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No packaged prograUI You wouldn't dream of building a house without a plan. No matter how simple your needs, a design must be made, a blueprint followed, if you are to be sure that the finished product fulfills your ideas, your aims and your satisfactions. Building your chapter program is like build ing a house. It requires this same kind of pre-planning and execution. You must know what you need, what you want, what materials are available and what methods you will use to bring it into being. When you look at your design, your blueprint, ask yourself these questions: Does it have a strong foundation? Your scholarship is the strong firm base upon which everything else rests. A quiet house, an · intellectual atmosphere, guidance, encouragement-these are the building blocks of a good scholarship program. Is it functional? Chapter organization must be streamlined enough to eliminate unnecessary duties yet be strong and firm enough to give smooth, efficient and unobrusive operation. Is it comfortable? The program of the personnel committee is responsible for this phase. Does your plan have dignity, warmth, charm? Is there time for friendship, provision for individual differences, op portunities for development? Does it look to the future? The pledge training program must be strong and vigorous and geared toward the more mature students entering college today. In their hands lies the continual growth and well-being of the chapter. Does it have large windows? Our campuses are rich in cultural resources and opportunities. Make provision for your chap ter to participate and enjoy them. During their undergraduate years students' tastes are being determined and interests stimulated. Is the ornamentation adequate and in good taste? Recreation and social events are needed and desirable in any well-balanced program. Be sure that fun and fellowship are provided in satisfactory proportion and are always in good taste. Kappa Kappa Gamma offers you no packaged program, no ready-made blueprint. Any pro gram for Youth must be flexible and creative if it is to help young people find their way in a changing world. We must meet the challenge of today's mature student and lively curriculum. It is up to each individual chapter to assess its needs and its resources and design its program with discrimination, courage and imagination. One chapter who has already done this writes: 'We've stopped vegetating and started cogitating. Soon we hope to begin activating." VOLUME 78 NUMBER 2 The first college women's fratern ity magazine Published continuously the KEY since 1882 OF KAPPA KAPPA GA.l\Thft\ SPRING 1961 Send all editorial material and curreF>pon•lenre to the COVER: The columned entrance and dome of Henricks Chapel make a focal point on the quadrangle of the Syracuse Univer EDITOII sity campus. To honor the Beta Tau chapter members on this Mrs. Robert H. Simmons 156 North Roosevelt Avenue campus, THE KEY journeys to Syracuse, New York. Two Con Columbus 9, Ohio vention awards, for the Best Advisory Board and honorable mention for the Greatest All-Around Improvement, were proudly received by this group at the 1960 Fraternity biennial Sencl all buttiness heme to the meeting in Coronado, California. IIUSINESS MANAGER Miss Clara 0. Pierce Fraternity Headquarters 530 East Town Street Inside front cover . No packaged program Columbus 16, Ohio 2 Colonization proceeds for third Florida chapter 3 Memorial to Dorothy Canfield Fisher Send changes or address, sis weck8 prior to month o£ pub· 4 Education for democracy licaliun. to 6 Ranking grand president dies in Fehruan· FRATERNITY HEADQUARTERS 9 Chapter housing 530 East Town Street Columbus 16, Ohio 9 Epsilon Beta enjoys new home (Duplicate copies cannot be 10 Delta Psi proud of new lodge sent to replace those unde· livered through failure to send 11 Delta goes modern advance notice.) 13 A new way of life 15 Rehabilitation Services Deadline tlates are August 1, September 25, November 15, 18 Youthful ambassadors of freedom January 15 for Autumn, Winter, Mid-Winter, and 20 Third foreign study award announced Spring tssues respectively. Printed in the U.S.A. 21 THE KEY visits Beta Tau chapter 22 Ninety years at Syracuse TnE KEv is published four times a year. (in Autumn, 24 A dream realized Winter, Mid-Winter, and Spring) by George Banta 29 She, too, went to Harvard Company, Inc., official printer to Kanpa Kappa Gamma 30 Career Corner Fraternity, Curtis Reed P1a za, ~[enasha, Wisconsin. 33 Today's woman in her community Price: $.50 single copy; $3 .50 two-years; $15.00 life. 35 Alumnre-through the years 36 A story Second class postage paid at Menasha, Wisconsin. Copy· 41 Kappas off the press right, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1961. 43 Alumnre news 51 In memoriam Postmaster: Please send 53 Campus highlights notice of undeliverable copies on Form 3579 to 54 Actively speaking .. round-up of chapter news Kappa Kappa Gamma 63 A student in Mexico Fraternity Headquarters, 530 East Town Street, 64 She Ought to be a Kappa Columbus 16, Ohio. 72 Fraternity Directory University administrative offices are housed in the Westcott Building which stands at the main gates to East campus. third Florida chapter The pledging of 25 girls to Epsilon Zeta colony at Florida State Uni versity, Tallahassee, Florida, February 21, marked the beginning of a future Epsilon Zeta Chapter to be installed as Kappa's third in the State of Florida. At the invitation of the University last fall, and following Convention vote, preliminary steps for the colonization project got under way in the fall under the supervision of the Fraternity Vice-President, Frances Fatout Alexander, and the Fraternity Extension Chairman, Ruth Bullock Chastang. They were assisted by Patricia McMurphy Barrineau, r IT-Alabama, of Tallahassee, and Lamoine Brittan, A ~-Oklahoma State, Fraternity Graduate Counselor, attending the University. Local alumnre serving in various capacities in the colonization project are: Faye Rogers Smith, r ll-Alabama, recom M@.,orial to mendations; Betty Hemrick, M-Butler, publicity; Martha Walker Puri, ..:l 2:-0klahoma State, ad Dorothy Canli@ldFish@r ministration liaison; Betty Stayton Elwell, B :;!; The Martha Canfield 'Memorial Library in Texas, parties with Carol Gravely Atkins, B T Arlington, Vermont is the recipient of a special West Virginia, in charge of flowers, favors and Kappa memorial to a very special Kappa, Dorothy decorations; Wilhelmina Jordan French, ..:l T Canfield Fisher, B N-Ohio State. It was Mrs. Georgia, invitations; Eleanor Jett Cooper, r A Fisher who during the first World War spear Kansas State, transportation; and Patsy Wolf headed the Kappa relief work for the children of Gentry, r Z-Arizona, pledge service. Four Kappa war-torn Bellevue-Meudon, France. It was this transfers to the Florida State campus include: same great lady who once again in World War II Mamie Reed and Sally Montgomery, · both ..:l T stimulated the Fraternity French Relief Project Georgia, and Lee Solomon and Gail Grout, both which carried her name. ..:l P-Mississippi. Wishing to find a suitable memorial to Mrs. Members of the new colony from Florida in Fisher in her beloved home town, the Fraternity clude: i'atricia Bassett, Maitland; Margay approached the Board of Trustees of the Martha Blasingame, Pensacola; Jane Ann Briggs, Patricia Canfield Memorial Library. This Library is Mack, Patricia Pearce, Linda Pursely, St. Peters housed in a wing of a family home given to the burg; Virginia Brown, Felicia Lewis, West Palm town of Arlington by Mr. and Mrs. Fisher in the Beach; Lynn Butler, Carol Ann Clarke, Catherine forties. In the center section of the house is a Young, Fort Lauderdale; Sandra Clary, Diane "Town Room" used for meetings of various types Railey, Jacksonville; Linda Geisler, Claire Stan which is open to the public for longer hours than ton, Orlando; Dannye Gibson, Lynne Thorpe, the Library proper. An oil portrait of Mrs. Fisher Miami; Beverly Marchetta, Sarasota; Judith and an original painting by Norman Rockwell Merritt, Lake Park; Nina Sue Reaves, Tallahassee. of Mr. and Mrs. Fisher hang in this room. It is From Georgia come Susan Dobbs, Jerry Lyn here that a new display case, built by a local Elliott, Atlanta; Penny Howell, Griffin; and Tallu Vermont craftsman and designed by the husband lah Long, Quitman. June Goforth calls States of Mrs. Fisher's long-time secretary, Mrs. Herbert \'ille, North Carolina her home town. Congdon, now houses family pictures, private In 1851 the Legislature of the State of Florida papers, and many first editions of her books provided for the establishment of two state the gift of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Additional colleges, one to be located east of the Suwannee funds left from the Kappa gift will supplement River and one west. As an inducement to place other donations to implement the first edition one of these institutions in Tallahassee, the display. Florida Institute offered the Legislature $10,000" It is this same Library tl1at was the recipient and property for the school. The offer was ac of the first annual Book-of-the-Month Club award cepted and in February, 1857, the Seminary west of $5000 given in memory of tl1eir long-time of the Suwannee River was opened at Talla Editorial Board member. This award, in the form hassee one of the oldest cities in Florida. The of requested books, is made annually in small institution later became Florida State College and communities. It is to continue for an unde continued in operation until 1905. termined period, but for at least five years. In 1905 six state institutions of higher learn Of Mrs. Fisher, the Book-of-the-Month Club ing, including the Florida State College, were in a memorial brochure said: "She had won for discontinued.