Contents Winter 1991 Volume 108 Number 2 Pi Beta Phi's 125th Patchwork of Our Past, Anniversary - Fabric of Our Future - Since 1867 Pi Beta Phi has In celebration of the been providing friendship, Fraternity's 125th anniver­ leadership and scholarship ary, a special friendship to its members. Take a look quilt is being created. at a few highlights of Pi pg.6 Beta Phi's rich history. pg.2 Blue Ribbon Campaign - Academics in the 1990s - Pi Beta Phi challenges each Find out how our collegiate chapter to make 1991-92 a chapters are encouraging Blue Ribbon Year for good scholarship and what Academics. programs are being used. pg.8 pg.1O 4.0 Students - Pi Phi Express - The Fraternity salutes those See what's new in undergraduate members sportswear, gift and novelty who maintained a 4.0 grade items. point average for the spring pg.67 1990 term. pg.13 Departments News of Arrowmont ............•....•.•...•....•.•.•...•..... 18 Links to Literacy •.•..••.••....••..••.........•.................. 23 1990-91Friendship Fund Donors ...•.................. 25 Foundation ..•...................................................... 52 Alumnae News .................................................. 54 Collegiate News ......................................•.........•58 In Memoriam ......................•............•......•.•.•..•..• 62 Fraternity Directory ................•.•.............•...•...... 64 Announcements ........................•.....•.•......•.•...... 66 Arrowfacts ..............•......•....................•............... 71 Cover - From 1867-1992, Pi Beta Phi celebrates 125 Years of Friendship - A Design for Our Future Arrow Editor The ARROW of Pi Beta Phi (USPS FOUNDERS OF THE FRATERNITY Jennifer Moeller Barcus 032-540) is published quarterly by Pi Emma Brownlee Kilgore (1848- 1924) Pi Beta Phi Central Office Beta Phi Fraternity, 7730 Carondelet, Margaret Campbell (1846-1936) 7730 Carondelet, Suite 333 Suite 333, St. Loui , MO 63lO5-3328. 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The Arrow of P, Bela Phi 1 rI13<D I of Friendship I BETA PHI FRATERNITY, NEVER REVEAL" HOW THEY BOOK MIGHT "FALL INTO THE FIRST NATIONAL SE­ WRONG HANDS." ArrER THE , CRET SOCIETY OF WOMEN BERSANDAL- CONSTITUTION WAS ACCEPTED, TO BE MODELED AFTER A COMMITTEE AT THE GREEK LETTER FRATERNITIES ONCE CALLED UPON OF MEN, WILL CELEBRATE 125 THE TOWN JEWELER YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP IN 1992. THE AND INSTRUCTED HIM FOLLOWING IS A SMALL SAMPUNG TO PROCURE THE OF SIGNIFICANT DATES AND EVENTS WAYS WOULD NEW PINS, WHICH HE IN THE FRATERNITY'S R1CII IIlSTO­ KEEP SECRET THE DID FROM CHICAGO. RY. As WE REFLECT ON OUR PAST, MEANING OF THE NAME I.C. THESE PINS WERE GOLDEN MAY WE REALIZE HOW INDEBTED WE SOROSIS. THUS, THE ESTABUSH­ ARROWS WITH GOLDEN CHAINS, ARE TO THE TWELVE PIONEERING MENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL SE­ BEARING ON THE WINGS THE WOMEN WE CALL OUR FOUNDERS. CRET SOCIETY OF WOMEN TO BE LETTERS I.C. THOSE WHO DARED TO DREAM A MODELED AFTER THE GREEK LETTER Iowa Belu 's~~ 1899 DREAM, AND HAVING DONE SO, GAVE FRATERNITIES OF MEN. UFE TO OUR PI BETA PHI. MAY '4, '867 FIRST TIME, IN THEm HAIR! EMMA BROWNLEE KILGORE REPORTED MAYS, '867 UPON ARRIVAL OF THE PINS, ON THAT: "IT WAS A WNG-TO-BE RE­ APRIL 28, '867 THIS MORNING, ELEVEN MEMBERS MEMBERED EVENT. THE YOUNG MEN A MEETING WAS CONDUCTED AT THE OF THE NEW SOROSIS AT LAST VEN­ CHEERED, THE FACULTY SMILED, TEN YOUNG WOMEN FROM HOME OF MAGGIE CAMPBELL. TURED FORTH INTO THE CHAPEL AT AND WE FELT THAT IT WAS TRULY AN MONMOUTH COLLEGE MET AT THE PERMANENT OFFICERS WERE ELECT­ MONMOUTH COLLEGE WEAR- IMPORTANT OCCASION." ROOM OF ADA BRUEN AND LmBIE ED AS FOLLOWS: EMMA BROWNLEE, BROOK IN THE HOME OF MAJOR PRESIDENT, NANCY BLACK, HOLT IN MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS. SECRETARY, AND MAGGIE AUGUST, '867 FANNIE THOMSON AND JENNIE CAMPBELL, TREASURER. I N NICOL WERE UNABLE TO ATTEND WHISPERS, THE THE FIRST GRAND ALpHA, OR TIlE MEETING, BUT BOTH HAD CON­ CONSTITUTION AND CONVENTION, WAS HELD AT SENTED TO JOIN IF THE GROUP OR­ B YLAWS WERE ADOPT­ THE HOME OF F ANNIE THOMSON, IN GANIZED. EMMA BROWNLEE PRESID­ ED. I N WRITING THIS OQUAWKA, ILLINOIS. THIS ED AS TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN WITH CONSTITUTION CONVENTION CONSISTED OF A NANNIE (NANCY) BLACK AS SECRE­ THREE-DAY SESSION, A WIDE-AWAKE TARY. THE GROUP IMMEDIATELY NIGHT, A BOAT RIDE ON THE VOTED TO ORGANIZE AND THEN A SKIPPED MISSISSIPPI, AND MANY HOURS OF DECISION WAS MADE THAT TIlEY TWO LET- PLEASURE. WOULD "ALWAYS CONCEAL AND 2 The Arrow of Pi Beta Phi MAL SOCIAL COMPANY BROUGHT T0- FALl., 'B6B GETHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN AND WHEN THE GIRLS BEGAN TO LAY To LmBIE BROOK GADDIS CAME THEIR SPREAD OF GOOD THINGS, By A MOTION MADE BY MIRA THE PRIVILEGE OF ESTABLISHING THE CIIANCELLOR DUBBED THE TROTH OF IOWA KAPPA AND THE SECOND CHAPTER OF I.C. AT FEAST A "COOKIE SHINE. " THE SECONDED BY MINNIE K THE FIRST CONVENTION IN 1867, WORD SO PLEASED THE GIRLS THAT NEWBY RICKETTS OF THE FOUNDERS DISCUSSED PLANS THEY IMMEDIATELY ADOPTED IT FOR MICHIGAN BETA FOR EXTENDING 1. C. AND MAKING THEIR OWN, AND FROM THAT TIME AND A UNANI­ IT THE FOREMOST WOMAN'S SOCIETY ON IT BECAME IN KANSAS ALPHA MOUSVOTE AND DECIDED THAT I.C. WOULD SACRED TO THE PI PHIS. OF THE ENTER OTHER COLLEGES. MRS. CONVENTION, THE GADDIS SAID: "DURING MY STAY IN OW I.C. SOROSIS, DEAR TO THE IOWA WESLYAN UNIVERSITY, I SUC­ HEARTS OF HUNDREDS OF WYAL CEEDED IN ORGANIZING A CHAPTER AND DEVOTED FOLLOW- OF I.C., THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY THE COWRS OF THE FRATERNITY, ERS, STEPPED INTO OF ITS EXPANSION. BEFORE "DREGS OF WINE AND SILVERY THE GREEK WORLD CHRISTMAS 1868, WE HAD FIVE OF BLUE, " WERE ADOPTED AT THE AS PI BETA PHI, THE BEST GIRLS IN THE INSTITUTION CONVENTION OF 1882 UPON MO­ BUT UNDER THE SAME INITIATED INTO THE RANKS OF I.C. TION OF ELLA lIAM OF IOWA CITY. BADGE, THE ARRow, THE THE GREEK MOTTO "PI BETA PHI" AND ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE WORE SAME CONSTITUTION, THE SAME OUR ARROWS FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS ALSO ADOPTED AT THIS TIME. MOTTO, AND THE SAME RITUAL AND TO THE BETA BANQUET." GOVERNMENT. THE GREEK nBC!> HAD AND DELIVERED TO THE RECORDER EXCIIANGED PLACES WITH THE OF KNox COUNTY (ILLINOIS) LATIN I.C. ON THE PIN, WHILE I.C. WHERE IT WAS RECORDED." JUNE, 'B73 HAD BECOME THE SYMBOL FOR THE SECRET MOTTO. THE "COOKIE SHINE" WHICH IS DIS­ APRIl., 'B90 TINCTLY A PI BETA PHI INSTITU­ TION HAD ITS ORIGIN AT THE FIRST ocr. '0, 'BB9 THE FRATERNITY ADOPTED THE I.C. PARTY GIVEN BY KAPPA WINE CARNATION AS THE OFFICIAL CHAPTER, NOW KANSAS ALPHA, AT THE COMMITTEE ON FWWER. THE FOLLOWING APPEARED THE HOME OF THE MISSES FWRA INCORPORATION MET AT THE LAW IN THE 1911-1912 BOUND ARROW: AND ALMA RICHARDSON, WHO WERE OFFICE OF J.C. STEWART WHERE "PI BETA PHI'S REPRESENTATIVE ENTERTAINING IN HONOR OF THEIR THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION FWWER IS THE WINE CARNATION. SISTER SARA, A PI Pm FROM MAt 'BB5 WERE DULY SIGNED IN THE PRES­ THE ROOTS OF THE FWWERS ARE LOMBARD COLLEGE. CIIANCELLOR ENCE OF A NOTARY, I.C. STEWART, THE FOUNDERS, FOR FROM THEM JOHN FRASER CHANCED TO BE PRE­ VOLUME I, No.1 OF THE ARROW COUNTERSIGNED BY HIM, SEALED THE WHOLE PLANT GREw••• THE SENT AT THE PARTY. "COOKIE WAS PUBLISHED BY KANSAS ALPHA. AND SENT TO THE SECRETARY OF STEM OF THE FLOWER REPRESENTS SHINE" WAS HIS OWN INDIVIDUAL IT WAS COMPRISED OF 20 COMPACT STATE. ON OCTOBER 15, THE CIIAR­ GRAND COUNCIL. IT GIVES TO US NAME FOR ANY KIND OF AN INFOR- PAGES, BOUND IN A BLUE COVER TER WHICH WAS DATED OCTOBER WHAT IT HAS RECEIVED FROM THE WITH A CUT ON THE OUTSIDE COVER 14, 1889, WAS "DULY RECEIVED ROOTS•.• THE LEAVES OF OUR FWW­ OF THE MAGAZINE BEARING VARIOUS FROM THE SECRETARY ER ARE THE ALUMNAE. THEY STAND SYMBOLS OF THE FRATERNITY, THE NEAREST THE STEM AND ASSIST IT GREEK MOTTO, PI BETA PHI, BEING IN ITS WORK••• THE PETALS OF THE COROLLA ARE THE GIRLS OF EDITOR WROTE: "IN SEND­ THE ACTIVE CHAPTER. THE ING OUT THIS, THE FIRST PETALS ARE RED FOR THE ISSUE OF THE ARROW, GIRLS ARE WYAL. As IT IS WE HOPE TO BE WELCOMED WITH ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM OUR BROTHER AND SISTER GREEKS. AND AS IT IS THE FIRST NUMBER, MEMBERS WmCH MAKES LIKE NEW WINE, THE OWER PI BETA PHI BEAUTI­ IT GROWS THE BETTER IT FUL IN THE EYES OF WILL BECOME. " GrrnI PmitIed's Ulli5jlllllllakii ,. __ Gm IDle 11JOO9-.." I W1Os. The Arrow of Pi Bela Phi 3 APRIL, '89' IN RESPONSE TO AN INVITATION IN 1891 FROM KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA, PI BETA PHI SENT 1W0 DELEGATES TO BOSTON: GRAND PRESIDENT EMMA HARPER TURNER AND GRAND VICE PRESIDENT MINNIE NEWBY RICKETtS, TO ATTEND A CONVENTION "CALLED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING METHODS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF FRATERNITY CONDITIONS IN THE DIFFERENT COL· LEGES." THERE WERE IN AT· JUNE 28, '9'0 JUNE, '9'2 AT THIS CONFER· AT THE ALUMNAE SESSION OF GRAND COUNCIL VOTED THE ADOP· ENCE CONVENTION HEW AT TION OF THE OFFICIAL COAT' OF· DELE· SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA, ARMS.