OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA SPRING 1966 The best is ye11o be Most graduating Kappas know that commencement is just what it means-"a be­ ginning," and, using this premise in their talks, commencement speakers will em­ phasize the beginning of a new life. Following this truism, college graduation or commencement also will mark the beginning of a new and broader facet of Kappa life. The welcome of thousands of Kappas organized into 367 associations and clubs across the United States, Canada and England awaits the lucky seniors who will reside in one of these areas. Throughout the world are thousands of other Kappas living in unorganized areas but still ready to give a welcome to members who may arrive in the vicinity. The four years of college are but a short span in the life of a Kappa. The leadership learned as an active, the friendships made as an active, the willingness to serve developed as an active are but a prelude to the long alumnre years, years of friendship and service. To the Kappa commencing her alumna life in a new city a ready-made group of friends is waiting to greet her. Likewise, the Kappa moving to alumna status in her own community will find friends and opportunities for service waiting. The organized groups want and need her, her youth, her fresh ideas, her knowledge and her enthusiasm to carry on the Kappa pattern. In alumnre life, as it was in active membership, what the Fraternity can and will mean to an individual is an individual thing. One benefits from anything by the amount of oneself that is put into it-so it is with Kappa. The close associations of undergraduate years give way to a more impersonal life with outsiders but the feeling of sisterhood prevails throughout a lifetime. Happiness and satisfaction can be yours in alumnre life. An invitation to your Kappa commencement is extended by the thousands of alumnre who have preceded you for nearly one hundred years. Join an association or club now and learn what so many Kappas have come to realize, that "the best is yet to be." /~b.'~ Director of Alumnre OF KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA The first college women's magazine. Published continuously since 1882 VOLUME 83 NUMBER 2 SPRING 1966 Send all editorial material and correspondence to the 2 Always room for one more EDITOR 8 A volunteer in Alaska Mrs. Robert H . S imm ons 156 North Roosevelt Avenu e 9 Washington's fourth chapter Columbus, Ohio 43209. 14 Chapter housing-A new home for Epsilon Send a ll business items to the BUSINESS MANAGER 16 Delta Chi proud of new house Mi ss Clara 0. Pierce Frat ernity H eadquarters 18 More about Kappas with the Peace Corps 530 East Town Street Columbus, Ohio 43216. 19 Two convention speakers Send changes of address, six weeks prior to month of publication, to 20 Kappas abroad FRATERNITY 21 THE KEY visits Beta Omega Chapter HEADQUARTERS 530 East Town Street Columbus, Ohio 43216. 22 Ninety years at Oregon (Duplicate copies cannot be 24 Inspiration and courage in sisterhood sent to replace those und elivered through failure to send advance noti ce. ) 29 Kappas off the press Deadline dates are August 1, September 25, November 15, 36 A letter from Nancy January 15 for Autumn, Winter, Mid-Winter, and Spring 37 Career corner issues respectively. Printed in U.S. 39 Campus highlights THE KEY is publish ed four times a year (in Autumn, Winter, Mid-Winter, and 40 Actively speaking 0 0 roundup of chapter news Spring), by George Banta Company, Inc., offi cial printer 48 In memoriam to Kappa Kappa Gamma F raternity, Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin 54952. 49 Alumnre news Price: $.50 single copy; $3.50 two-years; SIS.OO life. 50 What is a Kappa? Second class postage paid at Menasba, Wisconsin. Copy· 54 Alumnre entertain right, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity 1966. 55 Varied careers of Kappas Postmaster: Please send 57 Honors for Kappa Alumnre notice of undeliverable copies on Form 3579 to 60 50 years a Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Headquarters, 62 She ought to be a Kappa 530 East Town Street, Columbus, Ohio 43216. 71 Directory COVER: The Close connects Howarth Hall and Jones Hall on the University of Puget Sound campus in Tacoma, Washington, where Kappa installed its newest chapter on March 5, 1966. Always roon1 lor on@ n~or@ A mother of three discusses the college admissions problem faced by the parents and youth of today by MARY MARGARET GARRAR D R emember when you were a youngster 10-12%. It is also true that more youngsters and you and your friends would go in a dark­ than ever are choosing to go to college. ened room and tell ghost stories, trying to see These two factors contribute to reliable pred­ who could scare everyone the most? ications that in 1980 there will be 9,000,000 Today, when talking about college admis­ attending college, about twice as many as sions, it looks as though a lot of people are today. sitting in one of, those darkened rooms, telling It is likewise true that it is much more stories that frighten high school students and complex to apply for college admission than their parents half to death. However, snap on it was a decade ago when a youngster could the lights and away goes the scariness of a say, "I want to go here," and was virtually ghost story session! In the same manner, a assured of acceptance HERE. Nowadays little light on college admissions makes the only one in five or six who applies makes it situation seem a lot more hopeful. into Ivy League schools and few can apply to It must be admitted, of course, that por­ four or five schools and be accepted by all. tions of the ghost stories are true. It is true Admittedly, problem #!-increased enroll­ that the "baby boom" of World War II has ment-contributes to problem #2-the com­ reached the colleges, with 1964 freshman en­ plexity of admissions procedures with its fre­ rollment up to 17% and 1965 up an additional quency of turndowns. The schools worry 2 ::: Brian Savage-© 1964 The Curtis Publishing Company Reprinted by speciJI permission of The Saturday Evening Post. about both of these problems. Parents and anyone, for instance, whose SAT verbal score students are apt to feel more concern about was less than 550, or some other set figure, the second. perhaps in the 6 or 700's for "prestige" How is a student judged for college admis­ schools. Nowadays a college may say, as does sion today? Illinois Wesleyan University in a freshman The catalogues will tell you that his record class profile: "We have no cut-off College is evaluated in this general order of impor­ Board score nor do we eliminate an applicant tance: 1) high school rank in class with par­ on the basis of class rank or testing informa­ ticular reference to subjects taken and grades tion alone. Our main concern is to try to de­ received, 2) SAT and other test scores, 3) termine the applicant's success and growth recommendations from school personnel and possibilities on our campus-both academical­ personal acquaintances, 4) extra-curricular ac­ ly and socially." tivities, 5) special considerations (sometimes) What specifically are "College Board relating to geography, relatives who attended scores?" Since it has been only in the last a school, foreign travel, talent in athletics, decade that testing has become common for music, and so on. the rank and file of college-bound students, There has been little change over the years with about 1,500,000 taking SAT's alone in in emphasis on the latter three. But the re­ the past year, perhaps some explanation is in quirements for rank in high school class are order. going up, with even the state universities The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) is pre­ now taking about 80% of their students from pared and conducted by the CEEB (College the top half. The inference is that if a stu­ Entrance Examination Board), is taken most dent didn't try in high school he's not apt to often in May of a student's junior year in try in college, or, if he wasn't able to do high high school and/ or December of his senior school work, college work won't be for him. year. It is given in a three-hour long Satur­ Still, admissions people do look closely at rec­ day morning session, has two major sections­ ords of students who pick up steam, making verbal and mathematical, produces separate better grades as high school seniors than they scores on a norm of 200-800 for each section. did as freshmen. This sort of progress is re­ CEEB suggests that tutoring or studying for garded as a good sign. the SAT is not worthwhile since the test mea­ It is also a good sign the way test scores sures native ability. are considered today. There was a feeling not If a college is not a participant with CEEB too many years ago that there was a "cut-off it may require the English and math stan­ point" on these. A college would not take dard scores of the American College Testing 4 Program (ACT). interest in learning." Robert S. Cope, head of These are not the only scores considered in Admissions at Wooster College, tells the stu­ a student's college acceptance. His high dents who come to him that "It is not your school transcript is dotted with results of tests IQ, but your I WILL that counts!" administered throughout his high school Besides these problems, the staggering years.