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-, ___ ......_ __ ...- ~ \.- ..... A positive concept of education On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated. "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead." In its deep concern for scholastic achievement among its chapters, Kappa Kappa Gamma seeks to promote a positive concept of education. Recognizing that the mem­ bers will ultimately enter upon varied fields of activity requiring specialized perform­ ance, Kappa wishes to encourage the kind of basic education which will enable each member to discover and to develop her personal and individual capacities, to understand herself and the world around her, to relate herself to the tradition of democratic so­ ciety, and to become a responsible and well-adjusted woman and citizen. As a means to such a goal the Fraternity Scholarship Committee should cooperate with the college or university in its efforts to: l. Introduce the student to the spirit as well as to the content of sound learning; 2. Emphasize the moral and aesthetic as well as the intellectual aspects of its train­ ing; 3. Develop a discrimination of values through the recognition and pursuit of excel­ lence, and through discontent with mediocrity; 4. Develop awareness of the methods of investigation employed in the several branches of learning, and provide some experience in the use of these methods; 5. Encourage freedom from narrowness, prejudice, and intellectual stagnation, and freedom for vision, tolerance, creativity, and wisdom. Kappa would have its members know that integrity and honesty in performance out­ weigh any high achievement by false means. It would have them know that the mere attainment of high grades is not the final measure of true learning. Grades must remain the artificial indices but never the end of education. Kappa would teach that true culture includes many facets of experience outside the class-room. It must also be sought in the concert hall, in the museum, in the art gallery, on the lecture platform, and in the library. Kappa would further have its members know that while healthy, fair-minded com­ petition may stimulate achievement, it should never overshadow learning for its own sake. It would have scholarship emphasis placed on recognition of positive accomplish­ ment rather than on penalty for failure. Finally, it strives to develop in each member the pride and self-respect which come from discharging individual scholastic obliga­ tions to college, to parents, to fraternity, and foremost to her own abilities. Chairman of Graduate Fellowships VOLUME 75 NUMBER 4 The first college women's fraternity magazine the I(EY Published continuously since 1882 OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA WINTER • 1958 Entered as second class matter COVER: The campus visit this issue is to Kappa's first chapter at the post office at Menasha, Wisconsin. Accepted for mail­ in the "deep south," Beta Omicron at Newcomb College, the ing at the special rate of post­ women's division of Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisi­ age under the provisions of ana. Beta Omicron was honored at the Convention this past Sec. 34-40 Par (D) provided for in the act of October 3, summer for the Greatest Scholarship Improvement of any 1917. Copyright, 1959, by Kappa chapter in the prece.ding biennium. Pictured is the Kappa Kappa Gamma Frater­ entrance to Newcomb College with the Administration Build­ nity. Second-class postage paid at Menasha, Wisconsin. ing in the background. Publication dates : THE KEY is published four times a year, Inside front cover ... A positive concept of education in Autumn, Winter, Mid­ 3 Sincerity Winter, and Spring, by the George Banta Company, Inc., 4 Two weeks in Russia official printer to Kappa Kappa 7 The art of learning Gamma Fraternity, 450 Ah­ naip Street, Menasha, Wis­ 7 Kappa's tree of giving consin. The price for a single 8 Getting to know you copy is SO cents, for one year $1.50, for two years $2, and 10 Foreign students take to the road for life $15. 12 The development of intellectual powers Requeets for change of ad· 15 News of former recipients of a helping hand dreoo must - reach Fraternity Headquarters, 530 E. Town 17 Do you know this man? St., Columbus 16, Ohio, six 18 They lived the Brussels World's Fair weeks previous to month of publication. Duplicate copies 20 They learn to help others cannot be sent to replace those undelivered through failure to 22 New appointments are made send such advance notice. 25 THE KEY visits Beta Omicron chapter Send business i terns to busi­ 26 A c;ollege within a university ness manager, Miss Clara 0. 29 A house of their own Pierce, Fraternity Headquar­ ters, 530 E. Town St., Co­ 30 The fir$t Kappa chapter in the deep south lumbus 16, Ohio. 34 An assist toward a degree Send material for publication and editorial eorrespondence 40 A two-way program to editorial board chairman, 43 A basement comes alive Mrs. Robert H . Simmons, 156 N. Roosevelt Ave., Columbus 44 The new look for Delta Pi q, Ohio. 45 Pledge list Send chapter material to the active chapter editor, Mrs. 47 Campus highlights R. A. DeWall, 1962 Penn 48 Honoraries Ave., S., Minneapolis 5, Minn. 56 Miss Colorado tells her story Send alumnae newe items to 58 Actively speaking .. round-up of campus news the alumn;r editor, Miss Patti 60 Middlebury wins praise for rehabilitation work Seanght, WTOP Radio, Broadc&st House, Washington 63 Alumnre news 16, D.C. 64 Careers and kudos Deadline dateo are August 1, September 25, November 15, 66 Who's doing what? January 15 for Autumn, 69 Tropical fruits of the Hearthstone Winter, Mid-Winter, and Spring issues respectively, 70 In memoriam Member of Fraternity Maga­ zines Associated. Printed in 71 Programs and parties the U.S.A. 72 Fraternity Directory Kappa's Tree of Giving Foreign Student Scholarships Foreign Study Vndergraduate and Scholarships Emergency Scholar· ships Graduate Counselor Scholarships Sincerity by GRETCHEN HAUCK B BA-St. Lawrence Sinc~rity is you-just you, and you are straightforward expression of yourself is sin­ now members of Kappa Kappa Gamma. This cerity. Our outward appearances at all times quality-sincerity-which you and all other should be a genuine picture of the thoughts K~ppas before you have pledged to members and feelings in our hearts. in this fraternity, is something very personal, Each of us gathered this evening to wel­ very deep, very true. come our new sisters, has made pledges to Sincerity is a foundation piece of your our fraternity, to our sisters everywhere. personality. We grow in stature, in knowl­ These pledges have bound us together as one. edge, in understanding; and each little bit of We have not only been sincere to ourselves growth in whatever way, adds to our total and to each other, but to Kappa. What love character. Each failure, each success, each and strength is there in a fraternity where disappointment, each reward helps to develop sincerity is lacking? There can be no true what we term as our personalities. Our per­ loyalty or lasting friendship without it. Yes, sonalities are dynamic, ever-increasing, ever we are ourselves; and this true, unchanging being modified-changing and growing revelation of ourself is what we pledge to toward goals which we have set before us. Kappa. We are forever striving for a better In this process we unconsciously follow the self, a more understanding heart, a more wise words of the great philosopher Socrates. able mind and body, a finer womanhood. We We come to know ourselves. have pledged sincerity to our sisters; and by But, sincerity goes one step farther; it in­ this have pledged our true, faithful, loving cludes our relationships with other people. By selves to each other. being sincere, we show people, we show our sisters, the true self that we have grown to know. Editor's note: Sincerity is an abstract and intangible sort The talk quoted on this page was given of thing; but we can recognize it at once, last spring at the Initiation Banquet of and we know also when it is lacking. A sin­ Beta Beta deuteron Chapter. Of the speech cere person does not change with the days in Gladys Eldrett Bush, B T-Syracuse, wrote revealing her inward self. She does not pre­ "Did it ever happen to you? As the alum­ tend to gain favor; she does not make false nre speaker at the Initiation Banquet at St. statements in order to gain recognition; she Lawrence, I was so impressed with the two does not make unreal promises which are to speakers, Senior and Junior, who preceded me that I felt like an 'Aunty Climax'. The bring her only personal satisfaction. Artificial Senior, 'Suki' Greene, gave a humorous behavior, pretense, and deceit are not com­ talk, high-lighting the events of the school ponents of a fine personality; they are not a year. It was a hit! Here is the Junior talk part of Kappa. on 'Sincerity'. Gretchen is the personifica­ A smile at dinner, a burst of real laughter tion of her subject. I feel now that every with a roommate, a helpful suggestion given reader of THE KEY would receive a lift at a meeting or over a bridge table-a simply from it." And the editor agrees. 3 Two wee/as in Bussia by S A R A H L E E L I P P I N C 0 T T B A-Pennsylvania T he man on the street in the USSR is just were so poor in the language of the host as interested in inside the USA as we are in country, or that more of our hostesses could Russia.

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