OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA MID-WINTER 1963 Know Your Fraternity It has been very interesting in this day of devotion to modern art that the arrival of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the United States for the first time caused such a stir. It proves that any great accomplishment is ageless. Superiority remains unchanged through generations, though time may alter styles in art, or any other pattern of living. Today some claim that fraternities have outgrown their usefulness. The need for closer associations with those of mutual interests for the purpose of developing individuals is ageless. The desire and need of humans does not vary, whether it be the horse imd buggy era or the day of electronics. Humans are not machines and few live as hermits. Encouragement and inspiration are essential to any person and necessary to his success. The business of fraternities is with the development of people, which is as · much a part of life as death and taxes. Many of us do not realize or appreciate what our fraternity experience has taught us or the opportunities it has afforded us until years after college days. If an appreciation is gained early in this experience, more effort will be made to avail ourselves of its opportunities. It is important that we know something of the accomplishments of its leaders, their philosophy and influence, not only for the development of Kappa but in a wider field. Interest in helping people is developed in the undergraduate. It is signifi­ cant that alumnre give hundreds of hours of service to their communities and that many careers have been influenced by fraternity associations. To know your fraternity is to appreciate it. There is nothing more important than assisting the individual to achieve a successful and happy life. ~~Se~-~ VOLUME 80 NUMBElt l The first college women's fra ternity magazine the I{EY Published continuously since 1882 OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA MID-WINTER 1963 Send all editorial material and correspondence to the COVER: A view of the main quadrangle, with the English Tudor towers of Brookings Hall, Washington University admin­ EDITOR istration building, in the rear, graces the cover. It is in honor of Mrs. Robert H. Simmons 156 North Roosevelt Aventie· Gamma Iota Chapter and their advisers that THE KEY visits Columbus 9, Ohio this group located on the Washington University campus in St. Louis, Missouri. Send all business hems to the BUSINESS MANAGER Miss Clara 0. Pierce Fraternity Headquarters 530 East Town Street 2 A part in a changing world Columbus 16, Ohio 4 Africa-a world of change Send ehan ges o£ address, eix weeks prior to month of pub .. lication, to 7 THE KEY visits Gamma Iota chapter FRATERNITY HEADQUARTERS 8 This is Washington University 530 East Town Street Columbus 16, Ohio (Duplicate copies cannot be 12 "And when we tell you" sent to replace those unde· livered through failure to send advance notice.) 17 Introducing-two province officers and a chairman Deadline dates are A ugust 1, 18 Boyd Hearthstone sold September 25, November 15, I anuary 15 for A utumn Winter, Mid-Winter, and Spring issues respectively. 19 Career corner P rinted in the U.S.A. 23 Campus highlights THE KEY is published four times a year (in Autumn Winter, Mid-Winter, ano1 30 Actively speaking Spring), by George Banta Company, Inc., official printer to Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, Curtis Reed 39 K-State singers tour Far East Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin. Price: $.50 single copy; $3.50 two-years; $15.00 life. 41 Alumnre news Second class )>Ostage paid at Menasha, W1sconsin. Copy· 42 Kappas make the news right, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1963. 46 In Memoriam Postmaster: Please send notice of undeliverable 47 Kappas declare open season on fund raising copies on Form 3579 to Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Headquarters, 52 By their efforts the Rose McGill Fund grows 530 East Town Street, Columbus 16, Ohio. 54 Fraternity directory The author at the Temple of the Dawn- one of Bangkok's most famous. A part in a changing world by P A T R I C I A H U D S 0 N D E B U T T S r !2-Denison S iam, or Thailand which means "Land of able to run it without assistance when their the Free," has been our home since January, contract with the University terminates in 1959, when we packed up muumuus, ukuleles 1964. and three lively sons, and flew from Hono­ When we arrived in Bangkok, the little·we lulu to Bangkok, the capital and largest city knew of Thailand was what we'd read about of this colorful. country. Here my husband, the indomitable Anna and her adventures Dale, and two other men from the University with the King of Siam. We soon learned that of Hawaii began a project to develop a voca­ the movie had been banned here, justifiably tional education program under the. sponsor­ so because of the false picture it gave of that ship of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza­ famous monarch, King Mongkut, who holds tion (SEATO). Since then, seven other Ameri­ a place in the affections of the Thai people can teacher-technicians and their families comparable to that of Lincoln in the United have come and gone; 19 schools in rural States. In the past four years we've corrected towns and villages have been rehabilitated our misconceptions and come to understand and turned into modern trade and industrial and love Thailand and its people. vocational schools designed to provide skilled Bounded by Cambodia, Laos, Burma and workers for the growing local industry of Malaya, Thailand holds a key position in a upcountry Thailand; and in Bangkok, a critical area, and is, fortunately, one of the teacher training center has been developed best friends the United States has in South­ where teachers from all project schools are east Asia. Unlike its neighbors, Thailand trained. There is still much work to be done, has never been colonized, and its friendly, but the Thais are gradually learning to take tolerant people make life pleasant for Euro­ over all phases of the program, and will be peans and Americans alike. Though it is an 2 underdeveloped country, its fertile central Editor's note: plain produces more than enough rice for the country's needs. Other important sources of In 1959 Patricia Hudson DeButts, r n­ Denison, and her husband' and three chil­ income are rubber, tin and teakwood. There dren moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where is an abundance of meat and seafood, and her husband is one of a team of men from probably the most and best variations of fruit the University of Hawaii sent to set up a in the world. vocational school system under the aus­ picies of the State Department. Prior to We quickly felt at home, though the cli­ this move the DeButts had called Hawaii mate is more tropical than in Hawaii. It's home for ten years. There Patty was ad­ wetter during the monsoon season and hotter vertising manager for Mcinerny's in Hono­ in the dry season, but most of the same trees lulu. The editor hopes that KEY readers and flowers flourish here, and the Thai people will enjoy this first hand account of the way of life in a constantly changing themselves with their easy-going charm are part of the world as well as the following close cousins, in spirit at least, to the happy­ article by another member living in the go-lucky Hawaiians. midst of another part of this changing In the past, education has been the busi­ world, Africa. ness of the Buddhist priests, and many of the primary schools today are still located within the temple grounds. School is compulsory academic standards, many Thai students com­ through the first four grades. Six years of plete their education in Europe or the United secondary education are available to those States. who qualify scholastically and who live near As opposed to women in other parts of enough to the government schools to attend. Asia who lead a restricted domestic existence, There is a shortage of schools, teachers and Thai women have traditionally enjoyed a textbooks, and much of the teaching is done great deal of freedom and unlimited oppor­ by rote or memorization. Supplementing the tunities for education, expression and employ­ government schools are many private schools, ment. Thai women have been widely em­ many of the best run by Christian missions. ployed in a variety of occupations ranging There are five universities in Bangkok, but in from road building to the professions. They order to acquire an education of Western often own and manage their own businesses. Many are practicing doctors, lawyers, teach­ ers and journalists, and a few hold prominent The DeButts family on the front steps of their old Thai house. positions in government. Educational oppor­ tunities are available equally to girls and boys with no apparent discrimination. In recent years, Thai women have usually outnumbered men in the selection of Fulbright scholars sent to the U.S. for advanced study. Though Buddhism is the state religion, the Thais have always been tolerant of other races and religions. Christian missionaries have been active since the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th Century. The first American missionaries arrived in 1828, and through the years they introduced the first printing press, established hospitals, lepro­ sariums and schools, improved farming meth­ ods and worked directly with the people, often in the most remote areas of 'the coun­ try. Our family life revolves around our ram­ bling old Thai-style house.