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- ' ri11t~r 19411 ..=... -- ·- SUN VALLEY, IDA H0 Sets the Stage for 1948 SIGMA KAPPA CONVENTION + + + "Like a Seaside Ranch in the Mountains" cific Railroads promise a special train from ... that's what they say about world-famous Chicago-so it looks like a wonderful party Sun Valley, scene of Sigma Kappa's 1948 from start to finish! Better mark June 17-21 Annual Convention. Sun Valley does offer on your calendar right now ... address all the varied outdoor fun of ocean resort as inquiries and reservations to Mrs. Richard well as western ranch-in a setting of moun M. Wick, Convention Chairman, Route 6o, tain beauty. North Western and Union Pa- Allentown, Pa. ICE SKATING IN SUMMER On one of America's finest outdoor rinks! An unusual thrill for you at Sun Valley. FOR THE OUTDOOR TYPE There's horseback riding, golfing, tennis, swimming-fine fishing, tool FINE HOTEL ACCOMMODA TIONS You'll enjoy your stay at picturesque Challenger Inn ... rates are moder ately priced. IIGMA KAPPA 6frt·angle DECEMBER 1947 Official Magazine of Sigm a Kappa Sorority Pounded at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, November, 1874 VOL. 41 NO. 4 CONTENTS GRAND COUNCIL Cover-Bradley University Campus Scene Grand Pruident-Helen Ives Corbett ~K to Give Scholarships to Greek School Girls ...... (Mrs. Laurence Corbett), 244) ....................... ... ... Marjorie Parmenter 3 Sheridan Ave., South, Minneapolis, ), Minn. Your Sun Valley Hostess ... Juanita Piersol JP' arren 8 Grand Vice Pruident-Katharine Do Come to Sun Valley! ...... Irene Dickson McFada11e 9 Tener Lowry (Mrs. Swift Lowry) Life Membership Payments in Central Office, April 24, '47, !5457 Brewster Rd., East Cleveland, through November 26, '47 ................ 10 12, Ohio. Vi Symons Busy as a Bee, Makes Things Hum at Gimbels 11 Grand Counulor-Juanita Piersol Nell Harvey Writes Music for Children .... ... Warren (Mrs. Virgil A. Warren), ......................... Catherine Fowler Brown 136 W . Twenty-fourth ave., Spo 13 kane 9, Wash. NPC Admits New Members ...................... 14 Grand Suretary--Marion Race Cole I Chaperoned the Canadian Cinderella .. Claire I. Tisdale 15 (Mrs. Russell Cole), 15516 Appoline Red Crossing in Japan Was a Thrill ... Virginia L. D oern 17 St., Detroit 27, Mich. Now I'm a Student in Switzerland .. ...... .. Lee Soelle 19 Grand TreasNrtr-Margaret Hazlett Maine Sea Coast Mission Safe Through Bar Harbor Fire .. 21 Taggart (Mrs. E. D. Taggart), Room 80), 129 E. Market Bldg., Six Months to Go ! .. ... ... .......... ... .. .... 23 Indianapolis, Ind. Our Province Presidents . .............. ..... ... 25 FOiJNDERS Conventions- A Retrospective View . .... Lorah M o11roe 31 LoUISE HELEN CoBURN, Skow Won't You Help Us Find These "Lost" Alumnre ? . 36 hegan, Me. With Our College Chapters .. ... ..... ............ 42 Mns . L. D. CARVER , nee Mary Pledges .. .. ... .......... .. .. .... .. ... 57 Caffrey Low (deceased) With Our Alumnre Chapters 61 ELIZABETH GoRHAM HaAG (de ceased) With Sigmas Everywhere . .. 68 Milestones . ... ...... ................ .... · ..... • . 72 MRs . J. B. PIERCE, nee Ida M. Fuller (deceased) Sigma Kappa Directory . 77 MRs . G . w. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann (deceased) SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in the months of March, June, October, and December by the George Banta Publishing ~ompany , BOARD OF EDITORS official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, at 450 Ahnarp stre~t, Editor-in-chief-PRANCES WARREN Menasha, Wis. Subscription price $2 a year; single copie. )0¢; life BAKER (Mrs. James Stannard Ba subscription $1). ker), 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business Ill. nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wis., or 129 East Market Building, Indianapolis, Ind. College Editor-MARTHA }EWE1T, )29 Ohio St., Lawrence, Kan. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. Chapters, college and alumna:: A/umneo Editor-VIRGINIA SIKONIA, must s~nd manuscript in time to reach their respective editors before the 837 W . Granite St., Butte, Mont. first of November, February, May, and September. Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to CENTRAL OFFICE national advertising should be directed to Fraternity Magazines As Director-MARGARET HAZLETT TAG· sociated, 1618 Orrington avenue, Evanston, Ill. GART (Mrs. E. D. Taggart), Room Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Menasha, Wis., 80), 129 E. Market Bldg., Indian under the act of March 3, 1879 ; accepted for mailing at special rate apolis, Ind. of postage provided for in the act of October 3. 1917. SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY DIRECTOR 0,. THE CENTRAL O,.,ICIE MAAOARET HAZLEn TAOOART (MRS. £ . 0 .) lie CA.T NA.R;MCT aUILDINO INDio\NA~Lia , INDIANA. December 27, 1947 Mrs. Lawrence H. Shepard, Executive Secretary American Farm School Thessalonica, Greece Dear Mrs. Shepard: Sigma Kappa is happy to enclose its check _in the amount of $2,400.00 (Two Thousand Four Hundred Dollars) in order to provide scholarships for four girls at the American Farm School at Salonica, Greece, for one year. We hope that this will be for these girls a never-to-be-forgotten year made poss ible for them by the college women of Sigma Kappa who are so keenly interested in the wel fare of all the world. Sigma Kappa is looking forward eagerly to hearing about the four Greek girls who are our proteges in the school and the 3orority is planning to widen the scope of its work for these girls as time goes on. The members of Sigma Kappa extend to your organization its best wishes for a very Successful and Ha ppy New Year. Cordially, SIGMA KAPPA qO!\~w ~.F.AJ.j~ Grand Treasurer tJ{/ ·------------ ---- -- --- --- ----------------------------------------------- -- ----------- ---- SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY 129 E. Matket St. Buil<ling N~ 2276 lndi""'r<>lis, Ind. Dec. 17, 1947 19__ Pay to the Order of Amari can Farm School • 2,400.00 _____JTLDHs_I_..So~~JUMI!L..,j*._.-...;2100.!4~0~Q!!!~~Q:....:::~~T=S ________,o.,ttan To cbe MI!ROIANTS NATIONAL BAN1t ze.6 IDdianapoli-. JDd.. 2~ ~~SA) ..7:: ==::~;:~ Grand Presiden 8igma g{appa to (jive 8cholarsluiJs to (jreek 8choo/ (jir/s By MARJORIE PARMENTER, Beta Eta, Chairman Postwar Project Committee HE FOUNDATIONS of the Ameri House's heart and mind for years. His associ can Farm School were laid by Dr. ates in Thessaloniki, Dr. Edward B. Haskell T John Henry House, who was born in and the Rev. Theodore Holway, who, with Painesville, Ohio, in 1845. When he was Dr. House were the founders of the school, eighteen years old, he was offered a schol were heart and soul with him. These men arship at Western Reserve University, Hud who laid the foundations of this institution son, Ohio .. The academy at Hudson was were certainly men of vision, faith and no lap of luxury in those lean early days. energy. They were to be pioneers in a new Central heating was unknown-the only way type of education. They envisioned a school not to freeze at night was to heap two or where learning might be related to living, three into a bed with blankets and quilts where rural boys and girls might be taught piled over them. To wash, the ice had to the dignity of labor in a setting where the be broken in the water jug, and the towel, practice of Christian principles might be a which was frozen stiff, thawed out. Weak part of every day life. The school should lings could not have endured it. Because he have a system of education which would train had never studied Greek, which was not the whole man, the mind and hand, as well taught at Painesville, he was particularly in as the soul. terested in that language and the country. Dr. House felt you could educate for He was graduated from college as Latin many things on a farm: First, spiritual life, Salutatorium and the proud possessor of a taught on the land where, surrounded by Phi Beta Kappa key. From Western Reserve nature, one has the chance to refer naturally University he went to Union Theological to God as the maker of all, for there we Seminary in New York. While there he met are dealing with the works of God. Second, and married Susan Adeline Beers, and they boys and girls are always int~rested in ?o went to Bulgaria as missionaries. ing something, rather than s1mply readmg Their first assignment was at Esk1 Zaghra about it. This would introduce into the and later they , were stationed at Samakov. school the idea of self-help. They went through insurrections and wars, In 1902 they heard of some land ten revolutions and political intrigues. Finally kilometres from the heart of Thessaloniki. it came to the point where the Turkish Gov There was about fifty-three acres owned by ernment ordered the missionaries to tour out thirteen villagers who were willing to sell stations only when accompanied by a guard of ten soldiers. This was quite impossible, so, if they could not go to the villages at least the village boys could come to them, to Grand Council has announced Sigma Kappa's be trained to better ways of living, carry the Post W ar Philanthropy namely; four scholarships light back with them. It seemed the time for to girls at the A merican Farm School in Salonica, them to consider the possibility of starting a Greece. school for village boys. After you read this article, I know you will a~ r ee we have chosen the right project. At the Amerrcan The idea of a school where the youth of Farm School we can help the girls to help them Macedonia could learn better ways for a selves and others. Here is a place where our help better life gradually strengthened the belief is needed, where our money will be wisely and that by bettering the peasant majority, the judiciously spent, where much sufferilzg ~ook place in the last war, and a place whose hrstory and Balkans could emerge from the hopeless founding ij a story of adventure, faith, vision and state of warfare in which they were con devoted love.