SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE Sal'anac Inn, N. Y.-1933 Convention Site March, 1933 !1111 ---------- I o.J March 1 9 3 3 Official Publication of Sigma Kappa CONTENTS GRoard Simplicity and Achievement-Keynote of 1933 Convention 3 Take This Train to Saranac! . 6 of Katharine Harris, Epsilon, Is Busy Planning for Our Con- vention, by Margaret Nortenheim, Alpha Pi and Epsilon 7 editors Thirteen Months in Soviet Russia ... ............ .. By Ruth Rodkey Freese, Xi 8 Twenty-nine Questions ..... N.P.C. Publicity Committee 10 Editor-in-Chief Sigma Kappa Becomes International-Beta Gamma Chapter Mns. FRANCES W .ARREN BAKER Is Insfalled at Winnipeg . .. .. .... .. ... .... (Mrs. James Stannard Baker) ..... ... ..... By Bonnie Mathison, Alpha Upsilon · 11 6856 East End Avenue History of University of Manitoba . 12 Chicago, Ill. Tea Was a Gala Occasion ........ By Leota W. Goodson 13 The Latin of It. .. ... ..... By Helen Perrell, Alpha Zeta 14 Sorority Presidents' Council at Ohio State .............. College Editor . By Janice Kirk, Chi 16 MISS FRANCES KlRKP .A TRICK I Learned Much About Scotland . ............... .. 324 Forest Avenue . ..... .... ........ By Margaret Wilkins, Alpha 17 Cincinnati, Ohio Pioneering in Speech ....... By Louise E. Ulrich, Epsilon 18 Region VIII Conferences .... By Lilly Nordgren Edwards 19 Report of Scholarship Committee . .... .. ....... 21 Alumnae Editor Won't You Help Us Find? .... ... .. .. ... ..... 23 MRS. LOIS WINE CURTIS Maine Sea Coast Snapshots .. .... ... ... .. .. ... ... 25 (Mrs. Irving A. Curtis) Eta's Initiation Weekend . .. .... .. .... .. .... .... 26 45 Roxbury Street Worcester, Mass. Editorials ........................... .. ... .. 27 Cited for Interest .. ............ ............ ... 28 Milestones ............... ....... .. .. .... 31 Exchange Editor With Sigmas Everywhere . ...... .. .... ... .. .. .. 35 MRS. MARIAN SE CHEVERELL Pledges and Initiates ........ ... .... .. .. .. 37 HEMINGWAY With Our College Chapters . ... .. ........... .. 39 (Mrs. ]. Rene Hemingway) 461 Melrose With Our Alumnre Chapters ...... .... .. .... .. 46 Chicago, Ill. Hear These ~ Ks Broadcast 67 Directory .. ........... 68 Philanthropy Editor SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in March, June, October, and Miss MYRTICE D. CHENEY D~c~mber, at 450 Ahnaip street, M~nasha, Wis., by George Banta Publishing Company, official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority. 51-A Oak Street Ent~red as s~cond-class matter October 15, 1910, at the post office Portland, Me. at Menasha, Wis., under the act of March 3. 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, 1918. Price $2.00 per annum. Single copies 50 cents. Life subscription $15.00. Chapters, College and Alumna! must send manuscript in time to Executive Secretary reach their respective editors before the first of November, February, May, and September. MISS RUTH E. L!TCHEN All communications regarding subscriptions should be sent to Miss 1630 Alabama Litchen at 450 Ahnaip street, Menasha, Wis., or 1630 Alabama, Lawrence, Kan. Lawrence, Kan. Sigtna Kappa Trian.gl.e Vol. 2 7 ·Edited by FRANCES WARREN BAKER ·No. r Simplicity and Achievement • • Keynote of 1933 Convention HE keynote of the Forty-Eighth Na­ ury for one official delegate from each col­ tional Convention to be held at Sara­ lege chapter. The remainder of the above T nac Inn, N.Y., from June 27 to July 2, amount was paid by the individual herself. will be SIMPLICITY and ACHIEVEMENT. It is true that everyone attending Conven­ The perfection of the setting, itself, lies in tion proper has not availed herself of the op­ its beautiful SIMPLICITY, the program will portunity nor realized that the houseparty is include events which can be carried out with one of the most vital parts of the whole con­ SIMPLICITY, and our guests will be happy vention, for it is perhaps during the informal to know that SIMPLICITY in the matter of play hours that the valuable contacts are dress is highly to be desired. Our ACHIEVE­ made. This year we have tried to make it MENT will be measured by such action as possible for every Sigm~ to enjoy Convention will be taken on the Convention floor to in its entirety by planning a combined recrea­ promote the progress which has marked the tional and business program at a cost of $42, past, by the many new friendships which will which is a reduction of about one-third of develop through five days of close associa­ the former cost. It is remarkable that it has tion and communion, and by the amount of been possible to secure this attractive rate at inspiration which the delegates and visitors such a well-known and exclusive mountain will carry back to their chapters. resort as Saranac Inn. The recreational and informal side of Con­ vention is as highly important as the strictly Saranac Inn formal business session. Hence we have Delightfully situated in the heart of the sought to provide this full fellowship for Adirondacks, the Inn nestles on the shore of everyone in combining convention proper and Upper Saranac Lake facing several ranges of the houseparty in a five day session. For the mountains of ever changing colors across the most part the business session will be con­ lake. A more suitable place could scarcely be fined to the forenoons. Special features and found since the absence of the conflicting recreation of various kinds will occupy the attractions of a large city make for the more afternoons and evenings. intimate contacts which are the real inspira­ Heretofore the combined cost of Conven­ tion and vitalizing factor of a Sigma Conven­ tion proper and the houseparty has been in tion. As we skim along the surface of the the neighborhood of $60, half of which lake in one of the fast motor boats we catch amount has been paid by the national treas- glimpses of the luxurious camps belonging MARCH, 1933 3 ous activities may have a bridge game in the to well-known millionaires-an indication of lounges or on the verandas. All sorts of tour­ the exclusiveness which characterizes this vi­ naments will be arranged for the guests. cinity. Beautiful winding roads lead up through the old friendly mountains to an alti­ Motoring tude that makes you hungry with its pine For Sigma Kappas who may travel to Sara­ scented air. nac Inn by motor the routes offer some of At the inn, one finds a most highly effi- the most magnificent scenery in America. Up cient but unobtrusive management over which from the South along the Susquehanna River, Harrington Mills, the owner of the 6000 sur­ from the East through the White and Green rounding acres, presides. Commodious mountains, from the North down along Lake lounges, spacious verandas looking out over Champlain and Lake George or the St. Law­ Upper Saranac and wooded trails, light sun­ rence, and from the West, along Lake On­ shiny bedrooms attractive in their chintzes, tario or over the Mohawk Trail stopping to and a dining room with little waitresses fresh visit Watkins Glen and other points of in­ from college, where food par excellence will terest in the Finger Lake region-here are tempt the most jaded appetite. Mr. Mills Cornell and Syracuse Universities--(what­ has generously permitted members of our ever you do, do not miss luncheon or dinner families to have the privilege of the same rate at Krebs' on the shores of Lake Skaneateles) which the Sigmas enjoy. and finally, over the last eighty miles from Governeur to Saranac through the mountains, The Chapel you will love every mile. Up among the trees at perhaps a distance From Saranac Inn, short motor trips will of forty rods along a winding trail one finds take you to Lake Placid with its magnificent a small rustic church which fits into the land­ club and its memories of the Olympic games scape as _though it had sprung from the held there last winter, to Mirror lake sur­ ground w1th the ferns and the tiny Christmas rounded by a small village which brings us trees. We feel very close to the Master as a bit of Switzerland, to Old Forge, Fourth we enter this woodland shrine and so we lake, Paul Smiths, John Brown's grave, and have. c??s~n it as a most fitting place for Saranac lake with its sanitariums. Farther our 1n1t1at10n and memorial services. Hon­ away are the old Catskills of Rip Van Winkle ored and very fortunate is that prospective lore, the Hudson river, and the Thousand is­ member who will be privileged to take her lands. A glorious vacation trip at little cost! vows here in the quietness of the woodland. Clothes Our Convention program will include a model initi~tion and the informal banquet aft­ erward whlCh will be the traditional white banquet, a Panhellenic tea in honor of the past grand presidents in one of the lounges, and _a for~al banquet at the close of Con­ ventl_on. Smce _simplicity is to be our keynote at th1s cofolvent10n, let us carry out the idea in th~ select10n of our clothes which should be ne1t?,er many nor expensive; we hope that the c~othes prob~em" will keep no one from Recre~tions attendmg. A wh1te dress for initiation and Swimmin~ , canoeing, boating in the light the :White ~anquet, sim_ple little sports frocks and _safe gu~de boats, riding, golfing, tennis, of lmen, gmgham, or hght wool for morning puth?g, motor boat and motor car trips, and and afternoon wear, an afternoon dress for da~cmg t~ . the strains of an orchestra in the the tea, a formal or informal gown for the ca~mo whlch hovers over the lake, will con­ formal banquet, a bathing suit, and a warm spire to p;event an idle moment. There will coat for the cool evenings should be sufficient. ?e a nommal rate for the motor trips boat­ Many of us are financially not able to re­ mg, golfing~ and riding, the other recr~ations ple~llSh our wardrobe to any great degree this may be enJoyed at all times without cost.