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Message from... or Pi Beta Phi and went up to that front the month of corner bedroom for my F April is very own brief tryst with the special. We gather in past and little prayer for groups if possible, and we the future. I came away light a candle in memory from that quiet room with of each of our twelve strengthened determina Founders, those young tion to keep working for ladies imbued with deter Pi Beta Phi and renewed mination and faith that faith that our Fraternity they had started a nation would continue strong al fraternity for women and proud. based on ideals of friend Our tribute to our ship and service on that Founders must never be night of April 28, 1867. come mechanical- some Ninety-five years later thing to be done on a cer at a time that was very tain date because it is the difficult for fraternities, date. Rather, it must be with anti-Greek forces all ongoing, based on reflec over the country attack tion of all that we have ing the fraternity system's because of twelve young Alice Weber Johnson right to exist, it was my women- our own special Grand President great good fortune to at young ladies of Emeritus tend three Founders' Day Monmouth. Thus our celebrations in the com tribute is given as we work pany of Miss Amy for Pi Beta Phi. Had our Burnham Onken. We Founders been at conven went first to Chicago to tion in Orlando, they be with the Illinois might have been amazed Epsilon Chapter and the by the size and complexity Chicago and North Shore of the circle of friendship alumnae, then to Mt. they started and the scope Pleasant, where many ac of its service to others tive and alumnae mem learned from reports of bers from all over Iowa philanthropies. I think, gathered, and on April 28 too, they would have been we arrived in Monmouth proud of the active chap to be with the Illinois ter members who reflected Alpha Chapter and the intelligence, gracious Monmouth alumnae. As manners and loving be usual it was an inspiration havior, all very important to travel with Miss qualities in a careless and Onken, and the welcome mixed up world. If these we received at each stop are criteria for choosing was truly heartwarming. members in the future, After the banquet in our Fraternity will contin Monmouth, some of us re ue to be an influence for turned to Holt House for good. an extra visit before end For there are shining ing the evening. I slipped things we have yet to do. away for a few minutes 2 The Arrow of P, Beta Phi ,Contents Spring 1994 Volume 110 Number 3 Arrowmont Without Campaign for WaIls- Arrowmont- Discover the difference See the new dormitory Arrowmont is making in which will open this spring. the lives of people through pg . 8 out the world. pg.4 Wake Forest Installation Collegiate News The Fraternity welcomes Collegians fro m across the North Carolina Gamma to U. S. and Canada share the ro ll of chapters. their involvement in tu pg. 12 dent government and other campus activities. pg. 26 National Panhellenic Pi Phi Express- Conference- Angel collectors will love Pi Phis joined other Greek the new spring line fro m pacesetters for the 53rd Pi Phi Express. Look over Biennial Session of NPC. what is be ing offered th is pg. 38 season. pg. 42 Departments News of Arrowmont ........................................•..• 9 Foundation .............•.................•...................•..... 14 Links to Literacy ....•..•........•........•...................... 1 7 Alumnae News ..................•............................... 18 Letters •...•........................................................... 30 In Memoriam ..................................................... 34 Fraternity Directory ........................................... 36 Announcements ................................................ 47 Cover - Arrowmont student Sister Barbara Yolk demonstrates clay techniques to her class. Arrow Editor- Jennifer Moe ller Barcus Address Changes and In FOUNDERS OF THE FRATERNITY Assistant- Elizabeth Ann Gilkison Memoriam Emma Brownlee Kilgore 0848-1924) Pi Beta Phi Central Office Margaret Campbell (1846-1936) Pi Beta Phi Central Office 7730 Carondelet. Suite 333 Libbie Brook Gaddis (1850-1933) 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333 St. Louis, MO 63105 Ada Bruen G rier ( 1848-1924) St. Louis, MO 63105 Clara Brownlee Hutchinson (1850-1931) 314/727-7338 The ARROW of Pi Beta Phi (USPS Fannie Whitenack Libbey 0848-1941) FAX: 314/727-8049 032-540) is published quarterly by Pi Rosa Moore (1848-1924) Beta Phi Fraternity, 7730 Carondelet, Jennie icol, M.D. (1845-18 1) Corre pondence of an editorial nature Suite 333, St. Louis, MO 63105-332 . Inez mith oule (1 46-1941) i to be addre ed to the editor. Second class postage paid at St. Louis, Fannie Thompson (1 4 -1 6 ) MO. POSTMA TER: end addre s Jennie Home Turnbull (1846-1932) Copy Deadlines change to The ARROW of Pi Beta ancy Black Wallace (1846-191 ) Spring-Dec. 1 Fall-June 1 Phi, 7730 Carondelet, uite 333, t. Summer-April 1 Winter-Oct. 1 Loui , MO 63 \05-3328. Founded 1867 The Arrow of p, Bel. Ph, 3 The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi / i /' ( I t is the work which people do with their / (.'-- 'r hands IT IS DIFFICULT TO E A WORLD T ARROWMONT Missou i Art Educatu Associ tion. She ba en both a tea );ler and ad ministrator for 32 years and pegan teaching art exclusively in 19 S. Her degrees are from FQntbonne llege in t. Louis and Boston College, with ad- ditional tudies at Longview liege Kansas City Art Institute, UniversitY' of Missouri-Kan as City and Arr wmont. he ays of Arrowmont, "Not only doe one practice an perfect ski~ls there, but one meets talented (she say with emphasis) artists who are dedicat ed to working the fulle t in the art form." She returns to her tudents ex cited to teach them all 0 the new tech 's classroom, nique she has learned in her fqund in many form and Arrowmont sessions. After he com m paper t clay and pletes a demonstration in clay or some helves. On the walls, other process, she gets a spontaneous cutouts of children round of applause, as her excitement is conveyed to her students. Each time Sister Barbara attends clas es at ArrQwmont, he purcha e an Arrowmont apron. "My student ru h to g t the Arrowmont apron becau e they know Arrowmont is a school for talented arti ts." To iter Barbara's tudent, he i the talented arti t. "Arro mont," he ay ,"i a 'heav iIdr n en' for arti who spend time together enriching their kills and developing I I rr If only all the hands that reach out could touch. " SISTER BARBARA YOLK DEMON STRATES CLAY TECHNIQUES SHE LEARNED AT A ROWMONT Td ONE OF HER FI ~ TH GRADE, CLASSES. cOLJot w re top artists come to teac~ ir many talents. It is a time of re d to l~m." Through the art depart freshment, recharging and fun working ment at t,he University of Kansas, in the studios to practice one's new Kristin says, "I learned what learnings. I have grown as an artist and Aqo ont really is all about." She teacher because I have been to Went to Arrowmoqt for classes that Arrowmont." would help prepare her for a career as a One must believe that hundreds of jewelry artist. She applied for and re young people in Missouri have grown ceiv scholarsnipif (one just for Pi as human beings because they have p. i s~ t help with tuition and later was been touched by art and Arrowmont select d for an ASSistantship. Working through the out-stretched hands of work, hand-printed as an Assi tant du ing the summer, Sister Barbara Volk. sportswear to include t e while still an undergrad~te at KU, flow of de igns on silk ki helped Kristin experience Arrowmont TOMOKO NAKAMOTO - obis worn in the theat r. e began de- from the ' s e, a perspectiv that has CLOTHI G ARTIST signing costumes for the stage in 1992 been invalua Ie to her career. In adCh (/ o,noko Nakamoto, a clothing and her personal interest in theater art tion to providin an port ity for 1 artist from N ishikana-gun, has grown. Arrowmon has enriched her to exhibit in thr Galle nd sho Aikchi, Japan, had taken an active part the life of this artist w ose talen now in fiber art for more than 12 year be enriches lives of thou ds of perfon,n most amazing part of her ex rience, fore she found her way to Arrowmont. ers and theater goers ih Japan. She worked extensively painting on Kristin says, " ... was meet" the variety silk, designing clothes and making soft KRISTIN COOPER - of people- all types and ages with dif sculpture. Her work was the focus of JEWELRY DESIGNER ferent intentions for De i there- peo numerou one-woman shows in Tokyo, r ike rna y i Phi undergrad - ple I continue to talk with and see Oosaka and Nagoya, Japan and of a L ates, Kristin achel Cooper often. I left Arrowmont at the end of special exhibition of hand-printed (Kansas Alpha obtained er fir th summer with a much better sense clothing at [he Paris Gibson Square knowledge (and miscohception of of myself. The confi ence I gained Contemporary Art Museum in Arrowmont during he pledgeship. there helped me to excel in my clas e Montana. In 1990, Tomoko felt tom Kristin say, "As a Pi Phi pledge J and graduate with honors." by Japanese traditional and contempo- learned that Arrowmont was pace Continued on page 44 Campaign Gifts Make Possible Spring Opening of New Dormitory rrowmont's long-awaited new dormitory will open A this spring in time for March classes, the Elderhostel program, the Arrowmont Board of Governors' April meeting and Pi Phi Arts Weekend.