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Postmast~r : Plea notice of Und~l 0on Gable Editor ~E The Record of ZAE copies on Form P 0 Box 1856 Sigma Kappa ~ Evans ton I 11 3433 Washingto1 Exch 8/'::IJ Indianapolis 5, 1 ~ TV star Don Porter gives some shooting tips to these California Sigmas down by the Gun Club. A colorful western was given by mas as all arrived at Sun . .. JAN BLACKFORD, AT, member of the Harvest Ball Queen's Court at Michigan State. JUDY BURGESS, AI, is head major· ette at Miami (Ohio). A group of Phi members entertammg at a Rhode Island Union Coffee Hour: Audrey Hallberg, Mickey Kane, Lorna Chisholm, Gail Collins, I Jeanne McCormick, and Sandy Primiano. MARTHA STROM, n, Qu the Legislative Ball at Florida "We're in Dutch" put on by Gamma Zeta chapter and Alpha Phi Omega The Sigma Kappa-Delta Cl fraterniry, won first place in May Fete island pageant at Northern Illinois. float at Michigan State's. WI VOLUME 54 NUMBER 4 WINTER 1960 Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, 1874 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Editor-in-Chief, FRANCES WARREN BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Baker, 433 Woodlawn Ave., Glencoe, Ill. ) Alumntl! Editor--Beatrice Strait Lines (Mrs. Harold B. Lines), 234 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse 3, N.Y. College Edilors-Jean Bendslev Coleman (Mrs. John Coleman), Meadow Estates, Wheeling, W.Va. Anne Weaver Booske (Mrs. Henry Booske), 1617 Zarker Rd., Lancaster, Pa. Business Manager--Margaret Hazlett Taggart (Mrs. E. D . Taggart), 3433 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis, Ind. FRONT COVER: Syracuse cheerleader lois Goetz, E, cover girl of SpMts Illustrated. Photo by Marvin E. Newman. 3 What's Her line ? 4 Finds Friends As She Moves 5 Housing Is Her Hobby-and Profession 6 Blonde Laura Outclasses Her Class 7 Iota Moves Into New House 8 Helps People To People Program 9 Proud of Memphis Panhellenic House 10 Third Officers' Training School 11 Two New Books for Children Win Praise for lillian Budd 12 The Best Fraternity 13 College Chapter News 31 Pledges 37 Significant News of Sigmas 42 Alumna: Chapter Activities 53 Milestones 57 Deaths 59 Sigma Kappa Directory ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• · · · s · S A t Winter by George Banta Company, Inc., official SrGM.A KA PPA TRIA NGLE IS publtshed lh pnng_. Rummd erP,I u umMn, h w·s Subscription price $2 a year; single publtshers for S1gma Kappa Soronty at CurtiS ee aza, ' enas a, I · copies 504; life subscription SIS. Send change of address, subscriptions, and corresPot:dence of a business nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Curt1s Reed Plaza, Menasha, Wis., or 3433 Washington Blvd., Indtanapolts 5, In d. · · · b dd d r M s J S Baker 43; Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. Correspondence of an ed1tonal noture 15d to e a . tre~se t';e ~ o r ;each their respective editors before the fifteenth of Chapters, college and alu mn ~. must sen manuscnp 1n I October, January, April, and August. · · to national advertising should be directed to Fra· Member of Fraternity Magazines As s~ ciated. A II matters per t atntng ternity Magaz in es Associated , 1618 Ornngton ave., Evanston, Ill. Second-class postage paid at Menasha, W isconsin. Printed in U.S.A. Queenj anJ Sweelhearlj CAROL SUE HALMAN, fl, "Miss Gulf Coast" at Florida State. CLYDENE JONES, CHERYL PARKS, and KAREN were Homecoming Queen candidates at Northwestern Oklahoma DEBBIE KINDERNAY, !l, Delta Tau Delta Queen at Florida State. SIDNEY STRATMAN, rA, was crowned Sweetheart of Sigma Chi and presented the Delta Zeta award for the outstanding sophomore at Colorado State (Greeley). She is president of Pi Kappa Delta, national speech hon orary, and placed first in the Women's Oratory in a five state meet. MICHELE KANE, president of ter and president of the Universi at Rhode Island. won the County" tide and was first the Miss Rhode Island contest. By MARILYN McDONALD, T-lndiana A Gloria Ankers, T-Indiana, could easily qualify as a panel-stumper on television's "What's My Line?" In 1959, two years after she received her bachelor's degree in Sociology from Indiana University, Gloria was appointed an Assist ant Probation Officer for the Dade County Juvenile Court of Miami, Fla. Although she is one of the youngest members of Miami's gigantic Metro government, she has already Gloria Ankers, T, youngest member of Miami's established an enviable reputation as a "pro" gigantic Metro government, holds her own as a at handling her many responsibilities. probation officer in Dade County Juvenile Court. "Just what exactly is a Probation Officer?" is usually the first question everyone asks. each week, visiting the homes and schools of A Probation Officer is many jobs; but, her charges. She also makes regular trips to Gloria will hasten to add, she is not one of the County Children's Home where the girls those "lady policemen." Probation work deals who have not responded to probation are com with both delinquent and dependent children mitted for three month detention periods. Re whose problems have been brought to the at cently she was sent by the Court to N assau to tention of the Juvenile Court. Gloria's work return a child after a custody hearing. involves the background investigation of a Although most of the time Gloria travels delinquent or dependent girl's home, the in Snoopy, she has, on occas ion, resorted to presentation of the case to the Court, and the some fancy foot work. On one of her first final supervision of the case after the hear trips to the Children's Home, one of her ing. Since she has few of the stereotype charges broke away and began a mad dash "Blackboard Jungle" girls, most of her time down one of Miami's crowded streets. "No is devoted to working with the four chief one seemed surprised at the sight of a teenage problems of juveniles: truants, runaways, in girl sprinting through the throng of tourists corrigibles, and sex offenders. and shoppers, but people looked at me, racing "What makes my job so interesting are all along in high heels and tight skirt, as though the things that never appeared in the sociol I were crazy. After two blocks of some pretty ogy books," Gloria explains. "Although sup agile broken field running, I finally caught posedly my work is with girls until they reach up with my girl. " Since then, she carries a the age of 16, half the time I find myself more practical pair of shoes in her car at all needing a greater knowledge of adult psy times. chology than of child psychology." The root Gloria's dainty appearance belies the un of the problem in most cases goes back to the usual route she has taken in her unique career. family. Her lithe figure, red hair, and friendly, frec Gloria's work area covers approximately kled smile make her appear little more than one-third of Dade County's one million peo a juvenile herself. After graduation she ple. In her green and white Morris ~a r , worked in Newark, N.J., as a store security "Snoopy," she travels several hundred mdes officer for Sears, Roebuck and Co. "Most of WINTER 1960 my cases there involved juveniles picked up includes both Court and police officers, she for shoplifting. I suppos~ that wa~ the spar~ is a member of the Venture Club, junio that started my interest m probation work. branch of the Soroptimists International. Re Gloria's career in Newark was cut short cently she was elected vice-president of th' by a summer tour of Europe. S~e still dis Miami Alumnre Chapter of Sigma Kappa ir cusses cruising down the Rhme w1th great en which capacity she is chairman of the dup thusiasm, and her bright hazel eyes sparkle ter's oerontology project. When time allow: at the idea of a return trip. she i~dulges in golf, swimming, bicycle rid In addition to taking an active part in the ing, or water skiing-in between bridg Juvenile Officers Association of Miami, which games, of course! Finds Friends As She Moves By RACHEL ARMSTRONG FINK, BZ-Maryland A Helen Jones Cooper, Z-George Wash- ington, probably became a Sigma at heart when about eight and her sister, Joanna Best Russell, Z, was in school. Sororities were dif ferent in those days and Helen's connection began with Sigma Kappa parties at their home and trips to the "rooms" with her mother with a cake for the Zetas' lunch. When bidding came along for Helen, Sigma had no real competition from other sororities. In her junior year in college she became interested in psychology and continued in the graduate school to complete her MAin 1931, at the same time supervising a tea room at the YW in Washington. For six months she worked in the social work department of the psychiatric division of the city hospital. She then went to the Children's Division of the Washington Department of Public Welfare where she worked for 23 years. Helen Jones Cooper, Z In 1947 after the death of her husband she continued her professional training and dent of the Baltimore group, called about n received her MS in Social Work at the Uni organization, the call was warmly receive versity of Pennsylvania in 1951 and moved and Helen was willing to do anything t to Baltimore in 1955 to work as Field Super help. There has been real pleasure in th visor with responsibility for a group of response from the Sigmas she calls eac county Welfare Departments, who adminis month about meetings. It is good to kno, ter programs of assistance to the Aged, Aid that it is not just memories and old assoc to Dependent Children, Aid to Permanently ations that bring this forth, but there .