SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE
Mu Chapter House, Seattle, Washington
March, 1932
S i g m March Kapp :TRl~NGLE 1 9 3 -2 Official Publicatfon of Sigma Kappa
CONTENTS
Living Room of the Grant Home ...... Frontispiece GJJoard Postponement of the 48th National Convention ...... 91 of Fannie ,May Brooks ...... By Eleanor Barkman, _Theta 92 I • Our Dream House ...... · By Marcia GP.iNein Grant, Chi 94 editors Check Over This If You Want to \(~~ S~b}ract Any Pounds ...... By Lucia Kll/'ddtl Berry, Omicron 97 Trip to Labrador ...... Bi Eii}ffgth. Rltckie, R~o; ~. •: 99 Editor-in-Chief Social Service Wprk : ...... - ~)1 !1-vis Ansley, Chi 101 , t£aine Islanders Are Grateful for'Our a(r ·;y Gifts .... ~ 103 MRS. FRANCE_$ WARREN B~ER- ~ • . • . <-.. (Mrs. James Stannard' Baker) Phi Senwrs A'gm.ru Capture High Hoo.~ · Glass Vote . . t04 E E d A >1:~ . • · • . 68 56 ast n venue Margaret Andrew Is Fit~ Woman Banker_. ~-ate~~ frofD. .. ,..-~;. c:;·::f""' Chicago, Ill. .;; ~ Ohw ...... By Elii(t e if~. {;iht · 1,011 , ;,• ~- Greeks Must E~t! ...... ·.. Anna V. Olson i'0.6" '· .3 - ~ P.T.A. Activities ...... By Bernice Powell Gregg, T hetq.. .. ro. ·s . College Editor Our 13 M~thers Clubs All Have the Same Aim-To Help 109 .... ;... ir Alpha Gamma Alumna Heads Dancing School in Yakima 111 Miss ll,RANCES KIRKPATRICK - ' Ten Years in the Mountainsr f Western North Carolina 144-W. Weber Road ...... By the Re~~ Hannah J. Powell, Alpha 112 C~iumbus, Ohio Dr. Samuel S. Drury Become~)fresident of Missions .. . 113 Why Not Vacation on Maig.e"Islands? ...... 113 Depression Hits Maine)slands .By Blanche Emory Folsom 114 Aluml(ce Editor Internatio~al Stude(i:iat~ering Stimulates Ideas, Under- MRs. Lois •'WINE CuRTIS standmg ..... ~- ...... By Lorna Larson, Alpha Eta 115 (Mrs. Irving A. Curtis) Bernice Phelan Trains for Games ...... 116 45 Roxbury Street Nu Chapter Keeps Sigma Kappa Scholarship Cup . . 117 Worcester, Mass. Sheepskins and Pocket Books ...... 120 Life Loyal Members by Chapters ...... 121 Editorials ...... 12 4 Exchange Editor Cited for Interest ...... 126 Milestones ...... 127 MRs. MARIAN SE CHEVERELL With Sigmas Everywhere ...... 131 HEMINGWAY With Our College Chapters ...... 139 (Mrs. J. Rene Hemingway) With Our Alumna: Chapters ...... 154 1415 Sherwin Avenue Directory ...... 170 Chicago, Ill.
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Living room of the home planned and built by Mar ~ia Gege/ein Grant, Chi, whose portrait hangs over the fireplace, and her archi tect husband, Richard Grant, which is described in this issue. The house, which has an interesting old world look abo11t the ex terior because it is con structed of discolored, chipped bricks from an old building, is located on a beautifully wooded lot which drops to a deep ra vine at the back. Sigma Kappa Triangle
Vol. 26 · Edited by FRANCES WARREN BAKER · No. 2
Postponement of the 48th National Convention
N VIEW of the fact that the members of the Grand Council have been urging the chap I ters to use forethQught and care in the expenditure of chapter funds, they feel that they would not be justified in asking the chapters to meet, this year, the financial obligations imposed by the National Convention. Moreover, because they think that the large sum of money expended from the National Treasury for Convention purposes could be used, this year, to better advantage, the Grand Council feels that the 48th Convention should be postponed until July, 1933. They realize that Convention offers an excellent opportunity for widening our hori zon by the forming of new friendships and by an exchange of ideas and viewpoints; that it challenges us to greater efforts in advancing our several lines of endeavor and in attain ing the progress we vision; but, they feel that each chapter can, if it earnestly tries, find within itself that same vital source of inspiration and innate powe~ to achieve, by virtue of possessing that glowing flame of idealism which is Sigma Kappa. Our Convention is always so worth while and constructive that it is a real sacrifice to forego it, but it seems wisest to do so. Sigma Kappa must stand always as a stabilizing force in a world of changing order. With poise and equanimity, with a: fine sense of the fitness of things, may each unit of her organization and each individual member of her sisterhood reflect her strength of purpose and her belief in the promise of the future. The 48th Convention of Sigma Kappa Sorority will be held in July, 1933. AuDREY DYKEMAN, Grand President
MARCH, 1932 91 Fannie May Brooks Heads 10,000 Nurses in IlHnois Association
By ELEANOR BARKMAN, Theta
HITE hair, sparkling eyes that belie it, skin of -pink and white, a strong W chin but not too strong, a mouth with unruly corners that insist upon turning up, gracious, alive, alert, and interested. That's Fannie May (really Maria) Brooks, Theta, '15. Utterly charming you think, and you're right! Yet you can't appreciate Fannie May from any written description; her main attraction is that of personality. How can vibrant charm be placed on cold paper? Beneath the exterior lies the ability of an efficient worker. Recently she was elected Fannie May Brooks president of the Illinois State Nurses associa President Illinois State Nurses tion at its thirtieth annual meeting. When an organization of 10,000 members choses a Her code of health rules is simple, includ leader, it picks a good one. Sufficient to say, ing things any individual can do for himself. Fannie May is it, selected by requests from Some of these maxims are: arise in the morn all parts of the state. ing in good spirits and in a good state of However, her modesty is surprising. Once mind; drink plenty of water; don't wait for when asked by an organization for a sketch a vacation just once a year-each day take of her life for publishing, she politely de a few minutes out to relax; get out in the clined, insisting that she was neither famous air, be it rain, sunshine, snow, or cold, for at nor important enough for such publicity. least an hour daily; shun patent medicines ; That from one of Theta's most well-known pay a doctor to keep you well, not to get you and best-beloved members. well ; wear proper shoes-standing has much At the University of Illinois, the home to do with health; wear individual clothes, ground to which she finally returned in 1925 and clothes that make you feel well-dressed; after intermittent absences of about seven go to church once a week; and most of all get years, during part of which she was in New yourself a supply of humor and use it freely. York, she is associate professor of home eco Fannie Maria Brooks was born in Saune nomics. Although she . teaches a course to min, Livingston county, IlL, where she· at aspiring amateur nurses and home-makers tended high school. After graduation she called "Home Care of the Sick," her main taught in the county schools, forsaking teach work lies in the university extension service. ing finally to attend the Epworth Hospital As a member of the service she travels Training School for Nurses in South Bend,_ throughout the state, visiting clubs and bu Ind. An ordinary person would have stopped reaus, co-operating in every way with all kinds about that time, but that wasn't enough train of public health agencies. She talks on health ing for her. For a while she did social work in and how to maintain it, but not the kind of the Mary McDowell settlement, Chicago, fol speech you and I have usually heard on how lowing an inborn urge always to be of as to keep the bugs away. Who was it said that sistance to others. Fannie May Brooks could even make a mus She then entered the University of Illinois, tard plaster sound interesting? graduating in 1915 and majoring in home
92 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE economics. In the same year she became a carried 14,000 sick and wounded from front registered nurse in the state of Illinois. At line hospitals to boats bound for home. In the university, she was initiated into Theta all she served from April 15, 1918 to Oc chapter, October 26, 1907, and Phi Omega, tober 15, 1919. Phi Delta Psi (now Mortar Board) Omicron Coming back to the United States, she re Nu, Phi Upsilon Omicron, and the Illiola turned to the university where in 1920 she Literary society. In the summer of '16 she became health specialist. From 1921-22 she attended Columbia university, where she took was assistant professor of sanitary and home a public health course. nursing, leaving her position to go to the During the summer and spring of the war Mt. Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, New years, 1916-17, she organized and trained York, as assistant superintendent of nurses Red Cross classes (Military 20) at the Uni (1922-25). After spending a time at her versity of Illinois. Not content with that, home in Saunemin on account of illness in she immediately contributed her services the family, she returned again to Illinois in shortly after the United States entered the 1925 as health specialist, teaching one resi war, and traveled over seas to serve eighteen dent course as well. Since then she has been months with the A.E.F. as Red Cross nurse one of the main cogs in the department of No. 9813. home economics. In France she was in the thick of activity. As far as Theta chapter is concerned, her One time she went with a hospital train from chief material contribution has been in aid Paris to a French evacuation hospital just ing the advisory board to decide questions back of the Hindenburg line. After driving involving the chapter's welfare, mainly those all day along roads practically destroyed from having to do with health or with the com bombs and shells, she and her party slept in missary. Spiritually her help is above ap saloons or on the ground after a nightly re praisal. past of black bread and coffee. Arriving at Listen to what an article in the Ittinois their destination finally, they were just in State Nurses' Association Bulletin says about time for the battle of Chateau Thierry. Thou her, "Her sparkling personality, her friendly sands of injured and mangled were brought interest, her absolute fairness and generous in the hospital. To make matters worse if outlook have made her hosts of friends and possible, one wing of it with all its nurses admirers of all ages and walks of life. Not and patients was destroyed by shells. Still, in long ago a boy of twelve, in whose home she the face of su<;h suffering, · Fannie May did was a guest for a short time, said to his not become disillusioned with life. Following mother~'Gee , mother, Miss Brooks is keen. the Armistice for eight months she was super . I like her a lot.' :· vising nurse on hospital train No. 72, which And that is exactly how we feel !
TO A ROSE If time co uld bring to beauty But one enduring sign The rose would be the chosen In its immortal line. It sweetens in the dawning The new made mother's croon; Its gardened clusters brighten The brilliant bridal f!..oon. - ~ - T he fi nal hours of'~~~!i{ s':-.. Are solaced by i~ ea~, . It adds familiar l ovelines ;'~lM T o life and love and deathf/!i if.· ELISABETH MAYERj · M u ' 11 Y akima V alley )iJ.l,umna?
MARCH, .1932 93 Our House Dreams Come True
By MARCIA GEGELEIN GRANT, Chi, '27
Tuesday, graduated. the shack, building cupboards, painting the Wednesday, married. $5 .98 breakfast set, and getting settled. Thursday, wrecked car m Cleveland and Then followed several weeks of being a wrecked our honeymoon. newly married widow, since Dick had to work Friday, long-distance call for Dick to come fourteen hours every day. After the overtime back to work. work was over we started designing our new Saturday, housekeeping in our first little house. The site was on a high bluff overlook shack overlooking the Muskingum River at ing the beautiful Muskingum River for many Duncan Falls, Ohio. miles. Thus began our married life and it has The design completed, excavating was been in more or less the same hubbub for started and then came disappointment, for four and a half years. the basement had to be blasted out of solid We started housekeeping, or rather camp rock. The excavating progress was so slow ing, in one room with a screen porch sur that we abandoned the project and thus our rounding three sides. The one room served first house failed to materialize. as dining room, kitchen, bath room and dress After abandoning Duncan Falls we jour ing room, the screened porch as a bedroom neyed back to Columbus for a short stay and and living room. The plumbing? Oh yes, all from Columbus to Cincinnati for a year and outside and not far away. a half. Our first week was spent in cleaning up Then for the big event! Dick had a chance
94 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE to go back to school and study architecture. tor for his approval and suggestions, and then Dick also studied architectural engineering started adding and subtracting until we and wrote a thesis for his professional civil finally had what we needed. engineering degree. Thus, on our fourth an Many times Dick would say that a room niversary, Dick made history at Ohio State was large enough and back up his arguments by being the first to receive three degrees all with feet and inches, but they meant nothing the same day. to me so we would proceed to lay the room The day after Dick was graduated, we out on the floor, using what furniture we had moved to Dayton and the following day and supplying the missing pieces with news after that we started excavating for our home. papers. Thus I could walk around and de Ninety working days then passed by with cide if the room was too large or too small. the speed of a snail crawling through mo I might suggest to prospective builders that lasses. Anyone who has ever watched a house this is an excellent way to plan your kitchens. grow will tell you that they have never seen Lay off your proposed room size and cut out such slow workmen in all their lives. paper the size of your cupboards, stove, My architect husband and I used to argue refrigerator, and sink and place them for almost nightly about what we should or efficiency. It's lots easier to move paper should not put into our home. around on the floor before you build than it We had to keep in mind at all times the is to change cupboards and stoves after the furniture we started housekeeping with. Our house is built. A little thought given to these first furniture was ·purchased with the idea things before building is more than worth that someday we could have an early Ameri the effort. Even after spending two years can surrounding for it. Thus the early tradi planning our home, there are some things we tions of American architecture had to find would like to have a little different, now that their place in our plans. We started with a we are settled and have had a chance to try basic plan, submitted it to an interior decora- out our ideas.
He dreamed about it for four years, he and the interesting woman whose portrait hangs over the fireplace. And then he built it after his own hea1·t, with quaint, small-paned windows, , heavy beams, cracked with age, knotty pine woodwork, colonial farm house fireplac e. Living room waLls are papered in grass cloth textUI·e, harmonizing with homespun henna draperies and natural Cop tic crash draw curtains. T he car pet in old blue, green, henna, gold, and tan sets the color scheme .
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The cull uJed to illwtrate thii article were lent by the F. G . and A. H owald Company of Columb111 Ohio, decora tor 1 who planned ana1 furniJhed thi1 home. The TRIANGLE iJ a/Jo indebted for PermiJJion to reprint pari! of the article, "The Little H ouJe of Dream! Come True," by Earl Woodruff of the Howald Jtaff, from "Home! Charming" for January.
MARCH, 1932 95 Now for the description of the house. chair in dull blue frieze, a pine tavern table, When approaching the house one wonders with a pewter candle lamp that counts the how old it is. We were fortunate in securing hours by its revolving shade, and a pull-up some bricks from an old brewery that was tapestry chair, another first purchase. A green being torn down at the time we were build leather chair with a round maple table makes ing. Some of the bricks had been painted with a favorite corner. A Windsor arm chair that signs and others had been whitewashed for once served in the apartment dining room many years. These bricks were then laid ir now stands beside the radio. regularly and gave to the house an old-world The dining room is furnished in cherry. charm. We had planned to buy the old brick, The walls are paper with a quaint old scenic to save money, and then paint or whitewash print. The floor is mvered by a hooked rug. them, but the texture was so charming that The lighting fixtures are of pewter. This is we left them natural. When the foliage is on perhaps .the most gaily colored room in the the trees, the effect of these old bricks is house. The valiance boards, scalloped in old marvelous. To have the roof in keeping with cookie-cutter pattern, are finished to match the old brick, we were lucky to find a roofer the furniture. The traversed draperies are of with a lot of tile rated as seconds. These small-checked peasant cloth. The red-brown tile are just as good as the firsfs and suited cherry furniture, the colorful walls, and the our needs better, incidentally saving us a hooked rug makes a cheery, hospitable din little money. ing room. The approach to the house is by a flag The kitchen w.as planned for efficiency and stone walk, slightly curving. The front door, so far is working out as planned. The cup to be in keeping with the brick work, is made boards are built in· ·and occupy three walls. of heavy oak plank, hand adzed for the aged Breakfast nook and stove occupy the remain effect. The door is mounted on heavy wrought ing wall. The color scheme is cream and hinges. A knocker and peep hole complete green. The floor is covered with linoleum. the front door. The front door is slightly The walls not covered by cupboards and the recessed to provide shelter for those waiting ceiling are covered with sanitas. to gain admittance. In the basement is the architect's den and The front·door opens into one of the most office. There are rows and rows of books, fascinating parts of the whole house, the drawings everywhere, an ample desk, an easy hall. Knotty pine panelling was used for all chair, and flamboyant pull curtains of black walls in the lower hall and up to wainscote and orange monk's cloth. height in the upper hall. The upper hall is The master bedroom is as large as the papered in a scenic pattern showing dull living room and is furnished in mahogany henna reds and green-blue. The red is re in colonial style. A number of small hooked peated in homespun hangings at the tall rugs provide the necessary floor covering. arched window, and the blue is echoed in a The four-poster, two night tables, the old plain carpet on the stair. A maple low-boy fashioned candle lamps, the chest of draw and mirror and ladder-back chair are the only ers, hanging mirror, the spinnet desk of the furnishings in the hall. A full two-story win old living room, a mahogany highboy, and dow with leaded glass furnishes ample light. two of the Windsor chairs, all come from The hand rail is also of knotty pine. Off the the apartment. A chaise longue in damask hall will be found a convenient coat closet patterned green linen, piped in lavender, a and lavatory. flowered screen, a table to hold a green lamp, The big living room carries out the early provide the new part of the room and blend American precedent with its heavy beams, into the color scheme of green, amethyst, and cracked with age, colonial farmhouse fire rose developed from the chintz draperies. place, and the knotty pine panelling cover The guest room is furnished in maple. The ing the fireplace wall. The remaining three remaining room is being used for a sewing walls are papered in grass cloth texture, har room, with the gate leg table from the apart monizing with homespun henna draperies ment dining room for a cutting table. and natural Coptic crash draw curtains. We I was lucky to have an architect for a used the sofa from the apartment. There is husband but if your're not married to one, also a maple wing chair with "rag carpet" at least consult one before you build. Your upholstery. In front of the casement windows, dreams about your perfect house may then opposite, is the reading group with a lounge materialize.
96 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Check Over This if You Want to Add or Subtract Any Pounds
By LUCIA KENDALL BERRY, Omicron Director of Special Health, Y.W.C.A., New Haven, Conn.
Lucia Kendall Berry, Omicron, the writer of this interesting article, is well tt·ained for the special health education work which she supervises at the New Haven, Conn., Y. W.C.A. She was graduated from Bosse-Nissen School of Physical Education, Boston, in 1924; was assistant technician to an ot·thopedic surgeon, 1924-25; was director of corrective exercises and instructor of physical education at Brenau college, Gainesville, Ga., 1925-26; was instructor ·of physical education and sludent at Jackson college, Tufts, Mass., 1926-28; and has been in her present position since her graduation from Tufts in 1929.-EDITOR's NOTE
DIRECTOR of Special Health at the unaccounted for. The most weight lost by one New Haven, Conn., ·Y.W.C.A., I person was 34% pounds, 29% being a close A come into contact with many hun second. Many of them lost 5 to 15 pounds. dreds of people. I attend to the treatment of Measurements of almost everyone were certain physical and mental ailments that are smaller because of better toned muscles, bet amenable to the methods of health educa ter posture, and the removal of fat. Some of tion. the doctors of New Haven are co-operating Of the common defects, I deal primarily with me and referring patients who are in with overweights, underweights, and postural need of postural and other physical correc conditions. However, it is impossible to han tions. dle these defects in themselves. There is al Overweights, I endeavor to help by check ways the mental attitude to consider, for every ing diets, guiding in proper exercises, and overweight, every underweight, and every giving counige. Will power is one of the most postural case is an individual mental case. difficult things to have overweights acquire. For instance, the home environment of a girl Diet is the big item in reducing, but coupled may be the cause of her underweight or the with proper supervised exercise it makes re careless food habits of another may be the ducing interesting and worth while. Exercise cause of her overweight. It is necessary in helps eat off some of the flabby fat, tones up every case to start at the root-the habits and sluggish muscles, and when the person is environment. It is necessary to plan with each down to desired weight keeps her in a fit con case the proper diet, the proper attitude, and dition. lastly, the proper exercises. In checking over one diet, I asked the Some people prefer to enter classwork, woman if she ever ate bread. "No, I don't," others, individual instruction. The individual was her answer, "not to speak of." I started work that I carry on has an age range from checking her diet. "What do you eat for 7 to 70, the class work an age range from 15 breakfast?" "Bread and butter, fruit, and cof to 50. fee." "What do you eat for lunch?" "Salad, Last year, of 190 enrolled in the reducing bread and butter and coffee, or a sandwich." classes, 128 lost 62214 pounds (approximate "What you you eat for dinner?" "Meat, po ly one-third of a ton) 36 gained 76% tato, vegetables, dessert, and bread and but pounds, 13 remained the same an MARCH, 1932 97 much bread and butter." She was so accus Hints to Underweights tomed to eating bread and butter that she did 1. Consult your doctor and have a thorough not realize the habit until I checked with her. physical examination. N eedless to say, she avoided what she could 2. Drink, if possible, one quart of milk daily. 3. Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, other carbo and with other suggested changes in her diet, hydrates and fats. lost weight. 4. Add bit by bit to the accustomed diet until Practically everyone who comes needs the proper nourishment is obtained. knowledge of correct posture and training for 5. Eat slowly and with a cheery attitude. its achievement. Posture should be correct at 6. A void fatigue and constipation. 7. Endeavor to have a happy home and work all times whether sitting, standing, walking, ing environment. Worry is bad for underwei!(hts. or doing any daily task. If correct muscles 8. Plan a definite budget of your time and ad were used in all activities, fatigue would be here as closely as possible to it. less of a problem in many homes. Those who have no problem but desire to Here are some easy points on posture that keep fit should eat properly and exercise a will help you if thought of every day. little every day. It is your duty to keep fit. Let you1' neck suppo1't your head. In many places there are no Y.W.C.A.'s, Lift up your chest. and many Y.W.C.A.'s do not have a health Pull your shoulder blades back. education department. If you desire to exer Tighten abdominal muscles. cise, consult your doctor, follow his advice. Pinch buttocks (pull your tail down). If it is wise, go to some physical education Proper relaxation is sadly needed by most teacher in your community. You can then people. There are so many who never relax, learn a few simple exercises to be carried on who never enjoy the wonderful feeling per at home. An everyday adherence to a progni.m fect relaxation can give. Do you hold the bed is essential for the best results. up all night or hold the chairs up you sit in? Relax and let these hold you up. Deep breathing with sighing and allowing every muscle to . completely let go helps in relaxing. Many times a long hard stretch fl at on the back with complete relaxing after will help relax the body. If you feel tense, rushed, or in a muddle fuzzy-minded, spend a few minutes relaxing and see if your mind and body do not feel better. For you who cannot sleep, learn to breathe deeply and relax. It is a great help. Sports and other forms of recreation defi nitely have their place. Whenever possible, Hints to the O-verweights every person should have some physical ac 1. Consult your doctor, and have a thorough tivity in which to participate. Swimming is physical- examination. most universal ; if you can't swim, learn. It's 2. Study foods. Learn what is good for you to never too late. Obtain a good, patient instruc eat. Avoid candy, nuts, sundaes, ice creams, rich gravies, and cttt down on excessive potatoes, and tor if you are timid-but learn! Tennis, golf, bt·ead and butter. I have found bridJ?.e parties and badminton, ping-pong, hiking, dancing are late suppers have been the cause of many women excellent forms of exercise. gaining weight. On such occasions, plan your meals Physical and health education programs are in accordance. 3. Eating three equal meals a day is a gt·eat built in most communities around the school. help. If 1300 calories is considered all that you But the working girls, the married women, should eat, have approximately 400 calories fo r the girls of leisure equally need organized ac each meal and that will leave a bit to take extra. tivity. If there is no organization, however, Don't eat over the designated 1300 calories. 4. Don't drink too many liquids; two quarts handling the age groups of 15 to 60, it is up of all liquids is generally sufficient. to every woman to do something to keep fit 5. Don't sleep too many extra hours. Seven to or get fit. eight hours a niJ?ht is usually enough. I believe everyone can do it in one way or 6. Exercise ft'om 15 to 60 minutes a day, but no exercise should be done unless it is pro perly another. Where there is a will there is a way. mpervised at first. Exercises may be done wrong Keep well by keeping fit and you will enjoy as well as right. a full life. 98 . SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Vacation Trip to Labrador Produces Diversified Dividends By ELIZABETH RITCHIE, Rho UMMER cruises to Newfoundland and labrador" ; "Complete relaxation on Sfine ships" ; "Mysterious and distant labrador" ; were catch lines of an advertise ment which attracted my attention as spring fever turned my thoughts toward vacation. In due time I left for a few days in Quebec be fore starting on the cruise. Elizabeth Ritchie and Dr. G1·enjell As our steamer, the New Northland, sailed away from the citadel of Quebec, our inter ests centered on The labrador, a northland, of bales of cotton or other available freight. new to most of us, and little known except Short calls were made at St. Anne des Monts through books and lectures of that great and Gaspe, and after leaving the latter port leader, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who has de the steamer slowed down so that everyone voted a life of service to this wild, bleak could enjoy the wonder of the great Perce country. Gradually acquaintance with our fel Rock and Bonaventure Island, covered with low passengers brought us an introduction to thousands of sea gulls and gannets. After the pleasures ahead. Mrs. MacClanahan, crossing the Gulf of St. lawrence, Corner mother of lady Grenfell, took a keen in Brook, N ewfoundland, was reached by sail terest in everything ; a noted eye specialist ing through the magnificent Bay of Islands from Cincinnati who travel-s each summer where lovely fjords added to a very scenic beyond the Grenfell Missions to give his trip. services to the Hudson's Bay Company Hos Excitement ran high soon after leaving pital at Nain told interesting tales of his Corner Brook when the Captain announced adventures; a young college man who had that numerous icebergs would be on view the spent summers with Sir Wilfred on his hos next morning, when we would pass through pital ship, The Strathcona, and a winter at the Strait of Belle Isle to St. Anthony. Our St. Anthony, added his stories. The staff of expectations were fulfilled as we first caught the Philadelphia shop where some of the glimpses and then drew nearer to the beauti handicraft from The labrador is sold, com ful masses of ice standing out mysterious and. pleted the local color. Before the trip was awesome against the sky. ended Mrs. Curtis, wife of the head doctor Our first port of call at a Grenfell Mission of the St. Anthony Hospital, and workers was St. Anthony, which is the center of this from the St. Mary's and Harrington Missions north country and where we were kept busy had joined us. sight-seeing. There is a large hospital so well The approach to labrador by way of the equipped that even violet ray and radium pine covered hills of the Gaspe Coast and treatments are given. The Orphan Asylum is Newfoundland is full of beauty and inter here where children are given useful train est. From time to time the hilly shore line is ing and preparation for life. The · industries broken by tiny fishing villages nestling on which have been developed by Sir W ilfred narrow strips of land. At most of these vii- . Grenfell in order to aid these people who !ages the N ew N orthland anchored in the were completely dependent on fi shing as a river while small craft from shore secured livelihood were busily going forward at the supplies and occasionally took off passengers Industrial House. A large lower room was who nonchalantly settled themselves on top filled with hooked rugs, and while we MARCH, 1932 99 watched, material for new ones was given out on The labrador. He answered the many and completed ones were returned. In other questions asked, posed for innumerable rooms looms were humming merrily, with snapshots, autographed everything placed in women weaving woolens and linens. They front of him, and seemed to thoroughly en gladly gave us a brief illustration of the joy giving us this acquaintance with his process. Still other rooms were filled with northland. men carving wooden and ivory souvenirs. The At St. Mary's, where we had to land in shops wher.e the completed articles are sold small boats, Dr. Moret, head of that mis were crowded all afternoon, and we all de sion, and his wife came out in a canoe to parted with souvenirs which would bring us meet us. The hospital was new and vastly pleasure and directly aid the people who had interesting because of its complete equipment made them. Visits to the husky dogs in their in this distant place. Again we purchased kennels, to the gardens and green houses, souvenirs made by the people of the region completed the main tour of this fascinating and chatted with an Eskimo orphan. village. Tea and delicious home-made cakes The return trip was made in a downpour were served in the Community House with of rain, but this gave us an opportunity of members of the staff of the Mission as gra seeing Sir Wilfred, who previously had left cious hostesses. Some of the furniture here the wheel of the ship in the hands of an was made from barrels and proved comfort other, in the role of captain guiding his ship able and attractive as well as showing an safe into port. It took careful work to get us ability to develop material at hand. past that rugged coast in a driving rain, as In the early evening we climbed one of our experience of the next day proved. the higher hills to look down on the lovely An afternoon of rain afforded a respite land-locked harbor, across to hills, which from the exciting events of the past few days, were more barren than the pine covered ones and time to compare notes and exclaim over of lower Newfoundland, but attractive in the delight of our morning's trip. Bad their sloping formation and coloring, and out weather continued throughout the night, beyond the harbor to a beautiful iceberg which helped to make us realize that we were which had grounded at a most convenient on a ship, for until that time our trip had time for us. been most smooth. In the morning most of As we left St. Anthony the Captain took us were awakened by a heavy shudder of the our steamer as close as possible to this ice boat, and it was discovered that in the heavy berg so we could enjoy it fully. To some of us fog we "had gone on the rocks." Fortunately, it appeared as a great white castle with a a most capable captain who was experiencing sweeping driveway and caretaker's lodge. The his first accident in thirty-five years on that setting sun shone on it, making it sparkle as coast was taking care of us. The rock the New though made of millions of diamonds. Northland had picked was very large and The next morning proved most eventful smooth with a light house in the distance, for while we lay anchored outside Battle which apparently did not always function. Harbor, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who had re-. By waiting several hours for the tide to help turned from charting some of the more and by draining off all the fresh water, we northern coast, boarded our ship and in were able to continue on our way none the vited some of the passengers to join him in worse for parking on the labrador coast, with a trip to St. Mary's Mission. About seventy still another unusual tale to tell and with the of us availed ourselves of the opportunity one regret that we had not needed Sir Wil and walked a shaky plank to board the Strath fred Grenfell to rush to our aid. Our tea and cona, which is the sturdy ship which carries coffee for the next few days tasted bitterly of Sir Wilfred on his many missions of mercy salt water, and as we recrossed the Gulf we to distant points of the labrador coast. All sadly missed the ballast which the fresh water but one of its crew were volunteer workers had furnished. and they, as all the other workers we had The return trip with a call at Harrington met in this country, radiated joy in life and in Canadian labrador and the lovely scenery the great work they are doing. Sir Wilfred's of the St. layvrence river, which we had had youngest son was an engineer on board. on our outward trip, and a visit up the It was a rare privilege to see Sir Wilfred Saguenay River completed 2300 miles and in his own environment, and listen to him two weeks of a most enjoyable and interest tell in his cheery manner of some of his life ing vacation. 100 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Social Service Work May Be Discouraging ...... But I Won't Stop By A VIS ANSLEY, Chi' 31 If you are in a good humor, feel that the world_ is giving you all ·it owes you, and that you are ·a Pretty luck)' person, after all, don't read thrs story. This is meant especially for "gripers," for people with a hard-luck look who think they are gettinJ? a bad deal this y(!ar. ' · But-if you're feeling low, if you have been bemoaning your own salary or job or the fact tkat _you got a cu_t or didn't get a raise, take a large eyeful and several earfuls of this prescrtptro'? and we wrll guarantee that you'll decide you are quite willinJ? to brighten your own corner a lrttle longer. This is a story which is Probably being 1·epeated in many large cities this winter A new come~ to social work. who h~ not yet become "case-hardened" will perhaps more n.early ap proxrmate the lay pornt of vrew. And so a 1931 graduate who is getting her initiation in the appalling conditions that Prevail in the winter of 1932 has been asked to take some of her precious leisure time to tell TRIANGLE readers about case work. Particularly suited by reason of a personality which was just made for liking people (you .see we've known her since mud-pie and paper-doll days), her friends believe that she is making case work something a little bit more than just a "job." May we introduce Avis Ansley of the Cincinnati Associated Charities? FRANCES KIRKPATRICK HOPE I will be able to give you some The people really put a lot of faith in idea of what it means to be a case worker what a case worker can do. One mother was I for the Associated Charities, but if you telling me of an appendicitis attack that her are as unacquainted with the real poverty son had suffered. She said, "I prayed for his possibilities as I was, I probably cannot give recovery-God was with nie__.:_eveil "if you you other than a sketchy sort of picture of couldn't be there." And she was serious. the depths of destitution which can be found Recently the Ohio river started to rise. As in a big city this winter. I have several families in house boats along I am a case worker for the unemployed. I the river I was much concerned. One day one have 180 families of my own. We attempt to of the women called up, "Oh Miss Ansley, give relief (groceries, clothing, and coal) and the river is getting higher, we will be washed to help straighten out their problems. Only a away-can't you stop it?" I had to tell her very srriall percentage of the cases which I could get food and clothes, but stopping come to the Associated Charities do not have the rain was too much for a mere case worker. some special problem, either mental, physical, Christmas time was very hard-the days or domestic difficulties, in addition to money. before Christmas when I knocked at a door, Most of my families ·live in tenements or it was not at all unusual to hear a child cry, shacks along the river; I visit all of them "Here comes Santa Claus," and it was al except those who live out on the hills. A most true for too many of the children small church in that district co-operates with their only Christmas came from the charities. the charities by giving a room where the It is pitiful to see large families crowded people can come to meet the case worker for into two or three rooms in a dark and dirty a weekly visit. tenement house, barely subsisting on the MARCH, 1932 101 small amounts we can give them. As we give The most tragic things to me are the babies no money, but only grocery orders, many of who die. One fifteen-months-old child (par these men haven't even handled a piece of ents illiterate, living in two rooms, with their money since they lost their jobs. four other children) died after having diar Most of the families appreciate everything rhea for two days. They didn't call me until that is done for them, but there are still a the baby was dead. They didn't know that few who feel that the world owes them a I could have gotten a doctor. When I living and that the case worker is for them stopped, one of the children said, "Oh Miss alone. One old couple writes me letters if I Ansley, come see our little sister stretched out don't get there by three o'clock Friday after in a box." Death is so common that that is noon. all it means to them. Even though most of my work is in the A seventeen-year-old girl was married to a tenement district, I do have one class above boy of twenty. He lost his job just after they the average-people who have had good sal were married. They lived in a shack by the aries, who have bought or made payments on river. I was able to arrange to send the girl homes, furniture, radios, cars. Now that the to a maternity ward. The baby lived but the men are out of work, and savings used up, mother died. There is that pooi:, jobless boy they live in constant fear-and danger-of with a tiny, motherless baby to take care of. losing their homes to the buildings and loans. There is one baby in one of my families The Ross family is one. Mr. Ross, a car now named Avis. You see I arrived just as penter, built an attractive bungalow, mod she did, without benefit of the medical pro ern in every way. Now there is practically no fession but with the assistance of a neighbor building-he has had no work for months. who, like I, had happened in. Next week their home is to go to a finance The social worker, if she isn't already con company as they can't make the payments. verted, becomes an ardent advocate of birth The first time I was there, to make a pre control after working among families where liminary investigation, the furniture men ten or eleven children is an average size. I came to get their radio. That was just the have one family, the mother twenty-three and first. the father twenty-five-and six children. Only once have I been really frightened. The negroes are proud of their huge fam The people in general are quick to help and ilies. One old colored woman fooled me protect the social worker. This time I was beautifully for several weeks until I got ac calling on a white family who live in a quainted with some of her "children." She "colored" tenement next to a railroad track. told me she had five children. That meant a· Although I knew Mr. Grant had trouble with sizeable grocery order. There always were his wife, I never was afraid of him. I called five children there whenever I called but her at seven one night to find him alone and game was spoiled when I found out that four drunk. of the children were borrowed each week for I tried to back out of the room but he got the occasion. to the door first and wouldn't let me go, in One time three of the workers, including sisting on telling me about his wife having me, were invited to a political meeting called left him. I listened, too scared to talk. He a "love feast." We sat on the stage with the finally caught me by the hand and said I colored minister, the councilman, and the couldn't leave, but two men came up the undertaker. They praised our work and then stairs. He let go and I ran all the way to the minister announced to the audience, "And the street-car line. here are these women giving their lives to The next day I learned that he had knocked charity who ought to be having their beauty his mother down stairs and hit his wife over sleep." the head with a chair. A week later he made And so my cases run, ranging from the his third unsuccessful attempt at suicide. He only poor to the mental and moral defectives, is now in the work house. the humorous to the deeply tragic, the sharp My murder wasn't so thrilling. A man pains of hunger to disease and death. from one of my families was found in his Starvation, sickness, prostitution, insanity room with his head caved in. The relatives are all in the day's work. invited me to the coroner's inquiry but I It's deadly, it's discouraging, it's endless, politely declined. I can always truthf~lly say but I'm not thinking of giving up social that I am busy. work! 102 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Maine Islanders Are Grateful for Our Holiday .Gifts MERRY CHRISTMAS? Yes, it was a blessed From a mother whose husband has been out of Christmas that you co-operated to make this work for a long time: "DEAR FRIENDS: We received A year. We admit that we approached 'it with your nice package at Christmas time and were very heavy hearts. We knew that never before had there pleased. Thank you a thousand times. It was a been so many in our little fishing villages and lovely surprise and we were very grateful. The along the fringes of our coast who were in real children's clothes fitted fine." distress. We also knew that everywhere through From a lightkeeper: "DEAR FRIENDS: We re out our beloved country were armies of unem ceived the lovely box in time for Christmas and we ployed men, and that those to whom we had all thank you so much for the lovely things. Every looked for Christmas cheer had much to do for thing fitted the children fine. It surely seems nice them. Jqst how much could be spared for the to know that the children on the lighthouses are coast and how we were to meet the challenge thought of at this time. Thanking you again and which was before us was a knotty problem. wishing ,vou a Happy New Year, Respectfully The Christmas list was long the last of No yours, S. vember when Miss Rand arrived to begin the From a family out of work: "DEAR FRIENDS: work of distribution, and the number of boxes of Your lovely Christmas package received and we gifts in the annex did not look encouraging. Every want to thank you for the gifts. They were very time the Sunbeam came in, Mr. Guptill brought us useful and we appreciated them. The sleeping gar names of more families whom he had discovered. ments were lovely and warm and the union suit Unless we could remember them there would be was, too. My little boy was some tickled. We had no manifestation of Christmas cheer to lift the $2.50 given us for Christmas and my husband burden of their despair and let the sunshine of earned fifty cents. If we can get fifty cents more we good will lighten their darkness. In faith and will get some wood. We both said we would like hope we wrote their names in the Christmas book to send you a dollar of it to help someone else, but that had been in the making for three months. And we need the wood. Surely someone is going to get you rewarded our faith and hope by your response a reward in heaven for helping others. The gifts to the appeal. Gifts were sent to more than 2100 show that you do not let up from one year's end individuals, the largest number ever remembered to another, for it all takes time and work and in any previous year. money. I hope we may be able to help you sometime Christmas trees sparkled here and there on the in the future. Wishing you all a Happy New Year. islands and along the coast in countless little com MRs.M." . munities, children spoke their pieces and their faces "A line to thank you for the nice Christmas box. shone, and everywhere one went there seemed to It was a real surprise and I am sure the children be some preparation being mac;le to give the boys and were as pleased as we were. It surely would have girls a beautiful day and evening. The Christmas been a small Christmas for them if it were not for package which the Sunbeam had brought furnished your nice box. We can never forget you. I do hope the crowning glory of many trees. And when each that sometime we can do something for you. May child opened his treasures he found, not gold, frank the Lord bless you is my prayer. R." incense, and myrrh, but warm stockings, mittens, From a little island girl: "D EAR FRIENDS: I sweaters, or caps, and toys, and candy. want to thank you for the Christmas gifts you sent We wish you might feel the glow and halo of me. I was very much pleased for the candy, hat, and the occasion as we felt it. We wish you might know book. I had a very nice Christmas. I want to thank with what grateful expressions thank-you letters Ann. Slick for the lovely book. Sincerely, }UNE." have been pouring into the office at the Mission To these sincere expressions of thanks we would House for many days. add ours. For the warm clothing, the beautiful One old lady, a widow for 18 years, crippled books and jolly toys, for the sweet dolls and the with rheumatism and nearly blind, says of the warm magazine subscriptions, for the candy and the dainty wool blankets given by a Sigma Kappa, "They are so and colorful things that add beauty, for everything wonderfully soft and warm, I shall lie in them as that you have .sent to express the good, will for long as I live, and if I have my way I shall be which the world hungers, we thank you "a•thousand wrapped in them when I die." times" and more. A young woman who cares for three orphaned With greetings to all who had a share in bring sisters younger than she, writes, "Just a line to let ing happiness to so many, you know we received the Christmas package, and Loyally yours, you don't know how pleased we were with it. We MYRTICE D. CHENEY got a little tree for the children to put the presents Chairman, Sigma Kappa National on and they were so pleased they could hardly wait Philanthropy until Christmas to see their gifts. You don't know how pleased we all were. We thank you a thousand ANNIE L. GUPTILI:l times." And her husband, a boat builder, is out of Secretary of the Maine Sea Coast work this winter. Missionary Society' MARCH, 1932 10~ Phi Seniors Again Capture High Honors in Class Vote HI chapter held her own as usual when mined will and sense of duty-it is not for the seniors came through with the most naught that she is "the most respected" girl P coveted honors of the annual class of her class. vote. Each year the attention of the campus We introduce to you Kathleen Ince, '32, as is centered on the most outstanding students, the "most thorough lady," "most scholarly," and each time Phi has been honored. "most brilliant," and as having "the biggest This year Amy Arbogast, '32, captured the drag_with the faculty" -honors all! titles of "most beautiful," "best dressed," Natalie Dunn, '32, is our "best all-round "smoothest," and "biggest society lady." woman." Natalie's talents vary from art to Slender, blue-eyed Amy will take her honors athletics, and to the home economics labora back to New York with glory, leaving envy tory. This versatile girl has ability and origi- in the hearts of other Rhody damsels. nality for which Phi will ever be indebted. The smile of Sigrid Carlson, '32, has not Regina Ashe, '32, is a favorite at college been unnoticed, for her class responded to it.s, proms, and ,her popularity is 'gli.ided by this gayness and bestowed upon her the title of . axiom: be the "best dancer." 'The distinction "best natured." "Siggie's" curly hair and .suits our tall, debonair brunette, . whose col laughing eyes do not adorn a frivolous na- lege calendar is worked with prom in red ture. Under this happy exterior lies a deter- letters! · · Margaret Andrew Is First Woman Banker ·-Graduated from·Ohio By ELI~AB~TH CRATER, Chi ARGARET J. 4-ND:j.}.EW, Chi,' '31, .ber, Margaret bec_ame associated with the has the distinction _of,being the only 'Liquidation Division of the State Banking M · woman to be gracluated from Ohio Pepar:tment ·and was appointed. to a position State university with a degn!e::Jn finance and in the liquidatioq of ~he Standard Trust Bank banking, so far as the recorgs for the past of Cleveland, the ,twenty-million dollar bank show. Soon after her graduation in Dec.em- that closed its doors December 21. · F?r· the past four years Margaret has fol •.. )o":ecpq~ ~?~Fse of, finance and banking in · the·Colfe£'§i of Commefce and Administration at Ohio :State.-In-.many o£.her courses she was the only' :womaiI_ ·e tj.~e~n-; ii?' ~foc)c mar~~ti.ng, bond analySJS, and public finance. While at the uni versity she became a, member. of Phi Chi Theta, professional commercial honorary . .; . _Ma_rgaret_ has had a gr~at .deal of actual expenence m the field pf finam:_e. For two years before entering school an9::--during. sum mer vacations, she worked in :the Winters National Bank and T;p~t Company of Day t~n. She also gained ~~p.erience as Chi's effi Cient treasurer and huuse manager for three y_ears and as a member of the house corpora- -Margaret f . ·Andrew tion. ""-' 104 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE .. :. ...," ·~ Amy Arbogast Natalie Dunn Sigrid Carlson Regina Ashe Kathleen !nee PHI SENIORS WHO WON CAMPUS HONORS MARCH, 1932 105 Greeks Must Eat! By ANNA V. OLSON, Alpha Xi Delta Member of the Staff of "Better. Homes and Gardens'' This article, from the .A :a; 1:. magazine, is one of a series of articles on feeding problems which will appear in each issue of the TRIANGLE. Chapter stewardesses will do well to keep them on permanent file. HE subject of this article came in with Put them in a hot oven or under a broiler the morning's mail. I work in the and toast to a golden brown, turning often. T foods department of a magazine, you Serve piping hot. know, and this letter is like quite a number Rolled Asparagus Sandwiches: Use fresh that reach us from time to time: "Dear bread and short lengths of white or green Madam: I am steward for a fraternity chap asparagus. Bread should be cut to fit aspara ter, and oftentimes am at a loss what to serve. gus. Spread bread with mayonnaise-roll up Have you any suggestions that will help me?" one length of asparagus; place on a damp Similar letters have read: "Dear Editor : We cloth so that the sandwich cannot unroll. are planning a formal tea. Can you tell us These are really delicious. about any new ideas in the matter of foods?" Fudge Bars: "Dear Friend: Have you a recipe for punch to serve fifty? It will be for open house." 2 eggs 1 cupful of sugar And since alumnae (I hope) will read this '12 cupful of melted butter article, too, several of our very choicest reci 2 squares of melted chocolate (bitter) pes that will appeal to the more experienced 1 teaspoo.nful of vanilla Vs teaspoonful of salt Greek who is now a homemaker, are in 1fz cupful of cake flour cluded. I know this is a different sort of ar 1 cupful of broken pecan nuts ticle for a fraternity journal-but I hope you like it! The recipes are from The Better Beat the eggs, add the sugar, and beat Homes and Gardens' Tasting-Test Kitchen, again. Add the melted butter, melted choco and Josephine Wylie, associate editor in late, vanilla, and salt, and beat again. Add charge of the home department, stands be the sifted flour and mix until smooth, then hind each of them. add the nut-meats. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 25 minutes. Cool and cut Frills for the Tea Table into bars. These are grand! Acorns: Malaga grapes dipped in fondant. Lunch at the Chapter House The stem-end is dipped into the fondant, Here are main-dish recipes for your noon leaving approximately one-third to one-half day menus: of the grape exposed. Chocolate Orange Peel : Dip candied Tuna Fish With Noodles (Serves 8) orange peel into any dipping chocolate (Dot 1 package of noodles or its equivalent in home- Chocolate is good). Coat entirely with the made 2 cupfuls of cream sauce chocolate. This is a delicious tid-bit. 1 teaspoonful of minced onion Petit Fours: Bake sponge or white cake in 1 pimento diced fine shallow pans and cut into very small shapes 1 cupful of tuna fish flaked --circles, squares, diamonds, crescents. Ice 1 teaspoonful of lemon juice Salt and paprika to taste with flavored and colored 7-minute icing. Grated cheese Rolled Cheese Sandwiches: Cut very fresh sandwich bread into slices. Remove the crusts Cook the noodles in salted boiling water and butter one side of each slice. Spread with until tender; drain and rinse, and add to the a thin layer of soft cheese, on the buttered cream sauce. Then add the other ingredients side. Cut the slices in two and roll each half in the-order listed. Cover with grated cheese. into a little "rolli-polli." Fasten with a tooth Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for pick if necessary and lay on a shallow pan. about 30 minutes. 106 . "" SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Turnips au Gratin (Serves 8) lf2 teaspoonful of salt '14 teaspoonful of paprilm 4 tablespoonfuls of butter 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley 3 tablespoonfuls of flour 1 tablespoonful of lemon juice 2 cupfuls of milk '14 cupful of cheese, finely chopped Melt 4 tablespoonfuls of butter in a fry 5 cupfuls (2 pounds) of diced cooked turnips ing-pan and add the mushrooms, sliced or Salt and pepper to taste Buttered Bread Crumbs chopped. Stir and cook gently for 5 minutes, but do not brown. Place the remaining butter Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add the in the upper part of a double boiler, add the flour and smooth to a paste. Add the milk flour, and rub to a smooth paste. Stir in and cook slowly, stirring constantly until a gradually the hot chicken stock and cook until smooth sauce is formed. Add the cheese and thick and creamy. Add the egg yolks beaten stir until dissolved. Mix with the drained · with the cream, and season with salt and turnips, which have been pared, diced, and paprika. Add the mushrooms, parsley, and cooked until barely tender in salted boiling lemon juice, and serve the sauce hot. Garn water. Season to taste with salt and pepper ish with celery hearts or parsley. (This recipe and pour into a buttered baking dish. was published in February, 1929, and women Sprinkle generously with buttered bread are still sending for it!) crumbs and bake in a moderate oven (375 Here, Mrs. Alumna, is a delicious, yet eco degrees) for 30 minutes. nomical And this chicken ring is for a very special luncheon, or for Mrs. Greek Alumna to serve Devils Food Cake: when she lunches her study club. Pineapple 1f2 cupful of shortening salad, beet marbles, sweet cucumber slices, 1 cupful of white sugar 1 cupful of brown sugar chocolate cake, and coffee would complete this 2 eggs, beaten extra special menu: 1 teaspoonful of vanilla 4 squares of melted chocolate Chicken Ring with Mu[hroom Sauce 1f2 cupful of hot water (Serves 25) 1 teaspoonful of soda % cupful of sweet or sour milk 2 fowls, cooked tender (about .4 pounds each, 2 cupfuls of cake flour dressed) lj4 teaspoonful of salt 4 cupfuls of soft bread crumbs 2 cupfuls of cooked rice Cream the shortening and sugar together. 2 teaspoonfuls of salt Add the beaten eggs and vanilla and mix 1 teaspoonful of paprika smooth. Add the chocolate which has been 1f2 cupful of chopped pimento cooked with the hot water until thick, and 8 well-beaten eggs 1f2 cupful of butter or chicken fat has been allowed to cool slightly. Dissolve 1% quarts of milk or chicken stock (half and the soda in the milk and add alternately with half may be used) the flour sifted with the salt. Beat until smooth and bake in a shallow loaf pan or in Remove the meat from the bones of the two layers in a moderate oven (350 degrees) fowls, dice, but do not chop. Combine all of the ingredients in the order given, and mix for 30 minutes. Ice · with well. (If chicken stock is to be used instead Fudge Icing of milk, use less salt.) Pack into two generous 1% cupfuls of sugar sized buttered ring molds and bake in a slow 2 tablespoonfuls of corn sirup oven {325 degrees) 45 to 60 minutes. Allow Ij2 cupful of milk . . the chicken to stand for 10 minutes or longer 2 squares of chocolate, cut m pteces in a warm place. (This insures easy removal.) 1 tablespoonful of butter % teaspoonful of vanilla Turn onto two large platters and fill the cen ters with the following: Cook the sugar, sirup, milk, and chocolate over a slow fire until a soft ball forms in Mushroom Sauce cold water when tested. Drop in the butter 1f2 cupful of butter or substitute and set aside until almost cool. Then add the 1 pound of fresh mushrooms, or 2 %-pound cans vanilla and beat until thick and creamy and lf2 cupful of flour ready to spread. 1 quart of chicken stock A dessert for Mrs. Alumna who is tired 4 beaten egg yolks % cupful of cream of the ordinary: MARCH, 1932 107 Frozen Syrian Cream for Betty Co-ed. Perhaps if she will send home the recipe, someone will reciprocate by 73 cupful of evaporated milk 6 ounces of cream cheese including a delicious box of it in the satchel 14 finely chopped preserved figs of fresh laundry! It is called 3 tablespoonfuls of lemon juice 1h teaspoonful of salt M exican Orange Candy Scald the evaporated milk, beat in the 1 cupful of granulated sugar cheese which has been mashed with a fork. 11h cupfuls of .rich sweet milk Chill the mixture, then add the figs, lemon 2 cupfuls of sugar Grated rind of 2 oranges juice, and salt. Freeze, stirring only once dur Pinch of salt ing the freezing. Serve with salty whole-wheat 1h cupful of butter wafers. 1 cupful of nut meats (black walnuts or pecans) Apple Cider Punch for Open House (Serves 50) Melt the first cupful of sugar in a large kettle, while the milk is scalding in a double 6 cupfuls of orange juice 3 cupfuls of lemon juice boiler. When the sugar is melted to a rich 3 quarts of apple cider yellow, add the hot milk all at once, stirring. 6 cupfuls of powdered sugar It will boil up quickly, so be sure to use a 3 quarts of carbonated white grape juice good-sized kettle. Add the 2 cupfuls of sug Combine the orange and lemon juices with ar to this mixture, stirring until dissolved, the cider and dissolve the powdered sugar in and cook until it forms an almost hard ball the mixture thoroughly. Just before serving in water ( 238 degrees). Just before it is add the carbonated grape juice and serve in done add the grated orange rind, the salt, iced glasses. butter, and nut-meats. Beat until creamy and And finally, here is a prize-winning candy pour into a buttered platter to cool. P~T~A~ Activities Offer Great Field By BERNICE POWELL GREGG, Theta President of the Leander Stone School P.T.A., Chicago HE Parent-Teacher movement offers a educational activities of which a school board may great and useful fi eld for educated approve but cannot finance, for meeting emergen women who wish to volunteer their cies in order that work of school will not be T seriously handicapped. services for child welfare. Joy Elmer Mor 3. Training courses for intelligent parent-hood. gan, editor of the Journal of the National' 4. Programs and direction of leisure time activi Education Association, in a toast to the ties. school, said: "Let us set the child in our midst 5. Direction to mothers of pre-school children that their offspring may be physically, intellectually, as our greatest wealth and our most chal and emotionally developed when the school receives lenging responsibility." These words express them. the heart and soul and reason for being of 6. Teaching and clothing of children of the the Parent-Teacher movement, which Theo unemployed and poverty-stricken that such chil dore Roosevelt once described as "the most dren may remain in the public schools. fundamentally constructive force in the world An analysis of the above and a review of today. " The education of children depends many other projects which we have not space on three great forces-home, school, and to mention would convince one that a well communi~-and by the intelligent co-opera organized and properly directed parent tion of these three can the best. interests of teacher association is a great asset to any our chi ldren be safe-guarded. school and community. Like every institution What are some of the specific accomplish which is purely democratic in objects, mem ments of Parent-Teacher associations ? bership, and form of government, and is non-political, non-sectarian, and non-com 1. Legislation to improve child health, child labor, teaching conditions, etc. mercial, there is great need for intelligent 2. Material aid in improving cultural atmos leadership and active volunteer service by phere of schools, for demonstration and tests of educated people. 108 \ ,, '\' SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE \ Our 13 Mothers Clubs All Have the Same Aim ... to Help HE last decade has witnessed the rise Mothers' club funds were turned over to a of a new phase of sorority organization, committee consisting of the mothers of the Tthat of the Mothers' club. Its recogni four town girls, who bought silver to finish tion varies with individual groups. A very out the table supply, which had become de few are cautiously guarding against its pos pleted over a period of several years. They sible over emphasis, likewise a similarly small also bought a large pewter water-pitcher for number, have officially entered the field and each of the six tables in the dining room. by national recognition, encourage and spon The new equipment arrived in time for the sor the formation of such groups. fall rushing season's many dinner parties. Stories about the activities of 13 strong Iota's mothers have always been a great groups have reached the TRIANGLE and both asset to the chapter. Within the past few because of the things that women, who prob months they have entirely redecorated the ably have never known each other before, are house. First they scrubbed and painted, then doing when linked by the common tie of de they bought colorful new drapes and a beauti votion and interest for their Sigma Kappa ful American oriental rug for the living daughters, and because of the geographical room. They raised sufficient funds by having distribution and the population centers they bridge parties and food sales. have chosen, provide an interesting study. Lambda of Sigma Kappa Mothers' club The Mothers' club at Syracuse is called consists of approximately twenty members, "Epsilon circle," mothers of all Epsilon mem most of whom are mothers of the present bers being eligible. There are as many alum college members. The dues are $5 a year for na; mothers interested as mothers of girls yet regular members and $2.50 for mothers of attending college. Their one meeting of the alumnre and inactive members. The club is year is held Mothers' weekend when they are not purely social, but an organization that the guests of the chapter. Their special prov places all its energies into the purpose of pro ince is help in house decoration and they pre moting the welfare of the college chapter. sent the chapter a gift in the spring and also Business meetings are held once a month, at Christmas. Their gifts include a silver tea followed by tea .. :_A ·. reception "tea is gi:ve!l service, pottery, and lamps. They are honored for the new mothers once. each semester. Last each year with a tea. year a card .P~rty "was· given,. and a rummage The Mothers' club of Theta chapter sale sponsored ·· by the mothers-for the pur was founded on Mothers' Day of 1929 · pose of · rais-ing money to furnish our new when the mothers themselves who were visit house. A little over $200 was raised, which ing the chapter for the weekend decided to brou_g~t)~-~ total- of the Mothe!s' club fund combine their efforts to help Theta in as now in bank to $600. Last year from this many little ways as they could, but in par fund they bought an entire new set of dishes ticular in getting a new house and furnishing for the house. The sandwiches which they it. Mothers all over Illinois are members. The made for their card party were such a suc Mothers' club of Theta chapter has helped to cess that they are planning to make sand keep the house equipment in good order. wiches for all our house functions. They During the summer of 1930 they had the have sometimes made as much as $700 a sun-porch furniture re-upholstered and year. bought drapes to match. Their finest con Mu chapter's twenty-nine town mothers tribution, however, came in 1931. At their take such an active interest in the house that regular annual meeting, the Sunday of the it is i"mpqssible to tell what things are their weekend devoted to them on the Illinois special projects. But two things stand out. campus in May, 1931, they discussed the One is the annual Christmas party at which chapter needs, and concluded that the supply the mothers present the most needed and of the table silver was becoming low. The most appreciated gifts for the house, furni- MARCH, 1932 109 ture, accessories, curtains, rugs. The other seen circumstances made a repetition of the outstanding project is the presentation of a entertainment impossible at the beginning of $10 award at the end of each year to the this year, but plans are in order now for a girl having the highest scholastic record. second gathering ; this time a Phi Chapter The Mothers' club meets once a month at Mothers' club will be definitely created. the house, usually twenty mothers attending. Chi is fortunate in having a Mothers' club Every fall a formal tea is given by the actives' which attracts mothers of alumnre, college mothers at which the pledges' mothers are members, and even transfers. Local mothers introduced. Bridge luncheons are given at the are the active members and many mothers homes of each member of the Mothers' club over the state are listed as associate mem at different times during the year. bers. The new drapes in the living room and The Mothers' club of Xi chapter includes the new teapots for our dining room service the mothers of alumnre, college members, and are recent Mothers' club gifts. Their Christ pledges of the chapter, and the chapter house mas gifts were a new table lamp and a shade mother. So far this year the membership is for a floor lamp. The members are now mak twenty-five, but this number is not final as ing a quilt to be sold at a bridge party in the applications are still being received. The the spring- a repetition of a plan that was club meets once a month at a member's home, successful in 1930. The club has sponsored where the members busy their hands with re many bridge parties, and in 1929, arranged pairing house furnishings and their minds for a benefit performance of the Columbus with money-making plans. They have given Symphony orchestra. The group has monthly two rummage sales in the last two years, and luncheon meetings, often at the chapter this year made the money to send to the house. They entertain mothers of pledges,_im Maine Sea Coast Mission. Every Christmas mediately following pledging. They are the club gives a lovely gift to the chapter guests at the tea for the housemother and in house, and sometime during the year holds the spring at a tea given for them. an entertainment for the members of the At the Alpha Eta Mothers' club monthly chapter. bridge meetings, the members take turns in The Sigma Kappa Mothers' club has done entertaining their guests. In this way, and in many lovely things for Upsilon in the past giving two bridges a year, the club raises few years. Each fall it gives a rummage sale money, which they use towards gifts for the in Portland and the proceeds are used to buy house. This year the Mothers' club has given accessories for the house. This fall at the us a rug for the den. The girls are always opening of college a combination radio and welcome at any of the bridges, and help if victrola was presented. This proved to be a they are needed at the larger parties. great help during rushing. The Mothers' club of Alpha Kappa is ac The mothers always plan a big get-together tive both socially and in assisting its Sigma during the summer. It has become the custom Kappa daughters. They continually present to hold an annual picnic at the mountain our chapter with the gifts they know it needs, home of one of the parents. During Christmas gifts which vary all the way from salt and vacation the mothers gave a buffet supper for pepper shakers to checks for one hundred the college and alumnre girls at the home of dollars. They hold weekly meetings, which Mrs. T. A. Rutherford. are sometimes teas, and sometimes luncheons. Phi chapter honored the mothers of the Our mothers, indeed, report that the Mothers' chapter at a Mothers' Day tea, last May. The club is one of their chief interests, and one affair was the first attempt of its kind to of their greatest pleasures. bring the mothers together that Phi had Alpha Nu's Mothers' club has been de planned. The tea was exceedingly successful, cidedly active since its organization in De as evidenced by the delight and appreciation cember, 1929. Mothers of alumnre and out of of the mothers. Each mother was presented town mothers are also members. The dues of with a guest corsage of violets, as a gift from $1 a year are used to buy gifts for the house. her daughter. During the serving, groups of Meetings are held at the chapter house, some g!rls gathered about the piano and sang times in conjunction with Missoula alumnre. Stgma songs. The tea was planned primarily The benefit card party given at the chapter as a trial in order that we might be assured house by the mothers has become an annual of success before carrying out a more com affair, the money being given to the sorority plex organization of a Mothers' club. Unfore- to use as it sees fit. no SJG.M:A KAPPA TRIANGLE The Alpha Upsilon Mothers' club has in the second Monday of each month during the its membership mothers of Sigma Kappas liv school year, the club meets at the homes of ing not only in Grand Forks but also through the members, with one or two meetings at out the state, wherever there are Sigma Kap the chapter house. pas. The Grand Forks club is organized and Each year the Mothers' club has bought has its meetings, but the out-of-town mothers something for the chapter house. At the be are invited to help. Each year letters are writ ginning of this school year they surprised the ten to the mothers of the girls living at the girls at the house by presenting them with house and they are given an opportunity to draperies and curtains for the living room join the club by paying the annual member and a hall runner. Later in the year they ship fee of $1.00. The housemother, as well, gave some china. They are busy at present is always invited to become a member. making a pieced quilt to be given to the Holding ..social meetings the afternoon of house. Alpha Gamma Alumna Heads Dancing Schoo[ in Yakima ANCING is a fascinating profession, according to Maxine McCloy Moore, D Alpha Gamma, ex-'28. Through 4er student days in high school and college, Max ine took prominent parts in dramatics and ballet dancing. She was a member of Mask ' and Dagger, honorary dramatic society at Pullman. As a professional dancer, Maxine has had many interesting experiences among them being her work as a solo dancer with Ruth St. Denis in Los Angeles. Her first experi ence as a professional was with Radford Art stock company which traveled up and down the Pacific coast an entire year. "Disraeli" and "What Every Woman Knows" were the leading plays in their repertoire. Maxine be came a personal friend of George Arliss, at that time engaged in the moving picture pro duction of, "Disraeli." She found him as in teresting off the stage as on. Maxine McCloy Moore Later Maxine studied in the South with Adolphe Bolm, one of the few survivors of Fanchon and Marco, Will King, the West the original Russian Imperial School of Danc Coast theaters and Columbia studios,- give her ing. She then presented a series of ballets at an unusual background for her dancing the Bowl in Los Angeles. At a convention of studio in Yakima. She is one of the most dancers and actors of America, Maxine had successful local teachers, with pupils of all the great honor of dancing with Eduardo ages from many nearby towns. Consino, the most famous Spanish dancer. She was married last year to John Moore, Maxine's professional engagements with Beta Theta Pi, Washington State college. .. t. MARCH, 1932 111 Ten Years in the Mountains of Western North Carolina By the REV. HANNAH J. POWELL, Alpha OME with me to Onman's chapel and barren of the real necessities of living. They Friendly house 3000 feet up toward are filled too with the brightest-eyed, keenest· _C "the blue"-with "Pelion upon minded children ever born, nearly 100 per Ossa"-peak upon peak, towering higher cent pure American stock who doubly repay still. Beautiful "Cold Mountain" continually any and every outlay upon them. In ten years, inspires us from our windows; "Lickstone we are gathering around us, attached to our Bald" dominates the scene, "up the creek" ; staff, more or less loosely or belonging to our and just over the ridge, not far away lies far-flung parish, a most capable lot of native Mt. Pisgah, fit successor to that Pisgah which workers, the greatest possible contribution was topped by "Nebo's lonely mountain." which can be made to the future progress Mt. Mitchell, highest east of the Rockies, is of our mountain life. Still, our hearts go out to within easy driving distance. We are on the the overburdened mothers, many of them yet rim of the -latest of Uncle Sam's park de so far from doctor or nurse or base of sup· velopments-the Great Smoky park. Already plies. Still, we must climb Nixie's creek the wonderful hard-surfaced roads of North on foot or toil upward to Murray cave or Carolina take us to the park, around it and make whole days' excursions to minister to through it, as well as to many other scenic body or spirit. I have a dream for these wonders. mountains as I once had for the Maine coast A dam development near us means before before Myrtice Cheney and Sigma Kappa another cold winter a state highway right came so nobly to the rescue. Why not a by our door. Every time we go to "Faith mountain Sigma Kappa worker with all that House," still further on into the mountains, this implies ? we see the "fill" for this highway rapidly A public health nurse who would have no assuming proportions, and every time our limit to opportunity except time and equip· heart swells at the march of progress which ment and who would reap a rich reward. Do brings with it better roads; better schools; come before Lex, the red horse, is too old. the R.F.D. ; the county hospital; the tele Or why not a Sigma Kappa preacher? The phone; the motor car. Many of these have ministry of the church in the mountains, to come within the ten years (nearly eleven) woman as well as man, is most compelling since we first hung our hat in the narrow in interest, as well as most varied and satis· hall of the three-roomed house·which served fying. How shall they hear without a preach· as a manse, _now supet;$eqed py ten-roomed er ? How shall they know unless they be Friendly House-the hub for many activities, taught? How shall they be healed, unless from cooking class to cradle roll party, from healing is at hand ? prayer meeting to birthday ce1ebraticm, from It is like "Louigy's" vision in "The Glass wedcl-irtg t~ funeral and still the gamut is not Window" : "They're calling me constant, the run: If only inUJard growth could k~e-p pace younguns, up all the creeks and branches, ot all phases of life expand together! Hidden acres of 'em, miles of 'em, all a hollering at away_in co~es , up creeks; perched·on: -moun me, 'come, teach us, we are starving for tain-siC!es, there "is still ca:bin: aftef cabin de knowledge.' . . . Don't get out of heart, void of real comfort, however ·simple'; and children, you'll have your chanct soon?" 112 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Dr. SamuelS. Drury Becomes President of Missions R. HENRY VAN DYKE intimated at the to do with thoroughness. He is in great demand July meeting of the Maine Sea Coast Mis for lectures at convocations and similar occasions, D sionary Society that the Mission needed an and he is always impressive not only because of active man as president, not "half a man" as he his scholarship but also because of his strong, sure, professed to be. He made himself out to be quite a decrepit old man, though only eighty. We, who have watched Dr. Van Dyke, know that at eighty he is worth many a man of forty who thinks himself pretty much of a man. But Dr. Van Dyke was adamant, and at the August meeting, we, the direc tors, were forced to accept his resignation as active president. Further than this we would not go; we promoted him to the office of Honorary President for Life. Dr. Van Dyke has been interested actively in the Mission since its first beginning in 1905 and for six years has served as its president. So we searched about for a new active president. The search ended where it began, with Dr. Samuel S. Drury, rector of the world-famous St. Paul's School of Concord, N.H. Dr. Drury was born in Bristol, R.I., in 1876. He was graduated from Harvard in 1901, receiving the A.B. degree. He ha.s .received the degrees of S.T.B. from Berkeley DIVImty School ; L.H.D. from Trinity College; D.O. from Dartmouth; D .D. from Williams· and Litt.D. from Princeton. His career has taken' him to the Philippines where he was chaplain to Bishop Brant for two years. He has served as Rector of the Calvary Church in Providence, R.I., and of St. Stephen's Church in Boston. Since 1901 he has Dr. Samuel S. Drury been at St. Paul's School as vice-rector for one year and since then as rector. He is the author constructive, religious principles. In New England of "The Christian Increase," "The Thoughts of he is a man of large influence, outstanding among Youth," "Backbone," "Schoolmastering," and the most eminent, and this means that he is one "Fathers and Sons." of the nation's great men, and deservedly so. Dr. Drury is one of New Hampshire's most So the Mission still has Dr. Van Dyke and it useful and distinguished citizens. He has been has added Dr. Drury, long a summer resident of mentioned as bishop again and again-indeed it Northeast Harbor, Me. Dr. Drury loves the coast has been said that he has been elected in Massa of Maine and her people. He undertakes the Presi chusetts but declined the position. Dr. Drury is dency of our Society with a deep conviction of not so much interested in making a career for the value of its work and full of enthusiasm for its himself as in doing the work which he has elected success. Why Not Vacation on Maine Islands? ROM the beginning of our vacation school tion school opportunity must have its appeal as a enterprise, we have been indebted to the en chance to count. Those who give themselves to Fthusiastic co-operation of Sigma Kappa sisters the work are filled with enthusiasm for it and like who either came themselves to the coast or en to come back-some again and again. gineered the coming of others. Last summer, it The conditions of employment include expenses happened that fewer members of the sorority were paid while in the field and a nominal sum towards on the staff but those who came as the result of travel. It is not advisable for folks to come from Sigma Kappa influence numbered more than ever. a distance who cannot put in most of the sum We are indeed grateful for this enthusiasm. It mer and no one should plan to come for less has colored our progress and defined much of its than a month. The work is interesting in itself most valuable contribution to our coast life. and there are by-products which add to the in If there are Sigma Kappas, either undergradu terest of the adventure, leaving associations that ate or alumnre, with experience in teaching who are precious. The need increases from year to can give their time as volunteers, we hope to year and we hope there will be many who will hear from them. There will be a few openings for write regarding this enterprise. Their letters in inexperienced workers, also. Please write us at themselves will help-showing those who provide your earliest opportunity. the necessary finances how the interest stands. If you can appreciate the things this enterprise ORVILLE J. GuPTILL, Superintendent brings to the boys and girls of the coast, the vaca- MYRTICE D. CHENEY, Chairman, Philanthro py MARCH, 1932 113 Depression Hits Maine Islands BLANCHE EMORY FOLSOM, Sigma Kappa Director of the Maine Sea Coast Mission HA'T effect has the nation-wide depression worth from $800 to $2000 and a "gang of traps" had upon the people of the coast of Maine, worth roughly $5 apiece represents an investment W served by the Maine Sea Coast Missionary of $2000 to $3000. One severe spell of weather Society? The people of the sea-coast towns and may wipe out a lobsterman's entire investment. the islands of Maine earn their living by lobster Gasoline and bait must be bought. With this in fishing, clam digging, wood-chopping, blueberry vestment, lobsters at 12 cents a pound represent picking, and working in the sardine and blue very low wages. . berry canning factories. Just how have present Other sources of income to Maine sea coast circumstances affected these means of livelihood? inhabitants are clam-digging, working in sardine The exchange value of Canadian currency, the factories, picking blueberries and working in the importations of foreign pulp and wood, and the blueberry canning factories. But this year! Clams lobster laws of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in many places are bringing 25 cents a bushel, are chief causes for hard times along the Maine and the clam-diggers are finding clam flats de Coast this winter. pleted by years of past digging. Three bushels of Importation of foreign pulp and wood, notably clams dug in the intervals between tides is a fair from Russia and Canada, have greatly decreased day's work. So clam-diggers earn 75 cents a day. the value of these American products. Wood-chop Small herring or sardines have been scarce in pers are receiving $1 and $1.50 for a day's pay. the past two seasons. Moreover, the sardines have Men are chopping wood for as little as $1 a cord been "sick" and the federal government closed and board, and that in rather poor cutting. the factories for a season. Consequently, sardine Regarding the lobster industry, Maine sets a factories have been running on short time. Even present legal limit of ten and one-half inches for in the best of seasons, wages in the sardine in· a lobster. Nova Scotia and Massachusetts have a dustry have never been high; now they are so low nine and one-half inch limit. So Maine's lobster as almost to be negligible. men are at a great disadvantage. The interests of Then the blueberry pastures, very, very, exten· conservation are causing Maine citizens to con sive in Washington County, Maine's easternmost sider a further increase in the length of lobsters. territory, have been devastated by a nasty little If the proposed new law is passed by the Maine maggot. legislature, the state's lobstermen will work under Nature and man have thus combined to make a still greater disadvantage. Lobsters have sold as the mere keeping of body and soul together a low as 12 cents per pound, though a concerted difficult task for the people of this region. Such effort is being made to keep the price up to 14 is the economic situation along the coast of Maine. or 15 cents. Lobstering has an overhead expense, Sigma Kappa's dollars are helping to alleviate the and the necessary equipment, including a boat sufferings caused thereby. Life Loyal Members from November 15, 1931 to March 15, 1932 L. L. No. NAME CHAPTER CHAPTER No. 307 Theodosia Burris Alpha Iota 92 308 Illde Fuller Skofstad Xi 35 309 Fern E .. Kinton Alpha Tau 38 310 Helen C. Jackson Omicron 62 311 Ruth M. Heffernan Eta 48 312 Virginia Ott Xi 210 313 Ruth M. Diller Alpha Pi 54 314 Anne Arrants Pi 18 315 Florence Bentz Penfield Alpha Beta 5 316 Clio Chilcott Alpha 88 114 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE International Student Gathering Stimulates Ideas, Understanding By LORNA LARSON, Alpha Eta Lorna Larson, Alpha Eta '33, the writer of this article, was one of five University women chosen from the United States to be a delegate to the Intemational Student Service Conference aJ Mt. Holyoke College, August 21-31, 1931. Lorna was born in Vienna, Austria. Her home for many yean has been Minneapolis, where her father is a professor at the unh·ersity. 1Vhen Lorna was a high school student, her family went to Europe where she had an opportunity to travel for a year and also to attend school in Lausanne, Switzerland. She now is a junior at the University of Minnesota where she is majoring in economics-particularly foreign trade. Lorna has been very active on the campus, especially in Y . W.C.A. work and has headed many committees. She now is vice-chairman of the Student forum, head of International Affairs of the Y. W.C.A. cabinet, and chairman of the International Cleat·ing committee at the university. In addition to her campus activities Lorna has been a faithful Sigma Kappa worker. She was treasurer of the chapter during 1929-31 and is now very ably fulfilling her duties as vice president. Minnesota Sigma Kappas are very proud that one of their girls was chosen to attend this inspiring convention. RENCH, German, Spanish, Danish, and all races and all creeds. It grew out of the a host of other languages were to be European Student Relief which was organized Fheard on all sides-it was the tenth at the close of the war to aid the suffering annual International Student Service confer students in all parts of Europe. When the im ence. This was the first time an I.S.S. con mediate relief work was done, there still re ference had been held in the United States mained a good deal of work, but of a differ and it was invited by Mount Holyoke Col ent nature and it was because there was so lege to be held there. much that should be done that I.S.S. was The conference was to begin on Monday started. The purpose of I.S.S. is three-fold : evening of August 21 and that morning four ( 1) relief to students caught in an emergency; large New England busses drove up to the (2) promoti MARCH, 1932 11.5 We met in the morning and afternoon for Mount 'Holyoke is an ideal place for a discussion and to hear addresses. Some of the conference, and especially for this one as the speakers were Dr. Nielson, president of Smith Americanlegation wanted the foreign stu College; Dr. Arnold Wolfers, director of the dents to as good an impression of the School of Politics in Berlin, who was chair U · ed St es as possible to counteract the man of the conference; Dr. MacCracken, bacl-~e- they had when they came over president of Vassar College; Dr. Dotta from e they had obtained from judging India, who received a cable one evening from h America by her tourists. These foreign dele Gandhi asking him to leave immediately to ~ga tes arrived in New York a week early and attend the Round Table conference of Cam were royally entertained and shown the bridge; also a Swiss abbe from Fribourg who sights. After the conference they divided gave a ten-minute speech one evening in into two groups, one remaining in New Eng Latin. land and the other going south to Washing In· the .evening 'there was usually enter ton, etc., and visiting in private homes for taip.ment of some sort, and one evening we a week-end and then going on to the various had the traditional stunt night, each of the universities and colleges to which they had larger delegations and combinations of the been invited; thus they had an opportunity to smaller ones doing a stunt. They were so see American cities, the country, the univer original and well done that . t~e evening was sities and their students. over before it had scarcely started. We all left the conference so stimulated, One afternoon we went on an excursion not only by the ideas, talks, and plans that over the Mohawk trail and were invited to we had heard, but also by the many interest stop at Williams college at Williamstown for ing people with whom we had come in such tea. We saw so many interesting things and close contact for ten glorious days and our had a gorgeous trip. only regret was that it had ended too soon. Bernice Phelan Trains for Games Ber!'lice Phelan, Lambda, '35, is staying out of the Umversrty .of California this semester to train for tke .Olymprc (;_ames. She is junior national women's d~vmg champron and junior far-western champion dtver. 116 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Nu Chapter Keeps Sigma Kappa Scholarship Cup in Vermont for Another Year O WIN the Sigma Kappa Scholarship The first chapter to win the award was Al cup must give the winning chapter a pha chapter for 1922-2 3, Nu had it fo r 1923 - T great thrill and be the incentive to try 24, Alpha Nu for 1924-25 , Pi for 192 5-26, to win again. The chapters that are fortunate Alpha Pi for 1926-27, Pi for 1927-28 and in winning one year seem to be successful 1928-29, Nu for 1929-30 and now for 1930- the next year, and so the committee takes 31. It is interesting to note that with all the great pleasure in announcing that Nu chap Greek alphabet to choose from thus far the ter will retain the cup another year, having cup has only gone to 3 letters of the alphabet: won it for 1930-31. Alpha, Nu, Alpha Nu, Pi, and Alpha Pi. The committee sends their hearty congratu lations to the chapter up there in Middle bury college, Middlebury, Vermont, and we hope next you will earn your own little cup. Just as a matter of information, quoting from the minutes of the 43rd convention in 1912, "A smaller replica of the original trophy cup shall be awarded to the chapter which shall win the trophy cup for three con secutive years." Nu chapter was the only chapter remain ing in the 100 per cent group for the entire year. The second semester, Phi chapter emerged successfully with a 100 per cent record. All chapters sent in reports for the year except Mu chapter and to date the committee has not received their second semester report. The following reports were received late for the first semester: Epsilon, Mu, Rho, Psi, Omega, Alpha Gamma, Alpha Zeta, Alpha Iota, Alpha Nu. For the second semester: Alpha, Theta, Iota, Mu, Rho, Omega, Alpha Gamma, Alpha Omicron, Alpha Tau, Alpha Chi. Pauiine Gauss, Theta, is chairman of the Sigma Kappa Scholarship Award committee .. Sigma Kappa Scholarship Trophy On her committee are Claire Yungclass Reck, The comparative standing of chapters for Alpha Epsilon, and Arlene Snure, Alpha Eta. the year 1930- 31 follows: ONE HUNDRED PER CENT GROUP "}{o. of Per cent "}{o . of Super· Chapter Hours Hours girl s in Carried Passed Per cent super• of super· hours per hours hours chapter girl I. Nu 879 879 100 l70 30-71 31, IS. 4·65 16, lS. MARCH, 1932 117 BELOW ONE HUNDRED PER CENT GROUP :No. of Hours Hours :No. doing Hours conditioned Per cent girls in non-passing Chapter Carried Passed or failed chapter wor~ 2. Eta II67 7 f. II6o 99·40 39, IS. l 39, 2S. 3· Alpha T au I487 3 c. I477 99· 3l 25, Iq. 3 7 f. 29, 2q. 36, 3q. 4· Lambda I30I. 5 9 c. 1289·5 99·07 47, IS. 4 3 f. 46, 2S. 5· Phi I305 9 c. 1292 99·00 37, IS. 4 4 f. 37, lS. 6. Alpha Upsilon 966 . 2) IO f. 9)6.2) 98.96 28, IS. 3 28, lS. 7· Alpha Beta 9I7 7 c. 905 98.69 17, IS. I 5 f. 19, lS. 8. Alpha II)O I) f. II35 98.69 37, IS. 4 38, lS. 9· Psi I07I 12 c. IO)) 98.)0 38, IS. 6 4 f. 32, lS. IO . Alpha Epsilon 2054 26 c. 2023 98 · 49 39, Iq. 7 5 f. 40, 2q. 44, 3q. II. Alpha Phi I6I).33 3 c. I)90· 33 98·45 37, Iq. 6 22 f. 32, lq. 33, 2q. n. Xi Sao l c. 785 98 . 12 33, IS. 5 I3 f. 29, 2S. I3. Alpha Mu 578 6 c. 567 98.09 22, IS. 3 5 f. I8, 2S . 14· Upsilon I8)I 36 f. I8I) 98.05 46, Iq. 6 43, 2q. 42, 3q. I 5. Alpha Iota 890.) 3·5 c. 8n 98.03 33, IS. 8 14· f. 23, 2S . I6. Alpha Rho 892 6 c. 874 97·98 29, IS. 4 12 f. 26, 2S. I7. Alpha Nu I353·5 I3 c. I325·5 97·93 3I, Iq. 6 I) f. 28, 2q. 28, 3q. I8. Alpha Pi 810 IO c. 793 97·90 27, IS. 6 7 f. 2), 2S . I9. Iota I629 5 c. I594 97·85 40, Iq. 5 30 f. 33, lq. 35, 3q . 20. Alpha Chi )46 I2 f. 534 97·8o I9, IS. 3 I9, 2S. 21. Omicron I099 IO c. I074 · 5 97·77 3), IS. I3 I4·5 f. 34, 2S. 22. Epsilon 836 2 c. 8I7 97 ·72 29, IS. 4 I7 f. 26, 2S. 23. Rho 653.5 3 c. 638 · 5 97 ·70 22, IS. 4 12 f. l.O, lS. 24. Alpha Gamma IOJ.6 . 5 6 c. 1000.5 97 ·46 30, IS. 7 20 f. 34, 2S. 25. Chi 2029 II c. I977 97·43 44, Iq. Il 4I f. 42, 2q. 42, 3q. 26. Alpha Sigma 559 I6 f. 543 97· I3 I8, IS . 4 I7, 2S. 27. Alpha Omicron II88 . 5 IO c. II53·5 97·05 38, IS. II 25 f. 42, 2S. 28 . Alpha Eta II07. 6 I4 c. I069·3 96·54 I8, Iq. II 24·3 f. 23, 2q. 23 , N· 29. Zeta 886 I7 c. 85I 96.04 35, IS . 9 I8 f. 3I, lS. 118 SIGMA KAPPA TRlANGLE Hours Hours N.o. of N.o . doing Chapter conditioned Hours Carried Passed Per cent girls in non-passing or failed chapter WOT~ 30. Alpha Kappa I009 34 c. 969 96.03 33, IS. 8 6 f. 32, 2S. 3 r. Alpha Theta 8I6 36 f. 780 9~. ~8 28, IS. 6 27, 2S. p. Alpha Delta ll09 I2 c. II~~ 9~·53 26, Iq. 7 42 f. 24, 2q. 2I, 2q. 33· Delta ~80. ~ 2 c. 547· ~ 94· 3I 20, IS. ~ 3I f. I?, 25 . 34· Omega q6~ . 7~ 36 c. I39I.7~ 94·26 46, IS . 2~ 48 f. 4~, 2S. 35· Sigma 969.~ ll c. 9ll. ~ 94·ll 33, IS. 8 4~ f. 33, 2S. 36. Alpha Psi 548 32 f. ~o6 94 · 0~ 22, IS. 6 20, 25. 37· Alpha Xi ?ll I5 c. 674 93·3~ 27, IS. 8 33 f. 23, 2S. 38. Tau I03I 39 c. 96I 93.2I 34, IS. I3 6I f. 34, 2S. 39· Alpha Zeta I029 36 c. 9~9 93·I9 40, IS. I4 34 f. 28, 2S. 40. Alpha Lambda 6I7 24 c. ~72 92.70 20, IS. 9 2I f. 21, 25. 4I. Theta ll45·5 49 ·5 c. II~l. ~ 92·45 39, IS. II 44·~ f. 38, 2S ••~A DO YOU KNOW? THE AIR MAIL By LILLIAN M . PERKINS By LILLIAN M. PERKINS A game of c;rds-a wood fire burning Swift ships flying through the night (Why is my mind forever turning To carry mail, may our light To another day gone by?) Guide your courJe in fair or rain And lead you safely home again. "I bid a club"-"[ pass"- "A spade" ([ see another game I played, Flashing, circling heaven's arc, A game when hearts were trumps!) Lighting up night's velvet dark With silver rays that shine and show We make our game, add to our score The road to where you want to go. ( Another game, some years before, I played my heart and lost!) Beacons placed along the way By their beams which nightly play Deal the cards and play them out Illume a path against God's skj (See-saw, whirligig, roundabout For venturous men their ships to fly. My thoughts will twist and twirl.) Swift ships flying through the night, Tinkling spoons-coffee and cakes We salute you! May our light ([ wonder just how long it takes Flashing far in fair or rain For broken hearts to mend?) Grtide you safely home again! -Garen Poetry Exhibition, 1931 -The Babsonian MARCH, 1932 119 Sheepskins and Pocket Books ARENTS who every year debate the question, a year. Moreover, the schedules also proved that "Shall I send my daughter to college or give a degree is no guarantee of higher salaries. Never P her something else?," are going to have light theless, the typical earnings show a consistent in from a new source. It has been turned on by a crease which indicates that length of formal educa survey of its members recently published by the tion is one of the factors responsible for high American Women's Association of New York C1ty, earnings. The chances are even that a woman with a club of more than 4000 business and professional a graduate degree will earn 55 per cent more than women. The study, undertaken in connection with a woman with no degree and 51 per cent more the President's Emergency Committee on Employ than those holding a mere Bachelor of Arts. ment is based on 200.0 detailed questionnaires. Finally, among the small number of women whose Very definitely it declares, "A college education income is .$10,000 and over, 62.2 per cent have does pay." Moreover it tells why. ' at least a college degree. Perhaps you imagine such a conclusion has all · Much the same relationship between education the timeliness of a report on who discovered and economic advantage appears in the tables of America? You think the issue is closed because unemployment. Women who held their positions more than 100,000 sweet girl graduates step every during the present period of depression are largely year !rom the collegiate platform. But this number those who have education 'beyond the high school, represents only a little over 1 per cent of the school those with postgraduate degrees, and those with population and thousands of ·parents, because of ·some form of technical or special training. Here limited means, social ambitions, or conflicting again the fact is that the mere possession of a ideals, continue to cherish a disbelief in the value B.A. degree does not render the holder immune of higher education for wo·men. from unemployment. But the tendency is for per Only recently a worried father writing in the manence and stability to increase as education in Forum Magazine said in effect, "A well-endowed creases. Indeed, only 1.9 per cent of those with marriage arrangement at an early age is far more graduate degrees are out of positions. These facts important for girls than four years of college. are the more impressive because the entire group Let's give our daughters doweries instead of a of 2000 shows 6.2 per cent of unemployment and, college education." The article is typical of the considering the advanced character of these earn diverse conceptions still set up in opposition to ers, that rate is surprising. It shows that manual the worth of an education. Now comes the Ameri workers are by no means the only ones suffering can Women's Association to prove that no matter from the present business depression and that the how much needed by girls are such advantages as so-called protected economic group is bearing a foreign travel or marriage doweries, no other plan relatively large share of distress. for a young woman's best adjustment to life can Further analysis of these collected. schedules in take the place of sound training. Nowadays a girl, dicates that the woman with specialized training whether or not she marries, is more than likely is the one best protected. Those in the profession to work, and if she works she will make money of law, for example, showed unemployment only in ditect proportion to her advanced education. to the extent of 2.2 per cent and almost four The unit surveyed by this metropolitan club fifths of the group reported no reduction in earn represents a cross section of wage-earners on a ings. Women who teach in college and in nor level far above average. Their great diversity of mal and professional schools were all employed interests is indicated by their 150 different voca and 94.4 per cent of them reported no cut in tions. Their median salary of $3030 is nearly twice salary. Compare these figures with those in the as large as that of similar economic groups here commercial field, 11.5 per cent of whom are un tofore studied-for example the business and pro employed and 40.8 per cent have had salary cuts. fessional women whose experience was published In the manufacturing field, which of course in last year bv the Michigan Business Studies. Fifty volves those employees only in clerical, executive, per cent of the membership have had from six and special work, 12.2 per cent were unemployed teen to twenty-two years of employment and there and 39.4 per cent had salary cuts. fore typify the tested and mature element in self It is true that the causes of unemployment are supporting groups. complex. The type of organization for which the Of these 2000 women, 30 per cent are college individual works, the type of work she does, her graduates and 11 .5 per c~nt have postgraduate de length of employment, all enter into the situation, grees. The latter group are concentrated in teach together with factors of personal ability. It is also ing, medicine, law, research, and personnel work, true that women performing unusual tasks are but are represented in all but. three of the voca more apt to be thrown out of work than lflose" tions listed. Typical yearly earnings of women engaged in traditional occupations. For example, with master's degrees and doctor's degrees in phi only 3.9 per cent of the librarians as compared losophy and law or their equivalent amount to with 30.8 per cent of the sales analysists and ex $4105. In cl ear contrast is the median salary of perts are unemployed. Nevertheless, a detailed $2655 earned by those who did not complete the study of these records plainly indicates that it is high-school course. generally true that the woman who has in addi N aturally, the A.W.A. survey figures reveal tion to general college education some special the fact that the exceptionally able individual can technical training is apt both to earn more than overcome the lack of education. Many such per those less well prepared and to continue at work sons were found within the group earning $7000 even during hard times. 120 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Life Loyal Members by Chapters Initiation 1 79 Agnes Goodloe Number 219 Catherine Birch Alpha-Total Initiation, 520 Eta-Total Initiation, 261 55 Helen Beede Breneman 43 Eliza Alexander Burkholder 69 Helen Coburn Smith 44 Florence Sykes 82 Martha Meserve Gould 46 Blanche Boyce 88 Clio Chilcott 48 Ruth M . Heffernan 89 Emma A. Fountain 55 Lorah Monroe 96 Myrtice D. Cheney 66 Iva Ward Hornberger 104 Mary S. Croswell (deceased) 86 Luicile Byrnes Niedermeyer 106 Florence E. Dunn 134 Anne Niedermeyer Opperman 109 Lutie French Tufts 143 Mary S. Smail Theta-Total Initiation, 298 158 Edith Wiiliams Smail 181 Ruby Carver Emerson 45 Mary Gay Blunt 224 Susan H . Weston 47 Margaret McClintock 277 Pauline Hanson 56 Emma Schaller Miilard 296 Ruth Morgan 66 D orothy Armington 366 Elizabeth Whipple Butler 75 Audrey Dykeman 420 Emily R. Heath 105 Elizabeth Tendick 143 Pauline Gauss Delta-Total Initiation, 243 173 D orothy Tener Walworth 182 Irene Allais 2 Maud Abbott Hawkes 187 Harriet Meade Nelson 6 Margaret I. Cutler 188 Mary Theye Worthen 23 Joan.na Parkes 190 Mariam Rice 29 Hila Helen Small 205 Katherine Morris Boand 30 Hattie Mae Baker 61 Eva G. Smith Iota-Total Initiation, 296 73 Doris Taylor Poore 80 Ruth I. Besson 8 Jessie Snow WiJiiams 82 Pearl Godda.rd Stickney 9 Florence Colby Battram 89 Rachel S. Pope 15 Florence McKean Knight 90 Martha 0. Card 21 Mary C. Mcleod 99 Marie Allen Puritan 41 Florence Chapman McCann 100 Blanche M. Goodwin 110 Maurine Fletcher Russeil 110 Mary M. Bartlett 147 Jean Martin Kimbail 123 Rita Waldron Yang 151 Mae Stewart Mickelson 140 Irene M. Hall 159 Myrtle Lang 151 Pauline E. Watts 184 Pauline Braiden 178 Dorothy D. Colby 206 Charlotte H . Bradford Epsilon-Total Initiation, 306 Kappa-Total Initiation, 42 4 Emma E. Kinne 3 Isabel Bronson 17 Fannie A. Pratt 4 Miilie Church McKeever 40 Nina Becker Huil 9 Bessie 1. Adams 69 Clara Kampfe White 179 Bernice Brewster Lambda-Total Initiation, 326 257 Frances Coppage Casman 2 3 Patty Marsh ail Brenner 132 Ruth C. Hardison Zeta-Total Initiation, 247 233 Edith Clymer 1 Irene Pistorio 38 Lavina Kent Waer Mu-Total Initiation, 315 41 Neilie MacFarlane 31 Gladys Hamilton 50 Margaret Haines 193 Helen M. Lucas 60 Helen Miles Davis 208 Eva K. Tripp 63 Dorothy D . Sornborger 80 Rosemary Arnold Nu-Total Initiation, 180 86 Leila D. Hardell 9 Helen M. Crane 102 Liilian Smith Burdick 47 Gladys M. Frost 106 Isabeile Brown 82 Ruth A. Aldrich 107 Mary Agnes Brown 93 Barbara Browning Hunter 145 Frances M. Fisher 95 Ruth Kimbail H orn 150 Eva Lewis 96 Helen McNulty 164 Gene Louise Hoffman 97 Margaret Porter 165 Elizabeth Hopkins Biebel 119 Agnes I. Goss . 171 Ruth 1. Smith 13 7 Elizabeth Goodnch MARCH, 1932 121 121 Lavelle Irvine Helm Xi-Total Initiation, 245 148 Ruth Wortman 14 Ruth E: Litchen 3 5 Ill de Fuller Skofstad Phi-Total Initiation, 163 70 Lucile Cleveland Traughber 4 Hope Brown Minor 145 Berenice Mueller 6 Dorothy Haskell Sturdy 156 Ruth Churchill 9 Helen E. Peck 170 Nelle Lorimer 13 Florence Shippee Piper 173 -Ruth Krehbiel 14 Priscilla Smith 179 Dorothy Bosworth 35 Elizabeth Stillman 181 Katherine Hatfield Evans 46 Frances McKenzie 200 Madelyn Crawford 56 Leilia McGrath 210 Virginia Ott 106 Marjorie Wells 211 Mateel Rich 215 Clara Ellene Bradford Chi-Total Initiation, 190 28 Mildred Beatty Miller Omicron-Total Initiation, 188 34 Lillian Beatty Schuhman 2 Jennie C. Frost 48 Nelle Alexander 12 Beth Boswell Derrick 129 Frances Kirkpatrick 15 Ruth G. Butters 24 Helen Butler Hussey Psi-Total Initiation, 179 29 Ethel L. Peabody 42 Frances Warren Baker 38 Margaret Cochran 82 Alice Drews Gladfelter 50 Nellie B. Mansfield 128 Ruth J. Holton 51 Ellen Glass Anderson 62 Helen C. Jackson Omega-Total Initiation, 159 82 Irma Cunningham 19 Allie Lou Felton 93 Geneva Fisher LeCain 94 Emma Spencer 110 Doris Hutchinson Bessey 117 Virginia Call Alpha Beta-Total Initiation, 116 133 Marguirite Towle 5 Florence Bentz Penfield 33 Florence Turk Pi-Total Initiation, 125 3 Irene James on Harris Alpha Gamma-Total Initiation, 154 18 Anne Arrants 49 Olive Burwell . Alpha Delta-Total Initiation, 130 62 Verda Manners Edwards 1 Blanche Tansil 69 Lois Williams Jenkins 6 Annekay Tharp 94 Lucile Lyon Herbert Alpha Epsilon-Total Initiation, 182 Rho-Total Initiation, 117 11 Gladys Sewell Kamer - 6 Elizabeth Ritchie 18 Marjorie Miller 39 Alice Hersey Wick 19 Marjorie Berckhan 43 Dorothy Darnell 32 Gladys Branson 63 Rebecca Harris 34 Duby Kerchoff Dobson 68 Billie S. Monroe 53 Edna Miller 78 Mildred Sharp 60 Loyd Church Smith 82 Madge Slayden 98 Frances Jones 103 Edith Bridenbaugh Sigma-Total Initiation, 166 Alpha Zeta-Total Initiation, 138 7 Ruth Henry Weiler 2 3 Lois Douque Mathewson 37 Blanche Brotherton 25 Louisa Ridgeway 54 Ruth Hill 32 Elva Campbell Fuller 86 Fae Bralerton 65 Helen Kuehnert 90 Esther Hill 113 Cue Braselton 79 Olga Weber Alpha Eta-Total Initiation, 152 Tau-Total Initiation, 231 13 Gladys Van Fossen 1 Zora H. Miller 14 Winifred Fabel Stockman 49 Mary 0. Reed 74 Marlis Rotnem 98 Lola Jane Rosenberger 98 Laurie Mayer Smith 148 Dorothie Cissell 159 Dona Roberts Biddle Alpha Theta-Total Initiation, 96 46 Virginia Quest Upsilon-Total Initiation, 206 4 Bertha Whillock Stutz Alpha Iota-Total Initiation, 130 59 Mabel G. Black 15 Margaret Clark 64 Mildred Druschel 20 Ruth Little 69 Lilly Nordgren 59 Avetta Hoffman 107 Edith Gressly Perry 7 5 Virginia Spiller 108 Ruth Gressly Hixon 92 Theodosia Burris 122 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Alpha Kappa-Total Initiation, 145 10 Alberta Bates 5 Charlotte Kizer 12 Lila Koch 31 Millicent Jaeke Fowler 13 Harriet Holden Schlubatis 68 Ruth M. Laverton 14 Eleanor Robb Carpenter 74 Marguerite Cadwallader 17 Eva Stephens 85 Janice Wills 19 Genevieve Johnston 97 Gretchen Anderson 20 Natalie Wiedoeft 29 Gladys Morse Alpha Lambda-Total Initiation, 71 31 Alice Hunter 12 Marian Sloane 32 Florence Cowles 16 Ruth Van Gaasbeek 34 Gwendolyn Packwood 31 Mary Patterson 38 Fern E. Kinton 50 Mildred Grosch 46 Dorothy Holden 47 Dorothy R. French Alpha Mu-Totalinitiation, 119 48 Vivid Bainbridge 3 Margaret Toft 56 Frances Holden Perrine 7 Lydia Baird 57 Martha Scott 10 Irene Schuler Kent 61 Ruby Diller 13 Daisy Harder 67 Margaret Hunter 17 Helen Weidler 71 Katherine Scott 33 Violet Peacock Stoll 44 Margaret Sherman Peet Alpha Upsilon-Total Initiation, 63 70 Evelyn Fisher Thielman 1 Julia Mattson 81 Velam Johnson 2 Ragna Pederson 113 Evelyn Blodgett 3 Pearl Gemmill Alpha Nu-Total Initiation, 96 4 Bessis Devins 5 Coline Hawk 1 Opal Adams Lenigan 6 Frances Owen 5 Susan Fenn Hendrickson 7 Esther Sateren 7 Helen McGregor 8 Dorothy Donnelly 9 Mary B. Kirkwood 9 Sylvia Adams 10 Lenore Thompson 10 Marguerite Black 20 Mildred Dover Sindelar 11 Jane Rudd Botten 33 Mildred Story 12 Blanche Greenland 37 Elsie Emiger 13 Doris Prickard 38 Gladys Martz 14 Ruth Joy Owen Alpha Xi-Total Initiation, 139 24 Bertha Tofsrud 28 Gladys Dahl 20 Margaret Battey Wilcox 29 Inez Haugom Muir 36 Lenore Smith Allen Alpha Omicron-Total Initiation, 108 Alpha Phi-Total Initiation, 89 6 Helen Mar Everett 2 Marian Hayes 9 Madeline Brayton Bronzen 3 Dorothy Cushman 18 Florence Huebscher 5 Jean Millican 6 Marie Malgren Jackson Alpha Pi-Total Initiation, 84 7 Enid Veatch 2 Ruth Dodge 8 Marjorie Myers Raynor 16 Thelma King 9 Irene Burton 36 Edna Cope 10 Violet Reed Armes 50 Margaret Dodge 11 Helen Ernst Nelson 54 Ruth M. Diller 12 Margaret Swan 13 Florence M. Smith Alpha Rho-Total Initiation, 73 14 Gertrude M. Hill 14 Florence Rawls 47 Emily Houston Savage 24 Jimmie Vaden Alpha Chi-Total Initiation, 44 Alpha Sigma-Total Initiation, 60 1 Elizabeth Burke 11 Mabel Wallace Shadle 2 Annabelle Portor 12 Helen B. Wylie 13 Helen Moody 35 Dorothy Kirkbride 14 Lurine Moody 16 Mary Lois Harding Alpha Tau-Total Initiation, 92 Alpha Psi-Total Initiation, 21 2 Fern Sheener Whitmarch 9 Fern True February 1, 1932. MARCH, 1932 123 • editorials • Spend Wisely ~ Sign Life Loyal The present economic slump has taught us at least one thing-spend wisely. A member ship for life in Sigma Kappa is spending wisely. You may pay seventeen years at $2 a year and still pay, or you may pay $35 in convenient instalments over the period of one year and be through paying. "The Thinking Sigma Signs Life Loyal." The Endowment committee is sponsoring the sale of Sigma Kappa playing cards. This is an ideal arrangement whereby you aid the Endowment Fund and yet receive in exchange decks of attractive playing cards distinctively Sigma Kappa. Practically everyone who sees them buys them. There are various agents all over the states who fill orders promptly. $1 a deck, $2 for an attractive double deck, one maroon, one lavender. The Central Office, 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan., or Ruth Holt, 208 N. Mason street, Chicago, Ill., will fill your orders if you do not know your local agent. The Outlook Is More Serious Hard times have hit college life and sobered it. College students have become aware of many problems that have hitherto seemed too remote from their happy-go-lucky existences to bother them much. They are starting to think about politics, about international affairs, about economics, and most of all, about the pertinent business of earning bread and butter. They are having to clear a path for themselves where formerly the youthful resourcefulness of our big, beautiful America had paved a golden street for them. In Europe, where the coun tries are old and resources meager, college students have long been awake to these things and spend much of their time in serious thought and discussion. · The result of this sobering in America has been an increased enrollment of college students with a more serious outlook on life and less money in their pockets. Consequently, fewer people can afford to join houses and those already members must pinch harder to find the money for dues. It seems to me that sororities and fraternities must face this problem and try to adapt themselves to the changed conditions by decreasing luxuries in every way possi ble and by trying to appear to outsiders less purely social and more intent upon a co-operative attack on life's problems, in order that they may not lose their appeal to the thoughtful and hard-working student. LOUISE HILDEBRAND, Lambda Extra ~ Curricular Activities Extra-curricular activities have been the subject of a great deal of discussion, most of the destructive criticisms coming from people who know nothing of the worth of activities. It is because of this group of people that extra-curricular activities need defending. Activities are necessary to the life of a college, and it naturally falls upon the students to partake in them for their alma mater. In addition to helping the school, each student who participates in outside activities furthers his own personal development. He is benefited by the contact with other people. The man or woman who carries activities immediately puts himself in the responsible position of leader. And who can deny that that is a good thing? Sororities and fraternities are quite closely connected with activities. A house gains by hav ing its members in various activities. The interested house sees that its pledges and members are started in them ; then keeps pushing them farther up the ladder of success. Activities are extremely beneficial to all concerned, so why not everyone get into the spirit of this phase of campus life and do all possible for their promotion? SuE HYSLOP, U psi! on 124 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Southwest Expansion Sig~a has always wanted a n~ighbor chapter. She feels isolated "way down south in T~xas. It would mean. support m many ways. Usually rushees want to pledge a sorority ~1th chapters near. It g1ves them more of a national feeling. By establishing strong chapters m. nearby sch?ols, local problems could be solved together, and the rating on the campus raised. A national soronty should be represented in every part of the United States. Should there be a doubt as to the desirable fields in the Southwest all universities have some desirable material. Other national Greeks have found it, why not sigma Kappa? Most "over crowded" universities are those in which a few large sororities have a monopoly. They need good competition. Why shouldn't Sigma Kappa compete? Probably the depression has limited expansion, but other sororities are installing new chapters. Why shouldn't Sigma Kappa expand with the rest? MARY MENDENHALL, Sigma A Plea for the Southern Chapters As one of the southern chapters, Rho of Sigma Kappa is placed in a position of compara tive isolation with few near neighboring chap'ers. Until last year when Alpha Pi was in stalled at Duke University, Rho was the only chapter to break the barren stretch from Flor ida to Washington, D .C., along the seaboard. Since a great many Randolph-Macon girls come from this region, they have never had an opportunity for close contact with any Sigma Kappa chapter, while most of the other nationals on campus have chapters thickly scattered throughout the southern states. The hardship in rushing is quite obvious: Sigma Kappa has to begin right from the start with many of the southern girls, while the other nationals have had assistance from their neighboring chapters all during the summer. Needless to say, Rho is not so anxious for neighbors that any group is acceptable, but she is anxious enough to ask for careful investigation of the field. Also, there is an appalling scarcity of alumna! chapters in our vicinity. The college alumna! send many girls to Randolph-Macon, and it follows that Sigma Kappa alumna! should be able to help out immensely in notifying the chapter of prospective rushees, and in making the new girls acquainted with Sigma Kappa and its standing on the campus. . MARIAN McCRACKEN, Rho Rushing One function of the sorority with which every member concerns herself is the rushing of new girls. Older members of any sorority or club want to include in their organization, as new members, interesting and attractive girls with personalities as compatible with their own as is possible. Rushees, on the other hand, are looking for a group where they can be happy a group with which they will want to spend the greater part of their college life. People often jokingly say that one is unable to choose the family and relatives that one wants, but in sorority pledging is found a chance for any girl to choose the exact "family" she ~esires . Friendliness is the fundamental principle on which rushing should be based. In hfe we continually wish to widen our acquaintanceships-and then our frierl:dships .. New pl~ces mean "new worlds to conquer" -and new friends to make. The soronty rushmg functl?ns introduce to new girls vast numbers of new acquaintances, who cannot all make a great Im pression at once. Just as one of our great poets said he liked anyone he knew very well, for he always found some good in him, so it is hard to like people we don't know. Rushees can not really know all the girls at once, but they can be impressed by the group and by the friendly interest of each member of the group. And after a rushee likes a group, she soon becomes interested in individuals and is then easily convinced of the advantages of belong ing to the rest of the girls. With a more friendly attitude, rushing could be made a I_ess . strained and more human furiction . IRENE ScHULTZ, PSJ MARCH, 1932 125 • Cited for 9nterest • MARIAN SE CHEVERELL HEMINGWAY, Editor Sororities Grant These New Chapters housed in dormitories surrounding Fraternity Court. Each fraternity has a section of its own, in I BETA PHI announces the installation of cluding a chapter room, a living room, and rooms Alberta Alpha chapter at the University of Al for the chapter members. The living rooms are fur P berta September 22 , 1931, and South Carolina nished by the fraternities, and are quite homelike Alpha ch;pter at the University of South Carolina, in a harmony of soft tones. The chapter room, October 12, 1931. which is usually on the top floor of the section, is Kappa Kappa Gamma announces installatio_n of used for chapter meetings. Delta Epsilon chapter at Rolllns college, Wmter The system of housing the sororities is a little Park, Fla., January 8, 1932. different from the fraternity system. The co-eds live Phi Mu announces installation of Alpha Zeta on a campus of their own, about a mile from the chapter at the University of Alabama, November 18, men's campus. Here the style of architecture is 1931. entirely different, being modified colonial. The five Alpha Phi announces installation of Beta Mu dormitories are of red brick, and along with the chapter at the University of Alabama, February 13, auditorium, the classrooms, the library, the dining 1932. hall, and the faculty apartments, form a long quad Alpha Gamma Delta announces installation of rangle. In the five dormitories the sororities have Alpha Eta chapter at Dalhousie university, Halifax, their homes. Nova Scotia, February 12, 1932. Each sorority has a section of its own, composed Kappa Alpha Theta announces installation of of several rooms. One of these rooms is designated Beta Psi chapter at McGill university, February 27, as the chapter room, and the individual members' 1932. rooms are grouped about it. The chapter room Eighty-nine college chapters have been chartered serves as both a living room and a place to hold in the last two years, only one fraternity has granted business meetings. Informal social affairs are given no charters. Kappa Kappa Gamma leads the list in in the chapter room, although no men are allowed number of charters granted, 11 new chapters ; Sig to visit the sections. The sororities are free at any ma Kappa and Lambda Omega each granted but time to use the elaborately furnished parlors of the one charter; and the rest from two to six each. dormitories or the larger rooms of the dining hall The trend toward Canadian expansion was marked; for formal social affairs. four Canadian universities, British Columbia, Mani The system of having sections rather than houses toba Alberta and McGill appearing frequently in for the fraternities and sororities seems to be oper the iist of new chapters. One hundred and sixty ating very successfully. The University officials have six new afumnre chapters or clubs were reported expressed their approval of it, and the fraternities also. Constructive new movements by different fra and sororities seem well satisfied. Duke University ternities were many too; perhaps new financial has always prided itself on the fact that its Greek plans, especially life memberships, and co-organi letter societies are not exclusive, at least not so ex zers for new or weak chapters were the more signifi clusive as to cut off the possibilities of friendship cant new features. between the Greeks and the non-fraternity students. While the fraternity members enjoy the privacy of Duke Has Unique Housing System their own sections, they are so closely mingled with for Fraternities and Sororities the non-fraternity men as to create a democratic relationship between the two groups. By Sara E. Ownbey, Alpha Psi Chapter UKE UNIVERSITY is becoming rather wide Organize New Panhellenic in ly known for its unique system of accom D modating its fraternities and sororities. The San Francisco · system is not only unusual but extremely interesting CHAPTER of National Panhellenic has been because of the possibilities it holds. In the fall of organized in San Francisco recently. We wish 1930, the new campus belonging to the men's col A to get in touch with all fraternity women, es lege was opened. The dormitories, which are of pecially newcomers, with the idea of putting them Gothic architecture, are arranged in quadrangles. in touch with their local chapters and alumna: or One of these quadrangles is designated as Frater- ganizations. Headquarters are at the Women's City . nity Court, and here eight of the national fra club, 465 Post street, San Francisco. Chairman is ternities have their homes. Other chapters are Edna M. Reeves, 1770 Pine street, San Francisco. 126 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE • EMf ilestones Engagements Alpha Beta Muriel Maclean, '3 1, to Clarence Damon. Delta Gertrude M. Van Ostrand, '28, to Kenneth Bernice Lacount, '29, to Clintice L. Cowan, Har Ransom Jackman. vard, assistant director of Wesley foundation at Muriel L. Weber, '31, to Paul D. Williams. Harvard. Epsilon Alpha Nu Natlie Ware, '31, to Winsor G. Eveland, Col Kathryn Coe, '33, to Charles Glenn Johnson, gate, '30, Beta Theta Pi. University of Montana, '33, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Felicia Mclemore, '32, to James Henry Radley. Iota Frances Derby, '27, to John Hafner. Alpha Omicron Jane Binkley, '30, to Paul Gorley. Margaret Mason, '33, to James Newton, Ohio State university, Sigma Phi Epsilon. Lambda Lynn-Jack Rountree, '30, to Charles Blunt, Alpha Tau Schaeffer Scientific school. Florence Margaret Cowles, '29, to Webster Dorothy Dunnic!iff, '30, to Arthur Babcock. Linebaugh, Michigan State college. Mu Marriages Louise Lohee, '28, to John Smart. Maybelle Ghiglione, '29, to Jack Little, Beta Alpha Theta Pi, Washington State college. Dorothy Dean to Dr. James Sipple Van Leuvan, October 17, at Woodfords, Me. Xi Olive M. Soule, '26, to Ellis F. Parmenter. At Gladys Hopfer, '31, to Richard Hickey, '32, home, 157 Washington street, Berlin, N.H. University of Kansas, Delta Tau Delta. Helen A. Wyman, '28, to Mr. Gould, June 6, Wilma Buechner, '32, to Lowell Trueblood, 1931. At home, 110 Bay View avenue, Salem Wil '32, University of Kansas, Triangle. lows, Mass. Maxine English, '32, to Jerry W. Galbreath, Epsilon '34, University of Kansas, Delta Sigma Lambda. Pringle Mackie, '26, to John Crispin. Marion Lloyd, '29, to Ivan C. Triesault, Sep Tau tember 1, 1931. Ann Slick, '33, to Joseph Lang, '33, Delta Tau Marian Du Bois to Charles J. O'Connor. At Delta. home, 37 Wood terrace, Bryn Mawr park, Yonkers, Ruby Teter, '33, to John Rinne, '34, Sigma N .Y. Alpha Epsilon. Eta Martha Temples, '32, to Arthur Thomas, '32, Coemia Farlow, ex-'32, to Warren Schultz, ex Delta Chi; '32, Phi Gamma Delta, December 27. At home, Martha Linn, '33, to Ben Miller, '31, Kappa Peoria, Ill. Delta Rho. Doris McLaflin, ex-'30, to James Clifford Josilin, Kathrine Ellison, '33, to Melvin Gifford, '33, Phi Kappa Psi, Iowa State College, '29, December Delta Chi. 30. At home, 1528 N. Clinton Blvd., Blooming- Phi ton, Ill. . Lucille Kohlberg, '21, to Charles E. Lermond, Louise Hinner, '31, to Karl E. Sipfle. At home, Rhode Island State college and M.I.T., Lambda The Elms Apts., 910 Second avenue, Dodge City, Chi Alpha. Kan. Chi Theta Agnes Turner, '30, to Francis William Davis, Lois Miller, '32, to Drayden Waugh, Theta Ohio State university, '30, Theta Tau. Chi, at Herrin, Ill. At home, Kenmore Shore apart Dorothy Inscho, '32, to Lawrence Abbot, Ohio ments, Chicago. State university, '30. Inna Willis, ex-'32, to Hannes A. Hannesson, Evelyn Rice, ex-'31, to Paul Willour, Ohio University of Minnesota, ex-'31, Phi Delta Theta, State university, Theta Xi. May 16, 1931, in Chicago. At home, 3417 Port land avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. Alpha Epsilon Charlotte Woodward, '25, to Harold Patrick Carrie Holland, '33, to Merlin H. Anderson, O'Connell, January 16, at St. Edmund's church, '33, Theta Chi. Oak Park, Ill. After a trip to Biloxi, Miss., and MARCH, 1932 127 Cuba, they will Jive at 344 South Maple, Oak Alpha Delta Park, Ill. Katye Wright Estes to Ralph E. Womac, Au Iota gust 17, 1931. At home, Kingston, Tenn. Eda Mae Stone, '27, to Ralph Thomas. At Lena Davis, '30, to Aston Kennedy, December home, Apartment 38, 494 Twenty-seventh avenue, 6, at Jackson, Tenn. At home, 906 Walnut street, San Francisco, Calif. Knoxville, Tenn. Elizabeth Hannah Thomas, '31, to Waldo W. Alpha Epsilon Hagnauer. At home, 929 Atlantic avenue, Wauke Frances Hibbs, '29, to Chris Wagler, Phi Delta gan, Ill. Theta. At home, Bloomfield, Iowa. Lambda Frances L. Rauch to Charles Barnett. At home, Morehouse, Mo. Margaret Laidlaw, '32, to Robert Montjoy Black, Alpha Eta Stanford, '30, Kappa Sigma. Helen Krause, '26, to Dr. Clayton Rohrer at Princeton, Minn., July 20. At home, 842 West Mu Broadway, Winona, Minn. Gayle Reed, '31, to Jack Warnick. Marlis Rotnem, '28, to Russell Rosson, Phi Pi Lorita M. Townsend to Laurence A. Thomas. Phi, Wisconsin, '25, August 5. At home, St. At home, 300 Carteret place, Orange, N.J. Croix Falls, Wis. . Loraine Du Lac, ex-'31, to Joseph 0. Quarness, Nu September 9. At home, Minneapolis. Florence Elizabeth Philipsen, '28, to Frederick Mabel Johnson, '28, to Dr. Roy Randall, at L. Coombs, September 1, 1931. At home, Kings Tyler, Minn., October 12. At home, Austin, Minn. ton, N.Y. Charlotte Bockus, '30, to Gordon Malcolm Eva T. Marshall, '28, to the Rev. Elmer H. McCrea, Alpha Rho Chi, University of Minnesota, Douglas, November 26, 1931. The wedding cere at New Ulm, October 24. At home, 4412 West mony was performed in Algiers, North Africa, and Lake Harriett boulevard, Minneapolis. after a honeymoon spent in Switzerland they re Inna Marie Willis to Hannes A. Hannesson. At turned to Constantine, Algiers, to resume their home, 3417 Portland avenue, Minneapolis. work. Xi Alpha Iota Ruth Lee Bren to Max Allen Kramer, February Josephine Nattinger, '26, to Ernest C. H. 14, 1932, at Kansas City, Mo. Kirschter of Detroit. They are wintering at 50 Hanna avenue, West Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Pi Hazel Seip, '29, to Dr. Paul Grove. At home, Alexandra Leslie Hill, '28, to David Theodore Coldwell, Ohio. McKeown, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Stanford univer Alpha Kappa sity. At home, 2715 Channing way, Berkeley, Calif . . Ruby Teater, '29, to Cecil E. Davis, Sigma Phi Sigma, December 29, 1931. At home, Eustis, Neb. Rho Beth Edwards to Richard C. Stackett, Mississip Alpha Lambda pi A. and M. college, Pi Kappa Alpha. At home, Alice Burhaus to A. ]. Wheeler. At home, 59 1519 West Capital street, Jackson, Miss. Elm avenue, Glen Cove, N .Y. Alberta Wall to Alton C. Dorsett. At home, 802 Lilian J. Walser to Louis A. Murtagh. At home, West 21st street, Austin, Texas. 540 East Twenty-second street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Pauline Wynn, '22, toW. Fred Allen. At home 4229 Livingston, Dallas, Texas. ' Alpha Mu Adeline Nowak, '30, to W. Charles Gregory, . Tau '31, Michigan State Normal college, Arm of Hon Anna Mary Purdue, ex-'33, to William Fran or, at Ann Arbor, November 9. At home, 308 cis Cobin, February 3, 1932. At home, Taylors, S.C. Packard street, Apartment 5, Ann Arbor. Alice Vail, ex-'33, to John Lang, ex-'33, Delta Mary D. Cumings to Harold E. Johnson. At Tau Delta, September 15, 1931. At home, 104 home, 905 Sparrow avenue, Lansing, Mich. South Bend avenue, South Bend, Ind. Alpha Nu Upsilon Vira Kaa, '29, to William M. Brennan, June Autumn Eleanor Sprague to C. M. Hokom. At 16. At home, Deer Lodge, Mont. home, 427 South Lucerne boulevard, Los Angeles Calif. . ' Alpha Xi · Carol B. Phillips, '31, to Edward C. Coman. At Florence Kelleher, '28, to Bernard Hamilton, in home, Milwaukie, Ore. December 9, 1931, Orange, Calif. Ruth Mayer to Gordon Thatcher, in the fall. Chi Marguerite Walker, '28, to John Farrish Flippo. Alpha Omicron At home, Fairmont, Va, Margaret Crawford, '29, to Richard Coke Battle, December. Alpha Beta Louise Katherine Gable, '32, to Elmer Eugene Esther Mary Koehler to Roger J . Sommer. At Bauermeister, December 30, 1931, Los Angeles, home, 195 Goulding avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. Calif. 128 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Edna Manch, '29, to Robert Parker, '29, of To Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer W. Coombs (Leona U.C.L.A., in November. Walker, '22), twin girls. Margaret Crawford, ex-'31, to Richard Battle, To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Wurts (Evelyn University of Nebraska, December 18. McCracken, '30), a daughter, Marilyn Felice, June 9, 1931. Alpha Pi Mu Genevieve Musson, '32, to Charles Hinkle of To Mr. and Mrs. Almon Bogardus (Mirie Play Toledo, Ohio, December 31, 1931, at the home of ter, '20), a daughter, in January. the Bride, 1746 Wellesley drive, Toledo, Ohio. At home, Lyons, Ohio. Nu To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Davis (Vida Water Alpha Sigma man, '28), a son, Karl Gardner, October 11, 1931. Eleanor Warner, '28, to Robert X. Graham of the English faculty, Westminster college, New Pi Wilmington, Pa. To Mr. and Mrs. Field (Nancy Darn, '29), a Alpha Tau son, Chris, born in Tampico. The Fields now Ruth Louise Belknap, '31, to Lawrence Ashley, make their home in Palo Alto. Michigan State college, '30, Delphic, December To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Knight (Gladys 21, 1931. At home, 20 Lincoln street, Elsmere, Walker, '17), a son. N.Y. Alpha Upsilon Upsilon Norma Elinore Thorne, '30, to Eugene Sussex, To Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Hixson (Ruth Gressley, University of North Dakota, Phi Alpha Epsilon, '25), a daughter, Joanne Edith Hixson, August December 26, 1931. At home, Oakes, N .D. 15. Grace Syvertsen, '28, to Adolph C. Thuring, Phi University of North Dakota, Alpha Psi Delta, De To Lieut. and Mrs. Leonard Bailey (Elizabeth cember 27, 1931. At home, 2510 Q street N.W., Kane, '26), Shanghai, China, a daughter, Decem Apartment 104, Washington, D .C. ber 14. Margaret Blackmer to Lieut. H. Raymond Sla Chi ter, October 30. At home, Hermosa Beach, Calif. To Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Merrell (Helen Swoish, '26), a second son, January 13, 1932. To Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Parry (Mabel Fisher, '27), a daughter, January 12 , 1932. Psi To Mr. and Mrs. James Rene Hemingway (Ma rian Se Cheverell, '24) , a daughter, Helen Renee, February 8. To Mr. and Mrs. Finlay G. Cameron (Ruth Hayward), a daughter, Jean Hayward, January 21. Births Alpha Beta Epsilon To Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Klein (Annabelle To Dr. and Mrs . Gilford Dickinson (Cora Faulds, '26), a daughter, Marcia Louise, Septem Campfe, '15), a son, David, October 10, 1931. ber 12. To Mr. and Mrs. James McClelland (Alice To Dr. and Mrs. Howard E. Rogers (Dorothy Brigham, '27), a son, Winthrope, October 11, M. York, '23), a daughter, Patricia Anne, August 1931. 6. Eta Alpha Delta To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Balch (Lucy Mortimer, To Mr. and Mrs. Floyd James (Katherine '26), a daughter, Rose Adelle, January 3, at Ayers, ex-'29), Ruston, La., a daughter. Wonewoc, Wis. Theta Alpha Eta To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dodds (Ella Forslew, To Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Hadlich (Dorothy '24), a daughter, Barbara, November 15 . Dodge, '25) , a daughter, Mary Ellen, January 6, 1932. Iota To the Rev. and Mrs. Herman A. Preus (Flor To Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sommerlad (Aida Mc ence Nesbitt, '29), a daughter, January 4, 1932. Cauley, '25 ) , a son, Philip Lincoln, Jr., January To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schaefly (Alberta 22, 1932. Hutchin, '26), a daughter, Elizabeth Jane, Novem Lambda ber 4. To Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Andrews (Loraine No To Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Everett Smith vak, '16) , a daughter, Regina, in January. (Laurie Mayer, '25), of Great Neck, N.Y., a To Mr. and Mrs. E. Marshall Rickson (Bertha daughter, Margaret Louise, January 29. Clymer, '30) , twin boys, John Clymer and Rupert To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vogel (Fern Nesbitt, Hughes , November 20, 1931. '23), a son, John Nesbitt, January 1, 19~2: To Mr. and Mrs. H. Bartlett Sayer, '24, a son, To Mr. and Mrs. Edmund G. W!lhamson, Thomas Preston, January 26. (Lorraine Fitch, '29) , a son, November 8. MARCH, 1932 129 Alpha Iota Brigade Prom, one of the major dances of the year. To Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Armbruster (June Funeral services at Warren and burial at Cort land were attended by the entire college chapter Hahn, '32), a daughter. and many pledges, all having been given permis Alpha Kappa sion to leave the campus to attend the services by the dean of women. Pallbearers were six Warren To Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hoff (Viola Heyne, ex-'33), a daughter, Barbara Viola, December 8, 1931. Alpha Omicron To Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Fast (Florence Cook, '25), a son, Earnest, Jr., January 10, 1932. Alpha Pi To Mr. and Mrs. G. Dewey Goodwin (Mildred Gehret, '23 ), a daughter, Edna Juanita, May 1, 1931. Alpha Sigma To the Rev. and Mrs. Ferdimore E. Vogan (Mar garet Fraser, '25), a son, David Alexander, Au gust 17, 1931, at Greensboro, Vt. Alpha Tau To Mr. and Mrs. B. Heath Holden (Evelyn Keyes, '28), a daughter, Karalee Heath, January 23, 1932. Alpha Upsilon To Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sherritt (Marguerite Black, '26}, a son, December 6, 1931. Hazel E. Hartman friends, four of whom are Ohio State students. The Deaths Sigma Kappas attending formed an honorary escort fo~ the pallbearers. Among the many flowers sent, ~rttcben Qtoates 'i»onobue astde from those of the college and alumnre chap Gretchen Coates Donohue, Alpha Nu, '25. Mar ters and the individual girls, were floral pieces ried May 28, 1926. College activities: Art League, from the College of Education, Scabbard and Blade Delta Phi Delta, scene painting, assistant art edi (honorary military organization), and several fra tor of Sentinel, publication manager, Y.W.C.A., ternities. Hazel was buried wearing her sorority pin Penetralia (now Mortar Board), Delta Phi Delta and the pin of Julian A. Wheelock, Western Re Duniway Art prize. ' serve university, Alpha Delta Phi. Although Hazel had a large circle of acquaint ~a?tl qf_ ~artman ances who knew her through her social activities, she also leaves a group of close friends to sorrow qosely following upon the Military ball, of over the loss of a friend whom they had come to whtch she was Prom Queen, Hazel E. Hartman know as always characterized by sincerity and Chi, '33, was stricken with acute appendicitis and loyalty. died in University hospital, February 15. Sh~ was FRANCES KIRKPATRICK, Chi, '28 the only child of Mr. and Mrs. John Hartman of Warre~, Ohio, a_nd was a junior in the college of ~usan ~apes iltffer educatwn, a maJor in non-biological science. She was 20 years old. Although she had been carrying 1>1rs. Susan Hayes Peffer, Eureka, Kan., state heavy schedules for two years, she had a high point prestdent for the Business and Professional Wom average. She was scholarship chairman for Chi at en's club, died in January. She was the mother of the time of her death. Helen Hayes Peffer, Xi, who was for some years Hazel was taken to the hospital three days be connected with the Department of Journalism at fore. her death where the doctors vainly attempted the _lJ_niversity ?f Illinois. Helen is now doing ad ~o etther postpone the operation or build her up to vertlSlng work 10 New York City. Mrs. Peffer had tt. _Internal hemorrhages followed the operation, been a close friend of our founder Ida Fuller whtch was found to be necessary, and she died the Pierce. ' same day. Two blood transfusions were resorted ]'anet ~tepbens j/;lopnton. )glpba. '98 to in an effort to save her life, one being given by Helen T. Boyd, Chi, '34, and one by Mr. Hartman. Janet Stephens Boynton (Mrs. Carl W. Boyn Numerous other_friend s of Hazel's were ready for ~on} d~ed August 18, 1931, at Belmont, Mass. She further transfusiOns, but the physicians decided ts survt:ved by her son, Robert Boynton. Her hus that the shock of the transfusions was bad for band dted in 1929. Mrs. Boynton was graduated her heart. from Colby college in 1898 and received a master's The death of Hazel ;_,as a shock and sorrow not degree at Boston university in 1905. only to the ~hapter. but to the entire campus. She was very active soCially and was widely known at qfrmina t)ottle ~timson, )glpba. '95 the university. February 5, as the guest of Cadet Ermina Pottle Stimson Alpha '95, died at her Colonel Wayne C. Smith, she had reigned over the home in Northampton, M~ss. ' 130 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE • ~ith sigmas everywhere • Lynn Rountree Returns Kirby Rohrer. A very small niece of Helene's, June Rohrer, stood at the door holding a basket from from Europe which the guests drew small cards telling of the Lynn Rountree, Lambda, '30, who was vice bethrothal. The fiance put in an appearance in president of the student body while on the cam time for tea and sandwiches, after most of the pus, has just returned to California for the first guests had gone. time since her graduation. She left at that time for six months of traveling in Europe, during which she attended an International Students' The International House, a dormitory for Conference at Oxford, England. She then returned American and foreign students recently opened at the University of California, is proving very successful, perhaps partly because the wife man ager, Marian Winchester King, '25, is a Sigma Kappa. June Miller, Phi, '31, is assistant dietitian at a junior high school in Providence. Mary Evans Chase, Phi, '31, was elected secre tary-treasurer of the San Diego Science and Mathe matic association. News from Zeta Kay Arends, '31, is attending Maryland uni versity, where she is working for a master's de gree. Martha Myers, '34, spent the Thanksgiving holi- Lynn Rountree days at William and Mary college. . Naomi Crain, '3 1, is now teaching at the Ben to New York, where for the next year she held Murch school in Washington, D.C. an important position in an office which handles advertisements for foreign newspapers. Sympathy to Deltas While in Munich, Germany, Lynn became ac The holiday season was not a very happy one quainted with Charles Blunt, a graduate of the for some of Delta's alumnre. Helen Cady, '24, Schaeffer Scientific school in Boston, to whom suffered the tragic Joss of her father in Decem her engagement has recently been announced. ber. Our sympathies are with her and with Sadie Collins, financial adviser to Delta chapter, whose Announces Engagement brother is dangerously ill. Melva Shackleford, Alpha Eta, '31, is an assist ant art instructor at the University of Minnesota. Arlene Snure, Alpha Eta, '29, is secretary to the dean at Hamline university, St. Paul, Minn. Four Alpha Nu Alumrn£ Work for Uni'Jiersity Responsible official positions in the university are held by four Alpha Nu alumnre. Elsie Emin ger, '27, is an instructor in foreign languages and chairman of the Spanish department. She has an M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, and has done interesting work in Mexico. Helen Groff, '26, is assistant director of resi Dorothy Dunnicliff dence halls. Last year she did commercial home economics work in Chicago. Dorothy Dunnicliff, Lambda, '30, announced her Mable Murchison, '30, is assistant to the regis engagement to Arthur Babcock at a formal tea trar of the university. given at the chapter house last semester by two Hazel Mumm, '31, is counter clerk in the of her classmates, Esther Cox Zarley and Helene registrar's office. MARCH, 1932 131 Lorena Garloch, Alpha Mu, to Conduct Colorado Alumna Pro11es Versatile as European Motor Tour Teacher and Lecturer Lorena Garloch, Alpha Mu, not content with Ada Desire Wells Root, Epsilon, '14, who a year and a half in Paris, is now planning to is now affiliated with Colorado alumnre, is doing share her knowledge and experience with others the most interesting things these days. On account and will conduct a delightful automobile tour of the very serious illness of Mr. Root, it has of Europe during the coming summer. Pittsburgh became necessary for Sister Root to assume the alumnre recommend her as an enthusiastic and entire responsibility for the management of their interesting leader and envy all who may have the three children and all financial affairs. So Sigmas privilege of going with her. Interested Sigmas feel very proud of her ability and success. Ever may reach her at the University of Pittsburgh since she has been in Denver she has been on the library, Pittsburgh, Pa. executive board of the A.A.U.W. and for the past two years has been chairman of the member Eunice Miles Lowderman, Theta, ship committee. This year she is lecturing and Has Position in Wichita teaching Culbertson's method of playing bridge. At present she lectures at the Y.W.C.A., Wellshire Eunice Miles Lowderman, Theta, ex-'15, has Country club, Phipps sanatorium, and gives lessons been in Wichita for the past few months in the in the most exclusive Denver homes. office of the Federal court. Mrs. Lowderman's ten From Culbertson to laundry seems quite a jump year-old daughter, Suzanne, is a pupil at Mount but Sister Root is versatile. No, she isn't doing Carmel academy, Wichita. laundry, but is giving talks on the survey she and other members of an A.A.U.W. committee have Marjorie Brown, Alpha Lambda, Is made on this important subject. Questionnaires Organizer for Student Tours were sent to many women to determine the com parative cost of doing laundry at home, having a More than twenty tours are described in the laundress, or sending it to a commercial laundry. brochure of the Student Pleasure Tours, a booking Recently Sister Root gave a talk before the inter agency for European travel for which Marjorie state meeting on the results of this survey. Later Brown, Alpha Lambda, '22, is an organizer. Any she will write articles on the subject. one interested in receiving this booklet on travel Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, who lectured here re may obtain one from Marjorie by writing her cently, for the A.A.U.W., was a classmate of at her home, 7810 Ridge boulevard, Brooklyn, Sister Root's at Syracuse university and was her N .Y. guest while here. Mrs. Lewis is an Alpha Chi News from Lynchburg, Virginia Omega. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Evans (Minnabel Baskin, Wonders of the South Extolled Rho, '27) are living in the Dumont apartments, by Anne Potter, Alpha Xi Lynchburg, Va. Joe MacGregor, Rho, '26, has moved with her Myrtle Madsen DeVaul, Alpha Xi, '22, received mother to their new home, 1419 Oakwood court, a letter from Anne Gilmore Potter, Alpha Xi, '21, Lynchburg, Va. . which she would like to share with other alumnre Mr. and Mrs. Sidney E. Shanner (Constance of the chapter. Anne and her family (Bobby, 4, Wilborne, Rho, '29) spent the Christmas holi and Betty Ann, 9 months) are living in Waco, days in Meridan, Miss., with Connie's family. Texas, where her husband teaches at Baylor univer Mr. and Mrs. John Wranek (Nelle Striplin, sity. Rho, '27) are living at Oakwood court, Lynch Her enthusiastic description of the land "where burg. Mrs. Wranek and young Miss Jeanne summer spends the winter" would make one won Wranek spent the Christmas holidays with Nelle's der if she were in California-she concluded by family in Corinth, Miss. saying that she was really talking about Texas and not California. News Notes of Palo Alto Alumne£ Chapter The following is an interesting excerpt from her description of New Orleans where she and her Paul Edwards, husband of Verda Manners Ed husband went for the A.A.A.S. convention: "Mar wards, Pi, '20, was made first dean of men at garet and I bummed around in the old French Chico State college. quarters, French market, the wharves, parks, etc. Barbara Delkin, Pi, '26, has returned from The vegetation is quite tropical: banana trees, date Paris, France. Patty Brenner, Mary Wilbur, and trees, old live oaks with lovely grey Spanish moss Verona Price Jaynes were among those who went trailing from their branches, huge poinsettias to Los Angeles to the Stanford-U.S.C. football growing to first-story windows, oleanders, mag game, and found themselves in the same section. nolia trees, rice fields, sugar cane fields, the Eleanor Wyman, Pi, '15, returned in August Evangeline and Teche country, Louisiana swamps from three years in China, where she taught at and bayous made us feel as if we were in another Lingnan university, Canton. She relates many in country. It's an enchanted country." teresting experiences. Esther Gerken, Pi, ex-'26, made a trip this fall Houston Personal Items to Chico. Patty Brenner, Lambda, '11, reports a very good The Panhellenic charity dance was attended by trip to Southern California chapters. Irma Vaudoit, Pi, '20, and Elizabeth Fillipi, Alpha Marjorie Landers, Pi, '14, spent the summer Mu, '24. quarter at Oregon State college. Florence Ayer, Alpha, '27, spent the weekend, 132 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Jl!nuary 1 to 3, in Dallas with Francis Heath and Patty Marshal Brenner, Lambda, '11, of Palo family. Alto, has been appointed assistant regional chair Kathleen Deese was in Dallas for Christmas. man. Houston changes in address are: Theo Hunni Marian Clymer Shreve, Lambda, '26, visited in cutt, 2620 Rosewood street; Lyndeth Barkley, 110) Berkeley during the holidays. Her home is in Yale; and Kathleen Deese, 2312 Truxillo. Bakersfield. Edith Clymer, Lambda, '27, is still in the dean Collie Ashley Sends News of of women's office at the University of California. Alpha Chi Teachers Alumn::e of Theta Sigma Phi, women's honor ary journalistic society, have organized a San Fran Dorothy Cottrell, '31, teaches mathematics and cisco chapter. At the first meeting held in Berkeley dramatics at Owensboro, Ky. She is also assistant in December at the Women's City club, Ruth Nor director of the Rose Curtain Players at Owensboro. ton, Lambda, a member, and Katharine Schwaner Lucille Kelly, '31, teaches school in Pruden, Kolasa, Lambda, '20, honorary member, were pres Tenn. ent. The guest of honor for the evening was Mrs. Kathryne Wigglesworth, '31, is director of Wilson of Stanford whose fascinating book, physical education at the high school in Shelby "Chinatown Quest," was just off the press. ville, Ky. Josephine Bogert Davenport, Mu, spent last Maurine McBeath, '31, teaches music at Leitch summer visiting her family in Seattle, then had two field, Ky. months of adventure and travel enjoying the beauti Louise Tull, ex-'31, is attending the University ful scenery of Skagway, Alaska. On the boat she of Tennessee, where she has transferred to the met Dorothy Goddard, Upsilon, ex-'23, of Sitka, Alpha Delta chapter. Alaska, who was in college with Ruth Padden, Eunice Shivley, ex-'31, is studying music at the Upsilon. Ruth is now a member of the Bay Cities Louisville Conservatory of Music at Louisville, Ky. Alumn::e. Josephine is living in Alameda since Calista Pomerine, '31, is in business college at her return. Cleveland, Ohio. Anna McCune Harper, Lambda, '24, who spent last summer playing tennis abroad and in the East, Detroit Alumnce Personals is at present helping her husband, who is writ ing a book on American history. In December Claire Yungclas Reck, Alpha Epsilon, '24, is Anna visited Blanche Eastwood Espy, Lambda, chairman of the Detroit Board of Camp Fire Girls. '21, who has a little son of six months called Evelyn Stedman Paget, Alpha Mu, ex-'26, who Herbert, Jr., but known as "Pete." is a member of the Philadelphia Alumn::e chapter, Florence Colby Battram translated from the visited her mother in Rosedale Park, Detroit, dur Italian and reviewed before the International Re ing the last two weeks of January. Evelyn motored lations study section of the College Women's club to Michigan with her husband and baby. · of Berkeley, "Mussolini e La Questione Sociale" Gladys Davis Hays, Lambda, has moved from (Mussolini and the Social Question) by Nazzareno Detroit to Chicago, Ill. Her address is The Am Mezzetti. Florence also compiled and published bassador East, 1301 N. State street, Apartment 337. the yearbook for the club and is now assistant publicity chairman. Winter Tra-vel Enjoyed by Alumnce of Jane Silsley Lowther and Isabelle Silsley Hayes, Portland, Me. Lambda, are now living in Chicago. Lucile Cheever, '24, was married to Lieut. A. H. Caro Hoxie, Alpha, '96, spent the Christmas Graubart, September 13, at Annapolis where they holidays with her brother at Attleboro, Mass. are now living while the Lieutenant is taking a Myrtice Cheney, Alpha, '96, attended in Janu graduate course in Diesel engines. ary a meeting of the executive committee of di Lucy McCune Yates, Lambda, '24, living in rectors of the Sea Coast Mission at Bar Harbor, Martinez, has a six-months-old daughter who ac Me. She spent Christmas with her brother and his cording to the doctor is "wasting away to a ton." family in Londonderry, N .H. Ruth Steele Padden, Upsilon, flew to Chicago in Ina McCausland, Alpha, '15, recently visited August and enthusiastically praises flying as a her sister, Mabel Grant, Alpha, ex-'20, at Brook marvelous means of travel. lyn, N.Y. President Sproule of the University of Califor Julia Winslow, Alpha, '86, is spending the nia assembled in conference November 19 one winter at New Rochelle, N.Y., as usual. representative of each important city in the state Grace Linscott, Alpha, '01, entertained her son, of California and one representative in each class Mellon, and his wife over the Christmas holidays, graduated from the university, to discuss matters so the family party was complete. of importance to the welfare of the untverstty. Beula Hamilton, Omicron, '16, has recently The conference was followed in the evening by a spent some time in Boston, Mass., as the guest of formal banquet at the International house. Kath Sigma friends. arine Schwaner Kolasa was invited to represent Berkeley and the class of 1920 of which she is Leadership in Community Affairs Shown permanen t class secretary. Marian Winchester King, Lambda, '25,, whose husband is the new by Bay Cities Sigmas manager of Internatwnal house, was also !?resent. Sigma Kappas are proud of having Minnie Naomi Helfrich Harshman, Rho, '21, ts now Bunker, Alpha and Lambda, president of the Col living at 1431 Trestle Glen road, Oakland, near lege Women's club of Berkeley and East Bay Jessie Cunningham, Rho. Naomi was president last branch of the American Association of University year of the Los Angeles alumn::e. Women. Helen Clover Newell, Lambda, '13, was chair- MARCH, 1932 133 man of a series of benefit card parties given dur her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mitchell, at 3800 ing February by the College Women's club, ~t Dudley street, Lincoln, Neb. eighteen different homes of c!ub members. Practi Ona Jergenson, '33, has returned from Scotts cally all the Sigma Kappas m the club ass1st~d, bluff, Neb., to continue her work at the Nebraska either by entertaining in their homes or by bemg university. hostesses or sub-chairmen. Olive Fletcher, M.A., '29, is dean of women at Margaret Laidlaw Black, Lambda, ex'32, is now the junior college at McCook, Neb. Jiving at 6616 Telegraph avenue, Oakland. Alice Widman, '33, has returned from her home The address of Sue Balentine, Zeta, '05, is 1957 in South Pasadena, Calif., to continue her work at El Sereno, Pasadena. the Nebraska university. Elizabeth Sette, Pi, '22, of Cambridge, Mass., is visiting her mother, Dr. Josephine Jackson, Angeline Anderson a Teacher in U. of N. Pasadena. Mary Louise Brady, '31, and Mary Comerford, Nursery School '31, both Alpha Omicron, are taking graduate Angeline C. Anderson, Alpha Kappa, '25, has courses at Berkeley. recently been elected to Omicron Nu. She is teach ing in the nursery school which ·is conducted in Peg Bradford Follows War Study connection with the home economics department with Dartmouth Prom of the University of Nebraska. She is also complet ing work for her master's degree. Peg Bradford, of Colorado Alumnre chapter, is taking a most exciting trip. She is first attending a conference in Washington, D.C., on the cause and Margaret Wilkins to Teach in Edinburgh cure of war. She is the city Y.W.C.A. representa for a Year tive at this conference. Then she visits her younger son who is attending a prep school in Boston. Margaret Wilkins, Alpha, '18, a teacher in the From there she goes to Dartmouth to the winter Buffalo seminary, has an exchange instructorship Carnival where she has the honor of being the in mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, "date" for "prom" of her eldest son, Wilbur. Scotland. She will stay there for one year. While there she will be the chaperon at the Kappa Sigma house party. As usual, Peg is busy in vari ous activities in Denver, among them her work Rita La Pointe, Alpha Eta, '24, Studies at as representative-at-large of University of Denver the Sorbonne Alumnre association. In a letter to an alumna of Alpha Eta, Rita La Pointe, '24, writes that she is enjoying her year Change in Residence for Several Iota of study at the Sorbonne, Paris, and finds that Alumna! people actually understand her French. This was no surprise to Alpha Etas who remember her Lois Babbitt Heath is secretary of Denver uni membership in honorary societies at the University versity alumnre. She was also chairman of a com of Minnesota. mittee for the Denver Community Chest drive this fall. Margaret McConnell Netherton, Iota, '23, and No News of Phi Alumna! Escapes husband have located in Lamar, Colo., where Dr. Watchful Eye of Erdene Gage Netherton will practice medicine. Gretchen Clark Cobb, Iota, '27, is visiting in Dorothy Markham, '25, has one of the much Denver at the present time. She has been making coveted places on the staff of the new George J. her home in Los Angeles for the past few years. West junior high school in Providence. Lucille Jackson Foster, Iota, '28, and her family Martha Smith Fry, '22, writes that she is with have moved to Pasadena, Calif. the health education department of the Dairymen's Eda Stone Thomas, Iota, '27, is living in San League Cooperative association, working in Francisco, where Dr. Thomas is serving his medi Westchester county; and then whets one's desire cal internship. for further information by nonchalantly mentioning Instead of taking her cruise around the world, that her two children, Roger and Nancy, have Ethel Butler, Iota, '23, has gone to California to been doing some professional modeling for ad work. vertising photographs. Elnora Stout Haxby, Iota, '24, has come back Ruth Walsh, '25, is now affiliated with the to Denver to live. Rhode Island hospital in Providence, where her Martha Wirt Davis, Iota, '27, is living in 164 fine technical experience and training make her new Eugene, Kenmore, N.Y., where her husband is en work in the laboratory vitally interesting. gaged in the newspaper business. Ella Staf, '23, is teaching domestic science in Peg McCullock, Iota, '27, is getting along very· the new Gilbert Stuart junior high school in nicely with her art work in New York. She is Providence. living at 47 Claremont, New York City. Doris Urquhart, '27, is in Skowhegan, Me., do Maurine Fletcher Russell, Iota, '21, has recently ing home demonstration work in Somerset county. moved into a beautiful new home at 171 Albion. , She sends a tale of minor and major adventures thrilling to all who know her and then forbids Alpha Kappa Alumna! putting it in . the TRIANGLE! Elizabeth Ramsbottom, '27, ranks as instructor Claire Ann Mitchell Robb, ex-'29, of Scotia, of home economics at Slater junior high school N.Y., is .spending two months at the home of in Pawtucket. 134 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Sigma Honors and TraYel Notes Reported Chicago Happenings by Madison Eulalie Armstrong Woleben, Theta, ex-'26, and Irene Newman, Psi, '17, has been re-elected to her daughter of Glen Ellyn, Ill., have gone to the presidency of the library division of the Wis Beverly Hills, Calif., for a six weeks' visit with consin Teachers association. Eulalie's mother. Olga Wellberg Johnson, Alpha Eta, '22, will We extend our sympathy to Lorraine Tami teach several design courses in the home economics siea Webb, Alpha Xi, '24, on the death of her department at the University of Wisconsin next father. semester. Margaret Hoopes, Forsyth, Eta, '28, and her Peggy Read Gale, Psi, '28, visited at Ann husband are now living at 520 Sheridan road, Arbor, Ottawa, Ontario, and the Laurentian moun Evanston, Illinois, having moved there from St. tains during December while her husband, who is Louis, Mo. on the surgical staff of the Wisconsin General hos Helen Benson Leys, Eta, '28, has transferred pital, was doing some special work at the Uni from the Chicago Alumnre chapter to the Bloom versity of Michigan hospital. She visited in Chicago ington chapter. in February. Marion Clark, secretary of Chicago's West sec Creagh Inge Brennan, Psi, '27, stopped in Madi tion, is recuperating from an operation of last son on her way back to her home in Pendleton, January. Ore., after a visit in Mobile, Ala., where she had attended her brother's wedding. She had with her an adorable six-months-old son. Varied Achie'Jiements for Members of Boston Alumna! Chapter Milwaukee News Dorothy Giles, Omicron, '31, is spending this year in France. She sailed in October to study Prances Carmen Olmsted, Theta, '27, has moved French at the Sorbonne. from Milwaukee to Cincinnati. At the December meeting of the Home Wel Ruth Johns, Psi, '27, is teaching at Bay View fare club in Somerville, Mary Parker Dunning, high school, Milwaukee. Omicron, '02, gave an interesting talk on Chinese Melva Johns, Psi, '30, won the golf champion life. During her talk she wore, first, the street ship at the University of Wisconsin. She has a costume of a Chinese lady, then the bright red position in the educational department of the bridal costume, and lastly, the festival gown of a Boston store, Milwaukee. great lady, a red gown wonderfully embroidered Dorothy Krueger, Psi, '31, is in the lingerie by four generations of men and worn 150 years department at Schuster's, Milwaukee. ago. Lillian Krueger, Psi, '29, is working in the Florence Weston, Omicron. '29, took her A.M. Boston store, Milwaukee, on contingency. in biology last year at Radcliffe. Pauline Dickinson, Psi, '24, plaved in the finals for the Edgerton Country club golf championship. Harriet Wollaeger Nilsen, Psi, '24, moved from Philadelphia Alumna! Notes Rochester, Mich., to Milwaukee this fall. Anne Sillar Leker, Psi, is chairman of the East Sally Porter Whitney, Omicron, was the repre side Girl Scout Leaders' association, Milwaukee. sentative of the Delaware women's auxiliary of Lois Jacobs Debbink, '24, husband Claude, and the Pennsylvania State Medical society to the state their two children are living in their own home convention at Harrisburg. which they recently bought in Milwaukee. Helen Perrell, Alpha Zeta, attended a football game at Duke university and visited Alpha Psi chapter. Kitty Smith Dustin, Xi, Names New .Wilma · Bulow, Theta, who, incidentally, has Country Home "Glendean" decided to stay at least another year in Philadel phia, journeyed to Chicago to visit her family at Mr. and Mrs. A. W . Dustin (Kitty 0. Smith, Christmas time. Xi, '17) have moved into their new home. It is a Ruth Horn. Nu, has a new daughter, Constance lovely place they built on their country estate east Ann. born in December. of Tulsa and they have named it for their two Ella Fay McCue, director of the home service sons-"Glendean." department of the General Electric company in Philadelphia, enjoyed a cruise to Bermuda during Address Changes of Sigmas her autumn vacation, Helen Ives Corbett, Alpha Zeta, finds time for in New York Vicinity travel in addition to managing her home. looking Helen Haskell, Alpha Zeta, '27, is no longer after her small daughters, conducting Philadelphia teaching at the Prospect Hill school in Newark, alumnre meetings, and raising rabbits. She spent but is teaching at Cornell university and enjoy September and Christmas in Washington, D.C., ing her own chapter activities there. and October in Albany, N.Y. Helen Horton Peterson, Alpha Lambda, '30, Mariorie Smiley, Alpha, took part in a recital and her husband have moved from Richmond Hill at the Philadelphia Music academy, January 21. and are at home at 43-15 45th street, Sunnyside, Marjorie Kenyon, Alpha Tau, and Eieanor long Island. Nique, Alpha Tau, spent the winter holidays in Florence W. Opie, Alpha Zeta, '24, has moved Michigan with their respective families. and her new address is 202 Nassau street, Prince Evelyn Pagett, Alpha Mu, has been visiting on ton, N.J. Long Island, N.Y. MARCH, 1932 135 Change of Address and Much News Olive was a delegate to the Episcopalian Church Diocesan convention. She teaches in the church About Emma Kinne school, sings in the choir, and is leader of the For personal and official reasons; Emma Kinne Lenten study class which is using as a text, "Build wishes all correspondents to know of her change ing a Christian Nation." She acts as secretary of of address. She is now at 4800 Ellsworth avenue, the Evening guild, parish secretary of St. Apt. 2, Pittsburgh, Pa. Michael's, treasurer of the women's auxiliary of Emma was called to Florida in December by the St. Michael's, and supply secretary of the diocese illness of her father. Florida is a great place for of Spokane. oaks, so Emma planted a little acorn while she Besides her church work, she is the president was in Jacksonville. Since she missed the Pitts of the senior high school P.T.A., parliamentarian burgh Sigmas, she invited resident alumnae to her of the city council, P.T.A., a member of the em father's home for an afternoon. Several were de ployment and travelers' aid committee, Y.W.C.A., tained but Esther Kinney Magoon, Phi,. and Esther and secretary of Sigma Kappa Alumnae in Boardman and Roberta Head, both Omega, came to Yakima. She is scheduled for a Founders' day talk have Sigma talk over the teacups. Already the acorn at the junior high P.T.A. in February and a dis is swelling and taking · root, for during the Christ cussion of "The Tax System in Relation to Educa mas holidays fourteen Sigmas lunched together, tion" at the council meeting (P.T.A.) in March. alumnae, college members, and pledges, and a rum And she does every bit of her own housework mage sale made work and fun and money for besides! Omega. Watch for the young shoots of a Jackson ville Alumnae chapter. Doings of Tau Alumna On her return Emma spent two days in Wash ington, where she had the opportunity of seeing Florence Ballard Hannum, '22, is recovering a few Zetas. from an appendicitis operation. Only a few months ago Florence lost her husband, Rex Hannum, who News of Sigmas Far and Near from Emma died suddenly of pneumonia. Sue Rummell Sherburne, '23, underwent an Kinne's Docket operation at St. Vincent's hospital in Indianapolis Violet Page Moore (Mrs. Stanley D.), Delta, a.nd is now recuperating at home. '08, is living at 4340 Baltic avenue, Ortega, Fla., Gladys Nichols, '28, is assistant supervisor of near Jacksonville. She has a daughter in Florida nurses at the Children's hospital in Cincinnati. State college. Frieda Withers, '31, is working for the Cam Myra Sadler, Omega, '27, is dietitian at the bridge libraries in Chicago. County Hospital, Oakland, Fla. Margaret Whiteside, '30, is a supervisor in Eleanor Gordon Hamilton, Epsilon, '09, has the Boonville, Ind., schools. moved to Irondequoit, N.Y., near Rochester, where Mary Shoemaker Turpin, '22, is doing interior her husband is superintendent of schools. decorating for Howard's in Indianapolis. Ruth Morgan, Alpha, '15, is teaching at Chazy Central rural school, Chazy, N .Y. Up-to-Date Addresses of Members Frances Lyons McKirdy, Epsilon, '16, is now at of Alpha Xi Chapter 63-S, Fortress Monroe, Va. Mildred Pratt Ruffin (Mrs. Horace E.) , Epsilon, Mrs. Ross Armstrong (Ruby Hirt), Alpha Xi, '17, is now living in Cincinnati, Ohio, at 3062 '28, is living at Reinbeck this year. Her husband Griest avenue. Sigma Kappas there would profit is athletic coach there. by finding her. Lucia Folker O'Brien, Alpha Xi, '24, is back Esther Kinney Magoon (Mrs. Carol H.), Phi, at Iowa City. Her husband is continuing work in can be found at 6633 Oakwood street, Jacksonville, engineering. Fla. Mary Mclaughlin, Alpha Xi, '22, is teaching Francis Marshall Wigmore's daughter, Bamby, commercial subjects at Mary Mount college at is a junior at the junior college at Chico, Calif., Salina, Kan. This is her second year there. and will enter University of California in the fall. Hattie May Baker is planning to spend several Personal Notes from Bloomington months in Washington this spring. Ruth Lyon Remick, Eta, '24, has signed a con OliYe Greene Newhall Makes Sigma tract with the National Broadcasting company, whereby she is to appear only on N.B.C. Contacts as Spokane Delegate Mabel Niedermeyer, Eta, '24, is recovering from Olive Greene Newhall, Zeta, ex-'07, found a a serious operation. · partial fulfillment of the Sigma adage, "a Sigma Kappa wherever you go" in her visit to the Episco Varied and Interesting ActiYities palian convocation in Spokane, January 24-26. of Yakima Valley Alumni£ She was assigned to a home instead of a hotel and discovered her hostess to be a Sigma mother, Mrs. A poem, "Wild West," by Elisabeth Mayer, John F. Davies. The daughter, Elizabeth Davies Mu, '11, is published in the January issue of the Ellis, Mu, '25, is the wife of a physician in University of Montana magazine, The Frontier, Wallace, Idaho. The Davies have recently returned edited by H. S. Merriam, head of the English from a trip around the world. In the house next department of the university. The Frontier has won door was another Sigma family, the parents of a distinctive place in literary circles. "Wild West" Muriel Barker, Alpha Gamma, '22, who is teach is set in the Yakima Valley in the late nineties. ing at Sandpoint, Idaho. The children mentioned are actual characters. 136 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Eva Darden, Alpha Gamma, '27, who has been Mary Stephens received her M.S. degree from residing at 44 Morningside Drive, New York City, the University of North Dakota at the end of the taking special courses in home economics at Co 1931 summer session. Bessie Devins also attended lumbia University, sailed for Europe the last week the summer session. in January. She plans to conduct student tours Alpha Upsilons will be interested in knowing and take courses in French and German univer that Marjorie Smiley, Alpha Upsilon affiliate from sities. Alpha chapter, is living in Morristown, N.J. Her Bea Bond West, Mu, '30, is naturally charmed address is 110 South Church street. with Arizona. She lives in Mooreland court, one Norma Thorne Sussex (Mrs. Eugene, '30), who and one-half blocks from the campus of the Uni was married December 26, is finishing her year versity of Arizona at Tucson. Bea expected to live teaching at Hope, N.D. in Phoenix until she arrived from her honeymoon trip through California as far as Agua Caliente, to find that "Doc" had been transferred to the Two Mu Alumnce Now main laboratory in Tucson. She enjoyed the hot Resident in Alaska November days, the moonlight on the desert, and like a true Westerner has killed a hawk and a Marjorie Clay Boye, Mu, ex-'29, who is study rattler. Of course, she does not forget the sunset ing music at the Bush conservatory in Chicago, has on the mountains. been elected to Sigma Alpha Iota, national musi Marguerite Carpenter, Alpha Gamma, ex-'29, cal sorority. She is playing in an orchestra for an recently brought us news from the house in Seattle. operetta and in a trio as well. Peggy Riley and Molly Lockhart, Mu, '34, are Helen Stone Gilbert, Mu, '18, spent the winter registered at the junior college in Yakima for the in Seattle with her mother. present quarter. Margaret Mansfield Van Gilder, Mu, ex-'23, Velma Hutchings, Alpha Gamma pledge, and who now lives in Ketchikan, Alaska, has spent Helen Mortland, Alpha Gamma, '34, were Christ the fall and winter months in Seattle. Her family mas visitors in Yakima. · came with her. Irma Schroeder, Mu, '24, is busy with her house Ruth Bean, Mu, '29, is the manager of the hold in Sprague, where her husband is a school dining room at the Mechanics' institute, Rochester, principal. N.Y. Vivian Carpenter, a new pledge of Mu, was Miriam Dickey, Mu, '28, writes that she will a holiday visitor in Yakima. spend the winter "frozen in" in the interior of Alaska, where she is secretary to a newspaper own Notes from Schenectady er. Claire Anne Mitchell Robb, Alpha Kappa, ex '29, has gone home for a visit of at least three Washington Personals months while Don travels about upon business for Kay Arrends is busy working for her master's the General Electric company. at the University of Maryland. Kay is planning to Betty Kellogg Furnside, Epsilon, '08, who was attend convention and then go to Cornell summer dangerously ill last spring and summer, is much school. better this winter. Alice Wick and Lee Hardell visited in South Eleanor Seymour Jutras, Alpha, '20, was a mem Carolina recently. They inspected a group at the ber of the cast of "The Lost Star," a play given University of South Carolina. at the Union Presbyterian church at Christmas. Lee Hardell and Ethel Starr spent the Christ Britomarte Somers Gibson, Nu, '15, is away mas holidays about New York. Lee visited Ger on a trip with her husband, to be gone two trude Rosinski Rowe, Zeta, ex-'23. months. Eva Lewis Allen and Frances Walker are The following members of Schenectady Alumnre visiting in Florida. chapter have entertained various groups of the local Jo Huber Hoffner with her husband and small Panhellenic association: Harriett Grandey Green, son spent Christmas in Washington. Nu, ex-'15; Eleanor Seymour Jutras, Ruth Simon Mary Brown visited Alpha Psi chapter recently. Mighell, Iota, '30; Claire Mitchell Robb and Irene Helen Smith spent Christmas in Maine. In Boucher Shaw, Epsilon, ex-'14. February she attended an engineers' convention in Schenectady Alumnre chapter wishes to extend New York with her father. its sympathy to Mildred Parkinson, Eta, '27, and Betty Jo Hopkins Biebel is visiting her mother her sister, in the death of the latter's husband. in Washington. Those attending the Panhellenic luncheon at the Alpha Upsilon Alumnce Guests of Chapter Mayflower hotel in Washington were: Evelyn During Holidays Peake, Peggy Van Sickler, Mary Anne Wescott, Eleanor Hall, Rosemary Arnold, Lee Hardell, Ruth Mary Stephens, '28, Julia Mattson, '24, and Smith, Sylvia Rhine, Martha Turner, Jeanette Kern, Ruth Joy Owen, '22, were hostesses at a bridge Mrs. Hall, Alice Wick, Mrs. Mark Hersey, Helen party, December 28, at the chapter house for all Smith, Edith Lapish, Marion Brooks, Mary Proffit, Sigma Kappas who were in Grand Forks for the Irene Pistorio, Jennie Van Vleck, Agnes Nelson, holidays. Out-of-town alumnre included Mary Elva Wells, Catherine Welch, Alma Barker, Ethel Stephens, who was here from Bozeman, Mon~ .• Starr, Frances Fisher, Do Sornborger, Gladys Evelyn Sundby, '30, from Beach, N.D., and Bess1e Palmer, Nell McFarlane, Mary Brown, Helen Devins, '27, from Spearfish, S.D. Jones, Helen Swygert, Ruth Major, Rae Ballard, Lucille Axtell, '31, is teaching at Mapleton, Bobbie Duffield, Ruth Martinez, Lillian Burdick, Minn. Grace Roe, and Marjorie Keirn. MARCH, 1932 137 Worcester Acti'Jiities Betty Jones writes, again, from Los Angeles, that she is returning to Pittsburgh this spring. Mr. and Mrs. ]. William Merriam (Ruth How Margaret Dodge, Alpha Pi, '30, is working land, Nu, '27) and Mr. and Mrs. Willia!ll N . with Georgia Bower O'Brien for the Mothers' As Felt (Elizabeth Pease, Nu, '31) spent Chnstmas sistance fund in Pittsburgh. with their respective fam ilies. Ethel Beck, Alpha, '05, has been ill for a time, Ethel Larm, Tau, '19, passed the holidays in but is improving. Oxford, Ind. Dorotea ("Dot") Powell Muchison, Alpha · An article about Emma Schaller Millard, Theta, Iota, '22, and Marian White Smith, Alpha, '17, chief dietitian at St. Luke's hospital, St. Louis, Mo., took part in one of the plays given by the W orces appeared in the February issue of the University ter College club. "Dot" directed the performance. of Illinois Alurrmi News. Lois Wine Curtis, Theta, '21, arranged a pro gram for the Worcester branch, League of Ameri can Penwomen, during the Christmas holidays, Bertha Burkhardt McClure, Psi, '23, and her consisting of the original work in poetry and prose family have moved to 536 Grove avenue, Barring of twelve Worcester girls who are students at ton, Ill. Her husband, Leslie McClure, Pi Kappa various co ll eges. Alpha, University of Wisconsin, '23, has purchased the Barrington Review, a weekly paper_ They have three daughters: Mary Jean, 6, Betty, 3, and Mar Address Changes for garet Louise, !_ NuAlumnte Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Kalin ( Beryle Gay Frances Warren Baker Gi'Jies lor, Nu, '25) and daughter, Beryle Linnea, born Canoe-Tra'Jiel Talks last May, are living at 4124 Perrier street, New Frances Warren Baker, Psi, '24, has been giving Orleans, La. lectures on the 1750-mile canoe trip which she and Mr. and Mrs. George H . Downes (Viola Holt, her husband, James Stannard Baker, Phi Delta Nu, '24) reside at 37 Central avenue, Apt. 4G, Theta, took through eight countries in Europe last Hartsdale Garden, Hartsdale, N.Y. summer. The talk is illustrated with some 250 slides made from photographs which they took on the Holiday Notes from Spokane trip. The end of February she went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was speaker at the Ladies' Night dinner Dollie Martin Miller, Alpha Gamma, ex-'23, of the Kiwanis club February 24; gave a public talk with her two ch ildren, Patricia, 9, and Raymond, at the First Presbyterian church sponsored by one Jr., 6, made a five months' visit in Spokane with of the church guilds, February 25; and spoke at her parents. For the past two years her home has the Ladies' Night dinner of the High Twelve club, been at Fort Davis, Canal Zone, where her hus February 26. Earlier in February she spoke at the band, Lieut. Raymond G. Miller, was stationed. North Shore Vassar club in Chicago. March 18 she Lieutenant Miller stopped in Spokane for a short gave highlights of vagabond traveling over radio visit before proceeding with hi s fami ly to Fort station WMAQ, Chicago. Bliss, El Paso, Tex. The holiday season brought several Sigma Kap Alpha Eta Urges Attendance pas to Spokane from neighboring towns. Elizabeth at Y.W.C.A. Con'Jiention Davies Ellis, Mu, '25, and Theodora Miles Ched zoy, Alpha Gamma, '24, were guests from Wal In view of the fact that the national biennial con lace, Idaho ; Muriel Baker, Alpha Gamma, '22, vention of the Y.W.C.A. is going to be held this from Sandpoint, Idaho, and Alice Skone Miller, year at the University of Minnesota, Alpha Eta Alpha Gamma, '26, of Pullman, Wash., passed the sends a cordial invitation to all Sigma Kappas who holidays with their respective parents. are cabinet members, officers, or interested members of the student association to attend, in order that Pittsburgh Items as many as possible will be able to benefit by the convention. It will be held in Minneapolis, May Ochal Heberlein, Alpha Gamma, ex-'27, has 5-11. The University of Minnesota Student associa returned after her summer on the Pacific Coast. tion will be the hostesses to the National Student Her new address is 144 Avenue A, Wilkinsburg, assembly, the meetings of which will be held on Pa. the campus. Administration Building at the University of North Dakota 138 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE • '1..Vith 0ur College Chapters • FRANCES KIRKPATRICK, Editor HE College Section is this issue inaugurating a change which we hope its readers will notice and approve. The long lists of personals which formerly followed the individual T letters have been dropped and the most important items of individual activity have found their places in the chapter letters. The change has been made for two reasons-to save space and to make the college section of more universal interest. Changes come in pairs, it seems, and the College Editor also wishes to make a departure from custom and publicly praise some of the hard-working, often unthanked, college chap ter editors. The March material requested was lengthy, varied, and perhaps difficult to se cure. And so it is particularly pleasing to the College Editor to thank in this way the corre spondents from Iota, Lambda, Xi, Sigma, and Alpha Nu, for sending complete material, in good form, interesting style, and on time. There were several other editors who sent equally interesting material who failed to comply with one request-editorial contributions. But for these five we make no reservations in our praise. If we kept a private honor roll, we would have all our gold paint and shining stars used up right now! Alpha Chapter Gives $50 for Our new officers are: President, Martha Johns ton, '32; vice-president, Louise Coburn Smith, New Colby Campus '33; corresponding secretary, Mary Ellen Hodgdon, Sigma Kappa, the first sorority founded at '34; recording secretary, Margaret Salmond, '34; Colby, has quite fittingly been the first of the pianist, Mildred Keogh, '3 4. Greeks on the campus to show loyalty to the col ELIZABETH SWANTON lege by contributing to the fund for the new col Colby College lege. Shortly before Christmas vacation, Eleanor Rogers, president of Alpha, extending in behalf Delta Honors Pledges with Formal of the sorority the gesture of good will and hopes Christmas Dance for the future of the college, presented $50 to President Franklin Johnson. The president, in Our annual formal dance for the pledges was thanking the girls, said that the pioneer sorority given December 18 at the Southern house in has proved a leader in many ways. Now, with an Brookline. The old-fashioned style of the house anticipation of a change from old to new, Sigma with its high panelled walls, beautiful antique fur Kappa once again has shown her willingness to niture, and rows of dully gleaming pewter on high co-operate in doing all in her power to aid. shelves around the rooms, made the house ideal Annually, six students and one or more women for a small party. faculty members from Colby college, Bates col November 23 our pledges gave a tea for the lege, the University of New Hampshire, and the pledges of the other sororities in the college. Grace University of Maine, partidpate in a program of Wells Thompson, our district counselor, who was winter sports. This winter was Colby's turn to act visiting Delta chapter that day, poured at the tea, as hostess. As usual, Alpha members had their making an unexpected and delightful hostess for share in the activities. Ruth Ramsdell, '32, presi the pledges. dent of the Colby Health league, was in charge of Marjorie MacNeill, '32, has just been elected the program and arrangements. Among the offi vice-president of the Astronomy club. Marjorie is cers of the league who aided were the class repre one of Delta's most brilliant students, having made sentatives, Marcia Daye, '32, Lois Crowell, '34, an A minus average for the pas t semester and con and Katherine King, '35. Ruth Atchlet, '33, Rosa sistently high grades during her previous years in mond Barker, '33, Mildred Keogh, '34, and Bar college. bara White, '34, also helped to entertain the MARGARET O ' N EIL visitors. In the evening a one-act play entitled Boston University "For Distinguished Service," was. presented with Martha Johnston, '32, and Louise Smith, '33, tak- Epsilon Introduces Three Sigmas Who ing part. . Are Winning College Honors Eleanor H. Rogers, '32, has been elected vice president of the French club. Elizabeth Swanton, Epsilon of Sigma Kappa has among its mem '33, vice-president of the Student council, was in bers the two women rated highes t in intelligence charge of the undergraduate banquet held recently in their respective classes on the Syracuse campus. at Foss hall. Jeanette Birdsall, '35, president of the pledges, MARCH, 1932. 139 offered the greatest number of entrance credits Thetas Are Acti'Jie on Illini Campus among the applicants for admission to the uni versity last fall. During her first week here, as a Two of Theta's new pledges are fast making res ult of the tests given entering freshmen, she names for themselves on the campus. Betty Runkle was acknowledged as possessor of the highest I.Q. '35, has been invited to the parties sponsored by Ruth Evans, '34, whose mother was a charter Alpha Lambda Delta, scholastic honorary for member of Epsilon chapter, held these same honors freshman women, sponsored to encourage fresh last year. man women with exceptionally high averages Ruth, who is enrolled in the college of oratory, to make the 4.5 semester average necessary to was not content to rest on these laurels. Last year initiation in the group. Another of the new she sang in the women's glee club during both pledges, Dorothy Posvic, '32, is a member of semesters, appearing in two concerts. An accom Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional organiza plished pianist, she has broadcast over the Hill tion for women in journalism. radio station. She also broadcast her term paper Two members of Theta chapter who are active in public speaking last spring. Not content with in the Y.W.C.A. are Kathryn Heath, '32, and mere participation in campus activities, Ruth Eleanor Henry, '34. Eleanor is in charge of a emerged with the highest average for the whole weekly newspaper which is issued for the fresh year's work, not only among the pledges, but man discussion groups. The paper was planned to among the entire chapter. Formal recognition was give the freshman women a broader view of the made of Ruth's personality and scholastic standing activities of the Y.W.C.A. Eleanor has called the this fall when she was pledged to Zeta Phi Eta, little sheet Y Lights. She was put in charge of the honorary and professional oratorical fraternity for paper because of her two years' experience on the women. In addition to all this, Ruth is active in editorial staff of the Daily Illini, student news the Women's Student Senate and Y.W.C.A. paper, and because of her work with Y.W.C.A. Jeanette Birdsall, who has made such a brilliant committees and freshman discussion groups. One start in the college of liberal arts, gives promise freshman girl from each group serves as a reporter of greater things to come. So far, she has survived and turns in news items which Eleanor consolidates cuts from a group of sophomores and freshmen into the columns of the weekly. Both she and competing for positions on the editorial staff of the Kathryn Heath are members of the Y.W.C.A. Onondagan, Syracuse's yearbook. She is also a cabinet. rifle enthusiast, and reports for practice in this Kathryn Heath is chairman of the Girl Re sport several times a week. Y.W .C.A. also claims a serve committee, which places her in charge of all great part of her time and interest. Her grades for work with Girl Reserves in the Twin City schools. the first semester have been creditable, indeed. Kathryn supervises the sub-committees that are Virginia Stitt, '32, has been initiated into Theta advisory groups for each of the Girl Reserve so Sigma Phi, honorary and professional journalism cieties, and assists in planning the programs for fraternity. ELVIRA HESS special Y.W.C.A. meetings at which the Girl Re SyracttSe University serves are guests. Theta chapter recently elected Kathryn president. Recently we have attempted to put our pledges Zeta Chapter Members Prominent on "honor rules." All old pledge rules have been in Troubadour Production suspended during the experiment, and the pledges are no longer obliged to attend seminars, work The silver screen can look to Zeta chapter for off "black marks," or do other pledge duties, ex some of its future stars, according to the repre cept such house work as the active members co sentation this year in the annual production of operate in doing. Such a radical change is in har Troubadours. Margaret Evans, Marian Rittenour, mony ·with the new policies being suggested by Peggy Padgett, Clara Critchfield, and Lee McNeil both Miss Maria Leonard, dean of women and the were among the cast, while Helen Middleton and local Panhellenic body. ' Anne Watson, the latter a pledge, sang in the trio. Genevieve Morris, '33, Dorothy Normandin, Two other pledges, Jane Hughes and Barbara '34, Helen Stanton, '34, and Marion Dodge, '34, Jones proved their ability in dancing and modeling. are on the production staff of the annual Woman's Others among our pledges who have come to the League musical comedy, a benefit performance to front are Edith Spalding, '35, president of the help support the co-operative houses for women Symphony club and Anne Watson, '3 5, glee club working their way through school. Genevieve was soloist. also chosen to be an usher at the Illinois Union Our members have not been outdone however minstrel show. HELEN STANTON for we have Clara Critchfield, '34, selected fo; University of Illinois membership in Sigma. Delta Phi, honorary speech arts sorority; Marian Zeigler, '32, elected vice Pledges president of the honorary French club ; Marian Maryellen Woodfield, '33, Oak Park, Ill. Butler, '32, winner of women's singles tennis Dorothy Posvic, '32, Berwyn, Ill. tournament; Grace Haley, '34, manager of all Mildred Hollicky, '33, Chicago, Ill. junior sports; and Sue Gibson, '32, and Marian Marion Orion, '35, Oak Park, Ill. Zeigler, '32, elected to Delphi, honorary social so- Betty Runkle, '35, Chicago, Ill. oety. MARTHA MY ERS George Washington University Iota Plans Full and Varied Social Pledges Program for Remainder of Year Eleanor Redman. The Christmas season brought a round of fes Helena Cooke. tivity for members of Iota chapter. The last meet- 140 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE ing night before vacation was turned into a "Kid" been varied and have formed in her a beautiful and party with appropriate costumes and gifts, and interesting personality. peppermint candy canes. A delightful afternoon party was given in honor of Clarissa Koehler, '31, Lambda Has Varied Honors, Activities who will be married soon and go to Venezuela to and Social Occasions to Report make her home. A series of three bridge parties were given for early rushing of high-school seniors. for This Semester Dates have been set for three dances to be given Louise Hildebrand, '33, has been elected to Phi by the chapter in each of the last three months of Beta Kappa in her junior year, and Patricia Wash the quarter. We will have a formal dinner-dance burn, '33, to Delta Epsilon, art honor society. May in March, another formal dance in April, and a Ellen Tebbe, '33, has been appointed general sub spring dance in May. chairman of the Senior informal, and sub-chairman Iota's volley ball team climbed to the final intra of the arrangements committee of the Senior ball. mural game and came in second with a close score_ Alice McCune, '32, spoke at a symposium for the Kathleen Dodd, our talented violinist, recently . discussion of the Manchurian situation. Jean played a solo accompanied by the orchestra. Catherine Jensen is elected president of Parliament, MARGARET OLIVER women's debating society. University of Denver Initiation was held February 6 for Helen Bacon, Peggy McGuire, Eleanor Perske, Ruth Tebbe, and Margaret Waters, followed by a banquet at the chapter house. · A Christmas turkey dinner was held for house girls December 6. Esther Seulberger gave a formal dinner-dance for the house at the St. Francis hotel in October. A California~Stanford motif was used. A faculty dinner was held in October. A large number of professors and their wives were present, including the parents of two members. A Dad's dinner was held January 31 for the purpose of ac quainting fathers with the plans for purchasing a new house. A pledge dance was held February 12; the house was decorated with spring blossoms and pussy willows. Plans are now under way for the Big C Sirkus, March 1. It is held once every four years under the auspices of the Big C society. Floats are en tered in a parade by houses and other organiza tions and a big concession tent is put up for the evening. New Panhellenic rushing rules were put into effect on the ·campus this semester. They are char Mary Lorett acterized by doing away with "personal dates," a large tea as the first date at each house to which Iota is justly proud of one of her members all rushees are invited and before which no further who, during her college career, has had as many invitations are issued, and two "preference nights" honors and honorary positions as one person might instead of the splitting of one into two parts as had possibly have. Mary Lorett came to the University been done heretofore. of Denver with high scholarship and membership Bernice Phelan, '35, is staying out of college in the National Honor society. As a freshman she this semester to train for the Olympic games. She was appointed freshman representative to the Big is junior national women's diving champion and Sister council. Later she became a member of the junior far-western champion diver. French club and of the Freshman commission of Violet Bellingham, '34, has returned to college the Y. W.C.A. She was elected the next year as this semester after spending six months in Canada. secretary of the sophomore class. She was a fearful Dorothy Smith, '35, a pledge, is now in Wash member of the sophomore police squad to enforce ington, D . C. ~ with her aunt and uncle, Senator the wearing of the "dinkies." During that year she and Mrs. Carter. LOUISE HILDEBRAND was a member of the Friendship council of the University of California Y.W.C.A. and also organized a group to study the industrial problems of our section of the country. Pledges In her junior year she was elected secretary of her class again and carried on her work with her in Martha Hiltner, '35, 2558 Hilgard street, Berke dustrial group in the Y. W.C.A. And now as a ley, Calif. senior she is president of the Women's Student Patricia Kelley, '34, 1808 Seventeenth avenue, league, president of the Women's Student council, San Francisco, Calif. vice-president of the Campus Student association, Frances Rae Rowe, '35, 6 West Adam, Stockton, a member of the religious education committee, and Calif. of the Senior Prom committee. Lilliam Thomas, '35, 99 Magellan avenue, San In the sorority she has been president, recording Francisco, Calif. secretary, corresponding secretary, and president of Betty Delfelder, '3 5, Dixon, Calif. . her pledge group. She was Iota's delegate at the Margaret Waters, '33, 810 Esplanade, Ch1co, Seattle Sigma Kappa convention. Her interests have Calif. MARCH, 1932 141 Yearbook and Journalistic ActiYities Nu Celebrates Founders' Day and Occupy Members of Mu Twentieth Chapter Birthday Activities have been the main interest of Mu The Annual Founders' Day banquet was held chapter during the last two months, practically at the chapter rooms November 9. A steak dinner every girl in the house working on a campus was served by the sophomores. Between courses project. Betty Taylor, '32, who is editor of the talks were given on the lives of the founders by University of Washington yearbook, Tyee, and a members of the junior class. Mrs. Cady and Mrs. member of Theta Sigma Phi, national women's Brown, patronesses, were present. journalistic professional, brought new honors to A play, "The Founding of Sigma Kappa," was Mu chapter in January when she was appointed presented by members of the junior class, No- secretary of the student body of the university. Evelyn Richards, '33, took over the vice-presi dency of the junior class during the first week of January. Evelyn has been active politically since she entered college. Dorothy Manchester, '32, designed what has been pronounced the most handsome· Tyee cover ever used. The design is a square inset in the center of the University of Washington columns, with the faces of a boy and girl looking toward them. The main portion of the cover is dotted with raised Mortar boards. Those who have been appointed from Mu chap ter to serve on major committees are Thelma Beck, '32, Engineers' informal; Betty Strickler, '34, Varsity Boat Club informal; Evelyn Richards and Eileen Gormley, '33, Junior Prom. Theta Sigma Phi held formal initiation at the Sigma Kappa house, January 31, two of the five who were taken into the organization this year being members of Mu chapter. Those initiated from Mu were Betty Bloom, '33, and Eileen Gorm ley, '33. As Betty Taylor is also a member, and Bessie Harris there are only five other members, the campus is beginning to call Mu chapter "Theta Sigma Phi vember 16. This play was written by Annie Chapter of ·Sigma Kappa." Phillips, '33. It is presented annually after the Initiation was held February 13 for Roxy Kes Founders' Day banquet. Appropriate costumes were singer, '33, Rupert, Wash.; Margaret Laudenbach, worn and the atmosphere -of 1874 was re-created '34, Wenatchee; Margaret Dinwooddy, '34, Seattle; as much as possible. Odney Floe, '35, Seattle; and Vivian Carpenter, An ingenious pledge program was presented '33, of Yakima. A formal banquet honored the new November 30 in the form of broadcast from Sta initiates. tion SKN, Sigma Kappa Nuts. A take-off on a February 1 to February 6 was courtesy week woman giving recipes over the radio was given at Mu chapter. Every pledge carried a little black by Ruth Damerell. Miriam Smith and Marjorie book in which the actives put check marks for McCann gave other readings of a humorous nature. demerits, in case the pledge forgets her house Avis Fischer imitated a renowned foreign pianist, rules, chapter roll, and so forth. playing in an inimitable manner. A popular duet On January 31 the alumnre chapter sponsored was sung by Margery Hanchett and Alice Cooke. a silver tea at the chapter house, the main part The program closed with a spooky bed-time story of the program the presentation of Genevieve by Louise Fleig. Mrs Ruby Carver Emerson was Wallen Sundsten, of Mu chapter, who has returned present. from studying in Europe. She has sung in many A double celebration, for Christmas and the comic operas, "Blossom Time" being one. twentieth birthday of Nu chapter, was held at the A Valentine informal was sponsored by the rooms December 14. Dinner was served by the pledges of Mu chapter at the chapter house, seniors. Carols were sung between courses. After February 5. Red hearts, balloons, red and white the dinner, gifts for the room were opened. As flowers, and in the center of the room a great a crowning success of the evening, a huge birth red heart which opened to release a dancer at day cake was brought in to celebrate our birthday. the intermission, made the house beautiful. Bessie Harris, '32, has been elected to the All Mid volleyball. She is also a member of Mortar EILEEN GORMLEY Board. Betty Hamlin, '33, has been elected as a University of Washington representative from the class to Student Govern ment council. She is a member of the Junior Week Pledges committee. Altha Hall, '33, has recently been made advertising manager of The Saxonian, the under Verna Fredricksen, '34, Toppenish, Wash. graduate literary publication of the student body. Betty Beecroft, '35, Everett, Wash. She took a leading part in the play "What Never Rebecca Ashley, '34, 4506 Twenty-second N.E., Dies." Seattle, Wash. Lovina Foote, '34, is a member of the women's 142 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE debating team and has also made the Dean's list. Omicron Members Star in Winter Willa Smith, '32, and Ruth Moody, '32, have Dramatic Season at Tufts been elected to the English club. Helen Easton, '33, has been made a member of the A Tempo club, a Omicron again has won high honors in dra musical society. Margaret Clewley, '32, is a mem matics. Five Sigmas, Ruth P. Smith, '32, Dorcas ber of the Spanish Carnival committee. Billings, '33, Alexa MacKinnon, '32, Josephine HELEN EASTON Wardrobe, '33, Louise Ryan, '34, had prominent Middlebury College parts in· the cast of "Lady Windermere's Fan," presented by the Pen, Paint, and Pretzels society Pledges December 10 and 11. Assisting in the production Alice Cooke, '35, 23 Pearl street, Westfield, were E. Marjorie Wood, '32, stage arrangements; Mass. Dorcas Billings, '33, costumes; Mary Perkins, '33, Esther Damerell, '35, 660 Pleasant street, Wor posters; and Elizabeth Berry, '34, promptor. cester, Mass. December 14, our patronesses entertained us at Ruth Damerell, '35, 660 Pleasant street, Wor a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Newell C. cester, Mass. Maynard. The chapter received gifts of luncheon Louise Fleig, '35, 2912 Tilden Avenue, Brook napkins from the advisory board and from the lyn, N.Y. patronesses. Individual gifts were exchanged and Margery Hanchett, '35, Glen street, Natick, a Christmas story was read by Professor Maynard. Mass. DoROTHY CROCKETT Ruth Hatch, '32, Pine street, North Amherst, Tufts College Mass. Marjorie McCann, '35, 51 Academy street, Arl Rho Members Are Prominent in Varied ington, Mass. Avis Fischer, '35, 830 Brooklyn avenue, Brook Activities at Randolph-Macon lyn , N.Y. Eugenia Barnett, '33, who came to Randolph Miriam Smith, '35, 15 Cottage street,·Newport, Macon from China where her father is a Y.M.C.A. Vt. secretary, is one of our new members of whom we are particularly proud. Eugenia made the all-star Lorah Monroe Makes Inspection Visit to Xi Chapter Xi recently enjoyed a short visit from Lorah Monroe, Grand Councilor. Our Christmas party was held December 16. The dinner was supposedly formal, and the festive table bore out the supposi tion, as did our dinner dresses, but our demeanor was distinctly informal. The gifts and the verses which accompanied them were death to dignity. Most of the gifts were inexpensive toys which were afterward collected and given to a charitable or ganization. Girls, I have just rediscovered, are extra ordinarily modest about certain things-any ac complishment, for instance, which possesses a hint of merit. I had just entered the house the other evening when Margaret Roberts stopped me to Hilda Forsberg Elizabeth Gould Davis point out that Caroline House had been elected to Mu Phi Epsilon, not Margaret, as I had written for the last issue of the TRIANGLE. When I later accused Caroline of being tnus honored, she re taliated by reminding me that Mary Virginia Smith and Doris Fisher are candidates for the beauty section of the Jayhawker. Doris quickly changed the subject by remarking that her roommate, Marie Van Deusen, is dancing in the Kansas Players' "Review." Marie was at a loss for only a mo ment, when she remembered that Hazel Anderson and Helendoris Fear won the prize for the best dressed couple at the "Puff Pant Prom," an an nual dance for co-eds only. Xi has carried off a prize from this dance for the past three years. Unfortunately, neither Andy nor H . D . was there to "pass the buck" to anyone else, and the discus sion ended, and everyone breathed a sigh of re Marian McCrac~en lief. So embarrassing, these "personals!" ZELMA SNYDAL hockey team this year, and was taken into the Universiiy of Kansas Blazer club an honorary athletic organization com posed of girls outstanding in sports. She is secre Pledges tary of the Student Government, and was a dele Beth Adams, '35, Hammond, La. gate to the Student Volunteer conference at Buffalo MARCH, 1932 143 during Christmas. She has been take~ into. the and Barbara Jean Payne, '34, who is also a Delta Quill Drivers, a small group of the leadmg v:nters Psi Kappa pledge, attended the W.A.A. state con in school, and she was co-author of the JUniOr vention held at Huntsville from November 19 to play, in which Marian McCracken, '33, was one 21. of the leading stars. Marian is also a Gamma 13 , an honorary organization of which only six juniors are members. Both she and Eugenia are members of Am Sam ; Eugenia is head junior usher, and Marian is also an usher. This honor is bestowed on the basis of scholastic record. Hilda Forsberg, '32, Rho president, was a delegate to the National Student Federation of America, which met at Toledo just after Christ mas; she has also been elected to Pi Gamma Mu, honorary social science ttaternity. Hilda was sent as a delegate to study at Geneva last summer, and she has made many talks about her experiences to local groups, among which are the R.-M.W.C. alumnre, and the Lynchburg college. Both Hilda and Elizabeth Gould Davis, '32, are on the student committee. The latter is editor-in-chief of the Sun Dial, the school paper, and president of the Quill Drivers. Mary Louise Burtner, '33, is studying at Anna Morgan the Sorbonne with the Delaware group this year. This privilege is considered a great honor, and we Besides conventions, Sigma excels in music are particularly proud of Bunny because she is and in honor organizations. Ruth Townsend, '33, the first Rho girl to study there. a new Mu Phi Epsilon, plays the piano every Tues Virginia Vonnegut, '34, Harriet Bell, '34, and day night over KRLD. Alice Evelyn. Hoover, '33, Virginia Featherston, '34, are on the Sun Dial joined Eta Sigma Phi and Beta Ph1 Eta m two staff. Eugenia Barnett is on the staff of the school months' time. Finally, one of our two "freshest" literary magazine, The T atler, to which Virginia freshmen, Virginia James, '35, is on the Women's Featherston and Ruth Bell, '35, are contributors. Honor council. These last two girls also draw for the Old Maid, MARY MENDENHALL the humor magazine. Southern Methodist University Rho is this year trying out February initiation for the first time, as heretofore we had promising in the fall, pledging in February, and initiation Pledges the following fall. Gladys Biggerstaff, '34, 5803 Velasco, Dallas, At Christmas, Rho gave a party to which the Tex. sponsors, the alumnre, and the parents of the local Virginia James, '35, Ferris, Tex. girls were invited. The chapter members exchanged inexpensive gifts with appropriate verses, and the .house received many lovely presents. Tau Has Interesting Affairs for Rushing VIRGINIA KELLY FEATHERSTON Randolph-Macon Woman's College As the second semester begins, rushing also takes a fresh start. Tau has been having some very interesting parties. One of the most novel v:as an Sigma Has Festive Holiday Season and indoor picnic supper. A bright fire crackled m the Beginning for the New Year fireplace and the girls sat on the floor in front of it. Innumerable hamburger sandwiches and pickles Sigma feels that there is no better way to start were consumed with. great delight. After the fire the New Year right than for the membership roll died down, marshmallows were toasted in the to be enlarged, and so we were particularly glad glowing embers. The wind howled outdoors, but to have a transfer, Ruth Libby, Alpha Zeta, '34. the girls had really cheated the elements and had After all of our resolutions were made, we cele had a lovely" picnic in mid-winter. brated with our annual formal dance. This festive Several pajama dances have also been enjoyed. spirit did not last long, however, as finals followed . The latest one was a beach pajama party and These being over, we were then able to look for there was a great array of bright-colored wide ward to the visit of Mrs. Lucile Traughber, our legged trousers as the girls danced gaily on the district counselor, and to mid-term rush week. "beach." Orange pop and wafers were served and Pre-Christmas spirit was celebrated with a tea then everyone "swam" happily into bed. dance and a theater party for the pledges and their Saturday afternoon bridge parties are another escorts. During Christmas vacation the alumnre form of Tau's rushing. Sigma Kappa playing chapter honored the college chapter with a tea. cards are given as prizes and tea is served later. Also a "mother and daughter" Christmas tree and ELOISE BoWMAN a rush tea were given. A bridge tournament was Indiana University held to enlarge the treasury. Three Sigmas have been delegates to conven tions. Anna Maria Morgan, '33, attended the Stu Pledges dent Volunteer Movement at Buffalo, N.Y., from Ruth Fitzwater, Indianapolis, Ind. December 28 to January 4. Helen Comstock, '32, Lorraine Denham, Indianapolis, Ind. 144 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Upsilon Faces the Depression with a On Valentine's eve, Phi chapter sponsored a Radio Dance dance in Lippitt hall. Many alumnze and friends were present to celebrate with us. With the Upsilon gave an informal radio dance at the pro~eeds of this dance and other money-making chapter house, January 30, in honor of the pledges. prOJects we expect to purchase a combination radio Radio dances have become very popular on the and victrola. Oregon Agricultural campus due to their infor February 27, Phi initiated nine freshmen. We mality. The triangular orchid programs were made were fortunate enough to welcome back many by the girls. These are to be submitted in a con alumnze as well as such dear friends as Hila Helen test for all sororities on the campus, the dean of Small and our district counselor, Grace Wells women having offered a prize to the house hav Thompson. Barbara Kendrick presided as toast ing the most original, attractive, and inexpensive mistress at the banquet that followed the ceremony. programs. Six of our scholarly stars attended the banquet The chapter gained considerable recognition of Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity this past scholastically fall term. We placed second in the month: Kathleen Ince, '32, Elsie McManus, '32, grade Jist, our average being 1.7, while that of Dorothy Kasper, '34, Ruth Stene, '34, Elsie Cra(l the women students, as a whole, was 1.48. In dall, '35, and Margaret Coone, '35. view of this fact we have possibilities of winning The Panhellenic dance is to be given on March the scholarship cup which is awarded annually by 19 this year. It will be formal. Sigrid Carlson, '32, Panhellenic to the sorority maintaining the highest and Doris Cumming, '33, are on the dance com scholastic average throughout the year. mittee. The next engagement on Phi's social Barbara Sims, '33, was selected chairman of the calendar will be our annual bridge and dance. annual dance recital. Margaret Metcalf, '32, was RUTH DEKKER appointed associate editor of the daily Barometer, Rhode Island State College and Amy Aldrich, '33, day editor. Dorothy Anne Sidler, '34, was appointed to serve on the Sopho Pledges more Cotillion committee. Mary Rita Dolan, '33, 72 Granite street, Upsilon is proud to have thirty girls living in Westerly, R.I. the house this term. Of the sixteen sororities on Edna Ann McCaffrey, '35, 22 Vassar avenue, the campus, Sigma Kappa is the only one which Providence, R.I. has forgotten the depression and is not running Elsie Susan Crandall, '35, Kingston, R.I. under budget. Dorothy Gardiner Fletcher, '35, 117 Governor AMY ALDRICH street, Providence, R.I. 01·egon Agricultural College Ethel Sara Johnston, ' 35, Lake View road, Meshanticut Park, R.I. Janet Wellington Lyons, '35, Providence, R.I. Holidays Bring Welcome Timely Gifts Gara Antoinette Wood, '35, 238 Baker street, for Phi Chapter Providence, R.I. Arlene Leona Wooden, '35, R.F.D. No. 1, Cold weather, lighted candles, and a green Westerly, R.I. wreath on a colonial door once again provided the Margaret Josephine Coone, '35, 1142 Smith setting for a Christmas party at Phi. A tall, spicy street, Providence, R.I. pine tree stood in the corner of our living room just laden with mysterious packages; that is, until a rotund Santa Claus with twinkling eyes and Chi Opens Festive Season with Party pseudo-masculine voice distributed them. Then the for Settlement Children "ohs" and "ahs" prevailed. Our patronesses pre sented us with a very useful and welcome gift, Our annual party for little girls from a local a new dictionary with a standard which is given settlement was Chi's first activity of the Christmas the place of honor in our new library. Dean Peck season held this yea!:._ The little guests received gave us a lovely book of verse for our book knit caps and candy canes from Santa and were shelves. "Ma" Birch gave us a most practical treated with pop-corn balls and ice-cream. Decem present-a much-needed new rug for our living ber 14 was the date of the alumnze party. A guest room. We had a cozy party around our fireplace speaker spoke on "Shopping in Europe," and singing Christmas carols and Sigma songs until Catherine Brown gave a program of Christmas curfew tolled. music. We also contributed a basket of food to Amy Arbogast, '32, and Ruth Barrows, '33, the Y.W.C.A. for the city's needy. coached recent Phi Delta productions, "The Idyll Chi participated in the campus custom of hold ings of the King," and "Happy Returns." Four of ing fireside sessions by having M. and Mme. Faure Phi's pledgees displayed their dramatic ability in from the department of Romance languages as leading roles, Elsie Crandall, Gara Wood, Ethel guests at the chapter house. M. Faure talked on Johnston, and Evelyn Herlien. Ruth Stene, '34, was "French Festivals." elected vice-president of the Home Economics club, Florence Zurhorst, '33, is one of Chi's most Gara Wood, '35, was elected secretary-treasurer, outstanding members. She was recently pledged while Avis Connery, '33, is tied for presidency. to Sigma Alpha Sigma, honorary social service Once again it is the time for the R.O.T.C. unit sorority, is chairman of the Vocat!onal Guidance to elect their Co-ed Major. This honor is to be conference, a member of the Jun_wr Prom com bestowed to one of four girls, two of whom are mittee, and junior town representative to Women's Sigma Kappas, Ruth Barrows, '33, and- Anne Student Government Association. Erdean Johnson, Drury, '33. The choice will be announced at the '35, Lois Kramer, '35, and Mary Lou Gainey, '35, Military Ball. are members of the staff of the Freshman Hand- 145 MARCH, 1932 book, a publication concerning all phases of cam Alpha Beta Gives Benefit Dance to Raise pus life which is distributed to all incoming Money for Convention freshmen. Chi has elected the following officers : presi Alpha Beta held a dance December 11 with dent, Janice Kirk, '33; vice-president, Evelyn Over Kappa Delta Psi fraternity, at the Hotel Statler, meyer, '32; recording secretary, Helen Schulte, in order to raise funds for convention. Both so '32; Treasurer, Kathryn Williams, '32; correspond cially and financially it was successful. December ing secretary, Mary Ellen Waldron, '32; registrar, 29, the Club Mayfair was the scene of our annual Margaret Turner, '33; TRIANGLE chapter editor, supper dance. Mildred Eger, '33; historian, Eleanor Wolfrom, Alma Culkowski, '34; Lorna Knibb, '34; and '32; rushing chairman, Marion Fletcher, '34; Pan Betty Overfield, '34, were initiated at the Buffalo hellenic representative, Alberta Yoerger, '33. Athletic club, December 5. At the December convocation, Margaret Andrew IRENE HEACOCK and Ellen Fulmer received degrees from the Col University of Buffalo lege of Commerce and Administration. Ellen served two terms as president and Marg three Alpha Delta Finds There Is No Mid-Year terms as treasurer for Chi. The pledges entertained the active members Lull at Tennessee with a dance at the chapter house, December 5. Although the official rushing season is over, The rooms were decorated with festoons of b~l we are nevertheless still "rushing around." At loons. Our annual formal supper-dance was held some colleges there seems to be a flagging of January 29 at the Neil House. interest among students when football season is ELIZABETH CRATER over, but such is not the case at the University Ohio State University of Tennessee. First in importance is the initiating of Mary Louise Herrington, '32, into Phi Kappa Phi, senior Pledges honor fraternity. Then Claudia Brooks, '35, shot her way to fame by making a record that placed Edith Jane Needham, '35, 1359 Glenwood her among the fifteen on the rifle team. Both drive, Westerville. freshmen and "old" girls developed surprising speed as was shown in the track relays and basket Varied Program of Social Events Marks ball games. The big performance of the orchestra and combined glee clubs was represented by Sigma Christmas Season for Psi Kappa, too, with Elizabeth Shugart, '35, playing Psi chapter was fortunate to be able to initiate a violin solo, and Anne Watson, '33, acting as all but two of its new pledges this year. Initiation advertising manager for the girls' club. This per was held November 28, followed by a formal ban formance, "Gypsy Hi-Life," also had Elsie Staples, quet when we were delighted to have with us '34, in its care-free band. several of our alumnre, among whom was Marion At the present time Alpha Delta is anxiously Se Cheverell Hemingway. awaiting a visit from Zelma Monroe, our regional The next week Psi entertained at a formal dance counselor, for she always has so many interesting at the chapter house. Candles, wreathes and the as well as helpful suggestions for us. tra~itional tree provided a Christmas at~osphere. ANNE WATSON This was followed by our "slam" party. Christmas University of Tennessee presents were exchanged amid squeals of good Pledges natured embarrassment. A pantomime "The Lov er's Revenge," was presented by the pledges, who Eliz;beth Shugart, '35, 107 West Fifth avenue, afterwards served refreshments. Knoxville, Tenn. Dorothy Fuller, '32, is co-chairman of the loan Elsie Staples, '34, Rockwood, Tenn. fund tag day. Louise Houlton, '34, is assistant Julia Mae Thomas, '32, McKenzie, Tenn. editor of the se~or section of the Badger, and !"fart~a McNess, 34, is secretary. Irene Schultz, Alpha Epsilon Advocates Open Houses 34, IS a new member of the Wisconsin Players. for Fostering Acquaintance Among Second semester rushing was successful in add ing fi~e pledges. Jean Waugh proved herself a "Greeks" charmmg rushmg chairman. Florence Gunnarson Alpha Epsilon initiated the following November and Frances Warren Baker came from Chicago to 14: Margaret Kepple, '33; Rosanna Leland '32; spend the weekend with us. !luth Willis, '33; Ruth Stinson, '33; Ethel Waltz, LOUISE HotTON 34; Myra Middleton, '34. University of Wisconsin A "leap year" party was held at the chapter house January 22. Women called at fraternity Pledges houses for the men whom they were to escort and treated their gentlemen friends with all the chival Helen Silsby, 87 N. Main street Geneva N.Y. rous respect which they could muster. B~rnice_Williamson, Mount Car;oll, Ill. ' Alpha Epsilon entertained her patrons and RI~a Gnep, 1528 Jefferson street, Madison. p~ronesses at cards and a dinner January 29. The Miss Marian Doern, 827 E. Mason street Mil- Winter formal dance was held February 27 in the waukee. · ' new chapter house. Many alumnre and friends were Virginia Doern, 827 E. Mason street, Milwau guests. kee. Alpha Epsilon has been attending and also hold- 146 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE ing a good many exchange "open houses" with Evelyn Steuben, '32, has won membership in various fraternities. The exchanges are held from the Women's "I" fraternity, in recognition of her seve!l to ~ight, Friday evenings. The visiting fra athletic ability. This is the highest award available temtty bnngs all 1ts members to the Sigma Kappa to a woman athlete on the campus. house for an hour of getting acquainted by means RUTH ELLEN LOVRIEN of dancing. By this means many new friendships Iowa State Co/lege are formed and, as the custom is gep.eral all over the campus, it affords the best opportunity for be Pledges coming familiar with the various Greek organiza Mildred Bennett, 208 Walnut, Ames, Iowa. tions. Harriet Alexander, 1329 Kellogg, Ames, Iowa. Ruth Anderson, Stanton, Iowa. Elizabeth Hall, Griswold, Iowa. Katherine Smith, Willamsburg, Iowa. National Vice-President Visits Alpha Zeta Chapter Alpha Zeta was delighted to have Mrs. Ruby Carver Emerson as a guest in December. We were proud to introduce the faculty of Cornell to our Grand Vice-president. Our faculty tea was given on December 6 with Mrs. Emerson as guest of honor. The house was lighted by candles, and roses decorated the tea table. Mrs. C. H . Myers and Mrs. Coleman poured for us. Mrs. Myers an alumna, has just recently returned from China where Professor Myers had been stationed by the university for some time for experimental work. As a prelude to the Christmas holidays we had an informal dance, December 12. The house was decorated with red candles, evergreens and a Christmas tree. December 14 Santa Claus came Carmen Hensel in the person of Jean Slocombe, '32, and dis tributed gifts. This was our annual Christmas Carmen Hensel, '32, has been elected Repre party and there were many of the alumnre present. sentative Woman, an honor which is cop.ferred Our only social activity since the holidays was an upon four women each year who are outstanding informal dance at the chapter house January 23. in scholarship, activities, and popularity on the FRANCES STALEY campus. Cornell University Ruth Lanz, '33, is treasurer not only for Alpha Epsilon, but also for two campus honoraries, the Alpha Eta Has New Radio at House Women's Athletic association, and Jack o' Lantern, as Christmas Present honorary society for scholarship and leadership. Ruth also belongs to Naiad, honorary swimming The Christmas season was exceedingly busy this society, and is active in intramural sports. She is a year for Alpha Eta. At the annual Christmas party, member of the board of directors for Cosmopolitan the pledges, actives, and alumnre presented a radio club, since she is a Canadian, and a very active to the house. Several days afterwards, January 12 , member in that organization. formal initiation was held for Eleanor Eide and Pauline Lanz, '34, has been voted by the student Helene Rhomberg, followed by a formal dinner at body as loveliest of twelve campus beauties. Pau the Hotel Francis Drake. · line is also active in Cosmopolitan club, and has Due to the plan of deferred rushing, we did been elected to membership in the Women's Ath not have formal rushing until the winter quarter. letic association. Our first tea, January 4, carried out a pirate motif Ella Gertrude McMullen has been elected to with the house decorated with skeletons and a the Veishea Central committee, a body which is pirate hostess at the door. Nuts, gold-covered responsible for the planning of Iowa State's annual candy in the shapes of coins, and rhymed fortunes three-day exposition, famous all over the Middle were found by the rushees in the traditional treas West. Gertrude has also been chosen as a member ure chests. One of the most unusual dinners was of the Y.W.C.A. cabinet. given on Wednesday evening. The hallway was Ethel Waltz, '35, has been chosen as a mem decorated to represent a ship, and the rushees ber of the women's debate team. were escorted up the gang-plank to the dressing Margaret Bruechert, '33, received a scholastic rooms. A meal consisting of foreign dishes was average of 96.3 per cent for the fall quarter. Mar served at the small tables which were each deco garet has never received an average of less than rated to represent foreign countries. The hostesses 92 per cent during her college course. Margaret, were dressed in the costumes of the different coun however, does not spend all her time in studying, tries. Small paper, flags revealed the menu. The but is a feature writer on the staff of the Iowa entertainment consisted of European music and Homemaker, monthly home economics magazine, dances. Thursday evening we converted the house and acts as a member of the Women's Student into a hotel, and Friday found us as old-fashioned Health council. girls of the Godey print days. Saturday evening MARCH, 1932 147 was the final dinner and we used the traditional '33, vice-president; Isabel Moore, '32, recording violet motif. secretary; Maxine Strunk, '34, corresponding secre January 9 after pledging, the members escorted tary; Mona Jenkins, '3 5, registrar ; Adele Pfingst, the new pledges to the annual pledge-night revue '34, house manager; Alice Ponder, '34, chairman sponsored by the university at one of the theaters of alumnre relations; and Mildred Hambleton, '34, for both new men and women pledges. On January rush captain. 12, Helen Hauenstein entertained us at her home DOROTHY LANCASTER on Mirror lake where we enjoyed tobogganing University of Louisville and a hot meal afterwards. January 22, we enter tained our eight pledges at the winter formal held Members of Alpha Iota Are Entertained at the Glenwood chalet. The French club vice-president is Helene Rhom by Pledges at a Formal Dinner berg, '32. Josephine Hughes, '33, is working in Shortly before our Christmas holidays, in the the W.S.G.A. bookstore. Rosemary Walsh, '35, midst of a medieval setting, our pledges entertained was hostess at the Freshman Sunlight. Blanch Wag the chapter and patronesses with a formal dinner ner, '32, is a member of the Y.W.C.A. Student at Scott Manor. A musical program furnished the Faculty committee. She was also placed on the entertainment. Bronze letter openers with carved exhibit committee for the annual Student-Faculty jade handles were the favors. dinner. Beth Johnson, '34, is on the mimeogr~ph A brisk November wind made rosy cheeks and committee MILDRED ENGDAHL tingling toes as Alpha Iota journeyed forth on University of Minnesota a steak roast. A huge fire was built on the bluffs and soon the aroma of broiling steaks filled the Pledges air. Healthy appetites were appeased and dessert took the form of nicely browned marshmallows. Virginia Clare, '32, 1725 Dayton avenue, St. In the annual beauty contest sponsored by the Paul, Minn. . university yearbook, Ruth Guiler, Claire Young, Josephine Hughes, '33, 627 South East Oak pledges, and Alberta Small, a senior, were chosen street, St. Paul, Minn. as three of the twelve campus beauties. Edith Johnson, '35, Triumph, Minn. Election results for the coming semester were: Elizabeth Johnson, '34, Rushford, Minn. president, Wilhelmina Schantz; vice-president, Mil· Eloise Keckefoth, '35, Winona, Minn. dred Korb; secretary, Virginia Hilbert; correspond Mary Jane Koppleberger, '33, La Crosse, Wis. ing secretary, Martha Cheney. Blanch Wagner, '32, Kelliher, Minn. Mary Beth Duncan, '32, is Y.W.C.A. vice Rosemary Walsh, '35, 4201 Harriet avenue S., president. Ruth Elaine Taylor, '33, is a member of Minneapolis, Minn. the Junior Prom committee, and Virginia Hilbert, '34, has been elected to Delta Omicron. Mary Pfingst Carroll Plans Novel Banquet BETTY BURMAN Program for Alpha Theta Miami University In November we were honored by a visit from Alpha Kappa ReceiYes Many Gifts from our district counselor, Zelma Monroe. She was the guest of honor at our initiation and banquet for Alumna?, Mothers, and Friends Mona Jenkins, '35; Evelyn White, '33; and Mary Gifts! Alpha Kappa's living room was almost Emma Ward, '32. The theme of the banquet was barricaded by them. Beatrice Marshall, our presi Sigma's Thanksgiving game and Mary Pfingst Car dent, was so busy unwrapping the gifts to Alpha roll, ex-'31, served as toastmistress. Kappa that she almost forgot her personal gifts. Following is the toast program: The loyal Mothers' club gave us a beautiful end Captain ...... Mary Pfingst Carroll table to place beside Mother Schrader's chair. Victory Song ...... Initiates Mother Schrader, always so wise, presented us Coach ...... Zelma Monroe with a much-needed pewter tray. The alumnre also Scrub ...... Evelyn White (Initiate) played Santa Claus to Alpha Kappa. They gave us Quarterback ...... Mary Frances Walz crystal sherbert dishes and crystal plates. The Referee ...... Mary Burton pledges gave two tea services and the members Mary Carroll, in her own original way, intro gave a linen cloth and napkins to Alpha Kappa. duced the speakers with bits of poetry. With this multiplicity of gifts brought into December 21, the annual Christmas party of service, we were ready to continue rushing with the alumnre and college chapters was given in the even more zeal than usual. During the holidays form of a dinner. Instead of the usual exchange of we entertained rushees at a series of formal teas. presents, we contributed to baskets for the needy. Again, we entertained them at a breakfast, a dinner, After dinner, the pledges entertained us with songs and a gypsy tea during the weekend preceding and readings. the new semester. "The Wisdom Tooth," University of Louisville December 1, the Mothers' club suspended the Players' production, has two Sigma Kappas in its regular private monthly luncheons for a benefit cast. Kathleen Edinger, who has had the lead luncheon. Approximately 125 people were served. in many other campus plays, has a part in this Honors, too, have been claimed by Alpha one, and Letitia Green, who is making her initial Kappa. Dorothy Yates, '35, a pledge, received a performance with the Players, has an important cash scholarship and a year's extra credit in voice role. Dorothy Lancaster is one of the ushers for at Nebraska university. Esther Stutheit, '34, and the play. Doris Steeves, '33, also pledges, made Archery 'Alpha Theta's officers for this semester are: club. Alpha Kappa tied for first place in speed Sally Sherwood, '32, president ; Kathleen Edinger, ball. Our final game has not yet been played. 148 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE "Bea" Marshall has been re-elected to the Alpha Alpha Mu Gives Dinner in Honor Kappa presidency. The other officers are: Ruby of Chapter Patronesses Schwemley, vice-president; Elsie Jevons, treasurer; Loretta Boschult, secretary; Virginia Guthrie, November 19, was the occasion of a formal recording secretary; Harriet Woods, registrar and dinner in honor of our patronesses and their hus historian; Ava Lee and Constance Kiser, Panhel bands: Professor and Mrs. Charles Cook, Professor lenic representatives; Ava Lee, rush chairman. and Mrs. L. A. Hopkins, and Professor and Mrs. IRMA CONROY Arthur Wood. University of Nebraska The Ann Arbor college and alumnre chapters were well represented at the Founders' Day ban Pledges quet held by the Detroit Alumnre chapter at the Colony club, Detroit. We all enjoyed meeting Florence Beers, '32, 908 South Eleventh street, our sisters from Alpha Tau and alumnre from Lincoln, Neb. many other chapters. Vera Cochran, '33, Wilsonville, Neb. This year once again found an informal party Marie Davis, '34, 411 North Twenty-second holding sway in the house for those who are stay street, Lincoln, Neb. ing over Thanksgiving. The donor of the feast, Martha Davis, '33, 1722 South Twenty-fourth Esther Loucks, had received a huge box from home street, Lincoln, Neb . . with everything from an immense turkey to pies Charlotte English, '34, R. No. 5, Omaha, Neb. and candies. Elizabeth Finke, '3 5, Twenty-third and Avenue The annual Panhellenic ball took place Novem A, Kearney, Neb. ber 27, at the Women's League building. One Flowy Kellenbarger, '32, 6138 Leighton, Lin of the most delightful events was the breakfast coln, Neb. served at the apartment of Rogene Seymour, '3 1. Doris Steeves, '33, 3036 North Forty-eighth Over one hundred members of the faculty were street, Lincoln, Neb. entertained at a tea, December 6. Esther Stutheit, '.34, 4802 Adams, Lincoln, Neb. Several rushing dinners and teas were given Dorothy Yates, '3 5, 102 North Thirty-sixth before Christmas. Ruth Jacobs provided entertain street, Council Bluffs, Iowa. ment with several tap specialties. Margaret Moon Alice Zimmer, '33, 3170 Fowler, Omaha, Neb. and Hazel Saul rendered several numbers in toe dancing from the Junior Girls' play of 1932. Our annual Christmas party, December 18, New Pledges of Alpha Lambda Feted found a merry group of Sigmas sitting before a at Many Parties cheery log fire singing carols. Many surprises in the form of clever gifts were found under the After a long term of rushing last fall, we tree. We were very much pleased with the gifts pledged seven new girls November 13. These of three dozen tea napkins from our patronesses, pledges were entertained at teas by several other and a lovely pair of mantel lamps from our sororities on the campus during December. Decem chaperon, Mrs. J. M. Holt. ber 19, we gave a luncheon for our pledges and Sigma Kappa, after winning three games, en then took them to see "Cynara," a new play on tered the elimination basketball tournament. In Broadway. December 30 we held our annual spite of a very fine response from the girls, we Christmas party at the home of Edith Horstmann lost in the final series. in Brooklyn, at which time the new pledges pre Esther Loucks, '32, won first honors in the golf sented a skit. tournament in the fall. Dorothy Shapland, '34, and Anne Baumann has been elected to the Senior Margaret Eidson, '3 3, took part in the sophomore Luncheon committee. The luncheon will be held cabaret and the Junior Girls' play, respectively. at a New York hotel in June. Katherine Preuss has Dorothy Shapland and Agnes Robinson, '34, are been appointed to the varsity swimming team. in the chorus of "Robin Hood." Harriet Hicks, Beatrice Byrne has been elected to the Junior '32; Margaret Mo.on , '32; Dorothy Walker, '33; Prom committee, the prom will be held at the Dorothy, Shapland, and Agnes Robinson were mem Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York during Easter bers of the chorus at the Soiree of the Cercle vacation. Franraise. The solo parts were sung by Agnes MARGARET BEUERLAIN Robinson. Adelphi College Our winter formal dance is being planned for February 19 as a due reward after the trying period Pledges of examinations. It will be held in the ballroom of the Women's Athletic building. Angela Ahearn, '32, 383 Sterling place, Brook AGNES ROBINSON lyn , N.Y. University of Michigan Mary Boylan, '35, 174 Cleveland avenue, Mineola, Long Island, N.Y. Alpha Nu Boasts of a Straight-A Madolin Cocroft, '35, 154 Parsons drive, Hemp Member in the Chapter stead, Long Island, N.Y. Florence Galow, '35, 27 Gibson avenue, Hunt Betty Kelleher, '34, is vice-president of Spurs, ington, Long Island, N.Y. sophomore women's honorary organization. Eileen McEvoy, '35, 100-40 Two Hundred Gladys Larson, '34, is a new initiate of the or Twenty-second street, Queens Village, Long Island, ganization. Joy Browning, '33, was manager of the N.Y. co-ed formal held January 22. This dance is an Helen Trautmann, '35, 150-03 Eighty-sixth annual university dance to which the women take street, Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. the men, providing transportation, programs, and MARCH, 1932 149 refreshments for them. Kathryn Coe, '33, was one members of Alpha Omicron to work with E. of three students on the university honor roll for Percival Wetzel, famous puppeteer of El Club fall quarter to earn an index of 3, which indicates Titerero. Mr. Wetzel's newest achievement is the a straight-A record for the quarter. · puppets shown in the picture, "The Mad Genius." Social events of the season enjoyed by Alpha At present a series of shows is being given in the Nu included a buffet supper given for the pledges, Party Shop at Bullocks, a local department store. a .fireside in the chapter house November 21, and the annual Christmas party held December 13. Toys from the Christmas party were given to a local organization to distribute to needy town chil dren: D orothy Mclenigan, '34, Marjorie Mumm, '33, and Helen Spencer, '34, took part in Hi Jinx, an nual university musical comedy which is written and conducted by the students. Mrs. J. Wilson Moore, for the third year Alpha Nu housemother, was entertained together with a number of her friends, at the chapter house De cember 1. Election of officers held January 18 resulted as follows: Kathryn Coe, '33, president; Adelaine Stillings, '33, vice-president; Helen Spencer, '34, corresponding secretary; Marjorie Mumm, '33, re cording secretary; Joy Browning, '33, rushing chairman; Dorothy Mclenigan, '34, treasurer ; Fe licia Mclemore, '32, TIUANGLE correspondent; Lola Dunlap, '32, histotian. FELICIA MCLEMORE U1ziversity of Montana May Elizabeth Wood Pledges May Elizabeth Wood, '32, has been more than thrice honored. She is president of N.u Delta Omi Marcia Shellenbarger, 811 Seventh street, Coeur cron, women's political science honorary; vice d'Alene, Idaho. president of Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honorary; and a member of the Welfare Alpha Omicron Has Novel Means Board and Scholarship and Activities committee. of Raising Money Those taking part are Nadine Adams, Martha Nearly a hundred tables were .filled at a bridge Grim, Eleanor Jones, Helen Files, Nella Jane benefit given at the Potrero Country club, January Richardson, Harriet Hannah, Molly Weisinger, and 9, for the Corporation fund. Alai ne Meek was in Mary Chisolm. general charge, and her report showed a profit of In accordance with ·custom, the pledge class $250. entertained the active and alumnre members at a A troupe of puppeteers has been formed by supper dance given at the Whitley Park Country club during the recent holiday season. Nella Jane Richardson was in charge of the affair. The pledges also gave the Christmas party. Dean Laughlin, Dean Darsie, Mrs. Darsie, and Mrs. Swartz, attended a formal dinner given in their honor at the chapter house January 7. ELLEN PIUNCE University of California at Los Angeles Alpha Pi Initiated Three Girls at I;>ecember Ceremony December 12, Alpha Pi held initiation for Esther Carhart, Eleanor Heckleman, and Mary W olf, all members of the class of 1934. Mrs. Crane, Ruth Domigan, Evelyn Coates, and Nora Toepfer were alumnre present for the ceremony, after which we all went to "Buns" for a banquet. Several short speeches made up the program. The members of Alpha Pi were widely scat tered for the Christmas holidays, as Harriett French Martha Grim was in New York City seeing the Great White Way and doing more shopping, and Nora Toepfer To Martha G1·im belongs the honor of being was spending part of the vacation with her par vice-president of the sophomore class and a mem ents in the Florida sunshine. ber of Spurs, national sophomore women's hon Our new officers for the coming semester are: orary. Juanita McVey, president; Lucille Phillips, vice- 150 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE president; Martha Gregg, secretary; Eleanor received from the college chapter and from alum Heckleman, corresponding secretary; Peggy Van me. We are especially proud of the etching from Houten, treasurer; Harriett French, rush captain; Susie Sugg, which she brought all the way from Mary Wolf, registrar; Phyllis Davies, historian; Paris! The pledges donated a pair of andirons, Estelle Lempertz, chapter editor. Our new patron which, everyone agreed, was a long-needed and ess is Mrs. Hull who is the charming housemother well-chosen gift. at the new University "Co-op" house. At a recent chapter meeting the following offi ESTELLE LEMPERTZ cers were elected: president, Dolores Adams; vice Ohio Wesleyan University president, Eleanor Weber; recording secretary, Marguerite McKinney; corresponding secretary, Nashville Newspaper Reports Novel Katherine Anderson; historian, Barbara Moore; Contribution to Loan Fund treasurer, Elizabeth Read; TRIANGLE chapter edi tor, Geraldine Gallagher. "It's back to the dark days of 1917-18 for mem KATHLEEN STUMP bers of the Sigma Kappa sorority, who have Vanderbilt University adopted a meatless, vegetable!ess, sugarless Satur day once a month. The Vanderbilt sorority has Pledges carved down its usual large Saturday noonday Celia Bromley, '34, Flatwoods, Tenn. dinner to include only a big bowl of soup. The Martha Caldwell, '35, Union City, Tenn. Claudia Chappell, '35, Union City, Tenn. Virginia Samuel, '35, Nashville, Tenn. Marion Taylor, '35, Nashville, Tenn. Anna Siegrist, '33, Nashville, Tenn. Florence Trull, '34, Nashville, Tenn. Audrey Dykeman Visits Alpha Sigma for November Initiation Audrey Dykeman attended the initiation services held for Louise Johnston, Marion Johnston, Eliza beth Newell, and Mary Jo Oldfield, November 14, at the Castleton hotel. A formal banquet followed initiation and the table was decorated with chrysanthemums. Eleanor Warner Graham was the toastmistress. The other toasts were given by Audrey Dykeman, Blodwen Davis, Mary Alice Neill, Yvonne Hudak, Ruth Rowse, Pearl McClimans, and Katharyn McCay. Emma Kinne awarded the scholarship cup to Louise Johnston. There were five alumnre present. All arrangements were in charge of Ruth Rowse, Yvonne Hudak, Pearl Mc Eleanor Weber, Alpha Rho's president, Climans, and Katharyn McCay. enjoying her Satu!'day Soup Our Christmas party was held in the chapter house, December 16. Dancing and cards featured the evening. Special guests were Eleanor Warner money saved by this economical" move is con Graham, '28; Dorothy Kirkbride, '25; Lois Daven tributed to the Joan fund for Vanderbilt students. port, '3 1; Claire Gross, '31; and Mrs. James Gra . . . The plan has succeeded in adding materially ham. The party was in charge of Marion Johnston, to the fund which enables students to continue their Katharyn McCay, and Mary Jo Oldfield. studies. Other "Vandy" sororities are expected to A special initiation was held for Ruth Martin devise economical measures to contribute to the in the chapter house February 1. loan fund. Approximately twenty students are now attending the university as a result of the recent MARION JOHNSTON campaign for funds to replace the depleted Joan Westminster College scholarship fund. More than $1,400 was forth Pledges coming from the students, faculty, and employees Betty Bigger, Clinton, Pa. on the campus." This clipping from The Nashville Tennessean Lorah Monroe Attends Alpha Tau is self-explanatory. The active chapter entertained with an informal Initiation in January tea-dance, honoring the pledges, the day before the Initiation this term, held January 16, was par Vandy-Alabama football game. The house was gay ticularly impressive because of the presence of ly decorated with chrysanthemums and ribbons of Lorah Monroe, grand counselor. The ceremony gold and black, crimson and white, featuring the took place at the Peoples Church, for the follow colors of the two universities. A large V and a ing: Mildred Poetzinger, '33; Theresa Harriet Carr, large A at opposite ends of the reception room '33; Caroline Cooley, '33; Martha Summers, '34 ; formed the central decorations. As all the enter and Arlene Behler, '34. A formal banquet in honor tainments for pledges here-to-fore have been in of the new members was held in the Union. A the form of an open house, our tea-dance was both lovely interpretation of the ideals of Sigma Kappa interesting and different. was presented by Lorah Monroe, who gave the The interior of our house has been noticeably "Legend of the Pearls." Majel Horning, '3 1, also improved by the generous stock of Christmas. gifts spoke. MARCH, 1932 151 The Wisteria room of the Hotel Olds at the college chapter present. With the history of the Lansing furnished an attractive setting for our for chapter as a theme toasts were given by Frances mal party. The return of many alumnle made a Weisbecker, speaking on the past, Naomi Wilson, second homecoming of the event. The guest list the present, and Genevieve Lester, the future. included President and Mrs. Shaw, Dean Conrad, Other social events included a sleigh ride party Dr. and Mrs. Heuston, Mr. and Mrs. Hotchin, and a dance, the latter in the ballroom of the Major and Mrs. Thomas Stahle, and Mrs. John Bellevue apartments, December 11. Lambda Chi son, an Alpha Mu alumna, with her husband. Alpha and Kappa Sigma fraternities also held open Frances Sullivan, '32, our chapter president, house for members of the chapter. The pledges en. was selected as a member of the women's debating tertained the members at a Christmas party at the team. She participated in a contest with Olivet house December 14. Stunts, games, and the singing upon the subject: "Resolved, That the United of Christmas songs furnished entertainment. States offer to participate in a cancellation of in Alpha Upsilon's new officers, elected January tergovernmental war debts." The team also engaged 18, are: Caroline Moore, president; Naomi Wil Ypsilanti Normal College upon the same argu son, vice-president; Eleanor Burke, recording secre ment. Both were no-decision debates. tary; Irene Nomeland, treasurer; Mabel Clayton, The name of Jean Anderson, '32, has been in corresponding secretary; Beatrice Bryn, historian; cluded among fifteen others to be submitted to the Barbara Ince, rushing chairman; and Helen Mead, vote of the college in the spring elections to de TRIANGLE chapter editor. termine the eight most distinguished Spartans. NAOMI WILSON Those finally selected as having rendered the great University of North Dakota est service to the school will receive due recogni tion in the Wolverine, the Michigan State year Children Are Entertained at Christmas book. The honor came to Jean as a result of her Party by Alpha Phi office as Y.W.C.A. president, membership in Sphinx, senior women's honorary, and her activity Several days before Christmas vacation we held in Grange and 4H club work. our annual Christmas party for a group of little Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical honorary, is children whose homes would probably not be in represented in our chapter by Margaret Crummer, vaded by Santa Claus this year. Squeals of delight '32, and Elva Covert, '33. Elva recently was gen were uttered when the youngsters gazed on the eral chairman of their formal reception given in huge dinner table, decorated witl! small trees, honor of their national inspector. horns, and candy canes. After dinner Santa Claus CHRISTINE CONNOR came and everything was perfect. Toys, popcorn Michigan State College balls, and candy were distributed among the kid dies. As soon as they had played with their new Helen Swinney Is Present at Initiation toys awhile, we took them home, after promises for Five New Members of to come again had been made. Initiation for Virginia Howard, Wanda Veatch, Alpha Upsilon Maxine Hill, Helen Abel, Margaret ·Ellen Hill, Helen Swinney's visit and the initiation of five Doris Giles, Pauline Conradt, and Louise Beers girls held the center of attention at Alpha Upsilon was held January 23. Bertha Whillock Stutz, grand the weekend of November 7 and 8. Miss Swinney treasurer, was our honor guest for the ceremony. arrived Saturday evening in time for the formal The formal banquet which followed initiation was banquet at the Hotel Dacotah. Carrying out the presided over by Margaret Belle Boone as toast theme of the pearl, the toasts were as follows : mistress. The motif used . for table decorations "Development of the Pearl," by Roselyn Peglow, around which to weave the toasts signified the speaking for the new initiates; "Home Life of the growth of a rose from a bud to full bloom. The Pearl," Amy Brooks, speaking for the college chap toasts were given by Mrs. Stutz, Pauline Conradt, ter; and "The Luster of the Finished Pearl," Fran Alice Lively, Edith Schmiedeskamp, Marjorie ces Owen of the alumnle. Bonnie Mathison, presi Needham, Helen Raitenan, and Henrietta Stienke. dent of the chapter, acted as toastmistress. Helen January 22 we entertained for Mrs. Stutz with an Swinney, district counselor, brought the greetings informal faculty dinner, inviting as guests for the of the national chapter. A musical reading by occasion several prominent faculty members. Velma Palmer and a song by Barbara Ince com January 24, our patrons and patronesses were pleted the program. Immediately following the guests for dinner, also in honor of Mrs. Stutz. banquet, initiation ceremonies were held in Ep January 19 we entertained the Alpha Tau Omega worth hall. The initiates included Helen Mead, fraternity for dinner and dancing. Our annual for Mabel Clayton, Velma Palmer, Roselyn Peglow, mal dance was given at the chapter house Febru and Beatrice Bryn. ary 13. Decorations were carried out in the valen A tea at the chapter house, in honor of Miss tine motif. Several of the alumnle members were Swinney and Mrs. Alexander, Alpha Upsilon's present for the dance. housemother, was held Sunday afternoon with rep MARGARET BEAN resentatives and housemothers from all the so University of Oregon rorities on the campus as guests. Sunday evening the alumnle entertained Miss Swinney at dinner. Alpha Chi Is Visited by National Officers Interviews with the officers and a model meeting occupied the rest of the visiting officer's time un for Initiation til her departure Monday morning. Alpha Chi held initiation December 5 for the Celebrating the founding of the chapter, a for following: Collie Ashley, '32; Dorothy Arnold, mal dinner was given November 22 at the Hotel '33; Florence E. Atwood, '33; Mary Blount, '34; Dacotah with alumnle and patronesses as well as Helen Blackburn, '33; Alva Edith Curry, '34; 152 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Helen Cornelius, '33; Mary Gibson, '34; Dorothy is to be May Queen, the third consecutive year Lewis, '32; Eunice Lewis, '32; Myra Shipp, '34; that a Sigma Kappa has been chosen for this honor. Mary Helen Talbott, '32; Carrie D. Wheeler, '32; Eunice Lewis, '34, one of the campus beauties, is Mary Louise Robey, '33; Marie Wilson, '33; and football sponsor and secretary of the student body. Anna Mae Heath, '32. We were very happy to Teby Thompson, '34, is also a campus beauty. have with us at that time Audrey Dykeman, na COLLIE ASHLEY tional president; Zelma Monroe, district counselor ; Georgetown College and Lurline Moody, national chairman of music, to take part in our initiation. Following the initia Pledges tion a formal banquet was given in honor of the Evelyn Hockensmith, '35, Frankfort, Ky. nev/ members at the Lafayette hotel in Lexington. Alpha Psi Celebrates First Birthday with Proper Ceremony Young Alpha Psi announces its first birthday. We had a cake, candles, and everything that parties should have-including fun. It was a great day for us because it was the anniversary of a greater day. During the past semester Alpha Psi has had several visitors. In November, Alice Hersey Wick, Rho, visited and inspected the chapter. Betty Wood, Omega, who is now doing graduate work at the University of North Carolina, has been over several times to meetings. Elizabeth Davidson, Al pha Psi, spent a few days with us. She has been doing research work at Harvard this year. Mary Dorothy Lewis, '34 The following day, Alpha Chi's patronesses and sponsors entertained with an informal tea for the chapter and guests. Visiting alumnre were Lucille Kelly, '31; Betsy Burke, '28; Dorothy Cottrell, '31; Louise Asher, '29; Maurine Mcbeath, '31; Edit\1 Ann Yager, '30; and Anne Belle Porter, '28. Dorothy Arnold, '3 3, is junior treasurer; Collie Ashley, '32, is assistant editor of the annual ; Mary Sara Elizabeth Ownbey Blount, '34, is sophomore secretary; Helen Black burn, '33, is a member of the Girls' Self-Govern Swan Carroll, Alpha Delta, spent a weekend with ment council; Irene Donovan, '34, is sophomore us in January, as did Mary Agnes Brown, Zeta. vice-president; Alice Quimby, '32, is senior vice The following officers have been elected for the president and Carrie Wheeler, senior secretary; coming semester: Rebecca Royall, president; Mary Mary Helen Talbott is senior self-government rep Frances Smith, vice-president; Flora Crews Best, resentative. recording secretary; Sara Ownbey, correspondmg Dorothy Lewis, '32, student body vice-president, secretary; Elizabeth Auld, treasurer; Elizabeth Thomson, TRIANGLE chapter editor; and Ruth ] ones, historian. , Sara Ownbey's activities at Duke have been many and varied. She has just added Phi Beta Kappa to the many honors which have been ac cumulating through the four years of her college career. In her freshman year she was presented with the gold "D," an award given for freshman honors. In her sophomore year she was president of White Witch, a dramatic order, and was active in the Forum club. Last year Sara was elected to Eko-L, an honorary society for juniors and seniors, and also to Chi Delta Phi, national literary so rority of which she is now vice-president. For the past year she has been president of Alpha Psi. EIJZABETH THOMSON Eunice Lewis, '34 T eby Thompson, '34 Duke University MARCH, 1932 153 ~ 'lVith 0ur ~lumnae Chapters • LOis WINE CURTIS, Editor Missing Chapter Letters Kansas City (2), Mempl)is, Omaha, Sacramento (2), St. Louis. O THE secretaries and pre~idents ~ho were most .prompt ~nd painstaking in submit~ing their chapter reports on time, thts depart!llent 1s m.uch tndebted. Some were recetved T in December and now all but one-at hme of g01ng to press-have come to hand. Many details needed in our plans are included in these reports and those who are prompt speed the work of Sigma more than they know. . You will be gratified to know that the reports show much progress m our alumnre work. That is most pleasing in a year like this. It shows what wonderful vitality there is in Sigma women and Sigma idealism and how it so appeals to us all that we must needs do the alumnre work in the same spirit as our President, Sister Dykeman, works. Rain, hail, snow, heat, illness, health, joy, or family sorrow never prevents her from doing what she con ceives to be her duty to Sigma. If we all did our Sigma work in that spirit, its power, great already, would be doubled. Do you not feel so? I ·hope and believe many of us do work in that spirit and with joy and pride. New activities are begun in many alumnre groups, clubs, and chapters. Rhode Island is hav ing much pleasure from the news questionnaire sent to all Phi members. This may become a local news sheet-this enthusiasm in little Rhody. Schenectady is helping arrange meet ings for Albany-beginning a club-and always continues its splendid work in local Panhel lenic. St. Louis has done some wonderful local community work. Rochester has begun plans for a local news sheet for Sigmas of three chapters. Chicago is ever on the watch for folks among Sigmas needing help-what a lovely spirit-to help where the work may not be popular nor conspicuous. Washington, Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, all the long list of the larger chapters, are keeping up their pledges to the Mission and never failing us on membership. What an accomplishment in a year like this! (One of the finest words in the English tongue is dependable!) Far in the West, Sacramento sends word of much interest in community work. Far to the North our newest chapter, Walla Walla, stops a moment to ad mire and feel pride in her new charter. Others are making ready. And the latest club, Jack sonville, reports much joy in getting together, for luncheon, girls from several towns. When next you write them, ask for St. Augustine, Palatka, Pensacola. Florida is feeling much inspiration in awakening efforts for Sigma alumnre plans. Rummage sales and bake sales were never so well appreciated. Social events curtailed and fewer pretty luncheons give us all the more pleasure when we do get together. Humbler decorations and simpler menus make us love Sigma alumnre cheer the more-and show us just what in our contacts we value most. Not the beribboned sandwiches, not the bright roses among our violets-but rather the light in a friend's eye, the smile of Sigma enthusi asm, the joyful companionship. Such as made a chapter member and a regional chairman by the way write me recently: "0, it does seem as if no chapter ever had so much satis faction and so much real enjoyment together as we have had this season." Let the times teach the lesson of Sigma simplicity- in simplicity she was founded, in simple ways and in happy companionship let Sigma alumnre proceed-giving to the less fortunate, sharing with the needy. R. C. E. Alumn~ Prize A contest is announced in the Alumnre Department. A prize will be awarded at the end of the season to the alumnre chapter and separately to the alumnre club which appears to 154 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE have the best record, in proportion to its size and environment, on two counts: prompt ness in fulfilling national obligations, and in completing projects. The chapters are confined to those of under thirty members-last June count. This is done because it would relieve the judges, not yet named-of considerable difficulty in comparing chapters of sixty mem bers with those of eleven perchance. Those doing remarkable work in community effort, helping college chapters, starting local news sheets, doing Panhellenic work, collecting cloth ing and dimes for the Mission-all the projects you think of readily and those more un common ones now and then attempted-all will count toward the prize. Each group, chapter, and club should notify at once the Grand Vice-President the date when it desires to be said to have begun. Many have had their notices very early. This is added in case some club failed to have its letter by poor postal conditions. Late comers beginning late in good faith may rival the earliest at the game. In other words the early bird may have its worm taken away if it does not look to it laurels! (Metaphors rather mixed, but you catch the idea, my sisters!) The department reserves the right to award the prize as the judges deem best or to with hold it if occasion requires, although there is no foundation for such fears. We anticipate awarding the symbol of distinction to the chapter and to the club doing its very best be- fore July 1. · Note Well These groups desire to hear of Sigmas near them, and to extend the hospitality of their organizations: Bloomington, Ind.; notify Mrs. Etta Reeves French, 1018 University avenue. Ithaca, N.Y.: notify Miss Louisa Ridgway, 150 Triphammer road. Toledo, Ohio; notify the Regional Chairman for that region. Akron, Ohio; notify the Regional Chairman. Jacksonville, Fla.; notify Esther Boardman, 1446 Avondale avenue; also alumnre m Palatka, St. Augustine, and Pensacola. ·Duluth, Minn.; notify Miss Ethel Jewett, 622 18th avenue, West. Miami Valley. Bedford, Ind.; notify Mrs. J. P. Elder, 1910 West 16th street. Monthly Meetings of Ann Arbor Balance to gather comfortably at the fireside of Ruth W are Between Work and Play Greig's lovely home for an informal luncheon at which the holiday spirit prevailed. The Ann Arbor Alumnre chapter has been hold During the fall the alumnre have held their ing its meetings the first Thursday of each month regular meetings -the first Tuesday of each month. with clock-like regularity. In November we met At the October meeting held at the Lambda chap with Lora Belle Wild, Alpha Mu, '25, and spent ter house, Elda Laird, Lambda president, gave the evening in a delightfully informal fashion, an interesting character sketch of the eleven new enjoying great quantities of doughnuts, cider, and pledges. Anna McCune Harper, Lambda, '24, gave apples. a travelog disclosing highlights of her tennis In December the meeting was held at the home matches abroad during the summer. of Bernadine Winton, ex-'30. Here we made final Mildred Root Glenney, Lambda, '23, opened plans for our benefit bridge, and began hemming her new home on Arlington avenue, Berkeley, No the two dozen linen napkins, our Christmas gift vember 3, for an evening social and business meet to Alpha Mu chapter. We all took home with us ing of the Bay Cities alumnre. more napkins to hem, and gay Christmas cards to December 1, Patty Marshall Brenner, Lambda, sell. We realized a small sum from the latter, and assistant regional chairman from Palo Alto, was also made a nice profit on the benefit bridge, honored at Alpha Heath Roger's home in Clare which was held at the house the following Satur mont. The afternoon was spent sewing on baby day evening. nightgowns for Christmas charity while Patty told This month the three graduate student alumnre of 1932 convention plans and Florence Colby Bat members, who are living at the chapter house, tram played "Sonata in E minor" by Greig. entertained us there. We celebrated by asking the The Bay Cities alumnre took charge of and patronesses and the house chaperon, Mrs. Holt, financed a rushing dinner for Lambda chapter at to be our special guests. the beginning of the fall semester, supported the CATHARINE Y. FERGUSON card party given by the Sigma Kappa Mothers' club, October 20, at the chapter house, co-operated Bay Cities Group Most Fortunate with the Mothers' club rummage sale, N ovember in Talent for Programs 20, and gave most generously to local charity at December 30 was a crispy, snappy winter day Christmas time. Eight pairs of wool blankets were and it was most pleasant for the Bay Cities alumnre contributed by the chapter, while individuals gave MARCH, 1932 155 food and clothing which were distributed to needy was entitled "Believe It or Not" and consisted of families. the explanation of many English names and cus A change in officers was made necessary by the toms and the contrast between English and Ameri absence of several previously elected, so that the can terminology. following have been elected for the spring semes KATHERINE TOWER ter: Lela Evans Peugh, Lambda, '23, president; Mildred Crane Winslow, Alpha Gamma, ex-'24, viEe-president ; Marylyn Williams Ross, Lambda, '28, secretary; Margaret Smith Dygert, Lambda, '19, treasurer; Alberta Elms Montagne, Lambda, Irene Hall, Delta, '22, our '20, social secretary; and Katharine Schwaner Ko· delegate to Boston City lasa, Lambda, "20, TRIANGLE correspondent. Panhel/enic, has been KATHARINE SCHWANER KOLASA made president of that organization this year. Stimulating Bloomington Programs on Disarmament and Psychology The month of December was certainly full of cheer and pleasure for Eta alumnre. At the meeting, December 11 , Kaywin Kennedy (our treasurer's Buffalo Outwits Depression with Splendid husband) -gave a most interesting talk on "Dis Money-Raising armament Problems." The Monday before Christmas, Eta chapter en The Buffalo Sigma Kappas have been holding tertained the alumnre. After dinner was served, the supper meetings the second Monday in every pledges gave a novel entertainment. The Mothers' month and are exceedingly proud to boast of an club presented the house with a pewter tray, and attendance of about twenty-four members. Our last the alumnre chapter contributed the pewter teapot meeting, held January 11, at the home of Mrs. to complete the tea set the girls had started. Thompson, was especially interesting. After the The Saturday following Christmas, the alumnre regular business meeting, moving pictures of the chapter entertained with a bridge tea at the chapter Camp of the Red Gods, Algonquin Park, Canada, house. Among the out-of-town girls present were: were shown. Blanche Eula Boyce, '13; Margaret Hoopes For From the beginning of the season we have syth, '28; Helen Benson Leys, '28; Lu.cile Otto, launched several successful money-raising cam '30; Virginia Jane Plummer, '30; Zelma Monroe, paigns. We commenced with a rummage sale and '12 ; and Hazel Riese Maris, Theta, '23 . later were busy selling candy, Christmas cards, and January 15, the program was unusually inter thrift books. In all, we have raised close to $125. esting. Miss Margaret Hall, psychologist of the A portion of this amount was contributed to the psychiatric department of the Soldiers and Sailors Maine Sea Coast Mission and $25 was pledged to Orphans home of Normal, Ill., and of the Illinois the Scholarship Fund. Women's prison at Dwight, Ill., talked on "Cor We are glad to welcome Martha Goodlett, Psi, rective Psychology." At this meeting, plans were and extend a hearty invitation to all the other being formulated for initiation festivities February alumnre living in or near Buffalo. 19, 20, 21. MARGARET Y. JOHNSTON MARGARET ANDERSON Central Michigan Chapter Active Presidency of Panhellenic Held in Lansing Panhellenic by Member of Boston Chapter Central Michiganites were very fortunate in Our November meeting was held at the home having Lorah Monroe here for a whole week end of Lillian M. Bowker, Delta, '08. A Christmas sale during Alpha Tau's initiation January 16. As soon was held before the meeting, the proceeds of which as Eunice Winans, our active president, found out helped to swell the funds of the finance com that Lorah Monroe would be free Saturday noon, mittee. After the meeting we played some amus she phoned as many as she could get to meet at ing games and had a spelling match of Delta Hunt's Food shop. This was a little extra treat, against Omicron. Each member had to spell a word for our regular January meeting was not scheduled backward and pronounce the result, but both chap until two weeks later. ters showed such unusual abilities in that direc In inquiring of Miss Monroe what the other tion that neither chapter was defeated. alumnre might be interested in hearing about in The day after Christmas we met in the parish the next TRIANGLE letter, she suggested that since house of St. John's Episcopal church in Newton the Lansing-East Lansing Alumnre Panhellenic as ville and the meeting was followed · by a one sociation has been most active during the past act play called "Station X-M-A-S," which was winter, it might be a good idea to tell something given under the direction of Evangeline Lister about their program. Ramsdell, Delta, ex-'30. This was followed by The local association has as its permanent pro supper at the home of Ruth McAron Lang, Delta, ject the raising of a fund each year to loan to some '14. needy student who may apply for it. In order to We had a special treat at the January meeting, supplement the amount raised by the association when we were entertained by Ellen Glass Ander last year, we gave a bridge party early in Decem son, Omicron, '18, for Helen G. Gilmore, Delta, ber. The committees were active and as a result ex-'10, gave us another of her delightful talks. It an unusually large number of guests attended. A 156 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE unique suggestion was made by one of the mem Central Ohio and Chi Chapters bers which was used with a good deal of success each representative was asked to solicit from the Display Ideal Co-operation members of her chapter "white elephants," that is, The encouraging start which the Columbus articles either useful or otherwise which they didn't Alumn~ chapter was able to report for the begin care for or use any more but which someone else ning of the year was only a sample of an unusu might like, and these were used as table prizes ally good year for Central Ohio--good in the sense thus saving a good deal of expense. ' of members interested and gained, and in sig This large party inaugurated a series of smaller nificant accomplishments. The Founders' Day ban ones. The names of the ten high-score holders in quet held November 10 at the Tavernel was at both auction and contract were kept. Small parties tended by seventy members of the college, pledge, of two tables or more are to be held during the and alumn~ groups. winter months at the homes of members and Helen Miller Appleman, Alpha Mu, our presi friends of the association and records will be kept dent, acted as toastmaster for the program which of the high scores from these, the proceeds from was called "The Pioneer Trail," an idea which which, 25 cents a player, will be turned into the was carried out in the toasts, the programs, and general fund. (The larger party was 50 cents.) the decorations. Portia Steele Cummins, Chi, '29, These names are entered in a tournament which toasted the founders in "The Pioneers." Lydia will end in a large party similar to the December Baird, Alpha Mu, and district counselor for Chi, one to be given in May. At that time a separate was the principal speaker, responding to the toast, room will be kept for all tournament entries and "The Compass." A three-fold response was made the winners of the high scores in the tournament by Marguerite Riel Connor, Chi, '27, Alberta finals will receive very nice prizes as rewards for Yoerger, Chi, '33, president of the college chap their ability. ter, and Judy Eger, Chi, '33, one of the new ini The Central Michigan chapter itself is now in tiates, who were guests of honor. Their common the process of conjuring up methods of earning subject was "Keeping Faith." money for convention next summer, and since New Arrangements were made for the dinner by York is so much nearer than Washington we are Martha Sheldon Middleton, Chi, '29. Helen Nida hoping that several carloads will be able to go Brannan, Chi, '28, was decorations chairman. Fran besides our regular delegate. If any Michigan ces Kirkpatrick, Chi, '28, planned the program. alumn~ should get the urge to drive through when The publicity was in charge of Ruth Patterson they see this letter, we hope they will please com Nida, Chi, '25. municate with Eunice Winans, 126 East Main Our contributions for the Maine Sea Coast Mis street, Lansing, Mich., and let her know their de sion were collected at a Thanksgiving meeting at sire. the home of Anne Milliken Briggs, Chi, '23, as JANETTE TRACHSEL sisted by Helen Nida Brannan. More than twenty attended the meeting. The Christmas party held at Chi's chapter house, with plans made by Huldah Stroedter, Chi, '25, and Mildred Watson, Epsilon, New Form for Annual Luncheon of the alumn~ chapter, and Margaret Andrew of of Central New York Alumn~ the college chapter, was also well attended by the Adds to Treasury alumn~. A heavy pewter tray for the tea table was presented to the college group. We are pleased to announce that our member The January bridge luncheon held at the Mara ship has increased during the past few months, mor suffered from too close proximity to Christmas and we hope to add more and more steady par bills, an epidemic of "flu, " and the depression (it ticipants to our group if possible. had to get into this letter, someway) . The arrange The annual luncheon, which is usually held at a ments were in charge of Ruth Patterson Nida. A downtown hotel or restaurant, this year was a cov meeting of the board of trustees of the house cor ered-dish luncheon at the home of Anne Aloi, in poration preceded the luncheon. December. Catherine and Beatrice Henward as DOROTHY SIMPSON WILSON sisted greatly, both with food, and in preparation. Each member was taxed 35 cents to attend the Unusual Ideas for Programs of Chicago's luncheon. Our profit of a few dollars was turned Sectional Groups over to the treasurer. At our January meeting, we enjoyed the hos Thirty-live were present at the downtown lunch pitality of Esther Bibbens, Epsilon, '24. Plans were eon-bridge January 9 at the Medical and Dental discussed to open the chapter house this summer, Arts building. We were happily surprised to have for the purpose of housing girls during the sum Lorah Monroe with us for the afternoon. The mer session. Several other sororities have done this West section, under the leadership of Alice Tee in previous years, and it has proved an excellent garden, Theta, '29, was in charge of this successful money-making scheme. The plan was regarded meeting. favorably by all the members, and will probably The sectional meetings are growing more and be carried out. Also a letter of praise and encour more interesting as the year progresses. For their agement was sent to Epsilon chapter for their ex January meeting, the West section tried the after cellent scholastic standing this year. noon for a change, to give opportunity to members January 26, Edith Jones Van Weelden, Alpha, who could not come regularly to evening meetings ; ex-'06, graciously opened her home to entertain the the North section found that a "pot-luck supper" members of the alumn~ group and their friends brought out their largest gathering-not only of at a luncheon bridge. their own members, but guests from other sections ANNB ALOI as well. MARCH, 1932 157 At the November meeting of the North section, the universality of this principle, the Dallas Alum Janet Tietjens Hart, Psi, '30, gave a program from nre at their open meeting gave their 'guests an in her mother's (Eunice Tietjens) poems; she also timation of what they might, with luck, be wear read some of her own poems from "The Jaw ing a month from now, served them tea, and let Breaker's Alphabet," and gave a demonstration them talk. So about 200 friends of members and with several of her puppet characters. The De representatives of City Panhellenic sororities went cember meeting disclosed a great deal of "home home from the reception suite of the Highland talent" (and hilarity) in the production of two Park city hall on the evening of February 20 de pantomimes. · termined to have that "snappy" green suit from South-siders who attended the December meet Nieman Marcus, or a divorce. ing were quite won over to the advantages of "do Impressionable as ever, the Dallas Alumnz ing" Europe by canoe after seeing Frances Warren hastily obeyed President Hoover's February warn Baker's Psi, '24, interesting pictures and hearing ing, "Stop hoarding your money." Sigma chapter the story of her trip. They discovered at their Janu was the immediate beneficiary of the restoration of ary meeting at Mary Bean's that they had some the alumnre currency to circulation. On the evening real ping-pong players among their members. It of February 10, the alumnre entertained with a looks as if they'll have to challenge the other "Silhouette" party for Sigma's rushees. Lucile sections! We're all looking forward to other down Cleveland Traughber, district counse.Ior, was like town and sectional meetings. wise honored at this time. MARY ELIZABETH BEAN The interests of the Dallas Sigmas have not been confined entirely to local society, but have been as much international as not, for two former Gala Christmas Party Source members of Sigma chapter are in the war zone at of Fun to Cincinnati Shanghai. Ruth Hill, Sigma, '24, is there in con The December meeting of Cincinnati Alumnre nection with the Y.W.C.A. while Irma Edmiston, chapter was a Christmas party, each member Brown, '23, transfer from Phi, is stationed with bringing a dollar gift, distributed by drawing num her husband, an officer in the United States Ma bers. rine corps. Christmas cards were sold again this year, al JEAN MCINTOSH KNICKERBOCKER though the returns were not so large as previously. Our box to the Maine Sea Coast Mission was well Uni-versity of Den-ver Alumn~ Create \lnder way by December 1. We had twelve names Six Scholarships and sent a few extra gifts. ' We were glad to welcome Mildred Reinhart University of Denver alumnre throughout Colo Spry, Alpha Iota, '30, of Huntington, W.Va., to rado will be interested in a new plan the Denver o~r January meet_ing. w.e'.d. be glad to know of any Alumnre chapter has now put into effect regarding Sigma. Kappas either VlSltmg or resident in Cin scholarships. They have created six four-year cmnati, as we are seeking new affiliations to our scholarships, the value of which is estimated at chapter, which is largely made up of Alpha Iota $50,000. The state has been divided into six dis alumnre. tricts with alumnre in the respective districts in BETTY KISER BEAMAN terviewing and recommending the applicants to an alumnre board who will make the final decision as to the award of the scholarship. By means of these Talk on Flower Arrangements Adds s~holarships it is believed more of the outstanding Interest to Cle-veland Tea high school students will be given an opportunity to go to Denver university rather than to the state Ada Mill~r Macbeth, Omega, '27, was hostess for our Chnstmas party at her beautiful home on institution, where it is less expensive. So if the Wooster road, Rocky River. She was assisted by alumnre throughout the state will remember this splendid opportunity, they may be able to assist ~rene Sh~rp Caulfield, Alpha Kappa, '26, in serv some worthy student as well as help the alumnz mg a dehghtfull~cheon. A pleasant afternoon was spent f?laymg bndge. Sigma Kappa playing cards board with their suggestions. · were given as pnzes. Colorado alumnre chapter of Sigma has made January 23, Katherine Teuer Lowry Theta '17 plans for entertaining District Counselor Lucile open~d her spacious home for a lecture' and de~on: Traughber at dinner during her visit here. stratwn of flowers by Christine Cares, a well PAULINE BRAIDEN DARLEY known Cleveland fl~rist. Tea was served to thirty ?ve guests ..Mrs. Etienne Moore assisted in mak Detroit Alumn~ Organize State mg th.e affair a success by entertaining a group of to Aid Rushing her fnends at a luncheon and later bringing them to the tea. At the January meeting of the Detroit Alumna: Ruth Wychgel and Marion Claflin have en chapt.er, held in the apartment of Louise McCurdy tered the Panhellenic bridge tournament. Mc~mnan, !'-lpha, the resignation of Helen Gil lespie Gellem, Alpha Mu, '24, president, was re SUE MILLER AxE gretfully accepted. Nothing but ill health could force Helen to abandon her numerous activities Dallas Alumn~ Quick to Respond for she is an ardent, loyal, and sincere worker_: to Hoo-ver's Anti-Hoarding Edict and all who know her earnestly hope for her quick and complete recovery. Margaret Sherman Peet Give a woman a nt;w fashion, a companion, and Alpha Mu, '27, was elected to complete the tee~ a cup of tea-;-she will forget time and the rest of office. of the world m her complete enjoyment. Assuming Plans were discussed for the organization af 158 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE the state of Michigan into districts with a chairman some of our splendid meetings which are held the at the head of each section for the purpose of com third. Wednesday of each m~nth? The February piling lists of prospective rushees for the Uni- meetmg was at the home of Marie Phillips Boyle Alpha Xi, '22. ' Quite in contrast is the local financial situation. All four Iowa City banks have closed within the last three months. Needless to say, both Eastern Iowa and AI ph a Xi suffered in the crash; practi cally every alumna here lost individually as welL Thus agam we find another common bond-the b?nd of. financial reverses. A Cedar Rapids bank is a1dm~ m the attempt to bring some order from the d1fficult economic situation. It has established a branch to serve in clearing checks. We had planned a benefit bridge. The failure of all the Iowa City banks caused us to cancel such plans for the present. Although benefit bridges are now out of order we enjoyed an especially successful tea January 24: The tea was g1ven at Eva Threlkeld Winter's home to honor Audrey Dykeman. The patronesses and the alumnre were de~ighted to have. the opportunity of closer contact w1th our charmmg grand presi dent. Mrs. F. D. Francis poured ; she was assisted -by Margery Long Wagner, Florence McDowell, and Mary NewelL Susan, our hostess' eight months.-old daughter, was a darling assistant in entertammg. MYRTLE MADSEN DE VAUL "Ben Told" Is New Assistant to Hartford Correspondent Dr. B~ady's Ben Told will have to report our last meetmg for alack and alas! other duties called Margaret Sherman Peet and a perfect gale drove your · correspondent home to an early bed. versity of Michigan chapter. Claire Yungclas Reck, When we say gale, we mean it for believe it Alpha Epsilon, '24, one of our most indefatigable or not, it blew the ridgepole off ~ur house. But workers, is in charge of this program_ no such bagatelle could keep a goodly number of The Detroit Panhellenic dinner was announced Sigmas from. journeying to Mary Ann Ogden's for February 20, to be held at the Book-Cadillac house for bndge, good, bad and indifferent and hoteL Clara Dockum Van Auken, Epsilon and refreshments, decidedly good. In fact, Ben whispers Theta, has been elected hostess from Sigma Kappa that everybody stayed as late as she dared-e'en to for all Detroit Panhellenic affairs_ the wee, wee hours. Our Christmas party was held December 1 at . At the party, Ben says the biggest piece of gos Louise McKinnan's apartment. Etta Crawford Cat Sip was that Eleanor Warren Psi had left her lin, Alpha Tau, arranged a most unusual and in position at the Hartford hospit~l fo; a similar one (dietitian) at the Y.W.C.A. We have since heard ~eresting pro~ram. -r:ea was served with Betty Hew Itt Jones, Ps1, pounng. The program consisted of that Eleanor gave a very interesting talk on "Bal an informal talk on marionettes by Paul McPhar anced Diets" during the annual open house week lin, president of the Marionette Fellowship of De at the "Y." troit. After asking him all the questions we could To quote Ben further-Vanetta Warren Xi think of, we explored the theater (one of the two '14, is journeyi?g to .Columbia university 'every permanent public marionette theaters in the United week, studymg JOurna!Jsm. We trust she's getting States, the other being in Los Angeles) and primed to write these letters next year? Ben also handled the various types of puppets that were says that Evelyn Ryle, Nu, '19, is starring on the used in the Christmas plays. After the tea, "sight "Y" basketball tc:am . ( Oh, no! she wouldn't tell unseen" presents were raffled off to the Sigmas us. It might be boastful ! ) present-and more money was added to the treas But Ben doesn't have to be with us when we ury! pick up the paper and read that Cecelia Van The February meeting was a children's Valen Auken, Omicron, '19, was on the Poetry club re tine party. This program of local philanthropy was ception committee, entertaining Carl Sandburg, and m charge of Marjorie Fay Barnes, Alpha Mu. the same week read a paper for her Delphian. We also interrupted an all-day committee meet ing of the West Hartford church, where Helene Financial Stress Fails to Dim Thompson, Alpha, '99, was, as usual helping to Spirits of Eastern Iowa plot the year's work. All the humdru'm work no The spirit of the Eastern Iowa Alumnre chapter body else wants, Helene undertakes cheerfully continues inspirationaL Won't some of you nearby and, consequently, she is never idle. ' alumnre make a point of running in to join us at HILDA L. WOODS MARCH, 1932 159 Benefit Bridge GiYen by Houston Iowa Alumna! Continue Close Contact Alumm.e with Alpha Epsilon Tea and cakes were served before the meeting, The regular Iowa alumnre meeting was held at November 9, and Irma Vaudoit, Pi, '20, made us the chapter house, February 28, following the forget the winter's cold in the warmth of her wel winter formal. come. A bridge benefit was planned, the proceeds Vera Caulum, '29, entertained a group of eight to be used in paying our pledge to Maine Sea Alpha Epsilons at a bridge and luncheon in her Coast Mission, in sending sweaters to the children home in Sioux City during the holidays. for Christmas, and in helping with relief work in Among the alumnre visitors on the campus re Houston. These plans were carried out on Decem· cently were: Audree Groves, '29, San Antonio, ber 3 at Howard Furniture company, and $25 was Tex.; Gladys Adams, '28, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; raised. Twenty-seven tables of our friends enjoyed and Margaret Davis, '29, Rinard, Iowa. an afternoon of bridge and we had no expense Mrs. Herbert Harmison (Adeline Wurdeman, except table favors, as Howard Furniture company '24) and her husband have moved from Mason entertains and furnishes prizes as advertising. City to Dubuque, Iowa. We are sorry to have December 7 found the Sigmas with Anne "Ad" move farther away for she was one of our Smith, Sigma, '26, as hostess, and the success of most active members. our benefit party as topic of conversation. The advisory board elected for the coming year Our regional meeting was held January 18 in is as follows: Rose Wisehart Osborn, Iota, '21; the home of Catherine Berry, Sigma, '24, with Helen Putnam, '28, and Josephine Burkett, '30. Lyndith Barkley, Xi, as co-hostess. A lavender and JOSEPHINE BURKETT maroon color scheme was carried out so faith fully that even the maid was dressed in a maroon JacksonYille Alumna! Club GiYen uniform with lavender apron and cap. A corsage of violets for each member was a surprise. Impetus by Emma Kinne Panhellenic is sponsoring a family this year Last November, Emma Kinne visited Jackson and we have contributed. We gave a Christmas ville. So inspiring is the true Sigma Kappa spirit gift to an orphan in Faith home and helped an old in her that the few alumnre here were "raised from man. Florence Ayer, Alpha, '27, has been active the dead." Being few in number, it was decided in puppetry. A letter of thanks for the sweaters that we should first have a club here with an idea sent to Maine Sea Coast Mission has been received of joining with St. Augustine and Palatka to form ANNE SMITH an alumnre chapter. A luncheon was given December 31 to which college members from Tallahassee were invited. Alumna! of Indiana Form Organization There were fourteen present. The club will meet the to Aid Tau, Hold March Meeting last Saturday of every month at the Carling Hotel. The second meeting was held January 30. It was at Tau's Initiation again our pleasure to have a number of girls from With the appointment of Mary Shoemaker Tur Tallahassee who were visiting here for the week-end. pin, '22, and Margaret Hazlett Taggart, Alpha It was a happy occasion indeed for our honor guest Iota, '27, to meet at Bloomington on January 30 was Bernice Donnell, who recently left Tallahassee with representatives from all other Sigma alumnre and was married February .7 to Thomas Warters groups in Indiana, we feel that at last we are lay of Atlanta, Ga. ing the foundation for active helpful aid to Tau The St. Augustine Sigma Kappas, through Mabel chapter. The representatives from the Bloomington Poe and Lela Stewart, invited us to meet with them alumnre group are chairmen of this special alumnre February 27, at the Ponce de Leon hotel in St. group. Through it we are expecting to keep in Augustine. much closer touch with the only chapter we have RoBERTA HEAD in the state, incidentally with our Sigma alumnre over the state. Our representatives will bring us, first hand, the problems that Tau will want us Interest of Alpha Delta Alumna! to help her with, and will bring us a definite Fostered by KnoxYille Group working plan. At Christmas time we aided a family in distress Indianapolis Panhellenic has taken over the by giving them a shower of groceries and toys. We theater for one of the performances of "Green also contributed a few dollars to the Empty Stock· Pastures." Pat McCray Breunig, '30, and Mary ing fund, sponsored by one of our local newspa Turpin report the house is sold out and that Pan pers and unusually successful this season. hellenic expects to clear over $700 for their schol arship loan fund, which is quite large and exten Hazel Ruth Morgan Schubert entertained us de sively used. lightfully at our January meeting, this time in her new home located in Forest Hills. Gladys Roehl We are planning our March meeting in Bloom ington at initiation time. This seems to be the made ~n ~xceptionally fine report of her trip to nicest meeting of the year, for all of us who go !"fashvllle m attendance at the regional convention m the fall. We feel that this convention was a b.ack find classmates we have not seen for a long time. decided success and hope we can have one similar every year that national does not meet. Our February meeting was a business meeting Louise Vance Burkey has compiled the Alpha followed by bridge at the home of Dr. Lillian B. Mueller, '09. Delta Spirit this year and has just released it to many expecta~:t. s?uthern Sigmas. As some of you SUSIE KAMP HUTCHISON know, the S prrrt JS an aggregation of letters from 160 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE almost all (we never can say just all) members of Kennedy, Lambda, '10, at Los Angeles, Cleveland our Tennessee chapter. They are personal, infor 66864 for directions. mal, witty, and informative. The editor, a different Truly memorable was the Founders' Day ban girl each year, arranges them according to initia quet, November 14, at the Chapman Park hotel, tion numbers, has them mimeographed, and mails with its quiet dignity and formality. Sister True a copy to each Alpha Delta. The idea originated Mattoon as toastmistress chose for her theme, "In with Blanche and Rebecca Tansil, who edited the spiration," which we have received from those who first few numbers before Knoxville alumna: took gave us our heritage in Sigma. The following re it over. It is such a grand way of keeping old sponses were made: "Intellectual Inspiration of contacts and making new. Mary Carver Low," Antha Knowlton Miller, Al Zelma Monroe came the weekend of February pha; "Spiritual Inspiration of Elizabeth Hoag," 1 on a vi~it of inspection to Alpha Delta and Jane Stuart, Alpha Omicron ; "Inspiration of all Knoxville alumnre. Her criticism is always so con around Womanliness of Ida Fuller Pierce," Esther structive and her manner of delivering it so kind Colville Waldron, Alpha Omicron; "Inspiration of and gracious that we really enjoy being inspected, Unselfish Living-Frances Mann Hall," Helen and hope she enjoys equally our efforts at entertain Johnson Dow, Alpha Omicron; "Inspiration to ing. ward Duty, well performed, Louise Helen Coburn," Our chapter is still not large, less than twenty, Edith Merrill Hurd, Alpha. "And the spirit with but we do have pleasant meetings and we are ap in them walked forth among their fellowmen." preciative of our good fortune in living in a col GRACE MULFORD KNIPE lege town. We have had close contact with Al pha Delta activities; have shared their rushing worries; and enjoyed their fresh enthusiasm. We Tenth Anniversary of Alpha Theta have helped them in a material way by giving to Be Celebrated by Louisville parties for them and their rushees; but they have helped us more subtly by renewing the fires of What have we been doing? love and devotion to Sigma which is a part of us First: Most important of all, we are planning all. "big doings" for the coming spring initiation of MARY CROWELL PETERS Alpha Theta which we expect to make a homecom ing 'for all the Sigmas from this fold. It is the tenth anniversary of Alpha Theta's institution and Inspiration of Founders Subject we really want to celebrate. "Gloryoskey," as An for Program of Los Angeles nie Rooney would say, aren't ten years in Sigma There was sunshine on the treetops Kappa worth a big occasion? And the wind was singing low, Second: This in all modesty we place in an lJV ay off in the distance inconspicuous position in the second paragraph. There were mountains capped with snow. We purchased some very gorgeous card table chairs from a Sigma Kappa papa, which fold . They sup And in the Sigma house on Westwood Hills plement the sofa cushion, floor, and other happy the crackling fire, the happy voices, the rapt at landings used (formerly) at the college chapter's tention to the exquisite music of our guest artists, meetings. were a tribute to the excellent planning of Alice Third: We have, all according to instructions Maile, Kappa, ex-'10, Christmas tea chairman. from the grand president, an alumnre rush com Baritone operatic selections and ballads were sung mittee, headed by Virginia Quest, Alpha Theta, by Mr. Robert Maile, accompanied by Mrs. Crane, ex-'29, of ten members, which is functioning! mother of our Alpha Omicron sister, Lois Crane, Fourth: This really is an achievement-we have '3 1. Marion Clack, Delta, ex-'12, was accompanist issued a Sigma Kappa directory with the names, for Mrs. Hortense Gilbert, contralto. Minnie addresses, and telephone numbers of all active Bunker, Alpha, '90, had come from Berkeley to alumnre and the names and addresses of all in be with us. So enjoyable was this happy occasion, active black sheep in Louisville. It also has the roll that a Christmas tea bids fair to become an annual of Alpha Theta and the names and addresses of institution. every Sigma initiated in Louisville. Sounds im Los Angeles alumnre are attempting a varied posing and looks imposing. Credit for the work program of monthly meetings this year, having is due Catherine Burdorf, . Alpha Theta, '28, with but four general meetings for business; in this a few suggestions and the obtaining of the mimeo way the remaining meeting dates are free for fes graphing at cut rates by Kathryn Stoerr Brow tivities. January 23, with Lorene Adamson as host der, Alpha Theta, '25. ess, marked the third business session of the year, Numerous things are planned and will be re at which plans to materialize next year were made. vealed in the next communication. We recommend our scheme to other chapters. KATHRYN STOERR BROWDER The magazine subscriptions to help swell our Scholarship Loan contribution are coming merrily in: please continue during the year to send all Madison Alumna! Form Committee avai lable orders with checks payable to Minta to Aid Psi in Rushing Edwards, Lambda, '09, at her new address, 544 Doran street, Glendale, Calif. And one announce Madison alumnre decided at their November ment: April 23 will be play day for all Sigma meeting with Frances Landon Kivlin that they alumna: of Southern California, together with their should try to get in closer touch with Psi chap families. There will be sports for everyone, girls, ter. To that end a number of alumnre attended one husbands, and children. Visitors from other chap of their regular meetings and talked over mutual ters will be most welcome--just phone Eveline problems. When the alumnre chapter met again, MARCH, 1932 161 a benefit bridge party in Milwaukee, which the this time with Olga Wellberg Johnson, "Binny" Dougan, who serves on Psi's advisory board as alumnre supported. well as acting as alumnre president, appointed two Gertrude Haase Timm is handling the sale of members to serve with the Psi committee for each pie-crust this year. This scheme of raising money of the February rushing functions. Wisconsin so is slow but sure, because repeat orders continue to rorities find themselves faced with some unusual come in, and "Mother's Old-Fashioned Pie-Crust" problems this year, and we feel that co-operation is making friends among Sigma Kappa brides and is needed more now than ever before. all their relatives. The pie-crust is boxed attrac We are making plans for a hope chest to raise tively ; it keeps indefinitely; it is made of the finest ingredients; and it makes delicious pies, even when money. The Service shop sale which we had first roughly manipulated by the most inexperienced considered was indefinitely postponed, since various cook! relief organizations are so anxious to secure all New Sigma Kappas in Milwaukee whom we available old clothes. We are indeed sorry to report that two of our hope to see often are Betty Kehler, Psi, '31, Helene number are leaving Madison. Blanche Paris Dyrud, Kauwertz, Psi, '31, D orothy Krueger, Psi, '31, Rosa Psi, '28, is moving to Freeport, Ill., where the lyn Drosen, Psi, '31, Mrs. E. C. Dietmann, and Mrs. Hasen. Burgess Battery company with which her husband ALICE DREWS GLADFELTER is connected has transferred a large part of its plant. Lillian Netzow Olds, Psi, '24, has moved Benefit Bridge Party of Nashville back to Milwaukee. HELEN GIBSON CANNON Aids Vanderbilt Student Loan Ella Mae Walker, Alpha Rho, '26 is the new Omega Members Are Entertained at president of the Nashville Alumnre ~hapter. The December Luncheon by Miami other officers elected during our January meeting were Ag_nes Travis Lauderdale, Alpha Rho, '28, Miami chapter was caught napping on the De vtce-prestd ent; F.lora Rankin, Alpha Rho, '31, cember Jetter, but nevertheless we have been doing treasurer ; Mary Evelyn Jenkins "Chadwick Alpha things. The first regular meeting was held in No Rho, '30, secretary; and Rowena Rutherf~rd Far vember, when Arlee Morgan and Mary Leeper, rar, Alpha Rho, '26, TRIANGLE correspondent. Rho, '22, entertained at a lovely luncheon at Ar We gave a benefit bridge party one rainy Satur lee's home. At this meeting officers were elected day afternoon in January, with tables scattered and plans made for the season's meetings. through every room in the chapter house. The in In December, Dot Snyder and Helen Whitten centive for this party was our plan to donate a entertained very grandly at Burdine's, and plans certain amou~t of money to the college. chapter were made for the Christmas luncheon for Omega to help wtth Its pledge to the Vanderbilt Univer girls home for the holidays. sity Student Loan fund. The money in excess of The holiday luncheon, also at Burdine's, was the amount given the college girls is to be loaned a lovely affair, and decidedly much "Sigma Kappa" to any senior or junior needing money to pay her in decoration details. The college member guests Stgma Kappa dues. were: Kathryn Newton, Mary Lee Parker Sara JOSEPHI_NE WARREN YOUNG Hosea, Winifred Hagan, and Betty Ramer, pledges;_ and Mildred Hunt, Virginia Hunt, Doro Record of Attendance Is Achievement thy Bebmger, Laurie Weston, and Janette Whar ton, vpperclassmen. of Nebraska Alumnce Florence MacVicar and her sister, Floy Mus November 18 we met with Angeline C. Ander sett, were hostesses in January at a chummy lunch son, Alpha Kappa, '2 5, and Ida May Flader '26 eon at Florence's home. The business report at at the home of the former. It seemed like a Christ: this meeting showed that our rummage sale had mas party because we packed our Christmas box for proven a financial success and we were able to the Maine Sea Coast M ission. send in our Sea Coast Mission pledge and make ~e have had such fine meetings this year; the a very small gift to Omega. busmess IS taken care of in a concise manner by ISABELLE MORRISON our very_ capable president, Mildred French, '29, after whtch we enjoy a few games of bridge. The Milwaukee Alumnce Favor attendance has been nearly perfect each time. Informal Sessions Our interest now is turned toward the party for the Alpha Kappa pledges to be held early in "Our meetings are too formal!" March. We have planned to have the alumnre That was the general opinion of the Milwaukee from nearby towns come in for this party so that alumnre at the special meeting called at the home they may get better acquainted with these new of Gertrude Haase Timm to discuss why this year's Alpha Kappas. meetmgs seemed Jess .successful than last year's. Gertrude Beers spent Christmas vacation with And so I.nstead of holding dinner meetings at Luvtcy Htll m Boston; she reports that Luvicy is the Women s College club, we are going to re enJoymg her work at Harvard. turn to the delightfully informal evenings at the JANET SMITH home of our memb~rs. Each hostess is to plan the meeting and entertainment as she wishes New York Alumnce SucceJsful Our Christmas meeting was a dinner ; nd bridge in Money-Raising Events party at . the College club. arranged by Bonnie Potter Blrffert and Anne Sillar Leker. Our annual luncheon took place in the Silver During the Christmas holidays, Psi chapter gave room of the St. George hotel, Saturday, Decem- 162 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE her 4. At a beautifully appointed banquet table plans for the coming convention. Her visit was so decorated with chrysanthemums, we enjoyed an short that many of the members were not able to excellent meal and very pleasant company. Evelyn see her; however, at the November meeting the Ryle, Nu, '23, a member of the newly formed lucky ones who had attended the dinner passed Hartford Alumnre group, was a guest. We felt on to their less fortunate sisters Mrs. Emerson's honored to have with us also Rhena Clark Marsh, valuable suggestions. To this same meeting we Alpha, '01, former grand president, and Martha brought our contributions and gifts for the Maine Meserve Gould, Alpha, '96. Joanna Parks, Delta, Sea Coast Mission. These were collected and mailed '07, accepted the VICe-presidency for the remainder by Ruth Lichtenwalter. of the year, as Marion Borner, Alpha Lambda, '29, The December meeting was of course a Christ felt it necessary to resign her office. Sister Parks mas party. Wilma Bulow, Theta, Evelyn Pagett, collected a number of birthday dollars which will Alpha Mu, and Ella Fay McCue, Alpha Epsilon, swell the fund for sending a delegate to the con were hostesses. They planned a festive and full vention. At a short business meeting following the afternoon. The winners at bridge received Sigma banquet it was decided that the president might Kappa playing cards and each member present appoint an advisory committee of older alumnre . received a Christmas present. We also received to serve for the remainder of the year. booklets containing a list of officers and members, New York Alumnre entertained the Alpha and the programs for the year. Lambda pledges at a tea, January 13, at the Pan The January meeting was called a "Personali hellenic building. It was a pleasant, intimate affair ties" meeting. Carrying out this idea, the enter with five of the Alpha Lambda pledges present tainment consisted of contests designed to test our and also Anne Baumann, '32, chapter president. knowledge of world personalities and our acquain Katherine Estabrooks Bode, Alpha Lambda, '30, tance with each other. The first contest was in the made a charming hostess . .All the alumnre chapter form of a questionnaire with spaces for writing officers were present besides Frances Holden Per preferences, prejudices, and accomplishments. Af rine, Alpha Tau, '24, Bess Ritchie, Rho, '19, Er ter each member had filled out one of these blanks, mine Stone, Sigma, '21, Rhena Clark ·Marsh, Al the answers were read and a prize awarded to the pha, '01, and Mary Bickmore Teft, .Alpha, '93. member guessing correctly all the names. Eleanor Our annual theater party took place January Nique, Alpha Tau, was winner. The second con 26. A congenial group of Sigmas, their husbands test was a list of fifty celebrities which included and friends had seats at the Avon to see "Hay local Sigma Kappa stars as well as figures of in Fever" by Noel Coward with Constance Collier. ternational renown . Wilma Bulow received the Frances Perrine, Alpha Tau, '24, had charge of prize for identifying most of these. An interest the party, the profits to go to the Maine Sea Coast ing thing brought out by the questionnaires was Mission and the Scholarship Loan fund. About the fact that the kind of entertainment most en 90 tickets were sold and our profits amounted to joyed at our parties was "talking." Our group over $40. is so scattered geographically that some of us never , January 18, Dorothy Woodward, Alpha Zeta, meet except at Sigma Kappa gatherings, and we 23, and Helen McNulty, Nu, '23, held a bene look forward eagerly to hearing and telling all fit bridge for New Jersey Sigma Kappas, their that has been done during the intervening month. husbands, and friends, to raise money for the We are trying to work out a plan for evening ' Scholarship Loan fund. Bridge was played at five meetings to supplement the regular Saturday aft tables. Everyone enjoyed the evening and the girls ernoon meetings. Some of our members can never cleared $10 for the fund. come on Saturday and others occasionally find they LAURIE MAYER SMITH must rush away early. We would appreciate sug gestions from other chapters who have solved this problem. Time of Chapter Meeting We have enjoyed having with us at different for Palo Alto Alumn~ meetings several members from out of town, in addition to our regular group. Among these were Palo Alto Alumnre chapter meets on alternate Ruth Birge, Alpha Zeta, from West Town, Pa.; second Friday evenings or Saturday afternoons, Florence Opie, Alpha Zeta, from Princeton, N.J.; so as to allow opportunity for all to attend at Louease Weaver Kane, Rho, from Tenafly, N .J.; least some of the meetings. The February meeting and Esther Engle, Eta, from Allentown, Pa. was scheduled for 7:30 o'clock, on the twelfth. F. ESTELLE WELLES MARJORIE E. LANDERS Pittsburgh's Founders' Day Program "Personalities" Program Is Unusual Idea Is Worthy of Emulation of Philadelphia Alumn~ We must mention again Mrs. Emerson's visit The year 1931 may go down in financial history to Pittsburgh in November. She had scarcely as the most thoroughly depressed of the century, reached the hotel when Sigmas began to arrive to but when the Philadelphia Alumnre chapter meets, greet her, and fifteen came to do her honor, in depression vanishes as if by magic-temporarily at cluding all of our chapter officers. Of course every least. one fell in love with her and wished for a longer Early in the autumn we had the pleasure of stay. The value of these visits from our national a visit from Ruby Carver Emerson. We entertained officers cannot be overemphasized. her with a dinner and she in turn entertained and In November, too, came our benefit bridge, a inspired us with her reports on other chapters she truly successful affair held at McCreery's. The as had visited, helpful ideas for the future growth of sessment was low enough to attract many, and yet our own chapter, and fascinating details of the brought us some profit. MARCH, 1932 163 The next week a number of the alumnre had Eileen Parker Reynolds, who lost her mother on planned to attend Alpha Sigma's initiation at West New Year's day. minster. Illness and other misfortunes prevented, EMMA KINNE and so once more Emma Kinne had the honor _of presenting our scholarship cup, this time to Lomse Johnston. Audrey Dykeman was there, and _she and Portland, Me., Maintains High Ideal Emma burned the midnight current wh1le they of Philanthropy Contribution talked over the destinies of Sigmas from the Grand Our January meeting was held at the very at Council to the newest initiate and latest pledge. tractive new home of Margaret Burnham, Alpha, The next afternoon Alpha Sigma's pledl?ies ca"?e '12. We were happy to learn that our ann~al to be introduced, and in the m!dst of 1t all 10 pledge of $50 had been forwarded to the Mame came Mabel Wallace Shadle w1th her husband Sea Coast Mission. A letter from Mrs. Guptill in and small son. That's loyalty, to drive sixty or more formed us of the joy and comfort which our con miles each way just for an hour . . Alpha Sigma tribution of mittens stockings, and warm garments is very happily "at ·home" in her own chapter had brought to the worthy folk of the ··rock house. Our Christmas gift was a bookcase for the bound coast of Maine." In the words of Henry living room. . Van Dyke, "it is a kind wor~ that is at once p~ Every Saturday in November was a S1~ma day, triotic in its service to Amenca and philanthropic it seemed and on the twenty-first Jenme Carter in its broader outlook." Like all our Sigma sis was hoste~s for the regular meeting. For the first ters, we are indeed proud and happy to have a time we were able to have a real Founders' day share in such noble work. program. From Emma Kinne, who has known per As usual, the problem of money-making was sonally all of the four founders who hav~ walked discussed at great length, in order to prov1de the among the Sigmas of our da~, came an mformal, means for our gift to the Scholarship fund and to intimate sketch of each elder s1ster. Then one mem Alpha chapter. Final arrangements were left to the ber from each of the nine chapters represented competent finance committee which is made up of there that day told something of her own chapter · Margaret Burnham, Alpha, '12, Alice L_inscott, traditions; this prefaced by a little self-drawn por Alpha, '31, and Helen Robinson, Alpha, 10. trait of the speaker. Every one felt better ac After all necessary business had been transacted, quainted after this, not only with each other, but refreshments were served by the hostess and her with other chapters. Trust Ethel Beck to arrange two assistants, Bernice McGorrill, Alpha, '21, and interesting programs. Caro Hoxie, Alpha, '96. · The December meeting, planned to be held We are well represented in the newly or early to "avoid the Christmas rush," was sm~ll ganized Union of Colby college alumnre. Soph1e but enthusiastic. Bess Hallowell, Mary Herre1d, Mace, Alpha, '81, Jul~a Winslow,_ Alpha, '86, and Grace Miller had a very original party with Myrtice Cheney, Alpha, 96, 164 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE December 14: Our cheerful Christmas party at Glowing Tribute to Ruby Emerson 1belma Kellogg's, Xi, was exceedingly colorful. Paid by Rhode Island Alumna! Plans were made for providing a poor family with a Christmas box to contain food, clothing, and Early in January, the Rhode Island alumnre toys. A story of Christmas in a strange land was chapter had the great pleasure of being visited read by Ethel Tice, Pi, '20. by Ruby Carver Emerson. It seemed to be the January 18: Meeting was held at the home of consensus of opinion that although officially we Ruth Lawrence, Upsilon. The bridge tournament, were being "inspected," such a word was much one of our means for raising money for national too harsh to use when referring to that delight philanthropy, was discussed. ful occurrence. While she made only a flying trip Members were surprised to hear that Mildred to our city, Sister Emerson will never know just Borgeson, Upsilon, '26, one of our talented sis what encouragement and new ideas she gave to ters, left for California to teach dramatics. We also those of us who were so fortunate as to be in miss Nancy Lomax, Alpha Phi, who has moved to town during the holiday season. A little dinner at Eugene. However, Nancy will be close enough to Abbott Hall (which is managed by two Sigmas) visit us often, we hope. was followed by a regular meeting. This we made Alpha Phi girls provided the entertainment as brief as possible in order that we might yield which consisted of a very clever take-off on the more time to our Grand Vice-President. recent Culbertson-Lenz bridge tournament. Subsequent to the January meeting, our alum ore have found it difficult to speak of anything MARIAN CARLILE but the inspiration of Ruby Carver Emerson. If ever one person, individually, could stand before a group, and by sheer personality and inherent Musical Silver Tea Is Successful character make that group forget petty details, Undertaking of Puget Sound inaugurate new plans, new thoughts and new hopes-in fact, thrill to ideals and traditions What fun these bridge tournaments are! We in that person is the Grand Vice-President of Sigma Seattle have arranged ourselves into congenial Kappa. groups of sixteen. Several groups include hus By the next issue we may have come down to bands. The 25 cent pieces which each girl pays at earth sufficiently to write of our ordinary doings; every meeting seem to accumulate miraculously. but meanwhile, we are all soaring in the clouds Each group is to meet ten times before the final of anticipation-convention, grand officers, and play-off. our Ruby Carver Emerson! ERDENE GAGE January 31, we presented Gene Wallin Sunds ten, Mu, '22, and her husband, John Sundsten, at a musical silver tea at the chapter house. Gene Philanthropy Standard Maintained has a lovely voice and a charming manner. The by Rochester Chapter curve in the stair hall with its lovely pewter and Rochester alumnre met in November at May brass rail made a perfect setting for the artists. Robinson's (Lambda, '19) home for a tureen sup The program was as follows: per. The gifts for the Maine Sea Coast Christmas The Almighty ...... Schubert box were collected and partly packed during the GENE WALLIN evening. We were glad to welcome Eleanor Gor JOHN SUNDSTEN at the piano don Hamilton, Epsilon, '09, as a new member of Night and the Curtains D rawn ...... Terrata our group, she having moved to Rochester this fall A Birthday ...... Cowen when her husband became principal of the Iron Salaam ...... Mary Agnes Lang dequoit school here. JOHN FRENCH Our January meeting at Ruth Hoffmeister's VIRGINIA TESREAU at the piano (Nu, ex-'25), home was well attended. Ethel The Asra ...... Rubinstein Ball Taylor, Epsilon, '11, librarian at the Uni The Sea ...... Schubert versity of Rochester, gave a number of very in To be sung on the Waters ...... Schubert teresting reviews of late fiction and biography. GENE WALLIN Ethel is very well able to do such things and her JOHN SUNDSTEN effort was much' appreciated. We are lucky in Dragon Fly ...... Palmgren adding another newcomer to Rochester to our Rhapsody ...... Brahms membership, Eldreida Hoch Pope, Alpha Zeta, JOHN SUNDSTEN '26. A Poem ...... S undsten In February our meeting was a bridge at Beat Midsummer ...... Amy Worth rice Peck Masten's, (Tau ) apartment. GENE WALLIN The profit from our selling Christmas cards JOHN SUNDSTEN and the collection of dues enables us to pay off our immediate obligatiom to the endowment fund and the Maine Sea Coast Mission pledge. Last year Grace Jack Ketcham, Mu, ex-'14, made clever our per capita contributions were higher than programs from wallpaper samples. Eugenia Crav other alumnre chapters so we hope to do as well er Baillargeon, Mu, '19, made arrangements for this year. To procure more funds this year, we the music. are planning a trip to Pidgeon's shoe store in Tea, cakes, cookies, nuts, and candies were March. We shall enlist our husbands' and friends' served in the dining room. Members of the col attendance for their short advertising lecture and lege chapter served. Josephine Bulckeley, Mu, '10, their service of x-raying our feet. For it, Pidgeon's and Mrs. Muir, housemother, poured. pay us 25 cents pet: person. CATHERINE MILLS LEWIS DOROTHY DERR WILLIAM5 MARCH, 1932 165 San Diego Chapter Sponsors This should close my Jetter for this issue, but I have been impressed with what a remarkable Panhellenic Luncheon-Bridge array of progeny we have in this chapter. There The San Diego Sigmas, after a summer of are three Burnhams, two boys and a girl ranging varied interests, started ·their fall program by spon from three to ten years. Among their talents are soring the first regular bridge luncheon of the music, neighborhood leadership, activity in the Panhellenic association. Though many members "Cubs," traffic officer of the school squad, be were still vacationing, there was a goodly repre sides a decided literary bent. Francis Seymour Jut sentation present. ras, at three years, is already in a pre-school group The organization is happy in welcoming the and has a great propensity for singing and impro following new Sigmas into San Diego chapter. vising as he goes. His report just returned with Mary Chase, Phi, '31, who is teaching at the a notation as to his excellent disposition. (Those Bishop's school in La Jolla, and Myrtle Foster, Alphas who knew his mother should not be too Alpha Nu, who is now residing in San Diego. greatly shocked that he didn't inherit hers!) Doris Hazel Davis Keith, Zeta, '24, visited several times Furnside is winning honors in Mt. Holyoke, as we but has recently returned to Washington, D.C. indicated in our last letter. Of the two Race daugh Since charity should begin at home, it was de ters, ages four and one, Barbara likes to bother her cided to buy street car passes for needy high school mother and the doctor by inhaling small buttons. girls who were positively unable to obtain them. I believe she has other talents but recently I have not heard of them and would not be antique for MARY E. BROWN worlds. (Hearken, child of '29 !) Next on our list is Kenneth John Mighell, the talented youngster Sigma Reports from Schenectady who strides about unaided on his ten-months-old Includes News of Youngest Set nether props. And I am given to understand that whom he likes he teases, and screws his little November 3, we met at Mildred Parkinson's. countenance up into bewitching wreaths at your Eta, '27. We brought all the old clothes we could distress. The youngest of our heirs, wee son of round up, and added them to new flannelette gar Vida Waterman Davis, Nu, '28, is already worry ments we had made. These we packed in two boxes ing about teeth and the first marvels of a busy and sent to the Maine Sea Coast Mission. Abby world around him. Louise Fuller Burnham, Xi, '15, brou~ht some ELEANOR SEYMOUR JUTRAS old pictures of conventions, Coiby, and the found ers. She knew the people and places personally Preparing Box for Mission Is Festive and gave most interesting anetdotes on the snaps. Time in South Bend One picture, the last one taken of the four found ers together, Abby Louise gave to the chapter Stunt night rolled around and again Lola Jane outright. We seem already to be collecting bits of Rosenberger opened her home to the funsters of tradition to be treasured in our records. Halloween. We always have a great time I The The next chapter meeting was held January stunts were varied and clever this year and fol 13, at the home of Grace Morris Race, Alpha lowed a most enjoyable picnic supper-the food Zeta, '22. This meetin~ was largely devoted to and table arrangements carrying out the suggestion necessary business, as Claire Mitchell Robb, Alpha of Halloween. Kappa, ex-'29, our president, was about to leave on Beatrice Blough of Elkhart, imbued with the a trip of several months' duration. After the busi true Christmas spirit, asked us for the package ness had been completed, we played some bridge wrapping this year. The Mission gifts were nicer and parlor games. Did you think it possible nine than ever. Harmonicas still seem to be the favorite Sigma Kappas and the onlv husband present would toy for boys, and sweaters, mittens, and caps were be unable to spell liquefy? Alas 1 It's true. We displayed in all sizes. The dolls and dresses for couldn't. And we old ones who graduated previ girls called forth much admiration. The thrill ous to 1929 were greatlv amused bv a chi ld of of helping Santa make his rounds has seemed to more recent graduation. She was riding with her increase every year. The girls never tire of aiding "cousin" and had planned to come in later. We the jolly old saint. A chilli supper preceded the called her up about a quarter of'eleven. Now read packing. Helen Best poured at a table centere..f this and weep! She had not come so late because with lavender chrysanthemums and tapers. she thought we would be gone home to our downy The holiday season was marked by a delight couches. Oh, Oh! Oh I I for our creaking joints. ful tea at the Robertson tea room in South Bend. The third meeting was a covered dish supper Seven pledges and college members from Tau met for husbands and wives. This was held at the with the alumnre group. Tea was served at a long home of Adelaide True Ellery, Aloha, '90. and table centered with a large bowl of real mistletoe. those who have ever been inside the home of Dean Marcella Hartman and Charlotte Mourer poured. and Mrs. Ellery know what a beautiful setting we Prior to going to the Robertson, Grace Taylor had had for our gathering. The first part·of the evening opened her home for an informal hour of stunts, following 'the dinner (and I move that "eats" song, and getting acquainted. committee be permanent!), was spent informally. PHYLLIS MAHN POTTER I do wish it were permissible to retell some of the anecdotes our host and hostess told us of the Spokane Alumna? Find Valentine earlier days , but I presume this is not a "memoirs." Bridge-Di~ner Worth Repeating The latter part of the evening was soent listenin~ to a program of piano music given by Miss Ruth A Valentine bridge and dinner party was the Flickinger. It was the climax to a grand crescendo February event of Spokane alumnre. A similar af of enjoyment for the evening. fair last year proved both enjoyable and profitable, 166 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE the moderate charge made for the evening's enter Gamma chapter and we have hopes of getting a tainment being practically clear since food for the couple more girls from Pendleton and La Grande, dinner is largely donated by members. On both Ore. The latter town is over 100 miles away so it occasions, Mabel Skone Greenwood, Alpha Gamma is apparent what fame we are acquiring. '29, has offered the use · of her parents' home. Several of our members are planning on the Monthly meetings follow the schedule of our convention this summer, for we wan t to be duly "first" yearbook. The December meeting, with represented and we all remember what fun the Frances Bates Sampson, Alpha Gamma, ex-'27, last convention was. had Dollie Martin Miller, Alpha Gamma, ex-'23, Because of the heavy snow, we found it neces as a special guest. sary to omit our January meeting, but we expect Mabel Skone Greenwood entertained the alum to have a great deal to report following our Feb n~ in January at her attractive new home, estab ruary get-together. lished since her wedding in August, 1931. !LIN SMALL MITCHELL HAZEL CRISWELL LANG Sigmas of Washington Interested Tulsa Alumnt:e Entertain Men in Panhellenic Project at January Dinner-Bridge This has been a busy winter for Washington Packing our Christmas box for the Maine Sea Alumnre chapter and with the com ing of the Bi Coast Mission was the main event at the Novem Centennial, we have promise of an eve·n busier ber meeting of Tulsa chapter. We met at Esther spring. Although we are not planning to take part Dott's November 14 and were fortified by a lunch in the Bi-Centennial as a group, most of us are served after the box was completed. helping it along in one way or another. We hope Peggy Mitchell had the December meeting, after that many Sigmas will be in Washington for at which we enjoyed bridge and refreshments. least a part of the celebration and that they will all Our group entertained our husbands and "hus get in touch with the Washington Alumnre chap bands-to-be" at a lovely dinner bridge at Alma. ter. Sutherland's, January 8. Esther Dott came with a At the January meeting we were entertained headache but managed to take home the prize. The by Lee Nardell, '20, and "Do" Sornborger, '18. men's prize went to Alma Jewel's husband. "Do," who is a splendid musician played sev JUANITA MiLLER BURCKHALTER eral of her own piano compositions. Lee ex plained all the joys and trials of being a student Valentine Dance Is Social Event at Oxford. The joys were many; the trials seemed of Twin Cities Alumnce to center around the expenses and difficulties of baths. Seldom before has interest and enthusiasm At the February meeting, Rea Ballard and "Bob run so high among Twin Cities alumnre as dur bie" Bolton Duffield talked about Psi and the Uni ing the past few months. Our organization is versity of Wisconsin. Janice McKinney told us growing steadily and the D ecember and January about her summer at Geneva. She won the Ran meetings were so well attended that it may soon dolph-Macon scholarship to the summer school. be necessary to break up into two sections. Out of the three years this scholarship has been of Assisting hostesses at the December 7 meeting fered, Sigma Kappas have won it twice. at the home of Martha Sweet Countryman were We are planning to entertain Zeta's fine pledge Irene Du Lac Barker, Vera Altemeier Stephens, group at a dinner in the near future. and Inna Willis Hanneson. For the first time that Helen Smith, Alpha, Martha Turner, Omega, evening, Leota Winton Goodson served very re Alice Wick, Rho, and Rea Ballard and Edith Lap alistically as auctioneer in disposing of an attractive ish, Psi, entertained at the last bridge. They termed basket containing edibles and other useful articles, themselves "the foreigners" since most of the rest purchaser to refill and return for re-sale at the of Washington Alumnre chapter hail from Zeta. next meeting. They taught us how ham biscuits really should Evelyn Summers Kruse, Lorraine Fitch William taste-yum, yum ! son, and Melva Shakleford entertained January Washington Greeks have been busying them 13 at Evelyn's home. Plans were completed for selves lately trying to form a D istrict Panhellenic. an alumnre Valentine dance held at the chapter A luncheon was held recently at the Mayflower. house, February 13 . Six hundred were present, forty of whom were The alumnre took over the second rushing party, Sigma Kappas. Edith Lapish served on the com a dinner, for Alpha Eta chapter during their suc mittee. We were represented at the speaker's cessful formal rushing season, January 4 to 9. table by Alice Hersey Wick, Mrs. Mark Hersey, Don't fail to note the birth record for Alpha and Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Hall wore a small shoulder Eta alumnre listed this summer. In addition to the corsage of violets. Jive babies recorded there, there have been two RUTH SMITH more births among Twin Cities alumnre from other chapters. Waterville A lumnce Add Local MILDRED Z. CLARKE Philanthropy to Busy Program New Chapter at Walia Walia Draws Recently the Waterville Alumnre chapter held a most interesting meeting at the home of Meroe Members from 100 Miles' Distance Morse, Alpha, '13. Local and national philanthro The new chapter at Walla Walla, Wash., is pies were discussed and plans laid for active par still making fine progress and acquiring more mem ticipation. The annual picnic which the alumna: bers. Our latest was Irene McKown of Alpha chapter gives to the girls of Alpha was discussed MARCH, 1932 167 and all are looking forward to the time when dancing studio and distributed by Dorothy, Helen, once more college members and alumna:: may have and Mollie Lockhart, with the assistance of men a jolly time together. of the family. A box was sent to the Maine Sea After business plans were discussed and voted Coast Mission as well. upon, an important matter was taken up. The chap The annual midwinter entertainment took place ter decided to send letters to the senators from at the Bohlke residence with the Christmas theme Maine recommending that the W odd Court pro featured in decorations. Bridge was the diversion, tocols be put before Congress at the next session. with five tables in play. Letters from Eva Darden, The rest of the meeting was devoted to the Alpha Gamma, from New York City and from making of baby clothes for the unemployed in the Bea Bond West, Mu, ' 30, residing at Tucson were city. The need in Waterville·, as in other parts of highly pleasing to their recipient chapter. Special the country, is indeed great, and Sigmas have un guests were Vivian Carpenter and Peggy Riley of dertaken to aid the distressed as their local philan Mu; Helen Mortland and Velma Hutchings of Al thropy work. pha Gamma; and three new alumna:: members Just lately a meeting of class agents was held Irene McCall and Alice Lenen of Alpha Gamma, for Colby college. At this meeting, the first of both of the graduating class of 1931, and Mollie its kind, a large majority present as representatives Lockhart, Mu, ex-'34. Helen Mortland made high of their classes were Sigmas. Of course, we realize score. It was a delight to meet our charming col that as Sigma was the only sorority in Colby for legian Sigmas. many years, the class representatives must of neces Ruby Larsen McLaughlin, Alpha Gamma, '24, sity be Sigmas, but it was with satisfaction that our new president, was hostess to the group for we found Sigmas representing their classes through the January meeting. Ruby as usual had a new all the years regardless of the increase of other and practical idea, a husbands' entertainment for national sororities on the Colby campus. February, right in line with the annual mothers' The personals, we are sorry to say, are very tea in May. Doris Cushen won the bridge prize. scarce this time. Only one person has left us-to Peggy Riley brought an interesting message from join another alumna:: group we hope. Betty Gross Mu. Nelson, Alpha, '28, has gone to Washington, D.C., ELIZABETH CAREY MAYER to live, and we are sure Sigmas in Washington will enjoy knowing and having her with them. MURIEL MACDOUGALL Miami Valley Group Encouraged by Visit of Ruby Carver Emerson Party for Sigmas in College Lenore K. Chilton, Zeta, ex-'19, writes from Is Worcester Holiday Event Dayton, Ohio, that the Miami Valley alumna:: group has renewed its enthusiasm for meeting Every member present at the November meet again, following the visit of Ruby Carver Emer ing, either by action or suggestion, helped to pack son, and the arrival in the city of a fellow Zeta the two large boxes of toys and clothing which member, Betty Jo Biebel, '28. The difficulty en we sent to the Maine Sea Coast Mission for the countered by the group when it tried to maintain Christmas season. We were joined for the first its standing as a chapter was the fact that its mem time on that afternoon by Josephine Symonds bers were widely scattered outside of Dayton, with Bruggraaf, Delta, '28; Marjorie Frye, Nu, '31; and only a few actually within the city. Lucille Damerell, Nu, '30. The hostesses for the day were Emilie Tener Hood, Theta, '17, at whose home we gathered, and Ethel Larm, Tau, '19. Roanoke Group Makes Small Gift Members of six chapters had a chance to be to College Loan Fund come acquainted at our informal tea for college Sigmas on the second day of this year. Seven mem December 30, Edith Davis Paine, Rho, '20, and bers of Omicron and Nu chapters were our guests, Elizabeth Wills Engleby, Rho, '26, gave a tea at the while three Nn alumna::-Elizabeth Goodrich, '29, home of the latter. All of the Roanoke Sigma Lucille Damerell, '30, and Marjorie Frye, '31, Kappas were present except Edith Moore, Rho, acted as hostesses. Convention and national affairs '18, who was on a visit to New York. We enjoyed were discussed. seeing Sarah Rueker, Rho, who was visiting here "Sigma Currents" will be learned at our next from Lynchburg. In fact, most of our "party" wt;re meeting at the home of our president, Lois Wine - visitors, as there are only four Sigmas in Roanoke. Curtis, Theta, '21, with our vice-president, Lora Alpha Gish, '30, who lives in Vinton, was pres Cummings Neal, Alpha, '93, as assisting hostess. ent, and Thelma Beckham Lowance, Rho, '26, of MARY E. GUERIN Durham, N.C., who was on a Christmas visit at the time . • Likewise we had the Roanoke pledges to Al Increase in Philanthropy Made pha Psi at Duke university, who were home for by Yakima Valley Alumn~ Christmas. They are Catherine Mouncastle and One of our recent brides, Helen Kuehn Smith, Mary Jane McQuilken. Alpha Gamma, ex-'28 entertained Valley alumna:: We enjoyed chatting together and attempted in her lovely new home, for the November meet only one item of business-we agreed to send a ing. A relief committee, headed by Dorothy Tucker small check to the College Loan fund. This money Bohlke, Alpha Gamma, '24, was appointed to was the balance on hand when the Virginia Alumna:: furnish a basket of food, clothing, and extras to chapter had to be discontinued because three of a needy Yakima family. A surprising shower of our members moved to other states. gifts was gathered up at Maxine McCloy Moore's . ELIZABETH WILLS ENGLEBY 168 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Wichita Group Participates in meeting with Helen Hunt Adair, 3923 Willow. Panhellenic Acti-vities We were glad to welcome to our meeting, Eunice Miles Lowderman from Theta chapter. The Wichita group of alumnre has been quite Another recent Panhellenic activity was our active during the past months. In December, participation as assistant hostesses in the annual Chloris Swart Johnson, our Panhellenic representa bridge party which the organization sponsors for tive, was chairman of the refreshment committee its own members. This took place on January 17 of Panhellenic at a Christmas party given for the at the home of Mrs. M. E. Garrison, 130 South children of the Water Street day nursery. This Belmont. Mrs. Garrison is the mother of Mrs. nursery assumes the care of children during the Allan Olsen, Chi Omega. Seventy-two sorority day while their parents are employed. women played auction bridge. On January 11 , our group held its monthly HORTENSE BALDERSTON CAMPBELL The Panhe[[enic Reserves Minimum Rate Rooms for Younger Fraternity Members The Panhellenic, the fraternity woman's hotel Hitherto, The Panhellenic has maintained a few in New York, is reserving two floors, or their $10 rooms, but these have been so much in de equivalent, for young fraternity women who have mand that many fraternity women who were much been out of college Jess than two years. These in need of them were not able to obtain them. rooms will all be at the minimum rate of $10 for By this new plan, The Panhellenic is making pro a single room and $9 per person for a double room. vision for about 50 fraternity women at the mini The purpose of this is to give the young woman mum rates. The rooms will be held for fraternity who is taking extra educational courses in New women, only. At the expiration of the two-year York, or who is just starting her business career, limit, rooms will be provided at the minimum rate an opportunity to live in the proper environment then available in the house. at a low cost of living for New. York City. JUST SUPPOSE- Just suppose- That all the secretaries of colle~e and alumnt:e chapters Sent in their reports Very late (some were ill, some were busy) And the reports came creeping in so slow That the district and l'ef?ional officers Cotdd not complete their summaries and other work On Time- And their work and that of Grand Council was doubled Sending reminders and checking over the tardy ones- HOW the WORK of SIGMA would become SLOWED DOWN! And just suppose- Every college and alumnt:e secretary Did und in her reports ON TIME (0 joyful words!) Illness and busy days notwithstanding- ( And who, pray, is not busy-and lJVHO is free from illness?) And thus the district and regional workers And Grand Council Had Time Released for Work Constructive- And so all working in harmony-One Heart, one way With no waste motions- Except such as human affairs always impose Had time for building nobler policies- Had time for making dreams come true- HOW THE WORK OF SIGMA WOULD BE ADVANCED! (SPEED THE DAY!) MARCH, 1932 169 SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY Founded at Colby College, Maine, in 1874 FOUNDERS ALUMNJE REGIONAL CHAIRMEN Mas. L. D. CARVER , nee Mary Caffrey Low (deceased). New England-Boston, Hartford, Portland, Rhode Island, ELIZABETH GoRHAM HOAG (deceased) . W atert•ille. Worcesler. · Mas. J . B. PIERCE, nee Ida M. Fuller (deceased). Lillian M. Perkins, 12 Mt. Auburn street, Cambridge, LOUISE HELEN CoBURN , Skowhegan, Me. Mass. Mas. G . w. HALL, nee Frances E. Mann, 221 E. Street, Assistant, Mrs. Edward Davenport, 140 Webster N.W. , Washington, D.C. street, Arlington, Mass. New York-Buffalo, Central New York, New York City, Rochester, Schenectady. GRAND COUNCIL Bess Ritchie, 752 St. John's place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Grand Pruident-Audrey Dykeman, 4200 Hazel avenue, Assistant, Helen Benedict Taylor, 931 Park avenue, Chicago, Ill. Rochester, N .Y. Grand Vice·President-Mrs . Ruby Carver Emerson, 72 Ohio-Central Ohio, Cincinnati, Cleveland. Fayerweather street, Cambridge, Mass. Ruth Little, 1217 Oberlin boulevard, Cincinnati, Ohio. Grand Secretary-Mrs. Alice Hersey Wick, 2807 Connecti· Indi ana-Indianapolis, South Bend. cut avenue, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Anita Oldham, 19 Walnut street, Greenfield, .Grand Treasurer-Mrs. Bertha Whillock Stutz, 627 S. Ind. Third street, Corvallis, Ore. Illinois-Bloomington, Chicago. Grand Counselor-Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Front street, Mrs. Ethel Behr. 1403 E. Grove street, Bloomington, Bloomington, Ill. Ill. Michigan-Central Michigatz, Detroit, Antz Arbor. OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS Mrs. Louise McCurdy McKinnon, IS Kirby street, East at Woodward, Detroit, Mich. TRIANGLE Editor-Mrs. Frances Warren Baker, 6856 East Southeastern-Washitzgtotz, Pills burgh, Miami, Philadel· End avenue, Chicago, Ill. phia. Executive Secretary-Ruth E. Litchen, 1630 Alabama, Mrs. Maxine Rolle Goodyear, 1422 Buchanan street, Lawrence, Kan. N.W., Washington, D.C. Chairman Extemion Committee-Gladvs H amilton, 614 Kentucky.Tennessee-Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, E. Union street, Seattle, Wash. M emphis. Sigma Kappa Historiatz-Mary Swan Carroll, c/o Mary Annekay Tharp, 1724 Nelson avenue, Memphis, Baldwin College, Staunton, Va. Tenn. Chairman of Natiot~al Philanthropy-Myrtice D. Cheney, 655 Congress street, Portland, Me. Mi ssouri Valley-St. Louis, Kamas City, Eastern Iou.·a, Chairman of Music-Lurline Moody, 2900 Wolfe street, Iowa, Nebraska. Omaha. Little Rock, Ark. Mrs . Adeline Harmison, 1775 Grandview, Dubuque, Iowa. Wisconsin-Minnesota-Madison, lvliltuaukee, Twin CitieJ. PAST GRAND PRESIDENTS Inette M. Husby, 3414 Tenth avenue, S., Minneapolis, Florence E. Dunn, 4 Sheldon place, Waterville, Me. Minn. Mrs. Rhena Clark Marsh, 231 Boulevard, Scarsdale, N.Y. Colorado·Texas-Colorado, Dallas, Tulsa, Howton. Mrs. Sarah B. Mathews Goodman, 36 Francis street, Mrs. Ethel Thomas Bowen, 2013 South Marion, Den· Brookline, Mass. ver, Colo. Mrs. Grace Coburn Smith (deceased). California-Bay Cities. Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Sacra· Hila Helen Small. Bow road, P.O. Box 134, Wayland, menlo, San Diego. Mass. Anne Stonebraker, ll9 S. St. Andrews Pl., Los An· Mrs. Eula Grove Linger, 97 University avenue, Buffalo, geles, Calif. N.Y. Assistant, Mrs. Pattv Marshall Brenner, 1044 Hamil· Mrs. Ethel Hayward Weston, Madison, Me. ton avenue. Palo Alto. Calif. Lorah S. Monroe, 614 E. Front street, Bloomington, Ill. Northwest-Portla11d. Oregon, Puget Sound, Spokane, Mrs. Mary Gay Blunt, 303 Seventh avenue W., Alex· Walia Walia, Yakima. andria, Minn. Mrs . Sereta Patton Sayers, Waitsburg, Wash. DISTRICT COUNSELORS STANDING COMMITTEES District I-Alpha, Delta, Omicron, Phi. Nalional Finance Board Mrs. Grace Wells Thompson, S Hazelwood avenue, Elizabeth Tendick, 4200 Hazel avenue, Chicago, Ill., Waterville, Me. Chairman. District II-Nu, Alpha Lambda, Alpha Sigma Mrs . Bertha Whillock Stutz, 627 S. Third street, Cor· Irene Hall, I S Governors avenue, Medford Mass. vallis, Ore. District III-Epsilon, Alpha Beta Alpha Zeta. ' Ruth E·. Litchen. 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan. Mrs. Catherine Wettling H~nward , 101 Ramsey ave· Margaret Cochran. 34 Hancock street, Medford, Mass. nue, Syracuse, N.Y. Mrs. Eliza Alexander Burkholder, 705 E. Empire, Bloom· District IV-Zeta, Rho, Omega, Alpha Psi. ington, Ill. Lee Hardell , 3020 Cortland place, N.W., Washing· ton, D.C. Examination Committee District V-Tau, Alpha Mu, Alpha Tau. Mrs. Elizabeth Whipple Butler, 1042 Benjamin ave· Ruth Smith, 62 1 Sixth street, S.W., Washington, D.C., nue, S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. Chttirman. District VI-Chi, Alpha Iota, Alpha Pi. Mildred Brown, 505 Washington street, Boonton, N.J. Lydia Baird, 15915 Rutherford, Detroit Mich. Mrs. Dorothy Strauss Kehr. 2910 N. 56th street, Mil· District VII-Alpha Delta, Alpha Theta 'Alpha Rho waukee, Wis. AI ha Chi . ' ' Margaret Porter, Walpole, N.H . . Zelma ~onroe, 235 E. Maxwell street, Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Beulah McAllister Peters, 4515 Drexel avenue, Chi· D1stnct VIII-Eta. Theta. Psi Ca(;O, Ill. Mrs. Maude Clark, 1513 W. Sixteenth street Bed· Ruth Dom•gan, 601 N. Mulberry street, Mt. Vernon, ford, Ind. ' Ohio. District IX-.Aipha Eta, Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Xi, Alpha Jessie Calder, Girl Scout Hdqts., 400 Thirteenth street, Upstlon. Parkersbur~. W.Va. . Helen Swinney •. Cranford Apts., Ames, Iowa. Fern Kinton, 132 Division street, East Lansing, Mich. D•stnct X-Iota , Xr, Srgma, Alpha Kappa. Mrs. Lucile Cleveland Traughber, 615 S. Lahoma, Colle£e Loan Commillee Norman, Okla. True Mattoon, 60 19 Malabar, Huntington Park, Calif. , District XI-Mu, Upsilon, Alpha Gamma, Alpha Nu, Chairman. Alpha Phi. Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Front street, Bloomington, Ill. Mrs. Irene Dickson McFarlane. 3012 E. Terrace Mrs . Bertha Whillock Stutz. 627 S. Third street, Cor· street, Seattle, Wash. vallis, Ore. Distri ct XII-Lambda, Alpha Omicron. Helen Cady, 218 Beach street, Revere, Mass. Mrs. Patty Marshall Brenner, 1044 Hamilton avenue, Mrs. Rowena Rutherford Farrar, Blackstone Apts., Nash· Palo Alto, Calif. ville, Tenn. BxJension CommitJee Sigm4--Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. Gladys Hamilton, 614 E. Union street, Seattle, Wash ., Secre~ary-:-Nadme Wells. Sigma Kappa Box, S.M.U. Chatrman. Tau-Untverstty of Indtana, Bloomington, Ind. Mrs. Greta Lemon, 41 Northrup place, Buffalo, N.Y. . Secretary-Eloise Bowman, Sigma Kappa House. Marion Brooks, 636 E street, N.E., Washington DC UpJIIon-Oregon A11ncu ltural College, Corvallis, Ore. Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, 401 S. Ogden street, Den'ver, Secretary-Paulme Anderson, Twenty·six and Van Colo. Buren streets . · Mrs. Marion W . Clark, 524 N . Cahuenga avenue Los Phi-Rhode Island State College, Kingston, R.I. Angeles, Calif. ' . Secretary-Avts E. Connery, Sigma Kappa House. Rebecca Tansil, c/o Maryland State Normal, Towson, Md. Cht-OhtO State Untverstty, Columbus, Ohio. . Secretar~-Mary·Ellen .Waldron, 2051 Iuka avenue. National Endowment Committee . PIJ-Untversity of WJsconsm, Madison, Wis. Mrs. Mabel Wallace Shadle, 182 Wallace avenue Leech· Secretary-:-Beatrice Kissel, 234 Langdon street. burg, Pa., Chairman. ' Omega-~J~~tda State College for Women, Tallahassee, Mrs. Ruby Carver Emerson, 72 Fayerweather street, Cambrid(le, Mass. Secretary-Betty Ploeger Sigma Kappa House Mrs. Bertha . Wh!llock Stutz, ·627 S. Third street, Coi· Alpha BPta- Universitv ot B~ffalo , Buffalo. N.Y. · vall!s, Ore. Secretary-Louise R. Morton, 25 Huntington "venue Ruth E. Litchen, 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan. Buffalo, N.Y. ' Mrs. Jessie Pepper Padelford, 4708 20th street N E Alpha Gamma-Washington State College, Pullman, Seattle, Wash. ' · ·' Wash. Mrs. Marion McAdams Laird, 126 S. Marlboro, Dallas, Secretary-Gertrude Born, 402 Oak street. Tex. Alpha Delta-University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Mildred Kesler, Steamboat Springs, Colo. Secretary-Mercedes Platt 804 Nineteenth street, Knoxville, Tenn. ' ScholarJhip Award Committee Alpha EpJilon-lowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Pauline Gauss, 112 N. Glenwood, Peoria, Ill., Chairman. Secretary-Margaret Breuchert, 233 Gray, Ames, Iowa. Mrs. Claire Yungclas Reck, 7963 St. Paul street, Detroit Alpha Zeta-Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Mich. ' Secretary-Eilee~ Kane, 150 Triphammer road. Arlene Snure, 819 W. 28th, Minneapolis, Minn. Alpha Eta-Untverstty of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Secretary-Helen Hauenstein, 901 Fourth street, S.E. National Ho11sing Committee Alpha Theta-University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky . Mrs. Edith Porter Lapish, 3414 0 street, N.W., Wash· Secretary-Maxine Strunk, 2141 South First street ington, D .C. Louisville, Ky. ' Helen E. Peck, Rhode Island State College, Kingston, Alpha. Iota-Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. R.I. Secretary-Martha Chaney, Hepburn Hall. Luvicy Hill, 206 Waverly avenue, Newton, Mass. Alpha Kappa-Universitv of Nebraska, Lincoln Neb. Secretary-Vir,:tinia Guthrie. 1515 L street.' Permanent Sigma lntereJI Committee Alpha L.tmbda- Adelphi College, Garden City, N.Y. Mary Chase, The Bishop's School, La Jolla, Calif., Chair· Secretary-Dorothy McElroy, 1329 E. 27th St., Brook· man lyn, N.Y. Mrs. Evelyn G. Bauer, 6903 Waterman avenue, St. Louis, Alpha Mu-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Mo. Secretary-Hazel M. Saul, 808 Oakland avenue. Lillian M. Bowker, 150 Walnut street, Malden, Mass. Alpha Nu-University of Montana, Missoula, Mont. Billie Monroe, 41 Columbia avenue, Lynchburg, Va. Secretary-Helen Spencer, 341 University avenue. Mrs. Harriet Forest Moore, 19 Avondale Apts., Kings Alpha Xi-University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. road, Corvallis, Ore. Secretary-Mildred Frederickson, 815 E. Burlington street. NATIONAL PANHELLENIC CONGRESS Alpha Omirron-University of California at Los Angeles Chairman-Mrs. Nellie Hart Prince, Phi Mu, Webster Calif. ' City, Iowa. Secretary-Eleanor Jones, 726 Hil~;ard avenue West· Sigma Kappa Delegate-Lorah Monroe, 614 E. Front :wood Hills, Los Angeles, Caltf. ' street, Bloomington, Ill. Alpha Pi-Ohio Wesleyan Universitv. Delaware. Ohio. EditorJ' Conference Delegate-Mrs. Frances Warren Baker Secretary-Eleanor Heckleman, Monett Hall. 6856 East End avenue, Chicago, Ill. ' A/ph" Rho-Vanderbilt Universitv, Nashvi lle , Tenn . Secretary-Katherine Anderson, A·3 Albemarle apts., ROLL OF COLLEGE CHAPTERS Nashville, Tenn. Alpha-Colby College. Waterville, Me. Alpha Sigma-Westminster College, New Wilmington, Secretary-Mary Ellen Hodgdon, Colby College, Wat· Pa. erville, Me. Secretary-Ruth Rowse, Sigma Kappa House. Beta and Gamma-Consolidated with Alpha. Alpha Tau-Michigan State Colle,:te, East Lansin~:. Mich. Delta-Boston University, Boston, Mass. Secretary-Christine Connor, Sigma Kappa House. Secretary-Anne Blanchard; 688 Boylston street. Alpha UpJilon- University of North Dakota, Grand EpJilon-Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. Forks, N .D. Secretary-Gertrude Gibbins, 500 University place. Secretary-Mabel Clayton, Sigma Kappa House. Zeta-G!orge Washington, Washington, D.C. Alpha Phi-Universitv of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. Seccetary-Martha Myers, 3342 Quesada street, Chevy Secretary-Alice Livelv. Sigma Kappa House. Chase, D.C. Alpha Chi-Georgetown College , Georgetown, Kv. Eta-lllinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill. Secretary-Carrie D. Wheeler, Sigma Kappa House. Secretary-Vivian Carlson, Sigma Kappa House. Alpha Psi-Duke University, Durham, N.C. Theta-University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. Secretary-Sarah E. Ownby, Women's College. Secretary-Ada Wyman, 1116 N. Nevada street, Ur· bana, Ill. lo/a-lln;versit :• of Denver, Denver. Colo. ROLL OF ALUMNIE CHAPTERS Secretary-Margaret Mayer, 630 S. Gilpin street, Den· ver, Colo. Amr Arbor Kappa-Owing to University ruling, charter surrendered Secretary-Mrs. Katherine Yoder Ferguson, 806 E. in 1911. Huron street, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lambda-Univers;tv of California. Berkelev, Calif. Bay CitieJ Secretary-Edna Jessop, 2506 Piedmont avenue. Secretary-Mrs. Marvlyn Williams Ross, 750 Warfield i\lu-Universitv of Washington. Se?tt1e , Wash. avenue, Oakland, Calif. Secretary-Mary Grant, 4510 Twenty·second avenue, Meetings-First Tuesday, 7:30 P.M. N .E. Bloomir1gton Nu-Middleburv College, Middleburv, Vt. Secretary-Mrs. Madeline Metcalf Mace, 107 E. Secretary-Eleanor Orde, c/o Middlebury College. Cherry, Normal, Ill. Xi-University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Meetings-Second Friday, 6:00 P.M. Secretary-Helendoris Fear, 1625 Edgehill road. BoJt on Omicron-Jackson Colle11e , Medford. Mass. Secretary-Katherine Tower, 63 Perkins street, West Secretarv-Mildred L. Carley, Stratton Hall, Tufts Newton, Mass. College 57, Mass. Meetings-Fourth Saturday, 3:30 P.M. Pi-Charter suspended upon request of chapter. 1931. 811/Jalo Rho-Randolph·Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg. Va. Secretary-Mrs. Hazel Spann Gordon , 196 Argonne Secretary-Marion McCracken, Box 171, Randolph· xlrive, Kenmore, N .Y. Macon Woman's College. Meetings-Third Monday. Ctntral Michigan Iowa Secretary-Janette Trachsel, 112 Short street, Lansing, Secretary-Josephine Burkett, Gilbert, Iowa. Mich. Kansas Cii:J Meetings-Last Saturday. Secretary-Mary Morgan, 500 E. 45th street, Kansas Central New York City, Mo. Secretary-Mrs. Beatrice Lyons Henward, 22 1 Craw Meetings-Second Tuesday. ford avenue, Syracuse, N .Y. K nox11ille Meetings-Second Tuesday evening. Secretary-Mrs. Eleanor Sterchi Davies, 13' Faye Central Ohio street, Knoxville, Tenn. Secretary-Mrs. ]. Camden Clark, 12 78 Brexton place, Meetings-First Monday. Columbus, Ohio. Los AnP.eles Meetings-Fourth Thursday, 7:30 P.M. Secretary-Mrs. John D. Cooke, 1136 S. Dunsmuir Chicago avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. Secretary-Mrs. Marion Hurlbutt, 2011 Hastings Meetings-Fourth Saturday. street, Chicago, Ill. Louisville Meetings-Call the secretary, Roosevelt '300. Secretary-Martha W atson, 24 15 Broadmeade road, Cincinnati Louisville, Ky. Secretary-Mrs. Helen Koch Taylor, 3971 Dickson Meetings-Second Saturday. avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Madison Meetinp;s-Second Saturday afternoon each month . Secretary-Gladys Dieruf, 18 33 Rowley avenue, Madi· Telephone, Avon 7993. son, Wis. Cleveland Meetings-Third W ednesday. Secreta ry- Mrs. Sue Miller Axe, 1446 Cou tant ave Memphis nue, Lakewood, Ohio. Secretary-Miriam Thomas, 1253 S. Barksdale, Mem Mee tings-Third Saturday, 1:00 P.M. phis, Tenn. Colorado Miami Secre tary-Marguerite Mclellan, 343 S. Sherman, Den Secretary-Mrs. Arlee Pierce Morgan, 131 1 Capri ver, Colo. street, Coral Gables, Miami, Fla. Meetings-Second Monday, 8:00 P. M. Meetings-First Saturday, 3:00 P.M. Dallas Milwaukee Secretary- Mary Elizabeth Sturtevant, 5429 Goodwin, Secretary-Mrs. Anne S. Leker, 2118 Edgewood ave Dallas, Tex. nue, Milwaukee, Wis. Meeti ngs- 6:30P.M., third Thursday of each month. First Monday of month, 6:30 P.M. Buffet supper fol· D etroit lowed by meeting. Secretary-Mrs. Dorothy Marshick Van Fleet, 512 W. Nashville Grand boulevard, Detroit, Mich. Meetings-Fourth Monday evening. Secretary-Mrs. Claude Chadwick, 1811 Acklen ave EaJtern Iowa nue, Nashville, Tenn. Secretary-Mrs. Charles H. DeVaul, 30 Valley ave Meetings-First Tuesday. nue, Iowa City, Iowa. Nebraska Meetings-Third Wednesday. Secretary-Ida May Flader, 1344 G street, Lincoln , Hartford Neb. Secretary-Mrs. McKinley H. Warren, 66 Elm street, Meetings-Third Tuesday. Hartford, Conn. N ew York City Meetings-Call Secretary. Secretary-Elizabeth Tuttle, 505 Madison avenue, HouJton Brooklyn, N .Y. Secretary- Mrs. Cyri l Deese, 2312 Truxillo, Houston, Meetings-Call secretary. Tex. Omaha Meetings-First Monday of each month, also sectional Secretary-Mrs. M. L. Mackey, 2314 N . 48th stroet, meetings the first Saturday of eve ry third month. Omaha, Neb. Indianapolis Palo Alto Secretary-Mrs. Margaret Hazlett Taggart, 2503 Secretary-Marjorie E. Landers, Apt. 1, 114 Birch Broadway, Indianapolis, Ind. street, Redwood City, Calif. Meetings-Third Saturday. Meetings-Call president, · Palo Alto 3634. Have You Married or Moved? CENTRAL OFFICE, SIGMA KAPPA SORORITY, 1630 .Alabama, LAWRENCE, KAN. Please change my address or name and address on the files as follows : Prom-College Chapter ...... Initiation number ...... Name ...... Address City ...... - ...... State ...... To Name ••• 0 • ••••••• 0 • •• 0 0 ••••••• • • •• ••••• • ••• 0 • • • 0 •••• •• • 0 ••••• • • • 0 •••••• • • .Address • • • •• • • 0 • •••• • • •• • ••••••• 0 • • 0 • •• 0 0 •••• 0 •••• ••• • • • 0 • • •••• 0 •• 0 ••••• Ciry .... - ...... - ...... State ...... 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Puget Sound Secretary-Mrs. Ruth Holtzinger Ditmars, 181 9 Bel Worceuer levue street, Seattle, Wash. Secretary-Mrs. John Lasell, 30 Gardner street, Wor Meetings-First Tuesday. cester, Mass. Rhode bland Yakima Valley Secretary-Barbara B. Brand, 1609 Pawtucket avenue, Secretary-Mrs. Olive Greene Newhall, 12 N. Sixth Rumford, R.I. street, Yakima, Wash. Meetings-First Tuesday, 7:30 P.M. Rochester ALUMNJE CLUBS Secretary-Mrs. Elizabeth Fox Clark, 33 Burlington Bedford, Indiana street, Rochester, N.Y. Secretary-Mrs. J. P. Elder, 1410 W. Sixteenth street, Meetings-Second Wednesday. Bedford, Ind. San Diego Gormly Duluth, Minnesota Secretary-Mrs. ~arguerite Taylor Awes, 3412 Quince Secretary-Ethel Jewett, 622 Eighteenth avenue East, street, San D1ego, Calif. · Duluth, Minn. Meetings-Third Saturday. Grand Forks, North Dakota Sacramento Secretary-Frances Owen, 517 Third avenue, Grand Secretary-Marjorie Goulding, 2820-24th street, Sacra Forks, N .D. mento, Calif. Jacksonville, Florida Meetings-Call secretary. Secretary-Esther Boardman, 1146 Avondale avenue, Saint LouiJ Jacksonville, Fla. Secretary-Elizabeth Harral, 5920 Julian avenue, Saint Louis, Mo. Lynchburg, Virginia Meetings-First Friday. Secretary-Billie Monroe, .41 Columbia avenue, Lynch Schenectady burg, Va. Secretary-Mrs. Eleanor Seymour Jutras, 213 Third Miami Valley street, Scotia, N.Y. Secretary-Mrs. Lenore K. Chilton, 2106 University South Bmd place, Dayton, Ohio. Secretary-Frances Lawrence, 1406 Lincoln Way, Montana · South Bend, Ind. Secretary-Louise Lilley, 1118 W. Silver street, Butte, Spokane Mont. Secretary-Mrs. Hazel Criswell Lang, N. 3128 E Orlando, Florida street, Spokane, Wash. Secretary-Palmer Argo, St. Regis apts., Orlando, Meetings-Second Tuesday evening. Fla. Tuha Wichita, Kansas Secretary-Mrs. E. B. Mitchel, 1325 S. Newport, Secretary-Mrs. Payton W. Anderson, 622 N . Delrose, Tulsa, Okla. Wichita, Kan. Voes Your :#.other Wear a Sigma .Kappa :#.other" s Pin? SIGMA KAPPA MOTHER'S PIN Plain gold ...... - .. $3.25 Entire circle, close set pearls . $ 8.50 Three half-pearls .... $4.00 Entire circle, crown set pearls $13.5 0 Order one now for Mother's Day From the CENTRAL OFFICE 1630 Alabama, lawrence, Kansas NEW YORK Residential Headquarters for SIGMA KAPPA and For 19 other Notional Pan· Hellenic Sororities and their friends REDUCED MONTHLY RATES . With or Without Continental Breakfast Room with Both Now $41.50 Monthly Weekly as low as $10 Double Room with Bath Now $37.00 Monthly Weekly as low as $9 a person New Twenty-six-story build ing, centrally loc?ted, and overlooking East R1ver.large outside rooms, some with balconies. Modern furnish ings, lovely lounges, social rooms, I ibrary, ro~f terrace, solarium, gymnas•um, excel- lent restaurant. 3 MITCHELL PLACE NEW YORK East 49th St. at First Ave. This The Book Should Price is Be in Your $4 Libra.ry · Postpaid Have You Your Copy of the 12th Edition of «BAIRD'S MANUAL)) of American College Fraternities Orders for Bairds should be placed through the Central Office, 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kansas Consztlt the Central Office for SORORITY SUPPLIES RUTH E. LITCHEN: Executive Secretary THE TRIANGLE OF SIGMA KAPPA By the year ...... $ 2.00 Life subscription ...... 15.00 Single issue ...... ·...... 50 History of Sigma Kappa ...... 2.50 Chapter· Manual ...... 75 Pledge Manual ...... 30 Songs of Sigma Kappa ...... 1.50 Sigma Kappa playing cards 1.00 Editorial Style Sheets ...... 25 Recommendation blanks ...... 100 for .75 Report blanks, b;tdge order blanks, pledge cards, letters to parents of pledges, and other printed materials at prices quoted in Chapter Manual. Orders for initiation and other paraphernalia. OFFICIAL BADGES, PLEDGE PINS, PATRONESS PINS, RECOGNITION PINS AND MOTHER'S PINS Must be ordered through the Central Office on official order blanks. The L. G. Balfour Company is our sole official jeweler and official jewelry must be or dered according to rules published in Chapter Manual. All chapter supplies, both for college and alumnre chap ters. Prices on application. Make (he,ks payable and send orders to Sigma Kappa Sorority Central 0 ffice 1630 ALABAMA LAWRENCE, KAN. IN AN~IENT GREE~E The culture of ancient Greece was founded largely on simplicity. In the matter of their ornaments and iewelry there was a severity of style in harmony with the times. Later their ornaments took on elaboration- they were chased and modeled and set with precious jewels-creations valued now as works of art. ON IH£ CAMPUS TO DAY Balfour made rings, badges and gifts embody the same wide range of choice-from the plain piece to meet simple taste to the most elaborate creation to satisfy the most discriminating-all em body the finest materials and the best of workmanship. Purchase Balfour made jewelry with confi dence. 1.6. BALFOUR COO ATTLEBORO , MASS • " n KNOW N WHEREVER. THERE ARE. SCHOOL:S AND COLLEGE5 • • SOLE OFFICIAL JEWELERS TO SIGMA KAPPA SIGMA KAPPA CALENDAR April May June S MT W T I FS S M T W T Fl S SI M I T W I T I F S 1 2 1 234567 1 2 3 4 3456789 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 ,2 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 Jul}• s IMT w T l F s August September 1 2 SI M T W I T I F S S MIT W T! S 3456789 1 23456 1 F2 l 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 91 10 17, 18 19 20 21 22 23 1415 16 17 18 1920 I 1 11 12 , 13 14 15 16 17 24 2~ 26 27 28 29 30 2 1,22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 123124 31 28 29 30 31 25 126 27 28 29 30 October IO.- Reports for September, both ch apter and fin ancial, must be in hands of District Counselor. November 1.-Scholarship reports for coll ege members and pledges must be in the hand s of the Scholarship Award committee (grades of second semes ter of preceding coll ege year) . November IO.-Reports for October, both chapter and financial, must be in hands of District Counselor. November 25.-Christmas contributions for Maine Seacoast Miss ion should be at the Mission H ouse, 24 Ledgel awn avenue, Bar H arbor, Me. (Includes books, games, toys, clothing and money as ide from regular contribution.) December I.- Examination papers of undergraduate members should be in hands of Chairman of Examinations. December IO.-Reports for N ovember, both chapter and fin anci al must be in hand s of District Counselor. January I.-Semi-annual reports of alumnre chapters must be in hands of respecti ve Regional Chairmen. January I.-Philanthropic contributions to Maine Seacoast Mission must be in hands of Grand Treasurer. February I , May I, August I , November I.-College and alumnre chapter letters must be in the hands of res pective editors. February 1.- National dues from College chapters in hands of Grand Treas urer. National dues from alumnre chapters in hands of Executi ve Sec retary. (TRIA NG LE dues fr om initiates sh ould be sent to Executive Secretary immedi ately aft er initiati on.) April 1.-Scholarship reports for coll ege members and pledges must be in th e hands of the Scholarship Award committee (first semester grades ) . June I.-Semi-annual reports of alumnre chapters must be in hands of respecti ve Regional Chairmen. June 15.-Annual reports of coll ege chapters mu st be in hands of Grand Counselor, and duplica te copies in hands of respective District Counselors. REMINDERS Monthly reports covering work of preceding month are due on the tenth of each month of the college yea r. Send to District Counselor. Triplica te Li st of college members and pledges of each coll ege chapter must be mail ed to Executive Secretary before October 1. Examinations committees appointed before October 1. Examinati ons to be taken during six weeks' peri od prior to D ecember 1. Coll ege and alumnre chapters must se nd manuscript earl y enough to reach their re specti ve editors on or before the fir st of February, May, August, and November. NEEDED at the Central Offi ce, 163 0 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan., the name and ad dress of every conesponding secretary, undergraduate and alumna. All gifts to endow ment fund shoul d be sent to Grand T reasurer. All annual dues or life membership dues should be sent to the Executi ve Secretary. Second week in November. Celebrati on of Founders' D ay . Notices of initiation dates must be sent in advance to the members of the Gra nd Council. lV ithin mze week after all initiations, college ch apter registrars must send cards con taining full informati on on initiates to the Central O ffi ce.