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. Philanthropy Editor SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLB is published in December, March, June, and September at 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wis., by George MISS MYRTICE D. 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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.