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December, 1954 Number 4 Well Apply to Gamma Phi Beta ir-^.^' -*r'H>. r ^-^ r ->' .i^ <5r;�� ^^t5^ �#2 7�if C^l�4CCiVt Music Hall University of Wisconsin Gflmmn phi BETn THINK ON THESE THINGS By Helen Kirkpatrick, Delta Sigma Epsilon^ I N THESE times of television and jet planes, it is be abroad have a reputation for lack of appreciation of coming trite to speak of "our shrinking world"; and "foreign" cultures. I am reminded of the American in these days of investigations, it is becoming danger who went to the best restaurant in Paris and ordered ous to talk about "world citizenship." Yet the first is steak and corn-on-the-cob. And of the story, perhaps an indisputable fact, and the second is an impera apocryphal, of the American lady touring the Louvre tive necessity today. Two people living together in a Museum in Paris with a list in her hand. She came household have a relationship either good or bad, to the room where the famous "Mona Lisa" was hung. either improving or deteriorating, but never neutral Glancing briefly at the painting, she consulted her or static. In the same way, two nations, or two sides list, placed a check beside "Mona Lisa," and hurried of this shrunken world, cannot ignore each other, off to "see" the next item on her list. Tourists who cannot proceed as though the other did not exist. visit other countries only for the sake of having been there can If we hope to avoid war, those relationships must be never be world citizens no matter how improving, and attitudes of world citizenship are es widely they travel. We can sential. Therefore let us examine this idea. be justly proud of our own culture in World citizenship begins at home, in the deep- America, but world citizenship is a two-way affair, and down attitudes of every one of us. It begins with our we cannot expect people of other countries to ideas about foreigners. It is unfortunately human appreciate having our "superior culture" rammed down nature to distrust that which is foreign and strange, their throats any more than we would like it. If we and distrust breeds fear and hate. Having grown up seek to have attitudes of world citizenship and the mutual as a "foreigner" living many years in the Orient, I understanding that this implies, we must know how it feels to be considered strange. I recall not let our pride blind us to advantages in the cul tures of other the experience, not uncommon, of having peasants countries. The slow pace of life in the from the hold their noses as me Orient and the country they passed disregard for time may exasperate on the street, not in derision, but simply because Americans trying to do business there, but those "white smell It is a have fewer ulcers people unpleasant." humbling people and less high blood pres experience. sure. Perhaps we regard the Chinese respect for the The first of world is elders of the requisite citizenship respect family and the community as outmoded, a a but for every man as man first, and as a citizen of they do not have our problem of what to do for country, a member of a race or creed, secondly. It is the aging, and how to keep older people busy. not easy to do. How often have you read with horror There are many other aspects of the idea of world headlines in the newspaper: "Forty Die in Air Crash," citizenship that deserve careful thought, but if only or Lives Lost in Disastrous to these "300 Floods," only dis two-respect for every man as an individual miss the article as of small importance when you man, regardless of citizenship, creed and color, and learn that the disaster took in another of for other place part respect cultures-can become part of our the world and no American lives were lost? Until thinking, we shall have a much better chance for we can feel the heartache behind tragedies affecting peace in our world. those on the other side of the world as well as on * Editor's note: Mrs. Kirkpatrick was born in China, this side, we cannot consider ourselves world citizens. the daughter of medical missionaries. Her husband, whose A second for world is "cultural requisite citizenship parents were also missionaries, was born in Burma. We a to values in other are indebted to humility": willingness recognize the Editor of The Shield of Delta Sigma cultures quite different from our own. .Americans Epsilon for permission to reprint this article. This Month's Front Cover THE CRESCENT IVIusic Hall, with its impressive clock tower is a landmark at the University of Wisconsin, as is the University Observatory of Gamma Phi Beta pictured above. Gamma chapter of Gamma Phi Beta was the first sorority to own its home on the Wisconsin campus, and was chartered in November, 1885. The University's Centennial motto might Volume LIV December, 1954 Number 4 well apply to Gamma Phi Beta . "rooted in the past, serving the present, forming the future." Contents The Crescent is published September 15, December 1, March 15 and May 1, by the George Banta Publishing Company, official printers of the fraternity, at 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin. Subscription price 3 The of Wisconsin $1.50 a year payable in advance, Wi a single copy. University Send change of address and correspondence of a business nature to 4 Foreign Women in American Universities Gamma Phi Beta, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin, or Room 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, Illinois. Mailing lists close August 15, November 1, January 15 and April 1. 6 Among Our Authors an editorial Correspondence of nature is to be addressed to the Editor- On Her Toes! in-chief, Mrs. James J. Marek, Clifton, Illinois. Items for publication should 7 be addressed to the editor to arrive not later than July 1, October 1, January 10 and February 20. 8 "Bravo for Billings!" 9 A Plan for Your Career Editorial StafF: 13 Profiles of Alumnae Ardis McBroom Marek (Mrs. James J.) Editor-in-chief, Clifton, Illinois. Zahour (Mrs. Edward F.) Associate 3 Noreen Linduska Editor, Jacqueline In Memoriam Drive, Downers Grove, Illinois. 15 Jeannette B. Naglestad (Mrs. T. R.) Associate Editor, Rock Rapids, Iowa. Miss Mary Jane Hipp, Business Manager, Room 1160, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., 16 President's Page Chicago 4, Illinois. Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to 17 Gamma Phi Beta Colony at Pullman directed to national advertising should be Fraternity Magazines Associated, Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. 1618 Orrington 18 Grand Council Appointments Entered as second-class matter at Menasha, Wisconsin, under the act 1879. for mailing at rate of nf March 3, Acceptance special postage under the 21 and Gamma Phi Beta Sec. 34-40 Par. provided for in the act of Camping provisions of (D) February 28, 1925. Printed in the United States of America. 27 Among Our Alumnas FIRST LADY ON TOUR � A SOUTHERN swing found Grand President, Mrs. Gerald .'\rnold honored guest at Birmingham alumnae's mother and daughter party. Delighted to wear Gamma Phi Beta's brown and mode ribbons are, clockwise around Mrs. Arnold, Kath erine Bernhard, Va LeCroy, Susan .Stacey and .\nn Swick. Pinned by the Presideni are Birmingham's po tential second generation Gamina Phi Betas. ^^Floadng landscape .. bathed in a golden atmosphere ..." thus runs Longfellow's description of Madison, home of The University of Wisconsin Wisconsin's popularity for summer sessions is understandable when one sees the piers extending into Lake Mendota from sorority and fraternity houses. This view shows Union Theatre and Pier from Lake Mendota. w ITH countless elms and oaks making dappled patterns nings more than a century ago in a borrowed room with an on the flagstones of the Memorial Union's lakeside terrace enrollment of 20 and a faculty of one? and sailboats rocking gently on Lake Mendota, the University Launched on February 5, 1849 by Professor John W. Sterling of Wisconsin campus at Madison possesses a setting of rare of Princeton, the University now has an enrollment of 14,000- charm. and teaching staff of 1,700 (not including its nine extension When William Wadsworth Longfellow wrote of Madison's divisions throughout the state). Presided over by Edwin Broun "floating landscape . bathed in a golden atmosphere," he Fred, the University's twelfth president, the University today was joined by natives and visitors alike in describing the natu has been called "one of the great world centers of higher ral loveliness of the 6500 acres of land, composing the several education." campuses of the University. Six miles of the land are lakeshore The Federal Ordinance of 1787 had encouraged the estab " property. They hold nearly 500 buildings, over a mile of tun lishment of "schools and the means of education on the north nels, and 12 miles of roads and drives. west frontier. Wisconsin's state constitution, adopted in 1848, Approaching the campus from the east, a visitor would first provided for the setting up of a university near the seat of the come to Langdon Street, with its rows of sorority and fraternity state government. A bill calling for the establishment of a state houses, and piers extending far out into Lake Mendota. university was signed July 26, 1848, and in the fall of 1850 On Langdon Street, back of the Memorial Union�a favorite the first freshman university class was assembled at Madison. Since the first commencement with two in year-a-round spot�is located the Wisconsin Union Theater of graduates 1854, of Wisconsin has more than contemporary design.
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