Green light for giving Plan now, give later
!::,. by Diane Tahmoush, endowment fund chairman
Bequests, trusts and other annual support for Sigma Kappa forms of planned gifts have pro with the principal passing to chil vided important support to Sig dren or heirs, after a certain num ma Kappa. The Sigma Kappa ber of years, often with little or Endowment Fund traces its be no tax. Another example involves ginnings to the foresight of N a insurance. Life insurance may tiona! Council in 1926. have been purchased early in life Ongoing support for the hous to provide safety for a growing ing needs of Sigma Kappa and family. If no longer needed for · strengthening the general endow this purpose, giving these poli ment fund were the results of cies to Sigma Kappa can guaran unrestricted bequests from alum tee funds for the future and may nae and friends during the past provide both estate and income year. tax deductions. Increasingly, donors are using Our sorority can work with you bequests, life insurance policies; to match your needs and inter trusts and gifts of real estate or ests with Sigma Kappa's plans other tangible personal property and goals. Of course, you should to provide long-term funds to per consult with your lawyer, ac petuate their annual endowment countant or adviser when con fund gifts, to provide a living me sidering such gifts, as these morial or to meet an area of mu professionals understand your in tual interest or need. Certain dividual financial circumstances. trusts can provide lifetime in If you have questions about come to a spouse or loved one, these or any other type of gift, thus assuring his security, and at National Treasurer Marylou the same time, ensure support for Turner will be happy to discuss Sigma Kappa. them in greater detail and to pro In addition, trusts can provide vide additional information. ~
2 Sigma Features__ _ KopRo Green light for giving ...... 2 Triangle Rush:
Vol.83 Spring No.4 1986 Official magazine of Sigma Kappa Soror ity founded at Colby College, Waterville, Pledges resulting from a successful rush program are Maine, November 9, 1874. the life-blood of our sorority. The primary building NATIONAL COUNCIL National President: Phyllis Harris Mark blocks, sturdy, basic and reliable, should structure ley (Mrs. Donald), 1802 West Moss, your rushing. Peoria. IL 61606 ABC's of rush ...... 4-6 National Vice President for Alumnae: Margaret Miller Dodd (Mrs. William), Rush Directory ...... 7-10 1955 Windsor Road, Bethlehem, PA Reference form ...... 10 18017 National Vice President for CoUegiate Legacy: Family ties ...... 18 Chapters: Carol Jackson Phillips (Mrs. Extending EK through generations ...... 19 Richard), P.O. Box 467, Moreno, CA Legacy form ...... 19 92360 National Vice President for Expansion: Expansion: Spring is here, and violets are springing up coast to Lindit Oden Berkshire (Mrs. Rice), coast. Meet the newest bunch of violets and welcome 31901 Avenida Evita, San Juan back the recolonized chapters. Capistrano, CA 92675 National Secretary: Ms. Sheila A. Long Beach is back...... 11 Barnes, 1608 Pepperidge Road, Louisiana's determined Southern belles ...... 12-13 Asheboro, NC 27203 National Treasurer: Marylou Sayler Beta Taus shine in the sun ...... 14-15 Turner (Mrs. John), 645 W. 69th St., Down by the Riverside ...... 16 Kansas City, MO 64113 Dateline: Delaware ...... 17 National PanheUenic Conference Dele gate: Ruth Rysdon Miller (Mrs. Karl Special file: Directors ...... 30-31 B.), 13020 S. W. 92nd Ave., A312, Mi Convention: ami, FL 33176 Packing power, and more ...... 32-33 CENTRAL OFFICE Director of Central Office: Lois Waltz Committee chall:men ...... 43 Vernon (Mrs. Robert), 1717 West 86th Computer-assisted scholarship ...... 34 Street, Suite 600, Indianapolis, IN How to party ...... 35 46260 317-872-3275 Financial Administrator. Theresia Walk Alzheimer's Disease. The Sigma Connection ...... 36-37 er Hoggatt (Mrs. Jerome) Alzheimer's Disease. The Long Goodbye ...... 38-39 TRIANGLE STAFF A bloomin' success ...... 44-45 Editor: Linda Wright Bardach (Mrs. Racing to the Olympics ...... 46- 4 7 Neil), 5235 Skidaway Dr., Alpharetta, GA 30201 CoUegiate Editor: Darcy Edwards Kline felter, (Mrs. Paul), 8008 Carriage Lane, Richmond, VA 23229 Alumnae Editor: Anne Weaver Booske Departments__ (Mrs. Henry), 2026 Northbrook Dr., Lancaster, PA 17601 From the Collegians ...... 20-24 Correspondence is to be addressed to From the Alumnae ...... 25-29 the appropriate editor. Deadlines: spring (Dec. 15), summer (Mar. 15), fall (June Sigmas Here and There ...... 29 15), winter (Sept. 15). Magazine Agency ...... 40 Unsolicited copy, photography and art Violet Boutique...... 41 are always welcomed, and will be used Sigma Scholars ...... 42-43 on a space available basis. Sigma Kap pa TRIANGLE will credit all work used In Memoriam ...... 43 in the magazine. Please send all fea ture material to the editor, chapter re Repeated due to frequent requests, our ports to the collegiate or alumnae edi tor, and death notices to Central Of cover is courtesy of the artist, Sally fice. Brant Kriner, an Indiana artist who SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published On quarterly by Sigma Kappa, 1717 W. 86th St., specializes in painting flowers. "Wood Suite 600, Indianapolis, IN 46260 and printed Violets" is available as a signed litho by Maury Boyd and Associates. Send change of address, subscription and graph, $15, or as a signed and num correspondence of a business nature to Central The bered lithograph, $20. Indiana resi Office, 1717 W. 86th St.. Suite 600, Indianapo lis, IN 46260. dents, add 5% sales tax. You may Second-class postage paid at Indianapolis, order through Sigma Kappa central IN and at additional mailing offices. Printed in U.S.A. Sigma Kappa USPS 496-060. Cover office.
3 /:::,. by Linda Berkshire, National Vice President ' s of
READY FoR RusH? Is your chapter ready for rush? It's not too late for you and 10, 20, 50 or the entire chapter to get together TODAY to put together a dynamic, cre ative rush program. Need new rush party ideas? Order rush party plans from central office. Need additional help? Contact your collegiate province officer, your adviser or your district direc tor. Do it TODAY!
Mouseketeers from Zf!- Louisiana St. welcome rushees to Sigma Kappa World.
ENTHUSIASM A friendly Sigma Kappa feeling is behind the wel coming smiles that greet rushees . . . enthusiasm achieved through motivation, plus pride and com mitment to Sigma Kappa. Motivation begins the day the new vice president of membership is elected. As plans are made for that all-important rush week, each member is assigned a responsibility. When she accepts a rush assignment, she makes an individual commitment to Sigma Kappa. Rush is a group effort that reaches success because of the ideas, talents and efforts of each member. Enthusiasm to do a 100% job combined with sis terhood and cooperation, plus the desire to help Sigma Kappa grow, spells success in rush.
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CONVERSATION SKILLS Conversation is the opportunity to make friends with the rushee, and to help members understand her needs and what she is looking for in a sorority. Learning conversation skills is a priority for every chapter. These skills will be used throughout each member's lifetime. Equally important, these skills enable rushees to learn about the advantages of Sigma Kappa membership. Practice is important and will build confidence in each member. Personal conversation skills can be practiced all year in every social situation. Being a good listener and showing interest in the rushee will help members determine life-long friends and ORGANIZATION insure success in rush. The best rush schedule begins long before rush week with the development of a master calendar by the rush steering committee. It establishes dates and goals for workshops and project completions and is posted for everyone to see. Skit tryouts, rehearsals and workshops for songs and rush techniques can be fun and motivational for the chapter. Completed name tags, costumes and decorations displayed at workshops give recog nition to the creators. Pledges are earned through the organization of an aggressive rush program involving all members. Commitment to practice and participation results in self-confident rushing.
Twenty-one Southern California collegians from AO·UCLA, ET· Cal. St. (Fullerton), Z'i'·Cal Poly Tech, and ZM·UC (San Diego) are ready to board a bus to help ZO·Arizona Sigmas during pre·rush and rush week. CPO Mollie Delgado joined them on the journey to Tucson.
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ALUMNAE INVOLVEMENT Local alumnae play an important role in a sue· cessful rush. They should be kept well informed and notified early about their responsibilities. Involve them in the planning process, too. During pre-rush week, alumnae should be invited to critique skits and songs. Alumnae are usually more objective than chapter members, since they are not as familiar with the skit and can view it as the rushees will-perhaps seeing imperfections that those close to it cannot see. Alumnae are also invaluable for practicing rota tion and conversation. Ask alumnae to play the role of the rushees, and have the chapter go through the party just as they will during rush. Show alumnae you value their opinions. Make them feel wanted, and let them know you respect their experience as well as the "tasty food" they prepare. And remember to show appreciation for their help.
QUOTA Is quota a desirable, attainable goal? Or is it an artificial number imposed by a college panhellenic? Answers to these questions reflect a chapter's atti tude about rush and Sigma Kappa. Quota is a desirable goal because new members are the future of Sigma Kappa. Chapters which continually pledge less than quota soon find them· selves too small to effectively participate in cam pus and Greek activities. This can result in the chapter becoming overtired, overworked and lack ing unity. Chapters that do not live up to the Sigma Kappa responsibility of pledging panhellenic quota often use these excuses: quality rather than quantity, the house only holds "X" members, the best rushers weren't there, the members didn't cry at preference and their food was better than ours. Avoid the need for excuses! Use enthusiasm, organization, conversation skills and alumnae assistance to ensure your chapter pledges quota. ~ 6 RUSH DIRECTORY
Use this directory when mailing references to collegiate chapters. Address them to: Sigma Kappa Sorority, References Chairman.
ARIZONA Zeta Omicron, University of Arizona 1125 N. Vine, Tucson, 85719 ARKANSAS Delta Tau, University of Central Arkansas Box 569, UCA, Conway 72032 CALIFORNIA
Lambda, University of California at Berkeley 2409 Warring St., Berkeley 94704 Alpha Omicron, University of California at Los Angeles 726 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles 90024 Beta Psi, San Diego State University 5804 Montezuma Rd., San Diego 92115 Gamma Theta, California State University at Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach 90815 Delta Iota, California State University at Chico 611 W. Fourth St., Chico 95926 Epsilon Tau, California State University at Fullerton 2100 E . Wilshire, Fullerton 92631 E-Illinois Wesleyan new pledges happily try on their new Sigma Epsilon Omega, California Poly State University Kappa t·shirts. 615 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo 93401 Zeta Epsilon, California State University at Northridge 9810 White Oak Ave. Northridge 91328 Zeta Mu, University of California at San Diego Student Center, Box B-023, Univ. of CA at San Diego, La Jolla 92093 Zeta Upsilon, California Polytechnic at Pomona 3801 W. Temple, Pomona 91768 Theta Beta, University of LaVerne
1950 Third St:1. 4t'V erne 91750 Theta Epsilon. Urliv"ersity of California at Riverside c/o Steffen, 3981 Lafayette St., Riverside 92503 COLORADO Gamma Alpha, University of Northern Colorado 172310th Ave., Greeley 80631 Zeta Pi, Colorado School of Mines c/o Student Activities Office, Golden 80401
DELAWARE Taking a break before preference night rush party, but not too nervous to smile, are AT-Michigan St. Sigmas. Theta Delta, University of Delaware c/o Barbara Teter, 418 Arbor Drive, Newark, DE 19711 FLORIDA Omega, Florida State University 503 W. Park Ave., Tallahassee 32301 Beta Tau, University of Florida 1108 E . Panhellenic Dr., Gainesville 32601 Zeta Chi, Florida Institute of Technology c/o Student Activities, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne 32901
7 GEORGIA Epsilon Epsilon, University of Georgia 654 S. Milledge Ave., Athens 30609
ILLINOIS Eta, Illinois Wesleyan University 1011 N. East St., Bloomington 61701 Theta, University of Illinois 303 E. John St., Champaign 61820 Beta Nu, Bradley University 1418 W. Fredonia, Peoria 61606 Gamma Zeta, Northern Illinois University 928 Hillcrest, DeKalb 60115 Gamma Kappa, Southern Illinois University 107 Greek Row, Carbondale 62901 Gamma Mu, Eastern Illinois University 1007 lOth St., Charleston 61920 Delta Sigma, Western Illinois University 1619 W. Adams Rd., Macomb 61455 Zeta Iota, Elmhurst College Box 973, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect, Elmhurst 60126 Artistic Zf!-Louisiana St. Sigmas paint backdrops and decora tions for rush party skits. INDIANA
Tau, Indiana University 300 N. Jordan, Bloomington 47406 Beta Sigma, Purdue University SIGMA KAPPA 427 Russell St., West Lafayette 47906 PRESENTS: Gamma Gamma, Indiana State University ~ljSOUNV . o!MUS!C .· ISU, Box 131 Lincoln Quad, Terre Haute 47809 Gamma Eta, Ball State University BSU, Box 226 Student Center, Muncie 47306 Zeta Alpha, Indiana University Southeast !USE, 4201 Grant Line Rd., New Albany 47150 IOWA Alpha Epsilon, Iowa State University 233 Gray, Ames 50010 Alpha Xi, University of Iowa 811 E. College, Iowa City 52240 KANSAS Xi, University of Kansas 1325 W. Camptls Rd., Lawrence 66044 Utilizing rush teamwork, ZO-Arizona and California collegians present "The Sound of Music." KENTUCKY Alpha Theta, University of Louisville 2026 Confederate Pl., Louisville 40208 Alpha Chi, Georgetown College Sigma Kappa House, Georgetown College, Georgetown 40324 Gamma Pi, Kentucky Wesleyan College c/o Nichols, 3000 Frederica Street, Massie Hall, KWC, Owensboro 42301 Epsilon Zeta, Western Kentucky University Box U287, College Hts., WKU, Bowling Green 42101 LOUISIANA Beta Epsilon, Louisiana Tech University P.O. Box 3108, Tech Station, Ruston 71272 Delta Mu, Northwestern State University of Louisiana P.O. Box 4057, NSU, Natchitoches 71497 Epsilon Beta, University of New Orleans Skit characters practice for their BE-Louisiana Tech sisters. P.O. Box 838, UNO, Lakefront, New Orleans 70148 8 Zeta Omega, Louisiana State University Beta Theta, Marietta College P.O. Box 17020-A, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70893 231 Fourth St., Marietta 45750 Theta Gamma, Northeast Louisiana University Beta Upsilon, Ohio University P.O. Box 5210, NLU, Monroe 71212 22 N. College, Athens 45701 MARYLAND Gamma Omega, Wittenburg University 840 N. Fountain Ave., Springfield 45504 Beta Zeta, University of Maryland Epsilon Eta, Findlay College # 10 Fraternity Row, College Park 20740 1026 N. Cory, Findlay 45840 Zeta Psi, Cleveland State University MASSACHUSETTS P.O. Box 96, Univ Center·301, CSU, Cleveland, 44115
Beta Eta, University of Massachusetts OKLAHOMA 19 Allen St., Amherst 01002 Zeta Zeta, Babson College Delta Zeta, Southeastern Oklahoma State University Sigma Kappa, c/o Mayo, Box 2262, Babson College, Wellesley Station A, Box 2434, Durant 74701 02157 Delta Chi, Central State University 920 N. Chowning, Edmond 73034 MICHIGAN Epsilon Gamma, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Alpha Mu, University of Michigan P.O. Box 1765, Weatherford 73096 1345 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor 48104 Alpha Tau, Michigan State University OREGON 518 M.A.C. Ave., East Lansing 48823 Upsilon, Oregon State University Delta Alpha, Eastern Michigan University 231 NW 26th, Corvallis 97330 c/o Office of Campus life, 130 Goodison Hall, Ypsilanti 48197 Delta Delta, Central Michigan University 814 S. Main St., Mt. Pleasant 48858 PENNSYLVANIA Alpha Sigma, Westminster College MISSOURI Box 209, Ferguson Hall, Westminster College, New Wilmington 16142 Beta Mu, Culver-Stockton College Sigma Kappa House, Culver-Stockton College, Canton 63435 Gamma Delta, Thiel College Sigma Kappa, Thiel College, c/o J. Labesky, Box 640, Delta Eta, Central Missouri State University Greenville 16125 Sigma Kappa, Unit C, Panhellenic Hall, Warrensburg 64093 Gamma Epsilon, Indiana Univer.sity of Pennsylvania Delta Theta, Northeast Missouri State University Box 1720, Folger Dining Hall, IUP, Indiana 15705 219 Brewer Hall, NMSU, Kirksville 63501 Gamma Nu, Gettysburg College Delta Upsilon, Southwest Missouri State University Box 579, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg 17325 1019 E . Cherry St., Springfield 65807 Gamma Upsilon, California University of Pennsylvania Epsilon Upsilon, Missouri Western State College 229 Third St., California 15419 c/o East, MWSC, 3514 Nickell Dr., St. Joseph 64506 Delta Pi, Lock Haven University 209 N. High St., Lock Haven 17745 NEBRASKA Delta Omega, Waynesburg College Beta Omega, University of Nebraska at Omaha c/o Sigma Kappa, Waynesburg College, Waynesburg 15370 Box 204, UNO, Omaha 68132 Epsilon Delta, Susquehanna University Box X, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove 17870 NEW HAMPSHIRE Zeta Rho, Lafayette College College Station Box 4032, Easton 18042 Zeta Lambda, Dartmouth College Hinman Box 5065, Dartmouth College, Hanover 03755 RHODE ISLAND NEW JERSEY Phi, University of Rhode Island Zeta Phi, Rutgers University 16 Fraternity Circle, Kingston 02881 Sigma Kappa, Rutgers Fraternity/Sorority Office, Bishop House, Third Floor, New Brunswick 08901 TENNESSEE
NORTH CAROLINA Alpha Delta, University of Tennessee 1531 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville 37916 Gamma Rho, Western Carolina University Beta Xi, Memphis State University P.O. Box 933, WCU, Cullowhee 28723 c/o Blair, 5164 Battle Creek, Memphis 38134 Gamma Phi, North Carolina State University Gamma Lambda, East Tennessee State University 2709-A West Fraternity Ct., Raleigh 27606 ETSU, Box 23510A, Johnson City 37614 Theta Alpha, Appalachian State University Gamma Xi, Lambuth College P.O. Box 9078, Boone 28608 Box 275, Lambuth College, Jackson 38301 Gamma Psi, Tennessee Wesleyan College OHIO Box 333, TWC, Athens 37303 Alpha Iota, Miami University Zeta Delta, University of Tennessee at Martin 132 Minnich Hall, Miami University, Oxford 45056 Box 122, UTM, Martin 38237
9 TEXAS Gamma Tau, Midwestern State University Box 124, MSU, Wichita Falls 76308 Gamma Chi, Stephen F. Austin University 1422 E. Starr, SFASU, Nacogdoches 75961 Zeta Kappa, Angelo State University Sigma Kappa, c/o Himes, 3433 Arden Rd., #323, San Angelo 76901 Zeta Nu, University of Texas at San Antonio UT @ SA, Dean of Students, San Antonio 78285 VIRGINIA Delta Nu, Longwood College Box 1119, Longwood College, Farmville 23901 Delta Rho, James Madison University Box 4227, James Madison University, Harrisonburg 22807 Epsilon Chi, Virginia Polytechnic University P.O. Box 22, Blacksburg 24060 WASHINGTON Mu, University of Washington 4510 22nd NE, Seattle 98105 Alpha Gamma, Washington State University NE 720 Campus Ave., Pullman 99163
Ready to greet rushees with "You Are So Special" balloons are Christie Campbell, Leeanna lzuel, Lisa Lasala and Michele Lipman, AO-UCLA.
------~------SIGMA KAPPA Information on prospective rushee, 1986
Rushee'snarne------Heraddress ______
College she will attend------ Parent or guardian's name ------Address ------
Rank in class: Number _____ of a class of------at ------High school activities ------
Please attach a letter evaluating the rushee as to personality, potential, family Greek affiliation and willing ness to meet Sigma Kappa responsibility. Date Yournarne ______Address ______
College Chapter------Initiation Year ______Phone# L_j ------area code 10 N WEST
s Long Beach is back !::. Laura Anne DiChiaro, Gamma Theta eluded Gamma Theta alumnae gifts for the new chapter. Each Cheryl White, Kitty Walker Fair initiate's parents were her guests February 8, 1986, marked a child, Lorna Bruccolari Wiley and at the banquet. most important day for the Candy Kilker Baratelle. Morning mto late evening was newly recolonized Gamma Theta After Model Meeting, Sigmas filled with sisterhood which chapter at California St. (Long attended the traditional installa spanned many generations of Sig Beach). Initiated into Gamma tion banquet at the Sea Cliff ma Kappa. Initiate Tamera Theta on this special day were Country Club in Huntington Danne said, "It was neat because honor initiate Cindy Hale, pan Beach. The events that evening now my mother and I are also sis hellenic adviser at Cal St. (Long included picture-taking and din ters! It let me in on a special and Beach); alumnae initiates Ann ner, with Jackie Phillips as toast secret part of her life and brought Barnes Crafton and Carol Barnes mistress. Kelly McCoy, who also us closer." Erbe, daughters of Gamma Theta served as Gamma Theta's pledge Initiate Stacy Weinberg said, alumna Barbara Friendson trainer, presented each of the ini "It was very exciting. Especially Barnes; and 41 collegians. tiates; there were inspirational after working hard the whole se The installing team included messages from Linda Berkshire mester to reinstate the Gamma Linda Oden Berkshire, National and Jackie Phillips and many Theta chapter." • Vice President for Expansion; Carol Jackson Phillips, National Vice President for Collegiate Chapters; Kelly McCoy and Bar bara Lehman, collegiate consult ants; Barbara Williams Fenters, colony director; and Winona Averill Valentine, past National Vice President for Expansion. Gamma Theta alumnae partici pating included Barbara Friendson Barnes, Janet Ander son Hammel, Linda Packard, Beverly Heyn Marsh, Jean Genaitis Rosenbaum, and Shari Closson Garay, APO. Other Sig ma Kappa alumnae who partici pated in the installation were Elizabeth Spencer Merman, first alternate NPC delegate; Ava Batt Smalley, pledge education chairman; Denise Peralta Danne, AO, (mother of initiate Tamera Danne); and most members of the new Gamma Theta advisory board and corporation board. Members of Alpha Omicron and The original Gamma Theta chapter charter is presented by National Vice Presidents Epsilon Tau chapters were also Linda Berkshire and Jackie Phillips to the recolonized chapter's president, Kelli Schultz. present. Immediately following initia tion rites, Long Beach alumnae hosted a tea. Those hosting in- 11 N SOUTH
Louisiana's Theta Gammas
!::, by Phyllis Thompson, Theta Gamma
It only seemed like a dream, but to write letters of inquiry to each formed and began to meet regularly. ten months later it became a reality! group without realizing that they In March, 1985, the girls presented No one believed it could be done. Ev had actually petitioned for expan their case to panhellenic. Many ques eryone said it was absurd. Silly girls! sion. tions were asked and direct answers With determination and a drive that All three decided that it was time given. A vote was taken the follow would not quit, Delinda Galbraith, to talk to NLU's panhellenic adviser. ing week, and in April the three were Phyllis Thompson and Amber Bald Unfortunately, she was taken some given an answer. The council de win founded Kappa Chi local so what by surprise after hearing what clined their proposal but said they rority on Northeast Louisiana they had done. The girls presented wouldn't forget all that had taken University campus during the spring their case and explained everything place. Delinda, Phyllis and Amber semester of 1985. that had taken place previously. Af would not forget, either. It all started as an idea. They real ter some convincing, it was agreed With so many enthusiastic young ly weren't sure what they were sup that they would appear in front of women depending on them, they just posed to do to get started. After the panhellenic council so that their couldn't stop now. The president of obtaining the address of a national cause could be recognized and ac NLU was contacted, and soon after sorority, the girls wrote a letter ask cepted or declined. he met with the Deans of Students ing for information about that partic In preparation for the meeting, and panhellenic adviser to come up ular group and to see if there might Delinda, Phyllis and Amber circulat with a compromise. Soon after, the be any interest in colonizing on NLU ed a petition to get an idea of how matter was settled. The "interest campus. Although the group was un many girls might be interested. Over group" would become organized, be able to· expand at that time, the di sixty girls signed! Information was recognized as a local sorority and be rector of expansion did send a list of received from several sororities, with come an associate member of panhel the other national groups and their eight interested in possible coloniza lenic. addresses. The three then proceeded tion. The "interest group" was then An executive council consisting of eight members was put into office. Interviews were set up for member ship selection. When all was said and done, 46 young women formed the new local sorority. April 25, 1985, Kappa Chi local so rority became an officially recog nized organization on NLU campus. They participated in Spring Fever Week, had a bid party, a social with a fraternity, a carwash and partici pated in several other campus activi ties. In the fall, 1985, semester, Kappa Chi had a successful rush and pledged 30 girls. They became a pow erhouse of strength and a positive link to the Greek ~ystem. But, their ultimate goal was not yet accom plished-to affiliate with a national sorority. Once again letters were sent to all the national sororities to petition for Ripping off wrapping paper from Christmas gifts are excited er.N. Louisiana pledges colonization. Eight positive respons after formal pledge-in. es were received, and three were extended invitations to give presen tations. The Sigma Kappa presenta- 12 are determined belles
tion was given by Linda Berkshire, National Vice President for Expan sion; Jackie Phillips, National Vice President for Collegiate Chapters; Angela Guillory, CPO; Mary Beth Irving, Beta Epsilon chapter presi dent; Lisa Lawrence Liner, Monroe alumna; and several Beta Epsilon collegians. The collegians told the girls at NLU how delighted they would be to have a chapter so close to theirs. The choice was obvious! Kappa Chi members voted to become one heart, one way, Sigma Kappa all the way! Dee Siscoe, traveling consultant, set up the pledge program for the colony and handled the details for the colony to become a Sigma Kappa chapter. March 15, 1986, 45 women were in itiated into Theta Gamma chapter. They are Amber Lee Baldwin, Merri Beth Barefoot, Laura Lynn Barrilleaux, Rhonda Beckon, Letha Benton, Cindy Calk, and Rebecca At the winter party to raise money for the Jane Curry. Also, J ana Lynn Der Ronald McDonald House, Delinda Gal rick, Laura Doffitt, Lisa Carol braith and Phyllis Thompson, er-N. Loui Duffey, Jeanne Howell Dunham, siana, mug for the camera. Paula Anne Farrar, Vera Fraklin, and Tracy Lynn Futch. Also, Delinda Diane Galbraith, Stacy Lynn Greene, Janie Hargis, Debbie Harris, Amber Deann Hendon, and Terri Lynn Holder. Also initiated were Vicki Lynn Mahfouz, Valerie Verna Meng, J ac queline Robin Morgan, Ellen Frances Morris, Melissa Ann Nolan, Sycrid Pate, Rebecca Ruth Robertson, and Mary Sue Scott. Also, Stephanie Standard, Annette Stinson, Tammy Sue Tauzin, Phyllis Kay Thompson, Valeri Varisco, Elizabeth White, Darla Renea Williams, Miah Wilson and Robin Wilson. The installation team included Theta Gamma chapter lets everyone Jackie Phillips, Sheila Barnes, N a know "We're One Heart, One Way, Sigma tional Secretary; Angela Guillory, Kappa all the way!" by decorating their and Dee Siscoe. • adviser's house. 13 N SOUTH E
s Florida's Beta Taus shine
~ by Anne Murphey Luthey, Xi
"Sigma Kappa is back to stay!" So students. The panhellenic, one of the of the 1309 rushees could view the read the banner draping the long sec most outstanding in the South, gave luster of Sigma Kappa at 1108 East ond story balcony of the Beta Tau much consideration and assistance Panhellenic Drive amid 100° weather chapter house at the University to the colonization team. and tropical storms. All rushees were of Florida. Sigma Kappa had recolo The team of Sigma Kappas who acquainted with the fact that Sigma nized. The banner's words expressed would lead the first phase were Phyl Kappa was then dropping formal the enthusiasm of students and the lis Markley, Robin L. McGee, Gam rush and would return to the campus university alike. In fact, the pledges ma Kappa and Highland, Illinois had spontaneously made and the alumna; Anne Murphey Luthey, Xi hung the banner on their first day of and third NPC alternate delegate; being a part of the sisterhood. Be and Lee Ann MeN abb, traveling con Clean, scrub, rinse, hind the banner's message lies an un sultant. believable amount of hard work and The colonization team arrived the wring, wipe, launder, the story of this successful coloniza week before formal rush to find a sweep, brush, tack and tion. house and grounds needing physical In the late spring of 1985, National work. The necessity for logistic plan nail. They spruced up President Phyllis Markley began pro ning for sorority business suddenly the Sigma Kappa house. cedures for recolonizing. Permission expanded to include physical labor, was granted by the university ad since the redecorating and refurbish ministration and the campus panhel ing had not been completed as sched lenic for a fall recolonization. Using uled. The team went to work . . . the second week in September to col and work it was! Clean, scrub, rinse,. onize. wring, wipe, launder, sweep, brush, A publicity campaign began after tack and nail. They spruced up the formal rush was complete prior to The plan was to pledge Sigma Kappa house. the September return. Radio and an entire chapter after Another perplexity was having no television spots, campus newspaper collegians to greet the rushees. Phyl advertisements, letters to female stu regular fall formal rush lis Markley could welcome the rush dents, handouts, aerial banners . . . at the University of ees to the house and explain about all helped familiarize the student Sigma Kappa heritage. Anne Luthey body with the recolonization of Sig Florida. could explain the workings and im ma Kappa. portance of panhellenic from rushee In early September, household bed through alumna years on a national lam, including a delayed redecoration unique rushing concepts, the plan scale. Robin McGee, with her drama schedule, a change in household per was to pledge an entire chapter after and musical talent, could entertain. sonnel, little alumnae help and the regular fall formal rush at the Uni But still needed were Sigma Kappa heat and humidity met the new colo versity of Florida. collegians with smiling faces. So, nization team of Phyllis Markley, During the summer, National Linda Oden Berkshire, National Vice Ruth Miller, Kathryn Dunn Lathrop, Council members Ruth Miller, Mary President for Expansion, and Anne Epsilon and former council member Lou Turner and Phyllis traveled to W. Dale, CPO, asked some sisters Anne Luthey, and Lee Ann McNabb, Florida for arrangements. The ex from Epsilon Epsilon-Georgia to as traveling consultant. Again, back to tremely supportive university ad sist. They were a great hit with usual work! Much physical labor for what ministration was enthusiastic about arch-rival Floridians, and the rushing they hoped would be a new Beta Tau the return of Sigma Kappa sorority. they did provided a unique experi chapter. Sixteen sororities make up the cam ence in national sisterhood. A general campus meeting, termed pus panhellenic, the largest women's The stage was set for two days of a call out, began our recolonization organization in this school of 36,000 16 parties of ice-water "teas" so each· parties held at the Union. At that 14 in the sun
time university personnel and Sigma Kappas spoke on the merits of sorori ty life, heritage, present environment and potential. The chance for imme diate leadership roles was stressed to the potential pledges. Interviews with the girls followed. The selection process was a difficult one since the response and interest was over whelming. Girls not asked to join were encouraged to seek other hous es participating in continuous open bidding. The conclusion to the jubi lant time and culmination of hard work was formal pledging the second weekend in September. That Sunday afternoon, the Sigma Kappa house was bursting with guests, parents, friends, university officials, sorority and fraternity officers, all there to honor the new colony of over 70 pledges. The recolonization team included Robin McGee, Anne Luthey, National President Phyl· Since that time, Beta Tau contin lis Markley, Mary Lynn Williamson (faculty adviser), Ruth Miller, NPC delegate; Dee ues to prosper. The enthusiasm, co Siscoe. hesiveness and talent of Beta Tau Sigmas have earned three coveted campus trophies, representation at fraternity and sorority functions and the respect and admiration of all who know them. With the January, 1986 initiation, Sigma Kappa is back to stay! Barbara Shelton Hontz, Beta The ta, serves as colony director. Alice Cook Laxton, Beta Tau, advisory board chairman, coordinates activi ties of board members Robyne Ste venson Turner, Beta Tau, finances/ c scholarship, and Mary Lynn William son, pledge education. Anne Luthey, national supervisor, is assisted by Dee Siscoe, traveling consultant. Mary Lou Turner has been responsi ble for setting up corporation fi nances. • I ' New initiates of BT·Florida in their living room. Installation and model meeting were held January 12, 1986, at the Reitz Union at the University of Florida. 15 N WEST
s Down by the Riverside
!::,. by Jackie Phillips, National Vice President for Collegiate Chapters
In the summer of 1985, the ah Doupe, Gamma Phi; Kelly and your use of undergraduates panhellenic at the University of Gladden, Epsilon Tau; Sandy from California State University California, Riverside, sent a letter Noe, Epsilon Tau; Robin Christo at Fullerton; 5) the number of to all groups not currently on pher, Beta Psi/Epsilon Tau; Kay local alumnae that could be used that campus stating that the pan Steffin, Epsilon Tau; and Nancy to direct and assist the colony at hellenic would be expanding in Jones, Gamma Beta. We then UCR; and 6) the use of your CSU the spring of 1986. Linda Berk waited for the other four groups (Fullerton) chapter to assist this shire, National Vice President for to have their turn. February 15, new colony/chapter on our cam Expansion, responded that we pus." were interested, and thus began The formal colonization of the the process that would lead us to Sigma Kappa was selected chapter was April 7-11, 1986, our newest chapter. because of the quality of when Sigma Kappa joined Gam Linda prepared a packet of ma ma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gam terials that gave further informa our presentation and the ma and Kappa Alpha Theta as tion about Sigma Kappa. Late in use of collegians from the fourth sorority on the UCR November, we received word California State University campus. from the selection committee at Fullerton ... UCR began in 1907 with the that Sigma Kappa was one of five establishment of the Citrus Ex groups selected to make a formal periment Station. In 1954, UC presentation. A letter was mailed the announcement was made at a (Riverside) opened its doors to to all alumnae in the area to as formal Greek dance that Sigma undergraduates. The graduate di- certain alumnae support. Over Kappa and Phi Delta Theta twenty Sigmas indicated that would be the new sorority and they would support a new chap fraternity on the UCR campus. Sigma Kappa was chosen ter at UCR. In the letter of acceptance to A team of California Sigmas, because of the number of Linda Berkshire, Assistant Vice local alumnae who could both alumnae and collegians, led Chancellor for Student Services by Linda Berkshire made our pre Vincent Del Pizzo gave the fol assist the colony at sentation to the selection com- lowing as the reasons Sigma UCR ... Kappa was selected: "Each of the Sigma Kappa was chosen sororities we interviewed was en ergetic, organized, and interest vision was added in 1960. Today, because of our national ed in our campus, but we chose the campus enrolls almost 5,000 reputation and the strength Sigma Kappa because of 1) your students-one third of them of our chapters . . . excellent national reputation and graduate students-and offers the strength of your chapters; courses in 50 academic disci 2) the relative strength and size plines. Sigma Kappa is proud to mit tee on January 17. The team of your chapters in California; have been selected to join this included Linda Berkshire, Beta 3) your successful colonization fine growing university. [And JP Psi; Jackie Phillips, Alpha Iota; record; 4) the quality of your pre is thrilled to pieces to finally have Anne Christopher, Beta Psi; Sar- sentation during the interview a chapter in her own backyard!!!]. 16 N EAST
s Dateline: Delaware /::,. by Dorothy Baker Baughman, Gamma Epsilon, Northern Delaware alumnae chapter
Excitement was in the air on the rest enrolled in continuing educa In preparation for the colonization, March 7, 1986, at the University of tion. In 1984-85, the university the Northern Delaware alumnae Delaware in Newark, Delaware, when granted 3,100 degrees. In research chapter was invited to a Sigma Kap 75 young women were pledged into programs, the U. of D. is considered pa training session. The six-hour ses the colony class. The pledging cere the sixth largest. sion was held February 22 at the mony wa,s preceded by a week of fun Sororities began on the Delaware home of Monica White Dwyer, with filled parties and interviews with campus in 1972, and by 1985, num 14 members present. Sheila Barnes, prospective pledges. bered five. The panhellenic council National Secretary, led the session. Linda Berkshire, National Vice saw the need for expansion because Sheila later returned to Newark in President for Expansion, coordinat of the large number of students April to work with the advisory ed the colonization and was assisted going through rush, so it devised an board. by Judy O'Daniel, CPO, Anne Dale, expansion policy. A year ago, the Sheila Barnes, as colony director, CPO, and Kelly McCoy, TC. Beta panhellenic accepted letters of inter will supervise the colony and coordi Zeta and Zeta Phi chapters also est. Since Sigma Kappa was interest nate the efforts of the advisory board assisted at every party and the ed, a luncheon was set up to learn and Northern Delaware alumnae pledging ceremony. The Northern more about our sorority and for Sig chapter. Kelly McCoy, TC, will con Delaware alumnae chapter, who initi ma Kappa to look at the campus. duct pledge education for the colony. ated the idea of expansion to this Linda Berkshire; Becky Anderson, The new Sigma Kappas at the U. campus, provided and served refresh TC; Monica Dwyer, president of the of Delaware are enthusiastic a.Ild de ments at all parties. Northern Delaware alumnae chapter; termined, having committed them Kim Kokash, Delaware Panhellenic selves to being the top sorority on The alumnae chapter was organ president; and Mr. Raymond Eddy, campus. After the formal pledging ized in October, 1950, having the Delaware Coordinator of Greek Af ceremony, the Sigma Phi Epsilon name of Wilmington; later it was fairs and Special Programs, attended fraternity hosted the colony's first changed to Wilmington-Newark, the luncheon. The 12 sororities that mixer. and recently to Northern Delaware. submitted letters of interest were The following weekend was the Dorotha Redman Jeandell, Alpha narrowed to six, and three were invit first pledge retreat. The pledges took Iota, Frances Prather Swan, Zeta, ed to make presentations. a road trip to the Beta Zeta chapter and Trula Sidwell Hardy, Tau, or Sigma Kappa's presentation was house at the University of Maryland. ganized the group. Nancy O'Dell "We made new friends and learned a Selz, Beta Upsilon, was the first made on November 10, 1985, by Lin president after it became a chapter. da Berkshire, Mary Alice Sullivan, lot about each other," said Meghan Dottie Church Chandler, Alpha TC, three Beta Zeta - Maryland colle McGuire, colony pledge. Iota, is the sister who has been an gians and members of the Northern The Alpha Phi sorority hosted the active member the longest period Delaware alumnae chapter, Monica next activity, an ice cream social. A of time and has been president six White Dwyer, Epsilon Alpha, presi- spring break beach party where ev times. Through the years, our . dent; Jan Glover McKentley, Delta eryone wore beach attire was t he Sigmas have been active in the Rho, vice president; Margaret John next mixer, hosted by Phi Kappa Wilmington Alumnae Panhellenic son Moore, Alpha Iota, recording Tau. Association having had two presi secretary; Ann Snader, Delta Rho, " Late one night, we interrupted dents, chaired each event and held corresponding secretary; Dottie our studies for a heart sister party. each office at least once. Church Chandler, Alpha Iota, direc All the pairs wore matching colors to tor, and Carol Gunnip, Tau. show the special bonds to one anoth The University of Delaware has ex er. We are now looking forward to isted as an educational institution initiation to become Sigma sisters!" for 242 years. Its present name be said Meghan McGuire. came official in 1921. The U. of D. is Sigma Kappa was notified No Meghan's enthusiasm, mat ched vember '1:1, 1985, that we were the with that of her pledge· sisters, has considered a mid-size university with sorority selected to go on campus an enrollment of over 18,000 stu helped the colony at Delawar e at this time, becoming the sixth become a strong addition to the pan dents, including 13,839 undergradu one there. ates, 2,000 graduate students and hellenic group on campus.• 17 Family ties
D. by Robin Christopher, Epsilon Tau
To me, Sigma Kappa is more than a group of would pledge belonged to both me and the friends or a life-long commitment, it is a tradition. collegiate chapter. I was scared; I wanted to be Sigma Kappa is as old as sisterhood and as myself and to be judged accordingly, but I necessary as family. wondered how the Sigma l(appas could evaluate Actually Sigma Kappa is more than sisters for me without bias. As fate would have it, Sigma me ... it's grandmother and mom, too. I am a Kappa was the first house I visited during rush. third generation Sigma Kappa. Being a double The girls in the house were wonderful; they made legacy and having my mom so involved in the me feel good about myself, and showed an honest administration of sorority affairs, I was exposed to interest in me as a person. Sigma Kappa at a very early age. Through After the final night of rush, I went into the attending numerous functions such as conventions panhellenic office and signed my bid card Sigma and mother-daughter luncheons, ! 'definitely knew Kappa, anticipating the memorable times ahead. that I wanted to pledge a sorority, so that I could Pledging day was so much fun. I remember also share in the sisterhood I had witnessed. proudly showing my mother and grandmother my When I received my rush application from San pledge ribbon. I believe that my decision to become Diego State, I quickly filled it out and returned it. a Sigma Kappa was one of the best decisions I have But as the first day of rush grew near I became ever made. I could never express in words the pride more and more nervous. I knew all of my mothers' I felt as my mother's pin was pinned on me twenty Sigma Kappa friends, and I liked them. My years after it had been pinned on her. I have special destiny, however, was not to be decided by my feelings of pride and love because my mother and mothers' friends, but by a group of collegians at grandmother are not only my relatives but also my San Diego State. sisters. We can share the sacred bond of sisterhood I left home the first day of rush with the full that is so special to each Sigma Kappa. • understanding that the decision of what sorority I
Family ties and sisterhood bring together Robin Christopher, ET·Cal. St. (Fullerton), Betty Spencer Merman, B·Buffalo and first alternate delegate to NPC, and Anne Merman Christopher, B..Y-San Diego St., collegiate district director for District III.
18 Extending EK through generations
D. by Jackie Phillips, National Vice President for Collegiate Chapters
Legacies are special people. A ence form. She may also wish to call When would a legacy not receive young mom who receives her first the chapter right before rush to re an invitation to pledge Sigma Kap lavender gift from a Sigma Kappa mind them or the rush adviser. She pa? Some of our older chapters have sister begins to hope very early that also needs to tell her legacy, while so many legacies going through rush she can share Sigma Kappa with her giving Sigma Kappa special consid that it is impossible to pledge all of daughter. Chances are, she may even eration, to be flexible and consider them. In this case, those legacies rock this baby to sleep with Sigma other groups. Active participation in with the higher grades and more out Kappa songs. When she attends con Sigma Kappa as an alumna is a di standing activities would be re vention, she brings back an "I Am a rect reflection of how she feels about tained. Sometimes, a legacy may Sigma Kappa Legacy" t-shirt. Greek life as well as Sigma Kappa. choose to pledge another sorority on All too soon her daughter goes off The collegiate chapter is responsi the campus. Often a rushee is a lega to college, full of excitement and ble for extending every courtesy to cy to more than one panhellenic hopes of becoming a Sigma Kappa. legacies as stated in the Sigma Kap group. A Sigma Kappa legacy, like What happens if this young woman pa National Legacy Policy. The every other rushee, must meet the is not invited to pledge Sigma Kap alumna to whom the legacy is related chapter's required grade point aver pa? The daughter is hurt, and the is a Sigma Kappa sister and, as such, age, must have participated in high mother and her friends are hurt and deserves this consideration. Prior to school activities and must be quali disillusioned. This not only affects rush, the chapter should study the fied to further the aim and purposes the legacy and the relative, but it list of legacies and learn about them. of Sigma Kappa. may also affect several other persons All chapter members should have the Extending Sigma Kappa through and even an entire alumnae chapter. opportunity to meet each legacy dur our generations is what truly makes When a legacy goes through rush, ing rush. Alumnae must be thanked our sisterhood. When legacies are both the chapter and the Sigma Kap for all references received, and when pledged, it adds another dimension pa relative have responsibilities. The a bid is not extended to a legacy, the to our sisterhood and exemplifies Sigma Kappa relative has the re chapter should have the courtesy to what makes us stand "one heart, one sponsibility of notifying the chapter notify her family and offer an expla way." . through the use of the alumnae refer- nation. ------~------SIGMA KAPPA LEGACY INTRODUCTION ______Date ______TO: chapter
college or university
(sister ) This is to advise you that my (daughter ) (grand-daughter ) name (niece )
will be attending ------~~----~--~~------asa ______~--~~------college or university year in school beginning date
Signed------name
maiden name address
college chapter year initiated city state zip
alumnae chapter
Instructions: Please send to the college chapter (addresses in this issue of the THE TRIANGLE). 19 Other activities for them included a retreat, a successful picnic basket auction and a movie night fundraiser. From the Collegians We square-danced with our fathers at our father-daughter night and had two fall exchang es: a harbor boat cruise with EAM and a theme exchange with
MARYLAND BETA ZETA-Fall semester began with the initiation of 17 pledges. During Inspiration Week, pledges decorated and practiced for for mal rush. Fantasy and fairytales were the themes for rush, with individual party themes being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a black and white preference party. We were excited to take quota with 41 new pledges. During officer training, president-elect Judy Beach and panhellenic delegate Kathleen Proc tor shared the informative material they had learned at COTS. In October we had a blood drive with TE~ fol lowed by a party. For Halloween we sold person alized pumpkins and buttons. We teamed up with dTd for homecoming in November with our theme of the Roaring 20s. We placed third in the talent competition during the week's activities. Also in November, we celebrated our first Week of Giving by presenting donuts and flow AS-Louisville Sigmas send an enthusiastic hello to sisters everywhere. ers to various Greek houses and by sending a centerpiece to a local nursing home. In addition, we collected clothes for the Maine Sea Coast Mission and conducted a food drive with KAe for a local charity. BZ excelled athletically as our intramural football team made it to the playoffs. Ronda Krueger, Tammy Daly and Julie Klein ran in the intramural cross-country race and as a team, placed first. Josephine Fazio and Barbara Lehman partici pated in a presentation for colonizing at the Univ. of Delaware, and we were happy to hear that Sigma Kappa had been selected. Our winter formal was held in November, and our final fundraiser benefitted Alzheimer's disease. Order of the Triangle was held in December for five seniors. One recent alumna, Barbara Lehman, began serving Sigma Kappa as a chap ter consultant to the re chapter at Cal. St. Long Beach.-RACHEL GoRDON
MIAMI (OHIO) ALPHA IOTA-AI's successful formal rush Managing at least partial chic in the rain and mud are Theta Chi's Mark Milbourne and gave us seven enthusiastic new pledges. Early EH-Findlay's Susan Rey, Lucille Gannon, Elicia Naftzger, Mary Beth Rounds, Anita fall activities after rush included a date party Kohler, Amy Moore, Denise Cisco, Kathy Blanchard, Susan Morral. trip to a Cincinnati Reds game and an exchange dinner with Sl' and dX fraternities. Our Greek Week event, Sigma K water play, was a re sounding success in the early September heat. Later in the month, we held initiation for our spring pledge class. In October we held big sis hunt, which con cluded with a candlelight ceremony in Ernst Na ture Amphitheater. During informal rush, we doubled our pledge class to 14, and our fall semi-formal, the Sigma Karribbean, was held in Eaton, Ohio. For Founders' Day, we held a catered lunch eon in our suite, with the pledges entertaining with a skit. Many Cincinnati alumnae attended, and Lois Beard was presented with the Jane Eddy Award. We finished the semester with a new semi-for Displaying winning tradition smiles are BZ-Maryland Sigmas Julie Bowers, Sherry mal called the Sigma Snowball, which was Olensky, Barbara Lehman, Karen Sauer, Judy Beach. organized by Elizabeth Makelim and held in 22 December at the Hueston Woods State Park Styrest Nursing Home to serenade and present Lodge.-BARBARA GRAHAM OHIO potted violets to the residents, and a formal scholarship dinner, when we honored our advis BETA UPSILON-A major transformation er, Dr. Susan Rehwaldt. MICHIGAN STATE took place with BT chapter at Ohio last fall. We Alumnae weekend came at the end of our opened our door to 46 new pledges while carry Week of Giving, when alumnae were greeted by ALPHA TAU-We started the fall term hold ing the motto "the difference between good and a huge welcome banner made by the pledges. ing the highest overall gpa of any sorority on great is just a little extra effort." Saturday morning began with a corporation campus. As the result of our extra rush effort, we dou board meeting, followed by lunch and a celebra Rush, directed by Linda Konoval and Andrea bled our chapter's size. A lot of our progress tion of Founders' Day. That night we had an Blount, ..included several parties that sparkled, was made during a rush work week prior to alumnae lock-in, and on Sunday everyone en but our candyland theme really took the cake. school starting. The week's activities included joyed a farewell brunch. The house was decorated to look like the board songfest, fact sessions and sisterhoods. Michele We hosted a mother's tea, attended by several game Candyland. To complete our theme, we Nickol, our CPO, and Mary Olson, TC, joined fraternal advisers, to honor our housemother, added a ginger scent throughout the house and us toward the end of the week. Mary really im Essie Prather. a big balloon send-off for rushees. Sigma Kappa proved each of our parties and brought us to In December we decorated the house for was the first sorority to take quota, which was gether to excel in our second formal rush. We Christmas and closed the semester by recogniz 39. Hats off to rush adviser Gerilyn Turner for are now 95 members strong! ing those sisters receiving honors at S. Illinois. much help. Scholarship is also a high priority for us. Last Betsy Malone was homecoming queen and At a scholarship dinner, panhellenic president spring quarter, our combined sisters' gpa was school mascot. Wendy Hammer served as a Megan Jones, AT , presented the scholastic second among twelve sororities. As an incentive junior varsity cheerleader, while Alicia Gay re award to our chapter president, Kathy Robin to improve our standing, scholarship chairman ceived honors in R.O.T.C. Marcie Crosby, Diana son, and scholarship chairman, Alicia Cohen. Lori Pritchard set up the Dove Club, for sisters Gregg (who also won the Robert Davis Memori Homecoming was filled with fun activities with a 3.5 to 4.0 gpa, and the Violet Club, for al scholarship), Cindy Fiesler and Becky Walker with the EXs and even the pouring rain didn't those with gpas of 3.0 to 3.4 made the Dean's list.- CATHERINE V ALTOS dampen our spirits as we rode on our float. BT observed Sigma Kappa's Week of Giving Our chapter won third place in EX's Derby at Ohio by sending flowers to Dean of Students Days, and we claimed first place in the mud vol Joel Rudy and Panhellenic Director Nance Lu STEPHEN F. AUSTIN leyball competition. cas. We also sang songs at the Senior Center as GAMMA CHI- A great spring semester In November, the ATs journeyed to Mt. Pleas a gerontology project, while our biggest project started off when we picked up 18 new pledges. ant, Mich., for State Day. Sigma Kappa chap was collecting over $500 to benefit Alzheimer's Our excitement continued when Melanie Marsh ters across the state met at Central Michigan, disease research. placed third in the tJ.E bunny contest. During home of tJ.tJ. chapter. There was a variety of We presented our pledges at a tea with tJ.TtJ., February, we had our first exchange of the se round-table discussions, and a delicious lunch enjoyed a homecoming celebration with FIJI, mester with TKE. eon. AT was awarded best scholarship in the and even had a chance to throw around some In March we initiated our fall pledge class and state as well as best overall chapter. Later we hay on a hayride date party. We ended the quar held another successful sexy legs contest as a all celebrated Founders' Day together. ter's social functions with a festive Christmas philanthropy fundraiser. We ended the month Along with
MIAMI-Ruth Risken Darlington, AN, Mar tha Turner Dehnam, n, Elizabeth H. Peeler, All, and Clara Louise Goss Steiger, X, are on the board of Miami Panhellenic. Planning sessions at the monthly meetings have dealt with the year's calendar, a new fund raiser to replace our retired Tasting Tea, our part in honoring Ruth Rysden Miller, e, during the NPC meeting and our part in arrangements for the 1986 convention. We held a dessert-games party at the Coral Gables Congregational church on the first Sat Arranging homegrown flowers for shut-ins at Clovis convalescent home are Fresno's urday in March as our fundraiser. Doris McClain Miller, Dorothy Dahlgren Clanton, Margaret Smith Horton, Anne First Alternate NPC Delegate Betty Spencer Thomas Simone, Pat Rojas Nash. Merman, AB, requested our help with local ar rangements for National Council's party to hon or Ruth Miller's 25 years as our NPC delegate. Ruth Darlington and Barbara Marjerison Drew, 0, chaired the event attended by Miami and Broward alumnae who enjoyed meeting mem bers of National Council and other guests in the Doral country club lobby lounge. Earlier, Elizabeth Peeler had assisted in local arrangements for a brunch which Miami Panhel lenic hosted for National Panhellenic Council. For Founders' Day we drove to Key Largo to enjoy again Barbara Drew's hospitality in her waterfront home. We welcomed Kerry (An apera) Fisher Hawthorne, BZ, and young son Trevor who had just moved from Annapolis. Ruth and Dave Darlington opened their home for our Christmas dinner party when husbands, dates and collegians and their dates joined us. ELIZABETH H. PEELER. Alpha Rho
SARASOTA-In June we installed Rosa mond Salzman Mecherle as interim president until January when Margo Meyer Wiedenroth assumed the office. We held an October luncheon meeting at Ro samond Mecherle's home with a good attend Organized by Becky Sweeting Pauliny, a dO-Waynesburg reunion of the 1970 class ance in spite of the early time of year. Items and brought Sigmas from as far as California, Colorado and New York. Attending were money for the Maine Sea Coast Mission were Linda Heemskerk Petersen, Billie Sue Hopper Moore, Nancy Morton Smith. Standing, collected. Becky Sweeting Pauliny, Barbara Halter Schrenkinger, Bonnie Elliot Kay. In early November some of our members attended the area Founders' Day luncheon in Clearwater. Over 50 Sigmas represented six alumnae chapters. Later in the month, we had our own luncheon at the Sarasota yacht club, chaired by Gertrude Haase Tim.'Il. We owed her more than a vote of thanks for the brave accomplishment as her husband had died suddenly a week previously. The program was given by Linda Williams, cu rator of Spanish Oaks, an area south of Saraso ta and formerly home of Mrs. Potter Palmer. Archeological diggers have discovered this area was inhabited by at least 100,000 Indians at the time of Christ's birth. She traced their progress and types of tribes since that era, showing arti facts to illustrate.-GRACE KIEL ScoTT. Xi
SPACE COAST-We started our third year with installation of officers at a salad luncheon at Kathy Pappa's home with several ZXs-FIT as guests. Our big goals this year are to gain more members and do philanthropy projects. At our next meeting at Margaret Reynold's A picnic in Moline sponsored by Illinois/Iowa alumnae brought together Sharon Reis home we brought items for the Maine Sea Coast Ade, BN; Joan Benziger Burke, rK; Nancy Tormeno Orendorff, rK; Sandi Britt Schmidt, Mission, filling three boxes with new and used rK; Pat Leoni Rittof, 9. items and money donations. We took names of 26 the collegians to send cards on their birthdays. auction was held at Carol Stuckey's, rM, home. Sheila A. Barnes the guest speaker. Annette Spitz gave a report on the Maine Sea Fundraising shifted into high gear in prepara Our annual Christmas party featured wine Coast Mission, Susan Wailes talked about the tion for convention. We again offered cakes and and appetizers and a cookie exchange. We also America Farm School in Greece and Jewel goodie boxes to the collegians' parents, which sent personal Christmas cards to our grand Lewis reported on Alzheimer's disease. Several was well received. Jenny Lawler chaired an mother, so she received a few each day. We members took decorations to complete for the other successful garage sale.-SHARON THOM P· collected other gifts for the elderly to be distri Christmas tablecloth we are making to raffle at SON GREENE, Gamma Kappa and KATHLEEN buted through a church. We hosted a Sig-MA national convention. MITCHELL BURKE. Gamma Zeta tea for all collegians in our area who were home For Founders' Day we met with the colle for the holidays. gians at the new Rialto Hilton. The collegians Any Sigmas in our area not on our current presented the program which was followed by mailing list who would like to be notified about luncheon, ending with our cake to celebrate Zeta INDIANA our functions, please call our president, Terri Chi's third birthday. EVANSVILLE-For our fourth annual holi Mauras, at home (288-4763) or at the office During the Christmas holidays we hosted day champagne brunch, Mary Anne Hartman (523-3311, Ext. 362).- MICHEL L. BouDREAUX, a Sigma Kappa mother/daughter party for the Huff, E~. drew her mother's ticket as our win Epsilon Beta girls home for vacation at the home of Donna ner. As our chapter prepared for its biggest Toth and her mother.-MOLLIE AUSTIN PECK· fundraiser by gathering recipes, the lucky win HAM, Omega ner was chosen at our December meeting. Kathy Polen Hill, rr, came in as runner-up for MICHIGAN the second year. ANN ARBOR-Excitement generated by the ILLINOIS Our officers include Sheree Jarboe Muelbauer, recolonization of AM-Michigan continues as the E~. president; Sara Ellert, E~. first vice presi first year ends in the newly acquired house. The CHICAGO NORTHWEST SUBURBAN-It dent; Kathy Polen Hill, rr, secretary; Connie chapter's return provided the impetus for a clos was a beautiful day in the country for our June Feagly, E~. treasurer; Mary Anne Hartman er and more involved alumnae group. meeting at Dottie Reck Blickle's, rz, Barring Huff, E~ . and Kay Stott Matheny, rr, fundrais Most of our activities revolved around the col ton home. Pauline Grimm Bulawa, rz, traveled ing/social and Sandra Botkin, rH, philanthropy. legians' move into the house. With the guidance from her new home in Wisconsin to join us. We try to plan a program for every other and leadership of Claire Benz, AM, and Kathleen As we have discovered that we can get more month and have scheduled color analysis, land Fisher, AM, other alumnae donated their time members out in the summer, we had our July scaping and a recipe exchange for the rest of the to tackle a magnitude of problems. Because of meeting !lt the Arlington Park race track. We year. We are always looking to welcome new their dedication, Claire and Kathy received the used the meeting as a fundraiser for Alzheimer's members.-KATHY PoLEN HILL, Gamma Gamma Pearl Court Award. as a percentage of each one's winning bets were Monika Sacks, AT, handled the legal problems donated to the fund. Marilyn Handley Majus' LAFAYETTE alumnae began the year with a and Sue Minor, 8 , managed the budget and pay rz. husband arranged for us to sit in the club Black and Gold luncheon at the Lafayette coun roll requirements. house boxes. try club. After recolonization, Bobbie Dahlman, AM, We enjoyed a luncheon in August. Peggy The collegians were invited to join the fun in alumnae rush adviser, organized the efforts of Scheck Benson, 8, our new president, was host October when we held a plant and surprise auc some 20 alumnae to assist with AM 's first for ess for our September meeting when plans were tion with a Maine Sea Coast Mission shower. mal rush. She encourages alumnae to send rec made for the coming months. In November, a dessert was held at the BE ommendations for outstanding candidates for Marlene Litwiller Marsden, 8 , became our Purdue chapter house to celebrate Founders' future rushes. newest member in October when she joined us Day, with the collegians presenting the pro Terry Gazoui, 6T, handles the house manage at Eileen Kane Dickison's condo. gram. ment account and Mary Alice Sullivan, A, lives As most members could not attend the Chica We held a Christmas luncheon at Morris Bry in the house as graduate counselor. go and northern Illinois Founders' Day lunch ant.-PAULETTE SCHWARTZEL, Beta Sigma Collegiate/alumnae activities included a eon at Rockford, we also had our own luncheon Founders' Day program and the first annual which also celebrated our 25th anniversary. homecoming brunch, hosted by the collegians at Our outgoing president, Ticky Scheck, pre the chapter house. sented each member with a silver lame rose LOUISIANA The next joint activity is a May luncheon at tied with lavender and maroon ribbons pur NEW ORLEANS-Our first major fundraiser the house when all Alpha Mu alumnae were in chased from Iowa alumnae chapter. We were was an August fashion show chaired by Suzy D. vited to see the new house and renew old friend also joined by members from Chicago West Kennedy, EE, and Terri C. Mauras, EB. Held ships. Any Sigma Kappa alumna who would Towns and Northwest Towns. in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Iberbille, a like to attend the luncheon or join the alumnae One of the most pleasant activities in the lunch was served, and alumnae and EB-New Or chapter should contact Judy Riley, AM, 2360 suburbs is the visiting between the alumnae leans collegians modeled clothes featuring Au Mershon Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, (313) chapters. At our Christmas luncheon at Ticky tumn Attitudes sponsored by Kraus Co. There 663-1954-CAROL WBORKSI ERICKSON. Alpha Mu Scheck's, we again had guests from these two were door and raffle prizes. The profit was over chapters. We visited them after the first of $1 ,000, with 75% going to the Alzheimer's Dis GROSSE POINTE-The husband of Joanne the year. ease and Related Disorders Association and the Asbury Davidson, E2, presented a jewelry dem To any Sigma living in the northwest area rest into our gerontology fund for local projects. onstration at our October meeting at the home of the Chicago suburbs who likes noon meet One that benefitted from the event is the finan of Maurine Khulman Allan, AE. ings, please contact Peggy Benson at (312) 884- cial support of an adopted grandmother who State Day was celebrated in a blizzard at 66- 0132.-MARILYN HANDLEY MAJUS, Gamma Zeta has cancer and whose only nutritional intake is Central Michigan with Gerry Matthews, AT, an expensive formula. We were pleased to have Helen St. John, rB, Mary Margaret Johnson Pe PEORIA-In September we got together for her attend as our special guest. Plans are al ters, 6A, and Joanne Asbury Davidson, EZ, at international desserts with the BN-Bradley col ready underway for next year's event to be held tending. Mary \VIargaret and Dorothy Limburg legians at the house. in the spring. Eggleston, AB were honored with their 50-year Kathy Burke, rz, was the hostess for our Oc At our September meeting we inducted new pins. tober meeting, a stenciling demonstration by members and our hostess, Barbara S. Grady, Workshops for our annual Christmas bazaar Stitch In Time, which gave us some good ideas EB, served tacos. The October meeting featured were held through November and the fund for Christmas gifts. APO Ticky Scheck joined a program on home computers, and our Novem raiser, held in conjunction with Grosse Pointe us for the meeting. ber meeting was highlighted by a cooking dem theatre, was another success. Our children celebrated Halloween at the BN onstration by a chef from Bouligny restaurant Our Christmas gift exchange and care pack house with entertainment by the collegians. who prepared some of his specialties. We en age party was at the home of Maryn Cation Our alumnae/collegiate Founder's Day lunch joyed sampling each delicacy. Horn, BN, with our collegiate sisters and Sig eon at Willow Knolls country club was high Fall fundraising included small raffles at each MAs invited. Packages of cookies, fruits and lighted with rec;:ognition of 50-year members meeting and selling Current stationary and candies were prepared for our area homebound Gertrude McLaren, BN; Shirley Schlink, BN; Tupperware. senior citizens and M -E. Michigan for their Mary Ziegle, BN; Betty Taggart, BN ; Jo We also hosted a mother/daughter pastry par week of finals exams. Gunther, BN. Our guest speaker was Ellen Din ty for the collegians. Our Founders' Day lunch We would like to hear from any alumnae in gledine, E, who was recognized by Good House eon was held at Colonial golf and country club our area of eastern Wayne, Macomb and St. keeping as one of the 100 women of promise in when the pledges performed a skit about our Clair counties who would be Interested in join the USA. Violet Day winner was Helen Mun Founders. We also had a Violet Shop. ing our chapter. Please contact Joanne David sterman, BN, and Jenny Lawler, received the Pam R. Davis, EB, was installed as president son, 16137 Manchester, East Detroit, Mich. alumna of the year award. of Greater New Orleans Alumnae PanheUenic at 48021. Phone 775-0360.-HELEN L. ST. J oHN, Our annual make-it, bake-it, sew-it, grow-it a September luncheon with National Secretary Gamma Beta 27 the annual tasting bee at the home of Barb tiona! Vice President for Alumnae Peggie Dodd Oberlin Lohff, BT, where over 30 gathered for spoke about her personal interests and her MISSOURI the traditional kick-off which dates back to rewarding association with Sigma Kappa, ap SPRINGFIELD-At a June family potluck 1966. Each year we look forward to sampling propriate for us as our goal is to widen and picnic at Fassnight Park, APO Linda Pounds new dishes and old favorites and adding recipes strengthen our circle of Sigma sisters in the Olsen conducted a business meeting with the to our collections. A cookbook printed in 1980 Philadelphia area. officers who were installed in August. They to share these culinary talents was an immedi In December we packed individual tins of include Kristin Ausburn Schneider, president; ate sell-out, so a limited reprint in 1984 will be homemade Christmas cookies to be distributed Nancy Nprman Walker, first vice president; sold at the convention Violet Shop. to each participant in the Pennridge meals-on Chris O'Riordan Dean, second vice president; After our October program at the home of wheels program. Marjorie Fassett Merwin, E, Marilyn Piland, treasurer; Kathy Tatum Davis, Marjorie Spangler, rn. we are now aware that was hostess for this luncheon meeting. We held secretary, and Nancy Revis Reynolds, TRIAN· there is much more to planning a week's menu our annual poinsettia sale and began our fund GLE correspondent. When Chris Dean moved, than calories and the weekly food store specials. raising to support our philanthropies. Jennifer Koffman Robinett filled that office. To honor our Founders, we gathered at the We began a new project supporting Ell-Sus· During August, we met with the t.T-S.W. newly remodelled AI-Miami suite for a brunch quehanna by making needlepoint bookmarks Missouri collegians to discuss fall rush activ and memorial service. The Joyce Eddy Award, for their preference party during January rush. ities. We prepared sack lunches, served at given each year in recognition of campus activi -MARJORIE FASSETT MERWI N, Epsilon parties and organized the food for the prefer ties as well as sorority contributions and class ential tea. work, was presented to Lois Beard, AI presi We met at the chapter house in September to dent. socialize with the pledges over cookies, apple ci Since the Pearl Court Awards scheduled for TEXAS der and musical activities. We also gave a schol· our spring State Day had to be postponed due HOUSTON-The Houston Foundation for arship award to Leslie Strange during the fall to its cancellation, it was appropriate that CDD gerontology donated $800 to Neighborhood semester. Jane Kramer Allan, AI, was named at her own Centers Inc., a United Way agency. The center's We were invited to the collegiate Founders' chapter. Project FANTASTIC donated fans to the elder Day celebration and held a white elephant auc We enjoyed Christmas dinner at the home ly poor of Houston to help bring relief from tion presided over by an auctioneer for the uni of Carolyn McDonald Srofe, BT. Along with summer heat. In addition to EK, Shell Oil versity. Each member was encouraged to bring the traditional gift exchange we also donated Company, Shell Foundation and Southwestern a baked item, a craft and a friend. The proceeds canned goods for our Lincoln Heights senior cit Bell donated enough funds to get the program went to our scholarship fund and our philan izens' center. To complete the evening, the final started. thropy. Pearl Court Awards were announced for Estelle At the Texas dental school spring commence Our annual Christmas ornament exchange Taylor Hoffman, AI, Carolyn Srofe and Dottie ment, a $100 stipend was presented to John A. was held at the home of Pam Finkinbinder Ed Landis Stevens, AZ. Clare Young Hampton, AI, Casort, D.D.S. The stipend is awarded annual· wards. Some of the cookies brought by the was honored with her 50-year pin. ly to a UT student specializing in geriatric den· alumnae were given to the collegians during In January, we learned more about Alzheim tistry. Elizabeth Smith, EO, is our foundation finals week. We also presented the collegiate er's disease at the home of Suzi Mooney Lewis, chairman. chapter with a Christmas gift.-NANCY REV IS AI. . At our October meeting, members donated REYNOLDS, Delta Upsilon We urge all Sigmas in the greater Cincinnati canned goods, fabric, yarn and books for the area to join us. Please call our president, Ann Main Sea Coast Mission. ri hostesses for the Stafford Dahl, EK, at 871·0052 for details of meeting, Lynda Rice, Sherrie Currie and Debbie upcoming meetings.-BARBARA OBERLIN LOHFF, Harris helped members make Christmas pot NEBRASKA Beta Upsilon pourri balls and animals which were sold at the LINCOLN area alumnae attending the Octo CLEVELAND WEST SHORE alumnae Houston panhellenic bazaar with proceeds bene ber meeting began with a tour of the antiques at started the year with the September meeting fitting our foundation. Harris House which was recently opened to the at the home of Joyce Able Schroth, H. We dis We continue to support rx-Stephen F. Aus public. cussed the Zit-Cleveland State rush and were tin. Corporation officers are Linda Wimberly ri, Our November meeting began with a Found excited to learn they took over double the num treasurer and Helen Manlove, AN, secretary. ers' Day recognition. We honored 50-year mem ber of pledges as in the previous fall. Board members are rxs Glenna Pierpont and ber Genevieve Hoff Schmidt, AK. We continued For our October meeting at Laurel McKay Sharon Wilson. In April, Sherrie Currie, ri, our custom of a silent auction with the proceeds Hille's, AI, home, we had a program by Chris Analyn Anderson Lee, rx, and Karen McBride, used for our gerontology projects. Polsner of Discovery toys. We also welcomed ri, conducted a leadership workshop for the col Osteoporosis and you was the program for our new alumnae Laurie Bartels, Beth Graczyk and legians. Linda Wimberly has been involved on a February meeting. In April we invited Omaha Melanie Mathews, all Als. regular basis in furnishing and decorating the alumnae to a .luncheon and program of spring Our Founders' Day luncheon was held at Sil· house. As the national parent club chairman, fashions by a local department store. she encouraged us to adopt Houston area pledg All alumnae in the area are encourage to join ver Lake country club with the Cleveland East Side alumnae and our hostesses, Akron/Canton es and members. All proceeds from a November in our activities.-CARROLL GRIFFIN DISCHNER, garage sale at Cindy Morgan's home were given Alpha Kappa alumnae. After lunch we were treated to a fash ion show by Mollie Mcintyre, Ltd., with Sigmas . to the chapter. as models. A large group of alumnae attended the 25th Barbara Brewster Knight, AI, was the Cleve anniversary of the collegiate chapter in No land West Shore recipient of the Pearl Court vember. NEW YORK Award and Mary Gervais from the Akron/Can· Cindy Morgan was the recipient of the alumna ROCHESTER-The Founders' Day luncheon ton chapter was honored with her 50-year pin. of the year award at our Founders' Day lunch was celebrated with the Buffalo alumnae at the TINA STEWART OWE N, Alpha iota eon at the Holiday Inn Crown Plaza. Treadway Inn in Batavia. Mary Anne Orcutt, Debbie Harris has been elected altruistic AB, president of the Buffalo chapter, let the in· chairman for Houston Panhellenic and Helen spirational service around the tradition honor PENNSYLVANIA Manlove will be putting together their monthly research paper. ing our founders. APO Margie Toth Hall, B9, PHILADELPHIA- We met in September at presented a 50-year pin and certificate to Doris Karen McBride is the new Texas APO. Susan Hill Hazzlett, AE, and the ten attending 50-year the home of Diane Rinaldo Ritchie, t.E, for in· Spillman, vice president, membership, has our stallation of officers after Diane talked about members from both chapters were honored. directory listing into the computer, so if you re The speaker was Joan Norbet de R. O'Byrne, her volunteer work in a halfway house for side in our area, please give her a call at 957- recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. With 3725.- KAY HARRISON SCHNEIDER, Beta Epsilon A, one of the country's outstanding trial lawyers who spoke on women in law and "Equitable Dis five years of service in this field, she gave tribution- the New York state divorce laws". a thought-provoking presentation about symp· CONCHO VALLEY -A husband/boyfriend At the end of our luncheon, the violets dec toms, rehabilitation and prognosis for recover. social highlighted the spring when barbecued orating the tables were taken to be distribu October found us in the 18th century Bucks chicken, beef and all the trimmings were served ted to both chapters' shut-in members.-LINDA county home of Liisa Karppinen Krause, 4'. She at the country home of E .J . and Linda Ormsby ZIEGLER SMITLEY, Gamma Omega and her partner own Grandmother's House an· Bible, ZK. The evening ended in a country-wes tique shop and shared much about all aspects tern dance. of their business. We were fascinated by their Alll5 alumnae and the ZK·Angelo State colle antique furnishings. gians were present at our Founders' Day tea in For Founders' Day, our president, Joan the Desert Shadows' party room. OHIO Moore, D'Aiuto, E, hosted a joint luncheon of After one of our ritual meetings, wines from CINCINNATI-September found us enjoying our group and the Lehigh Valley alumnae. Na· various Texas Wineries complemented by as- 28 sorted cheeses and crackers were tasted as the alumnae critiqued each wine. During the yuletide season we held a Christ Sigmas Here and There mas dinner at the Southfork restaurant and at tended Zeta Kappa's annual Christmas dance. The less fortunate were remembered as we shipped items to Main Sea Coast Mission, col lected brown paper sacks for use in the govern ment commodities giveaway program for the elderly and distributed giveaway boxes for the elderly.-GAYE BARFKNECHT REILY, Zeta Kappa ... The Virginia Henderson A ward for ... Phi Delta Kappa's Lehigh chapter outstanding contribution to nursing re presented this year's community service WASHINGTON search was presented to Barbara Hazard award to Jane Fretz, Delta Beta and Le SPOKANE-In the spring we combined a Munro, Ph~ associate professor and chair high alumna. Jane, a member of the East fundraiser and a fun night by serving a spaghet man of the Program in Nursing Research Penn School Board, was instrumental in ti dinner to 74 family members and friends. at Yale University. Barbara received the founding STEP (Support Teens of East Debbie Skaer, Ar, and husband William host award at the 79th annual convention of Penn), which provides education and sup ed our July wine tasting party. the Connecticut Nurses Association. Au port programs for elementary and second Every Sigma Kappa alumna in the Spokane thor of many papers on nursing research, ary students, parents and the community. area was contacted during our annual October Barbara has recently completed a statis A liaison to the Student Assistance Pro telethon. gram dealing with substance abuse, Jane Founders' Day was celebrated at Cavanagh's tics textbook for students in health pro Inn at the Park when a memorial service was fessions. also serves on the joint operating commit held for Hazel Rockwood, M, Helen Marie Nel tee of the Lehigh County Area Vocational son Hugo, M, and Leela Poore Sutherland, Ar, Technical School. mother of Sally Sutherland Cochran, Ar. . . . Representing Sigma Kappa in the . . . Diane Snodgrass Conklin, Theta At Christmas we decorated two trees and Mexico City Panhellenic as secretary is and Rockford alumna, was presented the served cookies and punch to the residents of Touch of Life Award by the Alpine Ki Rivercrest nursing home. We also took our fami Sharon Guske Aguilar, Mu. She'd like to lies on a bus tour of the city to observe the contact other Sigmas in Mexico. Her ad wanis Club to recognize her contributions Christmas light displays, ending the evening dress: Leibnitz 8-13, Mexico DF, Mexico to the Rockford, Illinois Community. Di with a dessert party. • 11590. ane, past president of the Rockford Jun ior League, is chairman of the league's Family in Action committee which estab . . . Pam R. Davis, Epsilon Beta, was lished Operation Concern with the Alpine installed as president of the Greater Kiwanis Club. This program is an educa . . . Ellen Dingledine, Eta, was named New Orleans Alumnae Panhellenic. Sig tional series on drugs and alcohol. one of 100 women of promise in the USA ma Kappa's National Secretary, Sheila A. ... Minnette Massey, Beta Delta, a by Good Housekeeping magazine. Barnes, was guest speaker. member of the faculty of the University of Miami School of Law, has been initiat ed into Iron Arrow, a local honor organi zation, whose ritual and customs are based on Seminole Indian culture. . . . Margaret Miller Pelton, Beta Delta, associate dean of humanities at the south campus of Miami-Dade Community Col lege, has been named director of the Arts Program for District Administration. Margaret is a member of the Dade Coun ty commission of the status of women and of the steering and projects commit tees of the Florida Community College consortium for arts and humanities . . . . Appointed to the District XI Long term Care Ombudsman Council, Eliza beth H. Peeler, Alpha Rho, attended the state council meeting when Virgie Hyman Cone, Omega, was installed as president. . . . After completing 15 hours course work plus six hours of practicum at an adult day care center, Sun Ha Lim (Sandy Krajicek), Alpha Kappa, will be certified in gerontology. Sandy, a former traveling secretary now married to a Korean gener al, is on leave of absence from the Depart ment of Defense overseas to study at the University of Nebraska (Omaha) . . . . Gamma Chi chapter's corporation board decided to raise money by selling a square yard of land at $25 each to recog nize the chapter's 25th anniversary. Sig After working for the Reagan-Bush as an auditor for the state phone bank mas were pleased to raise nearly $15,000. for Kentucky, Iowa and Ohio, Kimberly Hart, Alpha Chi-Georgetown, worked in the The chapter at S.F. Austin moved into treasurer department for the inaugural committee. Now Kim works for the Ronald Rea the "newest and best little Sigma Kappa gan Presidential Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises money for the presi house in Texas" in August, thanks to the dential library at Stanford University. many Sigmas who bought land. • 29 PRISCILLA SIMMS Alumnae District Director
A Who 's Who of Sigma Kappa would definitely include Priscilla C. Simms, Beta Chi-UC (Santa Barbara), who is listed in Marquis Who 's Who in American Women, Who 's Who in the United States, Who's Who in Finance and Industry and Who 's Who in California. Priscilla, vice president of personnel for the Walker Scott Com pany, began her career of leadership and service in college, serving Beta Chi chapter as vice president (pledge trainer) and treasurer. She was also active in student government. Priscilla was a province pres· ident from 1958-1974 and has been a district director since 1974. Priscilla's list of credentials is most impressive. She was a member of company board of directors; district director for the American Society for Personnel Administration in 1973; treasurer, vice presi dent and president of Personnel Management Association of San Diego; a member of California Retailers and American Retail Feder ation; past president and founding board member of UC (Santa Bar bara)'s Alumni Association; chairman, 1984-85, of San Diego Employers Health Cost Coalition; chairman of the Employee Rela tions Panel, 1978-80, for the Col.Mlty of San Diego; trustee, secretary and vice president of Meals on Wheels; chairman of the Education Council for Greater San Diego Industry; and a secretary and council member of her church diocese, as well as committee member for San Diego Community College Business Education, Area XII Vocational Planning Committee, San Diego Chamber of Commerce, San Diego City Schools Community Advisory Committee, Grossmont Commu nity College Business Education. This busy lady has been honored by the University of California, Santa Barbara with Honor Copy, La Cumbre and California Club Honor Award. New York University presented Priscilla with Alumni Club Scholarship Recognition and membership to Eta Mu Pi. For service to community and national organizations, she received hon orary life membership from California Distributive Education Clubs of America. In 1973, Priscilla was named Woman of Achievement for San Diego County, and in 1976, Women of Accomplishment, in rec· ognition of service to community and profession. Priscilla earned a B.S. in home economics at UC (Santa Barbara) and an M.S. in retailing from New York University. 30 SHARON HADDON DORNER-ANDELORA Alumnae District Director "I grew up in a violet household with Sigma Kappa an everyday word. Mom (Eleanor Dygert Haddon, national Past President) always wanted me to be a Sigma Kappa. I joined Sigma Kappa as an alumna initiate at Adelphi College, never realizing that I would get just as involved in Sigma Kappa as Mom," said Sharon Haddon Dorner-Andelora, Alpha Lambda. After joining the New Jersey Suburban alumnae chapter, Sharon soon became APO for New England and later, also New Jersey. In 1981, Sharon became director for district IL Sharon has several degrees: Ed.D. from Rutgers University, two M.A.s from Montclair State College and a B.A. in business educa tion from Montclair. Sharon has served Phi Delta Kappa and Delta Pi Epsilon at Mont clair and nationally. She is a member of Omicron Tau Theta, Kappa Delta Pi, Pi Omega Pi, Northeast Coalition of Educational Leaders, treasurer of New Jersey Coalition of Educational Leaders, secretary of W oodclifl Lake Education Association, and other educational associations. Public service for Sharon has included Byram Township Board of Education, Len ape Valley Regional Board of Eduction, Essex County Board of Elections, and Consumers League of New Jersey. In 1982, Sharon received the Phi Delta Kappa Gerald Read Schol arship Travel Award, and in 1981, the Phi Delta Kappa service award. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who in the East, Directory of Distin guished Americans, Personalities of America, Two Thousand Notable Americans, and International Book of Honor. · Sharon was married to Robert Andelora in 1985. She has two daughters, Wendy, 15, and Meridith, 14. Sharon's sister, Trudie W anchow, Tau, is APO for Indiana and Ohio. DONNA CRAIN KING Alumnae Program Director
Donna Crain King, Epsilon Rho-E. Washington, was an alumna initiate of Sigma Kappa. Donna said, "I chose to attend a private college with no Greek system, much to my mother's frustration, I'm sure! Mom, Thrine Reed Crain, Alpha Nu-Montana, having worked 20 plus years for Sigma Kappa as a chapter adviser, rush supervisor and province president (now called CPO), and having already had one daughter, my sister Teresa Crain Troy, Alpha Gamma-Washing ton St., become a Sigma Kappa, Mom felt I should be one, too!" . Initiated, at age 20, Donna began working immediately for the sorority, with her chapter and local alumnae chapter. She has served as first and second vice presidents of her alumnae chapter for t~ee consecutive two-year terms. Donna is currently on the national rush team and has been an APO. She was on Alpha Gamma's advisory board, and redesigned, the letterhead currently used by Sigma Kappa. Donna was graduated from Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash ington, with a degree in arts administration. Previously she was a graphics designer and did public relations work for Whitworth Col lege. Currently she is a freelance graphics designer and a new mother. Donna's daughter, Madeline Donna King, was born November 17, 1985. Donna's husband, Neal, Phi Sigma Kappa-Washington St., is a senior group and pension representative for an insurance company. Neal is supportive of Donna's sorority work, as he is involved with his fraternity as a corporation officer. " No one prepared me for the 24-hour-a-day job motherhood would be! " said Donna. But somehow she manages time for church work, the symphony society, skiing, gardening and traveling.• ·
31 Convention 1986 Packing power
What to wear?
... Punk is fun, but it's a don't for convention, where you represent Sigma Kappa and your sisters nationwide. Wendy Massey and her sisters from Epsilon Epsilon-Georgia show you some do's for convention clothing.
Convention is different from COTS, school, spring break. Pack for a powerful Sigma Kappa image. Begin with . . .
. . . Comfortable, but appropriate travel clothing. You are Sigma's representative on the road and in the air. Save the t-shirts for the beach! Tracy Kinsley chose slacks and a double-breasted navy jacket; both can be mixed and matched with other clothing. 32 ... Even in July, the air-conditioning in meeting rooms often makes a )acket or sweater necessary, but Carroll Sietman is prepared.
. . An all-white outfit . d s ecial sparkles s. required for initiatio~ I~luding shoes, your spangles an ts pespecially the .,Jsa Ramazott' b . eather and ~e ·perfect for banqu;~ Markeity lress and a su~drrough_t a ~hirtwaist awards banquet. to:r-length gown isn't ess With Jacket. demonstrates, a necessary. What to do?
6 by Carol Keeney Winter, rK, convention chairman
Convention headquarters are at Marriott's Harbor Beach resort, just 10 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale Inter· national Airport. While at the oceanside hotel, you can enjoy the private beach, sail, windsurf, or sun by the pool with cascading waterfall and jacuzzi, or try the tennis courts or workout at the cabana club. In Ft. Lauderdale, Los Olas Boulevard or the Galleria, an indoor mall, will keep shoppers busy. Nearby specta· tor sports include thoroughbred or dog racing, jai alai and cruises along the Intracoastal Waterway. During the 72nd biennial convention, you can share in Sigma Kappa's winning tradition by participating in meetings and workshops. Song fests, spirit sessions and awards, as well as the popular Violet Shop, will strengthen you Sigma sisterhood. Now you know how to pack and what to do. Come to Florida's Gold Coast for convention! 33 Computer-assi sted sCholarship
!::.. by Jacquelyn Rummell, Beta Tau , scholarship chairman
Our first few months as a newly for suggestions for the spring was also recolonized chapter wer.e hectic, and our used. This provided valuable information scholarship program developed through for the 1986 Beta Tau scholarship a trial and error method. Our traveling committee, including ways to be more consultants, Lee Ann MeNabb and Dee efficient using a computer. Siscoe, established quiet hours, Linda's computer has also been useful mandatory study hours and other to other areas in Beta Tau. We have scholarship rulings from the beginning, disks with permanent name lists which but after officer elections, the can be manipulated for many purposes. scholarship committee and I were given To tally activity points, Linda has the responsibility to maintain and developed an entire listing of each event improve our system. on our calendar and which pledges will We learned quickly that if we didn't attend or have attended. She also uses want to spend many hours each week the computer for meeting minutes, form tallying study hours for over 70 pledges, letters on Sigma Kappa stationary, work we would need to develop a more duty sheets for the house and much efficient sign-in system. With the more. assistance of Linda Neiman, our Many officers and committee chairmen recording secretary, and her Apple have found Linda's computer to be an computer, we developed sign-in sheets efficient way to organize written that would be easy to read, easy to tally materials and we are very grateful for and easy to be produced each week. We the time she spends helping us.• have also used the computer's storage capacity for weekly total sheets and detailed records of study hours. Other programs such as study buddies, a house library/study room, study halls at university libraries, quiet hours in the house (especially during finals), and test files have been established. Our committee maintains a bulletin board in the study library for posting scholarship information. During registration we brought registration materials to the house and had class information throughout the week. Several times throughout the semester we put personalized "good luck" tokens in each pledge pocket (information slots for each pledge). As a reward system for scholars in Beta Tau, we held our bi-annual scholarship dinner in January. Awards were given for high gpas, consistant study hours, studying with study buddies, etc. An evaluation of the fall scholarship program including an area
34 b. by Martha Ouderkirk, national social education chairman 1. No person under age may be served alcoholic bever ages. 2. The sale of alcoholic beverages in any manner by Colleges and universities are in greater than ever dan the chapter is prohibited. ger of being sued for property damage or injuries result 3. The officers of your chapter are responsible for see ing from students' drinking, legal and campus experts ing that all members and guests comply with applicable report. An Oregon court recently held a fraternity social state and local laws and university policies. chairman liable for $63,000 in damages when a guest was 4. Sigma Kappa may be subject to the same sanction seriously injured in an automobile accident following a as individual students when it violates university policy. rush party where beer was served. An Ohio State Univer sity fraternity and a Columbus hotel will pay $687,500 to When you serve alcoholic beverages at an event, the a woman injured in a wreck three years ago after having following steps should be followed: attended a party where alcohol was served to minors, b. Have members of your advisory board present. according to a settlement in a lawsuit. b. A system at the door for identifying minors should Our national policy regarding alcohol is as follows: be in place, and either stamp hands or use another non "There shall be no possession of or illegal use of alcoholic transferable means of identifying legal drinkers. beverages in the chapter house, sorority suite, apartment b. A substantial amount of non-alcoholic beverages or lodge at any time. should be available. Alcoholic beverages may be allowed at Sigma Kappa b. Food and coffee should be available. sponsored social functions involving the chapter as a b. The president should appoint non-drinkers to moni whole, complying with the regulations of the university tor students who are over-indulging and to drive them or college. and the laws of the city, county, and state in home if necessary. · which the chapter is located. Written permission of the b. A policeman should be present to deal with unin collegiate province officer, advisory board and/or vited guests, thus avoiding confrontational situations. corporation board must be obtained prior to each special b. Direct access shouid be limited to persons desig function, and the collegiate district director must be nated as servers, who are non-drinkers for this event. notified when permission has been granted. Supervision Alcohol must never be served to someone who is under of each function must be arranged by the advisory board. the influence. A unanimous vote of approval by the chapter (using b. Drinking contests and common containers (such as written ballot) must be obtained for each Sigma Kappa kegs) should not be allowed. sponsored social function at which alcoholic beverages 6. Advertisements and invitations should not suggest are to be served. alcoholic beverages as an inducement to attend. Each chapter andJor house corporation must have b. Do not serve alcohol if half of those present are adequate liability or other applicable insurance protec underage. tion. The expense of each insurance to cover the national The budget should be used for atmosphere, entertain organization will be prorated over all collegiate chapters. ment and location rather than alcohol. By following these Neither chapter nor pledge class funds may be used to steps, the safety and security of each member is purchase alcoholic beverages. " enhanced. Moreover, these steps will help protect against Here are some guidelines for your next social event. litigation on claims of negligence. There are four basic precepts when you serve alcoholic . . . and, rememeber, you don't have to have alcohol beverages at a sorority function: to have a great party! ~ 35 Alzheimer's Disease.
f::, by Judith Rose Sabo Goddard, Delta Lambda
Way back in March, 1974, Mrs. Ritter Collett wrote to ness in later life. In July, he and his team were awarded me when I was editorial assistant at the British Gas Cor the 1985 Sandoz Prize of the International Gerontologi poration's London Research Station saying she would cal Association (awarded triennially for research into love to hear from me and hoping that some of my experi problems of old age) which he shared with Professor Karl ences might prove useful for a future TRIANGLE article. Esser of Germany. At that time I was involved in the secretarial side of the Was it because of Speed Baker's suffering from the dis production and editing of the British Gas Analytical ease that we were encouraged to take such a decisive step Methods, a seven volume set of analytical methods for in what I like to think of as a maturing of our sorority? the manufacture, etc., of town gas, an historical record For when I was active at Delta Lambda we were in that which was becoming a necessity as the world went from stage of philanthropy which I should like to call obliga natural gas supplies back to the old gas making methods, tory. We felt it was our duty to visit the old in a local then largely carried around in British Gas employee's nursing home and make favors to raise money, but our heads. These methods were sold to American plants, motivation was to fulfill our responsibility toward one of among others, and very·useful indeed, and I was happy our philanthropies and little more. to have had a role in their publication, but I wasn't cer What a pleasure it is to know that our efforts in this tain how interested Sigma Kappas might be in reading direction will now take a national focus on a disease that about such work. brings dementia and slow death to more than 100,000 of I am now writing because I feel I have something to the 1.5-2 million Americans it afflicts every year, and say. I have been a Sigma Kappa now for 25 years, and in that we, as a sorority, are now prepared to wage war. To England, where I have lived for some 16 years, having me it means we have come of age. we are no longer con married an Englishman in 1971, there are no real oppor tent to fashion party favors in our separate groups all tunities to form a chapter as those of us who are living over the country, but now we are directing our fundrais here are so very scattered. I have learned since I have ing efforts toward a larger goal, support of basic re lived here that my own college chapter, Delta Lambda, search so that one day we will not only know what the has been disbanded, so my only contact with the sorority component molecule of the paired helical filament of has been the TRIANGLE. Be this as it may, I was Alzheimer degeneration in the brain is, but may even delighted when I received the summer, 1984, special phi have helped toward the discovery of a drug that could be lanthropy issue of the TRIANGLE to read that National the basis of a kind of "memory biscuit" that could be Council had "selected Alzheimer's disease as a new phase served to sufferers with their tea that would delay the of our gerontology philanthropy". process and help restore a measure of their self-esteem I felt once again as if I was, as a Sigma Kappa, now not and independence. just involved in work in the field of gerontology but here That to me means Sigma Kappas are· no longer content at the heart of such research in England. In 1979, I came just to minister to the victims of the disease by singing to work for Professor Sir Martin Roth (Foundation Presi songs to them on Christmas eve, but we are now combin dent of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London) and ing our efforts on a truly national scale toward preven first Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cam tion of this terrible disease. bridge School of Clinical Medicine. I was his personal I have long thought about the bad press sororities secretary/assistant until October, 1985, when he retired receive: we are shown in the movies as being rather silly from the Chair. He is one of the world's foremost people with our rushing procedures and our interest only researchers in the field of Alzheimer's disease, the largest in socializing while at college, a kind of kindergarten for single cause of rnental deterioration and general helpless- elitists seeking upward mobility. Here, when I wear my 36 a onnection.
blazer with the (Sigma Kappa) crest, I am often asked, My particular college chapter may have closed (yet it "Isn't that a sort of secret club?" too may one day be "welcomed back" as another recently How nice it is for me to be able to say we as a group of was in Michigan!) but my pleasure at being a Sigma university women who in addition to our interests in each Kappa has been strengthened immeasurably by our .other and in making college life a time of happy memo change of direction, by what I would like to think of as ries, are caring, and are now involved in fighting the dis our maturity. ~ ease of the future.
Pleased by Sigma Kappa's efforts to fight Alzheimer's Disease, Sir Martin Roth, a distinguished researcher of Alzheimer's, offered to pose with Judith Saho Goddard, ~A·Wayne St., who sports her Sigma Kappa crested blazer. 37 Alzheimer's Disease.
by Betty Wood, intellect are housed. Under the ordi drome. Downs has been proved to be national philanthropy chairman nary microscope, these changes ap caused by an extra copy of Chromo pear as a tangle of filaments. These some #21. This may help to narrow neurofibrillary tangles were first de the search in the area of genetics to At one time senility was consid scribed in 1906 by Alois Alzheimer, chromosome 21. ered to be an inevitable consequence a German neurologist. While these In 1976, a scientist in Great Brit of growing old. We now know that tangles are the single most recogniz ain found that people who had 60% of the senile have a physical dis able characteristic of the disease, it Alzheimer's were deficient in an en order known as Alzheimer's disease. is their relative number which is sig zyme which stimulated the Neucleus Characterized by a progressive dete nificant to the disease, as they are Basalis in the brain to produce Ace rioration of the brain, it is an illness found, in limited numbers, in the tylcholine. On autopsy, it was found which was hardly recognized until brain cells of many healthy aged per-. that Alzheimer patients had had too about a decade ago, yet over two mil sons. In addition, areas of normal few of these producing cells left. Sev lion Americans are affiicted with it cortex tissue in the brain narrow, eral years thereafter, doctors tried at the present time. By the year leaving larger gaps to be filled with replacing this needed chemical 2000, that number is expected to cerebral spinal fluid (shrinking the through the use of oral or intrave double. It is now considered the 4th brain power). Here groups of nerve nous drugs, but not enough of the leading cause of death, killing about endings degenerate and disrupt the drugs get to the brain without pro 120,000 people every year. passage of electrochemical signals ducing many side effects. At Dart Alzheimer's begins slowly but con between the cells. These areas of de mouth, scientists now are trying to tinues relentlessly over several years generation are called plaques. The pump Bethanechol Chloride directly until its victim is largely incapacitat larger the number of plaques and to the brain. It is early, but improve ed. It is a slow, agonizing process tangles, the greater the disturbance ment has been seen for some of the which causes its prey to lose their in intellectual function and memory. symptoms of the disease. memories and other brain functions Why does Alzheimer's affect some At this point doctors are looking until toward the end they are unable and not others? Many theories exist for ways to treat the symptoms, as a to recognize their loved ones and to as to what may fundamentally un cure is not yet in sight. There is no control the simplest of day-to-day derly a case of Alzheimer's; but no available treatment that can cure, re functions. It is a disease which is one is sure. Ideas that have been sug verse or stop Alzheimer's. The treat devastating, heartbreaking, and cru gested include 1) a slow working vi ment, then, is one of helping the el as it destroys a person's mind and rus 2) environmental toxins 3) genet affiicted individuals and their fami ability to function as a human being. ic traits 4) biochemical problems 5) a lies through the illness and to give The changes most commonly asso defect in the body's immune system them as much comfort and dignity as ciated with Alzheimer's disease oc 6) psychosocial problems, etc. At the possible. cur in the proteins of the nerve cells present time two theories receiving Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in the cerebral cortex, the outer layer much study are related to numbers 3 can only be made by eliminating all of the brain where cognitive func & 4 above. There are several links be other possibilities. Currently no clini tions such as memory, language, and tween Alzheimer's and Downs Syn- cal tests are available that can tell 38 eLong odbye.
definitely if a dementing illness is peated, finds memory of the recent members of the family are likely to Alzheimer's disease. Only autopsy or past poor or failing while memory of suffer emotionally. They may feel brain biopsy can confirm that symp the distant past is very clear, loses trapped, angry, sad, guilty, helpless toms are due to Alzheimer's. orientation to time and place, in and grief stricken. They begin to feel How does a person with Alz vents words, misidentifies people, be tied-down as their interests and per heimer's act? How is that person dif comes lethargic and shows little sonal needs become submerged by ferent from the way he was and from warmth. the needs of the patient. They may others around him? The usual symp As victims enter the fourth and feel embarrassed, isolated, fright toms can be divided into four phases last phase, help is needed with even ened, and abused. This is all normal. or stages. Often as the first stage the simplest of tasks and activities. Our help is needed both for the Alz continues, no one is quite sure if any He tends to be apathetic, has a poor heimer victim and for friends and thing is wrong. Symptoms include remote and recent memory, cannot family of the victim. less spontaneousness, less sparkle, find the way around at all, becomes It is said that about $20 billion slower actions, less energy, less incontinent, uses constant repetition was spent keeping people in nursing drive, less initiative, less discrimina of phrases and syllables and rarely if homes at a time when only $20 tion, loss of words, slower to learn, ever recognizes anyone. million was set aside to help slower to react, more easily made an We may wonder about the quality Alzheimer's, and of that $20 mil gry, preference for the familiar and of life left to the Alzheimer victim; lion-only about $5 million actually shunning the unfamiliar. but just as important, what this dis reached the research labs. Our help is The second stage progresses so ease does to other family members needed in providing money for re that while the person is still function can be devastating. The Alzheimer search, in providing education for ing in many ways, the patient may victim needs progressively more and the public, in providing support of need supervision in specialized activ more help. The family members who many kinds for the victims and their ities such as balancing a checkbook. are caretakers of this individual may families. A victim becomes much slower in have many feelings: stress and pain As Sigma Kappas: speech and understanding, has great at seeing their loved one changing, t::,. LET Us HELP FIGHT ALzHEIMER'S er difficulty in making plans and guilt as they find little more that DISEASE, decisions, shows an inability to cal they can do, frustration and exhaus t::,. LET OuR ENERGIES HELP BRING culate, becomes increasingly self tion from constantly watching and HoPE To THE ALZHEIMER VICTIM, absorbed, becomes insensitive to the doing for someone else. As the pa t::,. LET OuR DEEDS HELP BRING feelings of others, tends to avoid sit tient's condition worsens, family PEACE AND RELIEF To ALZHEIMER uations that may lead to failure, eas members must assume more and FAMILIES. 9 ily loses the thread of a story. more responsibility, from making fi As the third stage develops, the nancial and legal decisions to provid patient is obviously disabled. He ing the daily care of the patient. As usually exhibits markedly changed the patient becomes more dependent, behavior, is uncertain how he is ex demanding, irresponsible, foolish, ill pected to act, needs directions re- mannered and dangerous, all close 39 Put your magazines to work for Sigma Kappa.
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Tau Kittie Hoffar (2) Robin Earl Linda Brizendine Kimberly Lattimer Sharon Eide (2) DISTRICT ONE Linette Rimmey Alpha Epsilon Lorri Moore (2) Karen Ekstrom (2) Omega Delta Rho Linda Marting Leanne Opel Linda Emtman Teresa Bensen Lisa Brotzman Alpha Iota Toni Purvis Kristina Forsman Alpha Delta Ann Ernst Lois Beard Mary Anne Smekens Elise Henderson Helen Cox Linda Everett (2) Barbara Graham Susan Tancock Lisa Kuhner (2) Linda Hood (2) Donna Shields Lynn Weishaupt Leta Willavage Marie McCauley (2) Jeri Horton Deanne Smoot AlphaMu Gamma Kappa Jann Parker LeAnne McKinzie Terry Trader Sheryln Adle Diana Gregg (2) Kim Player Alpha Sigma Jill Wilhelm (2) Carlen Gomez (2) GammaMu Lisa Smith Rebecca Fleming Epsilon Delta Mary Kincaid (2) Sue Chappell Tani Thirsk Raye Fry (2) Jennifer Wilson Joanne Kissling J onna Cielinski Carol V anderhyde Marilyn Klugh Epsilon Epsilon Kaaren Kunze Laurel Hohnbaum Robin Yoshimura Laura Kratz Debbie Bittl Laura Merkle Barbara Hubert Upsilon Joanne Recchione Andrea Brannen (2) Sara Peterson Barbara Knapp Carisa Cegavske Sharon Smith (2) Chris Coleman (2) Laurie Schlukebir Lisa Mottola Catherine Close Linda Weber (2) Cathy Eller Missi Schneider Marlene Nagel (2) Jill Douglas Beta Zeta Pam Goodwin Dinah Spritzer Julia Townsend Michelle Hill Karen Long (2) Shannon Greenwell Alpha Xi Julie Wainscott Brenda Olson (2) Beta Eta Wendy Massey Terry Fikes Lisa Welch Karen Wadsworth (3) Mary Anne Lipka Susan Phillips Cathy Mayson Gamma Pi Alpha Gamma Nancy Woodruff Sylvia Smith Karen Parker Renny Arnone Carol Cook Beta Xi Jennifer Sloan Alpha Tau Suzy Johnson (2) Liz Bennett Joan Curtis (2) Terri Edwards Kristl White Anjanette Murphy Heidi Harder (2) Alpha Chi Suzanne Padgett (2) Epsilon Zeta Gamma Omega Kelley Mathews Laura Collins Gamma Delta Julia Greer Cindy Anderson Marianne Powers Mary Muzik (2) Teresa Moore Ruth Gragg Gailyn Brown Mary Ellen Olson LaRenda Rudolph Ellie Howell Alpha Omicron Joni Nemeth Patricia Ebert Brenda Reash · Epsilon Chi Kathy Hudson Terri O'Brien Linda Stainbrook (2) Laura McLean N anci Carol Jackson (2) Laurie Eisenberg (2) Jennifer Riehl Denise Greene (2) Gamma Epsilon Samantha Bliss (2) Terri Kniepp Melanie Smith Kim Halus Zeta Delta Antoinette Langfels Jill Hansen Julie Ward Leeanna lzuel Susan Holliday Debra Allen (2) Susan Paige Maxwell Delta Delta Denise Knight Debra Brandenberg Nancy Nutter Cindy Masada (2) Susan Scott Joanna Pieper Joanne Relich Karen Gylfe Karen Ridings Shelly Young Zeta Rho Julie Walton N orine Smiley (2) Sharon Wertz Delta Eta Jan Wise Bonnie Tessel GammaNu Michele Decarlo Melissa Dahman Sarah Eno (3) Daphne Ferenczi Melissa Yates Lynn Weisberger Ellie Dawson Beta Epsilon Kim Foehl (2) Linda Rineer Beta Theta Lisa Forgey Gamma Xi Nancy Silberg Mandy Hofelt Christy Allen (2) Sabrina Hoagland Susan Baldridge Malea Davis Bonnie J o Zalkin Marie Prosser Kim Wisniewski Michelle Skinner Zeta Phi Janice Thomas Mary Ellen Buras Lydia Kupersmith Delta Theta Laurie Clanton Gamma Rho Janet Zonker Kim Green Ann Lyons Deborah Dumas (2) Perry Elizabeth Fidler BetaMu Delta Upsilon Theta Alpha Jo Johnson Kathy Fain (2) Carole Ann Millen Sally Farrell Tamara Potts AngelaHimm Mari Kramer (2) Dawn Ferguson (2) Angie Stegall Crystal Morris Epsilon Zeta Laurie Fregia Gamma Phi DISTRICT Two Polly Sears Julia Greer Lori Greene Kathryn Colombo Eta BetaNu Epsilon Eta Laura Gullatt (3) Martha Petree Pam Eden Kay Baehler (2) Penny Carter Mary Irving Lee Ann Zierenberg Pam Lannom Kimberly Burt Elizabeth Gaertner Pam Kilgore Gamma Psi Lisa Nickels Mary Kaiser Cheryle O'Neil Paula Langford Sherle Brown Barbara Shiplett Lorraine Kozlowski Zeta Alpha Paula McDaniel Gale Cooley Patricia Shiplett Jenny Muss Beth Boatman Beth Mooney (2) Vivian Ring (2) Tara Zook (2) Marchele Weeks Ruth Bottorff Paula Newton Julia White (2) Theta Beta Sigma Tara Endris Lea Rainach (2) DeltaNu Rebecca Bear Debbie Brown (2) Susan Foster Nancy Rushing Kris Hodgson Ann Marie Colletti Kimberly Foster Zeta Iota Judy Seidensticker (2) Delta Pi Jennifer Collins Kelley House Shaheen Chamran Tammy Weedle Joy Anderson Mary Dee (2) Therese Kauchak Lyn Coletta Kathleen Wolf 42 Sondra Word Kathryn Jenney Epsilon Gamma Zeta Omicrom Tamra Soto (2) Beta Psi Jenny Johnson Tiffany Wyant Alice Huhn Ann Souza Katherine Towner Carla Sue Roberts Epsilon Omega Patricia Waggoner Zeta Omega Gamma Tau Epsilon Beta Lindsay Brown Carol Lynn W alz Laurie Buriege Dorene Freire Cynthia Bordonaro Carol Chamberlain Zeta Upsilon Kathleen Centanni DeltaMu Susan Terrano ZetaMu Suzanne Cook Charlene Gagliano Melissa Hightower Joel Ulrick Blaire Wilson Veronica Dolleschel
Marie Strenger Tesarek, BO, November 20, 1985. In Memoriam Helen Corbett Johnson, AH, January 10, 1986. Martha Scott Goodell, AT, November 13, Please send all notification of deaths of Wilda Hayes Bradham, n, February 23, 1985. Sigma Kappa members to Central Office. 1986. Mayme VerHulst Bush, 6A. None will be published in the TRIAN Mary Pratt Anderson, A, December 19, Cleo Spurlock Wallace, I, August 26, GLE without Central Office authoriza 1985. 1985. tion. Irene V amvaks Manners, January 17, Ruby Means Welch, T, September 1985. 1986. Edith Louise McNamee Hemingway, rD., Phyllis MacKay Howard, A. Catherine Schramm Smith, Be, Novem November 22, 1985. Gertrude Davies Davis, T. ber 16, 1984. Ardis Marie Burnett Gulick, E, June 10, Virginia Nyswander Thomas, I, March 7, Adele Pfingst, A9, April1, 1985. 1985. 1986. Esther Lucile Kohlberg Lennond, , Feb Louise Lyman Lacey, AK, June 21, 1980. Mary Carlisle Bristow, AM, December 22, ruary 4, 1986. Grace Strobel Cavitt, IT, March 18, 1985. 1983. Mary Jane Fowler Nelson, BE, December Grace Van Norman Correll, BN, 1980. Katherine Wise Brandes, E, March 11, 31, 1985. Vangine Sieks Meredith, BN. 1986 Jackqueline Walker Martin, Z. Thelma Elson, BN, January 1981. Kathy Jackson Padget, n, February 1986. Elsie Chittenden Thompson, AZ. Marietta Hoag Schunk, BN, September Constance Pauline Huntington Strick Virginia Hilbert Roberts, AI, August 13, 1985. land, T, January 23, 1986. 1985. Emma T. Schmidt, BN. Pauline Hanson, A, January 29, 1986. Eleanor Virginia Gillette Granger, n, Oc Sharon Franke O'Farrell, BN. Catherine Petrie Campbell, N, March 8, tober 6, 1985. Jeanne Urfer Stott, A
Eager to chairmen of convention committees: Dor is Emmett, BT, tours; Ruth Miller, 9, NPC delegate; Karen Coley, Harbour Beach Resort Sales Manager; June Seigler, M, assistant convention chair man; Jo Lair, n, exhibits; standing, Rebec ca Thacker, 6B, Ft. Lauderdale alumnae president; Phyllis Korab, BE, transporta tion. Not pictured, Carole Duerk, BT, ban quets; Katherine Pappas, E, initiation and model meeting; Janet Mercier, B6, hospi tality; Julie Schultz, 66, and Kathy Lam, EZ, Violet Shop. 43
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!:::. by Janine Haka, Epsilon Lambda center to get a matching federal grant. The Sacramento alumnae In l969, the Sacramento alumnae chapter, in addition to money, has chapter was quite small and was donated many items including silver looking for a "fun" raising project ware, kitchenware, a steam table and that could easily be accomplished a screen for slide programs. Our and would be profitable. Roberta most recent gift of $650 was used to Mendonca Cook, Delta Iota, contrib purchase a new refrigerator and craft uted an idea of selling daffodils that supplies. The center offers a com continues to be a successful project plete senior program now-hot meals after 16 years. every day at noon, craft workshops, For the first sale, 5,000 daffodils discussion groups, and assistance to were flown in from a bulb company the elderly. in Puyallup Valley, Wash., an area We have found that the very best renowned for its daffodils. Helene time to sell flowers are the Thurs Kirby Rohwer, Lambda, said that day-Saturday before Easter. The the flowers arrived looking like as flowers are a popular item at that Sacramento president Regina Migliore paragus-green and closed. Fearing time of the year, and with increased Stabbert, ET, presents a $650 check, daf that the flowers would never open in traffic in the mall they sell quickly. fodil sales proceeds, to East Yolo Senior time for the sale, she placed them in One year we were unable to obtain Citizen Center. Pictured are Jennie Sudah her living room overnight with all the flowers at Eastertime, and we and Marie Castanon, EYSCC; Regina, the lights left on. The next morning, tried selling them a month early. The and Florence Cameron, EYSCC. all the flowers had bloomed and she sale was definitely not a success. We recalled, "It looked like sunshine." were luckily able to break even. The flowers sold well and the sale Currently we order 10,000 daffo was a success. dils and sell them for $2.50 per Helene, a 50-year member, has at dozen. We often run out of flowers tended every sale and often been in before the end of Saturday. The flow charge of the entire event. The flow ers arrive in two shipments of 5000 ers are sold at a local shopping mall. by train on Wednesday and Thurs We have often been complimented day. According to Regina Migliore by customers and management on Stabbert, Epsilon Tau, 13 shifts with how the flowers brighten the area. about 26 people are used to cover the Helene also sells flowers through her sale. Our net proceeds for 1985 ex husband's law firm and her hair ceeded $1300. dresser and is definitely the champi One advantage of the sale has been on seller. The flowers are so popular increased awareness of Sigma Kappa that her hairdresser calls her and in Sacramento and an increase in our takes orders. membership. Over the years many The proceeds from the first sale of women have stopped at our stand to $500 were given to East Yolo Senior tell us they are alumnae of Sigma Citizen Center in Broderick, CA, a Kappa who just move to the area or Distributing thousands of daffodils keeps low income area of Sacramento Coun the husbands stop by to get informa Joyce Painter Hunter, EA, chin-deep in ty. The " seed money" enabled the tion for their wives. 9 yellow blossoms.
45 Celebrating ZO·Louisiana St.'s first pledge bid day are Denise Leonard, Kathleen Centanni, Cheryl Breau, Lori Major and Charlene Gagliano.
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