Pit ; The Key The~ celebrates 100 years!lllli-- of Kappa Kappa Gammo EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL In the Beginning ..• this first venture of a woman's fraternity Thf first topic of discussion at the into the tield of journalism. For the edi­ Vol. 99 No. 1 Kappa Convention held in BloQffiington, torship none other was thought of nor Spring, 1982 Indiana, in 18'81, was the practicability su~ested than Minnetta Taylor of De­ The first rollege women's magazine. of founding a fraternity publication {n Pauw University. She was known among Pul:?,lished continuously si11Ce )882 the form of a magazine to contain about us an fol'< her brilliant attainments in liter­ Fraternity Headquarters, 531) East Town St., 6Q_ pages and publication entrusted to ature, and u.nder her guidance, we felt CoJumbus, OH 43215. (Mailing Address: P.Q. some chapter as editors-in-chi,ef who that our undertaking could not be other­ Bo~ 2079, Columbus, OH 43216) would attend to arrangement and publi­ wise than successful. Send all editorial material and correspon­ cation of the magazine. Out of this and · ~As we had little or no capital, a very dence to the: ' EDITOR- Mrs. David B. Selby, 6750 Merwin pursuant discussion concerning arrang­ necessary equipment. when you go into Place, Worthington, OH 43085 ement and contents, of paper, finance, the publishmg business, we selected an Send all active chapter news and pictures to: etc. came the vote to Issue a quarterly "Indianapolis job printer whom we knew AC'l 'IVE CHAPTER EDITOR ......, Mrs. Wilfis C. magazine ~dapted te distribution among . would do tire work cheaply for us. Pflugh, ~r . , 2359 Jpan, St., "San -Diego, CA frie~;~ds 92103 - of the Fraternit}! as well as mem­ "Those eager, expectant days were Send all alumnaJi! news~nd pictures to: bers. Each chapter was to be taxed five fimilly rewarded by an a~tual copy in ALUMNAE EDITOR - ~rs . Paul Heenehan, dollars. The xadical step having been hand · Vol. 1, No. 1. The cover was a P.O. Box 292, Mifflinburg, PA 17844 "' d~cided UJ?On a committee del.iberated chocolate brown in color and its ggliness Send all business items and change of - Tade HartsUff, -'M - Butler, Lucia E. was only compensated for by the quiet address, ·SiX weeks prior "tO month Of publica• tl'on to: · Heaton, BB - St-. " Lawrene~ . and tida repose jn center of the page of the dear FRATERNITY> HEAD.QUARTERs-.,..P.Q-, Box Kline, ~ · Illinois Wesleyan. Thls com­ emblem. of our order, a Key all done in 2079, Columbus, OH 432J6 . .(Duplicate copies mittee recommended that the "entire gold. TWo gold lines Jed around the page cannot be seot to replace thdse undeijvereq business" he left to a committee having at a respectful distance from the edge through laii!Jre to send advance notice.) ftllf power in arranging the magazine. · Second class. postage paid at Columbus, OH and just beyond , on the other side Jay and at additional mailing offices. USPS 294- T.bis .ct>mmitlee, immediately appoint­ ~The first efforts of an infant hand.' 160. Copyright, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraterni; ed. consiste of M~nqe_t:ra T. lbylor, and "I do not recall a single line of its con­ ty 1982. Price $1 .50 single copy. Dei!dline L-aura Kelly of Greencast1e and Lou tents beyond the title page where re­ dates are August 1, November 1, Febrlfary f ,. Landers of lrvlngron. signed supreme the motto selected from anCI April 1 for Fall, Winter, Spring, and Sum· mer issues respectille(y . ·Printed In U.S.A. Thus dig Kappa Kappa Gamma be­ Temwsoo. come a pioneer in the field of fraternity "We s.ent sample copies to many of the journalism fer women, the first o the fraternity journals, and received kind womei:)'s fraternities to publish a maga­ COVER: Th e K.ey celebrates. its centeJ}nial wiih notices in return. a photo of the first issue of Til e Golf/en /(ey (left zine. It was a much more serious under­ "We soon came to realize, as must all with brown cover) and an issue of HiS9 both taking tha[l the rather casual voting peopie sooner or later who rush into resting on the _antique ~ ecre ta ry found in would imniy. There were 17 chapters print, that an initial number is but the Kappa's Heritge Museum . There. are v ery'few of but only nin~ had delegates' irr Conven~ harbinger of worries incessant. th ~ fifSt issues, in existence, and those are usually found Jn bound vulumes of The Key. tiop. ~pha was practically out of exist· ''While the various chapters seemed ence, the life of Rho and of Thu was soon delighted with this child of their adop­ to flicker out, Theta w1ts sul:J-rosa- only tion. they never seemed to fully realize Table o( Contents 13 chapters at best, at five dollars each, their responsibility for its bringing up. The Key celebrates 100 years . _.. ,; . _. ,. I only $65 in sight to finance a quarterly! They woefully neglected their chapter Histoncall y Speaking . .. , . ....... ".. ...... 9 Tne total, membership was about 450. 1etters, while those appointed for special CHOICES Clippings .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. I l Tade .Hartsuff, who became Grand Uta Zeta Chapter Installed .. ... _ . 12 subjects lamentably lacked punctuality. Patterns of Convention Take Shape. 13 President at this Convention, wrote her hen the printer fell to procrastinating, Two N~w Kappa Chapters Begin .... .. 13 reminiscence of 1881 which was pub­ and money got scarce. Hjghlights from Council (Mini Direetory) . 14 Al umnae .N ews .. ,, . • . 15 lished in the December 1907 issue the ''I recall a visit I made to our printer in Northern Michigan Panh!illenic _. .. •. • _. 29 The Key where she told of the new en- company with one of our Mu girls. Our In Memoriam .... , . • . .. 30 - terprise. object was to hurry him up with his Heritage M u ~eum Insert l.pss of a Husband . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 ~ " Louise Landers had always been work. We found him short of help, so Letters to Editor . ... .. _ . 34 very enthusiastic about a fraternity pub­ volunteered to set type for awhile. We Su san is not blind to a love of life . .. _. 36 lication. and she it was whom I first Eating disorders affect millions . 38 only retreated when the plastering loos­ Campus High lights . ....... .. ... ..... _ 39 heard .mention the name, The Golden ened and suddenly came down on our Rush with a "Fieurish" _, _.. , . .. " . ... 47 Key. 'If we select that name. then we can heads. We solemnly accepted this warn­ Reference Study Committee . 47 1900-1 982- Do We Look the Same? ... 48 adopt for our motto, Tennyson's lines: ing to keep our hands off things techni­ Hey L9ok!!l Someone New is Moving ln . 49 'Every door is barr'd with gold and cal. and turn our minds to things inteJiec­ Colonization Rush . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 opens but to golden keys.' Thus she tual. Colonization Membership Chai rman & Advisers . .......... ...... .. , . 51 spoke one day and thus was our quarter­ ''As Tlook back upon those days from Alumnae Refe rence Chai rman . •. , . 54 ly christened. the view point of years of experience in a Membershi p Data Form . _. • . 59 "I was made chairman of the commit· world that has moved wonderfully fast, tee that convention appointed to launch how primitive and guileless those early NO ,. Covering the issues HKEY . "\At:: 'kj or ~pA~pA + .\fAY, 1915 "l r K of Kappa Kappa Gamm a Fraternity of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity \.;of I I\ t.ktobier, \tl7 the (If "'\It'\ Jo. ,, , 4 "" \V'41 \ The Key ,,..,.,., 4(KQpptl/(appu ~amma l ol '' \ o I F\U. tti'O ( ~,,. 1 ''I \1 1~ ll ,. ,,, , ,.. 0 , 1 , of' 4 • c •t•• .. ..... ,.... "Probably it was in February that I was, arlast, in Indianap· olis, pursuing a printer and glancing at the first fraternity period­ ical that I had ever seen. lt was The Crescent of Delta ThuDelta; and Miss Landers, whose brother belonged to that fraternity, was anxious that our magazine should resemble theirs. I re­ member I shocked her by saying that I had never heard of, much less seen. a magazine that I wished to make one like; but I meant no disrespect to The Crescent. •' Presently, Miss Hartsuff and I found common sympathy. She was a red hot radical or rather, improver. and I was a white hot one. We both believed with all our hearts and mi-nds and souls in the new woman and her future. Could the fraternity be for that? Could The Key help that? We gradually fired each other until by luncheon time she broke away from the table and walked the floor. prophesying good concerning Kappa Kappa Gamma and the future of woman, while I responded, chorally, with what the wisest had thought of it all and how they had prepared the way. ' 'That was really the forge where Tire Key was hammereq out of shapeless metal. Mter that, everything was a matter of the Greek letters. my last number of The Key was what I detail. There was nQ force on earth exceP.t death that could pected it to be. Once a number was two weeks in arrears, have stopped The Key. Death itself could, not; for love is strong~ after repeated inquiries and interviews tbe printer stated er than death. "No money coming, 1 wrote to each of the chap­ his workmen were sick. I wrote him that if 1 did not ters reminding and explaining at length, a very painful task for books next day I would take my medicines with me me for l would almost as willingly ask money for myself as for their physician.