SIGMA UAnfer 1966 .... 1"'...... , ..... , """ Ill"' I uII .... Old Morrison-Transylvania College-National Historic Landmark For Their T earns .ouise Galligan, E, Varsity Loa Ann Hall (left) A ~heerleader at Syracuse and elected majorette and Big Sister of Kappa Sigma Brownfield was chose1 raternity. ture twirler at Georgetc Nancy Smith, A1 was elected co·caJ tain of the cheerlea~ Susan Diffenderfer, ers at Georgetow H, is a cheerleader at and is also Bluegra: Illinois Wesleyan. Fair Dairy Princess. Linda Moss, AX, cap. Sue Lewis, AX tain of the cheerlead· Susan Seeley, llZ, is a Majorette at Southeastern Oklahoma. leader at ers at Georgetown. town is Alpha social chairman, member of S.N.E.A. Pep Club, anc W.A.A. Darlene Mullings, llZ, Joyce Heinlen, rz, (left), and Sandy Majorette at Southeastern Wolff, rz, (right), are cheering for North· Oklahoma. ern Illinois. Joyce has b"en a cheerleader Gamma Zetas are Porn Pon girls a for three years. Northern Illinois, DeKalb, Ill. l OLUME 60 WINTER 1966 II MBER 4 I Official Magazine of Sigma Kappa Sorority Founded at Colby College, November, 1874 FRANCES WARREN BAKER, Editor NATIONAL COUNCIL Confenf~ ational President-Mrs. Eliot Rob­ FRONT COVER-Old Morrison Hall, National Historic rts, 1230 Marston st., Ames, Iowa 0010 landmark on campus of Transylvania College. Epsilon Kappa chapter was installed on this campus last November. st Vice President-Mrs. Walton ismukes, 1530 Escobita ave., Palo Ito, Calif. 94306 3 Install 5th Chapter in Kentucky at Transylvania College nd Vice President-Mrs . Gordon 7 Sororities and Socialism Duncan, 6416 Garland, Fort Worth, 12 How To Take an Exam Tex. 76116 15 Facts or Fanatics National Director of Membership­ Mrs. Lesli e Collins, 8636 Fauntlee 16 Service Within Sigma Kappa court SW, Seattle, Wash. 98116 18 Barbara Bein- Recreation Director Extraordinary! ational Director of Extension­ rs. Paul Smith, 511 Malvern Hill 19 Ruby Emerson, Daughter of Founder and Past National circle, Hampton, Va. 23369 President, Dies ational Secretary-T1•easurer-Mrs. 20 I'll Plead Insanity and Take a Light Sentence E. D. Taggart, 3433 Washington blvd., Indianapolis, Ind. 46205 21 Estate Sales Aid Philanthropies Special Council Assistant-Mrs. 23 Tragedy Strikes Alpha Chi Robert Taylor, 6104 Englewood, 24 Alumnre Are Active Too Raytown, Mo. 35 Milestones 39 Deaths TRIANGLE STAFF 41 Directory Editor-in-Chief-Mrs. ]. Stannard Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. 60022 College EditorJ-Mrs. Jo'hn Coleman, 78 SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE is published in Spring, Summer, Autumn, W inter, Meadow lane, Meadow Estates, Wheeling, by George Banta Company, Inc., official publishers for Sigma Kappa Sorority W.Va. 26002 Mrs. Henry Booske, !617 Zarker rd., at Curtis Reed plaza, Menasha, Wis. S49S2. Subscription price $2 a year; Lancaster, Pa. !76at si ngle copies SO¢; life subscription $IS. Send change of address, subscriptions, and correspondence of a business nature Alumnee Editor-Mrs. Harold B. Lines, to Mrs. E. D. Taggart, Curtis Reed plaza. Menasha, Wis. S49S2, or 3433 l34 Salt Springs rd., Syracuse, N.Y. Washington blvd., Indianapolis, Ind. 4620S. 13234 Correspondence of an editorial nature is to be addressed to Mrs. J. S. Baker, 433 Woodlawn ave., Glencoe, Ill. 60022. Chapters, colleges and alumn:e, must send manuscript in time to reach their respective editors before the fifteenth of October, January, April, and August. Member of Fraternity Magazines Associated. All matters pertaining to national CENTRAL OFFICE advertising should be directed to Fraternity Magazines Associated, 1618 Orrington ave., Evanston, Ill. 3433 Washington blvd., Indianapolis, Ind . 4620S. Director, Mrs. E. D. Taggart. Second-class postage paid at Menasha, Wis. Printed in U.S.A. the main speech of the evening "Sigma Kappa­ Installation Tea was Festive Heritage and Challenge." Sunday afternoon was the tea introducing Her own intimate knowledge of Sigma Kap­ Sigma Kappa to the campus. This was held in pa's Founders and history of the organization in the President's Room at Forrer Hall, a large and general made her uniquely qualified to give the well furnished room that is perfect for such an interesting, informative, and inspiring banquet occasion. Lavender flowers and silver candelabra speech. Dr. Lunger and Miss Jennings wel­ were on the long tea table. The Phi Mu chapter comed the chapter to the college. Mrs. Taggart had sent beautiful flowers and during the after­ presented the silver tea service from the so­ noon one of the fraternities, Delta Sigma Phi rority and a $500.00 Sigma Kappa Foundation brought the chapter a silver tray appropriately check for scholarship to Dr. Lunger to be used engraved. Many of the members of all the fra- , for any Transylvania student. Mrs. Bradford ternities and sororities came to the tea and nu­ Chaffin, Province President for Epsilon Kappa, merous faculty members also attended. It was a , r presented the large crystal punch bow I, 60 most enjoyable occasion and the chapter mem- • ~ punch cups, the silver ladle and several silver bers felt that they were starte d on a most sue- 31 serving pieces to the chapter from the Kentucky 1 cessful sorority affiliation. 1o1 college and alumnce chapters and the Evansville, A list of the 20 new initiates and the six Ind., alumnce chapter. pledges comprising Epsilon Kappa chapter is Carmen Ehrhardt, a former Traveling Sec­ printed for your information. We hope that if retary and now a Province President in Michi­ any of them live near you, you will become gan where she is teaching, Miss Lorah Monroe, acquainted because it is really a very fine new Mrs. Taggart, and Mrs. Chaffin comprised the chapter! Installing Team. Transylvania was founded in 1780, before the Meet in New Chapter Room end of the American Revolution, as the first Model Meeting was held Sunday morning in college west of the Alleghenies. The name can the chapter room which is in the Women's be interpreted as "across the woods" and was Dormitory, Forrer Hall, with the rooms of the chosen when Lexington was literally the far other sororities on campus-Chi Omega, Delta edge of the western frontier. Until the Civil Delta Delta, and Phi Mu. Our room has been W ar Transylvania was certainly the intellectual beautifully furnished in gold, bittersweet, and center of the "Athens of the West" and almost willow green. Everyone spoke of how attractive all important men from the frontier had some the room is and the chapter members have des­ connection with the college. Both Cassius M. sert hours planned for all the fraternities and Clay, great abolitionist, and Jefferson Davis, will be using their new possessions and showing president of the Confederacy, were Transylva­ off their lovely room to the fraternities on cam­ nia alwnni. While there was no physical destruc­ pus. tion to the college during the Civil War, its Prominent at the Installation Banquet were (left to right) I Miss Myrtle Weldon, honor in­ itiate; Margaret Hazlett Tag­ gart, National Secretary-Trea­ surer; Marjorie Peace, president of Epsilon Kappa; and Miss Frances Jennings, Dean of Stu­ dents at Transylvania College. SIGMA KAPPA TRIANGLE r) Lizette Viln Gelder, E, toastmis­ (I to r) Dr. Benjamin F. Burns, Dean of Mrs. E. D. Taggart, AI, National Men; Mrs. Burns; M yrtle Weldon, honor ary-Treasurer; Frances Jennings, initiate of EK; Mrs. Robert Valentine, AZ, of Students; Mrs. Bradford Chaffin, President of Blue Grass Alumnre chapter. wince President. Epsilon Kappa officers at Installation r) Marjorie Peace, EK president; Mrs. Dr. Irvin E. Lunger, President of Lorah Monroe, H, Past National President; M yrtl h svhrar1ia college; Lorah Monroe, H, Weldon, EK, honor initiate; and Zelma MonrO( President. H, live together in Lexington, Ky. student body and faculty almost disappeared and JoEllen Hayden '70, 336 Colony rd., Lexington, Ky. it was slow to recover. The enrollment now is Ann Hood '68, 7407 Boxwood ct., Louisville, Ky. Pamela Nix '70, 684 White Bridge rd ., Meyersville, nearly 800. N .J. There are now eight chapters of national so­ Marjorie Peace '69, 2116 Kanawha blvd., Charleston, rorities and fraternities at Transylvania: Chi W .Va. Omega, Delta Delta., . Delta, Phi Mu, Sigma Jill Roberts '70, East River rd., Warsaw, Ky. Jill Robinson '69, 241 Oak Ridge rd., Clark, N .J. Kappa, Delta Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Tau, Pi Ann Stafford '70, 61 Concord ave., Ft. Thomas, Ky. Kappa Alpha, and Kappa Alpha. Pat VanArsdall '70, Forrer Hall, Transylvania Col., Lexington, Ky. Epsilon Kappa Charter Members Sue Williams '70, 219 University ave., Lexington, Judy Blossom '70, 2301 Miami ave., Middletown, Ky. Ohio. Bettie Wright '70, 3823 Ormond rd., Louisville, Ky. Sarah Brobyn '70, 1330 Summer st., Grinnell, Iowa. Transylvania Pledges Anna Caudill '70, Neon, Ky . Karleen Clough '70, R.R. 2, Fayette, Ohio. Mary Lou Bratton '68, R.R. 1, Winchester, Ky. Dyanne Flynt '70, 321 Greenbriar ave., Lexington, Ky. Mary Counts '69, 761 Norman pl., Westfield, N .J. Connie Fondong '70, Box 149, R.R. 1, Lawrenceburg, Debbie Daugherty '69, 91 Arcadia ave., S. Ft. Ind. Mitchell, Ky. ; Mary Louise Ferguson '70, 277 Houston Ave., Paris, Mary Lewis Fox '68, 344 Aylesford pl., Lexingtonr Ky. Ky. ~ Becky Gudgell '70, R. R. 3, Lexington, Ky. Gayle Purple '70, 626 Centre st., Newton, Mass. Priscilla Hall '68, 1201 Bridge st., Cumberland, Ky. Lynn Swetnam '70, 1248 Willow ave., Louisville, Ky . .@'"--------- Jl//ian /Ju JJ~ rJewe~f Boo£ ''J!arr'l " .J~ Well Recei11eJ "LARRY," the newest of the pleasing books for children by lillian Budd, ®-Illinois, is re­ ceiving very complimentary comments from critics-as well as from the children and their parents. Charming illustrations are by leonard Vosburgh who also did the drawings for Mrs. Budd's "Calico Road." Publisher is the David McKay Co. of New York. Spencer C.