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AIMING STRAIGHT dear EDITOR, EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is your page-made available to anyone In your " Arrow Hook" paragraph (Summer '86)on alumna/alumnus, wisblng to comment on articles, the magazine, or any topic of Interest you do not mention pronunciation, and so many college graduates still to our readers. Letters must be signed with full name, address, and fumble there. chapter. We reserve tbe right to edit as needed to space requirements Some years ago I wrote-for a Convention Dally as I recall-a brief and content. msf verse a la "Thirty Days Hath September" to clarify thiS , and it might be worth repeating: Hooray for C.O. When one speaks of you and me, After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1984, I have married and Sisters, we are alumnae (nee) moved three times in the course of one year. Despite my various But with our husbands, you and I addresses, Pi Beta Phi Central Office and The Arrow have diligently Together are called alumni (ni). kept up with me, and for that I am extremely grateful. .. Sic biscuitus distintegrat." ° When I was in Tulsa, OK, I notified Central Office of my new address Many thanks for your good work. Marion Wilder Read and asked who I could get in touch with to join the Tulsa Alumnae Pi Phis. The answer came back within a few days, and I enjoyed eight North Dakota Alpha months with the Tulsa Pi Phis! Morristown, NJ °That's the way the cookie crumbles! I recently moved back to Virginia and, in the process, didn't receive the summer edition of The Arrow. A quick note to Central Office had ... And we just can't resist repeating .. Marion is an alumna. Her my request delivered within a week. Keep up the good work! Pi Beta husband, if such there be, is an alumnus. Phi is always number one and I am so proud to be one!! Carolyn Crowley Wilkerson Wonts scholarship Information Virginia Zeta Newport News, VA I thOUght that perhaps you could steer me in the right direction for .... What can we say? That's our super efficient Central Office! some information. I am beginning law school at Columbia University in New York City this fall . I have been trying to gather and organize all the Loved Spain. Missed PI Phil financial aid and loans necessary to fund this ambitious project. I happened to notice, while reading my Summer '86 Arrow, that Pi Phi The article written by Kim Johnson (Summer' 86) about her semester has in the past awarded Graduate Fellowships .... I would be very in Europe had special significance for me. I too had to make a similar interested in applying for this type of grant. Perhaps you would know decision. She brought back many of the same feelings I had when I left who specifically I should contact about applying. my chapter for Granada, Spain. It was tough to leave UConn and my In a more careful examination of this issue, I came across a small sisters, but it was the experience ofa lifetime and I'm so glad I went. Not notice concerning the New York Metro Area scholarship of '700 which one day went by when I didn't look at my pictures and other Pi Phi I have called to receive an application for. And oddly enough, on the belongings. I even met another Vermont Beta who was also studying at final page, was a note about the new Dean of Columbia Law School, the the University. first woman. So interesting that all this information should have been I encourage every Pi Phi to go abroad if she has the chance. It might contained in this one issue. I will be sure not to miss any other issues as be difficult to go, but the experiences she'll gain will be invaluable. One they may prove as helpful. thing both Kim and I learned, a Pi Phi can always come back to sisters I have very much enjoyed reading all my issues of The Arrow, always who love her and missed her. searching for people and places that I know. I am rarely disappointed. It Anne Varrone makes the world seem so much smaller. Connecticut Alpha Sydney Allison Baird Guilford, CT North Carolina Beta Durham, NC Remember this to help remember. ... We sent the following information to Sydney: For Alumnae I read the excellent Arrow from cover to cover, but even so could Scholarship application forms , write Mrs . Patricia A. Cooke, 10328 have missed the point I'm about to make. Berkshire Road, Bloomington, MN 55437. COVER-Learn all about Pi Phi's new drug education program, AIMING STRAIGHT. The story begins on page 15. Cover is reprinted with permis sion of The Ohio D. 0 .. a magazine of the Ohio University College of Osteo pathic Medicine. F PI BETA PHI VOLUME 103 WINTER, 1986 NUMBER 2 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PI BETA PHI FRATERNITY Founded 1867 FOUNDERS OF THE FRATERNITY Emma Brownlee Kilgore (1848-1924) Rosa Moore (1848-1924) Margaret Campbell (1846-1936) Jennie Nicol, M. D. (1845-1881) Libbie Brook Gaddis (1850-1933) Inez Smith Soule (1846-1941) Ada Bruen Grier (1848-1924) Fannie Thomson (1848-1868) Clara Brownlee Hutchinson (1850-1931) Jennie Home Turnbull (1846-1932) Fannie Whitenack Libbey (1848-1941) Nancy Black Wallace (1846-1918) Features Office of Publication: Dear Editor ........ ... ....... Inside Front Cover 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333, COLlfGl FRATERNITY £OtTORS ASSOCIATION S1. Louis, Mo . 63105 Off the ARROWHook .............. ....... 4 Call to Convention. 5 Convention Information . .. 6 Staff Recreation Day Tours. 8 Meal Events . ........................... 9 ARROW Editor Post Convention Tour .................... 10 Marilyn Simpson Ford (Mrs . William W., Jr.), 268 Convention Registration Form . .. 11 Underwood Dr., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30328 Hotel Registration Form . .. 12 It's New Orleans for Convention and Alumnae Club Forum Editor All ThatJazz . ... ..... ... ..... 13 AIMING STRAIGHT-Pi Phi's Drug Carol Busch Marlowe, 5199 Firestone Place, Santa Education Program . .. 15 Rosa, CA 95405 California Iota is Installed ............... ... 18 News of Arrowcraft and Arrowmont . .. 22 From Pi Phi Pens Pi Beta Phi Friendship Fund . 29 (Book Reviews) Short Stories of Sagacious Sisters . 45 Province ABO Winners . ............... .. 50 Clare Harding Sanford (Mrs. Frank W .), Little Professor Province Chapter Service Winners . .. 51 Book Center, Hilltown Village Center, Chesterfield, Holt House Contributors' Honor Roll. .. 52 Mo . 63017 Pi Phi Pacemakers ....... .... .. .... .. .... 54 Athletic Angels . 58 Arrow File and In Memoriam In Memoriam . .. 64 Pi Beta Phi Central Office, 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333, Fraternity Directory. 65 S1. Louis, Mo . 63105 Official Calendars . ............ .......... 66 Campus Sights and Sounds ......... Inside Back Cover 1Tbe ARROW (USPS 032-540) is printed Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer by Pi Beta Phi Fraternity at the press of George Banta Company, Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha, Wis. 1Send change of address notice and correspondence of a business nature to Pi Beta Phi Central Office, 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333, St. Louis, Mo . 63105. 1Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to the editor, Mrs. W. W. Ford,Jr., 268 Underwood Dr., NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30328. 1Second class postage paid at St . Louis, Missouri, and at additional mailing office. Printed in the United States of America 1Postrnaster: Send notice of undeliverable copies on Form 3579 to Pi Beta Phi, 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333, St. Louis, MO 63105 off t.he Those of you who have admired our cover this issue Katharine is an assistant executive director for will note that it was ftrst produced by the Ohio administration of the Port Authority of New York and University College of Osteopathic Medicine. The staff New Jersey. of The Ohio D. O. magazine used the photo to illustrate Marion's letter was printed in the paper, and now a story about the college's support of a drug rehabilita the entire area is aware of Katharine's affiliation. tion center in southeastern Ohio. Hooray for Marion! Two of the doctors on the clinical faculty at Ohio University have added to their regular duties by When the Rockford, IL Alumnae Panhellenic Council serving as medical directors at a drug rehab residence held its annual Woman of the Year luncheon, Nancy for teenagers. Students at the college also often serve Nichols Olson, Illinois Zeta, was one of the four as presenters and advisers to the recovering addicts. finalists. Nancy has been extremely active in the local The program to help drug dependent teens is just one alumnae club as well as in her community, and is of the many community outreach efforts of the college. currently philanthropy and Arrowcraft sale chairman As Pi Phi begins its own efforts to ftght drug abuse, of the alumnae club. we applaud the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine for the help its staff is contributing to the When the New York Zeta chapter was installed at battle. And we thank them for the use of the cover art Colgate last May , it became our 118th chapter, was which so vividly identiftes the enemy for us. colonized in our 118th year, and offtcially resides at 118 Broad Street! And when California Kappa is On page 69 of this issue, you will ftnd pictures of the colonized at the University of California-San Diego, it province offtcers. They were taken at the officers' will be the first Pi Phi chapter with the Kappa Leadership Workshop at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg, designation, and the tenth chapter in the state of TN, the weekend of September 20. That workshop is California. always an extra special time. Not only do "old" offtcers have an opportunity to renew friendships, but Congratulations to Evelyn Wilie Moody, Texas it is the ftrst time new offtcers meet together and are Alpha, who has received the President's Award of the welcomed to a happy group.