about glibly? If we believe in it can we mottoes on the walls. Most of them were make it work on our college campus'es ?" This very amusing, but one modern beatitude is no longer an academic question ; it is as struck me with such force that I still re­ real as toothache. member it. It was short and simple. It said Spaulding found in his study of the "Blessed are those who are pleasant to liv~ youngsters graduating from high schools in with." New York that they gave easy lip-service to Coming out on the train I was working on a democratic way of living but had no inten­ a so-called personnel .blank to be sent to in­ tion of sacrificing for it. coming students. You all know them. They Mr. Spaulding asked junior high school are an excellent test of the intelligence of the and senior high school students these ques­ c?llege officer in thinking up diabolical ques­ tions: tions a~d of ~he ingenui~y of the entering Should a student volunteer to help clear ?tudent m ev

One in three would take the presi­ counts for one." Now I know the im­ dency of the student council even though it mean a personal loss to him. mediate reaction of an audience when Of the seniors-one in six would assume the speaker drags out "democracy." It any responsibility for the yard. is time then to doze off comfortably One in seven would allow himself to be nominated, at personal cost to him­ until something more interesting comes self, as president of the council. along. I am requesting you, nevertheless, Four-fifths of the seniors reported that to ask yourselves these questions : they would not if they were adult citizens, spend. any of .their own time in trying to What am I doing in my living group beauttfy a pubhc square near their homes. to curb the girl who in her own opinion Five-sixths were of the opinion that a counts for four or five? well~known businessman who is eminently What am I doing to help the girl wi}o qualified for public office would .be justified in her own opinion counts for only one­ in refusing the nomination for mayor if it half; who never has any confidence in her involved his giving up some of his business own judgment? and social interests. Am I helping to make my group count Mr. Spaulding says, . . . "In contrast to for one-not for three-in college activi­ whatever recognition they may possess of the ties? r.ights of citizens in a democracy, they have Do I carry any responsibility in my ltttle or no appreciation of the individual house or on the campus for student gov­ duties and obligations through which alone ernment? a democracy can survive ... they have been When I have responsibility, do I con­ steadily imbibing during their years in school sult other members of my committee, or the type of philosophy that 'lets George do do I just settle the matter dictatorially be­ it.' cause that is the most efficient way? " ... They are lacking in social conscience -concern for the social good which will lead Democracy, as well as charity, begins them to put forth the individual effort neces­ at home. sary to preserve that good." I have said two of our common prob­ Even more discouraging are Mr. Spauld­ lems are to learn to understand one an­ ing's findings that, although at the time they leave high school, the ablest pupils possess other and to make democracy work on notably greater information about all sorts of our own college campuses. These ends matters than do pupils of lesser intellectual are not easy to accomplish. They require promise, they are not greatly different from constant, unrelenting, day-by-day ef­ the average in their social attitudes. Girls were found to be less competent in civic fort. They don't just happen by housing matters than boys and less likely to add to a group of 30 college students under one their competence through voluntary out-of­ roof. The "how" of these goals is not school activities. What a challenge to the only a convention problem. It is ours­ women's living groups of any college ! It appears to be relatively easy to teach yours and mine-every day of our lives. students facts. It seems to be much more The "how" is important, but first of all difficult to develop a sense of responsibility we must care. for civic affairs. If Mr. H and is right, social Do you care? attitudes can be changed in the living groups. Do you care enough? HE BEST definition I have yet heard Your future, the future of higher edu­ T of democracy is that it is "that form cation, ·the very future of our nation of government in which every individual depends on your answer.

CO'nvenfiott ='.watlJ Honorable mention for the larger alumna: associations went to Akron, Bloomington, Illinois, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Syracuse; for smaller groups, Beta Iota, Boise, Laramie, Lawrence, Montreal and Phoenix. Scholarship cup honorable mentions were given Gamma Nu and Gamma Beta; standards cup, Beta Phi; efficiency cup, Gamma Chi and Rho deuteron. Awards were won by chapters for the following: exhibits, Gamma Sigma, Delta Eta and Epsilon; chapter publication, Upsilon; finance, Gamma Alpha; library develop­ ment, Chi, honorable mention to Gamma Kappa; KEY letter, Barbara Puffer, Beta Mu, honorable mention to Mu and Delta Kappa; merit charts, Gamma Alpha, honorable mention to Gamma Beta; notebooks, Delta Kappa for complete set and Beta Theta for best pledge notebook; for greatest improvement in scholarship, Gamma Lambda and Theta. By GERALDINE GILMORE, r M-Oregon State

sion between the sun and the sea. The Last spring the editor received a Arctic ocean reflected the slightly chang­ feature article which she was unable to ing position of the sun as midnight came print in THE KEY for the same old and found warm daylight. reason, lack of space. Along came convention and with it As I watched the midnight sun I the scholarship dinner, an unquestion­ leaned against a pile of rocks, the only ably outstanding event which intro­ thing left on this rocky glacial moun­ duced Jane Underhill, ~ Z-Colorado, tain. On top of this pile of rocks was a graduate fellowship holder; Ingrid Frestadius, 0-Kansas, foreign exchange reindeer horn from the end of which student; and Dorothy Ward, B Z-lowa, fluttered a piece of cloth. The scribbled who held an undergraduate scholarship. message on this torn piece of cloth was The last speaker was an under­ in a foreign language unknown to me. graduate, Geraldine Gilmore, who had gone to Europe when she was 14 years Could this be a marker of a grave? old to be a companion to a young Had someone else experienced this un­ Italian girl. Geraldine had a year on the usual feeling in this same place? There Italian Riviera, went to Germany and was no one a kilometer from me, in fact obtained a similar position as com­ panion to a German girl, and later it was hours fast hiking from the last hiked alone through the Scandinavian Lapp village. countries. Those who heard her need The Arctic ocean tempted me. It was not be reminded that hers was an delightful to swim by the light of the astonishing story, dramatically told. One of her adventures, recounted that sun at midnight and to emerge from the evening at convention, was of her icy waters covered by a stiff coat of salt. journey to the Land of the Midnight But getting out of the frigid waters was Sun. It is that episode about which her a struggle. The Arctic was tugging at feature article was written. me with cold, slimy, stealthy hands of moss; it was clutching at my numb joints as if to claim me. HE MIDNIGHT sun lay before me Once on the rocky shore again I quietly waiting for the dawn of a moved like a mechanical toy, but soon I T day that would never end. I was was dancing up and down feeling like a alone on top of the highest mountain on sun worshipper on the very edge of the Finnish coast. I could see the quiet, eternity. My body was invigorated and peaceful Arctic ocean below me. I cotild my mind was clearer than ever before. hear the wind whistling from the steep­ The important things in my life stood sided Liinahamari fjord. I had at last out in my mind as if they had been reached my goal. carved into these rocks by glaciers as To see the sun at midnight gave me a they years ago pushed their way over feeling of reverence. The sky was a this very mountain. What was this urge celestial blue with thin, delicate, drawn­ that had led me all the way to the Arctic out clouds that became yellow and gold ocean? Was there some message for me as they glided over the radiant sun. etched into these rocks by the glaciers? Under the midnight sun was drawn a While pondering these things I spied silvery gray stripe that marked the divi- a small ledge along the rocky shore of 288 Kappa Speaker Has Flair for Travel 289 the ocean. Mountains are deceiving, they carry on an interesting conversation and lead one on and on and open and close learned much about each other. I should small paths for one. This little ledge at like to have rested awhile in this friend- the bottom of the mountain seemed to open up to me and challenge me to fol­ low it. By grasping the jagged rocks and crawling along the ledge to the curve's end I was excited to find that it wound on ahead. Adventure filled my soul, I must follow the path to the end. All night I groped my way along the jutting ledge, stopping only to eat luscious salmon-colored berries and to feast my eyes on the reflection of the midnight sun in the water below. About six o'clock I found myself in a small opening. Not far away there was a little hut with smoke curling up out of the chimney. Just as I reached the door a fisherman came up from the shore with a small string of fish. I greeted him cordially in every language I knew, but he continued to stare at me in amaze­ ment. Finally I told him in my very best sign language that I was hungry, and that I had spent the night on the moun­ tain watching the sun. My gestures he understood at once and his eyes crinkled up in a kindly smile as he bowed me graciously into his humble hut, which was clean and cozy. Geraldine Gilmore, r M There was one window for the midnight sun to shine through, one bunk, one ly little hut, but from our conversation table, and one chair which he immediate­ I had discovered I was in Russia. I ly offered me. He carefully prepared one realized that I should not be there, as of his fish in his one pan and placed it I had tried for three months to get a on the table with a loaf of black bread. visa and it was impossible. Here I had There were no knives or forks or walked boldly across the Russian border spoons, but he showed me how to eat without knowing it. the fish by pushing it about and lifting I said good-bye to my host and re­ it with the bread. Never had a meal traced my steps along the narrow ledge. tasted better. It was with real thankfulness that I By sign language we continued to found myself safe in Finland.

By convention vote, the fraternity is to have two field secretaries, instead of one, as in the past. Any Kappa interested in becoming a field secretary may obtain an application blank from central office. 290 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Sun · V alley Photograph After the sweetheart dinner, July 6, convention saw in the customary historical pageant as effective a display of the fraternity's costume collection as a Kappa convention has ever seen. Mrs. Ware joined the active delegates in the pageant, wearing a black silk "calling gown" which had belonged to her "Aunt Ruth," Mrs. Justin S. Morrill, the former Ruth Barrell Swan. Mrs. Morrill was the wife of Senator Morrill, of Vermont, author of the Morrill Act of C.ongress which established land grant colleges in the United States. The photograph shows Mrs. Ware surrounded by girls from Kappa's chapters at land grant colleges. _//;ltJ.11Jate, aul the /(_elf iu Ji•cewl>tk.J dmrwel {Ja£1f CLzffet ::::hefe!afe

By MARY E. MooRE, !J. K-Miami

HAT A surprise it was when Ware's many activities in leading such Miss Helen Bower, our editor a full and useful life and for her many W of THE KEY, approached me years of valuable experience, she is most during convention at Sun Valley and capable of passing her knowledge to the asked that I write an article for the younger generation of Kappa Kappa October KEY, describing my impres­ Gamma. As one of the many tributes to sions as the first Delta Kappa chapter her it should be our privilege to continue delegate to a Kappa Kappa Gamma the fine work that she has started for us. convention. · Mrs. Ware exemplifies the fineness Because of my interest in wishing to and character that all Kappas should make new acquaintances, I was im­ strive to attain. Meeting her as I did at pressed mostly by the large number of convention will always be a grand people that I might meet. Convention memory of Sun Valley. with its hundreds of delegates of all The days at convention were such ages and from all parts of the country busy ones that it is difficult to describe gave me quite a storehouse of feminine them all in full. I did realize that it was humanity. a marvelous training period for the ac­ For instance my roommates, who tive officers. We were able to acquaint were from Louisiana and Alabama, ourselves more deeply with fraternity possessed that southern mannerism in life through the exchange of viewpoints speech, which, as we all well know, is on all types of problems, and the man­ typical of the deep south. Since I am ner in which they were encountered and now living in Miami Beach, Florida, solved in all localities. the reader may question my comment Convention also gave to us the new on the deep south; but Miami is so trends in fraternity life. We received largely inhabited by visitors from the enlightenment on the handling of our north that we seldom find any great own chapter affairs. It was through the number of true southerners. panel discussions that we were able to Also at convention were the delegates arrive at decisions which will prove from the far west, the middle west and helpful in making our own chapter a the east. I was even able to meet the more useful organization and one that delegates from my former home, Phila­ will be an added credit to our frater­ delphia. nity. One of the most interesting and While the business meetings absorbed charming personalities it was my pleas­ much of my time during convention, the ure to know was our ranking former social activities were not neglected. Each grand president, Mrs. Charlotte Barrell evening before dinner the lobby of Sun Ware. Our chapter had heard much Valley lodge represented a huge fashion about her during its installation into show. Every Kappa appeared most Kappa Kappa Gamma in November charming in her evening atti re. Anyone 1938. interested in the fi eld of fashion design­ Such a personali ty as Mrs. W are ing could have gleaned many ideas here. should give to every Kappa a living The management of Sun Vall ey did ideal of perfect womanhood. For Mrs. {Continued on page 306) 291 f(.afra'o. JIJ". I C"uveulicu fiabitee'l: j}iJu the {)ut "~ 20 {)ieuuia/o.

By InA BoNNELL OTsTOTT (MRs. D. D.), L.-Nebraslw

HERE were. more than 500 Kappas best garden spots. The lodge and its at Sun Valley. Half of them per­ adjacent inns were the essence of good T haps knew it was my 20th conven­ taste, comfort and modern luxury. The tion, and at least half of those came up ice skating was a novelty to many. And and asked breathlessly, "Isn't this the the food was adequate and beautifully served. Will any of us ever forget the sight of those buffet tables Sunday night, as they met our awed gaze? I have never before seen such a quantity of things that were literally "too good to eat." After that meal was over, we learned that the head chef, the one who could whip up, bake and decorate a birthday cake in a few minutes whenever anyone was discovered to be growing older, had sent to the chef at the Seigniory club an S.O.S. for the menu of the wonder­ ful buffet supper we had there on the 'beautiful terrace-and then tried to out­ do him (and succeeded, but let's just whisper it) to such an extent that it was nothing short of a capital crime to dis­ The inimitable "Brownie" Otstott (Mrs. turb by serving any of those cunning D. D.) has been going to Kappa con­ little roast. pigs with Kappa keys on their ventions (20 of them) for more than 40 little brown backs, the whole turkeys, years (no convention during World War I). She is Kappa's ranking habiteer. As the huge fish cooked whole, the lobster such, she got the cap with the most feath­ salads. But why go on? Everyone's ers in it to wear at the habiteers' luncheon. mouth is watering right now. She also has a long blue ribbon with 20 Sun Valley with dear Charlotte Ware, stars embroidered on it in gold thread, and felt slightly disgruntled to find that 1940 the wonderful speakers, our dean, our badges were marked with silver stars. college prexy; our Kappa freshman who swam the Arctic; our exchange very best convention you ever at- student and Kappa sister, Ingrid Fres­ tended ?" tadius; our G.P. who really didn't be- To which I was apt to reply, "You lieve in third terms; Beth, our new tell me which Kappa here is the very president (habiteer runner-up) ; our prettiest"; and let it go at that. real heart interest in our Canadian Friends and fellow Kappas, each con- chapters (Did you notice the sort of vention is the best, and none is the best, awed hush that ensued when one of if you get me. Try them and see; but them had the floor?) ; our enthusiastic with Della Burt at the helm, they get support of the Nora Wain fund for better and better. refugee children. I could go on indefi- However, Sun Valley is one of God's nitely. 292 Kappa's No. 1 Convention Habiteer Picks the Best 293

Yes, convention at Sun Valley was a really great experience, long to be re­ membered-will be hard to beat. But my old heart goes back to 1904, when I had more physical discomfort and less money than at any of the 20 conventions; when we rode for a half a day from St. Louis to Columbia-in "day coaches" (Hands up for any Kap­ pa who ever rode in one). They had short backs and slick wicker seats· the mercury was about 110 and trying to go higher, but couldn't get out of the tube, and I sigh and · wish I could do that convention all over again. Ask me WHY. Like Grape Nuts, "There's a reason," in fact several rea­ sons. Three or four delegates: Molly Crawford, of Cornell, now Dr. Mary Crawford; Florence Burton (now Mrs. Roth), of Ann Arbor; Joanna Strange, of Iowa State (she has been dead many years) ; Elizabeth Jackson, later our , editor, that's the year I met all of those girls, my dear friends to this day, all of them on their feet at once wildly de­ manding that the G.P. recognize them. People sat up, electioneering, talking changes in the constitution (yes, we had one then, and all through the years noth­ ing even comes near it for changeable­ ness except the weather) . We got May Whiting married off to Theo Westermann that year. When a Beta Alpha should be a proud chapter, to have had two grand presidents at conven­ G.P. was elected it was equivalent to an tion: one, Rheva Ott Shryock, left, 23rd, engagement and marriage (there was and presiding officer; the other, Mary Grif­ many an old maid who hurriedly sought fith Canby, 11th grand president. Sweet office). And by the way, the only bad Mrs. Canby hadn't been at a Kappa con­ vention in 32 years, and she had her eyes spot at Sun Valley was where May opened. Westermann and Minnie Royse Walker WERE NOT. Looking back to 1904, it the night of July Fourth, I understand, seems a very high spot in my life. and all the people come from miles At Sun Valley Mr. Duncan and all around. They were there a-plenty, but the staff treated us as if we were at they never topped off their fireworks least distantly related to royalty. The before with a large Kappa key in beau­ ski-lift ride cosf a mere pittance and tiful colors of fire. was worth $100 of anybody's money. If I had 10 times the space allotted And I nearly forgot one of my most to me in this issue of THE KEY, I wonderful experiences. Habiteers' day, couldn't even touch on the wonders of Charlotte Ware and Mary Canby and this last convention and many of the me-l, two ex-grand presidents and one ones gone by. But at this convention I garden-variety plain Kappa, got won­ met again after many, many years, over derful gold clips (Kappa crests) for 30 years in one case, former friends like that 50-year mark. Mary Griffith Canby, Sally Barclay Sun Valley always has a carnival for (Continued on page 300) '' • • •

By HELEN C. BowER, Ed.itor

T wouLD 'nE a lot easier on KEY edi­ Facts, figures and features about I tors if television could be perfected so Miami U. and Delta Lambda should be that all Kappas who couldn't get to con­ forthcoming in the December KEY. vention could look in on the doings via Miami U. will now have to be kept from their receiving sets. getting confused with the University of We understand that radio did its bit Miami, home of Delta Kappa, soon to for us during that gala week of July be Kappa's nose-out-of-joint baby chap­ 2-9 at Sun Valley, when Fred Waring ter. included "Moon Over Sun Valley" on Before going further, we must take his program and dedicated it to the Kap­ note of some notes on an old song-sheet. pas in convention out there. We didn't Item one involves a major sin of actually hear it, having been too busy omission on our part, in leaving a pic­ listening to the Kappas. But we heard ture of Elizabeth Kimbrough Park, as tell, and appreciate Mr. Waring's deli­ undergraduate scholarship chairman, cate attention. out of those starry pages in the April "Moon Over Sun Valley" is one of KEY ( tsk, tsk ! ) . the sweller songs. Most of us learned to So what happens? So Elizabeth be­ sing it. Ruth Seacrest and the editor comes Kappa's new vice-president, after (Minerva forgive us!) made it easier having worked like a retriever as as­ for the last Wednesday's bus loads to sistant marshal, when an automobile ac­ leave, by serenading them with it. Irene cident to Marion Ackley Chenoweth's Railsback hummed it e;:tstward across mother prevented Marion from coming the continent, as she had hummed her to Sun Valley. Beatrice Lee Gerlinger, way westward to the tune of what she assistant hospitality chairman, also took thought all the time was "God Save a special whirl at assisting the marshal. America!" (Could be!) Item two is a bow to the Boise alum­ Anyway, at this point, the best the nre for "the marvelous tins of cookies machine age can give us for practical used as prizes for the province com­ purposes is the typewriter, on which to petitions." (This doesn't mean that we supplement the rhapsodies of Brownie saw any tins of cookies. We're told that and Betsy, and Miriam's constitutional­ Peg Cecil got a tin and went around ity, with a spot of attention calling. with "exclamations of delight." She For one thing, a new chapter is to be didn't come to us with any exclamations installed this fall at Miami university, or cookies. Peg just told us in a friendly Oxford, Ohio, where Beta, Phi Delt way that it is our general contour that and Sigma Chi were founded y'ars ago. makes "Paul Revere" so funny. But The successfully-petitioning local, which then, she sells Cecil's [fashions] by the includes in its membership Kappa North Shore; and at convention played grand-daughters, daughters and nieces, tennis with Dean Stratton.) is providentially named Delta Lambda. We got a long way from Boise in So the girls won't have to learn a new · that parenthesis. We want to add that name for themselves, because their chap­ Boise (pronounced ((Boyce-e," we found ter will be Delta Lambda, Kappa's sev­ out) Kappas did yeo woman service enty-fourth. (We could plump for a helping with the Sunday night buffet. chapter at the University of Hawaii, in ( That was the night Virginia Heiss and the hope of getting taken along to re­ we got invited by Jonathan ["Kappa port the installation !) Kappa Gamma Sweetheart"] Duncan 294 "And in Conclusion ..." 295 to sit and talk to him while he had his room during a day of convention. It supper after all the buffeteers had left was but something. the terrace! Whoo-whoo!!) There seemed to be time for a nice I tern three is that the Sun Valley amount of extracurricular activity at management was so impressed by the this convention-council, take a bow ! diligence of the crafts and fine arts com­ (We heard tell that during the pre-con­ mittee-Lora Harvey George, take a vention council session, however, their bow-and the excellence of the exhibit, only free time was between 4 and 7- that the opening tea was the manage­ but A.M. ! ) Personally, we had a ter­ ment's treat. Tony, the maitre d', didn't rific social whirl at after-hours parties. know that until after the kitchen staff Maybe we've gotten somewhere, from had made hundreds and hundreds of reading the ads ! little cookies. Not that it would have made any difference in the cooky out­ J\ FTER THE barbecue at Trail Creek put. .1\. cabin (stunt night with a micro­ The 1940 exhibit had 229 entries, in­ phone; or, the machine age comes to cluding water colors, oils, pen drawings, stunt night!), the evening of July 4, sculpture, linoleum and wood-block there was the ice carnival and the fire­ prints, etchings, lithographs, photogra­ works (we went overboard for that set­ phy, wood-carving, bookbinding and piece key, too) ; and the next night the leather tooling, metal work, hand weav­ Tournament of Roses band blew in ing, hand-blocked linens, embroidery, from Pasadena. After playing for us at ceramics, puppetry, button designs, dinner, the lads put on their fourth an­ knitted character dolls, commercial de­ nual collegiate revue at Sun Valley! in sign, books, publications and musical the rodeo stadium, where the Kappas compositions. Imposing, wot? were invited to be guests of Mr. Rogers. Fine arts and crafts can't be men­ That was the night we were booked tioned without remembering that Betty to lead the vocational panel, and the N agelvoort Flint (another we missed, conscientious ye marshal, Della Law­ like May, Minnie, Marion and many rence Burt, tore us away from our des­ more) and Margaret Smith are lavish sert to get us to the opera house in case with their time and talents for Kappa, anybody came on time. E. Park con-· regardless of the fact that they are in scientiously came along. Some vocal se­ business for themselves. lections were rendered, while the rafters Item four is a cheer for the "second rang; but nothing else happened and no delegates," of whom there was a goodly one else appeared. Finally Myra Mc­ group at Sun Valley. These were not Naboe phoned from the lodge that con­ voting delegates from the chapters, but vention seemed to be walking out on girls who came along so they could sup­ vocations in favor of the Bulldog band, plement the delegates' reports, the way so we all chucked our consciences and we're doing: department of enthusiastic went along to the stadium to enjoy our­ amplification. It is hoped that in time at selves too. least a second delegate, maybe a third Then there was the ski lift, a couple and a fourth, will come to convention of miles away, over beyond Ketchum. from every Kappa chapter. We went up to the top of Baldy twice, The gals who came in 1940, first, sec­ sitting in a chair suspended from a cable ond or third, got to see the Duchin room, that drew us up the face of the moun­ which was quite the social center after tain. At the top was the magnificent business hours. Fugitives from a conga panorama of the Sawtooths (the im­ chain gang were there found doing the pulse is to say "Sawteeth") rising be­ "stoop dance." There "the Duchess" did yond the valley. some of her best brooding. We wish we Going up the topmost of the thr~e could remember the statistics on the sections of the lift, we pas ed Ingnd number of "cokes" sold in the Duchin Frestadius coming down on her fourth- 296 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma non-stop round trip ! Also we went past tie, B M-Colorado U., who drove out Avery Barnard, practically our favorite with Margaret (Architect) Read, stayed Kappa, because she was going down the on at Sun Valley because she promoted mountain with all that beautiful view herself a job as swimming instructor before her and she was reading The for youngsters who visit SV with their parents. This proves that young people can get jobs, and points the device on our personal banner, "For God and the breaks !"

T's OBVIOUS that we could go on and I on, about every individual Kappa, about every event, about Sun Valley; about all the still-grand council Kappas, all the Kappas with whom you want to have good long talks because you see them only once every two years ; and there never seems time enough, not even to visit with your oldest and dearest. But there's always the nice feeling that you're all busy on Kappa's behalf, and somehow closer in spirit for it; and you're always bursting with affectionate pride to see how everyone does so well and so willingly whatever she has to do, wherever it is, out front or backstage. Backstage we had to holler for help from central office (another grand Sun Valley sight-seeing facility "de luxe" gang) to check the Nora Waln fund was the ski lift, photographed by Pat Ryan, which Marie Macriaughtan was deter­ A r-Michigan State. Remember that it follows the mountain slope, above which mined should reach $1 ,000 before the the rider in one of those little chairs often end of convention. It did, and we have dangles like an ornament on a Christmas given Marie the job of making us our tree. first million, starting from scratch. Hoot! Of course there is the possibility Meanwhile, Dot Clements came to our that it was preventive medicine, to keep rescue as check-and-double-checker-up­ her from thinking about dropping down per. through space. Then there's always the joy of meet­ Speaking of The Hoot, the editor and ing Kappas you hadn't known before, the two brides on her staff, Mart and getting away to a flying start because Dorris, had one ski lift ride by courtesy you are Kappas. of Joe Gallagher, special UP and SV That brings us logically to the banquet representative, and official "Hootheart," and Mary Griffith Canby, 11th grand who ran copy to the printer at Hailey president, who hadn't been at a conven­ and even danced with "Momma." tion since the one at which she presided We will always remember that it was in 1908. She's another grand Kappa to while walking over from the bus to the know, full of cheer and benevolence, ski lift that "Cooky" Smith told us we beaming on this grown-up fraternity of were one of the "characters" of the fra­ ours like a fond parent on a tall, grown ternity. We're still thinking that one child, and finding it good, its spirit one through, because "Cooky" is a smart of "harmony without weakness," as she woman and she doesn't fool. said. She and we got invited to Bettie Eck­ All through convention Mrs. Canby hart's birthday party the Tuesday night, wore an unusual pendant, Kappa's after convention was officially over. Bet- pledge pin in little sapphires and dia- "And in · Conclusion " 297 monds on a slender chain. She told us it was a wedding present from her coun­ cil. ·/§e~t /ll)i~lu~ As Mary D. Griffith she was grand ~ecretary from 1902 through 1906, but t~ lke A1t. anl Aft~ . m that year she took the grand presi­ dent's office as Mrs. Canby. One of her By the time this gets into print I<;appa's former field secretary and ne~ council, Elizabeth Voris Lawry, then director of chapter organization on the grand treasurer, was also at Sun Valley. council, Leonna Dor!ac, will be Mrs. Mrs. Lawry was guest columnist for Bernard Lilljeberg, of Pueblo, Colo­ having been editor in rado. The Hoot, KEY Leonna's engagement was announced 1905-1906. She thought the present edi­ to the fraternity in a way that may torial incumbent was "formidable," until become traditional, if Kappa field sec­ she got to know us. (We've long since retari es continue to marry members of realized that we're what they say of r .6. and become presidents of Kappa. At convention's sweetheart dinner olives, an acquired taste.) Saturday evening, July 6, Helen Sn y ~ Mrs. Canby gave such a twinkling der Andres (Mrs. Eugene C.), past little talk at the banquet, about how her grand president, took over the micro­ phone to make the announcement. Helen husband was the great-grandson of was Kappa's field secretary when she Betsy Ross and so all the Canbys know became engaged to Phi Gam Gene · and how to fold a piece of paper into a five­ at the 1934 convention at Yellows'tone pointed star. She told about the two Georgia Hayden Lloyd Jones (Mrs: Richard), past grand president as a Kappa bridesmaids who carried fleurs­ Phi Gam wife, announced Hele~'s en­ de-lis at her wedding, after which she gagement. and her husband came directly out west Helen was Kappa's first field secre­ to a home on a mountain covered with tary, so that part of the tradition origi­ nated with her, though Kappas had been wild fleurs-de-lis. Then lo, and behold! marrying Phi Gams before her time. if the postmaster's sister-in-law .wasn't a Kappa, Helen Huntoon Barlow, num­ ber nine on Beta Pi's roll. Kappa mail had to be carried in and out on a pack vention, the famous golden anniversary train, but the west didn't seem too wild Mackinac 1920 that started Clara and and strange, because of the Kappa asso­ Della and Marion and Elizabeth and ciations. goodness knows how many other Kap­ pas on fraternity service careers. And HERE WAS Mrs. Canby from Rheva there was Mary at Sun Valley with her T Shryock's chapter, or vice versa, Kappa daughter, Betty, one of the Leap­ and Mrs. Canby recalling that " Beth hart twins, who were responsible for was one of the outstanding delegates at getting Mary off the council!) my convention," meaning • Elizabeth In her speech, Mary reminded us that Bogert Schofield, making her first for­ education without understanding is not mal appearance as president of Kappa worth much; and that education and un­ Kappa Gamma, 24th in the succession. derstanding without action are not worth Mary Rodes Leaphart (B X-Kentucky much, either. So must we keep our new charter member who was Mary Mc­ social order builded on the Golden Rule Eachin Rodes as grand secretary in and practice a "religion of humanity." 1912 and Mary Rodes Leaphart as Then, almost at the close of the ban­ grand registrar by 1916; and she greet­ quet and, in effect, the close of conven­ ing her immediate successor, Catherine tion, came the ceremony of "the passing Burnside-now Mrs. Piper-at Sun of the light." Valley.) (We seem to be having a "You are the keepers of the ancient chronic parenthesis condition!), well, flame," said Charlotte Ware; "you are Mary Leaphart was banquet speaker. the flame. So let the light be passed!" (We must interrupt again to add that There were all the past grand presi­ she was on the council at our first con- dents standing: Mrs. Ware, Mrs. Here Mrs. Ware is pictured turning the first earth on the hillside where a wayside shrine, or shelter, is to be built beside the trail. Also taking part in this ceremony, Wednesday morning, July 10, were Mrs. Schofield, left, and Mrs. Shryock, right. In the background, left to right, are Jonathan Duncan, Mr. Rogers and Mrs. McNaboe. "And 111 Conclusion .. .'' 299

Canby, Florence Burton Roth, Helen Shrine," wrote Mr. Rogers, in August. Snyder Andres and Rheva Ott Shry­ "Our trail from the lodge to Trail ock; and all about them were Kappas, Creek cabin, which passes the shrine, is old and young, who· all together give completed, and I believe that many peo­ precious continuity to Kappa Kappa ple will sit under this shelter along the Gamma. trail and that it will be of great interest "Understanding" was a word we to our many guests." heard often at convention. "Continuity" It was also planned to have split log was another. benches at intervals along the trail, pos­ Even through such rambling, infor­ sibly 12 of them, one for each Kappa mal recollections as these should shine province, and so marked. that golden thread of continuity which 1 President Schofield also turned a weaves the Kappa pattern on and on, spadeful of earth at this simple, yet unbroken. It is at a Kappa convention touching dedication. Nothing more was that one most nearly sees the pattern pre-arranged, but spontaneously in the whole, and seeing, vows to keep it so. noon sunlight under the blue western sky the "Kappa Symphony" rose to HEN, as if a glorious convention were echo softly from the gentle slopes of the T not enough, those of us who stayed valley in benediction. Fittingly too we on a day or two to set our house in sang "I Love You Truly, K K r"; and order, or to have an extra memory of that was all,- if one may say only that Sun Valley, witnessed a most special of an unprecedented moment in Kappa ceremony. history. It grew out of the management's con­ Helen Steinmetz and J o Simpson versations with Mrs. Ware, and the brought back in the bus two or three wish that Sun Valley might add to its stones to take in their car to Florida for attractions a path where guests who that outdoor hearth at Boyd Hearth­ want nothing more active than a stroll stone, which will some day be in its own might walk with an objective. The start way a Kappa memorial. of such a path had already been planned by Charles M. Davidson, landscape ar­ T IS Mrs. Ware's wish that THE KEY chitect, to go from the lodge along the I shall record the names of all those natural windings of the valley, beside who were present at the dedication, as the stream, toward Trail Creek cabin; follows: and W. P. Rogers, general manager of For Sun Valley, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Duncan, Sun Valley, approved his suggestion and Mr. Davidson; For Kappa, Mrs. Ware, that it be made a Fleur-de-Lis trail, in cfo-Boston; Florence Burton Roth, B A-Michi­ remembrance of the Kappas. It would gan; Rheva Ott Shryock, B A-Pennsylvania; have special significance, in that the Elizabeth Bogert Schofield, III-Butler; Almira sister of W . Averell Harriman, chair­ J ohnson McNaboe, H-Wisconsin; Elizabeth man of the board of the Union Pacific, Kimbrough Park, B X-Kentucky ; Marian S. who established Sun Valley, was the Ha.ndy, r K-William and Mary; Edith Reese late Mary Harriman Rumsey (Mrs. C. Crabtree, B r-Wooster ; Emily Caskey John­ C.), B E-Barnard. son, B H-Stanford; Ruth Kadel Seacrest, ~­ So all of us were taken in busses, Nebraska; Leonna Dorlac, A Z-Colorado Col­ Wednesday morning, July 10, to a hill­ lege ; Clara 0. Pierce, B N-Ohio State; H elen side a little above the trail, midway be­ C. Bower, B A-Michigan; Della Lawrence tween lodge and cabin; and on that Burt, B :=:-Texas; Mabel McKinney Smith, hillside Mrs. Ware turned the first earth B ~-Adelphi; Lyndall Finley Wortham, B :=:­ on the site of a shelter, a Kappa way­ Texas; Josephine Sadler Simpson, A E-Rol­ side shrine, as Mrs. Ware designates it, lins; Helen Steinmetz, A E-Rollins ; Marjorie which is to be built beside the trail. Kincaide, B 0-Tulane; Virginia Van Meter, "Charlie Davidson is awaiting plans B M-University of Colorado; Ethel F isher from Mrs. Ware before proceeding with Sullivan, r Z-Arizona; Ruth .C. Dibert, B A- the shelter for the Kappa Wayside (Con t-im£ed 0 11 page 323) 300 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

/l!o. I Co-nvenlio-n. cJ/.abifeet j}ic/u lke jg.e~t (Continued from page 293) Mitchell, Elizabeth Voris Lawry, Mary vention at the same time and I was still Rhodes Leaphart, and last, but by no in my 'teens) to Sun Valley, 1940, my means least, my very own Catharine 20th, each convention has been grand. Burnside Piper. But I'll have to admit Sun Valley was So, from 1892, my first, where I slept BEST. But let's all set out to beat it 24 hours in six nights (we lived in In- next time so ... dianapolis hotels and ~X had their con-

As spirited as anyone on the convention special, Charlotte Barrell Ware (Mrs. Robert A.), <1>-Boston, second and ranking past grand president, waved a greeting from the carriage which took her from the station to the lodge, accompanied by Marion Jewell, P1LOhio Wesleyan, left, and Virginia Tucker Jones Heiss, r K-William and Mary, right. The KAPPA SPE(;JAL ='ttive:J at Sun Valley, Idaho July 2, 1940

IN THIS and the succeeding " mob scenes," where space does not permit complete identification, every Kappa may test the extent of her personal acquaintanceship with council officers and other convention personalities. The game is called "Oh, there' Marian Handy! " or "There's Mrs. Me laboe !" or "There's Leonna Dorlac !" The winner is the Kappa who finishes with the greatest number of "There's" to her credit.

Right: IRENE NEAL (Hearth­ stone fund) RAILSBACK and FLORENCE BURTON (Boyd Hearthstone trustees) RoTH.

Below: The McCARTHY " twins," CARO· LYN and "PuM," at the jobs and hobbies head-dress dinner.

Right: Foreign exchange pays birthday cake percentage to INGRID FRESTADIUS, 11- Kansas, left, and CAROLYN COLLIER,®- Missouri, right. OuT of the golden frame teps MARY )IM LA E CHICKERI c, v.earing TADE HART FF K H ' regal purple el et and i or satin "'OWn at aturday evenings historical pageant.

O MY BELOVED KAPPAS : and the spontaneous flowering at con­ What a privilege it was for vention of the Nora Waln Fund for T those of us who were able to at­ Refugee Children have lifted Kappa to tend the Sun Valley convention ! her proper place in the international Since it is beyond the limit of indi­ academic world, of which she is in­ vidu~l ~otes, our editor has given me separably a part. perm1ss10n to thank you in this way­ The ringing note of Dr. Stearns at the old friends and new, officials, alumn~ opening of the convention, clarion clear and actives-for the innumerable evi­ in its summons to meet our international dences of your thoughtfulness and affec­ responsibilities, echoed and re-echoed tion during those eventful days. From throughout the week. the moment when Marie Macnaughtan The knights of old were wont, before gave me the first official welcome that leaving for a crusade, to spend the last Sunday morning in Chicago, and that night in consecration at the altar. It night tucked me safely away in car K 1, sometimes seems to me that our week in lower 8, until and after she transferred Sun Valley may be thought of as a the responsibility to Della Burt, one similar preparation for the critical years happy day followed another. ahead which the world is facing, and for Della rounded it out with a full 24 which Kappa is girding herself; that she hours on the homeward journey before may enter the new decade strong in she left the train. (Make no mistake­ body, with clear brain, and with reverent she will always be our "grand" marshal, and humble spirit. even if we must spell it with a small It is a noteworthy fact that we are "g.") Helen Bower was her proxy for indebted to our friends, the men-to our the remainder of the trip to Chicago, hosts and our distinguished guest-for where Helen and Margaret Moseley three contributions which will mark filled with delight the hours of my brief Kappa's 70th birthday. May the frater­ stop-over. Of the welcome that awaited nity be worthy of the great sonnet with me at home you need no assurance. which Dr. Stearns has honored us, and Because I resumed active connection which will ever illumine our records. In with the fraternity in 1930 at Mackinac days to come, many· will share with us it is very clear to me how far Kapp~ in appreciation of the vision of our has advanced during the past decade. hosts and gratitude to them for placing This has seen the constructed work of in the valley landmarks of this memora­ our Canadian chapters; the support ble event. Many, as they shall follow the which our English alumn~ association, new trail by the singing waters-The of which Nora Waln is president, has Trail of the Three Score Years and been giving to the Associated Country Ten-will linger at the wayside shrine, Women of the World (headquarters in "And here among these ever-steadfast hills, London) since they here found a cause Renew their vows. ..." worthy of their united efforts; the or­ ganization headed by Virginia Heiss of CHARLOTTE BARRELL wARE our Army and Navy Kappas in all parts Warelands of the world. Norfolk Massachusetts It is deeply gratifying that all these August 22, 1940

301 LTHOUGH Sun Valley is a place of despite all the deliberate exaggeration peace, in which the outside world and bluff that is unfortunately a part of may be happily forgotten, con- our political tradition, a national cam­ vention was by no means unaware of paign does provide a time for self­ the state of the nations and the possi- examination if we will only think about bilities of the future. This was evident issues, and not merely indulge our par­ in the grand president's valedictory, ticular prejudices and emotions. given by Mrs. Shryock, Monday after- "Remember that policies are more im­ noon, July 8, at the closing business portant than personalities. Beware the session. times when candidates can be elected "We are all too painfully aware of the because they are handsome, or can boast tragic events that have occurred and are a good baritone or a hill-billy band. still occurring in Europe and Asia," she Abraham Lincoln was never elected on said, in part. "While the United States that sort of an appeal, and if it ever has so far been spared the shock and becomes a generally successful one, you suffering of war, no one can remain may assume that something besides de­ indifferent to the dangers which threaten mocracy is under way. us even at a great distance overseas. "Remember, too, that current domes- "It is true that these dangers must tic issues sometimes have meaning for seem more imminent to our Canadian us in our fraternal, as well as in our chapters than to those in this country, individual capacities. What should our but none of us can avoid or escape them relation be, as a fraternity, to the prob­ entirely. The very pressure which war lems of higher education as a whole? exerts on our emotions, the inevitable "Notice here how easily the most gen­ appeal to deep feeling, makes it all the eral conditions bear down upon the more imperative that we strive now to most particular. International confusion think clearly and, in plain English, to may greatly limit American trade; this keep our heads. in turn depresses business, which lessens "It is my earnest hope that the United endowments to colleges and universities States may remain a nation at peace, a as well as private support to our own land to which war-torn countries may chapters in these institutions. later turn for help and guidance. But "Should we encourage federal and whether the United States confines its state governments to come increasingly role to sending economic assistance to to the aid of schools so handicapped? the British Empire, or is actually in- Should the government subsidize the valved in the war, we must all plan to students through their college years, on serve as best we may, both as individuals a larger scale than it now does via the and as a fraternity during the difficult NYA? If so, what will be the attitude days that are ahead. of a generation of students directly sup- "Meanwhile, those of us in the United ported by the state?. What, for that States must realize that,our own nation matter, is the attitude and state of mind is facing serious problems within as well of present· day youth? Is our own mem­ as without its borders. This is a presi- bership a privileged group, or are its dential year, when-if the international attitudes typical? If not, what should situation does not become so pressing as our relations be with the majority of to exclude all other matters-the success young people, with contemporary 'youth or failure of the Roosevelt administra- movements' or 'youth congresses'? tion will be widely and perhaps bitterly "These questions arise out of our debated throughout the country. whole national situation, but they come "I will not abuse my position by home to us as pressing problems calling giving a political speech upon this oc- for decisions by the fraternity in the casion. But I would remind you that, near future." 302 duul Jl!amel l~t filtult'c Jl;lt'ca /!lJa/u /1);/f diJ /!lJa'c'J: Cki/l J

!\s IN THE days of the World War, the announcement that the $200 which r\ when Kappa Kappa Gamma's the fraternity had budgeted for bringing particular philanthropy was the Nora Waln .to Sun Valley as a conven­ support of a clinic for children at tion guest would become the nucleus of Bellevue-Meudon, outside Paris, under the fund. Response was immediate, and the direction of Dorothy Canfield Fisher, generous, as the appended list will show. B N-Ohio State, the 1940 convention It was the first intention to send the launched a K K r-Nora Waln Fund for money direct to Nora Waln to disburse Refugee Children, to which a total of as she saw fit on behalf of refugee chil­ $1,000 was subscribed and pledged dur­ dren abroad. ing the week at Sun Valley. Of the total, Since convention it has been impossi­ $649 was raised in cash, with $351 in ble to reach Nora Waln by cable. Where pledges; and since convention pledges of she is at the moment is not known. $50 and $10 have been paid and an addi­ In this event, it seems logical that, tional gift of $25 has been received. since Nora Waln is a Quaker, the fund . Nora Waln, B !-Swarthmore, is presi­ might be turned over to the American dent of the London, England, alumnre Friends Committee to use for refugee association. She was to have been con­ children already in the United States or vention's keynote speaker, had not the to bring others here, with the under­ war prevented her from coming to the standing that the fund be designated. the United States, as she so much hoped K K r-Nora Waln Fund for Refugee to do. Her daughter Marie was grad­ Children and an accounting of its use be uated from Swarthmore last June and made to the fraternity. Mrs. Osland-Hill (Miss Waln in private The council wishes to put the money life) wanted to be at the Swarthmore to work as soon as possible, because it commencement, and go on to Sun Val­ was given with that understanding. An ley, where those 517 Kappas at the additional report will be made in the fraternity's largest convention would December KEY. It is apparent that the have had the pleasure of meeting the emergency will continue and the fund be author of The House of Exile and needed whenever and whatever the de­ Reaching for the Stars as a Kappa sister. CISIOn. But Nora Waln was not forgotten, At first it was thought to make this this Kappa who has sinee the first of only a convention action. But the idea is the year sheltered some Czech refugee appealing and sentiment favors a contin­ children in her own home. uation of the fund. Those who wish to So the fund was proposed in a special contribute may send their checks to the resolution at the opening session, with editor of THE KEY, until further notice. Meanwhile the following are those who have already given to establish the fund: Kappa Kappa Gamma, $200; Lyndall Finley Wortham, $100; Chicago Intercollegiate, $50; Gamma province, $29.60; Ida Bonnell Ot­ stottj $25; a Friend at Sun Valley, $25; Delta province, $25; Rosalie Geer Parker, $25; Connecticut alumnz, per anet Berotb, $25; Beta table at the Sweetheart dinner, $18; Delta Eta actives and alumnz, $16; E_psilon province1 $12; Zeta province, $11; Mrs. Walter Ramage, of Hollywood, convention guest, $10; Mary Patton von Fruntbaler~_$10; Georgine Morgan, $10 ; Helen Steinmetz, $10 ; Winter Park alumnz , $10; North Shore alumnz, $10; .Marie Bryden Macnaugbtan, $10; Clara 0. Pierce, $5.90; Elizabeth Bogert Schofi eld Marion Snyder, Margaret Read, Florence Burton Roth, Joanne Forbes (per Claire Drew Forbes) , Delta Beta, Elizabeth Voris Lawry, Dorothy MacDonald, Marian S. Handy, Rheva Ott Shryock, Lois L ake Sha!ard, Almira Johnson McNaboel Helen \Voodricb, $5 each and two anonymous gifts of $5 e":ch; Three Friends, 3 and an anonymous gift of $J; Barbara Cosier Beta Upsilon, $2, and an anonymous gift of $2 ; P auhne rouse Ba rnett, Letla Anderson, Esther Moore Payne, Dorothy Clement, Leonard Hardin Janvier, Eli ~a beth Ball ard Dupuis, Josephine Sadler Simpson, Miriam Locke, Nancy R. M)ller. $1 each and an anonymous g1ft of 50 ce nt ~ . In addition are the following pledges: St. Louis alumn:e association, $100; Kansas Ctty alumnz , $1 00; Indianapolis alumnae, $50 and New York alumnz, $25. 303 Magazine Agency Winners Give Subscriptions for Cbrist1nas Gifts

ROM $3 to $195 jumped the sales of increased the sales from $8 to $300 for the Kappa magazine agency in Fort the last year. FWorth for the last year under the Both winners have done a splendid guidance of Mrs. J. B. Craddock (Sarah piece of work and have demonstrated C. Carnrike, B S), which gave them first what results can be obtained by system­ place in amount of sales per capita and atized work. an award of $25. Following are shown those alumn

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By ANN ScoTT WILSON (MRs. D ALE), B N-Ohio State

HE MOST challenging skeleton in France, tolerant and free country of my family closet today is Cousin yesterday, will follow the same wretched T Hattie. road. French women, like German and During the gas-light era, when Italian, will no longer be permitted the "Twenty-three, skidoo!" was daring re­ "nonsense" of higher education; inevita­ partee and the first bicycle girl in a bly careers in industry, business and the bloomer suit outraged the entire com­ arts will be closed to them. munity, Cousin Hattie became a suffra­ But here, in America, fortunate wom­ gette. Deaf to the tearful pleas of her en that we are, we possess the proud female relations and unflinching even heritage which Cousin Hattie and the under the stern reproof of Great-uncle thousands of other courageous women Phineas, her Victorian papa, Cousin won for us, the right of franchise. Yet, Hattie marched in parades, orated from sad to relate, in the last presidential park benches and as a final testimony of election, 15,000,000 women failed to go her zeal for the cause, hurled the brick to the polls. Undoubtedly many thou­ which would have earned her glorious sands of that number were not even martyrdom, and a jail sentence, had not registered. Faced with those facts, have Great-uncle Phineas been a close friend we as women lived up to the responsi­ of the judge. bilities placed upon us by the Nineteenth Then, August 26, 1920, Congress Amendment? Have we played fair with adopted the Nineteenth Amendment. Cousin Hattie? Women had won the right to vote. The November fifth of this year American dream for which Cousin Hattie and her women will have their fifth opportunity pioneer sisters in the suffrage movement to cast a ballot. had struggled so valiantly had come true Between now and then, let us resolve at last. Happily, confidently, they turned to study issues, party platforms and over their heritage to us, the women of candidates. Let us throw off the danger­ America. Now, 20 years later, we ask: ous indifference, the demoralizing lassi­ have we let Cousin Hattie down? tude that kept 15 ,000,000 of us away Today women the world over are fac­ from the polls in 1936. Let us devote the ing the gravest crisis they have faced same enthusiasm and intelligence to poli­ since humanity emerged from the cave. tics that we have long exercised in the Nation after nation, falling victim to cultural arts and in social service. totalitarianism, has sent its women back It is particularly the duty of college to the harem. graduates, and members of a fraternity Hitler and Mussolini look on women which has ever been in the vanguard of as useful chattels, breeders of soldiers women's rights, to lead the way to the and keepers of kitchens. Their mouth­ polls. ings about "the true glory of woman­ In a dark world, we stand at the last hood" are so much eyewash, designed lighted window. It is up to us, as wom­ to blind the world to the utter degrada­ en, to keep the lamp filled, the wick tion of the women of Germany and trimmed and the chimney clean, so that Italy. the clear white flame of democracy will Now comes the announcement that continue to burn brightly. 305 306 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma ~~+tpte .ui cn-ts "t /!Jah'! Chaplet ::J:Jefe'Jale (Contimted from page 291) its utmost to entertain us. works the program was concluded with The Fourth of July evening was quite a lighted frame in the form of a Kappa exciting. After a large display of fire- key. This indeed was a glowing climax.

tml~ · the eijtbl fut•t•s on thi>~ iltHI the f"llowin~ I"!WS (•luSf'l~· . S for logdhf'r tlll'y for-111 t1. nHt~uifict·nl ("'JnllJJ<'ltl on l '. S. l.'h·i. li.. ..u liuu. Ht·rr is n t) J>C t•f womanhoc1'"1 that ni~t ... in tlv uUIC'r coun lr ~-. 1\nh• that llwy nn• ttll intli~Jmt:ti,J,\· lot•aJthy. all hM•c tlu.: :ooa tu l'" wholt'M.HliC)\t~nlit:r. nll .'llm.rc· tlw MHIW t.'U~t·r unimution. 'J'Iu•uAh tlwy muy IIr tllt\11'1.' hw,.fiUinh. These «>ight w{·n.· chosen frc.m I.L hun•ln;'fJ ('lt:<'l t>d h\' a hum)N'd different (,_'O ik ~('b ih t~ \'f"ry raurl llf lht t 'C.UIIt r y. Fin~lly :at Knox Collcw.. ·, Gal~..>sJ,ur~. Ill., duriug tht pn·mi~n· ur l'nnunounl's f }w...e w,.,(" Tlw VlJ!Jtt (.tt (,',tnt/ Old 'iva.oth ), VJJ(' \\a.'\ pickt'd 1\S t.he AII-Amt rit-::tl\ College Ctirl. Wimwr un tl1e ha6i" of ('barm. pt'r!fQnality nnd ~('ll("r-.t.l atlracliwm·~" wns MStrv l.ou Dullard (abocc),wbo will gt• ta l~ip to H1Aiyw()Olj aud a !K!~ n test in July.

LIFE looks at Mary Lou Bullard; Mary Lou Bullard, B T-West Vir­ ginia, lo.oks at life. "Typical College Girl" of 1940 Is a Kappa

OURTEEN contestants, out of the 100 Mary Lou and her mother, Mrs. A. mentioned by Life, accompanied by . H. Bullard, had a three and a half Fchaperons and the editors of the 14 weeks' trip to Hollywood last July as the college papers, rallied on the Knox cam­ guests of Paramount. They saw Holly­ pus, May 21, 1940, for Paramount to wood from the Bowl to the Brown pick the girl whose personality-looks, Derby. Mary Lou had a date with manner, intelligence and charm-best Jackie Cooper at the Victor Hugo and typified in one individual the American was photographed by Paul Hesse as a college girl of today. "Chesterfield Girl." Paramount picked Kappa's Mary Lee But the people at Paramount are Bullard. probably still talking about her because The occasion also marked the pre­ she didn't take the screen test which was miere of "Those Were the Days," a part of her award. Mary Lou said she period college comedy based on the Si­ hadn't ever had an ambition to be a wash stories written by George Fitch, a motion picture star, and thought both graduate of Knox college. Some of the she and Paramount would be wasting scenes were filmed on the Knox campus. their time having the test made. She and The college cooperated with the motion her mother had a chance to go to Cata­ picture company when the film was lina the day the test was scheduled, and made. Final verdict: "not at all a slap­ Catalina won. stick college comedy." +++

This picture didn't arrive in time to go with its story in the April KEY. But it's never too late to enjoy this N.B.C. photograph of Margaret Speaks, B N-Ohio State, fa­ vorite concert and radio so­ prano, wearing the blue satin gown designed and made for her by Catherine Garritson, B P~-Cincinnati. April KEY readers will recall that the shade of blue is that of the Blue Room in the White House, where Margaret was invited to sing two winters ago.

307 Second Housemothers' School at Purdue

In the front row, from the left, Esther Schlundt, a-Missouri, vice-president of Delta province; Mrs. Lena McDougle (Gamma Delta's beloved "Mrs. Mac"); Sarah G. Blanding, B X-Kentucky, dean of women at the University of Kentucky and president of the National Association of Deans of Women; Mrs. Charles Howe, housemother for n-University of Kansas. Second row: Jeanette Scudder, r Ll, new dean of women at the University of Arkansas; Mrs. Axel Halverson, housemother forB p:O-Cincinnati; Mrs. E. A. Loop, housemother for B a-Oklahoma. Top row: Peggy Hamilton, r Ll, head resident of the women's residence hall at Purdue; Mrs. Mary A. Keusel, housemother for E-Illinois Wesleyan; Georgia Carroll, r Ll, undergraduate staff member at women's residence hall, Purdue; Lucile Dunbar Cowing (Mrs. Fordyce W.), r P-Allegheny, of Rochester, New York; Mrs. William Gemmill, housemother for T-Northwestern; Mrs. Thomas Bryson, housemother forB T-Syracuse; and Mrs. Laile C. Jarvis, housemother for r B-New Mexico.

Graduate Counselor Attention, Alumnae Chosen to be Following the graduate counselor resignation of Vir­ for Kappa's pros­ ginia Taylor Myers, pective baby chap­ the new alumnre ter, Delta Lambda, editor of THE at Miami univer­ KEY will be Mil­ sity, Oxford, Ohio, dred Armstrong, !E:­ is Rebecca Gallo­ Adrian, who rep­ way, r n-Denison, resented the Adrian a native of Cedar­ alumnre at conven­ ville, Ohio, and a tion. graduate of Deni­ Mildred was son's 1940 class. born in Adrian and On campus she was graduated was vice-presi­ from Adrian col­ dent of the lege, taking her Y. W.C.A., fresh- master's at the Uni­ Rebecca Galloway map Y.W.C.A. ad­ versity of Michi- viser, student head gan. She has also Mildred Armstrong of archery, treas­ had some advanced urer of the Women's Athletic association, work at Columbia. She teaches English in the sophomore representative for Women's Stu­ Adrian high school and has charge of the dent Government association, secretary and school paper. treasurer of Ll 0 and for three years a member Alumnre correspondents will please send of the yearbook staff. their KEY letters, the next one of which is Academic honors include Crossed Keys, jun­ due to be mailed October 15, to Mildred ior women's honorary; Ll 0 , national music Armstrong, 334 Merrick street, Adrian, honorary, senior adviser of freshman women. Michigan. 308 MARCIA GwiNN, B K-ldaho, JOE ANN RAGSDALE, t::. I voted "typical coed" of five -Louisiana State, has a colleges in the northwest, 2.0 average as the only also "Sweetheart of igma girl in the engineering Chi" .on the Idaho campus. college at L.S.U. Beta Nu-Ohio State coolly wins itself a private skating rink, fea­ turing CAROL DUNNING, by flood- ing its back yard.

RuTH PATTERSON, r Z--Arizona, annual desert dance beauty queen. BETTY MooRE, r e -Drake, Quax (yearbook) beauty, named "Miss Drake 1940" by Earl Carroll.

BARBARA RAMSDELL, B B~-St. Lawrence, was last year's winter carnival queen, with John Good­ rich as king. Barbara was vice· president of the senior class; mem· her of W.S.G.A., Campus council, Varsity council, Literature club and choir. . SALLY RousE I' queenwas Inks I"mgers' ' O-Whall yobmmg, . ' another E I eauty . choice. ar Carroll //!!_.c._. c:Affan tc-/!..etize a,s. /)zincirf c-t /!Uzfl._ )azf!e,s.l c£c£c-f!f ic-z C)izf._

By HALLY PRENTIS NELSON (MRs. WILLIAM PIERREPONT, JR.), -0-M.issouri

VELYN WIGHT ALLAN, a name to So, before her name passes into legend, conjure with in the ranks of Kap­ a group of her colleagues and friends E pa Kappa Gamma since 1890, are attempting to crystallize a fraction when Lucy Evelyn Wight, then a stu­ of its strength and beauty into a biogra­ dent in St. Lawrence university and a phy to be published shortly after her delegate to the fifth national convention, retirement from the principalship of was elected grand president. Girls Commercial high school of Brook­ The brief though understanding pages lyn, in February 1941. In the months to written by Minnie Royse Walker in come we hope that many of you will be Kappa's history only hint at its magic. reading the life story of Evelyn Wight We find its flashes here and there in the Allan, compiled by those who have inception of Panhellenic (she was its worked with her, and edited by Cather­ first president), in the chapter histories ine McGinn, with a foreword by Lou of Beta Beta, Beta Epsilon, Beta Eta Henry Hoover, B H-Stanford. and Beta Sigma; in the beginnings of After her graduation from St. Law­ the New York alumnce, in the campaign rence and three years spent in finding to revivify Alpha chapter, in the famous herself at school-teaching in New Je r­ houseparty for five of Kappa's grand sey, we find her adventuring to the presidents ; in the ringing words which Pacific coast to experience a year of ad­ presented her political philosophy to the vanced study and fresh contacts at that convention of 1938. newest of new universities, Leland But it burns at its brightest in the Stanford. hearts of those sisters who have worked It is no surprise that back in the east, beside her both in and out of the fra­ in the late '90s, she was teaching in a ternity, and its record shines in living school of a daringly novel type-the characters through the lives of count­ Manual Training high school of Brook­ less students she has influenced for lyn. One of her pupils of those days Kappa. (incidentally, she was later a Kappa at However, her activities as a Kappa Cornell) writes, "I know I looked up to and as a Greek-letter woman form mere­ her as I have never done to any other ly one segment of a distinguished career. woman, outgoing to those of us who An astute admirer of hers once observed were so much younger. The thing which that she always "thought like a man, but impressed me most was her willingness she felt like a woman." Her instinct for to talk about everything and anything friendliness combined with a genius for with a Regents' exam ahead ! Progres­ organization (if this indeed be a mascu­ sive education had not been heard of at line prerogative) shape a life-pattern that time." which assumes the proportions of a saga of American womanhood during the SO ROM Manual Training, again she was years from 1890 to 1940, rather than Fcalled to a radically new post, "to the story of one woman. create the post" of dean of women at The record is that of a pioneer in Leland Stanford. Here she helped to many fields which stretch from coast to build upon firm foundations enduring coast, with contacts around the world. standards for co-education not only for 309 310 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Stanford but for our American univer­ the girl to be self-supporting, she quali­ sities at large; she established proper fied for teaching salesmanship and in­ living conditions for women on the cam­ troduced the course in Julia Richman pus and enlightened social concepts for high school, New York city. In 1920 both sexes. she became the principal of the first But the World War, as she expresses commercial high school for girls in New it, "put ideas into my head about war York city, which began as a small, ex­ work for women." Social studies in the perimental group. Eventually, Girls Elgin and Goodyear plants, a survey of Commercial high school of Brooklyn housing for women and the standardiza­ became the largest school for girls in the tion of a day's work in the aeroplane in­ world, at one time enrolling nearly dustry were some of the tasks she tack­ 10,000 students. Today it offers two led. She learned at first-hand what a comprehensive commercial courses and department store demanded of its wom­ three practical art courses, as well as en employees by grueling summer weeks preparing a smaller group for college in the basement of R. H. Macy's. She or for nurses' training. But, emeJ;"ged from the war years studying "It is not growing like a tree at the Prince School for Store Service, In bulk, that makes man hetter be" . . . a new field which Simmons college had entered, and then joined the personnel nor an institution. department at Lord and Taylor's in New York. RS. ALLAN, the woman who feels Convinced by this time that the high M like a woman, has never submerged school must more adequately prepare the woman in the executive. She has

With an enrollment larger than that of many small colleges, the Girls Commercial high schoo~ of Brooklyn is a huge structure, its main building pictured here with the Brooklyn botarucal gardens in the foreground. From this school Evelyn Wight Allan, Kappa's fourth grand president, is to retire as principal next February. Mrs. Allan to Retire as Principal 311

Since informal photographs ar·e often the best, here is an excellent likeness of Mrs. Allan, with her adopted daughter, Lou Weston Allan, in the garden of her country home in Connecticut. made space through the most crowded of Brooklyn. With the help of devoted years to do some teaching herself. From friends she has developed a lovely gar­ time to time she has taught classes in den setting for her charming country English and in human relations, that she home, an old farmhouse in Connecticut. might know her girls and their needs at Her adopted daughter, Lou Weston Al­ first hand. Herself acquainted with lan, is an ever-growing 'interest. grief, she has read the hearts of those About so glowing a personality, anec­ with whom she worked, and interpreted dotes are sure to cluster. A typical one in human terms their tragedies and their is of an elderly and shrewd politician joys. To her faculty, her greatest who had known her since childhood, and achievement, unquestionably, has been who once remarked to her, "The most to humanize the enormous organization astonishing thing about you, Evelyn, is over which she presides. that you have got so far with nothing This tremendously engrossing labor but your qualifications to recommend has not crowded out of her life an in­ you!" finity of other activities and interests. Prominent among these has been her NOTHER that gives the very essence position as commissioner of the Girl A of Evelyn Wight Allan is a story Scouts of America for Brooklyn. For she loves to tell of herself. Late one many years she has been a trustee of the afternoon, as she was about to leave her distinguished Church of Our Saviour (Conti111 ~e d Otl page 322) "Mother's Room," where RICHARD HE RY LEE, FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE and RoBERT E. LEE were born. By HELEN KNox, B 3-Texas

HISTORIAN of one of the Ameri­ outstanding example of the different in­ can Colonies paid this tribute to struments women are using today in A women: their active support of the "cause of "The patriotism of the women of this liberty." region deserves a perpetual record. It About 10 years ago, at the suggestion was their heroic conduct that inspired their husbands and sons in the cause of liberty. They urged the men to leave home, and to prefer to die than be slaves; while they stayed at home and worked with their own hands at the plow and the hoe, by day, to provide sustenance for their families, and at night with the spinning-wheel and loom made the clothing." Approximately 175 years after this colonial record was established, women of this country are keenly aware that the "cause of liberty" is still vitally ~n need of their "heroic" support. The restoration of Stratford Hall, Westmoreland county, Virginia, ances­ tral home of the Lee family, serves as an

Helen Knox, B Z-Texas, manager of the women's department, Chase Na­ tional bank, Grand Central branch, New York City, is treasurer and chairman of the finance committee of the Robert E. Lee Memorial foundation and a member of the Stratford fund, employ­ ment and management, constitution and by-laws and library committees of the foundation. In New York she is finance adviser for the Kappa Alumnre associa­ tion. Other Kappas on the board of direc­ G. M aillard Kesslere tors of the Robert E. Lee Memorial foundation are . Elizabeth Finnigan Helen Knox, B Z-Texas Fain (Mrs. 'William H.), BE-Barnard, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Frances Prather Davis (Mrs. ]. Lee), B Z­ of Miss Ethel Armes, a small group of Texas, of Waco, Texas, who is also a women under the leadership of Mrs. member of Beta Xi's alumnre board. Charles D. Lanier, Greenwich, Connec­ ticut, as president, organized the Robert 313 314 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

ture of the American colonies and that from a patriotic, educational and eco­ nomic point of view, it should be pre­ served as a symbol of the "cause of liberty." It is emphasized today by patriotic citizens that this generation needs to contemplate daily and hourly the princi­ ples on which this country was founded, the same ideas of government and life for which the Lees of Stratford fought. These are some of them : Peaceful Expansion: Foreseeing a great English-speaking America, Thomas Lee, builder of Stratford, planned and was chief negotiator of the purchase of the Ohio valley from the Iroquois through the Treaty of Lan­ caster, Pennsylvania, June 1744. No Taxation Without Representa­ tion: At Leedstown in 1766, and at Montross, Virginia, in 1774, the patriot sons of Thomas Lee led the men of Westmoreland county in solemn com-

Thomas F. S co tt A corner of the great hall at Stratford, showing the Hitchcock spinet and a slen­ der, 18th century harp. The great hall con- tains its original paneling.

E. Lee Memorial foundation for the purchase and restoration of Stratford as a national shrine for the benefit and en­ joyment of the American people. Thou­ sands of men and women have respond­ ed to the appeal for assistance that has been broadcast through the committees of the foundation in 32 states, the Dis­ trict of Columbia and Hawaii. Many Frances Prather Davis (Mrs. J. Lee), B :=:­ national organizations have endorsed Texas, director for Texas, Robert E. Lee Memorial foundation and member of its this work in the realization that Strat­ arrangements, Negro quarters and house- ford is representative of the highest cui- hold equipment committees. Lee Memorial Is Restored Mansion 315

pact against the Stamp Act. Richard ty's Council and commander-in-chief of Henry Lee drew up both documents. ~he C:olony and Dominion of Virginia, it Government by Consent of the Gov­ IS satd. that he could see his ships ap­ erned: On that phrase the colonies sev­ proachmg from England on the mile­ ered the tie with England on a resolu­ away Potomac from the twin sets of tion offered by Richard Henry Lee in four great chimney stacks. general congress assembled on July 2, The H -shaped mansion is flanked by 1776, as follows: four dependencies, and the geometric "That these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independ­ ent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee were the only brothers in the list of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Equality of Property Rights and In­ dividual Freedom: Richard Henry Lee was one of the two men who drew up a liberal government for the Northwest Territory, discarding entail, and setting up most of the safeguards of the Bill of Rights of 1787. Human Riqhts: Great was the contri­ bution of Richard Henry Lee to the Constitution through his insistence on its first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing free speech, press, assembly and other liberties. Light­ horse Harry Lee led the fight for ratifi­ cation of the Constitution in the Vir­ ginia assembly. Elizabeth Finnigan Fain (Mrs. William This unparalleled family tradition of H.), B E-Barnard, in her student days. principle flowered in Robert E. Lee, mil­ Mrs. Fain is chairman of the fine arts and program committees, Robert E. Lee itary genius of the War between the Memorial foundation, and member of its States, president of Washington college Stratford fund, house furnishing and re- (now Washington and Lee university), search and education committees. in time of peace. gardens and long vistas were all part of T IS NOT surprising that· men of such a single concept, impressive and austere. I strength of mind and action should It is of special interest today to re­ build their home in a grand manner. call that Queen Caroline, England's re­ Stratford is frequently referred to as a gent in 1729, gave 300£ to Thomas Lee, great baronial house. Made of brick who according to tradition used it burned on the place, it was under con­ toward the building of Stratford. It was struction at least five years and was bounty for a loss that Thomas Lee suf­ probably not completed until about 1729. fered as her magistrate; a prisoner he It stands today as one of the two or had sentenced escaped and burned his three fine examples of its period left in home. One of our ambassadors to Great America. It marks the transition from Britain, familiar with the story, pre­ Jacobean to Georgian architecture. Built sented a contemporary portrait of Queen by Thomas Lee, president of His Majes- Caroline to Stratford. 316 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

The restoration of Stratford has com­ last spring, after a lapse of more than manded the interest and study of men 100 years. and women in all walks of life and in many professional fields. The American HE RESTORATION of Stratford in­ Institute of Architects, in an early en­ T cludes the active revival of the arts dorsement of the foundation, character­ and crafts of a colonial plantation, as ized Stratford as "of prime architec­ well as the curing of hams, and the tural importance." usual farm operations, with the livestock The furnishing of Stratford has ab­ necessary to such an enterprise. The sorbed the committee responsible for estate comprises 1,100 acres of meadow this department, as well as research stu­ and timber land, stretching for two dents and authorities who have been miles along the Potomac. This is the working with the committee for the past only example of a self-contained colonial 10 years. From the use of inventories of plantation that exists today. The old mill 1758 and 1776, as well as documentary now grinding meal and buckwheat flour evidence obtained from a wide variety by water brings to life again the Strat­ of sources in this country and England, ford landing, where in 1781 three Brit­ a plan has been developed which will, ish men-of-war attacked the narrow when completed, furnish authentic roadbed at the landing, which served as examples of designs in use throughout the connecting link between the river the 18th century. The "Mother's room," and the King's highway. however, has been furnished as it may The foundation has received as a have been at the birth of General Robert donation a collection of books and docu­ E. Lee in this room in 1807. Visitors to ments relating to Virginia, colonial and Stratford seem as keenly interested in revolutionary subjects, which will short­ the furnishings as in the buildings and ly be catalogued and opened to research gardens. students. · It is believed that this collec­ Exhaustive research also preceded the tion is more complete than other similar restoration of the 18th century gardens collections which are housed under one at Stratford. Through excavations, it roof. has been possible to reestablish the three The possibilities offered at Stratford formal terraces terminating in a "Ha­ determine the size of the job. Much Ha wall," according to the original plan. progress has been made, much remains The English box borders have been re­ to be accomplished. The foundation is planted, as also the pomegranates, figs , ready for the task, but welcomes the lilacs and crepe myrtle trees. A colonial whole-hearted cooperation of its friends rose garden bloomed for the first time throughout the country.

A gift of $25,000 was made last April King Wiltsee Professorship of Music, to Denison university by Percy L. Wilt­ in recognition of his late wife's interest see, of Cincinnati, in memory of his in music. Mrs. Wiltsee was a vocalist, wife, Jessie King Wiltsee, r n-Deni­ active in music club work. She was a son. Mr. Wiltsee, a member of the uni­ founder of the local which became Gam­ versity board of trustees, designated the ma Omega chapter. fund for the establishment of the ] essie ~e.turned for Beta Alpha's 50th anniversary last March were two of the chapter's three hvmg founders: Josephine Feger Ancona, first initiate, left, and Jessie Lippincott Colson, shown chatting with another alumna.

B·y J ANE BENNETT , B A-Pennsylvania

T ALL started 'way back in 1890 on a and the wisdom in those eyes, we young cold raw day in March. Six very de· members knew somehow the real, the I termined young ladies had gathered deeper, the ultimate meaning of what together for the first time as Beta Alpha Kappa really is. And I think we were a chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. little envious of the experience and the T hat was SO years ago. But to Lois charm that those SO years had added to Macy Otis, Jessie Lippincott Colson and those three very wonderful ladies who Josephine Feger Ancona it didn't seem were guests of honor at Beta Alpha's so long. Their eyes-and their hearts- golden anniversary celebration. were fi lled with the memories of those March 20, 1890, five girls were ini­ years back in college and all the inter- tiated into Beta Alpha chapter. Fifty vening years, such full ones that had years later, in the banquet hall of the piled up ever since. Seeing the dreams Barclay hotel in Philadelphia, IS more 317 318 THE KEY of Kap2a Kappa Gamma anxious and excited girls were added to relived, and the "ancients" became as the long roll of Beta Alpha members. It excited as they had been at their first was the never-to-be-forgotten occasion party. of the traditional initiation and banquet The 16th of March (the day of our of the Beta Alphas. celebration) was cold and rainy-and Weeks before, there had been meet­ the rain turned to slushy, messy snow. ings in the middle bedroom on the third (Philadelphia is like that at the slightest floor of the Kappa house at 3323 Wal­ opportunity.) But that didn't bother nut. The famous "Summons," looking anyone! Skidding cars and icy walks for all the world like an actual legal were just "one of those things," and the order to appear in court, but which was Kappas gathered from the four distant a veiled announcement of the celebra­ corners of the city, and from miles be­ tion, was sent to every Kappa within yond, to sit happily and reverently in walking, driving, hitchhiking or bicy­ the quiet and darkness of the great hall cling distance. Alumnre turned gray, yet as one by one the neophytes were paradoxically, grew younger every day! brought forward and initiated. Once As plans materialized the old days were again they heard the secret mysteries

Memories of Beta Alpha's exhibit at the 1936 convention were revived when the display of dolls again appeared for the golden jubilee. Almira Johnson McNaboe (Mrs. James F.), H-Wisconsin, grand vice-president and one of the honored guests, left, holds one of the dolls which is being admired by Rheva Ott Shryock (Mrs. Richard H.), B A­ Pennsylvania, grand president, and Mary Fay, B A, who made the dolls. Fourth from the left is Blanche Failor, B A president, being amused by the comment of Frances Merritt Seil (Mrs. Gilbert), r E-Pittsburgh, president of the Philadelphia alumn

Chances of coming back for Beta Alpha's lOOth anniversary ought to be pretty good for these girls, who were the 50th anniversary initiates of the chapter. Standing in the back row are, left and right, Marjorie Pennell and Betty Jane White. Seated in the center, from the left, are Aimee Hollingsworth, Anne Webb, Elizabeth Rogers, Barbara Staehling, Roma Mead, Carol Laing, Aileen Collison and Sally Brannon. Seated on the floor, left and right, are Joan Bradford and Barbara Bennett. that had been given them to know years our guess is that our descendants will ago. Once again they partook of the joy say the same things about us), plaques, that can come oniy when the circle opens scrapbooks, rewards, memories of con­ to admit new Kappas. There were smiles ventions, of house parties, of dances, of that day, remembering smiles that con­ rushing and of other initiations. They jured up faces and voices out of the were all there to handle lovingly, some­ past; there were tears too, happy tears times laughingly. that somehow just would not stay down ; We had honored guests, too. Of and there was happiness, the deep, last­ course, there was dear Miss Lois Otis, ing happiness of a Kappa wish fulfilled. the member of Psi chapter at Cornell But it wasn't all serious and solemn. who was honorably dismissed in order The welcome that followed was gay and to found Beta Alpha chapter and be­ full of laughter. Before the fire in the come one of its first members; there was cozy reception room were displayed Josephine Feger Ancona, Beta Alpha' Kappa memorabilia that reached 'way, first initiate; and Jessie Lippincott Col­ 'way back into the first dim days of the son, one of the founders, who gave us fraternity at Pennsylvania. Pictures a memorable account of her colleg-e days (they looked so funny in those days, but of the gay '90s; there was our own 320 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Rheva Ott Shryock, grand president of address, and we settled down ·knowing Kappa Kappa Gamma, and a Beta Al­ this was the only place in the world for pha, who was toastmistress; and Mrs. us to be. Hildegard Rodman Campbell, James McNaboe, grand vice-president B A, had written us a special golden of Kappa Kappa Gamma, who came all jubilee song, and we did · ourselves the way from New York to beam upon proud singing it! The initiates sang their us and make us all feel aglow inside. own original song. Awards were given, There were pictures to be taken, pic­ and Doris Schaeffer won the hop ring tures of those special guests and digni­ for the greatest improvement in scholar­ taries and of the initiates; something to ship; Candis Ginn won the plaque for preserve those golden hours. the highest pledge average (Straight And dear Miss Otis, smiling and A ! ) , and Josephine Caldwell won the beaming over being so happy to be there ring for the highest scholarship of the and yet being so very, very firm about actives. The "Guilty Roll" was called, declining to have her picture taken­ and all those married or engaged since "Because, this is a secret society !" But last initiation banquet answered "Guil­ we don't need pictures to remember our ty" and were properly sung to. Alida founder! Ott Prigge and Ruth Doerr, both tal­ Anq there were the many telegrams, ented Beta Alphas, sang for us amid letters and greetings from absent Beta much applause. Alphas; from the grand council mem­ The "March of Time" took us· bers who could not be present; from the through "The Ancient of Days, March province officers who were unable to at­ 20th, 1890" with Lois M. Otis; "The tend; from some of the other chapters Gay Nineties," with Jessie L. Colson; in the province; and from the four cor­ "The Turn of the Century," with Jose­ ners of the country we had words of phine Reed Hopwood; "The Dangerous greeting ! Beta Alpha's other grand pres­ Teens," with Sue Dorothy Keeney;· ident, Mary Griffith Canby, sent us a "The Worrying War Years," Mary A. letter of greeting from Oregon; Mrs. Hipple; "The Roaring Twenties," Cross penned her letter in Kentucky Margah Toogood Flood; "The Terrible and Mrs. MacArthur's letter was post­ Thirties," Edna Lockhart Astley, and marked Alberta, Canada; Mary Scatter­ on into a "Glimpse into the Future," good took time to mail us a word of with Blanche Failor, president of the ac­ greeting from Cape Cod and Mrs. Fels tive chapter. sent one of her own books to represent Then, as if memories and speeches her! and mental visions were not enough, The banquet beggared description. the whole history was reenacted for us We know that it was the most sumptu­ as Kappas from the past stepped out of ous spread that ever greeted our eyes, or a picture frame into our midst, and we our stomachs ; we know that we did so realized that all those 50 years were not much singing we barely had time to bolt over. They are really still with us, a those delicacies; we know that it was firm foundation on which we are stand­ just perfect for all 250 of us, but we ing, looking ahead, 'way ahead into the were too excited to realize it wasn't all far, far future. vVe are visioning won­ a beautiful dream. derful things and we will tell you about Frances Merritt Seil, Philadelphia them when they all come true as the alumnce association president, and a years go by! Gamma Epsilon, gave the welcoming Current Events of 1870

By BETTY DouGHERTY DILWORTH (MRs. DAVID, JR.), B T-Syracuse

Finally in 1870, the emperor was per­ EDITOR's NOTE: As far as its presenta­ suaded to rush into war with Germany tion is concerned, Mrs. Dilworth's arti­ without due reason or preparation. cle appears in THE KEY a year late, Within six weeks terrible battles spread since she gave this historical review for the 1939 Founders' Day meeting of the ruin and sorrow over the beautiful Syracuse alumnre association. But Oc­ borderlands of the two countries, and at tober is the month of Kappa's birthday, Sedan, Napoleon III surrendered to the and current events of 1940 unfortu­ victorious Germans. nately continue to make the compari­ son of Europe at war in 1870 as timely A republic was again proclaimed in as it was a year ago, when the present France. When this bitter news reached war was a month, instead of a month Paris, the new government insisted on and a year old. We have taken the going on with the war. Paris was be­ liberty of substituting 70 for 69 in the text as the number of years since 1870, sieged for four months and it was there to bring the article up to ,date. in the Palace of Versailles in the great Hall of Mirrors that the German king, the King of Prussia, William I, was I GHTEEN-SEVENTY! What does that proclaimed German emperor. How date mean to us? As Kappas, we strange that such an event should take E remember and honor the six place in the palace of Louis XIV, the young girls at Monmouth who banded very spot where so many plots had been together and laid the foundation for hatched against Germany ! All this took what we so proudly call our sisterhood. place in 1870-now 70 years ago. As we remember this happy beginning Trouble was also brewing in Italy. of Kappas, let us also recall other new Until the war between France and Ger­ ventures, the actual history-making of many, Italy had been composed of dif­ the world in that same year of 1870. ferent states. Under the leadership of It was this year which saw the returns Mazzini and Garibaldi, the regeneration of the labors of such women as Lucretia of Italy was accomplished and the Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Martha soldiers of Victor Emanuel filled the Wright, for it was the year which en­ Papal supremacy. closed the day when the Fifteenth Here in America we were just recov­ Amendment was declared incorporated ering from war; the turn of the decade into the Constitution, a day ever to be saw the last of the states p~y homage to remembered by the friends of human the institution which gave them strength rights. and vitality. The broken links were all As today we find Europe amid the rewelded. turmoil of battle, so in review do we Ulysses S. Grant was President. The find the Europe of 1870. France was at bills for the admission of Virginia, war with Prussia. During the 60 years Mississippi and Texas were passed by following the downfall of Napoleon, Congress. France had experienced many changes It was the day of tight corsets, the of government, three kings, a republic forerunner of the 1940 scissor silhouette, with a president, an empire in which the as the "ads" call it. The Syracuse Daily president became emperor, and then Standard of 1870 tells the sad tale of again a republic. The president-emporer Susie Ricketts. "This young lady," it was the nephew of the great Napoleon says, "dropped dead in a ball room in and was called Napoleon III. Four times Springfield, Ohio, one night recently, revolution broke out. from the effects of tight lacing." 321 322 TnE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Another notice in the same paper concert by taking the horses from Miss says-"The Erie Railroad Company has Nillson's carriage, and putting them­ completed two of 20 sleeping cars of the selves in the traces, they thus drew her palace order, which are to run between to her hotel." New York and western cities. These Thus, looking back the space of 70 cars are elegantly furnished." years, we find that those six girls who Another item-"The present Yale col­ had a fraternal organization at Mon­ lege crew have individually sworn to mouth, Illinois, faced seemingly unsur­ pull no oar again with Harvard. Other mountable obstacles and were constantly crews in the college have signified their confronted with the trials and tribula­ intention to do the same. In this action, tions resulting from a world of turmoil the whole college sustains the crews and and erratic confusion. Their persever­ respectable people who desire to see the ance, their faithful belief in the prin­ end of the disgraceful gambling and ciples upon which they founded their betting performance say-Amen." vision for this organization, definitely The Syracuse Daily Standard ran the have proven to be faultless and the ad- result is our beloved sisterhood of Kappa. This is no Humbug! By spending 35 cents with age, weight, Each year, each decade since its color of eyes and hair, you will receive by founding has brought times of depres­ return mail, a correct picture of your future sion as well as periods of plenty; has husband or wife with name and date of brought periods of change and numer­ marriage. W. Fox ous other conditions which have made it necessary for our organization to Post Office, Drawer number 24, Fulton­ ville, New York. adapt and reacclimate itself, yet it has grown stronger and stronger through Yes, the younger generation was these 70 years. "going to the dogs" even then, for as the The greatest tribute which we can New York Tribune says, "A number of show our founders lies in our making silly young New Yorkers made asses of every effort to continue its constructive themselves at the close of the Nillson progress.

A1r-~ . c:A.L!en L" IZ.elite (Continued from page 311) office, a husky policeman appeared in the Soon they will call her "retired," but doorway. He asked pardon for intrud­ at this present writing she is American ing, but said he had noticed her name Red Cross collector for her district and on a bulletin-board, and that he just had is chairman of the board of directors of to come in to see if this could be his a club for old ladies, organized and run Mrs. Allan. She says some gracious like a sorority house, a most interesting spirit inspired her lips, and she was able experiment. In 1941 she leaves us to to greet by name the grubby little boy make her permanent home on her farm she had known some 20 years before. near Danbury, Connecticut. But we "And, do you know, ma'am, when that know that somehow or other things will book came out everybody was talking continue to happen to her and around about, If Winter Comes, I knew just her. where the title came from, and why. Do It is difficult for one who has known you remember reading it to us?" her so long and found her so true to Shelley and the cop on the corner! write of her objectively. So do read the Perhaps it is as good an epitome of her biography from the pen of an abler life as any. scribe than I. The Army and Navy alumna:! associa­ tion now welcomes all Kappas-at-large, that is, all members of the fraternity who live where there is no local alum­ ore group. The entire service unit of this association will be eager to help them with "transfer tips," rushing recom­ mendations, social orientation and any special assistance it may furnish. The dollar fee, which includes a yearly sub­ scription to the Fleur-de-Lis, may be sent with your note of registration to the Army-Navy chairman, Mrs. Gustave Heiss, Box 51, West Point, New York. An Army and Navy alumna:! house adjacent to Boyd Hearthstone at Winter Park, Florida, is to be available to mem­ bers who are separated from their hus­ bands by the national defense emer­ gency, or who live alone and don't like it, if enough register for residence. Otherwise, the Hearthstone offers its hospitality at prices service people can afford, and for whatever period the guests choose to stay. For further in­ formation contact Mrs. A. H. Roth, 629 Myrtle street, Erie, Pennsylvania.

It's tame kangaroos (or would this be a wallaby?) Kappa youngsters get used to feeding when their parents live in Aus­ tralia. In the arms of his mother, Ruth Murphy Hutchinson (Mrs. C. A.), r :::­ '' c:J.nl in Co,ufu.1io-n U.C.L.A., Master William Frank Hutchin­ son registers indifference to proximity of (Continued from page 299) said wallaby, or whatever the marsupial Pennsylvania; Gem Craig Reasoner, T-North­ really is. Ruth is one of the Army and Navy alumnre association Kappas, because western; Nora Wilson Tomkinson, A-Akron; her husband is in the United States con­ Anne Hall, B N-Ohio State; Ruth Bullock sular service in Adelaide, Australia. Chastang, B N-Ohio State; AlbertaN. Schultz, A-Akron; Agnes Russell Bonner, r 0-Deni­ son; Mary J. Merritt, r E-Pittsburgh; Mar­ r B-New Mexico; Mary E. Jenks, C.-Indiana; garet McAtee, B K-Idaho; Frances Salisbury, Helen Marie Skelton, n-Kansas; Eleanor r P-Allegheny; Frank A. Kelley, B :::-Texas; Aldrich Sponsel, B A-Illinois ; Mary Jim Lane Virginia L. Schumaker, B A-Pennsylvania; Chickering, r N-Arkansas; Hulda Miller Blanche Dibert Failor, B A-Pennsylvania; Jon Fields, B - Montana; Frances Merritt Seil, Johnson, B a-Oklahoma; Jessie Basshard r E-Pittsburgh ; Grace C. Spencer, B r-Woos­ Maurer, H-Wisconsin; Louise Cox Marron, ter; and Elsie C. Arboga t, B r-Wooster. 323 1940-41u " " nde'1tadnale S£HOLARSHIPS Patricia Murphy, r r-Whitman. Jun­ ior: English major. Chapter schol­ arship chairman; president; delegate to 1940 convention. Member, Freshman Patricia LaVerne Bade, B P1LCin­ honor roll; Ye Talke Shoppe, fresh­ cinnati. Senior: business administra­ man honorary society; Signet Table, tion. Chapter treasurer, chairman of + junior honorary; member, business scholarship, efficiency chairman, and staff, school paper; Y.W.C.A. cabinet, secretary of Gamma province conven­ two years; campus freshman advisory tion in 1939. Member, IT X E, business council; A.W.S. conference. Is em­ administration honorary; A A Ll; ployed as secretary to physics pro­ dean's list. Won pledge scholarship + fessor and also waits on table in col­ award. Junior adviser, selective junior lege dormitory. honorary; Vigilance, selective fresh­ man women; Guidon; cooperative en­ Mary Beatty, K-Hillsdale. Senior: gineer. Employed as record clerk in home economics. Chapter scholarship Cincinnati General hospital. chairman, commissary manager, chap­ ter president, delegate to 1940 conven­ Patricia Lee Taylor, B N-Ohio State. tion. One of highest 10 in freshman and Junior : majoring in chemistry and sophomore classes ; on honor roll in general science as a prerequisite to junior year. Had class offices during graduate course in medical tech­ freshman, sophomore and junior years; nology. Chapter treasurer. Member, member, Tower Players, three years; Scholaris, freshman scholarship hon­ editor, Winona (yearbook) ; assistant orary; Mirrors, sophomore honorary. editor, Collegian (weekly); selected Awarded freshman key for outstand­ for Who's Who in American Colleges ing work on campus. Junior town rep­ and Universities. Is employed as sec­ resentative to W.S.G.A.; member, edu­ retary in treasurer's office and as an cation council; Boot and Saddle; Swan assistant in the English department; club. Is employed in office of the en­ in summer acts as receptionist in an trance board of Ohio State university, insurance office. and teaches swimming in the summer.

Marjorie Allen, r -Southern Meth­ Beatrice Louise Penrose, r N-Arkan­ odist. Senior: English major. Chapter sas. Senior: home economics. Chap­ activities chairman, corresponding sec­ ter registrar. Member, K Ll IT; ">¥ X, retary, scholarship chairman, assistant honorary psychology society ; 0 Ll, treasurer, treasurer. Member, A A Ll, home economics honorary. Member, B IT ·9, and Mortar Board. Won junior Women's Athletic association; Rifle scholarship given to five highest girls club; Y.W.C.A. Is employed as desk and five highest boys. Treasurer, attendant in college library. Y.W.C.A.; secretary, Alpha Lambda Delta; student council of religious Irene Ewing Ross, B a-Oklahoma. activities; Christian round table. Senior : economics. Chapter rush cap­ tain; recording secretary. Member, Peggy Woodhead, H-'Nisconsin. Jun­ A A Ll ; X A , honorary English so­ ior: speech education. Recipient of rority; "B" or Better Junior Honor legislative scholarship from University group. Member, Y.W.C.A. house coun­ of Wisconsin. Is employed as clerk cil; Business Girls club; Las Dos in a campus clothes shop 35 hours a Americas. Grades papers and does week, also assists with window dis­ stenographic work in the economics de· plays and style shows by commentat­ partment. ing. Ruth Carolyn Tobie, E-Illinois Wes­ Betty McCausland, r E-Pittsburgh. leyan. Senior: home economics. Chap­ Senior: commercial subjects. Chapter ter president and delegate to 1940 recording secretary and senior rep­ convention. Member, Gotheo, honor­ resentative to standards ·committee. ary scholastic society. Secretary-treas­ Honor scholarship from University of urer of Home Economics club; mem­ Pittsburgh. Member, social committee ber of board of Women's Sports as­ of senior class and service committee. sociation; social chairman of Women's Employed as secretary and reception­ league. Works for her board at the ist in a doctor's office. Kappa house. + Patricia LaVerne Bade Patricia Lee Taylor Beatrice Loui e Penrose Ruth Carolyn Tobie B p.l B N rN E 326 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

d11-tpotfant/ )fte /1Jew Ccn~lilulion

(C01~tinned f1·om page 272) shall be directly responsible to the coun­ been made for the advisory board. A cil for the financial affairs of the fra­ house president 1s now required of ternity." A new section o~ the "chapter housed chapters. housing finance plan" has been included. Doubtless one of the most complete The fraternity funds, current expense, revisions has been made in the method endowment and philanthropic, are brief­ of dealing with discipline and dismissal. ly described in this article. A new article, Upon the fraternity':; background of ex­ called philanthropies, loans and special perience with a variety of cases a system projects, has been added which explains has been developed which it is hoped philanthropic funds in greater detail. will be found adequate. Directions have A provision has been made whereby been simplified with thy use of the out­ gifts for residency in a Hearthstone, line form and the inclusion of all con­ made from earnings on magazine sub­ ceivable details. scriptions, will be dispensed by the These, in general statements, are the chairman of the Rose McGill fund. major changes. The committee, which toyed* for two years with the ideas and Chapters the words, has but one major hope, that Active members will find that almost the changes will be found to be good. all of the changes made in chapter or­ ganization are already accepted tech­ *"Toyed" is the word as Mrs. Schick nique in most chapters. The method of wrote it. From our knowledge of the com­ mittee's tireless, devoted service, we say the selection and operation of chapter com­ word should be "toiled," and even that is mittees has been clarified. Provision has understatement. Eo.

(Continued from page 275) tations. The first was George Santa- The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: yana's lovely sonnet, which Dr. Stearns "When you go forth to waken the knows by heart : echoes, in the ancient and favorite 0 World, thou choosest not the better part! amusement of your forefathers, may It is not wisdom to be only wise, Pleasure ever be of your party: and may And on the inward vision close the eyes, Social-J" oy await your return! When But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, harassed in courts or camps with the Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; jostlings of bad men and bad measures, To trust the soul's invincible st~rmise may the honest consciousness of injured Was all his science and his only art. worth attend your return to your native Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Seats; and may Domestic Happiness, Across a void of mystery and dread. with a smiling welcome, meet you at Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine your gates ! May Corruption shrink at By which alone the mortal heart is led k" dl" · d" 1 d Unto the thi1~king of the thought divine. your 10 mg, m Ignant g ance; an may tyranny in the Ruler, and licen- The last was the dedication to the tiousness in the People, equally find you second, or Edinburgh, edition, 1787, of an inexorable foe!" Celat l

By KATHRYN CoUPLAND HARPER (MRs. J. RAYNER)' r -Southern Methodist

HE Cedar Rapids Iowa alumn~ visited the land of the Midnight Sun. association gave a successful After spending three and a half days T travel tea last October and re­ in Helsinki the international situation plenished its treasury to the extent of became tense and since Vivien's pas­ $75. sage home was on a Polish boat, she Vivien Buser, B Z-Iowa, who went on hurriedly left for Copenhagen without a North Cape cruise last summer and seeing eastern Finland. Back in Co­ took many excellent pictures, both penhagen Vivien learned her boat had movies and colortd slides, consented been canceled because Germany had to give an illustrated travel talk. We marched into Poland. Everywhere entertained at two performances, one frantic Americans were trying to get in the afternoon and one in the evening, home and it was difficult to get pas­ and after each showing served Scan­ sage. dinavian refreshments. Finally Vivien got the last place on We rented the electric company's the Blofjord, a Norwegian boat, but demonstration bungalow and showed she had to leave from Oslo and while the pictures in the large lecture room she was on the boat going to Oslo and served refreshments in the dining war was declared by France and Eng­ room. In the living room we displayed land. the lovely things Vivien brought back The trip home was a jittery one. from her trip, Danish silver, Orrefors There were flags painted on both sides glass, white reindeer caps and jackets of the ship and a huge flag stretched and beautiful knit garments. For our over the hatch. The first few days out tea we served Swedish cakes, Danish there was no ship's log posted and no tarts, several kinds of Scandinavian radiograms. Some passengers slept in cookies and coffee. We charged 35 their clothes to be ready for any emer­ cents for our afternoon showing and gency. The ship took a more northerly SO cents for our evening performance. course than usual. Just as they reached Vivien was dressed in a stunning na­ the Nantucket lightship, there were re­ tive costume of Hardenger, Norway. ports of a strange submarine. The re­ She sailed from New York July 2, ports proved groundless and the ship 1939, on the Batory -of the Gdynia docked in New York September 14. American lines, a Polish boat, and ar­ All you need for a travel tea is a rived in Copenhagen July 10. The tour traveler whose hobby is photography. started from Oslo and went through But I think it would be awfully hard the fjord district of Norway. From to find one as interesting as Vivien there, Vivien went up the North Cape; Buser. +++ ''/!!ice j}eo-pfe, '' ]/wJe Kapptu f After convention Beta province Then it developed that the steward president, Margaret Tschan Riley (Mrs. had been on one of the diners on the Hugh, Jr.), and Beta province vice­ Kappa special en route to Sun VaHey. president, Nancy R. Myler, tripped He was lavish in his praise of the over to take in some national parks, Kappas. Bryce, Zion and Grand Canyon. "Ever since that special train, when On the train coming back, a Negro we has nice people in the dining car, we steward in the diner surprised Peg calls them Kappa Kappa Gammas!" he Riley by asking, "Pardon me, but isn't confided. that a Kappa Kappa Gamma key?" 327 Cfti Cftaffet: ::::Delicate;. ji/,'ca'c'j ifJ __1/;lemfJ'c'j fJt __1/;lat:'!a t:ef :::J) eem,s

By CLEORA WHEELER, X-Minnesota

UNE 15, 1939, Margaret Deems, X, convey any idea of what it was that made us all love her so devotedly. Her life really lost her life trying to save two Girl exemplified Kappa ideals. She gave us a living Scouts who could not swim. Her "In embodiment of what we are all striving to be . J. Memoriam" appeared on page 259 of Virtue itself is not always an endearing THE KEY a year ago. The last two para- quality, and it is a tribute to Margie's unfail­ ing spirit of friendliness and fun that we loved her instead of merely respecting her. Deep as our grief is, those of us who knew her best feel chiefly an overwhelming sense of gratitude for having been granted the privilege and inspiration of her friendship." March 12, 1940, the alumnre and active members of Chi chapter met to honor the memory of Margaret Deems and to dedicate a library to her memory. Other friends were also there, including her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Deems, and Mrs. Guy Stanton Ford, wife of the president of the University of Minnesota. For several weeks an alumnre com­ mittee had been checking and revising lists, and had purchased many of the beautiful books which the alumnre indi­ vidually had made it possible for them to buy. These were on hand, and were on display in the library and in the liv­ ing room where the service of the after­ noon was conducted. Copies of the of­ ficial bookplate of Kappa Kappa Gam­ ma were especially printed with space for the signature of the donor of each volume. A modified form of the memorial service of the fraternity was used. Quiet music came first, with Adella Nichols of the active chapter at the piano. Dur­ ing this period we gathered informally in the living room and were seated. Of­ ~argartt 19eems, X, 1916-1939 ficers of the alumnre association took their places at a table on which burned graphs of that tribute are the essence of two candles. These officers wore Oxford what is to follow: caps and gowns : the president, Theo- "No recital of Margie's college activities dosia Foot Van Fossen, and the chap­ or lists of offices, impressive as they are, can lain, Alice Barney. 328 Chi Chapter Dedicates Library 329

The service proper began with the which was hand-wrought, for a border. singing of "Ten Thousand Times Ten The plaque including the lettering Thousand," all of us standing. This was was etched to give two levels, and a rose a hymn which Margaret loved. The gold lacquer over all results in soft rose alumnre officers who led us then spoke the chosen parts, closing with the Lord's Prayer. A trio from the active chapter, wearing choir vestments, sang the lovely "Kappa Gamma, Lead Us On Our Way." Following this we were seated, and Elizabeth Donovan, a member of Mar­ garet's own class, 1938, spoke to us in­ formally of the many friends Margaret made on the campus, of her leadership in the big sister movement, of her in­ terest in the establishment of a library in the chapter house, and of the fact that she was its chairman for two years. She spoke of Margaret's happiness, and of her sense of humor in the midst of life. She said, "I never heard an unkind thing said of Margie, and indeed I never heard her say an unkind thing about anyone else." Elizabeth spoke with sweet dignity, Bronze plaque executed by Cleora Wheel­ and in closing, presented the library, the er, X, for the chapter's library plaque and Margaret's picture to the chapter. In response, Betty Ryland, as gold in the depths, with highlights in the head of the chapter, accepted the gift. lettering and border. This was the work The service closed with the singing of of Cleora Wheeler, X, and was executed "Sisters, Let Us Sing Again," which in 34 hours, out of a consecutive 36, was written by Elizabeth's mother, Alice when it came to the actual making of Dougan Donovan, X. the metal plate from her original pencil The solid brass plaque which was sketch. B~cause of its weight wooden completed in time to be permanently in­ pegs had to be driven between the hol­ stalled on the wall of the library before low tile construction of the wall of the the service, was also a part of the pre­ library, to which the plaque in turn was liminary plans of the alumnce associa­ screwed, a piece of engineering which tion. It measures 9 by 11 0 inches, and was accomplished by Ellis Westlake, bears the legend, "This library is dedi­ husband of the late Florence Robinson cated to the memory of Margaret Deems Westlake, X. as a symbol of our love, and in deep A photograph of Margaret like this appreciation of her courage, loyalty, and one in THE KEY is also in the room to devotion to the ideals of Kappa Kappa complete the story, but it is in the hearts Gamma." It also bears the coat of of her friends that she will forever be arms of the fraternity, and a design enshrined. +++ Marriages c:J.Lpha j}to-vince Iota Chapter Eddie Loud to Howard A. Kinzer, 4> :2: K, Beta Beta Deuteron Chapter Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 20, 1940. At home: 6104 Woodlawn, Chicago. Jane Hardcastle to Stanley H. Britten, Mr. Kinzer is employed by the Burlington March 30, 1940, at Westfield, New Jersey. railroad. At home: 123 North Portage path, Akron, Dorothy Davis to Thomas H. Townsend, Ohio. Jr., May 4, 1940. At home: Marcy Village, Indianapolis. Mary Christie to Thomas H. Koerner, ~efa j}wvince June 5, 1939. At home : 320 Szechnen road, Shanghai, China, where Mr. Koerner is branch Gamma Rho Chapter manager in the Orient of the firm of Haskin and Sells. Eleanor Haughs to John Churchill Swift, Birdie Darling Billman to William R. February 24, 1940, in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Forney, February 1940. At home: 3660 North Cleo Mary Duffield to Attorney Roge r Delaware, Indianapolis. Mr. Forney is dean Merle Brown, April 20, 1940, in Waterford, of the evening division of the Indiana law Pennsylvania. At home: 1307 W . 9th street, school. Erie, Pennsylvania. Attorney Brown is gradu­ Carol S. Wagner to James Cabel Johnson, ated from Oberlin college and the University November 18, 1939. At home: 4482 North of Pennsylvania law school. Cramer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Johnson is associated with the Nunn-Bush Shoe com­ pany. Marjorie Elizabeth Gillies to Emmett Lawrence Tabat, :2: A E, University of Wis­ consin, May 11, 1940. At home: 729 Hinman Lambda Chapter avenue, Chicago. Dorothy Edith McMillan to George Genevieve Sennett to Edwin Kroeger, Thomas Edwards, April 6, 1940, Los Angeles, K ..Y, Purdue university, February 18, 1940. Mr. Kroeger is a United States Navy aviator. California. Irma Rugers to Paul Kemple. At home : Jean Alice Shaver to Len Howard Small, Apartment 67, Riverway Manor, 210-214 February 9, 1940. At home: 1172 South Elm, Riverway, Boston, Massachusetts. Kankakee, Illinois. Carrie Showalter to Samuel Pepperell. At home: 2000 102nd avenue, Oakland, Cali­ Mu Chapter fornia. Virginia T. McCune to Maynard ]. Mc­ Kay, November 29, 1939. At home: 503 North Gamma Omega Chapter Walnut, Wilmington, Ohio. Jeanne Shaffer to Irwin Evans, March 17, Elizabeth D. Munson to Fred W. Mannon, 1940. ~ K, Stanford, November 12, 1939. At Mary Lou Marlow to Norman Koerner, home: Taft, California, where Mr. Mannon is March 17, 1940. At home: 16900 Euclid associated with the Standard Oil of Cali­ avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. fornia. Dorothy Frazier to George Stuart, March 30, 1940, at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Kappa Chapter Frances Flory to Roderic M. Jones. At Anne Wagner to Maurice Todd Hogan, home: 317 Moul street, Newark, Ohio. t. T A, Hillsdale, August 24, 1940. At home: 408 East Kingsley, Ann Arbor, where Mr. Hogan is attending the dentistry school at the ;:::})efta j}wvince University of Michigan and is a member of t. :2: t.. Delta Chapter CpJifo-n j}to-vince Emily Ruth Croxton to Dr. Herbert L. Nigg, X and N :2: N, University of Michigan, August 24, 1940. At home: 52 East Willis, Chi Chapter Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Nigg is associated with Rosemary Ahern to Archie Cochrane, June Grace hospital. 22, 1940. 330 Births 331

Elizabeth Donovan to Peter Edmonds, A K E, June 12, 1940. ]hela j}w vince Sallie Saunders to Frank Wright, ..Y T, June 28, 1940. Gamma Nu Chapter Virginia Cushman to John E. Bergstedt, A A ~. June 8, 1940. Mary Jim Lane to Lieutenant Edwin S. Eleanor Knatvold to Lowell Campbell, Chickering, United States Army Air Corps, X ..Y. March 9, 1940. At home: 509 Woodlawn, San Mary Champine to William Carey, Jr., f\ntonio, Texas. Lieu.tenant Chickering is an August 26, 1940. mstructor at Kelly F1eld, San Antonio. Gamma Phi Chapter 'Jeta /)tcvince Hortense McClure to Harry Brandon, ~ X, June 8, 1940, at Dallas, Texas. Anna Ruth Baker to Randolph McCall Omega Chapter K A, June 1, 1940, at Greenville, Texas. '

Diane Haas to Wayne Clover, K ~. May 4, 1940, at St. Andrews Episcopal church, Kansas City, Missouri. cf!.ambla j}tcvince Gamma Kappa Chapter Theta Chapter Helen Wall to Julian Hall Burns, April 3, 1940, in Grace Episcopal church, Camden, Mildred Aiken to George Griffith White, South Carolina. K ~. William Jewell college, December 24, Helen Browne Bennett to Dr. Langdon, 1939. At home : Eagle, Colorado. U.S.N., March 23, 1940.

Births c=/.fpha /)tcvince Gamma Epsilon Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Smith (Jean Psi Chapter Ewart), a daughter, Nancy 'Jean, April 27, 1940. To Mr. and Mrs. John R. Saunders (Agnes Kelly), a daughter, Nancy, January 3, Gamma Rho Chapter 1940. To Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Younger (Helen Walker), a son, Dorn Walker, April 16, 1940. Beta Psi Chapter To Dr. and Mrs. Pelham Glasier (Beatrice Delta Alpha Chapter Crocker), a son, James Crocker, June 24, To Mr. and Mrs. Carson Perry Buck 1940, in New York city. (Martha Clark), a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, February 1, 1940. Beta Tau Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Walsh (Eliza­ beth Ehnes), a daughter, February 16, 1940, at Glen Head, New York. Lambda Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dewhirst (E sther Zwicker) a daughter, Joan, March 13, 1940, in Akron, Ohio. Beta Alpha Chapter Beta Nu Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. William Reynolds ( Adelaide Mastick) , a son, Stephen James, T o Mr. and Mr . Sylvain Minault (Thelma January 20, 1940, at Wilmington, Delaware. Mills), a son, Brian Don, J ul y 30, 1940. 332 T HE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

:bella j}t.o-vince ]kefa j}tovina· Delta Gamma Chapter Beta :{{i Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. M. Jerome Glynn (Eli­ To Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ray (Roberta nor Baird), a daughter, Joan, March 9, 1940, Woods), a daughter, Susan Woods, July 19, at Oak Park, Illinois. 1940, at Houston, Texas.

Delta Chapter Gamma Nu Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Florea (Ger­ To Dr. and Mrs. John Porter Price trude Watson), a daughter, Jeanne, May 21, (Corinne Beasley), a daughter, Anne Porter, 1940. October 13, 1939. Iota Chapter To Dr. and Mrs. James Dillon (Julia do-fa j}t.o-vince Christian), a son, James Christian, March 7, 1940, at Noblesville, Indiana. Beta Kappa Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Strandberg Cr~iLo-n j}t.ovince (Barbara Carlquist), a son, David Harold, December 30, 1939, at Anchorage, Alaska. Upsilon Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Skoglund (Juli­ f<..arpa j}t.ovince anna Holmes), a son, Palmer Leonard, Jr., April 12, 1940, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Gamma Xi Chapter Chi Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradley Bogue, Jr. (Rebekah Smith), a daughter, Barbara, To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapman (Alice April 21, 1940. Schoening), a son, in May, 1940. Beta Eta Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. W. Robert Helmholtz Gamma Alpha Chapter (Eleanor Bacon), a son, April 30, 1940. To Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Omaly (Mildred Sims), a son, Mills Rogers, October 14, 1939, Jamhla fJwvince at Chicago. Gamma Kappa Chapter Beta Zeta Chapter To Lieutenant and Mrs. Charles R. Urban To Mr. and Mrs. Tom W . Moore (Frances (Elizabeth Vernon Hope), a son, Roger Westerfield), a daughter, Carol W., July 25, Hope, July 30, 1940, at Honolulu, T .H. 1940, at Evanston, Illinois. Omega Chapter ./11u fJwvince To Mr. and Mrs. Howard Immel (Betty Ruth Reid), a son, James Monroe, April 23, Delta Epsilon Chapter 1940, at Topeka, Kansas. To Dr. and Mrs. }. Thomas Schnebly To Mr. and Mrs. George L. Hack (Vivian Andrews), a son, Robert Andrews, (Dorothy Potter), a daughter, Pamela Gill, July 30, 1940. April 25, 1940, in Orlando, Florida. +++ 3Jn $1ltmoriam

EMILY HUDSON BRIGHT (Mrs. Addison Center Burnham)

Emily Bright Burnham, fifth grand president of Kappa Kappa Gamma, from 1892 to 1894, and grand secretary for two preceding administrations died suddenly April 2, 1940, at her home in Newton Center, Massachusetts. During her first term as grand secretary, she prepared the material for the first catalogue of the fraternity, published in May 1890. From her freshman year at Boston university in 1886 to the time of her death' Mrs. Burnham was a loyal Kappa. For many years she kept in close touch with the actives of Phi chapter and many are the alumnae who remember he~ at the later conventions since 1928. To know Mrs. Burnham was to know a gracious, kindly personality, a true gentle­ woman in every sense of the word. The practical and the ideal were closely associated with her. In her own community she worked untiringly for better housing conditions for the poor. "Morton Street Improvement" was brought about through the per­ sistent efforts and interests of Mrs. Burnham. Always thoughtful of others, Mrs. Burnham willed the gavel presented to her by the Indianapolis convention to the Kappas of Indiana to be a yearly award to the chapter in the state which had contributed most to unaffiliated members on its campus during the past year. These lines of Emily Dickinson's express in a measure the breadth of Emily Bright Burnham's influence:

"We learn in the retreating How vast an one Was recently among us. A perished sun Endears in the departure How dou.bly more Than all the golden presence It was before!"

Preside1tt

333 l?..emem£etinff Emily Bright Burnham " . .. f<.erai), £'1 )eve anl )o'la!t/'

By ELLA A. TITUS, -Boston, Editor 1892-1894

MILY HUDSON BRIGHT was initiated read again many letters received during into Phi chapter, December 9, our long friendship. Those of the early E 1886. When I entered Boston uni- '90's, with their concise phrasing, their versity in the fall of 1888, she was in practical suggestions for fraternity her junior year, and had recently been work, their fun and their loving-kind­ elected grand secretary of Kappa Kappa ness, have brought the writer comfort­ Gamma. I had little understanding of ingly near, and given an extraordinary that honor for a while, but realized that sense of continuity. this tall, dark-eyed, quiet-voiced girl, On the way to the Bloomington con­ Emily Bright, was a person of influence. vention of 1890, where she was re­ Then as in later life she was slow of elected grand secretary, she visited a speech, very quick in thought and ac- Phi friend in Missouri, and sent a pen­ tion. ciled letter from the railroad station in Her great gift for organization, with Keokuk: "I do not travel Sunday be­ her warm, friendly, generous interest cause of my preference for fried eggs in people, made her a leader in what we [apparently the specialty of the station now call "extracurricular activities." menu], rather than Sunday school, but Her friends were not limited to the cir- because I desired to travel on the Chris­ de of Phi chapter, although the closest tian Carmelite train, which is unlike the ones were there; she was beloved by heathen trains out here in that it con­ all sorts and conditions of her fellow nects forward and backward and the students. The dramatic society flour- connections are perfect, i.e., the longest ished under her presidency. Along with wait is only five hours at Keokuk." other charitably inclined members of Travel conditions were not as smooth r 11, the open society for girls, she be- as nowadays, but she enjoyed immensely friended poor children of the West End the journeys on fraternity business. of Boston in a playroom for little girls In 1891, her first year out of college, which r 11 instituted. Between 1888 and Emily and her Kappa classmate, Mar- 1890 'she prepared the first Kappa cata- garet Dodge, published a short-lived Iogue. magazine, The Outlook, planned in the There was good balance on the schol- interest of college women. The idea was arly side through the college courses, good, but needed more capital than the until she took her A.B. degree in 1890. young enthusiasts could provide, and I remember especially the Sanskrit and only two numbers appeared. philosophy; Sanskrit is fixed in memory The 1892 convention elected her by huge grammars and readers which grand president. This convention saw I carried admiringly as far as the class- the first initiations into the second de­ room door, and philosophy because she gree, of which Mrs. Burnham was one told me long afterward that Professor of the founders. After the convention, Bowne's instruction, especially in The- there was another visit with the Mis­ ism, had laid the foundation for a reli- souri friend, Lida Hiller (Lapsley) , and gious faith which never failed . a steamer trip up the Mississippi. She Since Emily Burnham left us, I have despaired of getting the delightful events 334 Remembering Emily Bright Burnham 335 of this summer into a letter, writing gan at 11 P.M., because business didn't "When one's life seems transformed finish until nine. We dispersed about into sunsets and starlight and a cold two next morning, and after a brief sweet wind, one finds it impossible to period of repose the candidates for sec­ write either of the heaven one is in or ond degree proceeded to their examina­ of anything else." tion and were initiated in the afternoon. Back in Boston in the fall of '92, she began regular work for the Associated FTER 1894 she was less occupied with Charities, and was an agent of the so­ A fraternity affairs. Our correspon­ ciety for the next two years. Well did dence and our meetings became flavored she carry out their motto "Not alms but with cheerful domesticity. In December a friend." Her most disreputable clients 1893 she was married to Addison Cen­ found her friendly, indeed she said they ter Burnham, of Cambridge, Massachu­ even "seemed to find her congenial." setts, Harvard '90, and graduate of Har­ vard law school. Their first home was HAD IN '92 become editor-in-chief of in Cambridge, memorable as a scene of I THE KEY. In the midst of new work hospitality, where roasting apples for the Charities and for the fraternity, twirled on strings before the open fire, Emily took time in a noon hour to write and I discovered happily that John, the the editor: "Play you are doing news­ first baby, wouldn't break in my in­ paper work and get the latest Kappa experienced hands. John was followed news as you would on a daily paper ; by three other children, Addison Center this might be done by a live news-editor, Burnham, Jr., David Van Praag, who by exchanging with college magazines or died in infancy, and Joan, now Mrs. by insisting on better chapter letters. Waldo Root, who before her marriage That sounds hard-let us say not daily was secretary to her mother's Kappa paper but weekly or monthly. And don't classmate, Mrs. Simkhovitch, at Green­ trust to one report if you can get two. wich house. While the children were As to general literary style: THE KEY small the family moved to Newton Cen­ is good in your humble servant's opin­ ter, a beautiful suburb of Boston, which ion." Help and encouragement were became their permanent home. Summers forthcomi~g as long as I worked for were spent on the Maine shore--Bailey our magazme. island in Casco Bay. The installation of Beta Iota in 1893 Bailey island is even more closely as­ brought a letter which gives a sympa­ sociated in my memory with the Burn­ thetic vision of the past. The girls, it hams than Newton Center. On the little appeared, were uncommonly well pre­ island with its wide horizon Emily pared, and had other qualities which found the coolness, the fragrance of Emily felt would appeal to me. "The ocean, pines and wild roses, the sunsets Swarthmore girls were charming and and starlight which she always loved. I never enjoyed an initiation more. They Here they all made firm friendships are such pretty things. I know you among the summer people who came would love them, and they think highly back year after year, and the island peo­ of THE KEY as a magazine !" I had ple as well. The library still thrives, heard about borrowing keys for the ini­ which Mrs. Burnham started and for tiates, and being too editorially-minded which I made the first catalogue, begin­ had inquired "What do the girls want ning to her amusement with an elaborate of old numbers of THE KEY?" scheme which she helped to simplify. We were together at the Ithaca con­ There were years when household vention of 1894, over which Mrs. Burn­ duties and uncertain health made it im­ ham presided. It was my first conven­ possible to continue the social work tion experience, unforgettable for the which was her beloved profession when beauty of Ithaca, the hospitality of Psi, she married. But from 1913 on, she the new friends and the amazing energy worked for the improvement of living of Kappas. Our convention banquet be- conditions in Boston. The Housing 336 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Association of Metropolitan Boston association will remember thankfully adopted a resolution at the time of her that she was able to be with us at the death from which her Kappa friends meeting, March 15, 1940. She went to will welcome a quotation : the convention· of 1928 as delegate for With profound sorrow the Directors of the Boston association, to later conventions Housing association of Metropolitan Boston as a visitor, finding happiness and in­ record the death of one of its most earnest spiration in the renewal of old friend-· and zealous members-Mrs. Emily Bright ships and the making of new. Burnham. Mrs. Burnham has long been as­ sociated with efforts to improve housing and Fraternity and "housing" activities neighborhood conditions in Boston. An untir­ combined when in 1934 and '35 Mrs. ing leader in the fight for more adequate Burnham was one of the prime movers recreational areas and for decent housing in securing the Panhellenic house for standards, she must have found great satisfac­ tion in the development of such improvements sororities of Boston university. To Kap­ as the Morton street and Foster street play­ pas the beautiful house at 131 Common­ grounds and Paul Revere mall in the North wealth avenue is a constant reminder end and in the enactment of the 1915 law which limited the occupancy of cellar and not only of Emily Burnham but of her basement dwellings throughout the city. For husband. Mr. Burnham, who was at the these, she gave freely of her time and energies head of a law firm in Boston, gave legal and was in large measure responsible for their aid while the project was under way. fulfillment. In later years, Mrs. Burnham was particu­ The piano in Phi's chapter room was his larly active in securing the enactment of the gift. Emily's Kappa friends, old and Public housing laws of the Commonwealth young, were his friends, always wel­ which now lay the foundation for a wide­ come in both the Burnham homes. His spread attack upon one of the most serious of our social ills. passing in September, 1939, brought a Her sincerity and contagious enthusiasm. great loss to us all. are reflected in the work accomplished by the many voluntary committees and organiza­ tions of which she was an active member. T IKE Kate Cross Shenehon, whom she Through her personal encouragement, many L so greatly admired from their first individuals in Boston and elsewhere have be­ meeting, Emily had not long to stay come actively interested in constructive social action. without her husband. During his illness her own health had been failing, her EARING of these activities, people heart gave trouble, al1hough she made H sometimes concluded that Mrs. light of the condition. April 2, 1940, she Burnham must be wanting in the domes­ was resting at home, when quite sud­ tic virtues. She once protested : "I am denly, with no pain, the heart stopped really more domestic than the average; beating and earthly life was over. bread is still baked in my house, and floor-polish is made at home from a family recipe." In case of illness in a friend's family, she practised the old­ fashioned custom of bringing food, to relieve the overtaxed household. A later Kappa grand president, Bertha Rich­ mond Chevalier, bears grateful testi­ mony that in her early married life it was Emily who helped her most ~ about bringing up the children, about house­ hold budgeting-all the problems of a beginner in domestic ways. The fraternity remained one of her dearest interests. Phi chapter and the Bertha Richmond Chevalier, seventh grand president, left, and Emily Bright Burnham, two alumnre associations in Boston could fifth grand president, at the Seigniory club, always count on her support. Boston 1936 convention. CORA ALTMAN, B r-Wooster, August understanding heart such as hers would be 7, 1940, at Huntington, Indiana. She had re­ prompted to do. tired in 1937 after 40 years' service as a One of Mrs. Morgan's happiest experi­ teacher in the Huntington public schools. ences in Manhattan was the initiation of her daughter, Betty-Kay, into r A-Kansas State, +++ in 1936. Three years ago the Morgans moved to LAURA ROBERTS MILLS, Sigma, Au­ Florida. She bore with sweetness and pa­ gust 4, 1940, at her home in San Jose, Cali­ tience the long illness which preceded her fornia. death, maintaining to the last her unselfish Laura Roberts was the daughter of the interest in all those about her, in the house­ second pastor of St. Paul Methodist Episco­ hold, in the community, and in world affairs. pal church in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was One of her pleasures was to read THE KEY, graduated from the University of Nebraska and she had carefully followed all the news in the class of 1887 and taught in the Lincoln concerning preparations for convention. public schools until 1890, then spent the next She is survived by her husband, her daugh­ two years in study in Berlin and Paris. ter, Betty-Kay Morgan Dehon (Mrs. Arthur In 1892 she was married to the Reverend M.) ; an infant granddaughter, Sondra Dehon, William H . Mills, who held pastorates in of Stuart; her mother, and her sister, Miriam several Nebraska and Kansas towns. For the Knowlton Corrie (Mrs. Lester L.), B A, of past 25 years they have lived in San Jose. Urbana, Illinois. She is survived by her husband; three sons, Robert, Victor and Dwight; and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Reed, all of San +++ Jose. DENA HURT HARTONG (Mrs. J. W.), While Mrs. Mills had been away from !-DePauw, June 11, 1940, at Indianapolis, any contact with Sigma chapter for many after an illness of six years. years, her husband writes that she and a A native of Indianapolis, she was edu­ few Kappa friends met regularly about once cated there and at DePauw. She was a mem­ a month in a social way. ber of the Methodist church. AoELLOYD WHITING WILLIAMS,~ Surviving are her mother, her husband. a +++ daughter and a granddaughter. ~++ BETH KNOWLTON MORGAN (Mrs. .. Chas. L.), B A-Illinois, June 14, 1940, in MABEL PERRY I NMAN (Mrs. Stuart, Florida. Ephriam), b.-Indiana, May 17, 1940, at Mar­ Beth Knowlton was born November 8, tinsv ill e, Indiana, at the home of her sister, 1892, in Urbana, Illinois. She attended public Grace Perry Bain (Mrs. A. M.), b.. She was a schools in Urbana, and was graduated from member of the F irst Presbyterian chu rch and the University of Illinois in 1914. In Febru­ th e Daughters of the American Revolution ary, 1911, with her sister, Miriam,· she was in Indianapolis. initiated into Beta Lambda chapter. In August, 1915, she was married to ++1-'" Charles L. Morgan, also a graduate of the CAROLYN KIEWIT, r Z-Arizona, May University of Illinois. Until six years ago, 6, 1940, at Tucson. they lived in Wilmette, Illinois, Mr. Morgan Carolyn's college career began at Pomona, maintaining architectural studios in Chicago. where for two years her musical interests and In 1934 they moved to Manhattan, Kansas, talents led her into Glee club activities. Be­ where Mr. Morgan served on the a rchitec­ ginning with her initiation into Gamma Zeta tural staff of the Kansas State coll ege. H ere in 1938, Carolyn crossed the threshold into Mrs. Morgan quickly made scores of friends. active service of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She was active in campus organizations, being She was standards chairman and a member president of N ewcomers, and was active in of the personnel committee. The dean of the Kappa alumnre association. E specially was women selected her as one of the 10 outstand­ she interested in the active chapter, helping ing gi rls in the uni versity to act as a senior them as alumnre adviser, and in the many sponsor and as a member of the freshman other way that only a wise, generous and welcoming committee. The fact that she was 337 338 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma popular among interfraternity girls is evi­ Anadarko, Oklahoma, where they lived for denced by her membership in "Fancies," many years. honorary social society. Her last official duty After leaving IJlinois Wesleyan, Mrs. Wil­ for the fraternity was that of music chairman, liams took up the study of English literature a responsibility so well carried out, especially at the University of Chicago. During her during the annual "Fraternity sing," that her illness her fine appreciation of poetry and untiring efforts won the whole-hearted ad­ the drama filled the hours with interest and miration, cooperation and approbation of her pleasure. sisters. Her husband has in mind plans for con­ ·College life for Carolyn was, of necessity, verting their beautiful horne in Anadarko into restricted. She was born July 29, 1916, and a memorial hospital for children. had since childhood, suffered from a heart She is survived by her husband, Dr. Wil­ ailment. Because she was utterly happy among liams; her mother, Mrs. Me Whirter; a sis­ her contemporaries, her family allowed her ter, Mrs. William Vernon Skiles; and a to continue her academic pursuits. She was nephew, Dr. Vernon Skiles, of Atlanta, Ga. to ha've graduated just 17 days after her Grace possessed unusual charm and gra­ death. Carolyn died suddenly, while swim­ ciousness, a delightful sense of humor and a ming near the campus. She died happily, neve r-failing interest in people and in her among the friends whom she loved. fraternity. She maintains, spiritually, a certain im­ NELr. HAMILToN TROTTER, r N mortality through the remembered and cherished influence of her character and efforts in behalf of Kappa Kappa Gamma; and no tribute of ours could possibly do justice to her loyalty and devotion. No word MARGARET RUTH CARDEN, B a­ or gift can adequately express the loss felt Oklahoma, April 6, 1940, near Tulsa, Okla­ by her chapter and family. homa. An exqusite oil painting, the gift of her It is impossible to express our overwhelm­ family to the chapter, serves as a reminder ing grief in the loss of Margaret Ruth Carden, and as an inspiration to the actives and one of our best loved members. Her untim~ly pledges who looked to Carolyn for guidance, death is deeply felt by all. Margaret Ruth ;md as their ideal Kappa. It is a tangible and Richard Stueve, a Notre Dame graduate, also a precious tribute, a tribute that will enhance from Tulsa, were driving to Tulsa in a a beautiful memory and instill courage in drizzling rain. At noon a gasoline truck our hearts and in the hearts of those who turned in front of the car, which Margaret follow her footsteps. Ruth was driving, a few miles from Sapulpa; ELizABETH D. J oNES, r z the cars crashed headlong, and both Richard and Margaret Ruth were killed instantly. Margaret Ruth was born May 27, 1920, in Claremore, Oklahoma. After graduating from CECILE COLVIN HAWLEY (Mrs. Central high school in Tulsa, she attended Dewey T.), B T-Syracuse, April 15, 1940 at Lindenwood college, St. Charles, Missouri. At Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She is sur­ the time of the accident she was a junior in vived by two sons. the college of arts and sciences in the Uni­ ·versity of Oklahoma, and an English major. She was initiated into Beta Theta chapter November 11, 1939. LENA DIGGS MATHEWS (Mrs. Robert), Beta Theta attended her funeral in a body. M-Butler, April 10, 1940, at Morgantown, As a parting tribute we sang the Kappa lulla­ West Virginia, where she had been associated by, Margaret Ruth's favorite song. Her Kappa with the law library of the university. Her sisters who acted as honorary and active pall­ daughter Nancy is a member of Beta Upsilon. bearers were: Billye Reynolds, Billye Robin­ son, Betty Robinson, Irene Hoss, Eleanor Pearce, Dorothy Ecton, Kathryn Campbell, Jean Daniels, Frances Engle, Mary Jane GRACE LEILA McWHIRTER WIL­ Campbell, Mrs. Ned Holman and Mrs. Frank LIAMS (Mrs. R. Warrell), E, April 8, 1940, M. Engle, all of Beta Theta, and Jean at St. Louis, Missouri, after an illness of Fleming and Dora Jane Crocker, pledges of several months. Gamma Zeta. Grace McWhirter was initiated into Epsi­ Margaret Ruth was one of the most popu­ lon chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Illi­ lar girls in the house. She was rush chairman nois Wesleyan in October, 1902. She married for the Tulsa district and was prominent in Dr. R. Warrell Williams, a graduate of Rush campus activities. She will always be remem­ medical college of Chicago, September 15, bered for her happy di sposition and her in­ 1904. She and her husband traveled exten­ fectuous laugh. sively in America, Europe, and the Orient, Margaret Ruth's key, of diamonds and collecting many fine pictures, porcelains, em­ sapphires, has been willed to the chapter, broideries and fabrics for their home in and the outstanding pledge each year will be In Memoriam 339 initiated with it, wearing it until her own family to San Diego, California, where she key arrives. was graduated from high school. After a year Surviving her are her parents, Mr. and in Leland Stanford university, she returned Mrs. F. Buford Carden, and a brother, Buford to Normal and entered Illinois Wesleyan uni­ Walkley Carden, all of Tulsa. versity. She became a member of Epsilon EILEEN RooNEY, B e chapter and was graduated from Wesleyan in 1909. The following year she went to Co­ lumbia University Teachers' college, from which she was graduated in 1910. She was a VERNA STONER KOEHLER (Mrs. member of the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan William P.), !-DePauw, March 31, 1940, of a university in 1911-12. June 24, 1913, she heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. Koehler had been married Dr. Ralph Peairs, and for five years living in Jackson, Mississippi, since 1926. they lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was Mrs. Koehler was the sister of the late Flor­ interested in the Kappa alumnre association ence Stoner Newhouse and of Lottie Stoner there .until she again returned to Normal to Smetson, also I. make her home until her death. She was always a loyal and enthusiastic +++ Kappa and had offices in both active and LILLIAN HART, !-DePauw, March 19, alumnre chapters. At the time of her death 1940, of pneumonia at her home in Martins­ she was advisor for the registrar of the ville, Indiana. She was a member of B K active chapter. In 1912-1914 she was a mem­ and was the head of the Latin department of be r of the national alumnre executive com­ the Martinsville high school. mittee of K K r. She was a member of the Kappa Mothers' club, of which she had served as an officer. Her outstanding executive ability made MARY S. HASTIE, charter member of her a leader in various lines of work in Omicron chapter, now inactive, at Simpson which she was associated. H er interest in college, Indianola, Iowa, March 19, 1939, after her alma mater was outstanding and she was a short illness. She was born March 25, 1854. honored by being elected president of the For several years past she had made her home Alumni association of Wesleyan, and was a with her sister-in-law, Louie Loper Hastie member of the executive board for several (Mrs. y./. A.), 0, of Indianola. years. She was a member of the Woman's guild of Illinois Wesleyan university for many +++ years, and was president for 10 years. This CECILE JOHNSON CAMPBELL (Mrs. organization manages and controls the fresh­ Roy), B <1>-Montana, March 19, 1940, at man girls' dormitories. Her work in the guild Missoula, Montana. stands as a monument to her untiring efforts She attended Montana State university at to make these dormitories homelike and Missoula, where she became a member of pleasant places for the girls away from home. Beta Phi chapter in January, 1912. She was interested and loved young people, She was married to Roy Campbell, October and always strove to bring to them the better 1, 1914. things in life. She was active in the Normal Through these many years she has shown public schools' P.T.A., a leader in the Girl her enthusiasm for Kappa's interests in many Scouts and a club mother for a Scout Cub ways. She was, at one time, chairman of the pack. house committee and later, rushing chairman. She was first president of the Woman's She has had several advisory positions. auxiliary to the McLean County Medical While living in Butte a few years ago, society in 1927, the first society of its kind she got the local members interested in start­ in the state. ing their present association. For many years she had charge of the She has proven herself a loyal and well­ primary class in the Presbyterian church. beloved member, and her passing leaves its Her home was always open to her friends, mark on Beta Phi. of whom she had many, and her radiant She is survived by her son, Tom; her smile, happy disposition and cordial hos­ father, Charles E. Johnson; and her sister, pitality will be missed by all. Charline Johnson, also a Beta Phi member. Myra was one of those rare, unselfish and Her husband, Roy, died last July. understanding persons who held her friends through the years. To know her was to love her. Surviving are her husband, Dr. Ralph MYRA SI CLAIR PEAIRS (Mrs. Peairs; two Kappa daughters, Myra Ann and Ralph), E-Illinois, March 12, 1940, in Normal, ancy, both of Epsilon; a son, Richard ; a Illinois. sister, Virginia Sinclair Catron (Mrs. B. L.), Myra Peairs was born in Bismarck, North E, a former grand treasurer of Kappa Kappa Dakota, March 28, 1886. She spent her child­ Gamma; and a brother, Uel. hood in ormal, but later went with her CLA RA DEMorrE MuNcE, E 340 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

DOROTHY L. LYONS, - Boston, March and devoted to the work in missions and in 13, 1940. the Woman's Christian Temperance union. Mrs. Brown is survived by her husband, +++ Dr. Brown, and one brother. ELEANOR WARREN THAYER, B T­ Syracuse, March 12, 1940, at Phoenix, Ari­ zona. +++ She was head of the foreign languages department of the Phoenix junior college and ETHEL CHAFFEE WENTWORTH adviser for the Spanish club. (Mrs. Daniel S.), !-DePauw, November 14, The dean of the college said, "Miss 1939, at her home in Chicago. Mrs. Went­ Thayer was one of the most tireless persons worth was a member of B K and studied in in the pursuit of her work and in the cause France and Germany before pursuing a teach­ of the student in both the classroom and ing career. She was a former president of outside. Any person in distress aroused her Iota and former vice-president of the Chicago sympathy and one could always count on her DePauw alumni association. to do something about it. No matter was too Mrs. Wentworth was the wife of Daniel small to claim her attention, if it were of S. Wentworth, Chicago attorney and trustee real concern to a fellowman." of Kiwanis International. Her son, Daniel S., And a close friend writes, "Eleanor was Jr., and her daughter Elizabeth (also a a wonderful department director, fair, gener­ former president of Iota) were graduates of ous and helpful, and as a teacher was most DePauw. unusual. She was most generous and brought cheer and comfort to many lonely individuals. In spite of heavy school duties, she was in­ terested in many charities." Eleanor obtained her bachelor's degree at ETHEL SNODGRASS, r A-Purdue, Syracuse university, and her master's degree September 8, 1939, at Muncie, Indiana. She at Middlebury college. She studied also at was a member of the local at Purdue which Berlitz college, Dresden, Germany; the Uni­ became Gamma Delta chapter, and had taught versity of Spain, and at the National univer­ at the Maryland College for Women, Luther­ sity at Mexico City. She was a member of ville, Maryland. Phi Beta Kappa. She is survived by her father, the Rev. Dr. E. 0. Thayer, and a sister, Frances Thayer Neill, both of Ocean Beach, California. Mrs. Neill is also a member of Beta Tau chapter. EMMA BICKNELL DICK (Mrs. Ed­ KATHERINE B. ALLIS, B T gar), !-DePauw, August 5, 1939, at Newman, Illinois. She was the last of three Kappa sis­ ters : Mrs. Mary Bicknell Roller and Mrs. +++ Agnes Bicknell Dunlaby. DR. HARRIET MAY DOANE, B T­ Syracuse, March 11, 1940, at her home in Pulaski, New York. Dr. Doane entered Syracuse university college of medicine in 1892 after a year of study at Oswego normal school. She was MAGGIE SIMPSON SCOTT (Mrs. initiated into Beta Tau chapter that same Samuel F.), !-DePauw, October 19, 1937. year. After receiving her degree in 1896, Dr. Doane studied in Paris, Vienna, London and Munich. She spent some time on the staff of several New York city and Boston hos­ JEAN HOOVER CONNER (Mrs. pitals and later moved to Fulton, New York, James), A-Akron. where she practiced for 30 years. In 1928 she went to Pulaski, New York and continued her practice there until last October when +++ ill-health forced her to retire. THERESA LAURETTE LENTZ, B N­ Ohio State, at Columbus. +++ Born in Belmont county, Ohio, she lived JESSIE PEARL BROOKS BROWN near St. Clairsville until coming to attend the (Mrs. Luther A.), B T-Syracuse, March 5, university. 1940, at Ballston Spa, New York. For the last 20 years a teacher in the Mrs. Brown was initiated into Beta Tau Columbus Americanization schools, she had chapter October 13, 1893. a share in making citizens of more than 3,000 As the daughter of one Methodist clergy­ foreign-born residents of Columbus. Before man and the wife of another, she was espe­ teaching in Columbus, she taught in Bellaire cially interested in Sunday School activiti es and Wilmington, Ohio. Fraternity Directory COUNCIL *President-MRs. EVERETT ScHOFIELD (Elizabeth Bogert M) RF D 12 Box 89 Indianapolis Ind. ' ' · · ' ' • , *Vice-~resident-MRs. }AMES PARK (Elizabeth Kimbrough, B X), R.F.D. 1, Lexington, Ky. E~ecutwe Secretary-CLARA 0. PIERCE (B N), 604-06 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. Dtrector of Alu~nna-MRs. SYDNEY LEE JoHNSON (Emily Caskey, B H), Rte. 1, Box 739, La Canada, Calif. D-irector of Chapter Organization-MRs. BERNARD LILLJEBERG (Leonna Dorlac, ~ Z), 2209 W. Colorado Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. Director of Chapter Programs-MRs. JosEPH W. SEACREST (Ruth Kadel :Z) 2750 Woodscrest Lincoln, Neb. ' ' ' Director of Member ship and Panhellenic-MRs. E. GRANVILLE CRABTREE (Edith Reese, B r), 85 Dean Rd., Brookline, Mass. • No special delivery service given by U. S. mail. ASSOCIATE COUNCIL Province Presidents Province Vice-Presidents Alpha-MRs ALAN DIGNAN (Kathleen Bredin, D '¥), Alpha-MRs. OTTo E. KASSOR (Hazel Hall, B T), 175 1231 Kipling Ave., Islin.ston Ont., Can. N. Quaker Lane, West Hartford, Conn. Beta-MRs. HuGH RILEY, JR. (Margaret Tschan, tl A), Beta-Mtss NANCY R. MYLER cr E), 7441 Penfield Ct., 205 W. Foster Ave., State College Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa. Gamma-MRs. LER OY TOMKINSON (Nora Wilson, A), Gamma-MRs. CHARLES CHASTANG (Ruth BulJock, 950 Merriman Rd., Akron, Ohio. D N), 1698 Berkshire Rd., Columbus, Ohio. Delta-MRs. MARK REASO NER (Gem Craig, T), 920 Delta-Miss EsTHER ScHLUNDT (9), 130 Waldron St., Campbell Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. West Lafayette, Ind. Epsilon--MRs. DoNALD McCARTHY (Carolyn Beach, Epsilon-Miss ANN A SPEERS (r l:), 137 Kingsway, X), 5209 Clinton Ave. S ., Minneapolis, Minn. Winnipeg, Man., Can. Zeta-MRs. HELEN RYONS BRANCH (Helen Ryons, l:), Zeta-MISS VIRGINIA MELVIN (0), 300 W. 23d St., 1454 Washington, Lincoln, Neb. Lawrence Kan. Eta-MRs. ABRAM A. McCoY (Ruthanna Eames, Eta-MRS. OwEN MARRON ( Louise Cox, r B), 1211 w. B M), 2331 12th S t., Boulder, Colo. Fruit Ave., Albuquerque, N.M. Tloeta-MRs. ToM McFARLIN (Grace Darden, B Z), Theta-MRs. FRANK M. ENGLE (M. Gladys Hensley, 1406 W. 29th St., Austin, Tex. B 9), 525 N. Union, Tulsa, Okla. I ota-MRs. LLOYD PAY NE (Esther Moore, 0), 1066 Iota-MRs. RALPH E. FIELDS (Hulda MilJer, B 4>), E. 22nd St., Eugene, Ore. 720 Blaine St., Missoula, Mont. Kappa-MRs. AKELEY QUIRK (Lucy Guild, r Z), Kappa-MRs. JoHN L. SuLLIVAN (Ethel Fisher, r Z), 3352 Griffith Park Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 508 Title a nd Trust Bldg. Phoenix, Ariz. Lambda-Miss MARY FRANCES WoLFE (r '¥), Silver Lambda-MRs. WILLIAM F. UPSHAW (Myrtle MilJer, Spring, Md. r 0), 921 Vance St., Raleigh N .C. MI<-MISS MIRIAM A. LOCKE cr II), University, Ala. M1t--MRs. ELIZABETH BALLARD DuPUIS (M. Elizabeth Ballard, P"), 555 N.E. 65th St., Miami, Fla. SPECIAL OFFICERS Editor-MISS HELEN C. BowER, 15500 Wildemere, De· SPECIAL COMMITTEE troit. Mich. Field Secretaries-(to be appointed). CHAIRMEN Advertising-MRs. CLAIRE DREW FoRBES (Claire Drew, STANDING COMMITTEE B II), 2417 41 st Ave. N., Seattle, Wash. CHAIRMEN Alumna KEY Editor-MisS MILDRED M. ARMSTRONG Budgeting and Bookkeeping-MRs. REED WHITNEY (Z), 334 Merrick St., Adrian, Mich. Army and Navy A ssociation-MRS. GUSTAVE HEISS (Virginia Bixby • T), 429 Arden Rd., Columbus, Ohio; Deputy-MRS.4 PALMER SKOGLUND (Julianna (Virginia Tucker Jones, r K), Box 51, West Point, Holmes, '1') 201 Elm Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. N.Y. Chapter Housmg-MRs.1 WILLIAM C. WALZ (Catherine Beq,.est-MRs. GEoRGE V . L AWRY (Elizabeth Voris, Kelder, B .0.), 1604 Brooklyn Ave., Ann Arbor, A), 1280 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. M ich. Chapter KEY Editor-MRs. LEONARD}. CoYNE (Dorris Fellowships-MRs. RoBERT GEORGE (Lora Harvey, F1sh, tl D), Thorne House, Taos, N.M. B II), 2425 41 st N., S eattle, vVash. Chapter p,.blications-MAI FLOURNOY VAN DEREN (tl Finattee-MRS. EDWARD HUGHES (Arleen \¥ilson, tl B), Ward Belmont, Nashville, Tenn. Z), Box 198, Colorado Springs Colo. Cons,.lting Architect-Miss MARGARET W. READ (B M), Hearthstone Fstnd-MRs. ERNEST P. RAILSBACK (Irene 740 13th St., Boulder, Colo. Neal, tl), 34 Foster St., Newtonville, Mass. Consulting DieticiMt--MRs. DoNALD S. HECOCK Histona11--MRs. THEODORE WESTERMANN (May C. (Kathryn Engebretson, r T), 8610 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit, Mich. Whiting, l:), 42 Pondfield Rd., W ., Bronxville, Pledge Training- MRs. EDWIN S. CHICKERING (Mary N.Y. Jim Lane, r N), 1509 W. Woodlawn, San Antonio, Kappa Club Hot~se Board of Trustees-MRs. A. H. Tex. . RoTH (Florence Burton, Btl), 629 Myrtle Rd., Erie, Publicity-MRs. PAUL KENNEDY (Martha Combs, 1'1), Pa. 291 Southern Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio. Magazine Agency-Mas. ]AMES MACNAUGHTAN, ]R. Vocational Guidance-MRs. CHARLES L. SCHW ER I NG (Marie Bryden, 9), 7538 Teasdale Ave., St. Louis, (Hazel Prutsman, B 1'1), 1096 E. 20th, Eugene, Ore. Mo. Marshal of Convention- MRs. HoWARD BURT (Della Lawrence, B Z), 27 Walnut St., Oneonta, N .Y. CENTRAL OFFICE Mstsic-MRs. GEORGE R. CHRISTIE (Catherine Allison, 1), 151 N.W. 92nd St., Miami, Fla. 604·06 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus~ Ohio. Riwalist-Historian. Executive S ecretary-CLARA 0. PI ERCE (B NJ. Rose McGill Fund-MRs. RoBERT S. SHAPARD (Lois Assistants-Isabel Hatton (B N), Anne Hall (B N), Lake, B Z) 3840 Maplewood Ave., Dallas, Tex. Mrs. Orville Baldwin (:Dorcas LeacbmanJ.. B N), Scholarship-MRs. EuGEN ANDRES, JR. (Helen Sny· Do c otl~ Clements (B X), Martha May valleher der B II) Rte., 3, Box 293, Seattle, V.lash. (P"'), J ane Huntington (t' 0). Standards-MRs. LEwis T. GREGORY (Isabel Culver, T), 1109 Douglas Ave., Urbana, Ill. Undergradtlate Scholarslu ps- M1ss MARIAN S. HA NDY PANHELLENIC cr K), Crisfield, Md. Chairman of National Panhellenic Congress-MRs. JOHN H. MooRE, a T, 1779 E. 89th St., Cleveland, FRATERNITY ACCOUNTANT Ohio. l\[R. GRANT I . BuTTERBA UGH , 6815 20th Ave. N.E., KaPPa Kappa Gamma Delegate-See Director of Seattle, \Va h. Membership and Panhellenic. 341 342 THE KEY of Kappa Kappa Gamma

KAPPA CLUB HOUSE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (B A)-Barbara \\' ynn, *1102 S. Lincoln, Urbana, III. Boyd Hearthstone, 800 Interlachen, Winter Park, Fla. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (r :E)-Marion Sibbit, 983 Manager-MRs. CLIFFORD J. ScoTT (Harriet Silver, Do"chester Ave., Winnipeg, Man., Can. r P). NoRTH DAKOTA AGR ICULTURAL CoLLEGE (r T)-Patty Kappa Club House Board of Trustees-see Special Lavelle, 1426 7th Ave. S., Fargo, N.D. Committee Chairmen. OFFICIAL JEWELERS ZETA PROVINCE Burr, Patterson and Auld Co., Detroit, Mich. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (9)-Mary Fickes, *510 Edwards-Haldeman and Co., Detroit, Mich. Rollins, Columbia, Mo. Hoover and Smith Co., Philadelphia Pa. U NIVERSITY OF IOWA (B Z) - Mary Ridding, *728 E. Henry Birks and Sons, Montreal, Que., Canada . Washington, Iowa City, Iowa. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (ll)-Joan Voigt, *Gower PI., Lawrence, Kan. ACTIVE CHAPTER SECRETARIES U NIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (:E) - Betty Ann Nichols, CmcAGO UNIVERSITY-Joanne Kircher, Gates Hall, *616 N. 16th St., Lincoln, Neb. University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Chairman of KANSAS STATE CoLLEGE (r A)-Mary Alice Match­ Kappa Transfer Group. ette, *517 N. Delawa re Manhattan, Kan. DRAKE UNIVERSITY (r A)- Jeanne Barlow, *3425 ALPHA PROVINCE Kingman Blvd., Des Moines, Iowa. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (r I)-Eugenie Andrews, ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY (B B"')-Jane Leining, *45 6633 vVashington, St. Louis, Mo. E. Main St., Canton, N.Y. BosToN UNIVERSITY ()-Jean Scales, *131 Common­ wealth Ave., Boston, Mass. ETA PROVINCE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (B T)-Jane Hooper, *743 Com­ UNIVERSITY OF CoLORADO (B M)-La Roux Groves, stock Ave., Syracuse, N.Y. *1134 University, Boulder, Colo. CORNELL UNIVERSITY ('!<)-Elizabeth Emery, *508 UNIVERSITY OF NEw MEXICO (r B)- Tane Manning, Thurston Ave., Ithaca, N.Y. *221 N . Unive rsity, Albuquerque. N.M. UNIVERSITY OF ToRONTO (B '!<)-Mary Louise Walk­ U NIVERSITY OF WYOMING (r 0)- Vivian Berkshire, er, 151 Westminster Ave., Toronto, Ont., Can . *605 Grand Ave., Laramie, \Vyo. M IDDLEBURY CoLLEGE (r A)-Alice Taylor, Battell CoLORADO COLLEGE (ll. Z)-Eleanore Puterbaugh, Cottage Middlebury, Vt. Ticknor Hall, Colorado Springs, Colo. McGILL UNIVERSITY (ll. A)-Barbara S. Nase, Royal U NIVERSITY OF UTAH (ll. H)-Margaret Palmer, *33 Victoria College, Sherbrooke St., Montreal, Que. , S. Wolcott, Salt L ake City, Utah. Can. BETA PROVINCE ALLEGHENY CoLLEGE (r P)-Jane Ruoss, Hulings THETA PROVINCE Hall, Meadville, Pa. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (B A)-Virginia Rainey, *2001 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (B A)-Candis M. U niversity, Austin, Tex. Ginn, *3323 Walnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA (B 6)-Dorothy Waldrep, ADELPHI CoLLEGE (B :E)-Betty Ann White, 76 *700 College, Norman, Okla. Huntington Rd., Garden City, L .l., N.Y. U NIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (r N)-Doris Larimore, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (r E)-Mildred Fro­ *800 W. Maple, Fayetteville, Ark. houck, *165 N. Dithridge St., Pittsburgh, Pa. SouTHERN METHODIST U NIVERSITY (r sh. Beck Ave., Akron, Ohio. MoNTA NA STATE UNIVERSITY (B ) - Sara Jane Bar­ OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (P"')-Jane Elliott, Mon­ clay, *1005 Gerald Ave., Missoula, Mont. nett Hall, Delaware, Ohio. U NIVERSITY OF OREGON (B ll)- Louise Moore, *821 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (B P"') - P atricia Peterson, E. 15th St., Eugene, Ore. *2930 Woodside PI., Cincinnati, Ohio. U NIVERSITY oF IDAHO (B K)-Mary Dale, *805 Elm OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (B N)-Dorothy Pettit, *84 St., Moscow, Idaho. 15th Ave., Columbus, Ohio. vVH!TMA N CoLLEGE cr r)- Virginia Charters, Pren­ DENISON U NIVERSITY (r ll)-Jeanne Klemm, Shaw tiss Hall, Walla Walla, Wash. Hall, Granville, Ohio. STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON (r H)-Elaine Zedi­ ker, *614 Campus Ave., P ullman, Wash. DELTA PROVINCE OREGON STATE AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE cr 1\f)-Char­ I NDIA NA U NIVERSITY {ll.)-Mary E. Hendricks, *1018 lotte Anderson, *13th and Van Buren, Corvallis, E. 3rd, Bloomington, Ind. Ore. DEPAuw UNIVERSITY (I)-Barbara Brooks, *Kappa U NIVERSITY or BRITISH CoLuMBIA (r T)-Barbara Kappa Gamma House, Greencastle Ind. Shannon, 1758 14th Ave. W., Vancouver, B.C. , Can. BuTLER UNIVERSITY (M)-Betty Foster, *821 vV. Hampton Dr., Indianapolis, Ind. KAPPA PROVINCE HILLSDALE CoLLEGE {K)-Elizabeth McCurry, *221 Hillsdale St., Hillsdale, Mich. U NIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Il"')-Martha D exter, ADRIAN CoLLEGE (Z)-Mary Elizabeth Batey, 634 W . *27 25 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif. Maumee, Adrian, Mich. LELA ND STA NFORD UNIVERSITY (B H)-Harriet Hall, UNIVERSITY OF M'rcHIGAN (B ll.)-Margaret Dodge, *554 Lasuen, Stanford University, Calif. *1204 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich. U NIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (r Z)-Marilyn Hoff, *1435 PuRDUE UNIVERSITY (r ll.) - Betty Graham, *325 'Wal­ E. 2nd St., Tucson, Ariz. dron St., West Lafayette, Ind. U NIVERSITY OF CALIFOR NIA AT Los ANGELES cr Z)­ MICHIGAN STATE CoLLEGE (ll. r)-Marjorie Meier, Peggy Maltby, *744 Hilgard, West Los Angeles, *6 05 M .A.C. Ave., East Lansing, Mich. Calif. LAMBDA PROVINCE EPSILON PROVINCE UN IVERSITY oF WEsT VIRGINIA (B T)-Betty White, MoNMOUTH CoLLEGE (A"')-Maude Field, 732 E. 2nd *265 Prospect, Morgantown W .Va. Ave., Monmouth, Ill. CoLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY (r K)-Katharine ILLINOIS W ESLEYAN UNIVERSI TY (E)- Lorraine King, Roulstone, *Kappa Kappa Gamma House, Richmond *1401 N . Main St., Bloomington, Ill. Rd., Williamsburg, Va. U NIVERSITY OF WISC ON SI N (H)-Elizabeth Jones, GEORGE vVASH !NGTON UNIVERSITY cr X)-Beulah *601 N. Henry St., Madison, Wis. Brewer, 13 24 Monroe St. N.W., Washingto!'~ D.C. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (X)-Helen Fitch, *329 UN IVERSI TY OF MARYLAND (r '!< )-Mary Millikan, lOth Ave. S.E., Minneapohs Minn. *Kappa Kappa Gamma House, College Park, Md. N oRTHW ESTERN UNIVE RS ITY (T) -Harriet H oettchen, DuKE UNIVERSITY (ll. B)-Katherine Harpster, Col­ *1871 Orrington Ave., Evanston, Ill. lege Station, Durham, N.C. GouC HER CoLLEGE (ll. 9)- Betty Gilmour, 108 Beech­ * Chapter H ouse Add ress. dale Rd., Roland P ark, Baltimore, Md. Fraternity Directory 343

MU PROVINCE Wilmette and Kenilworth-Mrs. John W . Nes- TuLANE UNIVERSITY (H. SoPHIE NEwcoMB CoLLEGE) tor, 1945 Washington Ave., Wilmette (B 0)-Baldwin Smith, 1518 State St., New Or­ Winnetka-Mrs. Lee Walker, 458 Sunset Rd. leans, La. Gl.encoe-Mrs. E . G. Davies, 505 Jackson Ave. UN IVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (B X)-Maybelle Connelly H1ghland Park-Mrs. M. A. Jennings 2232 *179 E. Maxwell St., Lexington, Ky. Ridgelee Rd. ' U NIVERS.ITY OF ALABAMA (f Jl)-Bashie Dimick, *9 01 Sou!hwest Suburbs-Mrs. A. D. Omaly, 421 N. Coloma! P l., Tuscaloosa, Ala. Vme St., Hinsdale RoLLINS ~O L LECE (.t. E)-Esther Pierce, Rollins Col· Western Springs and LaGrange-Mrs. Emer­ lege, Wmter Park, Fla. son A. Armstrong, 516 W . 41st St., Western LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (.6. !)-Eugenia Church­ Springs ill, Universit y, La. HiSnsdale- Mrs. Harper Clarke, Jr., 635 S. O~k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI (.6. K)-Justine Rainey, *25 15 t. De Soto Blvd., Coral Gables, Fla. Glen Ellyn-Mrs. Harold B. Kelly, 207 East Rd. Wheaton-Mrs. Robert R. Kimbell 520 S ALUMNlE ASSOCIATION Wheaton Ave. ' · PRESIDENTS CINCINNATI (f)-_Mrs. Helen S. McCullough, 3437 Greek letter following name denotes province. Mooney Ave., Cmcmnat1, Ohio A DRIAN (.t.)-Mrs. Maynard Kay Bent Oak Ave CLEVELAND (f)-Mrs. Lu S. Holler 2868 Chadbourne Adrian, Mich. ' ·' Rd., Shaker Heights, Ohio ' AKRON (f)-Mrs. Van Ellsworth, 722 Sherman St CLEVELAND WEST SnoRE (f)-Mrs. Vaughn W. Volk, Akron, Ohio ., 17834 Baldwin Pl., Lakewood, Ohio ALBUQUERQUE (H)- M rs. William R. Harper, 436 N. CoLLEGE PARK (A)-Mrs. Harold Cotterman, Coll ege Amherst Ave. Albuquerqu e, N .M. Park, Md. ARKANSAS (9)-Miss Margaret Black, 4414 I St., Lit­ COLORADO SPRINGS (H)-Miss Virginia Stevenson tle Rock, Ark. 1115 Wood Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. ' ARM'!' AND NAVY-Mrs. Gustave Heiss, Box 51, \Vest CoLuMBIA (Z)-Mrs. Louis Vandiver 19 Allen PI Pmnt, N.Y. Columbia, Mo. ' ., ATLANTA (M) - Mrs. Frederick F. Matthews 106 Rum- CoLUMBUS (f)-Mrs. Howard Hamilton 358 15th son Rd., Atlanta, Ga. ' Ave. , Columbus, Ohio ' AusTIN (9)-!-.liss Sue Campbell, 2209 Rio Grande, CoNNECTICUT (A)-Mrs. Raymond G Barton 665 Austin, Texas Bloomfield Ave., Bloomfield, Conn. · ' BALTIMORE (A)-Miss Emily Schilpp, 208 Woodlawn DALLAS (9)-Mrs. Dave Crockett, 35 21 Westminster Rd., Roland Park, Ba ltimore, Md. Dallas, Texas ' BATON RouGE (M)-Miss Margaret Taylor, High­ DAVENPORT (Z)-Mrs. R. P . Choate, 1963 )/, Walling land Hall, Louisiana State University, University, Ct., Davenport, Iowa La. DAYTON (f)-Mrs. Robert D. Musson, 330 Far Hills BETA I oTA (D)-Mrs. Sewell W. Hodge, 111 Ogden Ave., Dayton, Ohio Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. DENVER (H)-Mrs. Lester Dixon, 160 Downing St BILLINGS (I)-Mrs. T. W. Cooper, Box 1578, Billings, Denver, Colo. ., Mont. DEs MoiNEs (Z)-Mrs. Albert P . Diehl, 940 45th St BIRMINGHAM (.M)-Mrs. Thomas McDowell 4319 Des Moines, Iowa ., Cleft Rd., Birmingham, Ala. ' DETROIT (.6.)-Mrs. Alfred G. Sims, 643 Lawrence BLOOM INGTON, ILL. (E)-Miss Lorraine Kraft 1306 Ave., Detroit. Mich. Clinton St., Bloomington, Ill. ' DULUTH (E)-Mrs. C. K. Dickerman, 530 N. 24 th BLoOMINGTON, IND. (.6.)-Mrs. George W. Dunn, Ave. E ., !) uluth. Minn. 645 N. College, Bloomington, Ind. DuRHAM (11.)-*Mrs. T . S. Johnson, 1026 Cowper BoisE (I)-Miss Elizabeth Winstead, 905 N. 19th St., Dr., Raleigh, N .C. Boise, Idaho EL PASO (El)-Mrs. I. W. Gillett, 2907 Silver El BosTON (A)- Mrs. Franklin R. Swan, 44 Coolidge Paso, Texas ' Rd., Arlington, Mass. EssEx (B)- Mrs. Girard Ruddick, 360 Highla nd Ave BosTON INTERCOLLEGIAT E (A)-Mrs. James D. Mac­ Upper Montclair, N. r. ., Mahon, 51 Chapin Rd., 'Newton Centre, Mass. Branch-Business Group-Miss Dorothy Harris, BouLDER (H)-Mrs. John B. Valentine, 720 13th 464 Parker St., Newark N.J. St., Boulder, Colo. EuGENE (I)-Mrs. L. W. J~

LAYAFETTE (6)-Mrs. Donald C. Beck, 815 N. 9th St., ROCHESTER (A)-Mrs. C. Willard Burt, 86 Harding Lafayette, Ind. Rd., Rochester, N.Y. LANSING (.6)-Mrs. Walter Graff, 316 N. Jenison, SACRAMENTO VALLEY (K)-Mrs. Robert Brenner, 1415 Lansing Mich. 37th St., Sacramento, Calif. LARAMIE (H)-Mrs. E. J. Talbot, 615 Lewis St., Lara- SAINT LAWRENCE (A)-Mrs. George R. Hardie, 20 mie, Wyo. . .. Pine St., Canton, N.Y. LAWRENCE (Z}-Miss Helen Skilton, 1318 Lou1s1ana SAINT Lours (Z)-Mrs. Edwin Hughes, Jr., 515 Tif­ St., Lawrence Kan. fin, Ferguson, Mo. LEWISTON (I)-Mrs. Ardie Gustafson, 1024 Third St., SAINT PETERSBURG (M)-Mrs. John L. Wilhelm, 6326 Lewiston, Idaho Seventh Ave. N., St. P etersburg, Fla. LEXINGTON (M)-Mrs. Farra VanMeter, 17 Mentelle SALEM (I)-Mrs. Donald C. Beelar, 1600 Jefferson, Pk., Lexington, Ky. Salem, Ore. LINCOLN (Z)-Mrs. Charles Flansburg, 2!05 S. 48th, SALINA (Zl-Mrs. Allen R. Dodge, 425 W. Jewell, Lincoln, Neb. , Salina, :Kan. LoNDON, ENGLAND (A)-Mrs. G. E. Osland-Hill, Doh­ SAN ANTONIO (9)-Mrs. Jack Brosseau, Eldon Rd., ins, Fulmer Rise, Bucks, England and Grandview, San Antonio, Texas LONG BEACH (K)-Mrs. Charles J . Sexton, 3937 Elm SAN DIEGO (K)-Mrs. Edward M. Reilly, 4276 Adams Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Ave., San Diego, Calif. LoNG IsLAND (B)-Miss Elizabeth F. Penny, 73 War­ SAN FRANCisco BAY (K)-Mrs. Van W. Rosendahl, ner Ave .• Roslyn Heights, N .Y. 116 LaSalle, Oakland, Calif. LoNGVIEW-KELSO (I)-Mrs. Arthur MacGregor, 122 5 SEATTLE (I)-Mrs. Crawford Anderson, 946 13th N., 20th Ave., Longview, Wash. Seattle, Wash. Los ANGELES (K)-Mrs. John F. Tolton, 3001 Stocker SHREVEPORT (1\f)-Miss Annie Merrill Graham, 826 Pl., Los Angeles Calif. Erie St., Shreveport, La. LouiSVILLE (M)-Mrs. Leonard F. Broecker, 612 S. SouTH BEND (6)-Mrs. Charles P. Wattles, 626 Park 37th, Louisville Ky. Ave., South Bend, Ind. MADISON (E)-Mrs. A. R. Grant, 1922 Regent St., SouTHERN WEST VIRGINIA (A)-Mrs. J. Ernest Otto, Madison, Wis. Watt Apts., Prince St., Beckley, \V.Va. MANHATTAN (Z)-Mrs. Ray V. Adams, 1611 Laramie, SPOKANE (I)-Miss Mary Verdery Doolittle, 418 vV. Manhattan, Kan. 20th Ave., Spokane, Wash. MANSFIELD (r)-Mrs. B. L. Chase, 32 Carpenter Rd., SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (E)-Mrs. Stewart Johnson, !OS Mansfield, Ohio E. Canedy St., Springfield, Ill. MEMPHIS (M)-Mrs. Walter L. Berry, 203 Lombardy SPRINGFIELD, OHio (r)-Mrs. Thomas Victor Kolb, Rd., Memphis, Tenn. South Charleston, Ohio MIAMI (111)-Mrs. P. J. Cesarano, 2610 Country Club STATE CoLLEGE (B)-M.rs. H. Clay Musser, 315 S. Gill Prado, Coral Gables, Fla. St., State College, Pa. MIDDLEBURY (A)-Mrs. Edgar J. Wiley, 24 Park St., SYRACUSE (A)-Miss Barbara Greeley, 851 Maryland Brandon, V t. Ave., Syracuse, N.Y. MIDDLE TENNESSEE (M)-Mrs. E . T. Krueger, 3100 TACOMA (I)-Mrs. G. H. Thomas, 35!9 N. Adams, Overlook Dr., Nashville, Tenn. Tacoma, vVash. MILWAUKEE (E)-Mrs. William Kachel, 3966 N. TAMPA BAY (M)-Mrs. Harry K. Kelly, 1103 S. Da­ Lake Dr., Milwaukee, Wis. kota Ave., Tampa, Fla. MINNESOTA (E)-Mrs. Kenneth C. Poehler, Shelter­ TOLEDO (r)- Mrs. John Soller, Jr., 1945 Ottawa Dr., ing Arms, 44th and River Rd., Minneapolis, Minn. Toledo, Ohio MoNMOUTH (E)-Mrs. Joseph Dixson, 707 N. Main ToPEKA (Z)-Mrs. Paul Martin, 1272 Boswell Ave., St., Monmouth, III. Topeka, Kan. MoNTANA (I)-Miss Virginia Crutchfield, 323 E. Beck­ ToRONTO (A)-Mrs. William S. Rutherford, 30 Bin­ with Ave., Missoula, Mont. scarth Rd., Toronto, Ont., Can. MoNTREAL (A)-Miss Joan Patch, 3156 The Boule­ TucsoN (K)-Mrs. H. D. Cogswell, -529 N. Wilson, vard, Montreal, Que., Can. Tucson, Ariz. MoRGANTOWN (A)-'"Mrs. Oliver P. Chitwood, 312 Park TULSA (9)-Mrs. Eugene North vVood, 7 W. 18th St., St., Morgantown, W.Va. Tulsa, Okla. MuNCIE (A)-Mrs. J ean Miller, 502 E . Adams St., TYLER (9)-Mrs. Paul F. S-chultz, 2!5 W. Rusk, Ty­ Muncie Ind. ler, Texas NEWARK-GRANVILLE (r)- Mrs. Roderic M. Jones, 317 Moull St., Newark, Ohio UTAH (H)-Mrs. Ellis W. Barker, 264 S. Tenth E., NEWCOMB (M)-Mrs. George J anvier, Jr., 6114 Louis Salt Lake City, Utah XIV St., New Orleans. La. VINCENNES (6)-Mrs. James Culbertson, 516 Perry NEW YoRK (B)-Mrs. Frederick Liebolt, 930 Fifth St., Vincennes, Ind. Ave., New York, N.Y. WAco (9)-Miss Billy Day, 900 N. 17th St., Waco, Branch-Young Business Women-Miss Sarah E. Texas Morris, 310 E . 44th St., New York, N.Y. WALLA WALLA (I)- Mrs. Carl F . Hebenstreit, 420 S. NoRTH DAKOTA (E)-Miss Avery Barnard, 1215 S. Palouse St., Walla Walla, Wash. Eighth St., Fargo, N.D. WASHINGTON, D.C. (A)-Miss Anne Veihmeyer, 4633 NoRTHERN NEW JERSEY (B)-Mrs. Gail Bennett, 234 Blagden Ave., Washington, D.C. Phelps Rd., Ridgewood, N.J. WATERLOO (Z)- Mrs. Phillips Taylor, 247 Prospect NoRTH SHORE (E)-Mrs. Edwin M . Hadley, Jr., Blvd., Waterloo, Iowa 629 Kimball, Highland Park, Ill. WESTCHESTER CouNTY (B)-Mrs. Willis M. Torbert, OKLAHOMA CITY (<9)-Mrs. Catherine Janeway Mc­ 562 Colonial Ave., Pelham, N.Y. Cann, 1428 W. 35th, Oklahoma City, Okla. District Chairmen- OLYMPIA (I)-Mrs. H. A. McGee, 1917 E. Ray Dr., Scarsdale..._ White Plains, Tarrytown-Mrs. Har­ Olympia, Wash. old A . .c.dlund, 37 Windsor Rd., Scarsdale OMAHA (Z)-Mrs. Forrest Burbank, 3846 Cass St., Bronxville, Mt. Vernon, Tuckahoe, Yonkers­ Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Stacy Jones, 32 Courseview Rd., Bronx­ PALO ALTO (K)-Mrs. George H. Whisler, 1550 Cow­ ville per St., Palo Alto, Calif. Pelham, New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, PASADENA (K)-Mrs. J. B. Williamson, 4615 Haskell Rye--Mrs. Andrew W. Smith, !OS Rye Rd., St., La Canada, Calif. Greenhaven, Rye. PHILADELPI!IA (B)-Mrs. Gilbert Seil, 18 Radcliffe Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Riverside-Mrs. Rd., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. Caleb Didriksen, Willowmere, Riverside, Conn. PHOENIX (K)-Mrs. Lester Null, Rte. 6, Box 1480, vVHE ELING (A)-Miss Betty Anderson, Orchard Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. Woodsdale, Wheeling, W.Va. PITTSBURGH (B)-Mrs. Bruce E. Atkinso n, 3900 Per­ WICHITA (Z)- Mrs. Don W. 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