March^ 1952 San Jose State College Campus Scene, with Home Economics Building in Background
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It was out of such necessities that fraternities today inherited their forms of initiation, special handclasps and other unique characteristics. On this 175th Anniversary, the college fraternity men and women of .America pause to salute Phi Beta Kappa and to give thanks for the freedoms we in the United States enjoy today. The college fraternities pledge themselves to protect those freedoms and to carry forward into the future years the independence of thought and action upon which freedom is based. (Copy, courtesy, L. C. Balfour Company) The Crescent amma Volume LII� NuiniTber i The Cover Contents for March^ 1952 San Jose State College campus scene, with Home Economics Building in background. Beta Theta was chartered here April 24, 1^48. chapter How Many Candles? Frontispiece 2 The Crescent is published September 15, Decem ber 1, March 15, and May 1, by the George Down San Jose Way 3 Banta Publishing Company, official printers of the Wiscon fraternity, at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Tacoma Musical Family 4 sin. Subscription price $1.50 a year payable in ad vance, 40;' a single copy. College Editorship Leads to Magazine Career 5 Send change of address and correspondence of a business nature to Gamma Phi Beta, 450 Ahnaip An Interview with Dr. Doris Phelps Orwin 6 Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or Room 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois. Mailing lists close Women in a Democracy, Editorial 7 August 15, November 1, January 15 and April 1. Ayleen Clark Conducts Special Service Club in Germany ... 8 Correspondence of an editorial nature is to Report from National Panhellenic Conference 10 be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, Mrs. Marek, Clifton, Illinois. Items for James pub NPC Editors Meet in Williamsburg 11 lication should be addressed to the editor to arrive not later than July 1, October 1, Janu Founders Day Observance, by Miss Nina Gresham 12 ary 10 and February 20. President's Page 18 Editorial Staff: Come to Gamma Phi Beta's Convention 19 Ardis McBroom Marek, Editor-in-chief, Clifton, Il linois. Grand Council Holds Fall Meeting in Williamsburg 25 Parker Holman, Associate Editor, i960 S.W. Janice Camp Counselors Needed! 27 16th Ave., Portland i, Oregon. Frances Harkness Miller, Associate Editor, 11029 In Memoriam 30 89th Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Little Red Home on the Hill Miss Mary Jane Hipp, Business Manager, Room 31 Illinois. 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Sorority Row Becomes a Reality at S.M.U 32 Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national advertising should On with Our be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, 1618 Campus Chapters 41 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Gamma Phi Beta Chapter List 55 Entered as second-class matter at Menasha, Wis consin, under the act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance Gamma Phi Beta for mailing at special rate of postage provided for Directory 56 in the act of February 28, 1925. Schedule of Officers' Duties Inside back cover Printed in the United States of America. Postmaster: Please send copies returned under labels Form 3579 to Gamma Phi Beta, Room 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois. "V** y/y How Many Candles? There were 77 candles, counting one for each year of Gamma Phi Beta's growth. But there were hundreds of candles lighted the world over at Gamma Phi Beta Founders Day ceremonies, November 11. May each candle have shed light on the future of each individual Gamma Phi Beta, that she may be guided to better understanding, to greater wisdom and to deeper loyalties. Beta Theta chapter members at San Jose State College light their candles for Gamma Phi Beta's 77th birthday. Left to right they are, Ellen MacLean, Sue Gillespie, Dorothy Edinger and Marge Herndon. DoY^n San Jose lA^ay expansion now underway at San Jose State College the Novice Boxing Tourna BUILDINGin the lovely Santa Clara Valley of California has double ment; the parade and house significance for Beta Theta chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. The decoration contests celebrating young chapter's house is but two blocks from the new portion of the Homecoming Football the campus, on which the handsome new Music and Engineering game; Founders Day, this past buildings now are mushrooming. year observed jointly, with the Even more than most colleges, because of its location in a Berkeley alumnas chapter; a heavily-populated area of California's "Bay region"�further joint Christmas party with the down the peninsula from San Mateo, Hillsborough, Redwood Mothers' Club and alumna;. City, and Palo Alto (where two flourishing Gamma Phi Beta Winter Quarter is taken up alumna; chapters exist)�San Jose State College suddenly found largely by rushing activities, itself bursting at the seams after World War II. A downtown beginning with a general "open campus built to accommodate a maximum of 3,000 students was house" and continuing with forced abruptly to house more than 8,000 young men and women three other parties, after which and G.I.s, all eager to take advantage of the wide variety of membership lists are enlarged. courses offered by this largest of nine state colleges in California. Spring Quarter offers the Gradually, tenaciously, almost painfully at times, President T. W. "Spring Sing," in which all or MacQuarrie has managed to spur the state legislature into action ganizations enter a chorus, and toward alleviating the crowded conditions. It now appears that the annual Pushcart Relays Dr. MacQuarrie may realize his dreams of (1) ridding the cam sponsored by Lambda Chi Al pus of the numerous barracks hastily erected after the war, (2) pha fraternity. seeing at least the new Music and Engineering buildings com Gamma Phi Beta at San Jose rvon Phi pleted on the new campus, and perhaps the Speech building State College also sponsors a Trophy by Gamma Beta highest scholar begun on the original four-block Washington Square from which Panhellenic Breakfast, to which pledges for ship among ten sororities on San a landmark, the Tower of the Administra of all the other projects picturesque representatives Jose campus is held by Eleanor tion building. Dr. MacQuarrie, who will retire in August after sororities are invited, and at Brooks Peterson, pledge presi dent at and Eileen 25 years of service at San Jose State, was instrumental in open which a scholarship trophy is left, Burke, pledge scholarship chairman. ing the way for national social fraternities to come to the Spartan awarded by Beta Theta chapter campus. He is himself a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. to the sorority holding the high Another of his dreams for the development of San Jose State est scholastic average. College (which was founded in 1857), the acquisition of sorely The sorority house at 189 South Eleventh Street is a pioneer needed dormitories, has not yet come to be. Meanwhile he has on Fraternity-Sorority Row and also a historic landmark in the been pleased with the comfortable housing provided for a sub City of San Jose, having been the home of the first mayor. Mrs. stantial number of the girls who belong to San Jose's ten na Beulah Faull, the charming house mother, and twenty girls who tional sororities. live at the house keep busy with a well-organized program of A complete range of degree programs "exchanges" with other social groups, is available in all the liberal arts fields, philanthropic projects, study hours and a number of vocational and pre-pro cozy home life. The chapter is espe fessional areas including teaching, the cially indebted to Mrs. George Keith general secondary credential and mas (Violet Dungan, Lambda '10) who ter's degree. San Jose has become nn serves as financial adviser, and to an table particularly for fine departments interested bevy of alumna; from Pen of Art, Education, English, Journalism. insula, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Music, Physical Education, and Speech. San Jose chapters, who concentrate on National prominence has been earned "mothering" and befriending Eta chap by the special training schools in po ter at Berkeley and Beta Theta chapter lice, nursing, occupational therapy, and at San Jose. watchmaking. A well-staffed military The chapter, established in 1948, has science department continually is train been particularly fortunate in being ing two groups of young men for com near Berkeley, where such Gamma Phi missions in the army and air force. The Beta luminaries as Mrs. George M. Spartan football team plays such es Simonson, past Grand President; Mrs. tablished varsities as Stanford and DeWolf Alden, International Camp Santa Clara, "rival" institutions situ chairman; Mrs. William A. Patterson, ated in the same county.