"Maid in Japan " which won first place at the Bradlf!y stunt show was produ'ced by Beta Nu chapter working with Delta Up ilon and Sigma Nu fraternities. Singing waiters KAY MUMFORD and MONA STURGEON serve teins of root beer to Alpha Theta's rushees at Louis,illf!, Fir t Prize for Ho~coming ho d corations at Utah Stlllf! wa won b Sua Lambda. LETITIA BENDER, r E, mem­ bu of Queen's Court at ROTC Ball at lndian11 Stlllf! (Pa.) VOLUME 55 NUMBER I SPRING 1961 Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, 1874 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• E d i t o r - iu - C h i e /, F R A N C E S W A R R E N B A K E R (Mrs. James Stannard Baker, 433 Woodlawn Ave., Glencoe, Ill.) Alumnce Editor--Beatrice Strait Linea (Mrs. Harold B. Lines), 234 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse 3, N.Y. College Editors-Jean Bendslev Coleman (Mrs. John Coleman), Meadow Estates, Wheeling, W .Va. Anne Weaver Booske (Mrs. Henry Booske), 1617 Zarker Rd., Lancaster, Pa. Business Manager--Margaret Hazlett Taggart (Mrs. E. D . Taggart), 3433 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis, Ind . ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• FRONT COVER: The Bloomington campus of Indiana University is widely known as one of the most beautiful in America. Wooded and gently rolling it covers some 1, 700 acres. Here may be seen in the background Kirkwood Hall, one of the older University classroom buildings. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. is the oldest of the major state universities west of the Alleghenies. There are some 12,000 stu­ dents on this campus. There are 29 fraternities and 22 sororities. Our Tau chapter was installed in 1918. 2 Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Alpha Initiate 5 Selected Thoughts on Communism in America 9 Co-ordinates Candid Camera Show on TV 10 Boston Sigma, Maribel Owen, Killed with Figure Skating Team 13 Install 100th College Chapter at Tennessee Wesleyan 15 Install Oldest Women's Group at Austin College-4th in Texas 17 Council Comments 18 Sigma Kappa Is Represented at White House Conference on Aging 20 Housemothers-How to Be Happy with Them 23 Archives-Fussy and Fascinating 24 Receives Outstanding Performance Award from Labor Department 25 Introducing the TRIANGLE Staff 28 320 Michigan Sigmas Congregate for State Day in Kalamazoo 30 A Letter to the Editors of Ladies' Home Joumal 31 Denver's Woman of the Year-Elaine Conwell 32 Greek Princesses at Quaker School for Girls 33 Thirteen Is My LUCKY Number! 35 They're Happy in Their New Home at Eastern Illinois, Charleston 37 Top News from College Chapters 45 Boast Five Consecutive Homecoming Queens at Westminster 46 Pledges 48 Alumnae Chapter Activities 58 Deaths 57 Milestones 59 Sigma Kappa Directory ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ..by George Banta Company, Inc. , official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority at Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha, WtS. Subscnptwn pnce $2 a year; smgle copies 50¢; life subscription $15. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspo~dence ?f a business nature to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha; Wis., or 3433 Washington Blvd .. Indianapolis 5, Ind. Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. ]. S. Baker, 43.3 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. Chapters, college and alumna!, must send manuscript in time to reach their respectJve ed1tors before the fifteenth of October, January, April, and August. Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national advertising should be directed to Fra· ternity Magazines Associated, 1618 Orrington ave. , Evanston, Ill. Second-class postage paid at Menasha, Wisconsin. Printed in U.S.A. Alpha Initiation 1949 Speakers table at the Initiation Banquet: Seated: Grace Wells Thompson, A, Alice Hersey Wick, Past National President; Senator Smith, Janet Pride, A, and Florence Dunn, Past Na­ tional President. Standing: Dor­ othy Maraspin, BH; Margaret Hazlett Taggart, National Sec­ retary-Treasurer; Barbara Brown­ ing Hunter, N; Patricia Lydon, A; and Jean Desper, A. In 1919, she began nine years as circulation reads her mail between destinations, and manager of the weekly Skowhegan Inde­ often lets her secretaries do her personal pendent-Reporter, owned by the man she was shopping, right down to the lipstick in her eventually to marry. When Clyde Smith was handbag. She has been her own best argument dying in April, 1940, he asked his constitu­ that women in politics work more consci­ ents to elect his wife. to Congress to fill out entiously than men because they are anxious his term. They did, by a 10-to-1 margin. to prove that they can do the job. Her routine She spent four two-year terms in Congress day begins at 8 A.M. with breakfast at the and during World War II directed her in­ desk. A blizzard of morning mail (which in­ terest to military and labor problems, earning cludes an occassional marriage proposal) is the title "Mother of the WAVES." answered the same day. When she closes her Her chance to move up to the Senate came office door at 8 P.M. she is often clutching in 1948. The wily little woman whirled into a bundle of work to be toted home. a grueling campaign for the nomination, Her life, dominated by her work, rarely opposing three men, two of them ex-govern­ brushes the social side of Washington. She ors. She racked up a pi:imary vote exceeding lives in a modest three apartment house in the total of the theirs, won the election, and Silver Spring, Md. She also has a summer became the first woman ever elected to the place at Cundys Harbor, Me. and an eight Senate without first having been appointed. room house which perches high on the banks Maine is devoted to her. She is a real-life of the Kennebec, in Skowhegan. Plans for success as much a part of Maine as a russet the lat'ter were sketched by the senator. She Aroostook potato. Cooly steadfast, she is in has furnished the one-floor house with mel­ some respects as unyielding as the rock bound lowed mahogany and fruitwood antiques coast. combined with cool colors. A quick humor hides beneath the New Senator Smith probably has done as much England reserve. Ten years ago when a radio to advance the cause of women in government commentator asked Senator Smith what she as any woman to date .... A woman other would do if she woke up in the White House, women like and men admire, Margaret Chase she said, 'Td go straight to Mrs. Truman and Smith has won the respect and votes of both, apologize. Then I'd go home." as well as six more years in which to further Margaret Chase Smith has been described her contention that women in the Senate help as a woman who never wastes a minute, to strengthen government. Excerpts reprinted by special permission of the Ladies' Home Journal@ 1960 The Curtis Publishing Company SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE COMMUNISM IN AMERICA By J. EDGAR HOOVER, from his book, Masters of Deceit Condensed by JEAN BENDSLEV COLEMAN, College Editor "Something utterly new has taken root in America during the past generation, a communist mentality representing a systematic, purposive and conscious attempt to destroy Western civilization and roll history back to the age of barbaric cruelty and despotism, all in the name of 'progress.' Evil is depicted as good, terror as justice, hate as love and obedience to a foreign master as patriotism."-]. EDGAR HooVER, Masters of Deceit .6 Fern C. Stukenbroeker of the FBI, who made and how to see through them, let us was guest speaker at Sigma Kappa's con­ consider the Five False Claims of Commu­ vention this year, dramatically described the nism as outlined by Mr. Hoover in his book. actions of the fanatical American communist. They are: His portrait of the dedicated underground "1. Communists are not liberals. The concept worker, who could have been recruited from that communism is r. new world of liberalism is the ranks of any college classroom, awakened false, a trap used to catch non-communists. Com­ many of us to the realization that we are un­ munism is the very opposite of liberalism. Liberal­ prepared to fight communism or work to ism means increased rights for citizens; a curb on the powers of the central government; freedom of counteract it. speech, religion and the press. Communism means The world famous director of the Federal fewer and fewer rights for the private citizen, cur­ Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, tailment of freedom of speech and press and wor­ published his best seller, "Master's of De­ ship of God. The state becomes all-powerful, the absolute reverse of American tradition. ceit," in 1958. And according to Mr. Stuken­ "2. Communists are not progressives. A prime broeker, it is still the best "text on the story tenet of communist propaganda is that communism of communism in America and how to fight is the latest word in social progress, that all other it. We heartily recommend its reading by our forms of government, especially our constitutional government, are outmoded, old-fashioned and an­ members. tique. Everyone likes progress and the communists All of us are aware that it was a small com­ have identified themselves with this idea. munist minority who took over Russia more "The exact opposite is true. The communists than 40 years ago and that it is still a rela­ have inherited the barbaric traditions of the old Czars and have used both club and blood purge to tively small minority of the Russian people increase the tyranny of the state.