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This photograph of Mrs. Hoover's portrait was the frontispiece for the April 1933 KEY, at the close of the Hoover administration. Painted by Lydia Emmet, the portrait hangs in the White House, a gift to the nation from the Girl Scouts of America. The artist is an aunt by marriage of Mrs. Robert R. M. Emmet, daughter of Emily Eaton Hepburn (Mrs. A. Barton), B B-St. Lawrence. THE EDITOR Reflects • • •

PON THE DOUBLE LOSS suffered by Beta a very brilliant, and a very useful life. U Eta chapter within a few days, early in Kappa Kappa Gamma cherishes the ex­ January, when Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. ample of a life as abundantly fulfilled as Herbert C.) died suddenly in New York the -that of Mrs. Hoover, and the inspiration of evening of January 7, and Ann Clare Bro­ youth as purposeful as Ann Brokaw's. kaw, senior at Stanford university, was THE KEY, for the fraternity, extends sym­ killed in an automobile accident in Palo pathy to Beta Eta chapter and to the Alto, January 11. families of Mrs. Hoover and Ann Clare Wife of the only living ex-President of the Brokaw. United States, Mrs. Hoover was one of the fraternity's most distinguished alumnre. She UPON COINCIDENCE in Kappa experiences was the sister of Jean Henry Large (M~s. which, from time to time, have made us Guthrie), B H, and mother-in-law of M~r- think that we ought to run an editorial Kap­ garet Coberly Hoover (Mrs. Allan), r s- pa diary in THE KEY to share the continuing U.C.L.A. Long ago, in 1909, THE KEY re- contacts which bring us enriching associa­ ported Mrs. Hoover's attendance at a New tions. York alumnre luncheon, where she was in- We have thought of this as we have· read traduced as "the most traveled Kappa," recent expressions of pleasure and apprecia­ having then been around the world five tion from other Kappas whom war has sent times. In 1914 THE KEY told about Mrs. to strange places where new Kappa friend­ Hoover in London, where she headed a ships have made them feel more at home, committee which aided American women in through interests all Kappas have in com­ n~ed caused by the beginning of the other mon. Global war has brought many others war in Europe. By 1929 she was "the Lady to know people "from away." Erstwhile of the White House"; and in 1933 May C. strangers become friends, and understand­ Whiting Westermann (Mrs. Theodore), ~ ·- ing develops between them. So, perhaps, Nebraska, wrote for THE KEY an account out of such understanding will come truer of the Senate reception in the White House brotherhood.around the world after the war. · to which she and Emily Eaton Hepburn We have been thinking of all this again (Mrs. A. Barton), B B-St. Lawrence, had since the sudden death of Mrs. H0over. As a been invited. It was characteristic of Mrs. young wife Mrs. Hoover went with her bus- · Hoover that while she never relinquished band to China, where their courage and the close personal Kappa friendships of her helpfulness were outstanding during the undergraduate days, and made new Kappa stormy days of the Boxer Rebellion. friends, as a woman in public life she de- Mrs. Hoover, dignified, scholarly and voted her efforts to the Girl Scouts of reserved, was her husband's staunch com­ America in the finest tradition of fair and panion through the years of the other war unselfish leadership, to which the fraternity when Americans "Hooverized" and the seeks to train its members in service to the Hoover Commission for Relief in Belgium nation and to humanity. fed civilian war victims in a great demon- Just such a leader for the future in a stration of American brotherliness. Never a world which sadly needs such leadership conspicuous public figure herself, Mrs. was lost in the death of Ann Brokaw. Hoover lived to see the dedication of the Daughter of Congressional Representative magnificent building housing the 5,000,000- Clare Boothe Luce, Ann was majoring in volume Hoover Library of War, Rcwolution political science and international relations and Peace on the Stanford campus. At Stan­ at Stanford. A personage in her own right ford's 50th commencement in June, '1941, on the Stanford campus, and among those of which the library dedication was a part, who knew her elsewhere, she gave promise of Mrs. Hoover was chosen as the first woman . 5 . 6 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma speaker at a Stanford commencement. college Greeks, has made a contribution. Those who know the story of her college Last summer a fraternity woman, an officer years know that it was partly t4rough her recruiting for one of the women's services, membership in Kappa Kappa Gamma that told us that she had found her experience Lou Henry met the young engineer who be­ in rushing invaluable. Recruiting for one of came her husband. The evening before her the services is simply rushing under another death, beginning one of those chains of name: rushing for a particular service in­ coincidence, we had been reminded of that stead of against another Greek group. (Per­ college legend while reading The Adel­ haps that patriotic emphasis on for, rather phean of A t:. II, in which a Columbus, Ohio, than against, is an attitude which in turn newspaper columnist reported a dinner at could be applied to fraternity rushing, with this sorority's Ohio State chapter house, and happy results.) his idea for a "nice movie· story" in which The former president of K A 0, Mrs. one of the girls would fall in love with _a Donald B. Sinclair, now Commander Sin­ young man "who seemingly is working his clair, director of the Women's Royal Cana­ way through college but who develops to be dian Naval Service, first Canadian woman to a millionaire." head the "Canadian WRENS," has done a The following afternoon at a t:eception great service to all college Greeks in a state­ we were given news of Mrs .' Hoover from ment reported in the Montreal Standard a friend who, with her husband, had recent­ and reprinted in the November, 1943, Kap­ ly dined with the Hoovers in New York. pa Alpha Theta, as follows: "Her greatest The reception itself was being given for an­ training for her present job, she says, came other Kappa, Harriet Day Bricker (Mrs. from her presidency of the K A 0 fraternity, John), B N-Ohio State, a classmate of Clara which has a membership of more than 0. Pierce. As we came down the receiving 27,000 women in Canada and the United line and Mrs. Bricker noted our little golden States. Travelling throughout the Dominion key, her greeting became in that split-sec­ and the States, Mrs. Sinclair saw the prob­ ond of recognition a true Kappa handclasp. lems of discipline ~nd coordination involved Mrs. Bricker was honor guest at the recep­ in an organization that was split into many tion because her husband, present Gover­ units. To some extent, she says, those same nor of Ohio, had that day in Detroit made problems ~ust be met in the WRENS." the speech which declared him to be a Cheers for Mrs. Sinclair! candidate for the office of President of the On the material side, the men especially United States. That evening in New York, have aided immeasurably toward solving Lou Henry Hoover died. , the big problem of housing Army and Navy training units on college campuses, as in PON JUSTIFICATIONS for the Greek-letter earlier years the housing of their own mem­ Usystem which have developed through bers by Greek-letter groups was a recog­ the war effort, however unexpectedly, and nized aid to college administrations. The even unintentionally. _ big fraternity houses which have sometimes The firm and unwavering faith of its own been targets of attack have become exceed­ leaders in the college fraternity as a train­ ingly useful as "barracks" and "ships." The ing ground for leadership has been justified Greeks have unhesitatingly turned over their by the hundreds of Greek-letter men and property to the service of their country, women in the uniforms of the armed serv­ though their chapters face decimation and ices. Many are officers and leaders. They disintegration. To be sure, the men are glad are using, consciously or not, techniques to have their houses rented and in use, but and skills in human relations learned in their motive is not based on a desire to ·col­ college fraternity chapter life, in those lect rentals. small, integrated groups we look upon as Cheers for the Greek brothers, who know miniature democracies, as laboratories in that the spirit of fraternity is not dependent good group living. upon the four walls of a house alone. Even rushing, that problem child of the (Continued on page 50) Lou Henry Hoover 0 0 0

uJkne\t:J ~o -utb ~bout ~o -anp Wbing~ u~nb -o~t of ~II. ~bt Jknt\t:J ~eoplt" . I By E-velyn Wight A(lan (Mrs. Mansfield), B B-St. Lawrence, a. B H-Stanford, Grand President of Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1890-1892

Tou HENRY, Stanford '98, was a sophomore complishments. Through her personal ac- , .IJ when I went to Stanford to do graduate quaintance with "Old Monterey," she made work in the fall of '95. That year she had that romantic period of Spanish California her little sister, Jean, with her for the study "come alive" again; in vacation days she of the violin and, fortunately for me, she had spent enough time in her father's bank could not therefore live in the dormitory. to understand the intricacies of banking; At the little gray house on the campus, and I have seen pieces of furniture made known then as the Babcock house, where I entirely by her own hands. In fact, I had found "room and board," I found-Lou never met a girl near my own age who knew Henry! There began our friendship, broken so much about so many things. And most only by her death, January 7, 1944. of all, she knew people. When on a walk­ Born in Waterloo, Iowa, Lou had had the ing trip, we might stop at a lonely Portu­ experience of living in Texas, then in Cali­ guese dairy ranch, she could make the fornia, both in Los Angeles and in Mon­ Portuguese woman understand that we terey, as the family moved in search of the wanted milk, and she happily held the best climate for her mother's health. Mr. baby while the milk was being brought. Henry loved outdoor life and from her Somehow, even without language, Lou earliest years had made Lou his companion Henry could always establish a sympathetic in exploits. It was, therefore, a veteran · understanding with the people she met. hiker, camper, fisherman and horse woman, The smile left in that woman's eyes, I have who taught me, a "tenderfoot," to walk 20 seen through the years in many other eyes miles a day, to sleep in the open, to ride a that have looked into Lou Henry's blue bronco, to fish a trout stream. Those Friday dept?s of kindness and understanding. night camping trips with the Geology club, Our university was highly specialized in or the Zoology club! Or a night on King's those early days, even in the freshman year; mountain when Dr. David Starr Jordan students matriculating in departments such might come, and some of the professors who as geology, mining, etc. Lou knew she was had climbed the Matterhorn with him, and going to Stanford, but the choice of a could be counted upon to spin their in­ major subject was the problem of her high teresting yarns around the camp fire! Such school days. Latin and history held her in­ precious experiences would never have terest, though science attracted her more been mine without Lou Henry. Dr. Jordan was right when he said it was an intimate and mathematics had proved most fascinat­ and rewarding relationship when the youth ing. It happened that the address at her of the university coincided with the youth high school graduation was given by Dr. of her students. Branner, the head of Stanford's department When the rains set in, we had our ·nops," of geology and mining. Thereupon her de­ as we called our informal dances, and our cision was made; geology would be her Junior Prom, too. Lou Henry, her dances major science. She was not influenced, as all taken in advance, was as much at ease some people have thought, by her acquaint­ in her ball gown as she was in her rubber ance with the young engineer, Herbert boots in a trout stream or astride her Hoover. It was after her matriculation that spirited horse. they met in a laboratory where they both Her interests were as varied as her ac- worked. . 7 . 8 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

ERBERT HOOVER had graduated when I to make thej.r stopping places feel like Harrived at Stanford and was starting home. . off to the gold mines of Australia not, how­ Perhaps life in the treaty ports of Asia ever, without coming to the campus to say was the most cosmopolitan experience a goodbye to his major professor and Lou woman of that day could have. At any rate Henry. I shall never forget my first impres­ the contact with that life helped to make sion of his forthrightness and his keen blue their London home, their California home­ eyes. For the next three years while she was and the White House a veritable crossroads finishing her course at Stanford he was of the world. In the company of great ranging the desert, hundreds of miles from minds, Mrs. Hoover was a notable person any habitation. Mails from the coastal cities in her own right, though she never forced of Australia were months in reaching the her opinions upon others. . United States, so letters were infrequent She. followed scholarly pursuits all' her and unsatisfactory. When an opportunity life. With Mr. Hoover she had translated came for him to go to China he sent the and interpreted Agricola De Re M etallica, following cable: "Going to China via San the mining authority of the Middle Ages, Francisco. Will you go with me?" A new while kept at home with her young children. postmistress, thinking Lou Henry· must be a man, posted the message on the bulletin ITH THE facts of her later life the world board to the amusement of friends who Wis familiar, but little is known of its enjoyed such a novel proposal of marriage. deeper currents. As a mother she com­ Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover had in manded my greatest admiration. What a common their deep interest in geology and mother of boys she was! Two fine men have mining. They had also a liking for travel had the high privilege of calling her into far places, and a desire to understand mother. Six grandchildren have sustained people who lived and thought on planes an irreparable loss, the youngest happily different from their own. On reaching named Lou Henry Hoover. China she began to study the Chinese lan­ Our fraternity is proud to have the name guage, she made long caravan journeys of Lou Henry among the initiates of Beta into the interior of that strange land; she Eta in the spring of 1896. accompanied her husband also into the The whole nation is proud of the nobility tropical wilds of Burma, into the deserts of and the graciousness of one of the most Australia. And wherever their mining in­ revered of our "First Ladies." - terests took them, she managed somehow

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E ARE PROUD indeed to express for Beta ulty and students found a warm welcome WEta chapter our admiration and love by a gracious hostess. for Lou Henry Hoover, who was initiated Those of us who lived with Lou in the at Ida Wehner's home, May 9, 1896. We chapter, remember well her merry laugh recall that the former Kappa grand presi­ and enthusiasms. She gave in all things dent, Lucy Evelyn Wight, was present that the best she had. Immediately, our Kappa evening. It was she who first interested group felt the many benefits of her friendly, Lou in Kappa; this was the beginning of gracious and wise personality. She was their lasting friendship. Later, Evelyn young and gay with high ideals and always Wight Allan became the · £rst dean of unselfish. Many times within our knowl­ women at Stanford university-the Stanford edge did Lou actively assist Beta Eta, when where Lou was educated, and where she we were building a new chapter house. maintained for 25 years an attractive home Not the least of her good deeds was to -the "Hoover reside_nce," where both fac- (Continued on page 51) Lon Henry Hoover Moulded Conditions for Better Future

IMPLICITY was the note of the service, being under fire in Tientsin to entertaining SJanuary 14, in the Stanford Memorial the great scientists, statesmen, authors and church, Palo Alto, at which old friends and goyernment officials of this and other co~n­ neighbors gathered to pay homage to the tries in her own home and at the Wh1te memory·· of their beloved Lou Henry House. Wherever she went she made a Hoover. The beautiful church was undect>­ home for her husband and children. . ·. . rated except for greens massed before the "Lou He~ry could deal as understandingly benches at the side of the chancel which and sympathetically with a gardener as with screened Mr. Hoover and members of the the head of a world conference. Her mind was family from view. scientific, her training good, her mental dis­ cipline excellent. These qualities were invalu­ Stanford Chaplain D. Elton Trueblood, able to her husband. She was capable of sus­ in his brief remarks which opened the serv­ tained work, and needed. to be so in order to ice, said, "We are gathered here not in keep up with her family job. sorrow, but in rejoicing that this great and "Here in her home community Lou Henry fine woman was given to us and to the Hoover had a unique position. She was world." The few minutes of complete si­ known to all, and loved by all who knew lence which followed gave to the whole her. an atmosphere of the Quaker faith to which . "Just a few weeks ago she went east, full Mrs. Hoover subscribed. The university of life· and vigor and radiating friendship. choir sang "Dear Lord and Father of Man­ It is hard 'for us to realize that she is not kind," by the Quaker poet Whittier, and to be with us again. With ~ur sorrow goes Elizabeth Peirce Kincade, daughter of one the feeling that she went as she woul~ have of the university's first professors, played liked-with her work largely done, wtthout a violin solo, Shubert's "Litany," of which suffering, and near the one she loved be­ Mrs. Hoover was especially fond. yond all others. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, chancellor of "Here at Stanford we join in deep sym­ the university, and a friend of 50 years' pathy for the family, in deep appreciation standing, spoke of the life and work of of all that she has meant to so many of us Lou Henry Hoover. "Our country" he said, and to her university. We are grateful that "was built from almost nothing to its pres­ her gracious personality has been a part of ent state by American women as much as Stanford's history. Although she no longer by American men. Throughout our whole moves among us as our neighbor, Lou pioneer background, the explorer, hunter Henry has not left us; she still lives in our and trapper were soon followed by settlers hearts. The thought of her will remain and their vigorous, patient, industrious, in­ forever dear to us and to those who follow telligent, home-building, home-loving and us. God-fearing women. These women took "There is no finer example of how to live conditions as they found them and moulded than was given to us by Lou Henry them for a better future. Above all, they Hoover." sought for the right conditions for their child­ Private burial at Alta Mesa cemetery fol­ ren. lowed the service, which ended with a IS­ · "Lou Henry Hoover was such a woman. She minute program of sacred music from the could have fitted equally well into any stage carillon in the Hoover tower. Out of respect of our American development from the log to Mrs. Hoover's memory, the.fl.ag at the cabin with its loopholes for a rifle to the mos' modern dwelling in the largest of our modern Veterans' building was at half staff through­ cities. out the afternoon. "A chain of circumstances brought her [EDITOR's NoTE: THE KEY acknowledges with ap­ preciation the assistance of Elizabeth Voris Lawry into marriage with one of the great world (Mrs. G. V.), r-Akron, a. B H, editor, 1905-1906; figures of this period and took her all over grand treasurer, 1906-1908, in reporting the serv- the world. Her experiences varied from ice and forwarding the tribute.] . 9 . PHOTOGRAPHED in San Francisco the day before the tragic accident which caused her death, Ann Clare Brokaw, B H-Stanford, right, is shown with her mother, Congressional Representative Clare Boothe Luce.

~nn ~lart Jjroltaltl, JiJJ=~tanforb 1924 .. 1944 3Jnitiateb ~ap 3, 1942 By Sally Breuner, B H-Stanford

ou HAVE asked us to tell all of you about was going to graduate in June, a year YAnn Clare Brokaw as we knew her. We ahead of time. But in spite of her heavy would rather just send y~:m what informa­ course her grades were well over a B tion we· can, because it is hard for any one average. After she graduated she planned of us to write about Ann. One might re­ on doing China Relief or being a part of member long talks on her bed at night, the war reoccupation somewhere. She spoke another symphonies and Strauss waltzes; French beautifully. She was an alive and many have a vivid impression of a slim, stimulating girl, poised, far-seeing, intelli­ poignant person; and on and on. As many gent, interested in everything: art, philoso­ things as 30 of us remember, as many times phy, music, world events, people. we miss her. So we can't write about her · We would rather not go on. It would be and speak for all of us and all of Stanford better to say nothing really than something and everyone who knew her. incomplete. We can only say that we miss She was majoring in political science and (Continued on page 50) . 10 Army Wife Saw Jap Attack on Pearl Harbor: Christened Billings· Namesake Ship .

By Kathleen O'Donnell O'Brien (Mrs. James D.) B 'P-Montana

HE BOTTLE BROKE with a beautiful splash! took them back! I had my hair, face and TChampagne was all over me and the ship; nails done and went back to the beauty and the S.S. Frederick Billings, a 10,500-ton shop three times; for in the rush I could cargo vessel of the Liberty Fleet, slid down never wait for nail polish to dry, and the ways of one of the Kaiser shipyards in­ smeared the same nail all three times. to the Columbia river at Portland, Oregon. My eldest daughter, Terry; h~d been in- It was an exciting moment in my life, but the greatest thrill was to know that the ship was properly christened. In the chaotic days prior to our actual arrival in Portland horrible thoughts kept going through my head. 'Will I hit the ship?" 'Will the bottle break?" In such critical times as these I could not have an evil omen follow in the wake of a single precious ship. But to enjoy fully with me the actual launching I must tell you of those hectic days that preceded it. My father, Mr. I. D. O'Donnell, is a Mon­ tana pioneer, and in those early days of the new west he was a friend and associate of Frederick Billings. The latter was one of the early presidents of the Northern Pacific railway and the man for whom the city of Billings is named. When a ship was to be named for Frederick Billings, the Northern Pacific railway and the mayor of Billings THE "S.S. Frederick Billings" slid down the asked Father to represent the Billings family ways at a Kaiser shipyard into the Columbia and this city at the launching. In asking River. him to go I was invited to accompany him and christen the ship. vited to accompany me, but I had decided The invitation came to us on a Saturday, not to take her. Then on the Monday night the ship was to be launched the following at 9:30 a Northern Pacific official called Wednesday and we were to leave Billings from Portland to say that if I was to bring on the Monday night. What a week-end! her she was to be the flower girl at the I made a hasty inventory of my wardrobe. christening. I told him at the beginning of Fortunately I had done some fall shopping, the conversation that I was not bringing so that a hat which would not detract from her and before I said goodby told him I the launching was my only crying need. would! As I hung up the receiver I realized I called 15 women to come care for my three that the only pair of shoes the child had young daughters and the family home. All were at the cobbler for the night. I called were previously engaged. I bought hats and a friend and arranged to borrow a pair of . - 11 - 12 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma her daughter's slippers-and· then at that ship . . Hold on to it firmly with your left late hour found that a ticket and reservation hand. In your right hand is the champagne for her could not be obtained for the 4 A.M. bottle. The ship is held by steel rivets which train which we were taking. So with a bleak are burned. away one at a time. The an­ heart I sent a wire to Portland that she would nouncer will say, 'They are burning on num­ not be with me. Terry had long since gone ber one rivet, on number two rivet, etc.' to bed, so I consoled myself that, anyway, On number three rivet I will put the micro­ she knew nothing about all this. phone over in front of you and you say I finally did my own packing and after your christening speech. On number four midnight was ready to take a nap on the rivet be prepared to swing though the ship living room davenport until train time. At may not move until number five rivet. How­ 2:30A.M. I was awakened to find every light ever, with your hand on the ship, you can on downstairs, and as I rushed into the li­ not possibly miss, for you will feel the lurch brary to see what in the world had hap­ as it starts down the ways.'' pened, there stood little Terry in night Certainly that all soun~ed simple! clothes and bare feet writing me a note. As the one o'clock whistle blew, the cere­ Over her shoulder I read, "Dear Momie, mony began. Captain Walter C. Hascheck, I could pack my bag in a hurry. I want to who was going to take this ship to sea, was go with you so badly. I am afraid I can present on the platform. He was a teal old not take good enuf care of Suzie and salt. When I asked him if there was any­ Carol. . . ." In getting her comforted and thing especially he wanted me to say when back to bed I awakened my two-year-old I christened his ship, he commented, "Just Suzie, so 3 o'clock found me back in bed wish her good luck!" It seemed very fitting

with both of them o o o and wondering if I to have him and his chief engineer there would be right there when the train ar­ to see their ship given its name. . rived! A quartet of men, employes of the yard, But the trip to Portland was delightful, sang. Mr. Berry gave the principal address. and after 24 hours' sleep Father and I got off The Episcopal Bishop of Oregon said a the train feeling very pert, rested and ex­ very lovely and moving prayer. The flower cited. girl presented Mrs. Berry and me with huge bouquets of American Beauty roses, and GORGEOUS arrangement of flowers from then came The Moment! A the Oregon Shipbuilding corporation Mr. Bower stood right beside me for greeted ine in my hotel room. Mr. Frank J. moral support-and I think to gr;:tb the bot­ Berry, a N orthem Pacifiq official, came to tle and ·break it against the ship in case I discuss plans, and his wife, who was to be did not. I heard the announcer say, "They my matron of honor, called to decide the are burning on number one rivet." I raised important question (to us women) of my bottle shoulder high and Mr. Bower told clothes. me I had better rest it back· on the railing At noon a car from the Maritime Com­ for it would get mighty heavy. So I put it mission ·called for us, and' with Mrs. Berry down again. and the little Portland flower girl we went Number two rivet went, and on number to the Oregon Shipbuilding corporation three the microphone was swung over in yards. There some 40 guests of the North­ front of my face and I said, "I christen em Pacific were gathered. Many of them · thee the Frederick Billings. May God bless were former Montana people and several this ship, its captain and its crew." On num­ had known me as a child. ber four rivet up went my bottle again, but Victory corsages of war stamps were the ship did not move. Number five rivet pinned on Mrs. Berry and me, and then Mr. was burned away and I heard the announcer John Bower, general manager of the yards, say, "Our sponsor seems a bit nervous, see took me aside and told me how to be a the bottle shake." Well, I was sure I was sponsor. holding that bottle as steady as could be He said, "Now imagine this door is the (and still think he was passing idle remarks Army Wife Saw Jap Attack on Pearl Harbor 13

AT THE LAUNCHING of the "S.S. Frederick Billings," I. D. O'Donnell, left, Montana pioneer, of Billings, Montana, represented the Billings family. His· daught'er, Kathleen .O'Donnell·O'Brien (Mrs. /ames D.), B ~-Montana, christened the ship, which Captain Walter C. Hascheck, right, commands. to fill in the time!); but instinctively I started of the champagne bottle with which I had to turn my head to look at it myself, and done the christening. It is indeed a treasure then I thought, "Heavens, the ship might which will become an O'Brien heirloom. jump out of my hand while I am looking And since returning home a beautiful ~ack." So I got my eyes back on the job leather-bound album has come containing again. copies of the pictures that were taken that ''They are burning number six rivet," ex­ day. claimed the announcer. Still no lurch and Not that I need all these concrete memen­ then just as he was about to say, "Number tos to help me remember this very thrilling seven rivet," I heard the plop, felt the ship interlude in my wartime life. move, swung with all my might and wham! the bottle burst and the Frederick BiUings ND now the editor of THE KEY has asked was racing down the ways. ' Ame to tell a bit of my "past." The latter Immediately following the launching a seems much more important to me than my delicious luncheon was served to us and the "presen. t" other guests. During this I was given a Like many of you I am a duration widow, christening gift, a stunning and unusual in a duration home, waiting for a soldier to sterling cigarette box. In the bottom covered come back. My daily life is filled with face by a glass partition were the broken pieces scrubbings, curl twistings, shoe tieings, 14 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma,

"THE BOTTLE BROKE with a beautiful splash!" As Kathleen O'Donnell O'Brien swung at the burning of the lucky seventh rivet.

pants pinnings, nose blowings of my three it was live tracer ammunition that was sing­ little girls, ages two-and-a-half, five, and ing by did I yield to my husband's frantic nine, while their father, Colonel James D. telephone appeal to take the children and O'Brien, commands an Infantry regiment in go to the concrete barracks that were being the Pacific. Incidentally he has just been hastily used to house non-combatants. awarded the Legion of Merit for "excep­ Then on two hours' notice Christmas tionally meritorious service," and we are all· morning we were told to pack what we very proud of him. could and be ready to sail for the States at In other days we. lived on Army posts in noon. The first convoy to bring reinforce­ the Philippines, Georgia, Wyoming, Ken­ ments to the Islands was going back loaded tucky, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and with evacues. Hawaii. We were stationed in the latter So leayj,ng Santa's toys under the poinset­ place when the Japanese attacked Pearl tia blossoms that decorated our fireplace Harbor and our own post of Schofield Bar- (there were no Christmas trees that year), . racks. Refusing to believe it was actually the children and I left for the Mainland. war, the children and I, the baby on my Returning to my family home in Billings in hip and her morning bottle still in my other 40 below zero weather, we hurriedly bought hand, stood out on a drill field to better winter clothes and settled down to wait see the "show." Not until machine gun bul­ until the war is over and we can once again lets whizzed over our heads and I realized follow a peace-time Army. Kappas Repatriated on ''Gripsholm" wo Kappas came home as repatriates on university for our use. The kitchen was Tthe "second Gripsholm" last Decem­ equipped with great kettles and the thou­ ber: Shelley Smith Mydans (Mrs. Carl), sand people were served from the one B H-Stanford, and Margaret A. Frame, B !'­ kitchen. Men took on the heavier tasks of Wooster. firing, cooking and preparing the fish or As a staff member of Life, for which her beef. Women prepared the vegetables for husband is a photographer, Shelley Mydans cooking. Men and women spent hours has already published several articles, illus­ cleaning the rice and cracked wheat. We trated by her husband's photographs, which were blessed with ingenious men who kept Kappas may have seen in Life. The Mydans our rather inadequate plumbing working . were first interned in the Philippines and fairly well. . . . An executive committee then taken to the Chapei Civil Assembly elected by ourselves worked constantly with Center in Shanghai, where Miss Frame, for the Japanese commandant to secure all sorts years in China as a missionary, was also an of concessions, including the materials for internee. the showers, a canteen, where we might "I am putting aside your request for a buy very limited extra supplies, and extra word or two on the necessity of an all-out foods purchased with our own 'comfort al­ war effort," Mrs. Mydans wrote to the edi­ lowance' conveyed to us by the American tor in mid-December. "Certainly all Kappas government' through the Swiss. This latter -indeed all Americans-must put their allowance began in June and was the hearts a:r;:td lives into this present struggle." equivalent of about $12 a month.... When her plans are less indefinite, Mrs. "Of course our camp quickly organized an Mydans has promised to write more fully. infirmary for our sick, schools for our chil­ Shortly before Christmas Miss Frame sent dren, adult classes of great variety for those a mimeographed letter to American friends. who had the energy for them, softball The repatriates have been warned against tournaments, variety shows, choruses, splen­ fatigue, and in a letter to the editor Miss did church services. You can guess that Frame wrote that. she was "dazed by Amer­ Americans would organize their life along ica." However, she has given permission for tolerable lines." THE KEY to reprint a paragraph or two from Only about one-third of the Chapei camp her general letter. was repatriated, joining repatriates from By the summer of 1942 Americans in other camps in China, Japan, Indo-China Shanghai had been obliged to wear red and the Philippines on board the Teia Maru arm bands wherever they went. In Febru­ for the voyage to Goa, where the exchange ary, 1943, the Americans were interned in to the Gripsholm was made. the Chapei center to which they refer as In urgent need of weeks pf rest, the re­ "the camp." patriates will presently join their experience 'We were allowed to send ahead a bed to the efforts of their fellow-Americans, or 'cot, bedding and two· pieces of baggage never forgetting the compatriots left be­ and then take what we could carry on the hind them in the internment camps across day we went," says her letter. " ... We had the Pacific. two buildings formerly part of a Chinese +++ Uncle Sam Approves of College Women for the Marine Corps From a public relations officer in the Marine Corps Women's ReseiVe ~ "Because we find in pro­ curement and in the training process that follows that our best women M~es are those with a col­ lege educational background, we are especially anxious to find more and more of them for the SeiVice."

. 15 . Report from Washington . . . , HEADLINE FIGURES BECOME REAL PEOPLE

By Ellen deBary Turner, r 0-Denison, One of four 1943 K K r Graduate Fellowship Winners

ASHINGTON drew me toward itself as if relationship of the specific job each is doing Wit were a magnet. It was fine to be able to the whole job. Successful and practical to read what was going on in th.e news- administration requires this. We cannot papers, magazines or the Congressional afford to have dried-up, narrow bureauc­ Record .. But that wasn't enough. I wanted racy. During this, internship period there­ to be able to see it-all at once, if I could- fore, we are free to.observe all that we can: and take part in it, a dynamic phase of it, -Congress in action, both on the floor of if I could. · the House and Senate and in committee It is not miraculous that these wishes s.essions. We are urged (though few need have come to pass. But it is rewarding, any urging) to attend hearings of the War promising, fulfilling. Labor Board or to be present at the Su- I have set myself down in the middle of preme Court when decisions are read on the Washington along with 49 other recent col- first Monday of each month. lege graduates whp couldn't stay away from I heard Bernard Baruch advise senators the place where "decisions are being made." on manpower at a session of the Military The National Institute of Public Affairs Affairs Committee. The day the Fulbright gives us an excellent framework within Resolution was passed another intern ·and which we can study government and ad- I literally hung our heads over the railing ministration as it is. The National Institute of the visitors' gallery and counted the votes is a privately endowed agency which directs along with Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the a practical educational program for college House. General Giraud, when he was here, graduates chosen from all over the country whisked in and out of Blair House just for their interest in public affairs. around the corner from our dining room at When one has all of the federal govern- Brookings Institution. ment for his laboratory here in Washington The interns were the guests of Mrs. and comes with the announced purpose of Roosevelt at the White House one afternoon "studying the administration of public a£- late in July. We had an opportunity to fairs," he finds himself caught in the midst discuss with her the problem she was of a huge, dynamic· institution. One can most concerned about: the morale of our not call our gpvernment a machine, there fighting men, especially the wounded who are too many human personalities involved. have done their jobs and are now has­ One cannot call it a movement because pitalized. On another occasion we visited there are parts of this "institution" which Eugene Meyer, editor and publisher of the have become stabilized; But through our Washington Post, in his spacious office over­ democratic processes it has grown and ex- looking Pennsylvania avenue. & the eve­ panded until now there is need for re- ning progressed (Mr. Paul Appleby, Under­ examination of every phase of our govern- Secretary of Agriculture, and Barnet Nover · ment, legislative, administrative, judicial, of the Post editorial staff talked with us), and political. we saw more clearly the relationship of the It is the viewpoint of those of us who are press to .government and public opinion, taking part in this govetnment internship all subtly interconnected. program and of the staff of the Institute, All these occasions have been the reality that "servants of the people" must see pub- behind that intangible something which lie affairs "in toto." They must know the made me want to be "on the scene." But . 16 . Headline Figures Become Real People 17 there is not only the reward of having ful­ rehabilitation of low-income farm fanplies, ten­ filled a fond but vague dream. There is the ants, sharecroppers and wage ~rer8. I am doing this because I am convinced that our added significance of events in having the own nation should be a proving:~ ground for personalities in public life become live, real what must eventually happen in laD:ds now being · people. There is an opportunity to establish devastated and drained of huma~ as weQ. as a background and a frame of reference in natural resources. The years to come must bring with them proof from this nation that there can the field of public affairs. and will he freedom from want and fear, All of us can he working on that now. I know I am HAVE ONLY written of one phase of this going to. I Washington interlude. If I am to com­ plete the picture, I must add that all interns ART~ Washington? It is busy, yes. ;But have individual projects which take our Wstones have been exaggerated. The new eight-hour working days to accomplish. _and lovely housing developments have al­ After one month's general orientation, leviated considerably the problem of find­ speaking with men in significant positions in. ing a place to stay. You can get -a bus or bureaus and agencies representing all trolley on almost every street corner. There phases of the federal government, each are rush hours, but they occur in any war­ graduate chooses to be placed in the branch time city. Many restaurants have been con­ of the government which is best equipped verted into cafeterias so that service is to give him the information and practical quicker. Any waiting there might be in line experience he wants. This choice is based in a restaurant or cafeter!a simply means on long-term objectives which may lead to there is a little more time to read the paper - a life-time career in an administrative phase or visit with your guest. _ of the government.:....budgeting, personnel, Washington isn't the casual southern city public relations or management. For others it has been, but it has adjusted itself ad­ who are more interested in a program itself, mirably to its new population. People say foreign relief and rehabilitation, social should cease to compare Washington with security, or labor relations, their "place­ what this fair capital used to be. Instead ment" will create the opportunity to learn compare her with any wartime city of today the subject matter by working as assistants -Detroit, San Francisco or Seattle, and she to specialists in that field. will seem considerably calm and well col­ lected. My interest in social legislation and adminis­ If you are thinking of coming to Wash­ tration led me to choose the Farm Security Ad­ ministration in the Department of Agriculture ington, don't let the stories you have heard for my own laboratory work. I have been ex­ keep you away. That is, if you're coming to ploring the merits of their program for the do a real job!

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She Plans Meals Somewhere in England

AST F ALL Frances Hafner, r M-Oregon State, wrote of her work in England. "Nothing hap­ Lhad a V-mail letter from Lieutenant Delores pens, but I have lots of fun in little ways. De~ong , r M, somewhere in England. "It isn't a bad set-up, though not like steam­ Lieutenant DeLong was graduated in dietetics heated brick buildings. We conserve on heat to the from Oregon State in 1938, nad a student intern­ e:rtent that _laundry likes to never dry. The pa­ ship in dietetics at Peter Bent Brigham hospital in tients stay m bed to keep warm, which is good Boston, worked in a veterans' hospital in the mid­ for them. dle west and then went to Fort Lewis, Washin-g­ "I have all American food to work with, and ton. When ·nurses and dietitians in Army hospitals a grand ·crew of our men for cooks. We have were given commissions, she became a second lieu­ movies three times a week and go to dance's all tenant. over the l?lace in convoys. My job is fine so far, so "We have a very satisfactory spot here," she you see I m quite happy." LAST FALL when Margaret Speaks, B N-Ohio State, concert and radio soprano, gave a nru.,ru•n' for the Indiana State Teachers convention, Mu chapter honored her with an informal tea at Butler university chapter house. Seated are Miss Speaks and Elizabeth Bogert Schofield (Mrs. Everett), M, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Standing, from the left, are Bernice .ut~v•""'' ' l Bra;rton (Mrs. John), r A-Purdue, Indianapolis alumnm president; Jean Brannon, Mu """P'"'" president, and Mar;r Ann Scholl Elliott (Mrs. Harr;r E.), !-De-Pauw, vice-president of Delta province, Council Corner . . . _ Chapter Programs Keep Balance in Wartime I By Ruth Kadel Seacrest (Mrs. Joe W.), '2.-Nebtaska, Director of Chapter Programs

. MANY MEMBERS have asked· just what is chosen subjects, the results seem to have meant by chapter programs and chap­ been most successful. The timely and phil­ ter program planning. Chapter programs osophical subjects chosen denote a trend and chapter organization are so closely re­ toward more serious thinking. It is gratify­ lated that it is difficult to speak of one with­ fying too, to see how some chapters have out mentioning the other. included war efforts in their planned pro­ We always have had chapter programs, grams. which mean standards, pledge training, Certainly there was never a time when scholarship, music, and vocational guid­ careful planning was more necessary. Un­ ance. We have had general fraternity chair­ natural conditions on campuses and in men for these various departments to assist chapter houses, tense nerves, extracurricu­ and guide the active ·chairmen in planning lar activities, speeded-up courses, and even and conducting their programs. At the Sun the less varied diet which is apt to result Valley convention in the summer of 1940 from rationing; all these factors tend to a director of chapter programs was added create restlessness, and make a smooth to the council members. It is the duty and running chapter house more difficult to responsibility of that officer to work with maintain. Never was there a time when the fraternity chairmen in endeavoring to well-kept house rules were more important. coordinate the various departments so that An extra effort must be made to keep stand­ a well-rounded and adequate program will ards and morale at a high level. We want result, and duplication of time and effort our boys to come home to as clean and within the chapter will be avoided. decent and happy a world as we can pos­ Since 1940 the director of chapter pro­ sibly make for them. grams and the fraternity chairmen have In spite of all the difficulties and handi­ tried to meet together in the spring or caps, my confidence in the college age girls summer, either at convention or at council ot today leads me to feel sure they can session, and re-evaluate the programs and do this. I am impressed with their serious­ needs of the active chapters for the coming ness of purpose. I am also impressed with school year. Outlines and suggestions have the value of good alumme advisers at this been prepared and sent out all together time. On campuses with accelerated pro­ for the first meeting in the fall so that the . grams, the rapid turn-over of officers cre­ girls could adapt these suggestions to their ates such a difficult situation that the assis­ own needs in preparing a complete program tance of the alumnre advisers becomes more for the school year. necessary than ever. The plan has worked very well. In look­ It is not our intent to lay down hard ing over the various chapter reports it is and fast rules in chapter program plan­ encouraging to find how many chapters ning. Our desire is merely to assist the now, as a matter of course, plan a good girls themselves in establishing a plan of program and cany it out. It has been most living by which they may develop into up­ interesting to watch the progress and note right, responsible and clear-thinking young the ingenuity and careful thought used in women, so that they may find their place planning for each department just what iii the difficult conditions they will en­ would fit the individual chapter's needs. counter when they have graduated. In chapters where the pledge-active meet­ The all-time purpose of chapter pro­ ings have been carried out with carefully (Continued on page 40) • 19 • One-Curator Museum . NATURAL HISTORY HOBBY GAINS FAME

By Jessie Bane Stephenson (Mrs. Bertram S.J, B b.-Michigan

HEN Kappas come marching home again, their present and ever-growing cuhnination Wwith uniforms laid aside and wartime at the 200-acre farm on Quaker Hill near schedules go_ne with them, hobbies can . Pawling. New York. They call it Quaker flourish again. They're as old as Eve, and Acres. The large, old house filled with care­ hobbies often grow to avocations and on to fully ·gathered antiques, another of her hob­ professions. Olive Gunnison has made a bies, sets atop one of the highest of the Berkshire foothills with long vistas of low­ lying mountain chains and the Catskills beyond. From its west porches colorful gardens lead down to a museum of natural history, built two years ago. Every bit of the collect­ ing, preserving, even the taxidermy-ing of these specimens, is her own work. Her guest book contains many well-known names, including her neighbors, Governor Dewey, Lowell Thomas, and former Ambassador Hugh Gibson. Ex-President OLIVE MASON GUNNISON (Mrs. Raymond Hoover considers it the finest private collec~ M.), B B-St. Lawrence, has just plopped some­ thing into a bottle to add to the amazing collec­ tion in this country, because it includes tions in her one-woman museum of natural every branch of natural history, and all of history housed on her farm at Pawling, New the exhibits are so scientifically and inform­ York ingly labeled. Even the most uninterested visitor must learn something there. name for herself in the New York areas There are already more than 5,000 min- through just such things. eral, shell, butterfly, fossil, insect, biological She was Olive Mason among the Kappa and botanical specimens and a number of graduates of St. Lawrenqe university in Indian artifacts displayed delightfully in 1912, and later married Raymond Cunni- carefully-lighted glass cases. One corner son, St. Lawrence '09, one of 17 Gunnisons houses a cabinet equipped with fluorescent there, nine of whom were Betas and seven light where certain minerals, which .seem Kappas, which sets some sort of record, if ordinary-looking rocks, through this excita­ any of you collect records. The name Gun- tion glow with colors vivid beyond descrip­ nison is ahnost synonymous with St. Law- tion. Filing cases hold an ever-growing renee. An uncle, Ahnon Gunnison, was herbarium of 2,000 specimens beautifully I president for many years, and its chapel mounted. This museum stands open to the honors his name. Raymond Gunnison now public a large part of the year and has serves as a trustee, and is president of the many groups of visitors. Reuben H. Donnelley corporation in New Olive's gardens express another hobby in York, having come there from the vice- which she has gone far, receiving many presidency of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. flower show prizes. In 1934 she carried "Collector" should have been Olive's mid- away the greatest number of awards in the die name. As long as she can remember she garden club section of the National Flower says she has been plopping things into Show at Grand Central palace in New bottles. Many results of this have reached York. The first terrarium ever exhibited ii! • 20 • Natural History Hobby Gains Fame 21

THE MUSEUM a hobby built at Quaker Acres, Quaker Hill, Pawling, New York a glass bottle, 16-gallon size, was hers, but her death occurred ·before initiation. shown there in 1932. She has been column­ There are a son, a daughter and four grand­ ist, magazine writer, lecturer, broadcaster; children, including twins who trail her hap­ is now Pawling's Garden club president; pily, like two small shadows, all over the and her former Scarsdale home was reg: farm. She rides, swims and manages the ularly a center of Westchester Kappa ac­ annual horse show on the hill. tivities. Olive Gunnison has a lot of answers for A daughter Alice ·was a Kappa pledge, anybody's idle moments.

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Former Wyoming Graduate Counselor Remains Jap Prisoner

MONG the thousands of Americans who are family last December from repatriates who had still prisoners of the Japanese in the Orient is just come back on the Gripsholm and had seen the ADorothy Graham Fee (Mrs. Elton), 2:-Nebraska, Fees at Santo Tomas before they left. According who is interned with her husband and their small to these reports the Fees are well. An income, daughters at Santo Tomas, the university outside which they use for clothing and food to supple­ Manila used as a prison camp. Judith Belle, the ment the two meals a day in camp, has been younger of the little girls, was born in Manila arranged for them, although they did not receive last August, the Fees having been permitted to packages sent to them via the Gripsholm on her leave the camp five months before the baby was first trip. The Fees have not received any messages born. However, the family is again in the camp. from his mother, but last December Mrs. Pearl The older daughter, Marcia, was separated until Fee had a letter from her son, written a year December, 1942, from her parents, who had left her on the island of Cebu while they made a trip before. . .. Mter her graduation from the Uni­ to Manila, where they were trapped by the out­ versity of Nebraska, Dorothy was a graduate break of the war, December 7, · 1941. Dorothy's counselor (then known as a co-organizer) at Gamma mother-in-law obtained information about the Omicron at the University of Wyoming, 1932-1933. Day Nursery Performs Wartime Community Service . • •

ECAUSE there were wartime problems re­ employes' children. Many firms and indi­ Blating to the care of young children in viduals in Decatur contributed time and the last war, a day nursery was established material gifts to the new nursery, which in Decatur, Illinois, in 1917. houses 108little boys and girls every day. This meant that Decatur ;was better pre-· Prize room in the nursery is the spacious pared than many other communities to look second floor playroom decorated to look after the youngsters of working mothers like the inside of a circus tent, with a huge clown standing on the mantel and a big elephant painted on the opposite wall. Slides and jungle gyms · appropriately fill this tent room. Supervising the nursery-age tots is an- ~ other Kappa, Evelyn Hamm.er, M-Butler, wh? took her degree in child psychology. Mrs. Howard V. Millard is executive direc­ tor of the nursery, which is open from 6:30 A.M. to 7 P.M. for children from two years old to 12 years. Older children attend a

Maurice Seymour ELIZABETH SNIDER SIMMONS (Mrs. E. L.), _) H-Wisconsin, heads Decatur Day Nursery board in caring for the children ·of working mothers. when these women went into the present war industries. But it has also meant en­ larging the nursery. Within the past year the nursery's eight­ member board, headed by Elizabeth Snider Simmons (Mrs. E. L.), H-Wisoonsin, has supervised the remodeling of a handsome old 12-room residence in Decatur, into EVELYN HAMMER, M-Butler, looks after the which the nursery moved last fall. The tiniest tots. project is entirely supported by the Decatur Community Chest. Half of the $12,000 nearby school, but return for the hot lunch, cost of remodeling the house was furnished at noon and after school hours. High school/ by the Decatur war fund and half by con­ girls are junior aides and Girl Scouts give tributions from local industries which some volunteer time to earn a special serv­ benefit from the nursery's care of their ice award. -"V amos a C omer '' ln· Ch i le . . . . FROM CAZUELA TO AGUilA CALIENTE

By Pauline Vonnegut, A-Indiana, K K r Foreign Exchange Student

HERE was a knock at my door. The small To be really Chilean one must add melted Tboy of the household opened it a little sugar which gives the drink the · color of and said, ''Vamos a comer." strong tea. "Let us eat" is welcome in any language, We have had several kinds of dulces, in any country. The fruits, vegetables and dulce de castafias, chestnuts; de membrillo, meats are much the same there as in the quince; de manza:nas, apples; and de al­ United States, but often the method of pre- cayota. They tell me it takes many days to paring the dishes is different. Thus meal- make these properly. Most of our dulces time has held its surprises for me. are soft solids in consistency and very First of all it was necessary to become smooth, but that made from alcayota is very accustomed to eating at somewhat different str~gy. The alcayota looks something like hours, since "once" or tea comes at five a watermelon, but is very fibrous. It is good o'clock and dinner at nine o'clock. only for dulces. As in many countries breakfast consists of While speaking of desserts, manfarblanco coffee, a roll or bread and butter. And do should be mentioned. It is very rich, being I dare say that there are three big lumps a semi-solid made of sugar and milk. We of sugar in that cup of coffee? In middle . have many compotes or stewed fruits, the and higher class families breakfast is served huesillos or dried ·peaches being my favor­ in bed. However, not caring fgr this, I have ite. the maid serve me in the dining room. My firs·t experience with picarones was in At noon we have our main meal. It is pos- a cafe. I had seen these in the windows. sible for members of many families to be They looked just like small doughnuts. Hav­ together at noon because a large number of ing been longing for doughnuts, I stopped stores close for at ·least two hours, giving to try them. The girl put six on a plate and the men time to come home. Our meal usu- disappeared. Later the picarones were ally consists of four courses, although I was .brought in covered with a hot syrup of told it was customary among the higher melted chancaca, unrefined Peruvian sugar classes to have more. For us, a typical meal which tastes a little like molasses. The consists of a cold dish for the first course, picarones, though not doughnuts, were very such as lentils with a dressing· of lemon good and they tasted more like waffies. We juice, oil and salt. The second course may have . now had them for dessert several be a soup or cazuela. Cazuela is like a soup times. with a piece of meat, a boiled potato and I believe one cannot mention food in sometimes a l)iece of carrot in it. This may Chile without saying something abou~ .em­ be followed by porotos, a type of bean, a panadas, a type of meat pie. One sees tl:tem combination of rice and peas or meat with everywhere. They may be made of chic,ken a boiled potato. For dessert we may have or other type of meat, either baked or fried. fruit if it is in season or, in winter espe- Besides the chopped meat there are olives, cially, a dulce. Occasionally we have tea raisins, hard boiled eggs and seasoning. All at the end of the meal, but more often this is thoroughly mixed and surrounded aguita caliente. And what are dulces and by a rather hard pastry. We have very good aguita caliente? A!{Uita caliente is made empanadas where I am staying, but I won­ from leaves of a plant such as lemon ver- der about some that are mad~ along .the bena, boldo, mint or from orange or lemon street or in the park during the "Dieciocho" peel. Over one of these hot water is poured. celebration, the Chilean Independence day. · 2S 24 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma ·

I watched one woman who was making loaded wi.th sweets. Besides the usual food empanadas in the Parque Cousino, work­ was torta, bizcochuelo, tu!key sandwiches, ing the dough with her hands on a make­ rich grape wine and candy. Bizcochuelo shift breadboard with Hies and dust all is made qnly of eggs and flour. It is lighter around. The dough was very gray in places. and finer grained than our syrup sponge She . was cooking the empanadas over a cake. stove made of an old gasoline tin. The onomastico is the most important celebration in the year. However, the chil­ HAVE often heard of marine algae being dren celebrated their birthdays as well. The I used for food in some countries, but had birthday party was very much like one of . never eaten any. One noon we had a dish · ours. Even coca-cola was included, which of diced potatoes and something dark which is new in Chile. · tasted like iodine. The rest of the family The evening meal is very much like the watched me try this, then laughed and noon meal, though sometimes lighter. The asked how I liked it. It was luche, a special first course is cold, often a salad, if lettuce kind of alga. At other times we have co­ and radishes are in season. This is followed chayuyo, a thicker, more spongy alga. This by soup and afterwards budin d~ zanahoria is often fried in a batter and served with or tortilla de espinacas. The budin is a sort tomato sauce. of carrot souffle and the tortille is like an On another occasion when eating alone omelet with chopped spinach. Sometimes I was served something which was blackish the soup is omitted and meat is served for ,and seasoned very much like empanadas. the third course. Dessert and aguita con­ On the plate beside it was a boiled potato. clude the meal. During the conversation at dinner a few Before coming to Chile l had heard about ·days later someone asked, "Do you find it the excellent Chilean wine.· Red wine is possible to eat the .blood of turkey?" served with meals at noon and night, and , '1-have never had any," I replied. sometimes at "once." On the special occa­

"Qh yes1 you have. Do you remember the sions much ·richer win.es are served. blackish food served with a boiled potato? That was blood of turkey." HE places where food is sold are also of lf,l had known, would it have been pos­ Tinterest. Besides the many small stores sible to eat it? I have wondered. there are markets and ferfas. Ferias are . From time to time we have very fine fish found on certain days of the week in dif­ _instead of other meat, the corvina and ferent parts of the city. Early one Sunday congrio being especially good. Then too, morning I joined the crowd of people hurry­ there are shell fish. These sea foods are ing up the street just to see where they were very expensive, so we do not have them as going. They carried every type of shopping often as one might suppose. bag imaginable. Their destination was the "Once" ordinarily consists of fruit, bread, feria not far from our house. There I saw and a~sorted crackers many of which we a long line of high two-wheeled carts on would call cookies, and tea. On special oc­ one side of the street for several blocks and casions-when there are guests or when one's on the opposite side the little stands loaded Saint's day, or onomdstico, is being cele­ with food. The feria was arranged in sec­ brated, the tea is very elaborate. The first tions according to what type of food was onomdstico celebration I witnessed was on for sale, vegetables in one place, fruit in the day of San Enrique, because there are another. The street was dusty and the black two Enriques in our household. All day Hies plentiful. None of the food was cov­ there was a festive air. The doorbell and ered. telephone rang most of the time as friends On a larger scale is the Vega near the sent flowers, telegrams, or called to offer Estaci6n Mapocho. It is quite a sight in their best wishes and congratulations. Late the early morning. I was told that only in the afternoon relatives and some friends tourists found it of .interest, and was warned were invited for "once." The table was (Continued on page 56) WITH ANOTHER CURTISS CADETTE, lane Fay, B N-Ohio State, right, takes lift, drag and roll readings in the balance room over the wind tunnel test chamber in a course in aerodynamics at the University of Minnesota. Last February the Curtiss-Wright Corporation pioneered in opening the engineering profession to women by inaugurating a training program which offers a young 1 woman trainee a 10-month streamlined course in subjects specifically related to aeronautical problems of the aircraft industry. Five of the leading American engineering schools have been chosen as training centers, at which the trainee receives at Curtiss-Wright expense tuition, room, board and a weekly salary of $10 for incidentals. Upon completion of her training, the fledgling engineer is assigned to a position in one of the Curtiss-Wright plants of. the airplane division, where fighter planes, dive bombers, training planes, transport and cargo ships are produced.

War Has Made Her an Aeronautical Engineer • • • By Jane Fay, B N-Ohio State

HEN I start to work at the Curtiss- background for a course in aeronautical en­ WWright plant in Columbus, it is going gineering seemed insufficient: high school to be hard to realize that I am really an mathematics, physics and engineering aeronautical engineer. drawing at Ohio State university. I was the When I filled out my application for the proudest and most excited girl in Columbus Curtiss-Wright Cadette program last Feb- when my acceptance arrived from the ruary, I had many hopes, but not much Curtiss-Wright corporation. confidence that I would be accepted. My I need not have worried about my lack . 25 . 26 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma of college mathematics. We started with of hard, intensive study. It is true that aero­ simple arithmetic, reviewed algebra and nautical engineering is a difficult course, trigonometry; and now we are doing prob­ including subjects with which most girls lems in analytical geometry and calculus are not familiar; but it is a fascinating one. with ease. Our instructors have been very Nor has it been "all work and no play," for patient, have helped us over the hard . all the recreational and social activities on places. Most of them had never taught a the campus are available for us. class of girls before, and I think they were It has been fun here at the U Diversity of surpris~d to find that girls can be as effi­ Minnesota. It is fun to know and to live cient with a slide rule and a compass as in Shevlin hall with 100 girls from every men. We have studied mechanics, aero­ part of the country. It is fun to test steel dynamics and e~gineering drawing. We columns and rivets in the materials labora­ even had a course in shop and learned to tory or to test an airplane model in the work on a lathe and a drill press. After our wind tunnel. In fact, it is fun to be an en­ vacation last July our courses were more gineer. technical: strength of materials, airplane It has been an experience I would not design, airplane production, and still plenty have missed; and a wonderful opportunity of drawing. to enter a profession which is not only in­ When I first came to · the University of teresting, but has so many possibilities for Minnesota, I was prepared for 10 months the future.

+++ How Are These War Jobs for Something Different? arachute repair: Ruth Bellman Wolf in the Air Corps and see what a lot women P(Mrs. Frank), B M-Colorado can do to help, I do not understand how "I am doing war work . . . in parachute any of us can sit idly by and merely hope repair section of an immense air base. . . . for peace." Planes come here, are repaired, loaded and Marine draftsman: Anne Morgan Voor­ leave again in short order. Although gov­ heis (Mrs. TempleS.), ITA-California erned by military officers, the work is kept "I am a marine draftsman or draftsman­ going by civilian personnel. Women are do­ ette, as I have heard it said! I am employed ing a wonderful . job when manpower is in the office for the maintenance and repair wanting. They do repair work on delicate of the Army Transport Service. In short, I instruments, engines, radios, kits, nursing, draw ships; draw plans for the conversion office clerking and shipping. of cargoes into transports. "After several weeks of schooling one en­ "The work is most interesting and I pass ters parachute repair where parachutes are this on to any Kappa who might be inter­ unpacked, mended, inspected, aired and ested_ in .this. type of work." counted out and in. Every 12 days stock is Airport traffic controller, assistant: aired, i.e., hung up on great hooks and Kathryn B. Hadley, M-Butler spread out. They are as beautiful and white "My war work consists of being employed as wedding go-w11s. They must be perfect by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, or else one of our fliers may lose his life. Department of Commerce. I am an assistant "Doubtless many of our Kappas have traffic airport controller operating at the come in close contact with war activity. Chicago airport. Every six months ·there is, Now that I have many friends and relatives a base transfer, unless reassigned." -Philadelphia Story ... CENTER SOLVES WARTIME JOB PROBLEMS

By Chase Going Woodhouse, Consultant, W om~n· s Advisory Committee, War Manpower Commission; Managing Director, Institute of Women•s Professional Relations; Economics Professor, Conn~cticut College for Women

[EnrroR's NoTE: Mrs. Woodhouse's article has years of depression it was hard for any but been cleared through the United States Employ­ those in the front lines of the manpower ment Service and the Office for Emergency Man­ struggle to think in terms of manpower agement, War Manpower Commission. Kappas who attended the 1941 NPC in New York will remem­ shortages. Married women for a decade ber Mrs. Woodhouse as speaker at the final lunch­ had been urged, sometimes even threatened eon meeting .... Another Kappa, Dorothy Roberts by legislatures,-to return to their homes or Hoffman (Mrs. Corbit S.), B T-Syracuse, has taken to stay there. Now those with any special­ over for Mrs. Shryock at the Women's University club since this article was written. Mrs. Sl;lryock ized training were desperately needed. How is now state director for the Pennsylvania Federa­ to make them realize that the situation was so tion for Planned Parenthood.] different! Newspaper stories, yes. But how many HE PHILADELPHIA War Job Information collegewomen,marriedtorelativelywell-to­ TCenter has been a willing and efficient do men, reading that a million women are guinea pig in the development of ways and needed, ever thought "that means me." means of finding women with specialized Here was a gauntlet thrown down before training for specific vacancies and of fitting the educated 'Yomen and especially chal­ women with unorthodox or generalized lenging those in women's organizations. training into jobs which need to be done if Philadelphia has a strong college women's the war is' to progress at maximum speed. group in the Women's University club, a The idea developed early in the spring branch of the American Association of Uni­ of 1942 when the National Roster of Scien- versity Women. For years it has been tific and Specialized Personnel, now a divi- prominent in civic affairs and has made an sio11 of the War Manpower Commission, in enviable place for itself in the respect of spite of the thousands of highly trained men the community. Industrial demands were on its registers, saw that the personnel growing in the Philadelphia area. Important . shortage problem already acute in some government agencies we-re located there. areas like engineering and physics would What more logical place could there be have to be met in part, at least, by recruit- for working out plans for an attack on ing college women. this one specialized phase of the war Here was a call for women with college manpower situation-the college-trained backgrounds, some of whom had never woman! worked, some of whom had graduated from The first question, and a vital one, had college a number of years ago, gone into to be answered. Did the community feel a job, worked a few years, married, and the need for trained women? Would com­ had never since thought of a job. There munity leaders, organizations and industry were thousands of girls getting out of col- be interested in developing a center for lege. Their deans and ?tppointment officers recruiting such women? The only way to wanted information. They knew the na- find an answer was to ask the question. tional story, but what of the local situation? This was done at a meeting called by the Here then was the problem. Women consultant for the women's division of the were needed. The call was national, but the National Roster of Scientific and Special­ jobs were local The women who had to be ized Personnel at Temple university, May called were not looking for jobs. After 19, 1942. It was attended by representa- • 27 . 28 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma tives of 26 colleges and universities and of Corps, the Quartermaster Corps, the Navy the city and state departments of education; Yard, the Frankfort Arsenal, and various by representatives of 11 large industries en­ personnel managers from industry have gaged primarily in war work and of two retail met with the operating committee to discuss establishments, of three large women's or­ ways and means of meeting specific needs. ganizations and of a number of government So much for machinery. What of pro­ agencies including the United States Em­ cedure? The first step was a hard one. Mrs. ployment Office; U._S. Civil Service Com­ Shryock recruited a corps of 16 interview­ mission; Engineering, Science, Management ers from the membership of the Women's War Training; and the Social Security University club. They went to the USES Board. for training in the filling out of interview The idea of a War Job Information forms and to obtain a general knowledge Center was outlined . . There ·was no doubt of procedures and the labor market situa­ as to the opinion of the meeting. It was tion. There were "professional volunteers" felt very decidedly that it was high time on the job at the Center at regular hours, to begin the active recruitment of college with the director "on duty always." women and that a center to which they As women came in looking for jobs or could go for information on jobs and on information they were sorted out. Some training and from which they could be were immediately qualified for vacancies referred to possible openings was essential. listed in the U. S. Civil Service. They were The representative of the USES stated that referred directly to the Civil Service office the present staffing of his offices could not where a designated staff member received provide the counseling services which wom­ them and took over further action in re­ en of this type would require. gard to placing them. Those ready for jobs in war industries were helped in filling out o THE War Job Information Center was the USES registration cards. These cards established in · the Women's University were sent to the USES and the women Sclub in the Warwick hotel, an excellent called as orders for the type of work they comer, ground floor locations. Mrs. Rich­ were prepared to do came in. This1 saved ard H. Shryock, an active member, B A­ much running back and forth and time of Pennsylvania, past grand president of Kap­ both the candidate for a job and USES. pa Kappa Gamma, took over the duties of Women who needed specialized help of director. She was assisted by a representa­ physical, mental, or vocational tests were tive citizens' committee under the chair­ sent to the Trainee Acceptance Center, manship of John A. Stevenson, president, while those ready for specialized training the Penn Mutual Life Insurance company. were sent to ESMWT. This committee has been concerned with With each of these agencies the Center broad general policies, in interesting the has most cordial working arrangements. public in the work of the Center, and in The U. S. Civil Service, Third Regional developing channels of publicity. It was Office, for example, prepared and has con­ made very clear that the Center was con­ tinued to publish bi-monthly a bulletin on cerned only with women who had college war service opportunities in the Civil Serv­ training or its equivalent and who were ice available to college and university stu­ ready to take paid jobs. dents and graduates. This bulletin has The operating committee which meets been of great value to the colleges as well most regularly twice a month includes the as to the Center. director, three representatives of the col­ One very fine job done by the Center has leges and universities, a representative of been its work with the personnel offices of USES, of U. S. Civil Service and of various industries. In accordance with ar­ ESMWT, and three representatives of in­ rangements made with the USES of the dustry and of industrial associations. From War Manpower Commission, a representa­ time to time representatives of the National tive of the Center has made regular visits Roster and of the War Department from to these offices, learned the needs of the Washington, officers from the Army Signal various plants, and has been able to suggest - Center Solves Wartime Job Problems 29 women who might fill certain jobs. Ma,ny to perform in coordinating and disseminating of these women did not have orthodox information relative to tllaining and job op­ portunities. The applicant is saved much time training for specific jobs, but often a person and energy. She visits one office rather than knowing the job and knowing a woman a half dozen. Also the Center is equipped to could see where the two could be made to handle the special problems of ' its clients. fit. This work has been of special value, for even today the magazines carry stories of The Center has been a source of up-to­ women who want to work in the war the-minute information for the college effort but who can't find a niche. Here the placement offices. It has helped in the steps Center has a job of real significance. What being taken to bring the National Roster Dr. Carmichael, director of the National of Scientific and Specialized Personnel and Roster of Scientific and Specialized Person­ the services of the USES for professionally nel, said December 13, 1942, is still .true: qualified applicants on the one hand, and "There is no real demand for women in the the college placement offices and the col­ professions. It has to be stimulated." lege and university graduates on the other, closer together. HE PHILADELPHIA War Job Information Perhaps the greatest task of the Center TCenter opened September 8, 1942. By has been in finding a place in this great war the end of the year over 600 women had effort for the well-trained and qualified been interviewed, by early spring the num­ woman who lacks recent work experience ber was well over 1,000. Others came in for or orthodox work experience. In the words information of various types on jobs and of the director: "Unfortunately, those on training. Many were registered in women are not wanted, either in industry ESMWT courses; others were listed with or by the government, often because of the USES, the U. S. Civil Service Commis­ their age-sometimes because of their sex. sion, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Some have been willing to take courses the National Roster of Scientific and Spe­ which would fit them into the immediate cialized Personnel or referred to the vari­ war effort. The names of others are filed ous branches of the Army and Navy, the in a reserve pool . . . recently two aircraft National Red Cross, various state bureaus, factories have notified us that they are social agencies, and personnel managers in willing and anxious to take college women; industry and retail establishments and of­ one has extended the age limit to 55, the fices. other to 60. We were happy to take out There were 54 women referred to the of our reserve pool the names of 37 women Child Day Care centers when they were workers we feel could meet the require- first established. These were mostly women ments." . with good general background but no The Philadelphia War Job Information specialized training. At the other end of Center is no longer an experiment. With the the training scale in the first three months approval of the War Manpower Commission the Center found 4 draftsmen, 2 chemists, it supplements the work of government agen­ .2 computers, 1 radio technician, and even cies in meeting wartime needs in recruiting 1 engineer-all badly needed and rare per­ women .with specialized training or with a back­ ground for specialized training, coordinating sonnel! It referred 32 women to the WAVES and disseminating information on jobs and on and 18 to the WAC. A selected list of training, selling to industry and to government names of 25 women highly ·qualified in agencies women with unorthodox training; languages was prepared for Navy Intelli­ breaking down traditions regarding age and ·sex qualifications for certain jobs; watching gence. And 9 women went from the Center for lacks in training which our colleges might to the assembly lines. Events move so quick­ remedy; cooperating in building up the register ly it is hard to remember that in October of the National Roster of Scientific and Special­ 1942 assembly line jobs were still pioneer ized Personnel on which should be found the territory for college women. names of all women with specialized training in the sciences, language, and social science fields ; The Center has moved rapidly on from those and also cooperating in the development of beginnings. It has proven that it has a service services to professional groups by the USES. Service Honor Roll . . . More Kappas with the Armed Forces

WACs WAAF Lieutenant Marg~et A. Clark, ~-Boston Ann Craft, 2:-Nebraska Lieutenant _Virginia Lee, X-Minnesota Annabel Shaum, 2:-Nebraska Lieutenant Kathryne A. Borg, B ~-Montana Jean Frost, B a-Oklahoma, in England ARMY NURSE CORPS Susan Anne Chalmers, r n-Denison Lieutenant Elizabeth Louise Wolfe, r -¥-Maryland Lieutenant Mary Margaret Carr Pochodowicz (Mrs. WAVES Stanley), r A-Kansas State Ensign Isabel Brenner, r K~William and Mary Ensign Doris Fuhs, r P-Allegheny USA MEDICAL CORPS Ensign Susan Erwin, B IT-Washington Frances M. Kittle, K-Hillsdale Lieutenant Jane Matthews Day (Mrs. Robert C.), Jenny Helen Taylor, B T-West Virginia r IT-Alabama, Public Health Service Frances L. Moore, a-Missouri Lieutenant Jane Eunice Conkey, H-Wisconsin Phyllis Virginia Burt, ~-Boston Frances Norma Dean, ~-Boston AMERICAN RED CROSS Phyllis Edith Dockeray, r :E:-UCLA Mary Matilda Albright, B T-West Virginia Anna Grier, Al>-Monmouth Lois Webster, B A-Illinois Myra Jane Rodgers, E-Illinois Wesleyan Elizabeth Ann Chitwood, :S T-West Virginia, over­ Jane Wilson, IIl>-California seas Dorothy Rose Ward, B Z-lowa, overseas USMCWR (MARINES) . Patricia Neale, B n-Oregon, overseas Lieutenant Mary Agnes Donegan, B ~-Adelphi H. Margaret Lea, B N-Ohio State, overseas Lieutenant Nancy Winn Roeder, r !-Washington University CWAC Lieutenant Louise Elliott, r r-Whitman Lieutenant Alice Fraser MacDonald, X-Minnesota Mamie Grant, r ~-Manitoba Lieutenant Dorathea S. Freseman, r ..Y-Maryland Shirley Edmond, r ~-Manitoba

, THE KEY Rates Service Flag Star

ARAPHRASING Nathan Hale, the editor regrets that she has but. one KEY staff member to Pgive for her country. That being the case, THE KEY is proud to have a representative in the women's services: Betty Brush, B :E:-Texas, who has joined the WAVES. Last heard from at press time, Betty was An S2c, had just finished her boot training at Hunter college and was waiting orders to a service school. Due to this patriotic brush-off and the resultant woman­ power shortage on THE KEY staff, to simplify matters, chapter KEY correspondents have been . requested to send their chapter letters for the April KEY to THE KEY editor, Helen Bower, 15500 Wildemere avenue, Detroit 21, Michigan, by February 15. By fall it is assumed that a new chapter editor will have been appointed .

. 30 . ~ salty Stuff MCWR IS "YO, MAC" FOR G.l. JOSEPHINES By Clare A. Frederick, 2nd Lieutenant, USMC (WR), B Z-lowa

HE KEY's Service Honor Roll is always places, and I'm not too sure of my chances Ta feature of great interest to me, and the of being heard in a large gathering of these first page to which I hastily turn as soon as energetic and articulate gals! I receive the magazine. The Marine Corps My good luck at getting into the Corps Women's Reserve, being a part of the Ma­ was followed jmmediately by my being rine Corps proper, takes its action seriously chosen one of the first 19 procurement offi­ also. cers. Our task was that of going out to the During the 10 months that I have been 19 different procurement offices of the Ma- a procurement officer for the MCWR, as we appear in abbreviation, I have spent some working time in Massachusetts; Washing­ ton, D.C.; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Houston and San Antonio, Texas; New Or- , leans, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Mem­ phis, Tennessee, and so on. I'm taking fly- 1 ing lessons during my euphemistically titled "spare time" too, and my pilot's log· looks like a page from a Cook's tour. It's nice and friendly, though, what with all the different instructors finding friends and acquaintances in my little black book. With all this junketing about, the Serv­ ice Honor Roll serves to keep me up with which of my Kappa friends have most re­ cently given in to that urge to do their bit in uniform-which way, incidentally, the girls in uniform are fully convinced is the finest and most satisfying way for those of us who can. Official U. S. Marine Corps Photo How I wish we could all get together LIEUTENANT CLARE A. FREDERICK, now-Kappas everywhere, uniformed and USMCWR, B Z-lowa, keeps things from civilian! I know we'd all have wonderful getting snafued. tales to tell, humorous and serious, of the lives we're leading, the new responsibilities rine Corps in the United States and open­ we're learning to accept. Since that's an ing them up for the enlistment of women. obvious impossibility, I'd like to jot down That was back in February 1943-the 15th, here a few of the things that have been of to be exact; and I shall never forget the day interest to me in the MCWR. You may I arrived at my first station, Dallas, Texas. find them amusing or worthwhile. And this I was tired from a long train trip, but ex­ way is probably better than that big Kappa cited to the point where the news photog­ meeting anyway, for while I majored in rapher who greeted me as I stepped off the speech at the University of Iowa, and re- train had to ask me to pop my eyes back ceived my M.A. in it at Texas State College into my head before he could operate his for Women, I've known Kappas in many equipment! Well, it was almost that bad. . 31 . 32 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Even more thrilling was reporting in the allowed me appr:oximately 45 minutes in prescribed military manner to my com­ which to rush home, turn all dresser manding officer, who, by the way, greeted drawers upside down into my luggage and me with a most un-military but heart­ lunge for the train. I made it, needless to warming smile and put me at ease at once. say, . and have been loving Atlanta, the He led me to what was to be my office, work, and the people ever since. with one hand handed me a gargantuan While here, I've had the long-hoped for sheaf of "inquiries" which had been pouring opportunity-to visit Camp Lejeune, at New in ever since the first word leaked out to River, North Carolina, our huge Marine the public that there would soon be women training base on the coast-(and you'll be­ in the Marine Corps; and with the other lieve it's huge, once you've tried walking hand, he gesfured distractedly at the wait­ about a bit there!). I had missed Lejeune ing room, jam-packed with would-be en­ because 'way back there when I was a listees. I didn't even have my war-bonnet ''boot," our training centers for women were off when the mob started streaming in! No at Smith, Holyoke, and Hunter colleges; wonder my commanding officer had been so I greatly wanted a peep at the rugged so glad to see mel What could mere males Marine style of turning a petticoat into a do with these petticoats wild to be Ma­ Real Gyrene. It's an impressive and inter­ rines? esting sight, and makes one realize that all the Marine tradition of thorough training OR SEVEN months in Dallas I rivaled the and crack performance has been carried Fbeaver in industriousness (no virtue-! over into the Women's Reserve. had to-that's how the Marine Corps oper­ ates); made many valued friends; began to ESIDES this, and somewhat on the lighter get some picture of the real Marine Corps Bside, there's assuredly a great day com­ (an awe-inspiring procedure, and one which ing for the male who heretofore has had to makes little chills run up and down the take his Sally, Jane, or Joan without too spine with the thought, "... and I am part much emphasis on her skill as a house­ of this!!"); and all in all was feeling pretty keeper. You might not think that the rough "salty." Our office was blessed with a and tough Marine Corps is a finishing­ "Top" (a First Sergeant to you of the unini­ school training in home economics for its tiated laity) who'd had 16 years in the Ma­ women members, but probably more good rine Corps, and couldn't comprehend a lan­ housekeepers will emerge from their Ma­ guage that substituted "wall" for the cor­ rine training than come out of the house­ rect "bulkhead"-or, "bed," when even the .keeping schools of the nation. The G.l. rawest recruit will murmur "sack"-or, J osephines of the Marine Corps learn to "money" for "moola," "candy" for "pogie make up their bunks with mitred corners, bait," "thing" for "Gizmo," and so on down turning the top sheet down to a good even the list of a no-longer bewildering new six inches, folding the soft G.l. green blan­ vocabulary. ket "just-so," tucking the end of the pillow­ Well, as I say, I was feeling pretty salty case in so that it becomes a neat, compact and settled when I was suddenly awakened bundle. They learn good housekeeping to to the fact that the only constant thing in the tune of white-glove inspections-and the Marine Corps is change by orders. The believe me, white gloves turn gray at even first transferred me to Atlanta, Georgia, the smell of dirt! where I was to be stationed at procurement Those corners that even a self-respecting division headquarters. housewife might neglect . once in a while? "Well!" I thought, slinging my gear into The white gloves never forget them-nor my seabags (I'm still salty, you see-that's the officer's hand inside. Bugaboo dresser for "stuff and junk into my luggage"), "that drawers? Gear is stowed in piles neat · has a nice sound-." enough to delight the heart of any file That's about all I had time to say, for clerk! Closets all snafued? (That "snafu" is with true Marine timing, the Corps had pretty salty-it means "Situation Normal, lUCWR Is "Yo, Mac" for G.I. Josephines 33

All Fouled Up.") Hangers all face the same stationed at El Paso this time, and knowing - way. Clothes have the same zeal, and when the Marine Corps, I know the duty will be not in use are buttoned. The Marine Corps "Yo, Mac!" (and that's for "simply swell, may make its men tough, but it makes its friend!"). Hope I'll be meeting some more women good housekeepers-or else! And Kappa sisters soon, both in a1_1d out of uni­ with it all comes a comradeship, a spirit form-and, of course, since I'm still a pro­ that simply can't be equalled elsewhere­ curement officer, I can't help slipping in and I'll bet my most prized and beautiful the hope that I'll soon be seeing many Marine Corps button on that! · more of you in Marine Greens! Soon I'll be heading back to Texas, to be

Official U . S . Marine Cm·Ps Photo GOLF CHAMPION PATTY BERG, X-Minnesota, has had some proud moments on the greens and faincays of the nation's golf courses. But no moment was prouder than this one when, clad in · the forest green uniform of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, she received the gold bars of a second lieutenant in the traditional bar pinning ceremony the night before she was graduated from the Seventh Officer Candidates' Class at Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Private Firs4 Class Rose Jleterito, right, is shown pinning a bar on the new lieutenant's shoulder. Rootin', T ootin' Recruiting ARE WE WOMEN, LITTLE WIMMEN OR MICE?

By Helen Bower, B !1-Michigan, Editor

m:: E_DITQR laffed and laffed, in a nice pa- really detrimental to enlistment and doesn't Ttnohc way. speak well for any of us. ·The December KEY, which just squeaked Seriously now we, as a civilian, didn't through to most of its readers in the last have any idea that any American male of days of December,. thereby making an hon- whatever age would go around giving his est woman of us, in all but the out-lying girl or the girls any such line. We didn't precincts, got one of the quickest rises in have any idea that if an American male did our decade-and-more of editing. (We won't talk such guff any girl who thought for stop to tell about how manpower shortage herself would pay it any mind. Personally, and stuff and things hold up magazine pub- we have been screaming ever since Pearl lication these days. We won't even ask in- Harbor because we are having to sit out dulgence, because we are kind of on the our second war, having been too young for stubborn side and will keep on being deter- the last one (in which there were none of mined as possible, with the good Banta these splendid women's services) and never brand of cooperation, to get this here now mind about us and this war. If we're not in February KEY out in February (29 days this one of those uniforms, at least it's not be­ year) and so on for the duraJion of our dura- cause some gent has said he doesn't want tion.) us to join up. "Fine thing!!!" fine-thinged one of our As far as that "Join the WAC" sentence warmest friends and severest critics, who in the December KEY is concerned, it was wears the stripes of a lieutenant in the in an article written by a Kappa who works W-V(S), USNR, which seems to be the offi- .for the War Department, as our W-V(S), cial way to write WAVES. She is a Kappa USNR, lieutenant very well knows. About from a chapter in a middle-western univer- that she was only kidding. sity, we will add, cagily, not to get too per- The rest is trigger-quick action on her sonal or give away any military and naval part, on behalf of all the women's services. secrets. While we're presenting this with what we "I open up the new KEY and what do I fondly hope is the light touch, we're just as find in the article entitled 'Which Job Shall concerned about it as she is,. and as eager I Take?' 'Join the WAC,' but no mention to do what we can, such as suggesting that of the fine Women's Reserve of the U. S. the girls pin back the ears of any lads who Navy. I can see no other way to remedy try to keep them from enlisting, and pin that but by giving us a full page in the their own ears shut against any such talk. next issue. I am enclosing an article written We don't know who this "mere male" is by a mere male but which I think is most who has been patriotically willing to write effective so long as girls seem to depend so t~e following pep talk. But we'll accept on their opinion. Thought you might be hun as sponsored and applaud him for his interested in not just reading it but putting effort to counteract what some others have it in THE KEY." evidently been saying. THE KEY's columns She goes on to say that she doesn't be- are his; and may a lot of KEY readers run, lieve civilians have any idea how many girls not walk, to the nearest recruiting office of are prevented from joining the women's the service of their choice to help out "their services just because some lad says the old Uncle," who needs them. If we all don't boys don't want them to. She says this is help Uncle Sam in this jam, and we don't . 34 . Are We Women, Little Wimmen or Mice? 35 mean jam session, those smooth-talking, we­ have ever imagined. ~don't-want-you-to-volunteer lads may find So, as the mere male heads this: "What's themselves in a lot worse trouble than they the matter, girls?" What's the 'Matter, Girls?

OR A CENTURY and more American women oratories, on flying fields, as storekeepers Fhave been demanding their rights, and and supervisors. They have behaved ad­ now they have most of them. But they mirably, on duty and·off. They seem to like haven't won full equality with men. Men the service life. The normal amount of have the right to be drafted in time of war, wholesome romance has blessed them, as it to be assigned to any service where they does young women in plain clothes. are thought to be needed, and to be put Yet their sisters continue to slight the into any uniform, whether or not they re­ services. A great many men who sh_?uld gard it as becoming. Women haven't that have been and could have been released to right. If they wish to be WAVES, WACs, .fight have had to continue doing non-com­ SPARS, Marines or Army and Navy nurses, batant chaFes.-There weren't enough wom­ they have to volunteer. en to replace them. A mere male would suppose they would The mere male wonders what is the volunteer so fast that the only difficulty trouble. He can't believe that there is any­ would be to sort them out. He would think thing wrong with our young women. He they would want to prove that they are just has always admired them and intends to as willing as men to go to some trouble for continue doing so. 1 their country's sake. This is not the case. Not one of the uniformed services for women Perhaps they just don't realize what is going I has filled its quota. Not one has come near on and how badly they are needed. A visit to a I filling it. recruiting center- and there is one within easy reach-would enlighten them. Their old Uncle The girls in uniform delight the male eye. is in difficulties. He has work for his nieces They are splendid workers in offices, lab- as well as for his nephews.

AT AN AIR BASE for American servicemen in Canada an article in the base newspaper re­ cently applauded the smiling courage of Doro­ thy Baker Metcalf (Mrs. John), X-Minnesota, Red Cross assistant who works at the base serv­ ice center and spends an hour each day cheer­ ing the sick in the base hospital. The point is that Dorothy's husband, an ensign in the Navy, was taken prisoner by the Japanese at the fall of Corregidor in May, 1942. Dorothy, who had belonged to the American Red Cross motor corps, applied for overseas duty after the fall of Corregidor. She was sent to San Francisco, then to a Navy hospital in Seattle, then to the Red Cross school in W'ashington, D.C., for train­ ing, after tvhich she was assigned to the Cana- dian base. THE KEY Gets · More V-Mail

UR FmST V -mail change of address," re- · 0 ported central office, forwarding this letter from Captain Katherine L. St. John, WAC, B X-Kentucky, overseas. Central of­ fice · wishes all Kappas thought notification of change of address was this important. "It would save us a lot of work," central office added, wistfuUy. For her part the edi­ tor is pleased as Punch to think that Cap­ tain St. John wants her copy of THE KEY to follow her to war. We hope this issue catches up to her and lets her know what a good example she is to all Kappas, in and out of the armed services.

SPARring · Partners

ROM the law, Kappa's council and the Freal estate business came these Kappas who were photographed while exchanging congratulations on completion of their SPAR officer training at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, last · fall. At the left is Lieutenant (j.g.) Harriet L . . French, B Y-West Virginia, former di- . rector of chapter organization; at right, Ensign Laura Frances Lawrence, D. B-Duke. Ensign Lawrence, formerly a realtor in Nor­ folk, Virginia, was the first sister of a Coast Guard Academy graduate to have been commissioned in the SPARS. Her brother is Lieutenant Qommander William J. Law­ rence, USCG 1935, now in Coast Guard Aviation. Lieutenant French, a member of the National Association of Women Law­ yers, is the sister-in-law of Lieutenant­ Colonel Paul Clark. Official PTtotograph U. S. Coast Guard Academy New London, Connecticut SPARS French and Lawrence • 36 • Marine Landed: Found Situation Well in Hand By Harriette Silver Scott ( M rs. Clifford J.), r P-Allegheny, M anager, Boyd H earthstone

UR Kappa alumnre club house in Winter loPark has been a busy place this autumn >with guests coming and going since the middle of November. One guest of especial interest to the whole fraternity was Anne Delp, a Kappa from tthe University of Pittsburgh, now a lieuten­ ant in the Marine corps. Lieutenant Delp is a recruiting officer for the Marines, with headquarters in both Orlando and Miami, :Hying to Miami Tuesdays and :Hying back again to Orlando Fridays. She came to IBoyd Hearthstone and stayed until she found suitable rooms in Orlando. She was a delightful guest and the fraternity may twell be proud of her. ' Another guest of interest to Kappas feverywhere is Mrs. Virginia Wobber, a niece of Miss Elizabeth Arden. Mrs. Wob­ lber is in charge of publicity for Miss Arden and helped to establish the beautiful and tluxurious Elizabeth Arden powder rooms in our service women's centers, a project in which our fraternity has pioneered since !the United States entered the war. Mrs. Wobber has been at Boyd Hearth­ stone for the past month and was expecting ' her husband to join her here for the holi­ days. Miss Arden herself spent more than 10 days in Januaiy at the Heartstone with Mrs. Wobber. In January the house welcomed a new­ comer, Mrs. Anne DeWolfe Mack, a Kappa from Cornell, who is arriving with her sister Ito remain until spring. While the house is filled to capacity LIEUTENANT ANNE DELP, USMCWR, r E­ changes sometimes occur, so anyone wish­ Pittsburgh, found Boyd Hearthstone a h o using ing to stay at Boyd Hearthstone should help on recruiting assignment. write at once to Mrs. Clifford J. Scott, 800 Interlachen avenue, Winter Park, Florida.

Fraternity to Install New Chapter Delta Xi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is to be installed at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1944. . 37 . True to Blue-and-Blue and (Navy) Blue

AVY WIVES are the fraternity's field secre­ Ntaries these wartime days. Both are wives of lieutenants (j.g.), and both dash madly for the coast when their ships come into port. Both husbands have been in the south Pacific, where recently they met for the first time. Alice Anne Longley Roberts (Mrs. Frank H.), ~-DePauw , shares chapter visiting field schedules with Mattha May Galleher Cox (Mrs. L. E.). After her graduation from DePauw, Alice Anne was graduate coun­ selor for Delta Nu chapter at Massachusetts State college, where she took graduate work in psychology. Otherwise Alice Anne is on the reticent ALICE ANNE LONGLEY ROBERTS (Mrs. side about herself. But she hopes some day Fl'ank H.), !-DePauw that both lieutenants will be in their home port at the same time, so that she can meet Marty's husband, "Bud" Cox.

ARRIVED safely in England, where they have been assigned as hospital recreation workers for the American Red Cross, are Erma Shuham, left, and her sister, .Margaret Shuham, both of r r­ Whitman. Until they joined the Red Cross staff, they were school teachers, Erma in Berkeley, California, and previously in Vancouver; and Margaret in Vancouver. ~ "Red Crossers" Are Home Folks to the 'Boys' in England

HROUGH THE kindness of her mother, the post, reported that Marjorie had go~e TMrs. Arvid L. Frank, of Tucson, Ari­ to London on a business trip, that the club zona, THE KEY has received excerpts from was being redecorated and that she and letters written to her parents by Marjorie a new Red Cross girl with her at the club Spencer Frank, Y-Northwestern, Red Cross had been staying with an English family. recreation director at an Aero club some­ It concluded with the news that they were where in England. "fine and well. They call us the 'Glory "A Red Cross field director is in charge and two Red Cross girls constitute the American staff," reported Marjorie, in a letter before Christmas. "The rest are Brit­ ish volunteer and paid workers. . "The club has reading rooms, game room, dance :floor, snack bar and large kitchen. The snack bar opens at 4 o'clockand stays open until 11 o'clock, closing time. I live in a building very near. They are putting in a stove for me today. You'd laugh to see me fill my canteen with boiling water every night and use it for a hot water bottle.

1 There are all sorts of tricks you get on to. "We eat with the officers and I think I must have gained five pounds already. It's the best food in England, they say, and of course I nibble all day on the wonderful pastries they make here for the boys. ''These clubs serve a wonderful purpose, be­ cause there is so little for the boys to do. The Red Cross Servke clubs take care of them while on leave and we take care of them on MARJORIE FRANK, T-Northwestern 1 their post. As I see it, we work mostly with the Special Service officers to bring some enter­ tainment and feeling of home to our boys. The other night I had 200 of them playing bingo, Girls,'" obviously a tribute to their conduct and I had 20 cakes for prizes. They loved the under the circumstances, whatever they cakes and seemed to enjoy the bingo greatly. were. "Honestly, speaking of the 'boys,' you'd get a big kick out of them. They are so AFTER Christmas Marjorie wrote of the downright hungry for companionship of holiday festivities. American girls, and of course all Red Cross- "Well, we have had the most wonderful ers represent just that, that they can't do Christmas! · enough for us. Here are some of the things "Christmas Eve we had free cokes and I received just this week from different cookies for the boys and an impromptu G. l.s: can of pineapple (they haven't seen show. The place was mobbed and everyone pineapple here in four years), two fresh seemed to have a good time. Christmas Day eggs, bottle of cough medicine, a fruit cake, Ruth and I in two large army trucks drove new stove put in my room, electrical exten- 14 miles to get the orphans for our party. sions in my room, wool scarf, jar of pre- They were expecting us and so thrilled. serves, etc., etc." We had 38 little girls and two boys and Another letter, interpreted by her family the matron. We came back to the Officers' to mean that enemy raiders had bombed club where the men were waiting for the . 39 . 40 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma children. Each child had two to six adopted party. We played games, had impersonations. daddies who took her in to dinner. Two boys put on a jitterbug dance, and the chaplain presented the matron with £25, which "Those children had never seen such food, the men had collected. She said that money and they ate and ate. After dinner the men would run the house for a month. We took gave them candy and gum. Then we brought some official pictures and finally sent them them over· to the club, where we had two trees, home at 5 o'clock, tired, happy and loaded with cokes, cookies and lots of presents. Some of the presents, candy, etc. li was a swell day, and men had even written home for presents for this Ruth and I felt pretty good ·about it."

Photograph, courtesy. of Denison News Bureau IN THE state-wide WAC poster contest conducted among art students in Ohio colleges before Christmas, first and second prizes went to two Kappas /rom Gamma Omega chapter at Denison university. Rose Ann Heidem·eich, freshman, left, won the first prize of a $25 war bond and Patricia Hudson, sophomore, won the second prize of $ 10 in war stamps. The Kappas are students in the art course being taught by John Peter Taylor. Third place went to Ohio State and fourth prize, plus two honorable mentions, also went to Denison students. The prize-winning posters will be sent to Washington for display. Ruth Ann is the sister of Phyllis Heidenreich, also I' n. Council Corner (Continued from page 19) grams, or .of all fraternity planning, be it ence includes in its Principles of Democ­ men's fraternities or women's, cannot be racy: 'A satisfying personal and national better expressed than it was by Alvan E. life; a sense of responsibility to self, to col­ Duerr in his article, "A Challenge to Fra- lege, to country, and to society; the spiritual ternities" as printed in the October issue values of life as the foundation of the of Banta's Greek Exchange: 'What is truly democratic way of living.' And we needed above all, and what ~anno t be over- would add with greater emphasis friend­ emphasized, is a tlue purpose, a real inter- ship and tluth, at a time when both are a pretation of the high-sounding phrases scarcity on the market of human under­ which the National Interfraternity Confer- standing." APPA KAPPA GAMMA FRATERNITY ARMY AND NAVY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

Army-Navy Chairman . FINDS SATISFACTIONS IN SERVICE

By Margaret Baughman Craig (Mrs. Malin, Jr.), r K-William and M ary

!i\ NEW YEAR is here, and may this one be have been sent to alumnre groups and It\ one of more hope, and may there be Kappas requesting that they look up these ore homes intact and the world at large sisters. We are only too glad to do this serv­ ~ ess chaotic. If the world situation has set- ice if we can get the information. led down, it would mean less work for the We have had· news from many Kappas rmy-Navy chairman. But who likes to ' married to service men in every branch of ork, any way, when one does not have to? the service that you have ever heard of, There are many great satisfactions that and many I dare say that have missed the orne from this job. When you can feel that newspapers. There are husbands in Iceland, ou have helped someone find a friend Alaska, South Pacific, England, Italy, India when she or he is in a strange place, it and on many secret missions in all of the akes you glow inside and spurs you on to seas. There are some that have returned try again. The other day a postcard was from overseas, but the majority are still !received from Honolulu from our alumnre plugging along. We hail these brave men president there in response to a clipper let- and the wives waiting for their return. fer asking that she try to get in touch with There are also many of the Kappa wives a Kappa son stationed there. It reads as who are still with their husbands, or at least follows, "Thanks for your letter forwarding are near enough to see them over the week­ the information about Mrs. Garlich's son. end. The latter group is luckier for the It came this afternoon and within five min- moment, but their time for farewell wili utes I was talking with him on the phone. come only too soon and we must look to He promises to come out to dinner at the those who have already said good-bye for first opportunity, and I hope to be able to our strength. We hail these men who are introduce him to a few single Kappas." preparing to go, for they are just as brave ' Many requests have been sent out to and we Kappa wives must not let them have Kappa sons shown a little "Kappa down. }:lospitality." There have been responses How many Kappas we have overseas from some similar to the one above and with different organizations I do not know, from others not a word, but when you re- but I am sure they are all doing a good ~eive one like the above it makes up for all job. Three cheers for them and here's to a of the inconveniences and time that has to safe return. be spent on this work to keep things going. Any news at any tinie is always accept- Around 40 Kappas' names and addresses able . . 41 . Photographs by courtesy of The Columbus Citizen WHILE KAPPA'S officers were visibly wearing. orchids /or the opening of the Columbus Service Women's Center, December 17, 1943, at the Chittenden Hotel, the orchids-to-you department included all the /(appas who had had a share in arranging for the newest of the fraternity's service women's centers. In this picture, from the left, are Frances Davis Evans (Mrs. Richard), B N-Ohio State; Catherine Wilson Nolen (Mrs. Herman C.), H-Wisconsin; Clara 0. Pierce, B N, executive secretary, K K r; Augusta Menefee Huntington (Mrs. Hugh), B N; Captain Donna M. Werback, WAC; Elizabeth Bogert Schofield (Mrs. Everett), M-Butler, president, K K r, and Captain Anne E. Sweeney, WAC.

Columbus Cente·r . ADDS TO KAPPA MEMORIES OF HISTORIC HOTEL

' EARLY LAST spring a committee composed By fall we thought we were fortunate to of Isabel Hatton, as chairman, Nola have an offer of space, which although not Dysle Havens and Chira 0. Pierce, all B N- entirely satisfactory spurred us on to look Ohio State, met to discuss the need of a further. In October a suitable suite was service women's center in Columbus. Sev- found in the historic Chittenden hotel, eral hotels were approached about space; within 10 minutes' walk from the Union and then the chairman suddenly joined the station and as close to the shopping center Navy, in the branch known as "WIVES," and movies. before any decision had been reached. Nola The present ,Chittenden hotel opened its Havens then took over the chairmanship. doors in 1894 as one of the first fireproof- . 42 . Columbus Center Adds to Kappa Memories of Historic Hotel 43 constructed hotels in America, replacing Schofield, M-Butler, president of Kappa the one erected in 1889 and destroyed by Kappa Gamma; Clara 0. Pierce, executive fire. Six years later Kappas attending the secretary, and Elizabeth Arden's Chicago 15th national convention, on the Ohio State representative, Mrs. Nell Dale. Between university campus, celebrated their final 200 and 300 guests came to admire the banquet at this hotel and were pre~ented transformation which had taken place and with beautiful souvenir spoons, according to find out just what this type of project to the custom of the day. In this same hotel had to offer. Beta Nu gave many of its social functions for the next two decades, and has many fond memories of this location. In later years newer hotels gained in popularity; but with the scarcity of housing facilities the Chittenden is again regaining its lost fame. The first of November the. work started in earnest. The decorating committee, head­ ed by Marguerite Heiner McKillip, B N, sorted out from the hotel storage room old furniture which had possibilities for reno­ vating. There were weekly meetings in the Kappa central office or on the hotel's mezzanine floor, which houses part of Sarah Bernhardt's collection of paintings and fur­ THAT now-famous ,service women's center plaid used in the decorating scheme for all the niture (property of Albert Pick, Jr., presi­ Elizabeth Arden powder rooms in the coast-to­ dent of the Albert Pick Hotel corporation). coast K K r-sponsored centers ruffles the curtains The plan for the lounge was to carry out and makes a handsome bow being adjusted by the furnishings suitable to the Victorian Mrs. Nell Dale, right, Elizabeth Arden representa­ era. Hotel rooms promised to us were va­ tive tvhile Nola Dysle Havens (Mrs. William F.), B N, Columbus Service Women's Center chair- cated, and the decorating of the walls was man, looks on at the left. begun. Due to the scarcity of materials the color scheme for the draperies and slip The approach to the lounge is down a covers had tq be changed several times. long wide hall. Over the entrance door is Every available Kappa was pressed into the fraternity coat-of-arms in blue and blue, service to sew or paint (even the husband around which is artistically worked "Wom­ of the chairman), so the lounge was com­ en's Service Center Sponsored by Kappa pleted in record time. Kappa Gamma." A desk, easy chairs, table, December 17 was the opening date. By mirror and bulletin boards furnish the re­ late afternoon everything was in i·eadiness ception room, which also serv.es as an of­ for the reception which was from 5 until fice. Opening off the reception room is the 9 p.m. A small ball room 'opening off our lounge. The walls done in soft rose lend suite had been decorated with Christmas a background to green slip-covered furni­ greens for the occasion by Sarah Robinson ture, plaid ruffled curtains and flowered Parker, B . Here the members of the chintz used on the chairs and screen. The reception committee greeted the guests. old furniture has been painted black with Members of the press, prominent business gold trim. Off the lounge is the Elizabeth men, representatives of Panhellenic and Arden powder room, done in the same other women's organizations, civic and uni- plaids used at the other centers, the powder • versity officials, as well as Kappas, Kappa bar in aqua with matching stools. The cur-. husbands and Kappa mothers and fathers tains of plaid are drapped back with enor­ were invited. We were particularly honored mous chartreuse bows (the windows are 13 to have with us the wife of Ohio's governor, feet high, which gives an idea of the type Harriet Day Br~cker, B N, Elizabeth Bogert of room). In an offset are two cots covered 44 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma with aqua and decorated ~th plaid pil­ in this vicinity. A series of informal parties lows. The bath, which dates back to the for the week-ends is being planned for the _ days of early plumbing, catches the fem­ girls and their escorts, and indications are inine eye. Mary Sheldon Long, B N, has that it will be a popular meeting place. made this transformation a real work of Credit for the success of the Columbus art by the decoration of the pink walls with Center should go to the president of the clusters of deep red carnations. The an­ alumnre association, Frances Davis Evans, tiquity of the bath tub has been skillfully B N; chairman, Nola Dysle Havens, B N; concealed by the use of a draped aqua vice-chairman, Margaret Carter Speer, B N; curtain. treasurer, Elizabeth Zartman, B N; secre­ tary, Anne Farber, B N; corresponding sec­ retary, Katherine Taylor, B N; publicity chairman, Marcia Pembroke Steffan, B N; decorating committee chairman, Marguer­ ite Heiner McKillip, B N; chairman person­ nel and staffing, Lois Peebles Hoffman, B Z­ Iowa; chairman entertainment, Katherine Willson Nolan, H-Wisconsin; office organi­ zation, Evelyn Ennes Dunkel, B N, Kathleen Firestone Carruthers, pt..Qhio Wesleyan; books and magazines, Edna Pratt Brown, B N; cookies, Virginia Eckelberry Wells, pt.; candy and cigarettes, Jean Taylor, B N; radio program, Janice Haggerty, B N; chair­ man sales stamps, Elizabeth Baldwin Bur­ dell, X-Minnesota; flowers, Sarah Robin­ son Parker, B N. Members of the board of advisers are Harriet Day Bricker, B N; Clara 0. Pierce, B N; Eleanor Penniman Boardman, B N; Ruth Bullock Chastang, B N; Elaine Kniseley Mackey, pt.; Sarah LOIS PEEBLES HOFFMAN (Mrs. Fred W.), Tritt Rankin, r n-Denison; Frances Davis B Z-lowa, personnel director of the Columbus Evans, B N; Nola Dysle Havens, B N, and Service Women's Center, plays for some sing­ Margaret Carter Spear, B N. ing by Lieutenant Ruth Hunt, WAC; Spar 3 / c Aayrelle Esteppe and Corporal Cathrine Cooke, The finance committee did a commend­ WAC. able piece of work. Four classifications of contributors were set up as follows: spon­ The radio broadcast with Janice Hag­ sors, contributors, sustaining and active. gerty, B N, as master of ceremonies was an Gifts were received from the Mothers' club, innovation at the opening. Every Friday Beta Nu chapter and friends, in addition night Columbus radio listeners can get to many members of the alumnre associa­ news of the center on their dials at 7: 15 tion. Those who worked ·on the committee over radio station WCOL. are: Elizabeth Baldwin Burdell, X; .Mary Bonnet Koebel, B N; Elm a Hamilton INCE this lounge is the first and only one Ebright, B N; Helene Taft Sanderson, B N; Sfor women in the Fifth Servi~e Com­ Marjorie Stanley Hoag, B N; Anne Fredericks . mand, it has created much favorable com­ Owens, B N; Sarah Tritt Rankin, r n, and ment. All branches of the service are repre­ Clara 0. Pierce, B N. sented in this area, and since Columbus is The staffing of the center is handled by a railroad center we will provide entertain­ alumnre members, Mothers' club and Beta ment and relaxation between trains for the Nu chapter. Hours are from 12 noon until score of women forced to spend several 9 p.m., except week-ends when the center hours in this city, as well as those stationed will be open later hours. UNCLE SAM'S Aunt Martha in the striped hat is Martha Pankau Hunt (Mrs. R. B.), B T­ Syracuse), entertainment chairman for the New York Kappa Service Women's Center in the Biltm01·e. At the party given recently for 450 enlisted men and women Martha had no trouble drumming up interest in those yummy Elizabeth Arden lipsticks presented to the service women.

Bouncingest Baby BILTMORE CENTER ROUNDS OFF YEAR OF SERVICE By Elizabeth Stewart Goodwin (Mrs. Bernard), B K-ldaho

HE BABY was one year old January 14, but it has teal blue walls with beige wood- T1944. Its name-tag, hung over a broad work (except in the officer's lounge and the stairway beside the flower stall at the Bilt- powder room; these are dusty pink). Its god­ more in New York, says "Service Women's mother is Elizabeth Arden, who supplied Center, sponsored by Kappa Kappa Gam- that same famous powder room and has rna." So, it belongs to ALL you Kappas, underwritten several of the Center parties. even if New York alumnre association is The Biltmore hotel undoubtedly qualifies the "nurse on duty" most of the time. as god~ather: having given us an entire It doesn't have blue eyes and blonde hair, mezzamne wmg. • 45 • 46 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Virginia Conner, A-Akron, stands high on ... mas holi~ays 27,000 people were enter­ our list of benefactors. Retained by Miss tained at the Center. It is a great tribute to Arden to do the powder room, she became our "offspring" that service women are so interested in the decoration problem of: the eager to show her off to their friends and Center as a whole. The Biltmore ~~pplied families. It is not unusual for a girl in uni­ plenty of furniture, but it all came from form to drop in with mother, father and different parts of the hotel and was 'not, three or four brothers and sisters. "They strictly speaking, a happy symphony of line just arrived in town," she explains, "and I and color. Mter lying awake a few nights wanted them to see what a nice club you've worrying, Virginia came in with a complete given us.'' plan of decoration which involved a mini­ Our Kappa child, it is painful to report, mum of expense and has resulted in a com­ is keeping very late hours. The official clos­ pletely charming effect throughout the two ing time is 9 P.M., which is most reasonable lounges and enormous reception room. since the day starts no later than noon on The Phillip Morris people, too, are right week-days, 11 A.M. Saturdays and 10 A.M. in there pitching, to the tune of thousands Sunday mornings. But if you think the of free cigarettes per week. · phones remain unanswered at 9:05 P.M.­ During the eight months prior to Christ- no! They're usually picked up by a loyal

ONE OF THE piano-playingest Kappas is Helen Myers, B a-Oklahoma, former Theta province president, as convention-going Kappas will remember. Within the " blues" triangle of the piano top Helen is pictured as she played between dances at the New York f(appas' party for officer personnel at the Princeton club last November. Biltmore Center Rounds Off Year of Service 47

Kappa hostess as late as 11:301 cost for those who get caught wi~h a run The reasons for this vary. Perhaps one or on Sunday or after store hours. more service women are asleep on some The Center does a big business in first Kappa Center sofa and no one has the heart aid generally and taking things out of eyes to disturb them. Perhaps there is a girl, or in particular. It has been fortunate in hav­ more often girls, waiting around New York ing Dr. Mary Crawford, 'lr-Comell, in at­ to make a midnight train for points north, tendance at the most strategic moments. south or west. Then again, it may be that Monday and Thursday evenings "Tom­ the late visitors have been looking all day my" gives free haircuts to service women. for a room in which to spend the night and He's a hair stylist and this is his contribu­ that neither they nor Kappa Kappa Gamma tion to the war effort. The girls in uniform can find one. (Yes, there is a hotel shortage gather in the lounges an hour or two in in New York, too.) One such night Kappa's advance and wait patiently for their tum. historian and our New York alumnre presi­ Hard candy, chocolates and caramels dent, Almira Johnson McNaboe (Mrs. provided by the Center disappear at the James F.), H-Wisconsin, took two service rate of about 35 to 40 pounds per week-end. women home with her for the night. We But that is not much, considering the at­ ·only mention this because there were two. tendance on a single Sunday has often When she just takes one home it doesn't topped 700. come under the heading of news. Nor do We haven't yet had a wedding at the we even pause to note that her electric Center, but almost. We've made all the ar­ casserole has been, for almost a year, in the rangements for one, even t'o the license, home of a Center visitor who was setting blood tests, witnesses, hotel accommoda­ up housekeeping in New York with her tions. Then the staff on duty polished off service bridegroom. Nor do we even men­ with flowers to the newlyweds. tion her electric iron, on daily duty at the Over the holidays there was "open house" Center. -Christmas day, the Sunday after and on . New Year's day. Punch was served and all ATTER of fact, amid all the routine of the service women invited to reach into a Mlocating places for service women to large stocking grab-bag of small gifts. live, find entertainment, write letters, make A party for men and women officers was up their faces, meet their friends, etc., noth­ given November 27 at the Princeton club, ing is more important than the mending under the auspices of the Center and made and reconditioning service. The Kappa possible by Elizabeth Arden's generosity. mending kit has had to be replenished sev­ Miss Arden's attendance at the dance was eral times with thread, buttons and such. one of the highlights. Earlier, under the The portable ironing board is often hauled same aiTangements, a party for 450 enlisted out. Once two WACs arrived, very travel­ men and women had been given at the Bjlt­ worn, from Washington. They had a 24- more. Martha Pankau Hunt (Mrs. R. B.), hour leave and were determined to "do" B T-Syracuse, is entertainment chairman­ New York. They sat up most of the night a job that includes both the planning and in a coach, reported early Sunday at the carry-through on all Center parties. Center a little abashed. 'We're grimy," they said. 'We can't go around New York like Just one final word, sisters. It costs money this." So they were ushered into the Center to run the Center, despite our many gen­ washroom where they did out their shirts, erous friends. There are terrific phone bills stockings, underclothes and then held an to meet, stationery to be supplied fo r the electric fan over them to make them dry service women, lots of incidentals. If you quicker. After a few well-placed strokes haven't a Kappa ''baby" in your own local­ , with the community iron they departed for ity to support, you MAY want to make a an early luncheon, immaculate. gift to this hard-working little tot in New 1 Stockings are on sale at the Center at York! Official Photograph, U. S. Naval Ai,. Statiott While their husbands learn to be sea-going, these Kappas have organized informally, to be help ful to the Florida community in which they· are part of the floating population. Kappa Wives at Pensacola Helped Christmas Seal Sale By Harriet Cummer Christensen (Mrs. W. H.), !;-Nebraska, and Jean Walt Tyner (Mrs. George S.), ~

DA HILTON-GREEN RILEY (Mrs. F. W.), B 0- gether about 15 Kappas from all parts of ANewcomb, who is the Kappa Army- the country at a tea in her own home. We Navy chairman for Pensacola, Florida, had met there again the following week to for­ the inspiration last spring to get together all mulate plans. Mary Taylor Lhamon (Mrs. of the Kappas whose husbands might be R. M.), ~. whose husband is commanding located at the Naval Air Training Station. officer of the Naval hospital, was chosen Her plan proved successful, and a group chairman of the group, with Harriet Cum­ met at her home. So last fall she decided to mer Christensen (Mrs. W. H.), ~ . as secre­ try again with the idea of some sort of a tary. definite organization. It was realized that such a group would Thus, October 28, through a notice in the not be of a permanent nature, because of local newspaper, plus word of mouth pub- the frequent changes in personnel at the licity, she succeeded ~gain in gathering to- station, so no formal alumnre organization • 48 • Stars in Kappa Service Flags 49 could be started. However, with the nucleus mas at the home of Mrs. Lhamon to cut out of four permanent Pensacola Kappas, we the wreaths and cover them with greenery felt we could get together as an informal and 'berries. group, and devote our talents to whatever Among the members present at Mrs. project could use our services. Murray's, and shown in the group picture, Our first service came at the November are the following Kappas: Harriet Cummer meeting, when we were asked by Mrs. Christensen (Mrs. W. H.),~; Margaret Hol­ George Murray, wife of Rear Admiral Mur­ der Tolton "(Mrs. W. J.), B 0; Jean Driver ray, con:u;nandant of the Naval Air Station, Jansen (Mrs. L. F.), r r-Whitman College; to assist in the preparation for mailing of the 1943 tuberculosis Christmas seals. Mary Taylor Lhamon (Mrs. R. M.), ~; There were 13 of us, with about 10 chap­ Dorothy Geary Martin (Mrs. Pratt), B 0; lains' wives, who devoted a day to this Eleanor McMillan Moorhead (Mrs. John project. Nina Short Crispell (Mrs. Raymond A.), X-Minnesota; Ada Hilton-Green Riley S), r D.-Purdue, gave an interesting talk on (Mrs. F. W.), B 0; Fauntleroy Caldwell the history of tuberculosis seals, and the Robinson (Mrs. Grover C.), r IT-Alabama; progress made through the sale of seals. Jean Walt Tyner (Mrs. George S.), ~; Mar­ For our December meeting, plans were garet Yniestra Van Evera (Mrs. John R.), made for preparing Christmas wreaths for r II; Nina Short Crispell (Mrs. Raymond patients' trays, Christmas day, in the Naval S.), rD.; DeeBet Ritzhaupt, B 0-0klahoma, hospital. We met the Friday before Christ- and Mrs. H. Gail Moore, B 0.

Stars in Kappa Service Flags . . . Rear Admiral John F. Shafroth, in the Southwest Pacific with Admiral Halsey, is the husband of Helena Marshall Fischer Shafroth, B E-Barnard. Mrs. Shafroth recently became the grandmother of twins, John Shafroth Lutz and Patricia Marshall Lutz. · Lieutenant-Colonel William Lewis, Jr., commanding officer of a bomber group at a western air base, is the husband of Eleanor Wherry Lewis, il H-Utah. Colonel Lewis spent a year in the Southwest Pacific and was one of the two Flying Fortress pilots who brought General MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines to Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel E. 0 . G. Kirwan, with the British forces in India, is the husband of Mary Therkelsen Kirwan, B H-Stanford. The Kirwans lived for 14 years in Calcutta, but Mrs. Kirwan and her two sons, in college in British Columbia, are home for the duration. Captain Robert Frederick Fackler, Army Air Force, is the husband of Phyllis Niswonger Fackler, r n-Denison. Captain Fa.ckler has returned from overseas duty as a pursuit pilot in Africa, where he was awarded the Air medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross and three French decorations, including the Croix de Guerre. Lieutenant David C. Affleck, husband of Jane Fowler Affleck, B piLCincinnati, is in the Philippine Military Prison Camp, No. 2. After having had no word since April, 1942, Mrs. Affleck received two cards from her husband last fall. The AHlecks lived .in Cebu, Philippine Islands, from 1934 until 1941, when they returned to the United States on home leave. Mrs. Affleck was refused a passport when her husband went back to the islands in August, 1941. Assistant manager for the Procter and Gamble Trading company, Mr. Affleck was commissioned in the Army after Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Affleck is on the Home Service staff of the Cincinnati chapter, American Red Cross. Hiram F. Appel get, 25 years old, son of Helen Gallup Appel get (Mrs. Thomas C.), X-Minnesota, was reported missing in the Tunisian campaign. Pilot of a medium bomber, his plane was shot down during a raid over an enemy objective. To date nothing has been heard of him or his crew. KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA ALUMNAE WAR PROGRAM CHAR (Continued from October issue of THE KEY)

Service Menor Hospitality to Membership Volanteer 01 Kappa Military Financial Aid Transfer Kappas or Kappa or Group Cooperation Percentage Aasociatien Army-Navy Chairman Relatives in with Ollicial Participatin' Method and Blanks Industrial Financial used br Armed Forces or Location Agencies in Group Associ- War Induatry Activity Aid Source ation Denver Mrs. Francis M. Bain, Jr. No . Written notes to rela- Yes uso went as grous., do- Volunteer pet& 755 Gaylord St., tive and each boy ask- nora to bloo bank. from member Denver, Colo. ing him to contact us. Entertainin1 service If he does, we have of- women; helped with fered hoepitality, suoh Buoldey Field radio as dinner in a home, pro~fAm and paid for date, etc. three winners' tele- phone calls home. LongBeaoh Mrs. Maynard A. Wood, Yes Dinner invitations in Both Los Angeles area 25% Help staff Los Ange- Both 2117 E. Second St., Kapy: homes; cards to K K r Service lea Service Women's Lon1 Beach, Cal. relat ves to offer assist- Women's Center Center anM.

The Editor Reflects· (Continued from page 6) In making these points, which will never We simply want to note that the Greek­ be made unless a Greek calls attention to letter fraternity system has a great deal to them, there is no thought of petty credit­ give to this defense of democracy and the seeking. The war must be won. Toward that Four Freedoms; and that its members are end all of us will give the skills and posses­ contributing to the war effort, distinctively, sions at our command. what has been given them as college Greeks. +++

Anne Clare Brokaw (Continued from page 10) her, and in continuing to miss her, we feel we realize how little we know, for at those times that the time she spent with us was an in­ we seem to feel the great and sometimes terrifying spiration. mystery of everything about us. · "As things become at first more and more mys­ terious, then finally, all of a sudden, crystal-clear, .. G:be ~reat anb ~ometime~ G:erri= unmistakable, thrillingly real, or to be honest, ,mp~terp ineffable, we realize that the way (The Tao) lies fping of Qi;berptbing in broadening our consciousness to ·the maximum ~bout 111~" so that it might better grasp the broadest, the UNERAL SERVICES for Ann Clare Brokaw were most limitless and infinite reality that is God." Fconducted in the Stanford Memorial church, January 14, by Dr. · D. Elton Trueblood, with jfrom an ~lumna of jaeta eta faculty and student friends participating. "Her tragic death was a great shock to Dr. Frederick Spiegelberg, instructor in the Beta Eta chapter, as well as to all of us School of Humanities at Stanford, read excerpts who knew her. She was a fine girl, with from a paper written by Ann two weeks before, hi explaining 'that he believed they revealed her 'gh ideals and one with a poise beyond I der.th of understanding. She had written: her years. Her passing is indeed a great 'It iJ true that the more we learn, the more loss to Kappa." . 50 . 'PPA KAPPA GAMMA ALUMNAE WAR PROGRAM CHART (Continued from October issue of THE KEY) ~

Aid to Service Women Individual Coo,eration Volunteer Agency Offices Government or Service Women and Recreational Units with Official Agencies held by Membership Defense Workers for Service Women

I rs. USO, DAR, Junior Mra. ruchsrd E. Pate, Jr. (Anne !neva Reilly Meyer, B M, Have foundation plana laid l!!e, nearly all 10 branches of Fahnestock, B M), BelleBonfils SPAR for Kappa Service Women' a Cross Memorial Blood Bank Vera Corlett, BM, Lt., WAC Center as aoon as enough Mrs. Herbert C. Watson (Dorothy Sally Davis, B M, Capt., WAC service girla arrive in town to Cummings, r NJ, technician, Ruth Ringland, 2:, WAC warrant auch endeavor Colorado General Hospital Marine Mayer Hecox, B M, WAC

Cross, AWVS, Canteen, Mary McKinley Rathbun, B Helen Mae Smith Thompson Help run the Los Angelea PA, War Chest, Nurses' r, graduate staff assistant, Red (Mra. J. D.), taught food Area Kappa Service Wom- , First Aid, etc. CrOOB classes for children in juvenile en's Center Mary Lou Cary Herbert (Mrs. delinquency program and . James K.), B Z, chr. Red Croes canning classes for adults un- at L. A. Port of Embarkation der government program Betsy Taubman (Mrs. George P.), Mar11aret V. Rlohsrdson Ger- national vice-president, Pro- main (Mrs. Parker H.), Doug- America laa Aircraft Chelaey Final Kramer (Mrs. Frances Kent Peterson (Mrs. HarryJ, vice-chairman, Bay Bartlett), nurse, Cal-i!hlp Area rey Ladles Helen Cather, Douglaa Aircraft I

Lou Henry Hoover (Continued from page B) send to Beta Eta "little· sister Jean," now experiences and friends were never Jean Henry Large (Mrs. Guthrie). dimmed. We Kappas were happy when we learned Within her heart, Lou loved the out-of­ that Lo.u was to be married to young Bert doors and the informal life. However, when Hoover-a Stanford graduate, whom she honors and great responsibility came to her, had met when they were both students she endeared herself to all with whom she in geology here. came in contact, by her wide outlook, The day after the marriage, off they went gracious hospitality and untiring interest in to China, and to adventures. For a time a humanitarian activities. home was maintained in London, in the Lou_Hoover was a true patriot, and she Red House where the latch string was al­ possessed unique, rare attributes of which ways out for Kappas and Stanford friends. we Kappas may all be proud. We rejoice Wherever Mr. Hoover's profession called that it has been our privilege to have known him, Siberia to Burma, Lou's first purpose and loved Lou Henry Hoover. was to establish a comfortable home for her famous husband and two sons. Her keen MARY MERRITT WlllTAKER {Mrs. A. C.) and scientifically trained mind made her a ETHEL McLELLAN WARD (Mrs. E. V.) congenial and helpful companion. She was IDA WEHNER always available and always ready. Mean­ January 16, 1944 time she never lost her dynamic interest in Stanford University people; and her memories of her girlhood California

. 51 . CHI CHAPTER . . . Gets on Scholarship Beam By. Nora Boyd, X-Minnesota

EAR before last when the sororities' scho­ school work. Other years this has not been Ylastic ratings for 1941 were published at a prime requisite for "Big Sisterhood." Minnesota, we Chi Kappas grinned from The Big Sisters have been asked to have ear to ear and threw our ch~sts out proudly. a discussion with their pledge charges at We were in second place. This was a nice least every two weeks. The purpose of these improvement over 1940, when we were talks is to discover which subjects are of eighth in line. particular interest to a pledge and, more Then we read Helen Snyder Andres' ar­ impor~ant, to discover with which subjects ticle in the October 1943 KEY concerning she is having difficulties. At active meeting the 19 Kappa chapters which earned scho­ the Big Sisters report to the chapter on the lastic firsts on their campuses. This gave us progress of their individual charges. If a an added incentive to work harder for first pledge is having trouble with one of her place at Minnesota. courses an active who knows something To improve our scholastic standing we about it volunteers, or is drafted, to help her. attempted a program which had been fol­ Because the Big Sisters are taking this lowed more or less consistently the year part of their responsibility more seriously that we made such an advance. Besides than they have other years the chapter as having our scholarship chairman and her a whole has been able to keep in closer con­ committee stress the importance of scholar­ tact with the progress of the pledges. ship, we are grooving our Big Sister organ­ ization and our pledge trainer work along WE REALIZE that the program we are the same line. 1 carrying out is not a new or revolu- We began our improvement campaign tionary one. But by placing more respon­ by "getting 'em young and training 'em." sibility for ~cholarship on the Big Sisters This campus went on a quota system with and on the pledge trainer we have been regard to rushing last fall and we were lim- able to take some of the responsibility off ited to 15 pledges. We knew we had to be the shoulders of the scholarship chairman, ·careful, so we put more emphasis on schol- and we have made the whole chapter more arship as a qualification for pledging than "grade-conscious." we have ever done before. According to Bonnie Boyd, scholarship Our pledge trainer, Christine Meyerding, chairman, and Christine Meyerding, pledge gets excellent marks herself and is inter- trainer, we may expect a large percentage ested in seeing that the pledges do the of the pledges to make their average by same. She has kept before our new mem- the end of this quarter. Their weekly grades hers the idea that, now more than ever, bave been exceptionally good, on the sororities are being called upon to prove whole. that they have an excuse for being. She has The psychological effect of this program made the pledges realize that a high scho- has been good. An active hesitates to sug­ lastic average is an excellent excuse for the gest that a pledge do more studying or im­ existence of any organization. They know, prove her grades if she has not kept up her too, that with their cooperation Chi chapter own grades. Several of the actives have intends to get its collective average up to starte~ keeping study charts, just as they the top and keep it there. did when they were pledges. Mary Jean Greig, chairman of the Big We have found working through the Big Sisters, has gone at her job systematically. Sisters and the pledge trainer toward From the active members she has chosen higher scholarship to be a good plan. We girls whose grades are far above average, hope that other chapters will try this meth..: girls who are keenly interested in their ad and be pleased with its results. . 52 . NPC Deliberated at Wartime Meeting

$500 Voted to Red Cross Blood Donor Service

By Amy Burnham Onken, Secretary, National Panhellenic Congress; IT B ci> Delegate

HE TWENTY-EIGHTH National Panhellenic As they worked and talked together un­ TCongress at the Medinah club, Chicago, der the capable direction of Juelda C. Bur- · October 30 to November 1, 1943, purposely naugh, B ~ 0, chairman, they realized with limited in its program to business sessions increasing fullness both that no group of and officers' discussion groups, found in young women is more important, today, these the inspiration which sent the frater­ than that made up of the "young women of nity officers who made up its personnel superior ability" who, in the face of great back to their work with the renewed pressure from within their own hearts and strength and courage which come with a from the outside to give immediate service deepened consciousness of the vital im­ to some civil or military cause, are quietly portance of the service which one is striving going ahead to complete their college to give worthily. courses in order that they may be qualified

SHOWN ABOVE, around the NPC conference table last fall, were the following NPC delegates, from the left: Mrs. Charles C. Perrin, a A a; Mrs. Sidney R. Stanard, A a II; Mrs. E. Granville Crabtree, K K r; Mrs. ]. W. Bingham, a r; Gladys Doherty McBain, 9 'r; Mrs. Walter E. 'Militzer, K a; Miss Lorah Munro, l: K; Miss Louise Leonard, A r a; Mrs. GeorgeS. Cunningham, ~ n II, incoming chairman; Mrs. M. C. Burnaugh, B l: 0, chairman; Miss Amy Burnham Onken, II B <1•, incomin.g secretary; Mrs. Darel B . Rasmussen, A 0 II; Miss Mary B. Merritt , ~ M; Mrs. Irving Brown, A X n; Mrs. Hugo Kuechenmeister, A Z: a; Mrs. Homer A. Mathiesen, r ~ B; Mrs. H. M. Lundy, A Z; Dr. Mary Agness Hopkins, Z T A; Miss L. Pearle Green, K A e, incoming treasurer; Mrs. Alice Morgan Roedel, A ~. and Mrs. Mary Love Collins, X n. Center, rear, Mrs. W. G. Suthers, parliamentarian. • 53 54 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma to give the equally vital service and leader­ that they do mean that every fraternity ship which will be so needed during the must strive more earnestly than ever before years of peace and reconstruction ahead, to live up to its own ideals of service to its and that college fraternities have the privi­ active members and their campuses and to lege, unexcelled in their history, to give its alumnre and their communities. A call these young women what no other agency to active members to think more seriously can give so well-the support which means and deeply than ever before of the pledges confidence, the incentive which sets a made at their initiation, and to alumnre to higher goal than might otherwise have go back to their chapters for initiation seemed satisfying, the friendships which ceremonies and so consciously to renew add ~appiness and a sense of security, and their dedication to the highest principles of the ideals and standards without which no beautiful living will, if heeded, mean a re­ success can be truly great. The achieve­ spiritualizing of fraternity women whose ments of this National Panhellenic Congress results for good could not be estimated. must be measured not alone in terms of its As a definite outgrowth of the discussion recommendations passed but also in those group for executive secretaries, led by Louise of the less immediately apparent results of Leonard, A r .1, and abiding proof of its value, its inspiration. an Association of Executive Secretaries and Di­ rectors of Central Offices was formed ·with With a sense of personal loss in the death Clara 0. Pierce, K K r, as chairman for the in­ of a valued friend and admired fraternity terim of Congresses. representative, members of National Pan­ hellenic Congress stood silently, at their The editors of National Panhellenic Con­ opening session, in tribute to the life and gress magazines, long organized as an asso­ service of Mrs. Harold Helper, grand presi­ ciation meeting biennially at the time of dent of Z T A and its National Panhellenic National Panhellenic Congress, had what is Congress delegate for many years. reported to have been their most helpful Of the greatest importance were the dis­ and valuable meeting, under the leadership cussion groups which met simultaneously of Christine Fergt!$On, X n, and they will for fraternity presidents, executive secre­ act during the coming interim under the taries and editors. A true spirit of coopera­ chairmanship of Adele Taylor Alford, tion was evident always in the frankness II B ~- with which each officer discussed problems Among the recommendations passed by common to all fraternities in the light of the Congress affecting its own organization their application to her own fraternity, and or its associations with college administra­ in the eagerness with which she made avail­ tors are the following: able to all details of methods or plans which ''That the College Panhellenics committee her own fraternity had found c.onstructive. be recognized as having jurisdiction over the principle of interfraternity cooperation and Each group was a working one without that the present committee on interfraternity prepared "speeches" but with prepared cooperation of the National Panhellenic Con­ leaders directing informal discussion along gress be abolished. constructive lines. Both 'general problems, ''That the special committee on agitation such as those brought by the accelerated aimed at the right of social organizing be made a standing committee to be called the re­ college schedules and by general war con­ search committee, such committee to compile ditions, and· details of the functioning of data on the values of social groups and to pro­ individual chapters and officers and of fra­ vide statistics and suggest procedures in preser­ ternities as such were given careful atten­ vation of our right to organize socially. ''That the title of the NPC-NADW joint tion. There was evident a realization on the committee be changed f? read 'the NPC rep­ part of all officers that even though present resentatives to the joint NPC-NADW commit­ conditions may make deviations from es­ tee.' tablished procedure unavoidable temporar­ ''That a committee be appointed to submit a report to the 1945 Congress, offering (1) the ily, they do not necessarily take from gen­ present constitution with or without suggested eral effectiveness nor indicate any need for changes, (2) by-laws based on present pro­ permanent changes in requirements, but cedures, (3) procedures based on present pro- NPC De!Ulerated at Wartime Meeting 55 cedures, (4) by-laws and procedures based on within 48 hours by a judiciary committee, matters not covered above and which the com­ permanent or temporary. mittee believes should be added as they make their study of present data. The only evening program of NPC was ''That the executive sessions of National Pan· given under the direction of Mary Love hellenic Congress devoted to the consideration Collins, X n, chairman of the committee on of recommendations be closed and that simul­ progress. Mrs. Collins completed the work taneous sessions be planned for the visiting officers. assigned to her committee in 1939, when ''That National Panhellenic Coltgress send she presented a discussion group which, as representatives to the next meeting of the In­ a sequel to the discussions of two years ago terfraternity Council on the same basis as at· on the training and developing of leaders1 tendance at the previous one. thought together informally about the innet ''That because the very nature of cases of anti-social activity demands close, constant and qualities and attitudes which make a coun­ rapid work on the part of someone on the spot, sellor of youth valuable and successful. Fol­ special committees be appointed by the execu· lowing the discussion, the editors, at Mrs. tive committee when the need arises in any Collins' request, amused and delighted the given locality." Congress with a burlesque on their "exclu­ As a result of its reports and discussions, sion" from the regular sessions of the Con­ National Panhellenic Congress passed the gress and with a presentation of a college following recommendations which have a Panhellenic meeting at which all the direct bearing upon College Panhellenics "don'ts" of National Panhellenic Congress and their relations with National Panhel­ procedures and attitudes were cleverly lenic Congress: made evident. ''That the college Panhellenic workshops be National Panhellenic Congress gave a continued under the direction of the college true expression of its realization of respon­ Panhellenic committee. sibility for particil_Jation in humanitarian ''That National Panhellenic CQngress reaffirm war projects and for service to all causes its disapproval of political combinations and block voting on the part of college chapters." which tend to bring nearer the end of the war when it voted $500 from its treasury to N INVALUABLE aid for College Panhel­ the American Red Cross blood donor serv­ Alenics will be found in the suggested ice and adopted the resolution which read: procedure for arbitration of college Pan­ "Whereas our military leaders !!tate that hellenic disputes, formulated by a special greatly increa!led enlistment of young women · in the armed services is imperative, and committee, headed by L. Pearle Green, Whereas the member groups of NPC have K A®, and adopted by National Panhellenic unique opportunities for contacts with young Congress .as a guide for such· arbitration. women especially valuable to the armed serv­ The full text of this outline will be given . ice!!, many of whom have completed their edu­ cation through our encoura~ement; in the printed minutes of NPC and should It is recommended that NPC commit itself be carefully studied by all college Panhel­ to active support of the appeal of our military lenics, active chapter representatives, and leaders and implement such commitment with alumnre advisers on Panhellenic relations. a program to urge girls graduating from col­ lege to consider 11eriously enli11tment in the Among the many constructive recom­ armed service!!. mendations are those requiring that signed And that the committee on war and college charges be submitted in writing within 24 women be requested to implement this resolu­ hours after an alleged violation of rushing tion into its program of work." rules; that an accused chapter be given a The congress found special pleasure in written statement of charges, in advance of the gracious hospitality of Chi Omega and the Panhellenic meeting at which they are Sigma Kappa who, Saturday and Sunday to be considered; that there be an open evenings respectively, were hostesses to all hearing of the charges and of the defense fraternity officers at informal receptions in of the accused chapter; and that, if possible, the Medinah ballroom; of Pi Beta Phi, there be an immediate decision on guilt which presented each delegate with a scarf and penalty by the college Panhellenic, but from its Settlement school; of Beta Sigma that if this is impossible, these be made Omicron, which delighted the Congress 56 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

with a bouquet of beautiful fall flowers, The Congress closed with the induction and of Phi Omega Pi, which honored the into office of the executive committee for incoming members of the executive com­ the coming two years: Mrs. George Cun­ mittee with corsages for the closing ses­ ningham, 4> n II, chairman; Amy Burnham sions. Onken, II B 4>, secretary; and L. Pearle Saturday evening, the NPC-NADW com­ Green, K A®, treasurer. Mrs. Cunningham mittee, Mrs. Bingham, !::.. r, chairman, and set a high goal for National Panhellenic Mrs. Burnaugh had the pleasure of enter­ Congress, 'When, in accepting the offic_e, she taining at dinner Mrs. David G. McCarn, said: dean of women, Northwestern university, "I assume the chairmanship with a real pride and deans' representative on the joint com­ in the organization and a deep sense of re­ mittee. Sunday evening, Mrs. Burnaugh sponsibility, and also with the realization that and the committee on eligibility and na­ we can a~complish only those things that we tionalization of social groups, Mrs. Irving set about to do. When we are here, we talk a Brown, chairman, met at dinner with the great deal about changing trends and new standards and patterns of conduct, but, after representatives of Affiliated Panhellenics, all, when we compare the deeper principles of Professional Panhellenics, and Association living today with those of former generations, of .Education Sororities for a helpful con­ we find that the truer aspects of social living ference on inter-Panhellenic situations. have changed very little. We are still. guided by the same ideals that prompted our foundings. · National Panhellenic Congress appre­ So we who have assumed the responsibilities of ciated greatly the assistance of its able and making fraternities more effective, worthwhile alert parliamentarian, Mrs. W. G. Suthers, organizations will redouble our efforts during and the · splendid and effective work of the next two years so that the high objectives of this Panhellenic Congress will become ef­ !::.., Gertrude Anderson, A E chairman of the fective on our individual campuses arid that committee on publicity, as director of news­ we will make a real contribution to the frater­ paper publicity for the Congress. nity system and to 'Education for Victory.'" +++ "Vamos a Comer" in Chile ... (Continued from page 24) by several people to hold my purse tight They looked vaguely familiar. Then I re­ and not to wear anything detachable. The member~d. While in the country on field food sold was similar to that seen at the trips I had seen people beside the road fer£a, but every type of humanity seemed with clumsy though villanous-looking knives to be present, including the deformed and cutting the thistle, which is plentiful, and crippled. Wandering about in the crowd I stopped slashing off the leaves. Why collect the before one stand to look at plant stalks thistle, I had asked myself at the time? stripped of leaves and tied in bundles. Here in the Vega was the answer to my What kind of a plant had stems like this? question. The stems are used for food. +++

· The sympathy of the fraternity is extended to Lucy Lewis Vonnegut (Mrs. Theodore Franklin), A-Indiana, and to Pauline Vonnegut, A, in the death of their husband and fat:J:ler, Theodore Franklin Vonnegut, ~ - r A, December 26, 1943, at Indianapolis, after an illriess of five months. .MARRIAGES • • • Beta Province Zeta Province Gamma Rho Chapter Beta Zeta Chapter Charlotte Fugate Miller to Lieutenant Maurice Nancy Ann Scharr to Lieutenant Joseph Addison M. Bloom, Jr., Army Air· Force, September 14, Davis, Army Air Force medical corps, Northwest­ 1943. ern university, in April, 1943. Gamma Epsilon Chapter Eta Province Suzanne W. Rigby to David Williams Jones, Gamma Omicron Chapter Jr., May 8, 1943. Elizabeth Jane Erwin to Sergeant Willard H. Findling, 2: A E, University of Indiana, July 11, Gamma Province 1943. Iota Province Gamma Omega Chapter Phyllis Niswonger to Captain Robert Frederick Beta Kappa Chapter Fackler, July 3, 1943. Virginia Galloway to Ensign Robert L. Moore, July 1, 1943. Delta Lambda Chapter Lambda ,Province Marian Bailey to Lewis Webel, March 14, 1943. At home: 530}f Veteran avenue, West Los Delta Theta Chapter Angeles 24, California. Margaret E. Gavan to Sergeant Pilot Percy Lewis, RCAF, May 31, 1943.

Delta Province Mu Province Gamma Delta Chapter Delta Iota Chapter Nancy E. Cooper to Lieutenant (j.g.) D. G. Elinor Thayer Scott to Ensign Walter J. Majew­ Peterson, K 2:, September 8, 1943. ski, University of Illinois, June 19, 1943.

BIRTHS • • • Alpha Province Delta ' Province Beta Tau Chapter Delta Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Irving (Florence To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne It Atkinson (Barbara James), a son, Jeffrey James, November 6, 1942. Deniston), a daughter, Patricia Ann, June 9, 1943. To Ensign and Mrs. William A. Borrie (Mary To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Robert Williams (Marl­ White), a son, Christopher Melville, August 3, beth Harrison), a son, Gordon Vance, October 6, 1943. 1943. Beta Province Mu Chapter Beta Alpha Chapter To Lieutenant and Mrs. Leo L. Hunter (June To Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Shants (Elizabeth· Bradshaw), a son, Tim Bradshaw, August 15, Bowen), a son, Frank Bowen, July 22, 1943.· 1943. Gamma Epsilon Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Bell (Vivian Stuart Kappa Chapter Roberts), a daughter Judith Ann, August 21, 1943. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. A. Boyle (Mary Frances Brokaw), a son, Michael Huntley, May Gamma Province 25, 1943. Rho Deuteron Chapter Delta Gamma Chapter To Warrant Officer and Mrs. Frederick Marvin Stellhorn (Caroline Wertz), a son, Frederick Wil- ! 0 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Jr. (Dorothy liam, June 1, 1943. Y;;~;strom), a son, Stephen William, August 30, Beta Nu Chapter To Dr. and Mrs. Guerdon D. Greenway (Vir- To Mr. and Mrs. Philip Patch (Martha Dobson), ginia L. Pilcher), a son, Guerdon Dimmick, II, a daughter, Carolyn Elizabeth, June 18, 1943. January 3, 1943. • 57 . 58 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Epsilon Province Kappa Province Chi Chapter Pi Deuteron Chapter Mr. and Mrs. EdmundS. Cummings, Jr. {Diana Doty), an adopted son, Stephen Doty. To Cal>tain and Mrs. Robert Breuner (Winifred KasebergJ, a third daughter, July 21, 1941. Zeta Province Beta Eta Chapter Gamma Alpha Chapter To Captain and Mrs. William Wesley Cecil (Jean To Mr. and Mrs. George Cambell Jones, Jr. Idal), a son, William Wesley, III, September 1, (Dorothy Anne Jackson), a son, Robert Cambell, 1943. May 22, 1943. To Ensign and Mrs. Robert W. Cahill (Vivian Gamma Iota Chapter Kay), a daughter, Cheryl, May 15, 1943. The To Mr. and Mrs. John Charles Warner {Mar­ October KEY erroneously announced the birth of a garet Parman), a daughter, Lynn Strawn, April15, son. 1943. Theta Province Beta Xi Chapter To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Wills {Polly How­ IN MEMORIAM • • • ard), a daughter, Mary Fanchon, September 26, 1943. KATE MAY STODDARD, K-Hillsdale, in the Iota Province fall of 1943 at Sterling, Illinois. CORA EMMA MURPHY FRADY (Mrs. U. L. Beta Kappa Chapter F.), 0-Simpson (inactive), in the fall of 1943 at To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Strang {Winifred Gal­ Beaumont, California. loway), a second daughter, Sharon Lee, March 9, FRANCES TAPPAN PARKER (Mrs. Force), '1-­ 1943. Cornell), October 7, 1943, at Los Angeles, Cali­ To Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt Craven {Maude Gal­ fornia. loway), a third son, Gary, August 2, 1943. ELIZABETH WILSON, A-Indiana, June 15, Gamma Gamma Chapter 1943, at Peru, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. C. Robert Ross (Margaret CATHERINE WILLISON BEEBE (Mrs. Henry Charters), a daughter, Mary Susan, December 1, Kirke), A r-Michigan State, in April, 1943, at 1943. Great Neck, New York.

• Gold Stars m Kappa Service Flags . • • Captain Frank D. Marsh, USMC, husband of Frances Young Marsh, !-DePauw, died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., August 8, 1943. Captain Marsh was attached to the Secret Communications Section at Marine Corps Headquarters. A military funeral with a Marine guard of honor was conducted at South Bend, where Mrs. Marsh and her son, Tom, are living at present. Edward Porter Bruck, Jr., USMC, 17 years old, son of Dorothy Palmer Bruck (Mrs. Ed­ ward P.), !!.6-California, was killed in action in the South Pacific, July 20, 1943. Second Lieutenant John DeWitt Lucas, USMCR, 24 years old, son of Alice Trout Lucas (Mrs. Frank P.), !-DePauw, was reported missing in action at Midway in June, 1942. He was awarded the· Navy Cross for "delivering a dauntless and aggressive attack" in the engagement. Having had no report of any kind for a year and a day, the Marine Corps advised his parents that he was officially declared dead, as of June 5, 1943. Major William Walker Cassell, U. S. Army, 26 years old, husband of Janet Jackson Cas­ sell, B A-Michigan, was killed in action in the Alaskan area, May 31, 1943. Mrs. Cassell, who is left with twin sons whom their father had never seen, is making her home with her parents in Ann Arbor, where she is president of the Kappa alumnre association. /

FRATERNITY DIRECTORY COUNCIL President-MRs. EVERETr ScHOFIELD (Elizabeth Bogert, M), R.F.D. 12, Box 89, Indianapolis 44, Ind. Vice-President and NPC Delegate-MRs. E. GRANVILLE CRABTREE (Edith Reese; B r), 85 Dean Rd., Brookline 46, Mass. Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge of Philanthropies-MRS. JAMES PARK (Elizabeth Kimbrough, B X), R.F.D. 1, Lexington, Ky. . Executive Secretary-Miss CLARA 0. PIERCE (B N), 603 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. Director of Alumnce-MRS. SYDNEY LEE JoHNSON (Emily Caskey, B H), R.F.D. 1, Box 713J, La Canada, Calif. . Director of Chapter Organization-MISS HELOISE SMAR'IT (B e), 1916. N,.W. 18th St., Oklahoma City 6, Okla. Director of Chapter Programs-MRS. JosEPH W. SEACREST (Ruth Kadel, 2:), 2750 Woodscrest, Lincoln 2, Neb. Director of Membership and Panhellenic-MRs. RALPH E. FIELDS (Hulda Miller, B ol>), 235 S. 6th St. E., Missoula, Mont.

ASSOCIATE COUNCIL Province Presidents Province Vice-Presidents Alpha-MRs. JAMES MACMAHON (Sarah Millar, B N), Alpha-(To be- appointed) 51 Chapin Rd., Newton Center 59, Mass. Beta-MRs. GILBERT SElL (Frances Merritt, r E), 18 Beta-MRs. EDWARD F. EGx (Helena Flinn, r E), 2356 Radcliffe Rd.. Bala·Cvnwyd, Pa. Orlando Pl., Wilkinsburg, Pa. Gamma-Mrss ELINOR GEBHARDT (B P), 6433 Grand Vista Gamma-MRs. CHARLES CHASTANG (Ruth Bullock, B N), Ave., Cincinnati 13, Ohio. 1698 Berkshire Rd., Columbus 8, Ohio. Delta-Mas. HARRY E. ELLIOT (Mary Ann Scholl, I) , Delta-Mas. CAli.L F. TRAGEa (Vera Altshuler, tJ. f), 123 3743 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis 8, Ind. Cedar St., East Lansing, Mich. Epsilon-MisS MATILDA THOMPSON (r T), 719 7th St. S., Epsilon-Mas. RICHARD HoWELL (Elizabeth Fletcher, T), Fargo, N.D. 1023 Ashland Ave., Wilmette, IJI. Zeta-Mas. CHARLES A. KuTTLI!R (Josephine Torr, 1), 2365 Zeta-Mas. GLEN G. WALLACE (Alberta Beard; r e), E. Locust St., Davenport, Iowa. 1135 42nd St., Des Moines 11, Iowa. Eta-MRS. GLENN w. OLIVER (Rebekah Deal, r A), 3411 Eta-Mas. JosEPH CAKPBELL (Eleanore Goodridge, B M), Cribbon Ave., Cheyenne, Wyo. 355 Marion St., Denver 3, Colo. Theta-Mas. FRI!D R. Aury (Sarah Brown, r tl.), 6274 Theta-Mas. JoHN WAKSLEY (Mary Singleton, I), 2238 Prospect Ave., Dallas 14, Tex. Terwilleger Blvd., Tulsa 5, Okla. Iota-Mas. LLOYD PAYNE (Esther Moore, 0), 1820 Walnut, Iota-MRs. RoBERT GI!ORGI! (Lora Harvey, B II), 4983 Eugene, Ore. Purdue Ave., Seattle 5, Wash. Kappa-Mas. ANDREW T. HAss (Myrtle Henrici, II), Kappa-Mas. FREDERIC W. HoAR, Ja. (Marjorie Miller, 1711 Palmera Ct., Alameda Calif. . r Z), 13842 Davana Ter., Sherman Oakes, Calif. Lambda-Mas_ JAMES E. MANN -(Lucy Higginbotham, Lambda-Mas. ERNEST H. PoLACit, II (Ruth Ellen Phil­ B T), 530 Parkway, Bluefield, W.Va. Mu-MRS. EllUL GEOli.G (Mary Hatfield, 5 Brook­ lips tJ. B), Washington Farm, Wheeling1 W.Va­ r 9), Mu--Mrss MIRIAM A. LocrtE (f II), Umversity, Ala. haven Dr. N_E,, Atlanta, Ga.

STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Music-Mas. GEORGE R. CHRISTIE (Catherine Allison, I). 151 N.W. 92nd St .• Miami 38 Fla. Budgeting and Bookkuping-Mas. RoBERT H. ' WHITE Pledge Training-Mas_ EDWIN S- CHICKERING (Mary Jim (Patricia Kingsbury, M), 3802 N. Emerson, Indianapolis Lane, r N), 603 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus 44, Ind. . 15, Ohio. Chaptef' Housing-Mas. WILLIA:Il C. WALZ (Catherine Ritualist-MRS. THEODOli.E WESTERMANN (May C. Whiting, Kelder B tJ.) 444 S. 5th Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich. :!:), 42 Pondfield Rd. W., Bronxville, N.Y. F1/lowshsps-Mas.1 BERNARD LILLJI!BERG (Leonna Dorlac, Rose McGill Fund--Mas. RoBERT S. SHAPARD (Lois Lake, 6 Z), 801 S. 6th St., Lamar, Colo. B Z:), 3840 Maplewood Ave., Dallas 5, Tex. Finance-Mas. MoTT KEYS (Dorothy Hensley, B 9), 252 ScholarshiP-MRs. EuGEN ANDRES, Ja. (Helen Snyder, N.W. 36th, Oklahoma City 3, Okla. (chairman), frater­ B II). Rt. 3 Box 284, Seattle 88, Wash. nity president, executive secretary, Helen Knox, B z:. Standards-Mas. LEWIS T. GREGORY (Isabel Culver, T), Hearthstone Fund--Mas. ERNEST P. RAILSBACK (Irene 1109 Douglas, Urbana, Ill. Neal, tJ.), 34 Foster St., J:oiewtonville 60, Mass. (chair· Undergraduate ScholarshiPs-Miss MARIAN S. HANDY man). MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO KAPPA (r K), Crisfield, Md. KAPPA GAMMA AND SEND TO THE TREAS­ URER, Miss ELIZABETH ZARTMAN (B N), 603 Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. SPECIAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN HetJrlhstone Board of Trustees-MRs. A. H. RoTH (Flor­ Alumna KEY Editor-MISS MILDRED M. ARMSTRONG (Z), ence Burton, B tJ.), 629 Myrtle Rd., Erie, Pa., (chair­ 334 Merrick St., Adrian, Mich. man), Mrs. J. Merrick Smith (Mabel MacKinney, B :!:), Arm,. and Navy Associatitm-Mns. MALIK CitAIG, Ja. Miss Helen Steinmetz (tl. E), Mrs. Gustavus Taylor (Margaret Bau~rhman, r K), 1701 Belmont Dr., Colum­ (Sue Davis, 1), Mrs. Richard Shryock (Rheva Ott, bia 39, S.C. B A), fund chairman. Army and Na'lljl Recf'eational Utsits-Mu. AKDEEW J­ Historian-Mas. JAMES F. McNABOI!! (Almira Johnson, H), SHIDEMANTLI! (Rosemary Jo Wentworth, 0), 2270 123 Waverly PI., New York 11, N.Y. Roanoke Rd-, San Marino 9, Calif. (chairman), Dr. MagtUitse Agency-Mas. JA:U:I!S MACNAUGHTAN, Jll. (Marie Marion Hilliard (B +), 170 St. George St., Toronto, Bryden, 9), 7538 Teasdale Ave., St. Louis 5, Mo. Ont., Canada (Canadian chairman). • 59 • 60 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

Adviser to all Army and Navy Divisions-VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF CoNNECTICUT (6 M)-Jane Washburn, TuCKER JoNES HEISS (Mrs. Gustave). *Kappa Kappa Gamma House, Storrs, Conn. Bequest Program--(To be appointed) CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (6 :=;')-Helen Robin· Chapter KEY Editor-(To be appointed) son, 6946 Reynolds St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Chaptet' Publications-(To be appointed) . Nora Wain Fund--Mas. RICHARD H. SHRYOCK (Rheva GAMMA PROVINCE Ott, B A), 317 Cherry Bend, Merion, Pa. CANADIANS SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO Mrs. Ralph Mills UNIVERSITY OF AKRoN (A)-Dale Hinton, 308 E. Buchtel, (Thora Mcilroy, B 'I'), 14 Meredith Cresc., Toronto, Akron 2, Ohio. Ont., Canada (Canadian chairman). OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (P")-Janet Allen, Mon­ Publicity-Mas. AKELEY QUIRK (Lucy Guild, r :=:'), 427 nett Hall, Delaware, Ohio. S. Muirfield Rd., Los Angeles 5, Calif. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (B P")-Jean Long, *2930 Vocational Guidance-Mas. CHARLES L. ScHWERING Woodside, Cincinnati 19, Ohio. (Hazel Prutsman, B 0), Office of Dean of Women, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (B N)-Dorothy Reesman, *84 University· of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. 15th Ave., Columbus 1, Ohio. DENISON UNIVERSITY (r 0)-Fanny Pease, Shaw Hall, Granville, Ohio. SPECIAL OFFICERS MIAMI UNIVERSITY (6 A)-Margaret Lodder Judd (Mrs. Donald), North Hall; Oxford, Ohio. Editor-Miss HELEN C. BowER (B 6), 15500 .Wildemere, Detroit 21, Mich. DELTA PROVINCE Field Secretaries--Mas. L. E. Cox (Martha May Gal­ leher, P"), Central Office. (Home: 180 Mallorca Way, INDII.NA UNIVERSITY (6)-Betty Wulfman, *1018 E . San Francisco 23, Calif.) Mas. FRANK H . RoBERTS (Alice 3d St., Bloomington, Ind. Anne Longley, I), Central Office. (Home 234 Clinton DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (I)-Marian Walker, *Kappa Kap­ Ave., Oak Park, Ill.) pa Gamma House, Greencastle, Ind. BuTLER UNIVERSITY (M)-Jean Brannon, *821 'vV. Hamp­ ton Dr., Indianapolis 8, Ind. CENTRAL OFFICE HILLSDALE CoLLEGE (K)-Jean Baumgartner, *221 Hills­ dale St., Hillsdale, Mich. Suite 603, Ohio State Savings Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. ADRIAN CoLLEGE (:=:')-Barbara Chesnut, Adrian College, Executive Secretary-CLARA 0. PIERCE (B N). Adrian, Mich. Assistants-Mrs. Orville Baldwin (Dorcas Leachman, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (B fo)-Monna Heath, *1204 B N), Elizabeth Zartman (B N), Mrs. Francis Car­ Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich. ruthers (Kathleen Firestone, P), Anne Hall (B N), PuRDUE UNIVERSITY cr d)-Marilyn Demaree, *325 Mrs. Edwin S. Chickering (Mary Jim Lane, r N). Waldron, West Lafayette, Ind. MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE (6 r)-Marjorie Almdale, *605 PANHELLENIC M.A.C., East Lansing, Mich. Chairman of National P.anhellenic Congt'ess-Mas. GEORGE EPSILON PROVINCE CUNNINGHAM, 4> 0 n. 2 Eucalyptus Rd., Berkeley, Calif. Kappa Kappa Gamm.a Delegate-Fraternity Vice-President. MoNMOUTH CoLL'r,GE (A")-Alice Ann Hill, 620 E. Broad­ way, Monmouth, Ill. ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (E)-Charlotte Schaeffer, BOYD HEARTHSTONE *1401 N . Main St., Bloomington, Ill. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (H)-Patricia Miller, *601 N. 800 Interlachen, Winter Park, Fla. Henry, Madison 3, Wis. Manager-Mas . . CLIFFORD J. ScoTT (Harriette Silver, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (X)-Mary Bell, *329 10th r P). Ave. S.E., Minneapolis 14, Minn. Kappa Club House Bo.ard of Trustees-see Standing NoRTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (T)-Marilou Heilman, *1871 Committee Chairmen Orrington, Evanston, Ill. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (B A)-Kay Hicks, *1102 S. Lincoln, Urbana, Ill. GRADUATE COUNSELOR UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (r !:)-Lois Merkeley, 131 Hand­ sard Blvd., Winnipeg, Man., Canada. ANNA Jo DAVIS (6 9), 700 College, Norman, Okla. (Pi NORTH DAKOTA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE (r T)-Doris Bjork­ Beta Theta) . lund, 1517 4th Ave. S., Fargo, N.D. ACTIVE CHAPTER PRESIDENTS ZETA PROVINCE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (9) Patricia Kewley, *510 Rol· ALPHA PROVINCE !ins, Columbia, Mo. ST* LAWRENC!! UNIVERSITY (B B")-Elizabeth J. Matthews UNIVERSITY OF IowA (B Z)-Ann Mercer, *728 E. Wash­ 45 E. Mam St., Canton. N.Y. ' ington, Iowa City, Iowa. BosToN U NIVERSITY ('~>)-Priscilla Carlson, *131 Common- UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (0)-Paula Reeve, *Gower Pl., wealth Ave., Boston 16, Mass. . Lawrence, Kan. SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (B T)-Nancy Cavanaugh *743 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (!:)-Judy B. O'Connor, *616 Comstock Ave., Syracuse 10, N.Y. ' N. 16th, Lincoln 8, Neb. CORNELL UNIVERSITY (V)-Mary Ellen Kleberg *508 KANSAS STATE CoLLEGE cr A)-Margaret Massengill, *517 Thurston, Ithaca, N.Y. ' · N. Delaware, Manhattan, Kan. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (B V)-Eleanor Clark *134 St DRAKE UNIVERSITY (r 9)-Helene Waschkowsky, *3425 George St., Toronto, Ont., Canada ' · Kingman, Des Moines 11, Iowa. MIDJ?LEBURY CoLLEGE (r A)-Ruth Green Forest E WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (r !)-Frances Royse, 624 S. Mtddlebury, Vt. ' · Meramec, Clayton, Mo. McGILL UNIVERSITY .(f. .:1)-Janet Hamilton 768 Sher- brooke St., W. Montreal, Que., Canada. ' ETA PROVINCE M~SSACH':'SETTS STATE CoLLEGE (6 N)-Lucille Lawrence, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO (B M)-Zinnette Spore, *1134 314 Lmcoln Ave., Amherst, Mass. University, Boulder, Colo. · UNIVERSITY OF NEw MEXICO (r B)-Joan Asselin *221 BETA PROVINCE N. University, Albuquerque, N.M. ' ALLEGHE NY CoLLEGE (r P)-June McGary Walker Hall, UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING cr 0)-Margaret Bolle *Frater- Allegheny College, Meaaville Pa ' nity Park, Laramie, Wyo. ' U NIVERS ITY OF PENNSYLVANIA' (B · A)-Margaret Miller, COLORADO COLLEGE (f. Z)-Betty Hollingsworth Mont- *3323 Walnut St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. gomery Hall, Colorado Springs, Colo. ' ADELPHI CoLLEGE (B !:)-Barrie Wildner 15 Aldershott UNIVERSITY OF UTA~ (6 H)-Diana DeVine, *33 S. Wol­ Court, Rockeville Center, L.I., N.Y. ' cott, Salt Lake Ctty 2, Utah. UNIVER~IT": OF PITTSI;'URGH cr E)-Annette Smith *165 N. Dtthndge St., Ptttshurgh 13, Pa. ' THETA PROVINCE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE (A A)-Julia Gilbert *Kap- pa Kappa Gamma House, State College, Pa. ' UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (B :=;')-Carolyn Joan Boyle *2001 University, Austin 21. Tex. . ' • Chapter House Address. . UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA (B 9)-Katheryn Jordan, *700 College, Norman, Okla. Fraternity Directory 61

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (f N)~Reube Gene Shaw, *800 BILLINGS (I)-Mrs. John Schiltz, 311 N. 28th, Apt. 4, W. Maple, Fayetteville, Ark. Billings, Mont. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (f ci>)-Betty Lou BIRMINGHAM (M)-Mrs. Karl Straub, 3100 Pawnee Ave., Warner, 3729 Stratford, Dallas 5, Tex. Birmingham 5, Ala. t*BISMARCX (E)-Mrs. W. F. Schmeding, 321 11th St., IOTA PROVINCE Bismarck, N.D. BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS (E)-Miss Ruth Ahlenius, 407 E. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (B II)-Elcena Torrence, Grove, Bloomington, Ill. *4504 18th N.E., Seattle 5, Wash. BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA (A)-Mrs. W. Austin Seward, MoNTANA STATE UNIVERSITY (B 4>)-Eileen Murphy, *1005 1219 E. Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Ind. Gerald Ave., Missoula, Mont. BLUEFIELD (A)-See Southern West Virginia. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (B 0)-Mary Elizabeth Bentley, *BoiSE (I)-Mrs. Robert E. Newhouse, 1013 N. 18th St., *821 E . 15th, Eugene, Ore. Boise, Idaho. UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO (B K)-Virginia Newton, *805 Elm, BosTON (A)-Miss Janet Height, 18 Desmond Ave., Man­ Moscow, Idaho. chester, Mass. WHITMAN CoLLEGE (f f)-Mary L. Hansell, Prentiss Hall, BosTON INTERCOLLEGIATE (A)-Mrs. Vincent V. R. Booth, Walla Walla, Wash. 22 Boulder Rd., Wellesley Farms. Mass. STATE CoLLEGE OF WASHINGTON (f H)-Patricia Person, BouLDER (H)-Mrs. Walter· B. Franklin, 1006 lOth St., *614 Campus Ave., Pullman, Wash. Boulder, Colo. OREGON STATE CoLLEGE (f M)-Marion Cobb, *13th BRITISH CoLUMBIA (I)-Miss Betty Bolduc, 6011 Mar· and Van Buren, Corvallis, Ore. guerite St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada. UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (f T)-Joan VillierS· BUFFALO (A)-Mrs. Harold F. Clark, 287 Sterling Ave., Fisher, 4685 W. 11th Ave., Vancouver, B.C., Can. Buffalo 16, N.Y. BuTTE (I)-Mrs. Leslie M. Sheridan, 924 W. Platinum, Butte, Mont. KAPPA PROVINCE CANTON, OHIO (f)-Mrs. Norman L. Moore, 2037 Cleve· UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (II"')-Emily Andrews, *2725 land Ave. N.W., Canton 3, Ohio. Channing Way, Berkeley 4, Calif. CANTON, NEw YoRK (A)-See St. Lawrence. LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY (B H)-Janet Atkinson, CAPITOL DisTRICT (New York) (A)-Mrs. Wilford San­ *554 Lasuen St., Stanford University, Calif. derson, Fairview Apt., Loudonville, N.Y. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (f Z)-Carolyn Kemmler, *1435 CEDAR RAPIDS (Z)-Mrs. R. J. Stevenson, 2243 Bever E. 2nd, Tucson, Ariz. Ave., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. U NIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT Los ANGELES (f Z)-Edith CHAMPAIGN-URBANA (E)-Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, 1109 W. Huber, *744 Hilgard Ave., West Los Angeles 24, Calif. California, Urbana, Ill. CHARLESTON (A)- Mrs. Robert Childers, R.F.D. 1, Box 352, Charleston, W.Va. LAMBDA PROVINCE CHEYENNE (H)-Mrs. Lance R. Holbrook, 103 E. 5th WEsT VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (B T)-Mary Caroline Throp, Ave., Cheyenne, Wyo. 1 *265 Prospect St., Morgantown, W.Va. · CHICAGO INTERCOLLEGIATE (E)-Miss Katharine Horn, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY (f K)-Katharine Ruther· 12220 Stewart Ave., Chicago 28, Ill. ford, *Kappa Kapp:t Gamma House, Richmond Rd., Business Group Branch--Miss Dorothy Boettiger, 258 Williamsburg, Va. Walden Dr., Glencoe, Ill. (Chr.) GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (f X)-Betty Cugle, Chicago Suburban Chairmen 'Wyoming Apts., Washington 9, D.C. Chicago (North Side)-Mrs. Harold Molitor, 2001 U NIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (f '1')-Nettie F. Garman, Jarvis Ave. *Kappa Kappa Gamma House, College Park, Md. Chicago (South Side)-Mrs. W. M. Webb, Jr., 8107 DuKE UNIVERSITY (t. B)-Audrey Hance, College Station, S. Langley Ave. Durham, N.C. Hyde Park-Mrs. R. W. Watkins, 5608 Kenwood Ave. MU PROVINCE South Shore-Mrs. P . W. Johnson, 2915 E. 78th St. Beverley Hills-Mrs. R. H. Watson, 1930 W. 101st TuLANE UNIVERSITY (H. SoPHIE NEwCOMB CoLLEGE) PI. (B 0)-Marian Dureau, 48 Audubon Blvd., New Orleans, Evanston-Mrs. J , D. Chisholm, 2401 Jackson Ave. La. North Shore Suburbs-Mrs. G. W. Welch, 589 Drexel UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (B X)-Sara Ewing, *179 E. Ave., Glencoe. Maxwell, Lexington 8, Ky. Wilmette and Kenilworth-Mrs. Marvin Harms, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (f II)-Minnie Hayes, *901 925 Pawnee Rd., Wilmette. Colonial Pl., Tuscaloosa, Ala. Winnetka-Mrs. C. N. Brigham, 420 Maple St. RoLLINS CoLLEGE (ll E)-Nancy Ragan, Pugsley Hall, Glencoe-Mrs. J, T . Beals, 444 Greenleaf Rd. Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. Southwest Suburbs-Mrs. T. H. Posey, Jr., 565 L OUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (t. I)-Flournoy Voelker, Poplar St., Elmhurst. Box 5304, University 3, La. Western Springs and La Grange-Mrs. J , J. U NIVERSITY OF MIAMI (A K)-Betty Batcheller, *3110 Berscheid, 115 S. Kensington Ave., La Grange. Segovia Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. Hinsdale-Mrs. Harper Clarke, Jr., 635 S. Oak St. Glen Ellyn-Mrs. Harold Kelly, 619 Pleasant Ave. · Wheaton-Mrs. Robert R. Kimbell, 520 S. Wheaton ALUMNJE ASSOCIATION AND Ave. CLUB PRESIDENTS CINCINNATI (f)-Miss Martha Reuwer, 2341 Grigg Ave., Hyde Park, Cincinnati 7, Ohio. (t Clubs) CLEVELAND (f)-Mrs. John T. Parsons, 14907 Milverton Greek letter following name denotes province. Rd., Shaker Heights 20, Ohio. ADRIAN (ll)-Mrs. William Jeffrey, 111 Union St., Adrian, CLEVELA ND WEST SHORE (f)-Mrs. Raymond F. Blosser, Mich. (Sec.) 2633 Lakeview Ave., Rocky River, Ohio. AKRON (1')-Mrs. B. B. Bowling, 116 S. Balch St., Akron COFFEYVILLE (Z)-See Southeast Kansas. 3. Ohio. CoLLEGE PARK (A)-Mrs. Charles R. Grant, Jr., 405 ALBANY (A)-See Capitol District. Battery Lane, Bethesda, Md. ALBUQUERQUE (H)-Mrs. M. L. Neimants, 307 N. Pine, CoLORADO SPRINGS (H)-Mrs. William Burke, 1408 N. Albuquerque, N.M. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. ANN ARBOR (ll)-Mrs. William Cassell, 309 N. Division CoLUMBIA (Z)-Miss Mary Frances Hunt, 804 Conley St., Ann Arbor, Mich. Ave., Columbia, Mo. ARKANSAS (9)-Mrs. Gordon Page Oates, 231.3 W. 12th, CoLUMBUS (r)-Mrs. Richard H. Evans, 2096 Iuka Ave., Little Rock, Ark. Columbus 1, Ohio. ARMY AND NAVY-Mrs. Malin Craig, Jr., 1701 Belmont CoN NECTICUT (B)-Mrs. George M. Pearse, 41 Forster St., Dr., Columbia, S.C. Hartford 6, Conn. ATLANTA (M)-Mrs. Richard H. Peters, 2560 Clairmont tCoRVALLIS (I)-Mrs. Horace Howells, 419 N. 18th St., Rd., Atlanta, Ga. Corvallis, Ore. AusTIN (9)-Mrs. Charles McCormick, 1410 Gaston Ave., DALLAS (9)-Mrs. Walter A. Dealey, 3524 Dickason, Austin 21, Tex. Dallas 4, Tex, BALTIMORE (A)-Miss Jean E. Heimer, 14 E. Franklin DAVENPORT (Z)-Mrs. Charles A. Kuttler, 2365 E. Locust St., Baltimore 2, Md. St., Davenport, Iowa. tBATON RouGE (M)-Mrs. L. V. B. Nichols, 4780 New· DAYTON (f)-Mrs. Porter Turner, 2532 Roanoke Ave., comb Dr., Baton Rouge, 14, La. Dayton 9, Ohio. BETA IoTA (B)-Mrs. James E. Douglas, 600 N. Chester DELAWARE (State of) (B)-Mrs. H. Franklin Baker, Rd., Swarthmore, Pa. Rockland, Del. 62 The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma

DENVER (H)-Mrs. William H. Hamilton, 135 Dahlia St., · tMANSFIKLD (r)-Miss Emma G. Waring, 370 Marion Denver 7, Colo. Ave., Mansfield, Ohio. DES MoiNES (Z)-Mrs. R. H. Sylvester, 545 39th St., tMARTINSVILLE (A)-Mrs. R. H . Egbert, 659 E. Washing­ Des Moines 12, Iowa. ton St., Martinsville, Ind. DETROIT (A)-Mrs. John Dorsey, 65 Moss Ave., Highland MEliPHIS (M)-Arthur L. Turner, 264 DeLoach, Mem· Park, Detroit 3, Mich. phis 11, Tenn. DuLUTH (E)-Mrs. ' E. 0. Baumgarten, 1417 Vermillion MIAMI (M)-Miss Margaret Shillington, 1820 Espanola Rd., Duluth 5, Minn. · Dr., Coconut Grove, Fla. tDuRHAM (A)-Mrs. Ralph Van Trine, Box 1128, Durham, *MIDDLEBURY (A)~Mrs. William H. Upson, Chipman N.C. Park, Middlebury, Vt. (acting Pres.) EL PAso (9)-Mrs. Clifford M. Irvin, 910 Cincinnati, tMm-OKLAHOMA (9)-Mrs. Basil Wagner, Chandler, Okla. El Paso, Tex. MILWAUKEE (E)-Mrs. Paul White, 1314 E. Kensington EssEx CouNTY (New Jersey) (B)-Mrs. Thomas Wicken­ Blvd., Milwaukee 11, Wis. den, Twin Oaks Rd., Short Hills, N.J. MINNESOTA (E)-Mrs. John Forney, 4212 Crocker Ave., EuGENE (I)-Mrs. Charles Vannatta, 192 W. lOth Ave., Minneapolis 10, Minn. Eugene, Ore. MINNEAPOLIS (E)-See Minnesota EVANSTON (E)-See North Shore. MISSOULA (!)-See Montana. EvANSVILLE (A)-Mrs. Robert C. Enlow, 739 S. Willow MoNMOUTH (E)-Mrs. Donald W. Watt, 206 N. 2nd St., Rd., Evansville 14, Ind. (Sec.) Monmouth, Ill. FAIRMONT (A)-Mrs. Thoinas M. Berry, 707 Benomi Ave., MoNTA NA (I)-Miss Virginia Rimel, 340 Woodworth Ave., Fairmont, W.Va. Missoula, Mont. (Vice-Pres.) FARGO (E)-See North Dakota. MoNTCLAIR (B)-See Essex. FoRT WAYNE (A)-Mrs. Ernest Carlo, 4633 Crestwood, MoNTREAL ·(A)-Mrs. Robert Montgomery, 1433 Bishop Fort Wayne 6, Ind. St., Montreal, Que., Canada. FoltT WoRTH (9)-Mrs. Marshall R. Young, 719 River­ MoRGANTOWN (A)-Miss Catherine Davis, 521 Grand St., crest Dr., Fort Worth 7, Tex. Morgantown, W.Va. tGALVESTON (9)-Miss Elisabeth Runge, 1301 Ave. D., MuNCIE (A)-Mrs. Darrall P arsons, 816 E. Main St., Galveston, Tex. Muncie Ind. GARY (t.)-Mrs. C. Lenox Beshore, 711 Cleveland St., NEWARK-GRANVILLE (r)-Mrs. Clarence M. Eddy, 201 W. Gary, Ind. Elm St., Granville, Ohio. GLENDALE (K)-Mrs. William M. Bleakney, 724 E. Valen­ NEWCOMB (M)-Mrs. Frank Fischer, 1820 Audubon St., cia, Burbank, Calif. New Orleans 18, La. tGaAND Foaxs (E)-Mrs. Elroy H. Schroeder, 421 River NEW ORLEANS (M)-See Newcomb. St., Grand Forks, N.D. NEW YoRK (B)-Mrs. James F. McNaboe, 123 Waverly tGRAND IsLAND (Z)-Mrs. Norman Prucha, 1314 W . Divi· Pl., New York 11, N.Y. sion, Grand Island, Neb. Business G,.oup Branci~-Miss Jessie R. Lockitt, 461 E. GRAND RAPIDS (6)-Mrs. Francis Staat, 2131 Paris S.E., 16th St., Brooklyn 16, N.Y. (Chr.) Grand Rapids 7, Mich. NoRTH DAKOTA (E)-Mrs. John F. Alsop, 1406 lOth St. tGREAT BEND (Z)-Mrs. Herbert A. Harms, 3202 Broad· S., Fargo, N.D. way, Great Bend, Kan. NoRTHERN NEw JERSEY (B)-Mrs. G. Douglas Stengel, tGREENCASTLE (t.)-Mrs. Frank Donner, 623 Seminary 622 Wyndemere Ave., Ridgewood, N.J. St., Greencastle, Ind. NoRTH SHORE (E)-Mrs. William Racine, 1724 Wes· tHARRISBUB.G (B)-Mrs. William L. Anderson, Will-Adele ley, Evanston, Ill. Farm, Hummelstown, Pa. OAK PARK·RIVER FoREST (E)-Mrs. Norman F . Brunkow, HAWAII (K)-Mrs. Daniel W. Sutherland. 3566 Wood­ 216 Le Moyne Pkwy., Oak Park, Ill. lawn Dr., Honolulu, T.H. OKLAHOMA CITY (9)-M~s. Leslie Eastman, 817 N.W. HILLSDALE (.6)-Mrs. C. W. Hayes, 173 Hillsdale St., 41st St., Oklahoma City, Okla. Hillsdale, lt.lich. · OLYMPIA (I)-Mrs. Gordon March, 114 E. lOth, Olympia, HARTFORD (B)-See Connecticut. Wash. HousTON (9)-Mrs. T. M. Mobley, 2125 Pine Valley, OMAHA (Z)-Mrs. C. A. Jeffrey, 5012 Chicago St., Omaha Houston, Tex. 3, Neb. HuNTINGTON (A)-Miss Eleanor B Moreland College PALO ALTo (K)-Mrs. Joseph A. Miller, 611 Bryant St., Hall, Huntington 1. W.Va. · ' Palo Alto, Calif. HUTCHINSON (Z)-Mrs. Arthur L. Harper, 400 E. 16th PASADENA (K)-Mrs. Andrew J . Shidemantle, 2270 St., Hutchinson, Kan. Roanoke Rd .• San 1\farino, Calif. INDIANAPOLIS (.ll)-Mrs. John R. Brayton, 3128 E. Fall PHILADELPHIA (B)-Mrs. Carl L. Miller, Jr., "517 Monroe Creek Blvd., Indianapolis 5, Ind. R.. Merion, Pa. IowA CITY (Z)-Mrs. B. J . Lambert, 4 Melrose Circle, PHOENIX (K)-Mrs. Harold B. Powers, 1536 W . Encanto Iowa City, Iowa. Blvd., Phoenix, Ariz. ITHACA INTERCOLLEGIATE (A)-Mrs. Peter W. Claassen, PITTSBURGH (B)-Mrs. Alfred M. Tompkins, 1750 James· 380 Parkway, Ithaca, N.Y. tovm Pl., Wilkinsburg, Pa. tJACKSONVILLE (M)-Mrs. W. M. O'Connell, 1849 Semi­ PoRTLAND (I)-Mrs. Ralph Stegner, 2137 N.E. 51st St., nole Rd., Jacksonville 5, Fla. Portland 13, Ore. tKANSAS CITY, KANSAS (Z)-Miss Carrie McLain 1924 PuEBLO (H)-Mrs. Charles Nichols, Jr., 303 W . 21st, Nebraska, Kansas City, Kan. ' Pueblo, Colo. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (Z)-Mrs. Fleming W Pendleton PuLLliAN (I)-Mrs. P . H. Dirstine, 501 High St., Pull­ 101 E. Ruby St., lndedendence, Mo. · ' man, Wash. LAFAYETTE (A)-Mrs. Richard Ebershoff, 1212 King St., RICHM ON D (A)-Mrs. William Ambrose McGee 4107 Lafayette, Ind. Kensington Ave., Richmond 21, Va. ' LAKEWOOD (r:')-See Cleveland, West Shore. t RIVERSIDE-SAN BERNARDINO (K)-Mrs. Carl G Dohme LA~SI N G (.ll);-Miss Jane Hopkins, 725 W . Ottawa, Lan­ 2911 Chestnut St., Riverside, Calif. · ' smg 12, Mtch. RocHESTER (A)-Mrs. Sidney W. McCann, 146 Thorn­ LAR~MIE (H)-Mrs. Donald Hubbard, 1600 Kearney, Lara­ cliffe Dr., Rochester 5, N.Y. mte, Wyo. SACRAMENTO VALLEY (In-Mrs. Herbert S. McDuffee, LAWRE NCE (Z)-Mrs. A. B. Weaver, 737 Indiana St., L aw· 1001 45th St., Sacramento 16, Calif. renee, Kan. SAGINAW VALLEY (A )-Miss F. Alison Spence 514 Holden L EWIS!ON (I)-Miss Ethel Jean Weisman, 308 Prospect, Saginaw, Mich. ' ' Lewtston, Idaho. ST. LAWRE NCE (A)-Mrs. Lewis T. Cook, 15 Harrison LEXI NGTO N . (M)-Mrs. Hugh Campbell, 1419 Richmond St., Canton, N.Y. Rq. , Lexmgton 32, Ky. ST. Lours· (Z)-Mrs. Wallace Gage, 7520 Oxford Dr LINCOLN (Z)-Mrs. S. C. Waugh, 2401 Van Dorn, Lin­ Clayton 5, Mo. ·• coln 2. Neb. ST. PAUL (E)-See Minnesota. *LoN DON, E NGLAND (A)-Mrs. E. E. Osland-Hill, Dobins, SAI.EM (I)-Mrs. Arthur T. Fox, 1065 S. Liberty, Salem, Fulmer, Bucks, England. Ore. LITTLE RocK (9)-See Arkansas. t SALINA (Z)-Mrs. Clifton B. Dodge, Jr., 608 Charles L ON G BEACH (K)-Miss Marian Sims Hilton Hotel Long St., Salina, Kan. Beach 2, Calif. ' ' SAN ANTONIO (9)-Mrs. Eugene Ames, 333 Morningside tL~N GVIEW (I)-Mrs. Albert Fix, 1514 21st Ave., Long­ Dr., San Antonio 2, Tex. vtew, Wash. SAN DIEGo (K)-Mrs. Robert Murphy, 2134 Upas St Los ANGELES (K)-Mrs. W illiam Drake, 2335 Crenshaw San Diego 4, Calif. ., Los Angeles 16, Calif. ' SA N FERNA NDO VALLEY (K)-Mrs. Richard Moore 12642 LouiSVILLE (M)-Mrs. John L. Ott, Crestwood, Ky. Hortense St., North Hollywood, Calif. ' MADIS

SHAWNEE (9)-See Mid-Oklahoma. UTAll (H)-Mrs. Harold S. Bennett, 1680 E. 45th S., Salt SHREVEPORT (M)-Miss Nell Querbes, 2750 Fairfield, Lake City 7, Utah. Shreveport, La. WAco (9)-Mrs. F. D. Mitchell, 900 N. 17th Waco, Tex. SouTH BEND (A)-Miss Martha Hammerschmidt, 1101 WALLA WALLA (I)-Mrs, Richard Eubanks, 316 Bryant Riverside Dr., South Bend 16, Ind. Ave., Walla Walla, Wash. . SouTH EAsT KANSAS (Z)-Mrs. John Shaver, 402 W. 1st, WASHINGTON, D.C. (A)-Mrs. Torrence Wolford, 6311 Coffeyville, Kan. Georgia St., Che_vy Chase, Md. SouTHERN WEST VIRGINIA (A)-Mrs. Jack L. McFarland, tWATI!:RLOO (Z)-Mrs, Maynard Carter, 171 Berkshire, 1307 N. Walker St., Princeton, W.Va. Waterloo, IQ:wa. SPOKANE (I)-Mrs. William Roberts, W. 1028 lOth Ave., WESTCHESTER CoUNTY (New York) (B)-Mrs, Paul West, Spokane 9, Wash. 109 Old Army Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS (E)-Mrs. William A. Yates, 1431 District Chai,.men . Penn Ave., Springfield, Ill. Bronxvil!c;.. Crestwood, Tucka!we, Mt. Vernon, Yon­ STATE CoLEEGE (B)-Mrs. Joseph T . Sullivan, 235 Wood­ kers--Mrs, F. E. Bailey, 3 Northway, Bronxville, land Dr., State College, Pa. N.Y. SWARTHMORE (B)-See Beta Iota. Scarsdale, White Plains, Chappaqua-Mrs. Robert L. SYRACUSE (A)-Mrs. G. M. Butters, 521 Cumberland Ave. Giebel, Scarsdale Apts., Scarsdale, N.Y. Syracuse 10, N.Y. Pelham, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, New Rochelle TACOMA (I)-Miss Helen P . Hoska, 312 N. Stadium Way, -Mrs. W. J, Merritt, 627 Claflin Ave., Mamaro­ Tacoma 3, Wash. neck, N.Y. *TAMPA BAY (M)-Mrs. Donald B. MacLean, 3106 Oak­ WHEELING (A)-Miss Martha Jane Phillips, Hawthorne lyn, Tampa 6, Fla. Ct., Wheeling, W.Va. · ToLEDo (r)-Mrs. George E. Seney, Ill, 3325 W. Ban­ WICHITA (Z)-Mrs, R. Chesley McCormick, Broadview croft St., Toledo 6, Ohio. Hotel, W.ichita 1, Kan. ToPEKA (Z)-Mrs. Milburn P. McComas, 1500 Plass, WICHITA FALLS (9)-Mrs. Fred J. Elbert, 1705 Tilden, Topeka, Kan, Wichita Falls, Tex. ToRONTO (A)-Mrs. William Rutherford, 83 Oriole Rd., tWILLIAMSIIURG (A)-Mrs. Dwight Stuessy, 4004 S. Eng­ Toronto, Ont., Canada. land St., Williamsburg, Va. TucsoN (K)-Mrs. R. L. Brenneman, 2901 E . Mabel St., WILMINGTON (B)-See Delaware. Tucson, Ariz. WINNIPEG (E)-Miss Marion Kotchapaw, 50 Guelph St., TULSA (9)-Mrs. John C. Carroll, 1239 S. Birmingqam, Winnipeg, Man., Canada. Tulsa 4, Okla. · WINTER PARK (M)-Miss Helen Steinmetz, Box l', tTuscALOOSA (M)-Mrs. Melvin Valk, 1001 Elmwood Dr., Apopka, Fla. Tuscaloosa, Ala. • YAKIMA (I)-Mrs. Mark L. Kranz, 207 S. 9th Ave., TYLER (9)-M;rs. J, M. Burke, Jr., 1315 -S. College, Tyler, Yakima, Wash. Tex. (Vice-Pres. ) · (*1943-44 officers not yet reported by group.)

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MARCH 30-(0n or before) Correspondin~ secretary mails typewritten annual chaJ?ter report to central 1-Treasurer mails pledge fees to central office for office. all members pledged since major rushing sea­ son. MAY !-President of chapter house corporation notifies !-Membership chairman sends order for supplies to central office of housemother reappointment or central office. contemplated change for next school year. tO-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail tO-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. IS-Province president sends an annual report to di­ lS-(on or before) Corresponding secretary sends rector of chapter organization. names and addresses of officers and alumn:e ad­ 2S-Send birthday greetings to Kappa's only living visers to central office. founder, Mrs. Joseph N. Boyd. 30-Chairman of alumure advisory board sends an­ nual report of activities of the board to the director of chapter organization and province JUNE president. tO-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail APRIL to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping, 10-Aiumna finance adviser sends list of uncollected tO-Treasurer places monthly finance report in mail accounts to chairman of budgeting and book­ to chairman of budgeting and bookkeeping. keeping, 30-Treasurer sends central office per capita "tax report and per capita tax for each member active JULY at any time during the second half year, as well 10-(0n or before according to date last term of year as per capita for all associate members, also ends) Treasurer expresses ALL material for an­ check for annual audit. nual audit to central office.

(For Alumnre Association and Club Officers and Province Vice-Presidents) (Club Officers responsible only for reports which are*) AUGUST *IS-President appoints chairman of membership recommendations committee and sends name *tO-Corresponding secretary sends news items for with address to central office. Information for Fleur-de-lis to chai rman of publicity on special publication in THE KEY. stationery. *IS-Secretary sends news items for Fleur-de-Lu to OCTOBER chairman of publicity on special stationery. *13-Founders' Day, *IS-Corresponding secretary places semi-annual APRIL news letter for December KEY in mail to *tO-Secretary sends news items for Fleur-de-Lis to alumna editor. chairman of publicity on special stationery. *15-(0n or before) Alumnre groups elect officers, NOVEMBER secretaries send names and addresses of new •t 5-Secretary sends list of alumnre who have moved officers to director of alumnre, central office, to other cities to the nearest alumnre organiza­ and province vice-president. tion and to the central office corrected lists *30-Secretary sends annual report to director of furnished them of their district. Secretary also alumnae and province vice-president and a list sends to director of alumnre, central office, and of alumnre who have moved to other cities to province vice-president the organization's pro­ the nearest alumnae organization and to the gram for the current year and a directory or central office. list of all loc,al alumnre with their addresses. *30-Treasurer sends to central office the annual per capita tax report and per capita tax for mem­ DECEMBER bers of her organization during the current *tO-Corresponding secretary sends news items for fiscal year (June 1, 1943-May 30, 1944). Fleu-de-lis .to chairman of publicity on special 30-Treasurers of alumnae associ a tiona a end to een­ stationery. tral office annual conventiou tax. JANUARY MAY 20-Province vice-president sends informal report 20-Province vice-president sends report of her to director of alumnoe. province to director of alumnre, *2S-Send birthday greetings to Kappa's only living FEBRUARY founder, Mrs. Joseph N. Boyd. *tO-Secretary sends news items for Fleur-de-Us to *30-Membership Recommendation chairman orders chairman of publicity on special stationery. recommendation blanks from central office. WITHIN ONE WEEK AFfER REGULAR OR SPECIAL ELECTIONS secre­ taries of chapters and alumnre groups send names of new officers and addresses to central office.

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