Asa phoenix vol 24 no 2 jan 1938

Volume XXIV

JANUARY, 1938

Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

Beta Gamma In tailed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 F ifteenth Biennial Convention .... .. ...... .. : . . . 9 Our Professional Outlook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 A. S. A. Hall of Fame . . .. . . ..... . ........ ..... 17 Travel ....... . .. . . ..... ... . ... . ............. 23 The President's Press .. . ... . ... .... .... . . . .... 39 Alpha Sig's Sports Album .. ...... . . . ........ .. 41 Chaplain Chatter .. .. . . . .... . .... . ....... . .... 48 Alpha Sigs in Varied Walks of Life . .. . . . ... ... . 50 Ideas That Have Cl icked ....... ........ .... ... 60 ...

Hobbies .' ..... .... . .... .. .. ... .. . ........ .... 67 Our Dean's Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 New lumnce Chapters .. ... .. ....... .... ... .. . 82 AI umnce News Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 College Chapter News Letters ....... . .... .. . . .. 101 Exchanges . . .. .. .......... .... . . .... . ........ 130 Directory .. .. ..... .. . . . .. .. .. . .. . .. ......... . 145

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Officers of Beta Gaum1a. Cha.pter with the exception of the editor.

Front row, left to right: Bernice Bradley, Collegiate Representative; Gertrude Carney, Treasurer; Virginia W ell s, Chaplain.

Back row, left to right: Hazel Phillips, Secretary; Mary Stevens, President; Velma Van Horn, Registrar.

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Alpha. Sigma Alpha Installs Beta Gamma Chapter History of N ortheastem State Teachers College AHLEQUAH, the home of ortheastern tate Teachers College, is picture quely located among the foothill of the zarks some thirty mile to the ea t of 1fu kogee.

It i the former capitol of. the Cherokee :i\ ation, which was established here in the early year of the nineteenth century after the tragic removal of those people from Georgia.

The herokees always believed in the good of ed ucation c;tnd established school s for their people soon after the removal to Oklahoma.

In 1846 the Cherokee National Council pa eel an act establishing the herokee i\ a tiona! :=-.Iale and Female Seminaries. Con truction on these buildings was begun in 1847.

They were completed and opened for the adm i ion of students on May 7, 18-1.

The Female eminary was burned in 1887 and the ite was moved from Park Hi ll to a tract north of the ational Capitol. Con truction on a new building " 路as begun in July, 1887, and the building was dedicated May 7, 1889 . .-\ statehood provision was made for the ale of this property to the tate of O klahoma. Governor Ha kell signed the bill for the purcha e of this buildino- and land in March, 1909. The tate then established the :\ ortheastern N ormal chao!, which in 1922 became ortheastern Teachers College. The building erected by the Cherokee

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J. ation in 1889 i now used a the administration building of 1 Torthea tern Teacher College.

The ::\Iale eminary buildino- wa destroyed by fire in 1910 and the ite wa purcha eel by private individuals.

The group of building now on the campus are the dmini tration Building, erected in 1887- 9; Educational Building, erected in 1927; the Auditorium and Gymna ium, entral erected in 1917-24. The Heating Plant and the Pre ident s Home were erected in 1927 A Stadium and two Dormitory Buildings were completed Ia t year.

History of Tau Sigma With the purpose of fo tering companionship and f r i en cl ship among girls on the orthea tern campus who were not a sociated with any ocial orority, Mr . Lois Gillis Hall, in the spring of 1936, selected a group of girls as a nucleus for several local groups which were organized at that time. f these groups only two, Tau Beta Alpha and Pi igma P hi , continued into the next school year.

Tau Beta lpha met in the fall of 1936 and elected Faye F letcher of Broken A rrow, Oklahoma as their pre iclent and M iss Louise \Villiam , profe or of music, as their pon or.

In January, 1937, Pauline Henon of Mazie. O klahoma, wa elected president. he erved until Tau Beta. Alpha and Pi Sigma Phi were

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Entire Tahlequah Group

united to form Tau Sigma in petitioning Alpha Sigma Alpha for membership in their national organization.

The first president of Pi Sigma Phi was M.Jturine Dahlem of Tulsa.

Miss Helene Henderson was the sponsor of this group. In the fall of 1936 Julia Christie was elected president, and she was succeeded in January, 1937, by Patti Wells who served until the new group, Tau Sigma, was formed.

In the spring of 1937 Tau Sigma petitioned Alpha Sigma Alpha for membership and in the first week of the fall term of 1937 nineteen women were formally pledged. This membership included Mrs. Lois Gillis Hall, sponsor, and Miss Helene Henderson, Julia Christie, and Maurine Dahlem, alumnae.

These groups, separately and together, have always taken an active interest in college activities with representatives in nearly every academic organization on the campus.

In the class elections for this year the chapter has four members in major class offices, one member as a class representative to the student council, and the president of Alpha Sigma Alpha, Mary Stevens, is secretary of that organization.

The group has been fortunate in other campus activities. Individuals receiving special honors have been: Mildred Waggoner, pledge to Alpha Sigma Alpha, was elected Freshman queen for the Homecoming parade; Virginia Wells was chosen as one of the attendants to the football queen for the Homecoming game; Melvina Parrish was chosen as queen for the May Day Festival held last year, with Bernice Brad-路 ley, Mary Stevens, Patti Wells, Hazel Phillips, and Hazel Rennie forming part of her retinue.

In the annual "Stunt Night" sponsored by Delta Psi Omega, dramatics fraternity, Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority won first prize, while Delta Sigma Epsilon and lpha Sigma Alpha tied for second

THE PHOE place. The schola tic average of the group is high, with three members belonging to the local honor fraternity, Rho Theta 1gma.

Installation On Saturday, November 20th, installation services were held for Beta Gamma chapter of lpha Sigma Alpha in the lounge of the Administration Building. Mrs. Reinard Schlosser, national trea urer, of Denver, Colorado, and Miss Esther Bucher, national ecretary of Kansas City, Missouri, were the installing officers, assisted by Miss Edna Donley, alumna from Alva, and Mrs. W. D. Otie, of Tahlequah.

Sixteen members of the Alva, Oklahoma, and Pittsburg, Kansas, chapters also a isted in the ceremony.

The initiate were:

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Mi s Esther Bucher, I>, atio11al Secretary K an a City, Kan as Mi Racine picer . . . . . . . . . Iva, Okla.

1i s Vera Leeper . . . . . . . . . . lva, Okla.

Mi Luella Harzman . . ... . Alva, Okla. fi Loi Rodgers . . . . . . . . . . Iva, Okla.

Mi s Edna Donley . ... .. ... . Alva, Okla.

Mi s Wilma Greer ... ....... Alva, Okla.

Mi s Ethel Green . . . . . . . . . . Iva, Okla.

Miss J a deena Leeper ........ AI va, Okla.

Mi Ramona Baker ........ Alva, Okla.

Mi s ancy Beth Salyer ... . . Alva, Okla.

Mi s Ruth Reicher .......... A lva, Okla.

Mrs. C. L. Chamberlain ..... Tul a, Okla.

Mis Lora Patter on ....... Tul a, Okla.

Mis Jane Carroll ...... Pittsburg, Kans.

Mr . Purva Hughes ... . Pittsburg, Kans.

Dorothy June Eylman ... Pittsburg, Kans.

Dorine Bowman ........ Pitt burg, Kans.

Dorothy Decker . .. ..... Pittsburg, Kans.

Cora Montgomery . .. . .. Pittsburg, Kans .

Mary Alice Montgomery. Pittsburg, Kan .

Mrs. Lois Gillis Hall, Adviser

Almnnae Julia Christie Helene H enderson Bernice Bradley Gertrude Carney Dessie Dickinson Fay Fletcher Mary Alice Lee Maxine Line Ruby Nell Neal Hazel Phillips

College Maxine Pikering Opal Ramer Hazel Rennie Marion Spraker Mary Stevens Velma Van Horn Virginia Wells Margaret Stringer

Pledges Sylvia Adams Fern Pascoe Rhea Amdon Irene Powers Mary Beers路 Kathryn Pysher Helen Louise Ford Louise Scott Wilma Garret Mildred Waggoner 路 Betty Harmon Goldie Wilson Freda Marie James Dorothy Lee Faye Levy Edna Trent Marcella May Jean Clark

The guests were : Mrs. R. W. Schlosser, National Treasurer Denver, Colo.

Visitors from Pittsburg, Kansas, and Alva, Oklahoma.

On Sunday morning the officers of lpha Sigma Alpha and their guests from Pittsburg and Alva

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Building, ortheastern State Teachers College, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

were honored at a breakfast given Apprenticeship ......... VIRGINIA 路wELLS "You cannot dream yourself into a charby the officers of the two other naacter: you must hammer and forge yourself one."-James Froude. tional sororities at Northeastern, Fellowship ............. JULIA CHRISTIE Sigma Sigma igma and Delta Sig"A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all ma Epsilon. men one."-Carlyle.

Leadership ... MARY ALICE MoNTGO:IIERY l\Iany letters and telegrams were Eta Eta received from other chapters which "Not as though I had already attained,/ press forward . . . . " the Beta Gamma's greatly apprePartnership ..... MRs. POLLY ScHLOSSER ciated.

"I shaU know that your good is mine; ye shall know that my strength is yours."

Following the installation serv-Kipling. ices, a banquet was served in the dining room of Florence Wilson Mrs. Schlosser's Address Hall, where guests were seated at Sisters and Guests : tables exqui itely decorated with On this evening at your initiation white chry anthemums and red our beloved sorority, I bring into roses. Cor ages of the same flowyou greetings and warm welcome er were given to each of the initifrom the T ational Council and ate . The banquet program follows: from each and every member of PROGRAM lpha Sigma Alpha. We welcome Toa t Theme: you into the partnership of lpha "A FLEET OF ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA igma Alpha.

HIPS" Toastmistress ........... MARY STEVENS We can learn. 'vVe can love. We Song can lead. But without that strength-

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The strength of any fleet lies in Its indi vidual concerted action. units work as one. nd I say to you that if our fl eet, ''"ho e fl agship is A . S . A., is to be a bul wark of strength and influence in the life of each member, in the life of our various campuses and communities, and in the life of the fraternal world at large- then we mu st look to Partnership for the trength that comes from working together .

A partnership draws the contracting parties together in a companionship and binds them with mutual desires and joint intere ts. A partnership makes helpmates of its associates, and imbues in them the strengthening spirit of cooperation.

And a partnership means that its partners are sharers.

Alpha Sigma Alpha was founded thirty-six years ago by five girls who had the mutual de ire to seek a higher level for them selve mentally, morally, physically, and socially. We have a record of those desires in the standards which they set for themselves and for us. Because of those mutual desires the founders of A. S. A . bound themselves together with the joint interest of attaining the goal they had placed before them.

It is one thing to inspire as those girls knew-it is another thing to seek.

Alone, individually, they realized that they could not make

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much progre . but together- a helpmate , they could do much. \ hil e one excelled, he helped the other , and each in turn wa quick to encourage and fo ter the outtanding talent of their i ter in the bo nd. T hey knew the trength of COO[ eration and the effectivene and re ult achieved by helping one another and wo rking together for the standards they de ired. T hey learned the value of pa rtner hip .

I t i happ ily applicable for u tonight to note that the word partners is al o a nau tical term . T he timbers which form the frame,York that gives added strength fo r the support of the ship's mast or ails a re called the partners of the ship.

Beta Gamma chapter is no w an important part of the framework which supports the ails of lpha Sigma Alpha. ee to it th at the timber which your chapter builds into this framework i trong and powerful. You have entered into a partnership with other chapters all over the country- to share common hopes and purpose , to be guided by the same ideal . Let each member of Beta Gamma recognize her own significance and responsibility in this partnership. A nd may you gain from it joy and eagerness for your own individual ailing- becau e the teachings of your orority have helped you "To comprehend the beauty and wonder of life" and to enrich this beauty and wonder with the glow of your own personality."

WELCOME BETA GAMMA CHAPTER

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Alpha Sigma Alpha NATIONAL CONVENTION

1938 Yellowstone National Park

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N AucusT 22 Alpha Sigma Alphas from all parts of the United States

will gather in beautiful Yellowstone National Park for their fifteenth biennial convention. Five glorious days they will have together in this "Wonderland" enjoying an experience never to be forgotten and in which each of you will wish to share. This is your opportunity to plan a thrilling vacation trip including a national convention of Alpha Sig1na Alpha.

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Yellowstone-Beautiful and Astonishing

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are cordially invited to y ellow tone Park. Let your mind's eye" conceive the most beautiful mountain landscapes and the rna t amazing natural phenomena that you can. When you come to Yellowstone, you'll find the highest fliahts of your imagination outdone. The real things of Yellowstone are more beautiful and more urprising than you can think possible in advance of actually eeing them.

There's the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, declared by many to be the grandest picture formed and painted by Nature"one . .vild welter of color," Rudyard Kipling said of this Canyon, "crimson. emerald, cobalt, ochre, amber, honey splashed with port wine, snow-white. vermilion, lemon and silver grey." Folsom wrote: "Language is entirely inadequate to convey a just conception of the awful grandeur and sublimity of this most beautiful of ature's handiwork." nether Yellowstone attraction, Old Faithful Geyser, is a pectacle so dramatic, it is worthy of a National Park just for itself. Unlike some natural wonders and temper-

mental prima donnas, Old Faithful never di appoints an audience-it is as dependable as the clock-once each hour it hurls a veritable mountain of boiling water and steam into the heaven , guaranteeing a thrill in ever one of the twenty-four hours of the clay. tancl on top of the 路washington Monument, 555 feet above our national capitol; imagine yourself on the pinnacle of thirteen such monuments, each one above the other.

Your eyes would then be on a level with the urface waters of Yell owstone Lake, a magnificent mountain sea having a shore line of over 100 miles.

Yellowstone is an a tonishing place-a park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. Once in the lifetime of every American, there should be a trip to Yellowstone; and, being in this hospitable Park, you will find so much pleasure and satisfaction that you will surely want to come again .

(From booklet Yctlowstone, printed,

by Yellowstone Park Hotel Company and Yellowstone Park Transportation Company)

Yellowstone National Park By

E;-.rERSON

HouGH, Author of The Co<'ered Wagon

great ational Parks are OURsection of the old merican T

wilderne s pre erved practically unchanged. They are a valuable, acre for acre, a the riche t farm lands.

They feed the spirit, the soul, the character of America.

Of all the National Parks Yellowstone is the wildest and mo t universal in its appeal. There is more

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to see there-more different sorts of animal , till live it old life there. things, more natural wonders, more The \\'i e and bu y beaver build its strange and curious things, more dam a it alway did. The antelope scope, more variety-a longer list till may be een- hadowy, fleet. of a tonishing ights-than any half The two specie of .[\merican deer dozen other parks combined could till thrive. Lastly, there till are to offer. Daily new, always trange, be seen hundred of the noble t of ever full of change, it i the circus all our wild animal , the bi on. \Vho park, ature' continuous Coney can mea ure the value of the e naIsland. It i the most human and tive trea ure ? \\'here I e can you the most popular of all the parks. ee them? \\'hat other country, what But Yellowstone is more, and other printed page, can teach you o very much more, than that, espe- much as a week' reading of Nacially in its new and vastly enlarged ture's page here? nd you may travel and live in form today. As it now is constituted, it is the noblest sweet of un- perfect comfort! That is almo t the spoiled and yet fully acce sible most astonishing thinrr about Yelmountain country to be found within lowstone. You may photograph a or without our National Park limits. wild bear and eat a cour e dinner Here, indeed, you may see the within the same hour. You may ee Rockies and as you look there will the Canyon and gey er and the arise in your soul the phrase, "As it Grand Tetons and a dozen bold was in the Beginning!" Happily mountain lakes and treams and yet also follows the remainder of the sleep in as good a bed as you left choral chant, "Is now, and ever at home. Literally, the world has shall be!" What price can you put nothing like this. Other parks have on that? Yellowstone i at once the one attraction-several; but none easiest, the mo t fea ible, the most has all these. And no discomfort human of all the parks, and also the or danger or weariness will mar your wildest and least changed. Jo other day's delights.

I know the Yellow tone and love park, and no other mountain region within our borders holds such num- it all. So will you love it when you bers, or such numbers of species, know it. And you ought to know it. . That is part of your education as an of native merican big game.

American, as well as one of your The bears of Yellowstone have American privilege . Thank God, made it famous , as has its Painted you Americans, that Yellow tone is Canyon. Its vast elk herds-the now and ever shall be your own ! last hope of that pecies in mer- Thank God that there you till can ica-have no like anywhere in our see a part of the Old We t-your country now. The bighorn sheep, own \iVest-as it was in the Beginrarest and wildest of our big game ning!

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WANTEDA Convention SONG Pen a song for convention Nineteen thirty-eight.

March the first is the deadline Don't let yours be late.

Who may answer this ad?

Both alumnae and collegians may compete.

What type music and words are preferred?

The music does not have to be original.

However, it is suggested that a wellknown, catchy tune be selected with original words that will give every A'f.A the yen to come to convention.

When must these song samples be submitted?

March 1, 1938 is the deadline.

To whom should the songs be sent?

Georgia Schulte, Convention Manager, 824 Court Street, Fulton, Missouri.

What about an award?

Although no special prize is being a warded, wouldn't you like your song to be A'f.A's rallying song for Convention 1938?

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Our Professional Outlook "Do We Take Advantage of What Radio Has to Offer?"

ETHEL TOBIN,

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opera 路, drama , lecture -that have heretofore been considered the preinstrument which appeals to our rogatives of the city child. imaginations and stimulates our 2. It vitalize history by enabling minds. Through the workshops of every child to listen and thus parthe various radio stations, techniques ticipate in hi tory-making events, and materials for radio productions inaugurations, dedications and other have enlarged in scope and today's ceremonies and political gatherings radio audience as judge and jury is as well as by teaching him art, muexceptionally pleased with the trend. sic, drama, history and international Perhaps some of you tuned in on relations.

3. It enriches and amplifies the one of the CBS workshop programs, Archibald MacLeich's "The Fall of school curriculum by presenting the the City." It was the most ambitious actualities- actual symphony conradio play ever attempted, a poetic certs, dramas, etc.-giving the child drama that stirred those of the radio the feeling that such programs are world who were fortunate enough to being presented for him. have heard it. It was a thrill that 4. It stimulates response to social shall long be remembered. It gave and community values by increasing radio an indescribable four dimen- students' interest in every day life sion. "White Fires" on November and events of their own and other 29th gave us the tragedy that stalks communities and nations. 路 in the very footsteps of Edgar Allen 5. It forges a link between the Poe. These single programs and con- home and the school by means of tinued series of every description the carry over value of lessons heard are ours for the "tuning in." by the students in the classrooms and by the parents at home or in Educationally speaking. club groups, thus allowing the parThere is no limit to the educa- ents the opportunity to participate tional value of a well planned radio in actual experience with their chilprogram for the school room. In dren. many districts it is the fourth "R." The Standard School Broadcast has Some Outstanding Programs for listed the following as outstanding School Use. educational values of broadcasting: Brave New World is a series of 1. It equalizes educational oppor- dramatic radio broadcasts to further tunities by bringing to the child in the friendship between the United remote districts the diversified op- States and Latin America. Here is portunities - symphony orchestras, a vast sweep of the history of Latin

is capable of infinite RADIO things. As a medium, it is an

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America developed around the lives of its great leaders, statesmen, educators, poets and artists. This program is offered to us by tbe Department of Interior and the Office of Education to carry forward the Good Neighbor spirit by giving us this peace pageant. The Pan American Union, the Embassies and Legations of all the Latin American republics and many civic and educational organizations enthusiastically endorse this project. orne of the interesting topics are "Conquerors of the ew World," "Don Pedro," "A Carribean Pilgrim," "Culture in Latin America," "InterAmerican Commerce," "Romance of Science," and "Art Endures." Beginning November 1st and continuing through April 25th the Brave New 路w orld will be heard every Monday night over CBS at 10:3011 :00 EST., 9 :30 C.S.T., 8 :30 M. T. and 7 :30 P.T. Standard School Broadcast is a radio course in music enjoyment and appreciation presented throughout the school year by the Standard Oil Company. The need for music understanding and appreciation, socially, artistically and educationally is greater than ever today since music enters into almost all of our activitie . The Standard Symphony Hours also continues with its world's finest orchestra music played by outstanding symphony orchestras under the direction of eminent leaders.

Your N ews Parade is a new series

by Edwin C. Hill, starting on January 3rd. His vivid, terse style and

ability to tell the story behind the headlines are characteristic of Hill' radio personality!. He ha been the friend and confidant of pre ident and king and ha seen world history in the making. It is from his wealth of personal experiences that his highly individual approach to current news is evolved.

American School of the A 1路r has been presented to the clas rooms of the country for eight years . Designed as a supplementary aid to education, these broadcasts have inspired confidence among educators and have afforded CBS an extensive opportunity to give new materiaL The Board of Consultants offer extensive study in history and current events, human relations, geography, music, literature, science and vocational guidance. A complete daily schedule may be held by contacting your CBS station. An unbelievable supply of teaching materials can be had by reading the American School Program.

Radios are almost common property. Although only about a dozen years old, the number of homes equipped with radios far exceeds the number of homes having automobiles, telephones and electric lights.

It is said that we have eighty-four million radio listeners in the United States! Programs of every description are being planned for us. Do we take advantage of them? Do we know how to find the "right" proprogram ? I don't think so. The American public needs a general course in "Broadcasting and Listening."

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Leisure Time Service Enrnr BuRR, Des Jfoincs .llwmnac Chapter E OFTE~ hear the comment, "every individ ual hould learn to play," and again, 'mo t trao-ic th e li ve of tho e who know ho w to work but do not know how to relax and en joy them elves." Perhaps people cea e playing because they g row old. :\[any people become too busy making a living to find any lei sure time to relax and play.

Yo ung people of tocia u rei y have the opportunity to play and learn to play and enjoy recreational activities in chool. True, some Physical Education programs are criticized because the act1v1t1 e taught can not be followed up and carried on in th e year after youth leave school. It seems though, that this is a weak argument because on every hand today we see recreation centers wh ere youno- and old may enter into mo t any activity uitable to the individual' taste and physical ability. At the ame time there are on every hand opportunities for just sitting. Vl/e are prone to become spectators becau e of the movies, the radio and cheap literature which is found everywhere.

It appears to me that there are now splendid or portunitie for young women just out of college or older ex-collerre women to engage in u eful community service. Government aided recreation program are being developed in many States and communities with leadership drawn from relief rolls and often such leaders are entirely untrained persons. College trained women

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eager to erve their community may find uch leader hip very fa cinating work and gain from it a civic pride and a ati faction of helping people u e their lei ure time wi ely.

Here is al o a chance to help develop a philo ophy of recreation in . merica. By being doer by attempting the impo ible, power ts gained . Dy becoming a pectator ign of premature death how up. on't let America go rrlad iatorial.

Be loyal to the alma mater by attendino- her game but don't at the ame time forget to play your elf.

Offer your ervices as a leader in a play center. P lan a proo-ram of ea y game . Get intere t o-oing.

Gradually work into a program of competitive port but do not plan for the skilled athlete or tar performer alone. E mpha ize the pleasure of playing rather than the reward . Serious ocial program are of ten solved by introducing ocial dancing into the community play center.

Perhap married gi rl feel there is no opportunity for them. to help in lei ure time ervice but this is not true. Family recreation relieves many trains and stresses of living in such a highly organized civilization. It is aiel that the "family that plays together, sta路y s together."

Games and recreational activities involving the family are home building and beneficial to family membership.

In going back to the idea of developing a philo ophy of recreation

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in merica for leisure time, I might give you a notion or two proposed by one of our leading Physical educators, who says he fears the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin has not been an asset to our civilization.

The idea of eternally saving, working hard till one has a chance to retire-take leisure then, but how?

He feels if one is too old to work one is too old to enjoy leisure. We

must develop then a philosophy which says, "Live today. Leisure is dated and cannot be saved. We must use it now, today, or give up."

Why not then, use leisure and help others to use it by engaging in some physical activity which will refresh one physically as well as mentally?

(Edith is a Physical Education teacher in Des Moines schools, hence is very interested in the above.)

THE VALUE OF A SMILE It costs nothing, but creates much.

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give.

It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None are._so rich they can get along without it and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and Nature's best antidote for trouble. '

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly goo~ to anybody 'til it is given away!

And, if in the last minute rush of Holiday buying, some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you to leave one of yours?

For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give.

ANONYMOUS.

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EDNA DONLEY A lva A lumnae Chapter 1 o regular reader of the PHOENIX needs an introduction to Edna Donley, for her sorority activities are known. In this issue the bouquet goes to her as an Alpha Sig who is a leader in other fields.

For the eventful twentieth birthday party of Alva High School on May 23rd, Edna served as toastmistress. It i said by many that this last year when she was president of the alumni more actual in-

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tere t wa mani fe ted than ha been the case in years pa t.

Since she had done outstanding work as director of play , she wa elected to member hip in lpha P i Omega this pring. Gamma Rho immediately honored her as cast director for the summer. During this time she played the part of Aunt March in the popular summer school production, Ravold's "Little Women."

From June 8 to 10 Edna attended the State As embly of Rainbow as a Mother Adviser. No matter how pressing other duties became, the members in Rainbow have known that they could count on her to drill them for initiation, installation or school of instruction.

The girls of Alva, rich or poor, big or little, were given the opportunity this last summer to take an active part in one of the largest supervised playground programs ever attempted by a city of this size.

Edna organized three age divisions of girls in a weekly program for swimming, handicraft, minor sports and folk dancing. The Executive Committee appointed by the City Council rated it as an "outstanding piece of work, expertly handled."

On the first of July Edna assumed the duties as president of Business and Professional Women of Alva. This not only entails the work of that organization but also

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cooperation with the other civic club for the betterment of Iva. Edna, we insi t it is true that busy hands keep out of mischief and do worthwhile work as well.

So we tos a rosebud in your direction; yes, a red one tied with white.

MARY TURNER GALLAGHER Indianapolis A lumnae Chapter

A tabulation of the activities of Mary Turner Gallagher reads like a page from "Who's Who" . . .

1. While head of the Art Department, Teachers College (Indianapolis)-which became the School of Education, Butler University,she was Faculty dviser for A. .A. 2. Exhibited a number of times in Indiana rtists' Exhibit at the Herron rt In titute and the Hoosier alon, Marshall Fields. Since her marriage and moving to Wis-

consin she has had a "One fan how" in \ aupaca and the next year one in the rt Mu eum in Oshkosh. Ha also exhibited in the Fox River Valley rtists Exhibit in Oshkosh rt Museum and in Green Bay in the Y. l\1. C. A. with the Green Bay Art Colony.

3. t present is Fine Arts Chairman of the American ssociation of University \i\Tomen in Green Bay. This group is sponsoring a free art class for talented children, each aturday morning, in Vocational School. Sixty-five children are enrolled.

4. Is Art Chairman of the Art Department of the Women's Club of Green Bay. 5. Is Secretary and Treasurer of the Green Bay rt Colony,-a club which holds an exhibit of members' work in May of each year.

6. 路 In Adult Education she is teaching leather craft and woodcarving in night school, Green Bay Vocational School, on Thursday evenmgs.

While these in themselves would lpha entitle Mary to a place in Sig's Hall of Fame, her activities as Supervisor of the Homebound Program are particularly noteworthy. t our request she has prepared the follo.w ing article telling in more detail the scope of her work.

In October, 1936, I had the privilege and honor to organize the Homebound Program in Green Bay and Brown County, under the Rehabilitation Division of the tate of Wisconsin ssociation for the Disabled,-the first program of its kind to be organized in the tate.

Through a survey made by the

THE PHOENIX State of Wisconsin, I was given names of persons physically handicapped above ixteen years of age.

These are the persons who have been neglected or just "laid aside" because of their physical infirmities.

Today much is being done for the crippled children. They are able to go to rthopedic Schools; to have an education and plea ure through social activities and learning many handicrafts. The Homebound group or " hut Ins" are the children from twenty to thirty years of age, who have not had that opportunity. l\fy task is to teach these persons handicrafts which will give them pleasure and interest in activities which eventually give them a vocation whereby them may help to earn a living.

When I contacted this group, I found many interesting but deplorable conditions. One family, with three physically handicapped children, and the mother, alone carrying on with these children, working all day in a hotel laundry. One child, fourteen, attends the Orthopedic School each day ; another, twenty-four, attends my class at the Vocational School three mornings a week. Defore she was able to attend, it was necessary for me to teach her sewing to make the garment for her to wear to school.

This \York was all done by hand, for this particular student wears braces on both legs and walks on two crutche and both hands are practically crippled. She comes to class in a free taxi. Her condition is the result of infantile paralysis when six years of age. t present, she is making cuddle toys.

Another, the result of infantile

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paralysi , a man thirty-two, with no use of his legs, and only one good arm and hand, has to be carried into school.

However he drive to school in his l\fodel T Ford road ter which he has changed so he can operate it by arm control. I have been able to teach him leather craft.

Hi workmanship is excellent. s a result, he ha had enough orders ahead to keep him bu y and to enable him to realize orne remuneration for his efforts. A woman forty years of age make hand made baby dresses with slips to match, knitted articles, and sweater ets and has filled many orders. O ur only means of marketing our products o far is through friends who have visited our classes and have seen the work and interested patrons. Our class has grown from five to fourteen.

Then another group are those persons so physically handicapped that they are unable to leave their homes,-the real "shut ins." One woman of forty, bedridden with arthritis and heart trouble, is able to knit a little at a time with very fine yarn because it is light in weight.

It is truly remarkable, with such crippled hands. I often read to her when she becomes tired, but he wants to knit when she is able for she yearns to do something. nother woman past forty with a broken hip and arthritis confined to a wheel chair does very good handwork, embroidering and crocheting. Others are dong weaving, simple problems in woodcarving, pottery, enamelling and metal craft.

A man, Jack by name, is turning to tone and has been in .the hospital for twelve year . He weaves leather belts and woolen scars and

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sells many articles from his stand in the hall upstairs in the hospital.

He sits in a wheel chair beside his stand and carries on his work.

These physically handicapped people must be examined by physicians before they are qualfied to enter our program.

In all my years and experience in teaching, I find this work the most fascinating, for I feel I am able to do something for mankind besides teaching a science; something for those who are less fortunate than ourselves,-a real social service.

HARRIETTE McALLISTER Sigma Sigma Chapter Harriette McAllister-diminutive, peppy, intelligent- president of Sigma Sigma chapter, president of Panhellenic, and treasurer of Delta Omicron-is one of Western State's most inte~sting personalities.

Harriette is probably best known for her inspired piano路 playing.

Don't tell her I told you, but I think she owes her popularity to the fact that she "sure can pound the ivory."

She can make you think "Sophisticated Lady" is one of Chopin's masterpieces. All she has to do is to sit down at the piano, and your feet itch to dance.

She also masters classical music and appears at many of the school and Delta Omicron concerts during the year. She is the most popular accompanist on the campus.

But that's not all-this fall Harriette played her first role in a college theatre production, an old Penitente grandmother in an original one-act play, "Sangre de Cristo." he did a marvelous char-

acterization-even to smoking a pipe.

Last winter and spring, she had charge of the lunch hour at the public school here, and this summer supervised the new city playground.

Her hobby is collecting Indian work. Before last summer, she worked near Mesa Verde ational Park in southern Colorado every summer, and there learned much about the Indian. One of her favorite elective courses this year is archc:eology.

As our president, she has brought new life into Sigma Sigma chapter.

Receiving full cooperation from pledges, actives, alumnc:e, and patronesses alike, she is making our sorority a vital force on the campus.

And if you still don't think she is an outstanding personality, she was chosen Miss Personality at the Coed Prom last year-and all Western State can't be wrong.

NATALIE EDWARDS N~t Nu "Miss" Ed wards we must call her now, for she has recently been appointed to Drexel Tech's faculty.

As a senior at Drexel, Natalie was the first girl to receive the Pittsburgh Alumnc:e Award for being an outstanding Alpha Sig. When she was a student here she belonged to the Home Economics, Dietetics, and Commuters Clubs, as well as the Y. W. C. A., and was active in all these societies.

After her graduation from Drexel in 1935 she received a position as dietitian at 路the Angorra School for Children in Philadelphia, in which she also helped with the studies and

THE PHOENIX social life of the children living there. Her next position was as a demonstrator with the Metropolitan Edison Company in Reading. Unable, however, to resist the lure of Drexel, and because she has always loved and appreciated art, Natalie is now teaching it to our freshmen women. She is also in charge of the Home Economics Practice House,and just ask her about Larry, the Practice House baby, and then will she be enthusiastic !

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is al o very serious, for he tick strictly to her budget and enjoy seeing how well he can keep it.

Probably she is best known for her meticulous appearance, and her beautiful hand , which are mo t graceful, and her slender, tapering fingers which seem to symbolize her love for beauty and her arti tic talents. tfay we say we are proud and glad to have her with us again!

HOPE MORRISON.

MINNIE SHOCKLEY, Alva Alumnae Chapter Particularly timely is the appearance of the name of Miss Minnie Shockley in Alpha ig' Hall of Fame- for on November 16th, in recognition for her splendid public service, she was admitted to Oklahoma's Hall of Fame. The ceremony took place following a pageant and banquet which was staged by the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City.

We do no more than mention this honor in this particular section.

But under "Our Deans' Corner" will be found some additional notes giving a more personal picture of one of our most loyal and outstanding Alpha igs.

Alpha Sigma Alpha is proud to add her tribute to so deserving a member.

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KAPPA KAPPA'S TRIO Templ e on th e .-l ir

"The Three Sorority Girls"

\\ e mustn't brag, because plenty of the country's colleges have also been on the Pontiac Varsity Show hour, but we'll confess we did feel plenty puffed-up when we learned that Temple was going to broadcast over a national hook-up.

To make the Kappa Kappas trut even more, however, our prexy Alice Carl was appointed chairman of the campus talent hunt, and got her picture plastered all over the Philadelphia papers, and was called "the busie t girl on Temple's campus," 'n everything. Lois Anderson and "ye ed. " were a! o on the show committee, and Lois hobnobbed with so many of the 'big shots" that we were afraid shed leave school to accept the pre idency of the Pontiac Company.

After feverish excitement for two

weeks, the moment came when Jack Roche (Pontiac's show director) glanced at his watch, shot up his hand, and Temple at last went on the air." The Men's Glee Club, the A Cappella Choir, the Band, a swing orchestra, vocal solos, and a dramatized history of the university were all on the program, but the number we were interested in wa "The Three Sorority Girl ." Why? Belice cause they're Kappa Kappa Carl, Lillian Morris, and Ann Price-the same three who were on a Philadelphia station last year once a week and incidentally, their theme song was "Alpha igma Sweetheart." On the broadcast they sang "Stop, You're Breaking My Heart," but anyone can tell by looking at their pretty picture than no one would ever do that to them.

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EUROPE DISC OVERED AT LAST! DoROTHY MASTERS,

Chicago Alumnae Chapter

.di covered Europe! I feel I ?ave JUSt hke Iarco Polo and Columbus must have felt wheq they actually di covered new world becau e personally I did the same thing. o matter that I had known there was uch a continent all my life and that thou ancls of Americans had visited it before me. No matter that I had read many books, een hundreds of movies, talked to friends , and had received gifts from over there. Europe wa n't real to me until I had touched my ovvn feet on its soil and had seen with my own eyes the things that I had known would be there. but which were never quite "real" to me before. For the purcha e of a mere teamship ticket you can discover a new life for your elf !

"All a hore that' going ashore."

What a thrill to hear those fal'l1ous words ring out when it means that your big moment ha truly arrived and you are really starting out on the trip that you have planned-allyour-life to take ometime. fter the excitement of farewell gifts, last-minute parties on the boat, and waving until your arms grow weak, the gang plank goe up and you are off. urreptitiously 'everyone begins glancing around to see who are actually to be your ship-

mate out of all the va t throng that warmed all over the boat until the la t minute of leavina-. In the mid t of your happine it i urpn mg to hear other people weepin a- loudl y for when you' re in a holiday mood yourself you are apt to forget that everyone else i n't feeling the ame way.

And now a trange phenomenon take place in my life. Five days go by as wi ftly as one normal day.

Actually we partook of all the regulation activities aboard ship-playing shuffle board and ping pong, going to free movie , swimming, dressing for dinner, playing the dog races, meeting friends for tea, playing bridge, and dancing-but it is all one long day when I look back on it, all wrapped in a beautiful 路 Atlantic fog.

Suddenly, early in the morning of July 6th we were off the co a t o 拢 France, and in a urprisingly short time we were aboard a tender and had landed in Cherbourg, while the mighty Aquitania continued on to her home port, Southampton.

France! Could it really be possible? And wa this really me?

Regretfully aying goodbyes to our delightful ship-mate we proceeded through the cu tom and on to the boat-train for a five-hour ride

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to Paris. I won't attempt to describe the beauties of the French countryside for you have all read better descriptions than I could give, but the most surprising thing to me was that I was truly seeing all these things for myself. nd let me say, here and now, that half of the fun on our trip was having things happen just as the books said they would. It was actually gratifying that European coffee was as bad as I had expected it to be, and the Champs Elysees was as beautiful as I had anticipated. And what a laugh we had when at our first request for water in Paris the hotel clerk asked sincerely, "For washing your hands, madame?"

European ice cream (especially their "American ice cream sodas") also came up to our expectations for being a very poor imitation of what we had ooen accustomed to. Again the expected brought a thrill of delight when, on entering Holland, our first sight was of a proverbial longlegged stork.

But to get back to Paris. I'll never know whether it was because Paris was our first introduction to Europe or because our enthusiasms were still at fever-pitch but to me Paris is the most glamorous city in the world. It was my first love and still remains so now that the whole trip is all over.

We were lucky in having the Paris exposition in progress while we were there although we were disappointed in so many unfinished buildings. However, .the effect as a whole was very beautiful, especially when seen from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Paris gives the impression of a

city that never sleeps (quite different from London which is drowsy by eleven and completely asleep by midnight). Sight-seeing and shopping filled our days and a round of night clubs kept our evenings busy. One of the highlights of the entire trip was meeting Grace Mabie, a Beta Beta Alpha Sig and an especially good pal, who was making a very extensive tour; for an evening of "Lohengrin" at the Grand Opera, and the next day shopping for gloves and perfume at the Galerie Lafayette, the Bon Marche, and innumerable small shops.

Switzerland was our next stop and although we were in only one city, Lucerne, we were delighted with the beauty of the country and the hospitality and politeness of the people. We met our chilliest weather there and were only too glad to snuggle under snowy white featherbeds at night.

From Switzerland we crossed into Germany and although we enjoyed ourselves there I was never so glad to leave any place. Two days were spent in picturesque Heidelberg and after a day's ride up the Rhine a day in Cologne. By that time we had spent all the German money that we had bought in Paris and, like most American tourists, refused to buy more at the increased rate of exchange in Germany itself. The constant drilling of young boys in uniforms and many airplanes zooming closely overhead gave such a warlike effect that I can only say I was not sorry to leave it behind and go on to Brussels.

All cities have an individuality and without any hesitation I liked

THE PHOENIX Brussels, in spite of the fact that we spent our first day there sloshing around in a heavy rain. In a moment of nostalgia we decided to go to an American movie ("Waikiki Wedding") and then proceeded to sleep through the entire show !

On to immaculate Holland, the bicycle-riders' heaven. We were delighted beyond words at the view from our hotel room at Scheveningen (two-and-a-half miles from The Hague), overlooking the orth Sea, where it finally got dark at ten forty-five. The North Sea was true to its name when we attempted a swim in it, for it was icy cold. But what fun we had eating all our meals outdoors and exploring the delightful shops.

Across the English Channel by way of the Hook of Holland wearrived in London for an engrossing five days. There were far too many things to do in that huge city in our limited time so we were de-

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lighted that we were able to see the Hou e of Commons in e ion, see "Yes, My Darling Daughter' go through Madame Tu aud' and spend a day in rural England touring the hake peare country, Oxford, and Wind or ca tle in addition to the ight- eeing in London it elf.

I might add that our havin u the first private bath since leaving Pari and being able to have something besides a continental breakfa t in the morning was a great joy.

By this time we were beginning to feel like first cousins of a vaudeville troupe, what with o many packings and unpacking , o many different hotels and uch a variety of food, and since my "di cm路ery' of Europe I have developed further along that line o that now I give an illustrated lecture whenever I am lucky enough to find a new customer. So beware, if you haven' t yet seen my pictures !

Old Faithful Hotel where our convention banquet will be held.

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SEEING NORTH AMERICA FIRST ANNE

WILLAUER, Easte路n~

Pe1111sylvania Alum11ae Chapter

AFTER reading all the splendid ovember PHOE IX, I feel that my 7,500 mile motor trip through the United tates and Canada was rather tame, although I can tell you that my friends and I found It to be interesting, enjoyable, and exciting.

Just before the real summer heat began in the East three of us started off for a " no particular destination" jaunt. We were in search of rest and relaxation as well as travel. No early rising for us nor a 400 mile endurance lap daily. We motored leisurely, sometimes not getting away until we had "brunch" (combination breakfast and lunch-as if you didn't know ). We took side and back roads that led to interesting places. ~orne of those roads were downright dangerous, but there is where you experience the thrill of travel and the scenery so often passed up by the concrete highway tourists. Only one road definitely stalled us and that was when we were investigating a narrow canyon in the Black Hills. There we came to an impasse when a huge tree blocked the road.

We were city born and bred (living fifty miles from Philadelphia and seventy-five miles from Tew York City) 路 so decided to take Horace Greeley' advice and "Go \ est." Our first major point of scenic interest (after leaving our own beautiful Pennsylvania-which ha everything) was the Bad Lands of outh Dakota. They surely live up to their name. Nothing can liYe there a there is no water. ever

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have I een such grote que, weird, eerie formations. It is hard to express the mingled feeling of loathing and fascination you feel as you travel through what eems to be nature' freak offspring.

Then came the verdant Black Hills, as green and alive as the Bad Lands were barren and desolate. In the game preserves we saw many tamed, naturally wild, animals. There we viewed the massive and impressive heads of the presidents that are being carved out of a mountainside.

You can see the M t. Rushmore group for miles and the winding road leading up to the memorial gives many different views of the gigantic monument, as yet unfinished.

Yellowstone ational Park was the next stopping point. What a truly beautiful spot in which to hold Convention! (Maybe I'll be there again next year and, if so, I feel I could almost act as a guide.) We took every possible auto road, including the breath-taking Mt. Washburn climb, and many of the trails in the park. Be sure not to miss the feeding of the bears at the official park feeding grounds, and seeing the Canyon from Inspiration Point at sunset is worth a return trip. Of course you will want to see "Old Faithful" and some of the other geysers as well as the beautiful pools and hot springs.

Then we began to go through first the synthetic and then the real cowboy country. Far be it from 路 me to disillusion you about the West's colorful figure-the cowboy. We

THE PHOENIX were -- er-- disappointed. F rom Wyoming we headed north to Glacier N a tiona! Park. It is well referred to as the witzerland of America. Towering snow-capped mountain s. beautiful blue lakes, the unu ual glacier -all are lovely to behold . It wa an incomparable thrill to see a maje tic full moon ri se over snow-covered Grinnell Glacier and spread its silvery path over Lake Josephine. Later that same night we witnessed the rare spectacle of northern lights. nd all that wa going on in the northwest whi le the East was sweltering in a July heat wave. Information would include sisterly advice to take plenty of warm clothing to Yell ow tone next summer. It was cold, not cool, when we were there and it snowed a bit.

The climax of our tour in the Canadian Rockies. There the mountains are higher, snowier. The trees are thicker and greener. Lake

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Louise, Banff, and the J a per highway almo t defy de cription. ~Iere words of mine cannot do th m justice. I have twice tayed for e era! day at Lake Loui e and Banff, and I hould never tire of revi iting tho e two magnificent spot . Beauty lies on every hand .

But this article could go on and on like Tenny on' Brook, o I'm going to clo e with that high point of the whole trip.

11 the places mentioned have scenic motor hicrhway , thrilling bridle paths, and delightful foot trails. nd as for expen e, I know of no place where travel is so inexpensive as in the West. Food and shelter ( unless you stay at the biggest and be t hotels ) is far le than here in the East. To our amazemen t, everything included, we found that the entire trip cost us but li ttle more than if we had tayed at home and done nothing except spend money on the usual recreational pastimes.

THE ALPHA PLEDGE The Alpha girl has love for her chapter.

Over her heart she wears their pin.

Into her life comes gaiety and laughter.

But plenty of incerity i there within.

O ur lpha pledge i sure to win \ Vith this a her motto, â&#x20AC;˘ pire. eek, Attain.

No fault in her morals wi ll their ever ha e been .

This is her one ambition and aim.

LoREE

HALL,

Pfcdge.

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WEST WITH THE WESTERNS JuNE WESTERN,

first real thrill came at the 0 URGrand Canyon. We had driven from flat plains to the brink of a chasm so awesome and mysterious that we stood in reverence at the beauty. It was as if a mighty painter had swept his brush across bumps in the earth leaving his blended trail for us.

We were very fortunate to be there at sunset watching streamers of light reflect the ever present haze, changing it from blue to purple and from purple back to blue again. I wondered what the discoverer thought of such a splendor when he first looked upon it? So magnificent as it was, it is no wonder that the Indians worshiped the cliffs.

Silence and whistling wind, only, answered my queries.

As we- continued toward California still carrying the memories of unforgettable scenes at the canyon, we received the shock of our lives-rain on the desert! Impossible ! Incredible! Still it was true !

There directly before us appeared a sheet of white smoke dimming the sun rays. A flash of lightning and a clap of thunder tore open the heav~ns drenching the cactus, as well as our baggage, to the very heart. As abruptly as it came, so did it go. Dead silence came with only the rainbow to mark the trail of seeping drops of water.

Often the question has arisen concerning the beginning and ending of the rainbow. As far as we are concerned, our curiosity is satisfied, for there shining in all its glory was that wonderous half-

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circle of colors. In fact there were two arc~, one the shadow, but both were about a foot above the ground-the beginning and the end.

After the beauties of rain were over, the sun burst through and once more we were in steaming, sticky heat. Nothing but wide open spaces of sand and beautiful blossomed cactus, and struggling plants broke the monotony of the heat with their splendor in keeping vigil of the silent quietude of sand.

Though the desert takes its toll of men, it has a wild, elusive lotus charm. The wild spaces have spots of green where silver threads of water bubble only to be gulped down by greedy sands. It is a. land of arid wastes but a shower as we experienced, will turn sun-scorched sands into a multitude of blossoms,-pink, crimson, and palest gold.

If we should live a week in the desert lands, which seem so fierce and relentless, the witchery should hold us fast; and if we go away, it is not of thirst we think, the waste, the storms, the blinding sands and drenching rain, but rather of the rainbow hills lavishly painted by Nature's master artist.

The desert air after a torrent of rain has swept it clean and cool is intoxicatingly sweet-the "divinest air to be breathed in God's world." This is the call of the desert.

When we finally reached the seashore, the ocean sent out a clear call just as the desert had

THE PHOENIX done. The increasing waves came dashing in, rolling, rolling year after year, century after century, age after age. They came rising, breaking, falling, rising, breaking, falling, dashing their very beings out on rocks and piers. What secrets they must hold ! What power and strength to hold the tillions of battleships as we visited!

The ocean has several different colors, two distinct ones, green and blue. The more shallow, the greener the water appears, the deeper, the more blue. A strange sight to see the color line.

So many things came to be seen that we became tired with tourist sickness. Nevertheless we kept on and visited Los Angeles, Amiee McPherson's temple, the movie industry in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. At the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, a football movie was being taken. The director shouted "Quiet!" Then a siren began. The multitude of workers ran helter skelter, shouting and shoving until every thing was ready again for the lights and camera.

Such experiences! The moment we arrived in Old Mexico, the town's inhabitants came clamoring over the car until we could scarcely see out. "Senorita will buy some from me, no?" Everybody came. After satisfying them with our purchases, we, as everyone, were stopped at the port of entry for inspection. Our first question was rapidly followed by a host of others. How long had we been in Mexico? What did we do? What did we buy? Could the officer see

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our treasurer ? uch an ordeal.

In San Francisco we cro ed the bridges, the an Franci co-Oakland Bay and the Golden Gate. If ever more magnificent tructures than these are built, I should have to journey far to see them. They are huge steel mas e of uncomprehensible masterpiece of engineering spanning their trim lines over the Golden Gate to merica.

Of course all vacations end too oon and again it was time to return home. On the way, we stopped in Reno, Nevada, "the biggest little city in America," the city of broken homes ; the Morman temples in Salt Lake City; the Great Salt Lake and the salt desert.

The desert i pure salt packed four feet deep, smoothly glazed and stony hard. For a hundred miles we drove through nothing but a sheet of white salt covering the earth like a blanket of snow.

Utah and Nevada are more empty that a vacuum in some sections. The distance between two towns was approximately one hundred ten miles. Only white sand and the whipping burning wind to help us fix a flat tire, should we have one. However between these distances were pay and help-yourself gasoline stations. Perhaps it was a good thing for many a traveler stopped at the lone pump in the sand for fuel.

For all California's brilliant flowers, perfect weather, wild oats, tiff palm trees, and infernal sunshine, our return to Missouri was omething short of heaven.

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NOV A SCOTIA-"CAN ADA'S OCEAN PLAYGROUND" MARY LENNIE,

Buffalo Alrmmae Chapter

HE late Right Hon. Ram ey MacDonald when Prime l\1inister of Great Britain spent a holiday in ova cotia. On his return he aid, "I have found in Nova Scotia the 'Land of Heart's Desire.' " " ova Scotia is the most easterly province of Canada, consi ting of a long narrow penin ula and the island of Cape Breton. Cradled by the sea it reaches three hundred miles in the ltantic and has nearly five thousand miles of coa tline of which no portion is more than fifty miles from an ocean beach.

"Nova Scotia offers every form of secenery: miniature mountains, sheltered valleys, winding rivers, picturesque lakes and bold shore line. Blue ocean, wooded islands and curvirrg inlets change swiftly to apple orchards and green fields marching to the horizon. Every mountain gives a view of the sea and the witchery of Nova Scotia scenery is enhanced by the charm of the seaside fishing villages.

"Nova Scotia has an almost perfect summer climate. It offers delightful relief to visitors from sultry and inland countries. Cool nights induce restful sleep, while hay fever is practically unknown . . . .

"Hay fever unknown! !"-do you know what those words meant to one of the 'victims'?

Throwing my travel folder aside I startled my veranda companion of one hot July afternoon with the news that we ( he and I) were going to r ova cotia.

"When are we going?" she asked.

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"Leaving ~Ionday," ays I. (This was Wednesday.)

Now when we travel, my companion and I, we travel for plea ure and at random with no set time or destination as our object. o after a few delightful day roaming through our New England tates we found ourselves ip t. John, ~- ew Bntnswick, on the other side of the Bay of Fundy from Nova cotia.

To cross-or not to eros -was the question. You know how the conversations run, for guests of hotels . . . "How many miles did you do today?" "From where did you come?" "Bound for where?" "r ova Scotia-" "Nova cotia? ! ? ! ?" " ova Scotia."

Well-we crossed; and a delightful trip over it proved to be. 'vVe landed at Digby, one of the most popular summer resorts in Tova Scotia, named in honor of the British Admiral who brought fifteen hundred Loyalist refugees from New England in 1783. It was at Digby that we received our first and lasting impression of ova cotians. There are four distinctive races-the Englist, Scotch, cadians and Hanoverians-all of whom are a warmhearted, ho pitable people, who always have leisure to be kind. The cadians, first white settlers (from Normandy and Brittany), cling to their own custom and traditions.

The Hanoverians settled largely in Lunenburg and today their decendants are sailors and fishermen who possess one of the finest fi hing fleets in the world. The Highland Scots cherish the Gaelic language

THE PHOENIX of their forefathers . The English came from the New England tate or direct from England.

Nova cotia is a place where beauty has had time to grow and where memories have gathered enriching the lives of its people. Visitors to ova Scotia who how that they have pent ten day or more in the province are entitled to membership in the "Order of the Good Time.' This body is founded on and is in commemoration of the first Social Club on the continent of North America organized three hundred years ago . The purpose of the club is to assure its members special attention from hotels, garages and all other establishment that cater to the visitors.

One of the most interesting points in thi charming vacation land of Nova cotia is Grand Pre, made cia sic ground by Longfellow' "Evangeline." Here we visited Evangeline Park with its famous treasure house of Acadian relic . Many of the flowers in this park have been sent from the French gardens of decendants of the departed Acadians . 路w ould that I could tell about all the places at which we stopped, plus such interesting experiences that travelers are bound to have.

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As pace forbid however I hall but mention Halifax. \ hat would Nova cotia be without Halifax; Halifax the capital and fir t Engli h to路wn of anada; once the mo t trongly fortified city in the world and now a military and naval tation. large area of the city wa de troyed in 1917 and over five thou and people killed and injured a a re ult of an explo ion which folio\ ed the collision of steam hip loaded with munitions . One day of our vi it we were guests aboard a British Man-of-War which happened to be stationed th ere and we also visited the Public arden of Halifax which are among the finest on the North American Continent.

Throughout the inf erior of Nova Scotia is a continuous network of beautiful lakes and rivers, winding through wide stretche of forests and meadows. But to me Nova Scotia means the ocean as there is nothing can match the exhilaration of contact with surf.

"Who that has felt the ocean breeze Blow salty in his face And caught the mood of winning seas Can bide another place?"

THE PLEDGE Oh the life of a pledge of . S. A. Is the life of a girl both sincere and gay.

In spirit and in friendship he has no lack.

When given a favor, a favor she gives back.

A girl who willingly does her part Her duties with gladne s she does from the start.

She with the actives together they tand Onward they go, hand in hand.

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AN INTERESTING TRIP I HAVE MADE CAROUNE KREMBS,

HREE years ago I spent the T summer with friends in Florida.

Having never been in the South, I was unprepared for the beauty of scenery found in a tropical climate.

This state is growing tremendously, not only in its native population, but in the number of tourists from every part of the country.

Like all Northern people, I was greatly surprised at the abundance of flowers and foliage. I visited many parts of the state, saw the ocean for the first time, and many beautiful sights, but I want to describe for you the one place in particular known as the most beautiful spot in America.

I had been in Jacksonville only a short time when everyone began talking of a big event that was to be held at Mountain Lake. The President of the United States was coming to dedicate the Sanctuary and the Singing Tower which had just been completed, and to present them for visitation to the American people. We attended the ceremony and saw the Sanctuary and Tower.

To call a spot the most beautiful in America sounds like exaggeration, but in this case it is not. The Tower is christened by everyone who sees it as the Taj Mahal of America. It is located in the center of a forty-eight acre tract of land, covered with native pine-trees on the highest spot in Florida-three hundred twenty-four feet high.

The Tower is two hundred five feet high and is built of Georgia pink marble and Florida coquina stone. The carvings on the Tower are marvelous. It is this carving

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that has compared it to the Taj Mahal.

Every detail of the Tower is perfect. The great entrance door is a masterpiece of famous ironwork. The superb gates, stairs and rail of ironwork look 路 like finest lace. Within the Tower is a Carillion, made in England, consisting of seventy-one perfectly tuned bells whose tone and quality were passed upon by three of the world's most famous musicians.

In front of the Tower is a reflection pool with a beautiful view of the Tower lying quietly on the surface of the water.

Some thirty varieties of birds are there and their songs at dawn are wonderful to hear. A dozen nightingales were imported from England and every day in the season can be heard. We were told that the first time the nightingales sang, a pair of mocking birds rested on the roof of the aviary and listened intently to the air. The next day the pair returned and again listened to the nightingales' song. At the close of this second concert, the mocking birds began and sang the song letter-perfect.

The owner of the Sanctuary says its purpose is to spread the influence of beauty which we so much need in our communities, and in our homes. The motto of the Sanctuary describes it truly: "I come here to find myself, it is so easy to get lost in the world."

The Mountain Lake Sanctuary was the inspiration of Edward W. Bok, carried out by America's foremost architects.

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A TRIP TO CATALINA ISLAND VIRGINIA }A N E

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WO years ago I spent my Christmas holidays in Los Angeles. Among the many interesting things that I did was to spend a day over on Catalina Island. There were two ways of going: I could either take a boat or an airplane.

The airplane sounded much more thrilling, so after wondering if I'd live to tell the story, my bravery encouraged me to buy a ticket on the airplane. My heart really did begin to sink when I was asked questions; such as ; Do you have life insurance? Does anyone depend on you for a living?

And, in case of an accident, whom are we to notify?

By that time I thought I was practically dead. I finally staggered into the plane and we were off.

The going up was fine, but, oh me! the coming down was terrific ! All the big ships looked like row boats from the sky. We landed on water and it felt like the water came up to meet us. The airport was quite a distance from the main points of interest, so we took funny little "see-more" cars to where we wanted to go.

One thing I couldn't get used to was the warmth and picturesqueness of the scenery-everything smelled like spring and all the little children were playing around in their sunsuits. The sound of the ocean could be heard swishing the sides of the banks and the cool sea breeze felt damp as it hit my face when it passed by.

Perhaps most of you have heard the song, "The Bells of Avalon."

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It was from thi pot that the composer got his in piration, and as you walk through the treets of Avalon, the town of the i land, your eyes perhaps wander upward over a distant mountain, where there can be seen the famous " Bells of Avalon." At interval during the clay their melodiou chimes would ring out over the town and fill the air with joy. Avalon is rather a native looking place-the streets are not very wide and in the middle of them are primitive looking little benches to sit on, which are covered with canapies of palm leaves and painted with Mexican designs.

It seemed the glass bottom boats were quite the rage, so, of course, I just couldn't resist going on one.

I've never had such a queer feeling in my life. It really made me feel very small when I looked down into fifty feet of water and saw fish swimming around so peacefully. There were giant seaweeds, forty feet tall, starring me in the face, uch as, Jack, of the story, "Jack and the Bean Stalk," might have climbed. After that trip I realized I wanted good solid earth to stand on.

There is a very rare bird park on the island that proved to be most interesting. Birds from all over the world are brought there to live.

Most of the birds could talk better than some people I have known.

I did my best to make some of them talk for me but I didn't seem to have the alluring fascination that made them want to perform.

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WHAT AN EXPERIENCE! GRACE EAsTON,

UCH head shaking, along with M comments was being carried on among our parents for the simple reason that we had decided to go on a camping trip. Our plans were already made, and our minds were all set.

With careworn faces, our parents allowed us to go through with our crazy scheme, so as to nip all future aspirations in the bud.

We left by automobile with two of us sandwiched in the back between piles of bedding, tent poles, a tent, clothing, cameras, flash-lights, cooking utensils, folding chairs, dishes, and other necessary equipment.

It was a glorious day to begin a "back to nature movement" and our spirits were gay.

After driving for miles, our destination was reached. The place settled on was in the midst of the pine woods on the Cape. A small store was but a short distance away, through the woods.

There, in a little clearing, we pitched our tent, but not without a struggle. It being a full-sized tent, it was very temperamental, sagging and slumping whenever and whenever it pleased. Finally, with someone acting as a prop, we did get it to hold up. It couldn't have been accomplished without the support of the store proprietor. He considered the whole venture a big joke-to think that four young girls should want to do such a thing was absurd!

A rubber-matting served as our floor, on which all of our luggage

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was piled-for house-cleaning later on, as our stomachs came first.

Therefore, after putting our heads together, trying to decide what to eat, we finally decided on baked beans-seeing that we had so many cans to consume. The girls were divided into two shifts. The cook and her assistant, the table-setter, and dishwasher. A hole was dug in the sand and rocks placed in it.

Here a fire was built and a grate put over it. A very primitive way, but the food was very tasty, with a special ash and mosquito sauce, served with every meal. The table was under the trees, so a spider dropping down on us at lunch hour, wasn't uncommon.

For water, we walked quite a distance to the pump carrying as many utensils as we could, to hold the water. It never failed but that the water would give out at bed time and the thirst was terrible.

I As riight drew on, we went busily to work, making up the bed rolls, fitting in like sardines-three in a line, with one at the feet of the three. Lying there in the darkness all the night noises made themselves evident, not mentioning the little rocks that managed to get under your back and stay there. Jimmy Skunk had been paying us a visit, but as long as he left no calling card behind him, we didn't mind.

What we feared and dreaded the most came one night in the form of a severe thunder storm. That was a wild night ! Water leaked in around the edges and splashed down off the ends of our noses. Dot went

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so far as to put on her hat. The intervals between each drop varied so that you never knew where and when to expect the next one; but you always knew where it landed.

In the end a typical northea ter storm drove us home, after ticking it out for five day .

Tired, dirty, and sati fied we returned home, much to the relief of our parents, who had worried all the time we were away. The O!te

fact that cheered them wa that ' e were cured of any more idea on camping. vVhat a mi take they were making, becau e much to their orro\ they found out that we had made plan for another trip the followmg year.

If you have never done thi ort of thing, pack up next ummer and try it out. There i much to be gained by it and lots of fun.

peration over a lack of artiI Ncles,de we rumaged through Chickie

The acquacade wa swell. It was held in a huge, stadium-like affair, and instead of rows of chairs there were tables, with each row elevated.

The water was no where to be een; I was getting worried when uddenly the stage drew away from the stands and the water was revealed in a sort of semi-circle, with the stage for a background. Sprays of water setved for a curtain, dying down as the performers came on the stage.

Singing, dancing, stunt and comical diving were interesting, but man, ph, man! what I was really interested in was Johnny "What a build" Wei muller-oh me. Eleanor Holm did ome really impressive speed swimming.

The finale was pectacular-Miss America had a train of miles (well, practically) of silver cloth, spreading out from the top of a long flight of stair to the very bottom of the stage.

Must pack the toothbrush now, and start for the train. So long until fall.

Your in Alpha ig,

Heyl's de k, and politely "lifted" this letter-dated last summer and rather dog-eared. Sh - -here it is: Dear Chickie : Here I am at the Cleveland Exposition after a very trying time of driving through traffic to our hotelI never saw so many triangles in my life. But I'm fairly well recovered from going through red lights, and making wrong turns.

On first glance, the fair is very pretty-and on second glance prettier still. The flowers are gawgeous-but the layout of the buildings is swell (close together so I don't have to do much walking.)

This is my fifth fair, but I still enjoy seeing most of the exhibits. The best were the U. S. submarine, the Ice Follies, and Billy Roses Aquacade with Johnny Weissmuller.

The weather for the most part is down right awful-something like Phillies, huh? I have been looking for signs of any lpha Sigs to brighten up the days but as yet have failed to see any.

EnN. :\IEUNIER,

Kappa Kappa.

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MY THANKSGIVING VACATION BETIY LATIMER,

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NCHILLAT AS, tortillas, sombreros, mantillas, guitars, dancing and music. Nothing could be more fascinating-that is, until you discover that a tortilla is a flat tasting pancake and when sprinkled with gulash of a gulash sort, rolled over and over, tainted with a rare tomato sauce, this same tortilla has become an enchillata. When I had politely writhed my way through this "oh so tasty dinner (so said the senor), my mouth watered for a nice thick luscious American steak. But I was bound determined to do in Mexico as the Mexicans do-as much as was endurable anyway, - and did it without a whimper. This happened at Agua Caliente, Mexico, now, at this time, a beautifut, peaceful resort but wrapped in memories of the wild gambling and horse racing days "of yesteryear.

A faithful old burro stands patiently all day in front of a Mexican go-cart awaiting the fun loving travelers who must "go Mexican for the day" and have their pictures taken with him. It really is fun being decked out in sombreros and striped serapes - ah, but such is life!

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At Tia Juana: "Von t you buy my pretty laces, 'and made, etc." "Thees cigarette ees just like an mereecan Chesterfield"- ah, but alas, it wasn't and I suffered a splitting headache. "Let the canary tell yuor fortune, madame." Yes, darling little tame canaries eating out of the senorita's hand. Eet no tell my fortune correctly, though.

Open markets jammed with whatnots, all the way from jumping beans to lovely embroidered linens.

Walking stands littered with everything from cigarettes to monkeys.

The longest bar in the world-fully a block long but furnished with fifteen of the craziest long length mirrors ever in existence. We staggered out drunk-tsk, tsk-from hysterical laughing, not liquor. Here is one place you will be truly convinced that there is nothing funnier in the world than the slant a mirror can give yo.u of yourself. Laugh, I thought we'd die.

Such a glance of the soiled little Mexican town of Tia Juana. Wh9-t a privilege to return to the beautiful hills of San Diego, California, and its charming little missions. I had a grand time though, and hope to go again.

A CRUISE CoRA G. HAY, Theta Theta

you ever have an experience DIDwhich you felt it difficult to share, not because you disliked having others know about it, but rather that your powers of expression

would inadequately express your innermost feelings !

If you have eyer had an opportunity to drift-mentally or physically-into another world so differ-

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I had the good fortune to actually "drift" in one of the Canadian sl!ips on a cruise to the West Indies. A trip of thi s kind has so many interests and appeals-depending largely upon the individual-that to relate minute details would, doubtless, be very boring to many. However, one may safely relate a few generalizations and their effect upon an individual.

One could never leave New York harbor, especially at twilight without experiencing a feeling of awe, the lights from the buildings giving the effect of shining gold and tl1e sunset rays turning these bricks of gold to sparkling diamonds-filled with color and beauty. Further along, our Lady of Liberty leading the way with her lighted torchsending us to explore new shoresa safe and happy voyage.

For many days these thoughts and mental images lingered while this disunited group of passengers gradually merged into one large family with the captain as guardian.

His desire was to integrate this family, establishing common interests which would bring satisfaction :mel pleasure.

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hartly, our fir t day on land arrived! Like mall children we became impatient and curiou -finally, what strange and beautiful sights we beheld -people cenic beauties and vast opportunitie for exploration-old churche with their ymbolisms-ruin with hi torical background, quaint shops with not valuable wares but many creative and unusual trinkets!

Each day a new port meant the opening of a different door to behold the interests, beauty and color of another land. Every>vhere wP. saw people, some busily occupiedworking not only for their own country but for ours.

As the clay pa eel our experiences increased, our under tanding deepened, and our change of habits helped to make us a part of this new world. evertheless, our enthusiasm and love for adventure did ature's beauties not diminish. held us in her spell from Bermuda to assau!

Yet, in the far distance our Lady of Liberty was beckoning with her torch for the return of her children.

Then our dream became a realization, but the memory still remains.

TRAVEL GLADYS TEN

YSON,

IT were possible for me to I Freach into the pa t to Gladys Tennyson of thirteen yea rs, I would shake her hard. Can you imagine that child sailing off to Europe with no more appreciation of the event than that it was just a part of the

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course in the busines of growing up. She took it all so blandly and blithely that I blush now to think of it.

Yet, perhaps, I shouldn't be so harsh with her. If she had realized her opportunity, she, perhaps, would

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have been over-awed and have made her recollections too stereotyped.

Surely, that is far from what happened. She brought back with her feelings, impressions, and experiences practically all unrelated, and absorbed in the order in which they happened to strike upon her consciOusness.

Here are a few such recollections.

They are far from learned, but they_ are vivid and because of them and many others like them, I'll never forget how that thirteen-year-old child thought and felt on her trip to Norway and England.

A sunset on the water so thrilled her that she seemed to leave her body and melt into the glorious color of the sky and the peaceful calm of the ocean. Getting ready for a costume party that night brought her back on board ship, and will I ever fOrget the annoyance she felt at being recognized by the sneakers she wore with her Turkish garb that night.

The picture of her cousin and she going to a store to buy candy and knowing no Norwegian other than "Jeg kan ikke tale N orsh" (I cannot speak Norwegian) is very clear. How they giggled! It was surprisingly simple to make the clerk understand the gestures they used. They had the utmost faith in her honesty when they held out money for her to help herself. . How I would like to have been a third party listening in on those

long, serious conversations she had with a young Nonvegian girl, as they took long walks through the woods together. She picked up a conversation command of Norwegian rather quickly, but the Norwegian girl also began to use a great many English words. It must have been a strange mixture of speech but the ideas were conveyed satisfactorily.

What a novel, delightful experience it "vas to walk along the stony road in the early evening to the mountainside pasture. Every now and then a gate had to be opened or climbed as it blocked the road between pastures. There, with a prolonged call that echoed several times, the milker summoned the plodding cows to be milked.

In England she was fascinated by the match-like, waxed moustaches of many of the men. Of course, she went to see Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge, and so on,-but those moustaches were so amusing.

On the return trip aboard the Majestic she made bosom friends of a girl from Cleveland, Ohio, and another from New York. The last evening on board was certainly poignantly sad as a group of teenaged people sat together on deck singing popular songs of the day.

These and many other such experiences make that thirteenth summer of my life very, very close.

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The President's Press Editorial

If anyone ever wonders what keeps college girls busy, they hould read letters from Alpha Sigma Presidents. The arnestne of our ambitions, your enthu iasm for your college and sorority work, and loyalty to the ideals of A A make me proud of each of you. iay your results warrant the efforts expended.

On behalf of the Chapter Presidents of AS I extend to Mary Stevens, President of Beta Gamma, a most cordial welcome to our official family. To the girls of Beta Gamma Chapter, November 20th was a memorable occasion and as 19 from Northeastern tate Teachers at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, became full fledged members, Alpha igmas from coast to coast joined in a royal welcome to our newest chapter.

We are happy to have you join with us in _the fellowship of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

December brings to a close a year that has been marked by worthwhile achievements in . Alpha Sigma Alpha. May your chapter close the page 1937 with pride and look with greater anticipation to the year 1938.

EvELYN G. BELL, National President.

Special Features The Huntington ASA's wore white to school on Founders' Day. Below their badges they proudly displayed red and white ribbons.

The A. S. A. National Broadcasting Company, Zeta Zeta network managed the Founders' Day Program in Warrensburg. The pledges' first initials formed the station name.

College and Alumme members of Alva, Oklahoma had a gala celebration on November 13th. Besides paying tribute to our Founders, the chapter honored Miss Minnie Shockley, former National Officer and Faculty Adviser, who has recently been admitted to Oklahoma's Memorial Hall of Fame.

Pi Pi College and lumnce members celebrated Founders' Day with

a formal banquet and dance at the Hotel Statler on November 20th.

Earlier in the day 16 of the new pledges received the Sanctuary degree.

The Theatre Edna Louise Turner, EE President, will portray Rosalind in "As You Like It." The Gilson Players go on tour December 6th, so the EE Vice President will assume the responsibilities for a time.

Prominent Citizens The Denver Alumnce Chapter Scholarship ring was presented at their Founders' Day luncheon to Helen Nelson, BB Chapter President.

October 16th was an important day for our San Diego lpha Sigmas for the Inter-Sorority Coun-

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cil Scholarship Cup was awarded to Omega Omega Chapter with an average of 1.82.

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Honors for publicity in college and town papers go to AG, EE, NN, II, and Psi Psi.

* * * * Radio Programs The Pontiac Varsity Hour, featuring Temple University, closed with a Sorority Trio singing "Stop You're Breaking My Heart." These girls, Alice Carl, Lillian Morris and Anna Price, are all ASA's . If you heard the weekly broadcast of the trio you would recognize their theme song as the "Alpha Sigma Sweetheart Song." Alpha Sigmas-we're proud of you !

Financial News The traditional Harvest Moon Dance sponsored by our Drexel Alpha Sigmas netted a clear profit of $107.63.

College Corner Rho Rho Chapter's float was indeed a unique one. Three barber chairs were filled with a bobcat, a stuffed bird and a cat. Next indicated what the Marshal intended to do for its rivals.

The "Mum" Queen at the Greeley Homecoming was Florence Thomp on, BB Chapter Editor .

Homecoming Queen at Pittsburg, Kansas, was Betty Dorsey, a member of ASA. econd prize for house decorations was awarded to Eta Eta Chapter.

Indiana, P.a. Panhellenic voted to have closed rushing this year.

A total of 36 girls may be rushed

at any time during the year and $30 may be spent for this purpose.

Preferential bids will be issued in May and the girls initiated next fall.

The NN members have planned this year to assist a talented pianist who is studying in New York.

Being one of ten children, Joseph must depend solely on his scholarship money. The ASA's are caring for necessities which a scholarship will not make possible.

Phi Phi Chapter is having monthly program meetings and to date these topics have been discussed. "Successful Rushing," "Charm and Personality," "Developing a Philosophy of Life."

The MM girls have inaugurated an "Eat-together" system. Prospective rushees are invited to sit with the ASA's. The cheery, long table is bringing forth many comments.

Travelogue Harriette McAllister, SS President, was in Greeley for Homecoming and met some of our BB members.

Society News A chartered bus conveyed a large group of masked ladies in lovelyqueer-and clever costumes to a lonesome, spooky cabin on the outskirts of Muncie, Ind. The XX members were having a Halloween supper meeting and what a good time everyone had.

Following a buffet supper at the home of a patroness, our Ypsilanti Alpha Sigmas sat and sang around a campfire (red tissue-logs and covered light bulbs) their favorite sorority songs.

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JUST AN "ALL AMERICAN" GIRL FRANCES MoRTON HoLBROOK,

just emerged from W EtheHAVE season when the topic of conversation was the choosing of candidates for the All-American football team. The Buffalo Alumnce chapter has a candidate for an AllAmerican- All Sport Team (or sompthin) ; for we are mighty proud of our all-around athlete, Fran Holbrook.

For the past two years Fran has been a member of the Women's Municipal Golf Team which has won the city championship for two succeeding years. As a member of this team she has never lost a match.

This we admit is quite a feat; but listen! Fran's average golf score is in the low 90's. Shame on you "Divot Diggers"!

The Buffalo Women's Golf Association lists Fran as vice-president and district representative to the Western New York Golf Associa-

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tion. We add thi all up and our urn i -GOOD Golf.

But, as golf is a ea anal port, F an turns to bowling in the winter.

Maybe we should say that bowling turns to her 'cause . . . Last year the Buffalo Consistory 1i ted the highest women's bowling scores of the year. It was 242 and vvas made by none other than Frances Holbrook. Her weekly average in bowling is 199. Having ju~t graduated from the 65 class we can appreciate this. And you ?

Being General Chairman of Vvomen's Sports at the Consi tory makes Fran's interest in sports divided. Badminton seems to be her latest and already she is listed at scratch. Volleyball, basketball, hiking, fishing, swimming and bridge are just a few of her other interests.

Yes-we'd say-an "All American" girl!

'ROUND AND 'ROUND WE GO THETA DoNLEY,

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HETA Donley is utilizing her spare time by encouraging roller skating in Alva. When her day as clerk ends, she scampers to a nearby rink which she owns and operates with her brother, Lowell.

The high school and college folk enjoy hours of exercise at the rink and more so because Theta, as instructor, is very enthusiastic. Although this is an unusual sporthobby for one, we have evidence that it is a pleasure.

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LITTLE BREEZES GAIL NoAH BRICKLEY,

HEN, as a child, Gail Noah was accustomed to rush around the square in Alva on her pony, friends called her "Little Breezes."

Now, as Mrs. E. M. Brickley, she still maintains a keen interest in horses and this summer during her vacation she was busy teaching riding. Gail tells us a bit about her two-weeks' trip to a Methodist Assembly: "The Assembly grounds for this district which includes New Mexico, Colorado and part of Texas, is located at Sacramento, New Mexico.

This is beautiful mountain country.

The Sacramentos rise to a great height and are covered with pine, grass and beautiful wild flowers.

Little streams of water trickle down the canyons and furnish delightfully cool drinking water. The altitude is about eight thousand feet.

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"For two weeks I had the privilege of instructing groups of children and young people in horseback riding. The first week the children ranged in ages from twelve to sixteen years. Some of the children had never been on a horse before; others had grown up on New Mexico and Texas ranches and were good riders. During the first week I had about sixty different children in my classes. After teaching them the most elementary things regarding the care of the horses and how to mount and dismount we rode over the most beautiful mountain trails it has ever been my pleasure to see.

"The second week I acted as Dean of Women for the young peoples group and continued my riding classes with the groups from sixteen to twenty-three.

"And though this is a departure from 路sports and horses, I can't resist telling you about one of the most impressive evenings spent at the Assembly.

"Everyone was told to bring an Indian blanket to the Assembly building when they came to the regular evening meeting at seventhirty. When the meeting was over a group of Indians in blankets and beautiful head-dresses appeared at the entrance to the building. Everyone wrapped his blanket around himself and started out in silence, single file, following the Indians.

Up in the canyon a large circle had been marked off with stones and in the center a campfire burned.

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dians. F amiliar Indian and religous songs were inter persed among t he stories. v ith the Indian benediction all returned to their lodgings, single fil e as they had come."

ALPHAS ENTER INTRA-MURALS B ETTY L EE

W ALLERSTEDT, T mt- Tau Pledge

Tau Tau chapter of Alpha T HE Sigma Alpha has organized a basketball team to take part in the basketball intra-murals. The girls who ta)<:e part in the intra-murals are girls chosen from sororities for their sorority team and girls who wish to have a team. The team

winning the tournament will receive a trophy. The girls representing the Tau T au chapter are : Helen Irwin, Loree H all, F loy Richards, Enid Baldwin, Jane I ssacks, Helen Markwell, Geraldine Chittenden, Mildred Schwartzapf, Geraldine Hopley, and Betty Wallerstedt.

SPORTS GLADYS TENNYSON,

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many people in the world are sportsmen in spirit but not in body? How many souls become filled with the desire to dance as beautifully as the ballet they have just seen, to skate as confidently as the champions, to ski as gloriously as the northlanders, to perform as precisely and swiftly as the tennis stars, or to swim as powerfully and dive as gracefully as the artists in demonstration. If there are such people let me clasp their hands as a kindred spirit.

Perhaps, sometime, we could all congregate. We could don rosecolored glasses which would have the quality of letting us see what

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we'd want to see as we performed for each other. The jerky strides of our skating would produce "ohs" and "ahs" from the enchanted gazers, and our dancing would be transformed from sheer awkwardness to perfect loveliness in the eyes of our understanding audience.

Until such a time shall come we will just have to supply the laughs needed even in sports. We'll continue to gayly enter into everything in our own bungling manner and provide the contrasting background against which our more fortunate, graceful fri ends may shine.

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SENSATI ONS OF A BEGINNER MARY ANGUS,

NE sunny afternoon last summer, a group of Boston University Summer School students had an opportunity to go to the Boston irport. I was in the group.

We arrived at the beautiful airport and were immediately asked if any of us wanted to go up. To those of us who had never been up before this was a great thrill.

It was queer, however, that the thought of going up gave us shaky legs and sinking stomachs, but each one of us, with great bravado, tried to cheer the others. Our group did not get up courage to go on either the first or second trip, but with a do or die feeling we went up on the third trip. We waved good-bye to our friends with sickly smiles on our faces, buckled ol::ti" safety belts and were ready to start. The safety belts gave us no sense of protection, we felt like prisoners caught, with no chance of escape.

With a flurry of dust from the exhaust, the plane taxied and bumped across the field. Suddenly the bumping stopped. We were in the air. The plane turned so that we might go over the city, and I found my seat mate several inches higher than I was. Fortunately we were wedged in so tightly, she

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couldn't fall. \Ve leveled off and were all set for a beautiful ride.

Bump! Bump! "Oh, what was that?" shrieked one of the girls.

"Only air pockets formed by the currents of air rising from between the buildings," answered the pilot.

So, along we went, bump, bump!

I was just becoming accustomed to this feeling when a peculiar smell assailed my nostril -the combination of chewing gum and the odor of gasoline is hard to describe and worse to experience.

What were we seeing during this time? Buildings rising and falling! The glass in the plane vibrated so much that the buildings seemed to rise up to meet u s and then fall back again . As a result, we were able to distinguish only one building, the State House I It seemed to us that we were headed back before we had fairly started. As we came down, our ears had that horrid compressed feeling 路 and the pilot shouted, "Keep swallowing."

Thump, Thump, we had landed, our first plane trip was over. You see it only cost $1.00.

Do you think this a true description of the trip? Well, it isn't !!

However, we did go flying last summer.

ASA'S COURT QUEEN VERNA

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LO lumnc.e Sports' B UFF Honor Roll would not be complete without the name of Verna Corcoran who is truly "Queen of

the Court." "Corky" has concentrated most of her time on tennis. \ orthwhile? \Vell, we'll say!

In 1932 Verna was City Cham-

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But tennis is not her only sport, for Corky ha been Chairman of the Women Teachers' Bowling League, which is the largest wo-

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men's bowling league in the country. Need we add that he a! o wields a "mean bowling ball?"

Golf is only a very new port for Corky, and about her succe s he says, "Beginner's luck !" But we would call it just extra special good golf.

Basketball, bridge, and hiking are only a few of her other interests. Would that we had such a well-rounded ports program.

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H EN Gamma Gammas think W of sports they just naturally think of Alma Lois Rodgers.

She went roaming over the plains to the University of Colorado this summer to seek further know ledge in the Physical Education Department of that college, as well as satisfy her curiosity (and she has a big one) about the mountainous country-side. The Colorado co-eds had some competition as Lois gathered new ideas to help her in directing the Physical Education Department and sponsoring the Women's Athletic Association of Northwestern State Teachers' College.

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Her interests are varied for she is active in many organizations, but her activities in sports and the W. A. A. hold the most prominent place in her life. Her position demands an abundant supply of enthusiasm and vitality and-she is never lacking! It can truthfully be said that her motto is : "Yours For Better Sports."

To those who specialize in "inactivity"-this summer note ts dedicated"Oh tennis is grief on the arches, And picnics are hard on the spine, So I'll take a rock in the rocker And feet on the porch-rail, for mine."

SPORTS MARY MARGARET SHOUSH,

HEN asked if I prefer competitive sports or sports just for the fun, I am inclined to answer that I play for the fun of it.

After a moment's thought I wonder if that is exactly the case. The first compact that I had (I still have ~t) was won in a 50 yd. dash at a pte-

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either in achievement or skill tests, tournaments, or a grade in dance work. The major sports and dance classes appeal more to me than the elective recreational program offered for required physical education. My favorite .sports, swimming, tennis, archery, basketball, and night softball may all be considered competitive. Thus, although I participate for the fun in an activity, the competition makes the pleasure keener for me.

As pre ident of our W. A. A. I was a delegate to the Denver convention of the Central District Physical Education Association. It was my pleasure to meet and know Miss Edna McCullough at the Boulder pre-convention meeting of the directors of women's departments. Although I did not then know that she was an ASA, I have been very proud of the part she and other ASA's had in the convention.

MY INTEREST IN PING PONG HESTER

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not until recently, when I TI WAS was required to take physical education this year, that I developed an interest in taking a part in athletics myself. For several days in the physical education class_I took part in several different games and activities in the hope of finding something that would prove interesting and entertaining to me.

After several days I found a game that fascinated me-ping pong! I had never thought of ping pong as being much fun; in fact, I thought it rather foolish to waste time hitting a small celluloid ball

across a tiny net. But before long I became very eager to become skillful in the game and save myself much embarrasment and blush-路 ing when I struck at the ball and found that my paddle turned out to be quite a distance from where the ball had passed. I have found now that hitting that little insignificant ball and returning it in the right place requires much more skill than I thought possible, but I am looking forward to the day, which will probably be several years from now, when I may perhaps be able to play a good game of ping pong.

A WINTER PARADISE FLORENCE MULLINS,

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HE most popular winter playground in the East is Lake Placid in the Adirondacks. A veritable paradise for winter sports, it is synonymous with skiing, tobogganing, and ice skating, in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the country.

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Nestled high in the hills, its clear, dry mountain air, healthful and invigorating, imparts a rosy blush to the cheeks of its visitors.

Of late years, it has become a mecca for Collegians the country over, who arrive for the Christmas holidays.

THE PHOE It is a wonderful scene to view the activities in the arena, where the use of colored light has produced a most effective atmo phere.

It is here that many of the most interesting contests take place. The hockey game are thrilling and exciting. They are generally contests between the leading colleges of the United States and Canada.

Between periods, notable figure skaters entertain the audience. It is a spectacular sight to see such grace and balance executed on the shining blades of the skates.

Expert ski teams exhibit their skill and abi lity on one of the finest ski jumps in the country.

This is located outside the village of Lake Placid and is so situated that it is very convenient for the audience to follow the rapid flight of the skier as he takes off, floating gracefully through the air and finally landing with perfect rhythmical movements. Not always is this true, the slightest mistake

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cau es an embarra ing mom nt for the kier.

The mo t thrilling of all the ports is the ride on the bob led run. Only the daring will attempt it. Expert pilots are employed for the leds, but always a note of warning i ounded. It is a daredevil feat. The pilot can not alway guarantee to bring the sl d down the mile stretch, over hill and spilling curves, without a mishap.

Those who experience the thrill of riding that mile, safely, agree that it is well worthwhile.

There is never a dull moment at this famous winter resort. All who really want to participate in such activitie should make it a point to vi it this "Winter Paradise" and experience the thrill of doing these things themselves. It would be well worth their time and effort, physically and mentally. A good place to regain and keep your youth, as 路well as that youthful figure!

KAPPA KAPPAS SEARCH FOR EXERCIS E of exercising-and TemSPEAK ple co-eds tear their hair. The only sport we Kappa Kappas can indulge in is gasping up seven flights of stairs to class in our "tower of learning." That's rather monotonous besides being a little wearing on the constitution.

Horse-back riding requires about a two-hour trip going to and coming from the stables. Swimming in a pool could answer, but not in water that's ninety-nine percent clorine. Roller skating's fun but the high school students seem to have monopolies on available rinks

(we're beyond that stage, don'tcha know?) .

Winter sports appeal to us, but try and find a square inch of ice (except in our radiators of a morning) anywhere in Philadelphia. The Women's Athletic Association provides some sports, but that also requires long bus trips to hockey fields and what-not.

So Kappa Kappas resign themselves to walks in the soot-filled air of Broad street, stretching their finger muscles on typewriters, and private moderni tic "dance recitals" at midnight in the sorority house.

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Chaplain Chatter December 1937 "May the glory of Christmas light your way throughout the New Year." Does it not seem sad that so many of us confine the Christmas spirit to one three-hundred sixty-fifth of a year? Is there no way in which we might retain the wonder of starlight on crisp snow and carols f.aint in the distance, of flame-tipped candles in the darkness of midnight communion, or the thrill which we experience when the gift for a loved one was exactly right? In ancient Rome, Vesta's sacred fire was guarded continuously by virgins who had dedicated their lives to the task. Sometimes, they were careless and 路 the fire wavered. Just as careless ar路e we in tending the spirit of Christmas for we, too, are but human. Yet, let us resolve that each year "the glory of Christmas" shall light our ways more than in the preceding year. As Alpha Sigmas, let us keep undimmed the radiance of the Christmas Star, our Alpha Sigma Alpha Star.

AMONG OURSE LVE S "Our alumn<e chapter is going to make us some new robes for Initiation Services," writes Pauline Butler of Hli What should we do without our ever loyal and helpful alumn;e?

Shorthand, typing, accounting, algebra, Business English, and Marketing form Esther Guthery's scheduled at Miami. Our guess is that in addition to being AA's chaplain, she is a commercial maJor. At Temple University, Ellen Hetzel keeps busy superv1smg services. On October 18, five girls were initiated, next there 路 was a Transfer of Membership Service for an AG who was affiliating with KK, then on November 22, five more girls were pledged, and after Christmas these girls will all be initiated. And that is merely a beginning for KK !

Not only did BB decorate their house and enter a float in the

Homecoming parade, but their Florence Thompson was the "Mum" queen at the Homecoming dance.

At a recent initiation, SS solved the music problem by using violin music. Joan Adams sat in the next room and played "Old Refrain" and other selections-muted. The result was an unusually beautiful and impressive service.

At Psi Psi, courtesy has been adopted as an ideal toward which to work. LaVerne Killen says, "We want every A. S. A. on our campus to be known for her courtesy in speech, actions and so forth."

At Phi Phi, study hall for the pledges was held three nights a week. This was held in the library or in the dormitory and lasted for an hour and a half. The college at Maryville also had religious week with Dad Elliott as the speaker. He spoke to the sororities as well as the college.

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at the president's home during the one of us at the in tallation of BG inauguration of the new president, on November 20. he i a ophomore and a commercial major. Her Mr. G. VI. Diemer.

Verda Sherrill, 00, had her most intere ting out ide activity i first work as chaplain when she playing the ba oon in the college supervised the Sanctuary Degree band. Almo t every week, the band for seven of last semester's pledges goes to a neighboring town to play on October 17. 00, too, had a a concert. At the initiaiion banquet, Homecoming Queen-Jean Ulmer. Virginia presented one of the Another busy chaplain is Doro- toasts. thy Beach, MM. She is treasurer Eunice Gaines, TT, offers the of Y. W. C. A., and a member of excellent ob ervation that it i betthe House Presidents' Council, ter to have one pledge who will Goldfeathered (Sophomore Wo- surely be initiated than several who men's Club) , and A. C. E. When have no intention of being iniMM rushes in January, she will be tiated and becoming ideal Alpha in charge of the breakfast at Stark- Sigs. weather.

A new Vose baby grand piano While recuperating from an op- now occupies the place of honor eration, Pattie Alston Bounds, AA, in the EE living room. To celeheard our KK girls' fine broad- brate its acquisition, the chapter cast oh the Temple University gave a buffet dinner and a dedihour. Pattie was at home in Norcation program. folk, Va., and we can imagine that Besides being chaplain of SS, A. S. A. voices sounded good.

XX had two meetings for dis- Mary Kay Yoklavish has edited cussions on "Introductions." They one of the town's weekly newshave also been fortunate in having papers.

Miss DeHority, Dean of Women, 路 AG's first rush party will be a speak to them on ways in which "Chocolate Party" with everything chocolate, invitations too. a sorority can progress.

Though now " snowed under," NN held fall initiation in the Pi Pi did plenty first. They won art gallery at Drexel. This room ever路 y rushee they invited and their is very large and lovely, lending Penguin Parade dance was a Big itself well to the dignity of our success and they have new altar servtce.

To Alpha Sigma Alpha and the cloths.

Everyone having Christmas chaplain family we welcome Virginia \iVells, Wilson Hall, Tahle- parties, exams, and vacations, it quah, Oklahoma. Virginia became seems.

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Alpha Sigs in Varied Walks of Life "NOTHING MUCH" HAPP ENS H ERE-BUT TH E JOURNAL MUST GO ON! BEE ]ACQUART,

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usually is scarce in towns N EWS the size of Plains . . . Some weeks pioneers die, or babies are born, or maybe a night prowler jimmies into a store, or our basketball team wins a tournament, or the club women entertain their husbands, or Jim Onewayer combines some 40-bushel of wheat. Once in a blue moon there is a "Black Sunday" or a "Red Monday" with clouds of dust sweeping across the prairies and into the hamlet. And sometimes we can tell our out-oftown subs.cribers glowing tales about wheat prospects.

It really is a chore many weeks to find anything interesting to put in the paper. The preachers bring in their church notes, and the club reporters send their children down with reports of last week's meetings, and 'most everybody who comes in the office is good about letting us know where they and their friends have been. The trouble is that very often, in times like the last few years, they and their friends have been staying fairly close to home, and so few of them know much news.

The country correspondents send in their items about staying all

night here and there, and taking Sunday dinner with relatives and friends and how thankful they are for the snows and rains. In season, they telf of butchering and harvesting and seeding. But sometimes even the country correspondents don't send in their items and then you wonder what in tarnation is the matter and what are you going to put in the paper, especially if the preachers and club reporters are late and the advertising manager reports little success.

We get quite a little news at the courthouse over at the county seat and the folks over thar are mighty good about loosening up, although now and then they, like everybody else, shy a bit at publicity. And births always make good news, even if everybody in town knows about them several months before we print them.

Somehow every Thursday morning we manage to fill up the forms.

It's been that way now for 1,924 weeks-births and deaths and folks a-visiting. But pshaw! We scarce ever have any big news, such as murders and scandal and accidents and political speechifying like you read in the big papers every day.

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TO THE MICROBE DoROTHY MoRRISON,

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HAVE been heckled by our ediI tor into writing something about my "nasty" work. To a hospital Laboratory Technician that is one word which brings the hair on the nape of the neck to a bristle and puts her on the defensive about her work (which, after you are once familiar with it, makes all else outside of hospital life a bit dull).

To begin with, hospital life isn't all quiet halls, hushed voices and funereal faces. \IVe do have our moments of hilarity and when working hard and rapidly we at times border on that beehive-like buzziness.

The duties of the Laboratory Technician are so many and so technical that even books written about them are often quite inadequate. I'll try to tell you but a few of the high points of our work.

In our chemistry laboratory the "nasty" things become only another "unknown" to be diagnosed. One forgets about the material on which one is working in the interest of finding something on which the doctor can base his clinical diagnosis. The laboratory has been referred to as the backbone of clinical data. To it the doctor comes for his reports on suspected constituents of the blood stream,protein, sugar, salts, bromides, uric acid, calcium and many others.

You all know the importance of a blood count in case of possible appendicitis; if it is high that is an indication to operation. But in that blood count the technician not

only count the white cells, but with a special tain differentiates between the kind of cell . There are at lea t five different t ype of white cell in normal blood and many others found in different blood discrepancies.

In most large laboratories there is a separate laboratory for the study of body tissues ; tonsils, appendices, gall bladders-all come from the surgical rooms to the laboratory to be hardened, embedded in paraffin and cut in microscopically thin slices, tained and peered at under the "scope."

Then there is the bacteriology laboratory devoted to the finding of pathologic bugs in the body.

The little bacillus causing tuberculosis shines up as a distinctly tiny red rod in a field of blue.

The streptococcus in the blood stream appears, under the microscope, to the technician's trained eye as a string of dots in grotesque forms not unlike the discarded bow knots from Christmas packages.

The life of a technician is so varied she has little time to become bored or to remember to be tired until she finally sits down to rest at the end of the day. Our laboratory is open twelve hours out of every twenty-four; but one can expect to get home to rest only to be called back at any hour to type different bloods for an emergency blood transfusion, to do a blood count on a suspected case of appendicitis, or to take an X-ray picture of some man who, turning to his childhood, goes for a sleigh

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ride on his son's sled and runs into a tree. In blood tranfusions there are four different types of blood which never change in the individual. However, a person can be given only blood which corresponds to his own type, otherwise the wrong type will coagulate in the veins causing death. I have known some technicians and medical students who earn their pin money by giving blood transfusions every two or three months, such are called "professional doners."

A technician is by far the most unstationary person in a hospital.

She is all over the building and in

a large hospital it is a morning's work to find someone if she has left no word of her destination.

Hospitals as a rule are so complete in themselves that if it weren't for clothes, one could take care of all needs without stepping out of the building. A barber shop, drug store, grocery store, laundry, kitchen, dining room-almost a town complete in itself.

I wish I could go on at length telling you the things we do and the incidents, tragic and comic, we see every day. Each day is new and interesting and one finds much joy in the work. What more can one ask from a "job"?

TEACHING THE LITTLE NAVAJOS KATHERINE MITCHELL WHITE, Eastert~

Note: Katherine Mitchell White needs no introduction to many Kappa Kappas and Pi Pis who knew her during undergraduate days. Always ready to "try anything once" Kay has shown us her courage and daring spirit by her adventures into the Indian Country of the Southwest. She very interestingly tells us about her work and experience in the following article:

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y FIRST initiation to Navajo land was at Gallup, New Mexico, which to my green Eastern eyes was no town at all. From Gallup I traveled a hundred miles north to Shiprock, the Indian Agency, where I was to teach the little Navajos. This hundred mile ride seemed endless to me and the fact that I was riding in the back seat of a Ford, driven by the first Indian I had ever seen, was no great comfort. In fact, my fears for the future reigned supreme throughout the entire ride. At the same time,

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I could not be unaware of the beautiful blue mountains always looming in the distance; first purple, then blue as we gradually grew nearer. In contrast with the sand colored desert and mesas, the mountains seemed unreal like those in a story book because they were so blue, a deeper more vivid blue than the sky. In the foreground were many huge rocks which seemed to come from nowhere. I soon learned that the most famous of these was "The Ship Rock" towering twelve hundred feet high and shaped like a ship; a ship which the Navajos believe brought the first Indian man and woman to their present home in New Mexico.

The town of Shiprock, named for this rock, was a pleasant surprise after the arid country we had just passed through. Green lawn,

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The Navajos live in small, round, one-room huts called hogans which they make of adobe mud, stones路 and a few logs. There are no windows and the door always faces the East where the sun rise , significant of the Navajo religion. For a livelihood, the Navajos raise sheep and trade the wool at the various trading posts for food and clothing. The Navajo women weave the most beautiful rugs in the world. The Navajo men are silver smiths producing rings, belts, bracelets and concho belts of silver and turquoise. The Navajo Indians are thrifty and industrious people raising corn, squash, melons, beans and other crops, an almost impossible feat in this dry dessert country.

The school at Shiprock is a combined boarding and day school.

The children who live nearby come to school on busses. The others live at the school from September until June. The first year at school is a most difficult one for the timid little Navajo boy or girl. Midst so many strange surroundings, new faces and new ways of living, the six-year-old Navajo is to be admired for his independance and effort to adapt himself. Ju t think, these children cannot speak a word of English, cannot even say their own name so we can understand

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it, yet in one short year they learn enough Eng! i h to enter the fir t grade. This beginning year compare with our white kind ergarten except that teaching Engli h i the primary aim. I have taught beginner ; al o the first three grades at one time or another but like the beginners best. They are so eager to learn, enthusia tic and pontaneous about everything they do.

Their jet black hair and eyes, brown skin and unusual enviroment make them no different from other children. I love them and thoroughly enjoy my work I The fact that they are non-English speaking makes for some very humorous incidents. One time the girls were given some new ntbbers to wear to school. Looking out of the window I saw one of the sixth grade girls come to a huge mud hole, stop, and very carefully remove her shinny new rubbers. She then waded through the mud to the other side-ruining her shoes-but the precious rubbers had been saved! With great satisfaction she then put on her rubbers and continued her merry way. I think this may illustrate some of our problems. Laughable of course (and how we laughed!) but at the same time shows how many new things the Indian children have to learn. They make many mistakes in trying to do the right thing.

They just don't know what they hould do in many cases and we "poor school marms" are oft times nearly frantic trying to explain our seemingly peculiar ways to Indian boys and girls.

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buttons, a full skirt of many colors swaying in graceful folds as they walk, and moccasins of deer skin on their feet. They wear turquoise and silver bracelets on their arms, turquoise ear-rings, and many beads made of coral, shell, silver and turquoise. The Navajo women wear their hair tied in a fan-like knot at the top of their head.

Strange at first, but very practical because it never falls down. The little girls are replicas of their mothers in their long skirts, jewelry and similar hair dress. When they come to school all is changed and they look like different children. Their hair is cut in bangs and they are given white children's dresses which the government supplies while they are in school. Most

of the children are terribly underweight and undernourished but they soon grow fat and chubby.

They are very shy and afraid of strangers but in a few weeks will talk as much as their limited vocabularly will permit. They draw the most beautiful Indian designs and it is truly remarkable.

This is my sixth year in the Indian Service (careful now, I'll tell my age); five years in the Navajo country and this year at Santa Domingo Pueblo. The Pueblo Indians are very different but just as interesting to teach and I can honestly say that I've never regretted my choice in teaching Indians instead of little Marys and Johnnys. It has indeed been the experience of a life-time.

AN ALPHA SIG IN SOCIAL WORK MILDRED NALLEY, Colt~mbus

ES I AM an Alpha Sig in SoYcial Work! "So what," you say, "What is it you actually do?"

"What is this thing called social work?" And even if you don't say it, I still shall try to give a brief interpretation of social work as I see it.

Many people think of social work in terms of the phrase, "The poor we shall always have with us."

Some would deal with this problem in terms of a dole and forget it as quickly as possible because after all it does leave one with a rather uncomfortable feeling. It may help us, however, to think in broader terms as to the actual development of social work.

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England. In the days of the rule of Queen Eli?abeth the poor were treated almost as criminals and the laws drawn up to provide for their care at the same time also tended to provide punishment for them because of their need. Many of the poor laws in this country today tend to closely follow those Elizabethan poor laws and the attitude that a person should be punished when he is in need still tends to prevail to a certain extent. Despite the origin of social work in England that thing which we now know as social case work has had its greatest growth in the United States. This is undoubtedly due to the freedom of democracy and religion in this country which makes

THE PHOE it possible for an individual's needs to be recognized.

Industrialization which is popularly thought to date from 1840 resulted in a shifting of persons from farms and small towns to congested areas in cities where they are entirely dependent on wages, which are often inadequate to provide the barest necessities of life.

These inadequate wages or perhaps total loss of wages may result in a need for financial assistance. Many are the other problems which may arise. Domestic difficulties which may or may not be tied up with the financial situation, and health problems from improper housing and diet are just examples of this.

Within the past few years there has been a growing recognition of the government's responsibility for meeting needs which result from unemployment. The administration of relief is one phase of family social work. There have not been, however, enough trained social workers available in the past few years to provide adequate personel for the public relief agencies established with growing recognition of government responsibility. This was the case when the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established in 1933. Persons were therefore called in from other fields who were not prepared for this work. Many of these people began training for social work in order to better equip themselves for the job. Naturally they made mistakes, which were not alone with them. Attention and criticism were drawn to the mistakes with little or no recognition given to the

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actual contribution to the welfare of the Jation. Thi entire matter of unemployment relief has brought social worker to the attention of the public, not always in a favorable light. This i undertandable perhaps becau e there have been mi takes made and because after all social worker do champion the cau e of per on who can do little to help them elves and helping them does cost money, which creates objection with little thought to possible co t through other channels if such need are not met.

This assumption of responsibility for relief administration by public agencies is making it possible for private family agencies, such as the one with which I am associated, to focus on individualized case work and this is the matter with which I am largely going to deal. Family case work is concerned with the retention or the reclaiming of wholesome family life, inasmuch as this is recognized as a fundamental quality to the wellbeing of a community. Emphasis in private family agencies has therefore been on problems undermining family life which may appear either with or without financial distres . Some of these problems, to name a few, may arise from sickness, part time employment, lack of vocational training, or may be rooted in emotional disturbance. Misunderstandings between husband and wife or between parents and children may threaten the home. The individual may have too great personal problems to bear alone.

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the picture by being of assistance sold his car to meet their needs in helping the individual to con- and at last, hard pressed, with no serve and develop his capacity as further resources, he applied to an intelligent and self-reliant mem- the public relief-giving agency for ber of the community. Perhaps I assistance. The aid he requested can best illustrate what I mean by was granted to him but at the same a brief resume of a case history : time it was recognized that his Mr. Barr had been for many problem was something more than years employed by a business con- a financial need alone and the cern in a fairly responsible posi- family agency was asked to become tion with an income sufficient to interested.

In the case worker Mr. Barr provide his family a moderate found a person who accepted him standard of living in a good, but not pretentious neighborhood. The as he was, who did not condemn him Barrs owned a car, they enjoyed for becoming a useless, lazy inrecreational activity with their dividual who had lost his employfriends, their two children were ment. The financial assistance well cared for and given certain granted helped to lessen the strain advantages. The early years of the in the home while at the same time depression had bothered them little Mr. Barr was helped to see that because after all Mr. Barr still there might be something causing had his employment. Then grad- his difficulty which could be corually Mr. Barr became an irritable rected. Mrs. Barr found in the individuaf, unpleasant in his home case worker a person to whom she and at his office. His work was not could free! y express her feelings done well. On one occasion he of- about the family situation and in fered to resign but his resignation doing so she came to a greater was not accepted because it was realization of Mr. Barr's problems thought that he would resume his and this better understanding of former satisfactory manner of per-路 him resulted in a lessening of tenforming his work. When this did sion in the home. It was arranged not occur Mr. Barr was fired. There for Mr. Barr to be admitted to the was quickly havoc in the Barr hospital where he was given a home. Mr. Barr could not face the series of tests. It was found that fact that for the first time in his he was suffering with a hyperlife his services were not wanted. thyroid condition and that this was He could think only in terms of an important cause of his behavior. revenge for this disgrace. His wife For several months Mr. Barr reand children felt the brunt of his ceived medical attention from spewrath at the world. As Mr. Barr's cialists, while the interest and helpsavings became exhausted it was ful understanding of the case necessary for the family to re- worker continued. In retrospect it trench their expenditures with a is possible to think of Mr. Barr resultant lowering of their stand- continuing disappointed and disards of living. This gave Mr. Barr couraged, with the source of his further cause for resentment. He trouble unknown, to the point

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The case worker therefore need to be a person trained to know people, one who can accept their difference , who can be under tanding but remain objective in thinking.

Her goal is to help the per on in need o that he may better understand himself and hi trouble and to share with him in finding a olution.

Note: Mildred alley is a ociated with the Family Bureau of Franklin County, which is a privately supported case working agency. Just this year, in cooperation with the chool of ocial Administration at the Ohio State University, a district office was opened on the University campus and Mildred is in that office as senior caseworker. Some of the students do their field work training from that office.

ON THE "WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND" MARGARET KNox OLSON,

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forth many a conquest for Alpha Sigma Alpha girls in every chapter but Margaret Knox Olson, Phi Phi, has crowded twenty-four years full of successful conquests.

Margaret is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Knox of Maryville, Missouri,-petite, attractive and talented. Four states have been her home; born in Primghar, Iowa, attended school in Marcus, Iowa and in Wakefield, Nebraska, gradu~ted in 1930 from the Maryville High School and is now in Washington, D. C. She is mu ical and "full of business." Consider: played violin in the high school orchestra for three years and in the college orchestra for six years ; took the high school business course and won "First"

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in shorthand in the district contest; received her bachelor's degree from the Northwest Missouri State Teachers' College in 1934 with a music major and an English minor; taught two years and was then appointed Secretary to Theo B. \Verner, Congressman from Rapid City, South Dakota, second district; and at present is secretary to Major Beaman of the Department of Interior (Geological Survey,) Washington, D. C. Last Christmas Margaret married Herbert John Olson, topographical draftsman in the same department and she is very much at home at 2656 Fifteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The Department of the Interior is housed in the finest office building in the world,-according to

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experts. It has escalators, a twostory pent house for educational radio broadcasts, a roof promenade of tile, a gymnasium available to those wishing to play or exercise after working hours, a museum gallery and a library of 400,000 books. There are tunnels to aid transport of employees and materials, and the dining provisions approach perfection. Needless to say Margaret enjoys working in such a building. Frequently she sends home clippings and interesting comments on her experiences. For example, when Mme. Emanuel H. Dimitriu, wife of the assistant financial counselor of the Roumanian Legation was to be on a national broadcast hookup on

August 14th of last year, Margaret ent the clipping telling about it and wrote across the top, " friend of mine."

Major Ernest E. Brown, Washington's manager of parades and commissioner of police is another of her friends. When the four officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy toured the Naval Academy, Margaret was in a group at luncheon with them. She frequently lunches at Olney Inn, Olney, Maryland.

It is an historical inn in the heart of an old Quaker neighborhood, just twelve miles from Washington and twenty-eight miles from Baltimore, along the beautiful Columbia Pike route. Margaret says it is an exclusive eating place.

Life in Washington cannot be dull and Margaret is having marvelous experiences as she goes on "attaining."

Night! and The bright stars twinkling, from The dark velvet sky above.

Alone I stood in the darkness, For you were not there, my love.

Night! and The rippling waters brushed The cheek of the sandy short.

Each soft, sweet stirring motion Only made me love you more.

Dawn! and The crisp clear freshness of A summer morn so fine.

I miss you still, but yet, I feel Content to know you're mine.

FLORENCE REIFF, NtÂŁ Nt~

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AN INTERVIEW ]ANE ANN

TATGENHORST,

FOUND Eleanor Roosevelt to be I the most gracious and charming person I have ever met.

Settle dawn now, dear Alpha Sigs, while I tell you of perhaps the biggest thrill of my life, interviewing the First Lady.

Two weeks ago, I learned that Mrs. Roosevelt was coming to Akron (about twelve mile from Kent) on a lecture tour, and right then I decided to try and promote myself to get an interview with her. After much talking and angling with a large newspaper in Akron, I finally managed to wrangle some sort of a half promise from them to help me get into her press conference, which was to be held at a hotel in Akron, upon Mrs. Roosevelts arrival from Cleveland.

At last the long awaited date came, and I treated myself to cuts in all of my classes, got in the family V-8 and drove to Akron.

First I went to the newspaper office and they told me to go to the hotel where she was to stay, as they could do nothing further for me.

At the hotel I attached myself to a photographer who told me to stick closely to him. This I did, and when he went out in front to get a shot as Mrs. Roosevelt stepped from her car I was right there too.

Immediately upon her arrival and after he had her picture we dashed into the hotel lobby and again he took her as she was signing the register.

About this t ime I was r ig ht in

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the center of about the bigge t bunch of confusion I'll ever be in.

Everyone wa dashing her and there, and as Mr . Roo evelt di appeared into one elevator, I immediately got on another with all the reporters and photographers.

At the sixteenth floor we all fell out, and dashed madly to the door of Mrs. Roosevelt's suite.

Here we waited for about ten minutes and then we were all admitted into the spacious living room. Mrs. Roosevelt graciou ly posed with me for a picture, and it surely is a good one. In fact I value it so highly that I just couldn't let it out of my sight for a minute. (Will you forgive me?)

After numerous other shots taken by all the photographers we all gathered around her and preceded with the interview. Mrs. Roosevelt opened herself to all questions and I soon asked her what she thought of young women in journalism. As she sat upon the couch in a blue suit with a wh ite crepe blouse her blue eyes twinkled as she replied. "Journalism is a grand profession, if you like it. However, I do think that it requires good health, and ability to write as well as to like it." The rest of the reporters too, had their questions, and in about twentyfive minutes we were suddenly interrupted by the somewhat rude voice of her secretary, saying, "That's all, That's all."

And so I took leave of one of the most famous women in the world !

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Ideas that Have Clicked MARY HAMLIN,

Kansas City Alumnae Chapter

Nothing N ew,-But If you've ever been connected with any organization which needed money and needed it badly (and who hasn't?), I suppose you've wracked your brains for something original. Now, we've heard from infancy that "there is nothing original under the sun."

But-for your file-here are some ideas which may be new to you, or they may possibly serve as reminders for your weary brains.

1. If you have any connection with a school group-(Go out and find one.) a. You can make yarn dolls, a boy doll and a girl doll, one at either end of a string of yarn about sixteen Inches long. (This may be made of the school's colors.) Wind each of two colors of yarn around a piece of cardboard about three inches long, ten times. Tie in a piece of yarn at one end which will serve as the string between the dolls, and fashion them into dolls. Sell these to some school organization for a nickel a pair.

The school group may in turn sell them for a dime a pair. You will realize a little sum on a quantity of dolls. Buy your yarn from one of the eastern yarn companies which advertise in many of the women's magazines. Get a slightly lighter weight than that used in afghans. b. Make neckerchiefs in the popular triangles of school colors and sell them in the same fashion.

2. Sell hot dogs, candy, and pop

at school functions if the school authorities will allow it.

3. Sell metal sponges-every household 路 needs them.

4. Rain-Shine Bags. Divide your membership into two equal groups. Give one half of the member gold bags, the other half blue bags. If the sun is shining say at 9.00 a . m., those members who have the gold bags will deposit a penny in them. If the sun is not shining at 9:00 o'clock, those members who have the blue bags will deposit a penny. This may continue over a period of one, two, or three months. It is simply a donation, but an occasional penny is a relatively painless extraction.

4. Have a rummage sale. Plan it sufficiently far in advance so that members may save rummage over a period of time. Be sure that your .place of sale is in a poor district.

5. Save old papers, etc. and sell them.

6. If your members live near one another, have a gift basket, nicely decorated and lined. The member who starts the gift basket puts a gift in the basket-it may be a pie, rolls, a handkerchief, fudge, anything-She will then take the basket to a second member who will put as much in a box (also in the basket) as she thinks the gift is worth to her. In turn the second member puts a gift into the basket and passes it to a third member. And so on. There is usually no set succession of mem-

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7. A galloping tea. One member is notified by a committee in charge of galloping teas that she is to serve a group within 45 minutes from the time she is called. Whatever he can prepare in 45 minutes may be served. Each person who attends puts a dime into the treasury. This does not apply on the hostess's expenses. (Several women that I know have these affairs at 10.00 in the morning, though one couldn't call them teas at that hour of the day.) Use it when you willand you name it.

8. Food Sale . Cookies, muffins, pies, candy, and small cakes sell best in this day of small families.

These sales are best if held before a holiday-and, of course, all food is donated.

9. Benefit bridge parties. Big cities usually have organizations which offer rooms, prizes, etc. for the advertisement they get. All money in such functions is usually clear. You may want your group to furnish some uniform table prizes.

10. Have a bazaar; sell handmade articles which have been donated by the members.

11. Have an old-fashion box supper.

12. ponsor a book review.

13. Pay a cent or half-cent, as you wi h, for weight, height, waist measure, foot length, ann length, or any other measurement.

14. Have the group make a quilt or other imilar article and sell it.

15. Spon or a dinner or luncheon for orne group-say a con-

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vention in town. The e are a g reat deal of work-but then, what i n't ?

These are idea that have worked from time to time among other group . Any money-making cheme, other than outright contributions i work. Your money ' on't come in huge sums-but work away at something. The little sum do amount to omething by and byand I'm no Pollyanna.

A Gay Dozen of Alpha Sigs Thrilled I was when "that man" with the mailbag slung over his shoulder deposited for me a letter asking if I should like to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Buffalo Alumme Chapter.

My answer was an enthusiastic, "Yes I!" for I knew it was an honor to be asked. And furthermore, I could now really get to know路 Alpha Sig better.

And I may truly say that the first Director ' meeting met my expectations, for gay enthusiasm prevailed at all times. We left with questions like these: "Where do we meet next time?" "Oh, yes, at Betty's." "What are we going to get to eat?" Common questions, yes, but important ones to twelve Buffalo alumnce girls who are about to leave a Directors' meeting.

(You see-the more weighty matters have already been discussed and voted upon.)

Just what is a director ' meeting?

Here's the answer. The Buffalo Al umnce Chapter has organized a Board of Directors, twelve in number, who meet once a month in the evening at the home of some one member. The purpose of this meet-

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ing is to discuss the sorority business for the next regular meeting of the chapter. In other words, this group of twelve paves the way so that the business discussions at our meetings may be carried on as smoothly, efficiently and quickly as possible. (The more time for to visit, my deah !)

Our twelve members are the sorority officers and include our Big Sister to the college chapter.

Each year six members leave the board and six new members are added, thus giving each director a term of two 路years. The directors themselves are elected by the sorority at large-but the office each is to fill is decided at the first Board meeting. A written ballot is taken to elect the sorority President-and the remaining directors are more or less permitted to state there preference according to their particular "aptitude" for a certain type of duties. One may hold a different office each of the two years.

Quite frequently the personnel of a group attending one meeting differs from that attending the preceding meeting. Our Director idea irons out small business items that would not interest all present because their attendance may be irregular. As part of our work this year, a program was planned for the year listing the names of places, hostesses and committees for each meeting. This helps in not only planning parties and meetings in advance but also helps in reserving certain dates for Alpha Sig affairs. Then, too, by assigning members to committees we . endeavor to make them feel that they

are a part of our sorority and that they are needed and wanted in the life of the sorority.

Aside from work, Buffalo alumnee's "dozen" enjoy .their meetings and the closer association with true sorority life these bring. I may safely say our "dozen" idea is dear to all of us as it enables us to display our Alpha Sig spirit twice a month instead of merely once!

And may I-as editor-take the liberty of adding-"F.o r further particulars address" ALICE GREGER,

Buffalo Al1t1mtae Chapter.

Play; Look Us Over; "Don't ever be路 guilty of wearing just one rhinestone bracelet."

"Remember the good ole days when we all stepped forth after dark in bunny wraps." ! ! ! ! . . .

With faces turning a tinge which in fashion circles is called Schiaparelli's Shocking Pink, we not only pleaded guilty to both, but we are still committing the latter unpardonable sin ! (How could we ever give up the old standby, the bunny wrap?)

Our quotations refer to the statements made by the fashion stylist of one of Buffalo's large department stores, who directed the fashion revue given in connection with the Buffalo Alumnre Chapter's Annual Bridge Party. Every inch of the Fillmore Room at the Hotel Statler seemed to be occupied for we had a total attendance of over three hundred people. Not only a grand social success, but a really grand financial one as well.

Success which would not have been possible were it not for the splen-

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Between nibling on the very delicious candies which were present on every table, trumping our partner's ace and watching the fashion show we had a verra, verra, busy time of it. There were five models for the fashion show,three from the alumnce chapter and two from the collegiate group.

Were we ever proud to claim them as ASA's!?

Mary Lennie, besides being cochairman, found time to model.

We thought she looked tres chic in the silver foxes, the evening veils and the directoire evening capes. Mary, a light brunette, seems to have a particular flair for clothes and has a special weakness for very choice perfumes.

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Doris Palmer

Doris Palmer is tall, very blond and models clothes too, too well.

She looked especially nice in the tiny perky hats, the flaired skirts and the evening gown leaning slightly toward the demure side.

Dorie hasn't officially taken up the Big Apple, but she loves to dance and loves milkshakes. Her pet peeve seems to be duties along the household line. (Maybe she's not alone in this!)

Our two collegiate models from Pi Pi Chapter, Rosalind Scharch and Phyllis Lion made very good model . Ro alind looked extra nice in ports clothes and Phyllis in daytime dresses and coats.

Oh, ye ! Of course the Ma ter of Ceremonie was an Alpha Sig as well a the player of the "soft mu ic."

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Betty Stratemeier

Betty Stratemeier, a curly headed (natural too by gosh!) brunette does right well by the clothes she models. Betty does equally well as the sophisticated or the demure.

Little bunches of flowers set right on the top of her head, sport clothes and very severe evening clothes did their best 路f or Betty.

She likes to knit, cook, teach and dance.

We continued bridge after the show and those who weren't "done wrong" by their partners were presented with dainty linen handkerchiefs. The extra candy was taken to the children at one of the orphan asylums. So-a grand, grand, party for all.

BETTY MURPUY,

Buffalo Al11m11ae Chapter.

Class Clubs at Michigan State Normal College We have a system of cla clubs on our campus here at Yp ilanti that we thought perhaps some of you other groups might find interesting. They are sponsored, and financed, by the Women's League, and are immediately supervised, and more or less directed, by the chairman of clubs. The chairman of clubs is appointed to her 路position, and is always a junior or senior, usually the latter.

There is one club for each of the four classes: Viventes for freshmen women, Goldfeather for sophomore women, Euthalia for junior women, and Book-a-Month for senior women. Each club is open to all the women in the class, but membership is not compulsory, naturally.

Would you like to know more about the individual clubs? If so, read on, if not, stop right here.

V1:ventes is mostly an etiquette club. The girls hold "practice teas," as they call them, several times during the year, some of the home economics faculty demonstrate the proper table-setting-formal and otherwise, etc. They have two big affairs, one an evening tea, each member bringing a guest, and the other a Christmas dinner, usually the last meeting of the first term. We have three terms here, you know, and usually the girls try to have three meetings a term-one a month, you see. The first meeting, usually the first or second week of school, is the organization meeting, conducted by the chairman of clubs. It is at this meeting that the plan, aims, past

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history, etc. of the club is given, and the present year's officers elected. We "try to have the president of the year before give a short talk on the accomplishments of her particular group. Oh, yes, Vivente¡sâ&#x20AC;˘ (and all the others' too, for that matter) officers consist of a president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer.

The sophomore club, G o l d feather, has the very broad and general purpose of personality improvement. The girls discuss everything even faintly pertaining to personality. Sometimes they have an outside speaker, sometimes a faculty member talks to them, and sometimes they choose their speaker from their own group. On the Goldfeather bulletin board and every club has one of these, by the way, all in one of the main corridors) the official "clipper" posts newspaper articles and pictures concerning dress and all sorts of things. The meetings rarely last more than an hour, and the club tries to meet seven times a year. As with all of the other clubs the first meeting in the fall is an organization meeting, the procedure of which is practically the same for all clubs. Once in awhile the girls have a dinner meeting, too.

E~tthalia, the club for juniors, you remember, has a very definite aim which is that of promoting greater interest in, and better acquaintance with, the legitimate stage. This year at the first regular meeting-after the organization meeting, that is-Professor Windt of the drama department at the University of Michigan spoke on "How to recognize and appre-

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ciate a good play." Ticket to current plays both in nn rbor and in Detroit, plus tran portation money, are given to memb rs for the asking. Of course a girl who get a ticket early in the year automatically pledges her elf to perfect attendance for the re t of the year.

If she fails, without a justifiable excuse she has to reimbur e the League.

Euthalia meetings are usually an hour and a half long, and are quite often dinner meetings. Either a play that is coming is discussed, or a member who has been to a play ince the last meeting reports on it and leads the discu ion for the rest of the meeting.

The name of the senior club g ives it away entirely, doesn't itBoolz-a-Mont!t . The girl hand to the president the name of any book that they would like to read.

She and her committee decide on the choice for the month, which is determined a great deal by whether or not the book i available in a one dollar edition. Ten copies of the book just chosen,-and it may be a new or an old favo rite-are purchased, and circulated among the girls from the office of the dean of women. Book-a-month meetings usually last from one hour to two hours. At the first half of the meeting, which may be dinner or not, the girls discuss the book for the month, and for the last half of the meeting some member of the faculty reviews, criticizes, or just generally discusses the same book. The girls of course are free to ask questions, but they rest comfortably as ured that none will be asked them.

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This is the only one of the clubs that charges dues, and really, these are very slight-twenty-five cents a term. They seem practically nothing at all when one takes into consideration that at the end of the year each member who has paid them, receives at least one of the books purchased during the year.

Vve really find that these clubs are worthwhile, and the women on campus do take an interest and an active part in them. For instance, this year we inaugurated the idea of having an initiation for the Goldfeathers, individual for the officers and mass for the rest. We made up the ritual, and ninetyfour sophomore women turned out.

Last year I believe that the average attendance for all four was around fifty-five, which is quite something considering the size of the classes from which they draw their membership.

Personally, I would heartily recommend an arrangement such as this for other campuses. I should think that it would go over almost any place.

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REILLY,

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Fun At Buffet Suppers The savory smell of baked beans, the chattering of girls, the clatter of dishes, and the tinkling of the piano are all among the sounds which mingle throughout the house as Epsilon Epsilon chapter prepares for its monthly buffet supper. Each month we gather at six o'clock and

have supper before our regular meeting.

It's a grand plan! We put all the food on a table, and then it' every man for himself, except that this is a "manless" party. No formality is allowed here. Formality is a fine thing in its place, but it's a wonderful feeling to let down once in a while. While you eat, you'll probably get to hear about that unruly pledge's last escapade, or who's taking who to the big formal, or what your girl friend's current flame said in his last letter. It really affords a fine opportunity to catch up on the gossip, so no one ever willfully misses.

For girls who don't live in the house, this is an especially welcome occasion. In all the hustle and bustle of classes and work and 101 other things that have to be done, sometimes "out-of-house" girl finds she's lost track of the happenings at the house. This supper provides just the right place to get back into the swing of things. I know, for I'm one of the "out-of-housers" myself.

Sometimes we make our pledges entertain us by eating from the floor like kittens or from the table with no silverware. We're very good at thinking up dainty things for them to do.

After we're all through, we allow the pledges to wash the dishes. Do they mind? I should say not! They realize the extent of this extra-ordinary privilege!

ANNE GoLDS~IITH,

Epsilon Epsilon

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YOUR FORTUNE IS IN YOUR HAND RUTH MARIE

HooKs, Des Moines A lu.m11a e Chapt er

always said that M y insister-in-law every Scotch family there was usually one who was a "wee bit uncanny." However, the "second sicht" of those before me found its only expression in me in Character Analysis, through the medium of palm-reading- with an occasional foretelling of events. Goodness knows just how that is done; one doeen't have to be "daft"to read palms (though it does seem to help).

People have always interested me more than places or things. People who are different: purposeful, hesitant, diffident, aggressive, dolorous, brimful of joy. Each goes wrapped in his cloak of remoteness without power of communication except for very inadequate language forms which serve, more or less, to conceal meaning. Yet each one possesses the possibility of the answer to the whence and whither of life.

We are not necessarily actuated by selfishness when we want someone to "Talk about me." It is perhaps more often curiosity which prompts us to ask, "What am I like?" "What impression do I make on other people?" We cannot

stand off and take a lonrr look at ourselves and we cannot hope or even wish for utter frankne in our friends. And so, to the Fortuneteller we go.

Often during a palm reading the invisible cloak is lifted for a moment and the real self is revealed,the self that goes clothed in beauty and touching the stars. It is you who have told me about yourselves 路 not I, you. When you boldly lay your hand in mine and say, "I don't care what anyone thinks or says!" then-didn't the sudden moisture of your hand and the tenseness of your wrist proclaim your yearning for approval? And when you calmly state, "That is past and almost forgotten," doesn't the quickening of your pulse keep asking, "Will my love come back to me ?"

And, now, unwittingly, I seem to have told my secret. You now will know by what supernatural power the dark arts are administered. Tow that you understand my humbuggery I wonder if you'll greet me with, "Ruth, it's been ages smce you've looked at my palm!"

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HOBBIES OF OUR PHILANTHROPIC CHAIRMAN ETHEL

ToBIN, Los Angeles Almmwe Chapter

have a hobby? Oh, yes, D OorI rather I have several hobbies. Nearly all my spare time is spent in the air, on the water, or in quaint doll shops.

My pet hobby is the Women's ir Reserve, a service organization of women pilots. (Did you know that 91 per cent of the women pilots in the United States live in California?) I belong to the Medical Detachment. Nearly all the members of this particular detachment are doctors and nurses with the exception of the radio operator and me. I teach first aid.

We wear natty blue uniforms and fly in yellow and green fleets.

Sunday mornings we fly in formation from our municipal airport in Inglewood, just outside of Los Angeles. On special occasions we have bomb dropping contests, spot landings and parachute jumping.

We have special classes on Tuesday evenings in avigation, engine, radio operating and advanced first aid.

At present we are working on a first aid kit reinforced with rubber which can be dropped from the air to people in distress in isolated country.

Yes, I'll have to admit-flying is my biggest hobby.

There's nothing like flying high up in the air- blue skies, white clouds, a busy city far beneath,unless it's sailing out on the blue, white capped ocean in a 19-foot gaff rigged loop. That's something too!

At present it is my newest hobby; and oh what fun! There she is, sails aloft, lines clear, anxious to be underway. "Port tack, right of buoy! Cast loose! Take in your sheets!" And we are underway, before us the blue Pacific.

Now as for my doll collecting!

What is it that gets into people?

First editions, rocks, Duncan Phyfe furniture! Everyone does it; mine is dolls. Big dolls, little dolls, old dolls, new dolls-but mostly dolls from foreign lands. These dolls are a great help in my teaching andit's so much fun. My housemates say that they are only thankful that . it is dolls I'm collecting, not bear skins, moustache cups, baby elephants or even stray cats. 路 But any way, what would life be without a hobby, a leisure time activity? I have been so interested in the hobbies of our Alpha Sigs. Let's hear about more of them. Maybe someone has a hobby that would appeal to some lonesome Alpha Sig; for anyone without a hobby today is lonesome. Can't help but put in some lonesome hours while other people are hard at work or play on their hobbies.

So hop on! Join the Hobby Club; let your slogan be "Start the New Year with a Hobby." Tell us of your hobby in the next issue. I'll bet we'll find some rare ones. Let's have a hobby contest. 路w ho'll win!

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BUSY HANDS FRANCES H ENNING,

Columbus Alumnae Chapt er

A LMOST everyone has a hobby.

form part of the audience,

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.!"'\. I, too, have one; but let me in the orche tra eats. Of cour e, call mine an activity. I follow it not only becau e I like it but also because it is part of my work.

What is this activity and how did I become interested in it? It is that ancient and yet new art of puppetry. everal years ago I was earching for an interesting project for a Girl Reserve Club, which at that time, I was sponsoring at school. (I am a teacher of English at McKinley Junior High School in Columbus.)

I was told that putting on a marionette show would be fun for the girls and a worthwhile enterprise.

I plunged into the so-called sport .and soon was busy making and producing "Little Red Riding Hood."

I didn't dream before I tarted of the immense amount of work involved. The puppets had to be made, dressed and strung up for action; a play had to be adapted for the small characters; and a puppet stage had to be constructed.

However, in spite of the work involved, my interest grew until the Girl Reserve Club changed to a Puppet Club with boys and girls enrolled. In the years which followed we have made puppets for such plays as "Dick vVhittington and His Cat," "Rip Van Winkle," "The Three Wishes," "Robin Hood," 'Cinderella," and also for many variety acts which we have worked out in an original manner. \!Ve are now working on an operetta, "Snow White and the even Dwarfs.'' We plan to have a chorus of fifty girls singing the musical score. They will

the marionette will portray the characters, doing the dramatic part and the dancing.

With the year , our puppets have become better in construction and larger in size. We have outgrown our first small stage and now have quite a large one with a runway in the rear.

Another que tion: Where did I get sufficient information or knowledge in order to be able to develop thi hobby? The answer will have to be, "Here and there and everywhere." I have sent for books on the subject, talked with in tructors of puppetry at schools and universities and attended innumerable puppet shows in various parts of the country. Several times I have gone to see the same show twice, first out in front with the audience and then backstage watching the manipulation of the strings by experienced puppeteers. Of course, I always examine the puppets, noticing the details in workmanship.

We have a workshop in the basement of our home. All members of my family are interested in the activity; even the dog lends his moral support. We spend many hours working on the figures. Recently we have been carving them entirely from wood, the head as well as the other parts of the body.

The student in the club also work at their homes with the facilities they may have. We meet once a we<;!k at school and we hold many gatherings at the homes of the stu-

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dents. However, the dramatics are worked out entirely at school.

How far this activity will take me in the future, I don't know. I have never had a desire to have my for-

tune told; but if I ever do, it will be because I want to know just how much of my life will be spent with a piece of wood in one hand and a 路lmife or a chisel in the other.

MY HOBBY-"BEING AND DOING" DoROT HY HERNE PYLE, B o st01~

WAY of introduction to DorByothy's Hobby: George Pyle is a very enthusiastic and sincere young man who is in Social Service Work in one of the settlement houses in Boston. The work is among boys and young men of mixed racial backgrounds . Dorothy Herne Pyle is part of her husband's great ability to serve, for she is ever doing some personal favor for someone of the boys; and her pleasant apartment is alway-s open to the boys. Her food and friendly advice go far to make George's work a great success. It seems a pretty worthwhile hobby!

"Won't you go horseback riding with me, Mrs. Pyle?" "Are you going to the rifle range today?" "Come sailing with me; I'll fix your garden this afternoon."

Camping with eighty boys may seem like a life of leisure but a boys' camp holds more excitement and thrills than any circus. If one is not staying up with a sick boy, a sick horse will require some attention.

Being the only woman in a boys' camp and the wife of the director makes one the official hostess to all visitors, editor of the love lorn column for the councilors and the audience for the boys. And what

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boy doesn't like an audience when he is participating in some activity?

The activities are like a play.

The woods, mountains, lakes, horses, and other equipment are stage properties with which one may present a drama. Here the actors learn many lessons enriching their lives and interests. These activities are presented in a romantic and picturesque manner. If a boy. uses his imagination (and he does!) while riding he sees himself as a cowboy and he wants to be taught how to ride well. If building a lean-to in the woods he thinks himself as a pioneer. If in the forestry activity, while he learns about the various kinds of trees, how they should be pruned and also many of their uses in industry, he feels like the guardian of a forest.

It is an imaginative game the camper plays and the camp mother has the power to influence the future life of the camper by participating with him in such activities as riding and sailing as well as competing with him in other interests as swimming, shooting, and fencing and showing him the meaning of fair play and good sportsmanship.

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A MUSICAL SUCCESS DoROTITY GEBHARDT, Easten~

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JOY life; go musical! Of course your family or neighbors may not enjoy your innocent form of self-entertainment, but then that is the chance you, or rather they, take.

These days every one has a right and an opportunity to transform his or her idiosyncrasies into something productive, interesting, or amusing- to oneself-without being told one is crazy. Of course another's thoughts cannot be censured but as long as they re1nain thoughts you are safe from harm.

Hurrah for America- grand, glorious, hobby-ridden America !

Most of us enjoy music, all kinds of music, but many of us, through lack of persistence or other circumstances, have had little or no opportunity to become a talented member of the musical corp. Now all that is changed, and each of us music lovers may become musicians; anyway a kind of musician.

It is all very simple, inexpensive and self-satisfying. All you need is a little patience, a sense of muical tone, several kitchen utensils and-you are ready to launch on a fun hobby! Or who knows, perhaps a new future. At any rate, a chance on Major Bowes Amateur hour is a sure guarantee-that gong has such a musical sound.

Your first instrument is composed of eight ordinary drinking glasses.

Fill each with a lesser amount of water than the last until you have the different tones of the scale. Then take a knife, fork, or spoon and trike each lightly. What an enjoy-

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able urpri e to hear your elf playing do, re, me, fa, o, la, te do. ow think of a imple tune of one octave tone .

Strike different glas es-the re ult i incredible!

When you tire of this in trument (or perhaps most of Mother's best glasses are broken) turn your musical talents to "comb mu ic." Cover an ordinary comb with a piece of thin paper, press it lightly again t the lips and hum a tune. The more variations you are able to produce, the greater the ticklish sensation of the lips. This instrument is just one step from the gazoo. It being almost below your rising talent, you soon turn to the harmonica. First try a single scale harmonica to get the idea of inhaling and exhaling to produce tones. Presently you will graduate to the double scale, and eventually you will have armed yourself with several-toned harmonicas. This instrument not only raises you from the rank of amateur but also puts you in the class of a tap dancer, as harmonica music makes the feet tap to its fascinating tunes.

Here you must make a decisioneither to become a dancer or to continue with your music. A true musician will of course choose the latter of the artistic callings. However the tapping cannot be suppressed so you are inspired to put music in your feet. Fasten a kettle lid to the bottom of each foot and lo! you have a set of cymbals. If you are parrot-toed, here is your chance to "laugh last" as you will be a much better cymbal crasher being

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able to clap the cymbals together instead of merely clapping them on the floor.

By now you are inspired to play the drums. ny deep sounding cooking utensil will suffice. Bang it with a small hammer or any suitable object. Be sure to surround this instrument with several cans to be used to vary the tones.

The big moment now arrives ; you are ready to combine all your musical talents and become a one-

woman-orchestra. Glas es ready, comb, gazoo, mouth organs, kettles, lids . . . ready, set, go! Oh what heavenly music; what an outlet for pent up motions. Boom, crash, tinkle, zummmm, zummm. Success at last!

What did you say? You will permit me to take that position out of town. You really mean it? Oh, you darlings.

Now I wonder: well, it is success no matter how you look at it!

HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL

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ONKEY Inn, Lucy Mae Benson's room, is practically a geographical monument. She has a collection of 46 monkeys, each of them different, from numerous places. NQt one single one has she bought for herself. They have all been given to her.

The first ones came from Minneapolis. They are of handcarved marble and were given to Lucy Mae by the head of the women's Educational Department. From the Lake of the Ozarks came a monkey carved from a peach seed; one made of two walnuts; and a glass tree with two glass monkeys hanging by t heir tails.

Kansas City, Missouri, contributed a tree and two more monkeys, made of colored pipe stem cleaners.

A four piece orchestra of fur came from St. Joseph. These were highly enjoyed by a cat who thought they were just too cute and played with them one day. Believe it or not,

the monkeys were not hurt at all.

Some of the monkeys are of a useful nature-su h as the celluloid one holding a calender by its tail, and the three on the desk blotter who came from Winnipeg, Canada.

A sorority sister who was in Rochester this summer found a hand carved marble monkey about the size of a thumb and sent it in a letter. Other hand-carved marble ones are from New York.

Two novelty monkeys are in the collection. They are made of rubber. One is on a motorcycle ; the other squeaks when squeezed and unrolls his ta il.

A nd last but not least is the carnival monkey with the top hat who JUmps on a spring.

All these monkeys have been acquired since the Christmas of 1936, f?.Ot quite a year ago, and Phi Phi chapter thinks Lucy Mae has a record.

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MY HOBBY HORS E LILLIE

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HALEY,

has written a book SOMEONE entitled, "The Care and Feeding of Hobby Hor es," implying that Hobby Horses didn't grow after they stopped having care and feeding. I'm afraid mine must be "on the home stretch," then, for I have shamfully neglected it.

It did afford pleasure and a great safety valve of energy when I was young (or younger). My hobby was named "Stamp Collection," but I did it one better. I as umed the title, "Philatelist," and then we went to town.

I still remember working all day in the boiling sun picking and stemming gooseberrys in order to be able to buy a set of three uncanceled Azores that some catalogue was so proudly advertising.

Oh, but those stamps were beauties ! I sat and admired them minutes at a time. (Sitting still that long was a feat at my age.) On

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looking them over now. I ee nothing particularly different about those Azores stamps.

Then, too, it ~va amazing to see how quickly that hobby hor e would eat up my weekly allowance-! think it was a quarter a week. Here was an Equitorial Africa that was a beauty, and here a very rare Montenegro, the catalouge said so, and then-but twenty-five cents is twenty-five cents, so I had to put it off till next week.

And there was the time I picked cherries for Jane's grandmother, (Jane was a fellow collector) and then bought some beautiful stamps, sim-ply bea-oo-tiful stamps. (I've forgotten even where they came from.)

Maybe when Hobby and I are in our second childhood, I'll mount and get another of the real thrills of my childhood.

YOU MUST MEET ELMER ETHEL

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ELLIS,

Pittsburgh Alumnae Chapter

"ELMER DooLITTLE" is my weakness now. He is very homely with salmon pink hair, feet like blocks of wood and hands as stiff as a board. Yes, "Elmer" is a puppet created by me. His head was made from ten Press Comics and paste and he is dressed very clownish in what was left from an old house dress.

For a ÂŁella just ten months old, Elmer has had considerable experience. Shortly after his birth he was Master of Ceremonies at a party and has passed through all eight grades of Highland School.

The nicest and sweetest thing about Elmer is that he always smiles,-even when he is all tied up in a knot!

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INDIAN-HEAD PENNIES BETTY ]ANE MooRE,

Indian-head pennies.

I COLLECT It is a queer hobby, but here's how I got started. In 1932, there wa a rumor that a floor of one of the exhibition towers at the World's Fair in Chicago was to be of Indian-head pennies, and that the government would pay a high price for them. At once I decided I would cash in on some of that money and so started my hobby.

At first it was very easy to find Indian-head pennies. Soon, however, they became scarce. Perhaps other people were collecting them too, at any rate they were much harder to find.

One day I got word from the postoffice that the government was paying twenty-five cents for every Indian-head penny of 1909.

That afternoon I went through my collection-! had about fifteen hundred saved by then-and picked out of all those of 1909. There were only nine out of the fifteen hundred. I took them to the post office only to find that the post master had been misinformed and he guessed those of 1909 were no

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better than the others. So there was a whole afternoon wasted. No I won't say wasted, for it was rather fun going through all my pennies and sorting them.

In 1933 the government must have forgotten all about Indianhead pennies for I didn't hear any more about them, I kept pestering the post office, but no one seemed to know much about the plans of Uncle Sam, so I quit bothering them.

At first I didn't know what to do-here I had fifteen dollars worth of Indian-head pennies on my hands. Finally I decided that at least I had saved a little money so perhaps I wasn't so bad off after all.

For five years now I have been collecting Indian-head pennies. I now have about twenty-five hundred. I am going to hang on to them 路 as long as I can, perhaps at the next World's Fair they can be used. In the mean time if you run across any Indian-head pennies, just remember that I am collecting them.

"FOR ART IS LONG" GLENDA HARVEY,

Alva Alumnae Chapter

A S of all the hobbies, art takes much time. Glenda Harvey of Alva Alumme chapter delights in using her leisure hours to brighten things.

When recently asked about her summer activity, she replied: "I spent it relaxing and doing the thing

I love to do most-paint." Her interest now is in completing a dinner set. Think of the long hours she may spend in beautifying this china, but still greater- the number of times she will find joy in using it!

Sisters, turn in early your requests for odd-pieces of hand-painted china.

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in the middle of the R IGHT Candid camera craze when most people were frantically taking pictures of celebrities falling down stair and ich like, I became obsessed with a mania for pictures of trees-and, since I couldn't find any for sale anyplace, I had to take them myself.

At first it was a simple M ess-I got pictures of trunks of trees with leaves at the bottom where they just don't belong. After I struggled for about six months I finally achieved a picture of a perfect tree-shadows in the right places, leaves on the branches, and all limbs well-behaved instead of mak-

ing blurred motion . People with the whole alphabet in degrees after their names couldn't have felt the way I did then.

Now I've arrived at the point where the very sugge tion of anything from a shrub to a giant redwoods sends me into a frenzy of measuring and sighting. Big or little or fat, I look 'em all over and my fingers itch for the camera shutter. Everytime I get a good picture, I.'m in a good humor for days and my friends stand to one ide and gaze in wonder.

Right now my collection range from pretty awful to pretty good (I think so !)-but I love 'em all.

MY HOBBY MARTHA CRIGLER,

can make life inA HOBBY tere ting and sometimes productive if it is the right kind of a hobby. My hobbies range from collecting souvenirs from places I have gone or things I have done, to playing the popular hit tunes on the piano.

I started my hobby this year collecting souvenirs during the rush period of the Alphas'. Beginning with the very lovely invitation, the bridge tally and the attractive little Mexican doll made out of a perfume bottle, I have everything given to me by the Alphas!

My souvenirs from the sorority Gypsy Dance were the program,

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the favor which was a bracelet, and a sign which says, "Doughnuts, Dunk Your Doughnut" painted in red letters.

The rest of my souvenirs come from the many school and fraternity dances. These consist of dance programs, cigars, pictures of dates, posters of all descriptions, and a small bowl which was slipped out of "Pete's," the local "jelly joint."

Even though my wall does not look altogether artistic in the arrangement of my souvenirs to an outsider, it is quite "ritzie" to me because it represents the marvelous times I am having in school this year.

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Our Deans' Corner Miss Helen Brickell A charming personality and a smile you'll never forget,-that's Our Helen!

You, the alums of Epsilon Epsilon chapter may remember how Helen Brickell, as president, guided the A. S. A. ship. Others from Teachers' College, Emporia, recall how as president of the Y. W. C. A. she helped straighten out your difficulties. But we shall all remember her as Dean of Girls at Lansdowne High School, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania-where she is at the present time.

After majoring in Home Economics, Helen did some teaching in that field in Emporia, Kansas, and was Dean of Girls there for two years. After taking graduate advisory work at Columbia University and getting her M. A. she came to Lansdowne. 路 Helen is doing no teaching now for her time is well occupied with her advisory work and filling the offices of Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Association Deans of Women and Vice President of the Pennsylvania State Home Economics Association.

Anyone who has been associated with Helen has undoubtedly found that she is primarily interested in people. Summer calls her back to the West and this year she says she spent a most comfortable one.

In other summers she has been interested in camp achvthes as camper and assistant director in Estes Park, and Lookout Mt., Colorado.

Helen has never been abroad or written any books. She refuses to carry a brief case like some of us teachers do and says she will never get a Ph. D. Her hobbies are poetry and travel, with her newest one-"Old Glass."

While some of you recall Helen as Dean, sorority president, Y. W. C. A . worker, camper or teacher, I shall always cherish the memory of just "our Helen" and a certain chocolate cake (the best I ever tasted!) which she brought to a covered dish supper given by our Philadelphia alums. ]ANE

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Miss Minnie Shockley Without Miss Minnie Shockley, Dean of Women, Northwestern State Teachers' College, Alva, Oklahoma, would be poor indeed.

Coming to N. S. T. C. in 1910 as an assistant in the English Department she has made a record as an instructor far above the average and her place in the community is an enviable one. Miss Shockley has instilled in the students who have been privileged to sit in her English classes a real love and appreciation of the classics and a better understanding of the worthwhile things in Literature. She has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from Missouri University at Columbia and a master's touch in presenting her lectures.

Possessing a marvelous memory for names and faces of students, she makes each student feel that she is his personal friend and the

THE PHOENIX good fellow hip thus created adds much to the general morale of the student body.

Miss Shockley needs no introduction to the older Alpha Sigs for she has a long and di tinguished record in our sorority. For many years she has been a member of the A. E. . Council and has done much to promote the good will which prevails among the sorority groups on our own campus and throughout the country. It was indeed with reluctance that the Gamma Gamma Chapter allowed her to resign as active sponsor because of the pressing duties of the Office of Dean of Women to which she was appointed in 1917. The Alumnee Chapter rejoiced, however, for she was thus enabled to spend more time with our organization.

Miss Shockley has loaned more money to deserving students and has bought more flowers for weddings, babies and bereavement than any other individual in Alva. She would not admit this, for it is just a part of her daily routine. She lives alone in a lovely apartment a few blocks from the college and never lacks for rides to and fro.

One couldn't find a more delightfu~ traveling companion than Miss Shockley. She has just returned from a vacation in Raton, Taos, Sante Fe and Albuquerque and the Grand Canyon. Her youthful enthusiasm puts a "kick" in every trip no matter how long or short and she never complains about the hardships of ordinary travel. Not being able to drive a car herself she is very charitable in her judgment of others and thus is ever welcome as a passenger.

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vVithout her social acttvttie m the City of Alva, Mi s hockley would not be content. he has Jon been a devoted P. 0. E., i an active member of B. P. \IV. and i able to squeeze in an occa ional convention of the Federated Club .

It was while attending one of the e meeting in a nearby city a few years ago that she stepped through a porch floor and broke her ankle. Thi caused her to lie in bed in the Alva Hospital for several weeks, followed by more painful week on crutche before she finally regained complete use of her foot. During this time she was made to feel the bles ings of her many good deeds, for many indeed were the kindne ses she enjoyed while convalescing.

The old saying, "Grow old along with me, the be t is yet to be," i certainly true of Miss Shockley.

May it be our privilege to grow old as gracefully. She is an earne t reader and numbers among her magazines and book the very latest contributions to good literature as well as the more e tablished periodicals. She is very liberal with her time, purse and possessions and never a worthy borrower is refused. I wish it were possible for every Alpha Sig to meet Miss Shockley for I know that each would be enriched by the association as our Gamma Gamma girls and the students of Northwestern are daily enriched. Need we say more than "when a feller needs a friend"- there' Miss hockley!

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Miss Mary DeAtley Alva Alumne:e Chapter is happy to present to the PHOE IX readers another member who carries the title of Dean,-Mary Trueax Detley.

Mary T. DeArtley

Soon after graduation she taught in Enid High School where she was regarded as a capable and popular foreign language teacher.

During this time A. A. U. 'vV. selected her as president of their group.

It is no surprise that the President of Tonkawa's Junior College chose her to be Dean of Women for he is so understanding and her cheerful outlook on life enables her to overcome obstacles and to help others do likewise. lpha Sigs who know Mary regard her as "a peach!" v\ e hall

permit Mary to tell you about herself. . . . .

When I was approached sometime ago by the Phoenix Correspondent on the subject of writing my autobiography for the "Deans' Corner" I received a great surprise.

I had always thought that people were interested only in the life of a famous person or of a public enemy No. 1, etc. Nevertheless I shall oblige-since the editor must fulfill her duty and the PHOENIX 路 of dear old A. S. A. must go marchmg on.

My life, began in Hutchinson, Kansas,-between twenty-five and forty-five years ago,-has been rather uneventful but very interesting and crowded. A very happy childhood was spent on a farm in Grant County, Oklahoma, where my parents moved when I was eight months old. My parents were from sturdy Pennsylvania stock and pioneered in western Kansas and Oklahoma, so we children (four .girls and a boy) were not brought up on "flowery beds of ease."

A one-room country school provided my grammar school education during the first seven years after which we moved to Pond Creek, Oklahoma, where 'vVilda (also an A. S. A.) and I entered the eighth grade. My first "big moment" which I remember was at the county eighth grade commencement at Medford, Oklahoma, when my name was called out from among some four hundred fifty graduates as having the highest average in the county.

Pond Creek High School sheltered me for four years and my in-

THE PHOENIX terest in foreign languages kept me enrolled four years in Latin and two in German. Glee Club, chorus, dramatics and basketball were my extra-curricular activities .

High school graduation was followed by four weeks at county normal school where I studied and sweat through the examinations to obtain a teacher's certificate. The following fall I started my teaching in a one-room county school five miles from home, plying my way back and forth with horse and buggy or on horseback. During the next ten years I taught in Pond Creek City Schools.

Northwestern State Teachers' College at Alva, Oklahoma, wa alma mater where I received my A. B. degree in 1923. Still interested in foreign languages, I plunge into the study of French and Spanish, and took everything that was considered good for me.

So long as I could have my beloved languages, I was willing to take anything else that was prescribed,-even trigonometry !

My long imaginative journeys, begun in my childhood while I was picking up kindling on the farm, were now lengthened to include Europe and South America due to the interesting travel talks which were "thrown in" by our professor, Miss Maud Morris, now Mrs. Hill of Rapid City, S. D. From Pond Creek High School I accepted a position in Enid High School, Enid, Oklahoma. The old urge to go on and conquer new worlds sent me to Columbia University, New York City, where I continued my study of Spanish, Education, and personnel work, re-

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ceiving a master' degree in 1931.

Besides liking my work, I liked to explore New York, to meet peopl from the four corners of the earth to sing in the Univer ity Chapel Choir, and to work in the Uptown Y. W. C. A. on aturday .

For the Ia t two year I have been teaching in the State University Preparatory chool and Junior College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, as Dean of vVomen and Professor of Romance Language . My personal work includes housing problems, sponsoring the Student Senate, helping supervise the social activities, and conferences with the students . During the past year I completed a survey of the Personnel work among women students of the Oklahoma Un iversities and Colleges.

In 1929 I became connected with educational towns or "traveling universities." These trips with three different companies have included five trips east, one west, and one to Mexico, taking me to every state in the Union except .F lorida and Nevada. On these tours I have served as dean of women, hostess, social director, song leader, sight-seeing director, and lecturer in American and Latin-American History. In fact, I have done almost any task connected with tour work except drive a bus. In addition to these I have taken numerous long trips alone and with the family both east and west.

I thoroughly enjoyed 路 a summer session in the National University of Mexico in Mexico City in 1937.

One trip to Mexico will always call for another.

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1y fa \'Orite hobbies are travel and taking and howing moving pictures with my Cine-eight Eastman camera. I am interested in people and places. My religiou faith has been linked with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which I have been a member for many years.

Life and contact with people from everywhere have taught me that some essential qualities for success and a pleasing personality are courage, kindness, generosity, application of the Golden Rule; the ability to "laugh off" trifles ; to meet life as it comes and take a sane and sensible view of things ; to get the other fellow's view point; to work hard for what you want to accomplish, but if you can't have what you want, take the next ]?est and be able to wait your chance without being fussy (I hate fussy people)-and a savi11g sense of h1tmor!

If I had the opportunity to revisit my favorite haunts, I should choose Yosemite, Yellowstone, Natural Bridge, Va., Washington, D. C., Carlsbad Cavern, Rainier National Park, just any ocean, Great Smoky Mountains, Quebec, Niagara, Mexico, and I should include another airplane flight over Grand Canyon. In the future I hope to visit Central and South America, then Europe, but my motto is " ee the Americas First."

After a good many years of teaching, I hope to grow old gracefully, to live by the ocean with mountain in the distance, and perhap then I can write as memoirs

the appreciation of my many wonderful friends who after all, are what makes life most worthwhile.

Miss Elizabeth

J. Agnew

I "i h to preent a very charming and gracious woman- well kno\\"n on the Fort llaye , K an sa s tate campu l\J i s Elizabeth J. gnew, Dean of Women. Miss gnew has been Dean of Women at Fort Hays for a number of years. Girls come to her with their difficultie , and girls are sometime ent to her in difficulty-since they are prone to stay out a little later, sometimes, than dormitory hours permit.

Miss Agnew was graduated from the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science at Manhattan, with a bachelor of science degree. She has al o taken graduate work at Columbia University, New York. For a time she wa assistant Home Economics teacher at the Kansas State College, Manhattan, and later became Home Economics instructor at the Fort Hays, Kansas State College. In 1918-1919 she was released from her duties at the school to become dietician for the United States Army Ba e Hospital, Camp Travis, Texas. The next year he returned to the Fort Hays campu at Dean of Vvomen, the position she has since held.

Her duties at Women's Dean are numerou . Be ide her coun eling

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Miss Agnew could probably write a very interesting article on the fads and fashions in student dancing for she attends all parties,-formals, where the girls swish about in long, flowing gowns; to in formals which the students attend in dresses varying from ginghams and overalls to fancy -ball costumes.

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ber when Tau Tau chapter of .\lpha igma Alpha wa in talled at the Fort Hays Kansa tate College in 1928. She served, for a fe\ year . as faculty sponsor for the chapter.

Everybody in the chapter wa orry when he asked to be relea ed from that position. ince that time, however, she has been quite active in the alumn<e chapter.

Miss Agnew wa honored thi spring when she was elected pre iden of the Association of I an as Deans of Women. We know that she will make a splendid president of the Association. We Hays Alpha Sigs are quite proud to claim Dean Elizabeth Agnew as one of our members.

SHIRLEY BAIRD.

FULL MOON

What are you thinking, Mr. Moon, Aglow in your realm on high?

Do your thoughts dwell on the deeds of men Or merely the lover's 路sigh?

Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Moon, While you rose like a blood-red sphere, That your very presence instills in me Daring courage, instead of fear?

Or later still, as your silvery rays Floated down on the sleeping sod, To my wondering soul you ofttime appear As a personal message from God? Are you really li tening, Mr. Moon To my fervent, anxious plea?

If you are, let your light continue to shine And help make a woman of me.

FLORENCE REIFF,

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It's in the Air! We're Everywhere!

Welcome Sister Newcomers!

Canton, Muncie, New York City, Charleston and Delaware MUNCIE INDIAN A .

ALUMNAE CHAPTER Charter Members Martha Jane Baker Byrum, ~~ Virginia McCarty, XX Anna Marie Yates, XX Mary K. Whitcraft, XX Velma Haines Thresher, XX Helen Reed, XX June Wilkinson, XX Dorothy Racey Montgomery, XX Martha Stuckey, XX

Anna M. Yates, President

CHARLESTON, W. VA. ALUMNAE CHAPTER Charter Members Evelyn Whetsel Bryan, AA Della Cleek Guthrie, PP Pauline Lamp Ford, AA Louise Cox Carper, A Lottie Davin Smallridge, B Jane Birthesil Morford, B Melva Shady Ross, BB Edna Fuller Carr, A Eloise Keller, PP Lillian J. Goff, A

Evelyn W. Bryan, President

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CA NT ON, OHIO AL UMN AE CHAP TER

Charter Members Suza nne anfo rd a mpbell. 00 E mmaline chlott, 00 Sue \\'ampler, 00 Juanetta Brown, 00 Ma ry Donze Miller, 00 Jayne \Veibl rban, YY Kay F aulk Giltz, 00 :\Iarylouise a rmello arf agna, 00

Jayne W. Urban, President

NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. ALUMNAE CHAPTER

Charter Members Mary Jane Altenburg, Ar Carol D. Pierce, rr Gladys Young, TT Margaret Gorton, 速速 Jell H. Russell, Ar Jane Graham Murtaugh, AA Ethel Schutt Peterson, TT Grace Olief Hunt, TT Edith Hetherington Phillips, NN

June G. }iiurta ugh, a nd Pres ident

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DELAWARE ALUMNAE CHAPTER

Charter Members Edna H. Bowen, KK Frances Shirley Peters, KK Esther McCune Staat , AB Mary Harrington Short, AA El ie Cabell, A Florence M. Rimlinger, KK Emily Tabor Flory, NN Adelaide Zearfoss Stafford, KK

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News Behind the News ORGANIZATION OF NEW Y ORK CITY ALUMNAE CHAPTER

UR recently born New York O Alumnce 路chapter is indeed a cosmopolitan group. Its charter members are from six different chapters and they came from Long Island, Yonkers, Brooklyn and the Bronx for an organization meeting.

Saturday, ovember 13th, being the rainiest day of the season, was naturally the day set for our first gathering at Cavanaugh's Re taurant in Manhattan.

There we feasted on turkey and chattered like Alpha Sigs usually do when they get together. It made little difference that only a few of the girls were acquainted; we soon found out about mutual friends and interests and our membership in Alpha Sigma Alpha was a common denominator that quickly helped make us all friend .

Following the luncheon and after a few of the enthusiastic "reunioners' were quieted, Mr . Crook, who came up from Philadelphia to join us at our first meeting, briefly outlined the principles of alumnce organization. Our petition was quickly signed and Mrs. John J. Murtaugh, Jr. was appointed President of the new chapter.

We are now making tentative plans for a second meeting-probably an informal tea at the apartment of Carol Pierce in Greenwich Village. At this gathering we hope to entertain and "enlist" some of the Alpha Sigs living in New Jersey and Connecticut. We aim to cover a large territory around New York and though we're young and small now, we are ambitious. So, as the saying goes-"vVatch us grow!"

ETHEL PETERSON.

ORGANIZATION OF MUNCIE ALUMNAE CHAPTER

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by a group of girls, living in and near Muncie, on October 27th.

At this time we elected officers and planned for another meeting. We were indeed sorry in that Mrs. Leib and some of the Indianapolis Chi Chis were unable to be with us af this time. We had a goodly number present and feel that we at least have a start towards an alumnce chapter that will be worth while.

We know of a number of other girls whom we are endeavoring to secure as members of our group.

Our next meeting is scheduled for December 11th . . We are going to eat lunch together at the college cafeteria and then go to Mrs. Whitcraft's for our business meeting.

The officers for our newly chartered chapter are as follows: President, Anna Marie Yate , Muncie; vice-president, V e 1m a Haines Thresher, Muncie; secretary, Martha Stuckey, Anderson; treasurer, Martha Jane Byrum, Anderson; and your correspondent (from Muncie also) isDoROTHY RACEY MoNTGOMERY.

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ORGANIZATION OF CANTON ALUMNAE CHAPTER

T P. ST summer a group of Alpha L Sigma Alpha girls of Canton, Ohio, met and discussed forming an alumn<e chapter here. Finally on October 12th we organized with eight charter members. Two meetings have already proven successful.

Our first meeting was at the home of Mrs. Jayne Weible Urban.

The following officers were elected at this time: President, Mrs. Jayne W. Urban; vice-president, Mrs. Mary Donze Miller; secretary, Mrs. Sue Sanford Campbell; treasurer, Mrs. Kay Faulk Giltz; PHOENIX correspondent, Mrs. Mary Carmello Carfagna.

In November we met at the home of Mary Carfagna with Janice Marsh as assistant hostess. A short business meeting was followed with a social hour. Bridge was played and refreshments were served . We planned our Christmas party, which

is to be held at the home of Dorothy Bausher Oeffinger and Mrs. DaHinden of Ea t Sparta will be a sistant ho tesse .

We have planned to devote a few minutes of each meeting to a eli cussion of the pledge manual. ur purpo e is to keep clear in our minds the rules and regulations and aims of our sorority.

In the near future we expect to have a joint meeting with the Kent Alumnce chapter.

A minimum of 50 cents per year will be paid for dues. Any other money that will be needed we will raise by giving parties, etc.

Our Canton Alumnce group extends a very cordial invitation to any member of A lpha Sigma Alpha within our territory to come and be one of us. And to our sister chapters we extend the sea on's best wishes.

MARY ( ARFAG N A.

ORGANIZATION OF CHARLESTON ALUMNAE CHAPTER

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our very first get-together on

.l\. October 16th, with ten girls present, we signed a petition for recognition, and elected officers. Our President, Mrs. Foster Paul Bryan, Lambda Lambda, is the former leader of the alumnre chapter in Columbus, Ohio. Our Vice-President, Mrs. Philip Ross comes to us from Beta Beta. Our Secretary, Mrs. Carr, is the former secretary of the alumnce group at Toledo, Ohio. The officers are enough to be a prize in any alumnre group, but our pride and joy is Mrs. Louise

Cox Carper, one of Alpha Sigma Alpha's Founders, at whose insistance and perseverance this chapter is being forwarded. Are we not the most fortunate of the fortunate?

We have a record of at least twenty members of Alpha Sigma A lpha who are living here and we feel quite sure that there are several others who have lost touch with their own group. At our next meeting on October 30th, we accordingly hope to double our attendance. o more definite news next time.

ELOISE KELLER.

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ECEMBER 8TH- page from D my Diary: What a day!

Weary? Yes! Getting up at seven o'clock on a non-working day, riding sixty miles to \iVilmington and shopping in crowded stores is a strain. But, dear diary, the delightful luncheon meeting with seven other Alpha Sigs gave me the pep and ambition to enjoy all of it.

Do you remember dear diary that last March we Alpha Sigs met at the apartment of Emily Tabor Flory to discuss the organization of an alumn<.e chapter in Wilmington?

Mrs. Crook was there, too. We didn't have eight girls at this meeting so we decided to try again. In May we had a luncheon meeting at the Hob Tea Room. There were seven girls present. We decided at that time to have another meeting in the fall.

Emil Flory and Florence Rimlinger worked very hard to make today's luncheon-meeting at the

Hob a success. It was, too, as eight members were present! vVe immediately signed a petition for a charter, deciding to call our group the Delaware Alumn<.e chapter since the members live in various parts of the State. This should tend to make our meetings more interesting as well as the fact that we represent different college chapters.

On January 8th we are all hoping to go to the card party sponsored by the Philadelphia Alumn<.e chapter. On January 15th, at 2 p.m., we are holding another meeting at the home of Mrs. Emily Tabor Flory, in \iVilmington, Delaware.

Oh, dear ! I do ramble on. I just happened to remember that I have fifteen minutes in which to reach the post office to send an air mail special to Helen Bradley. It contains material for the PHOENIX and must be in Iowa City by Monday. So until next time, good night, dear diary.

MARY

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Alumnae Chapters ALV A, OK L AH OMA It is difficult to say which was more exciting during the week-end of Homecoming, waving at ASA'S as the red and white car rolled by, chatting in the corridors with former classmates, or attending "open house" which the actives held honoring out-of-town alumnce.

The finance committee with Eva Wood as chairman is busy increasing the convention fund. May the pennies multiply!

Since the last issue of this magazine two Alpha Sig's homes have had dark days of sorrow, Sue Edwards Trenary's lovely little daughter, lone, passed away suddenly in October; and Gail Noah Brickley's mother died early in November.

As material proof of our love for Miss Shockley and of our gratitude for her recognition by Oklahoma Hall of Fame, red roses were presented at the last sorority meeting before the Statehood banquet.

Alumnce, patronesses and members of the college chapter united for a big celebration of Founders' Day. Covers were laid for fifty dinner guests on November 13.

Each place was marked with a tiny gold Phoenix outlined 'in green. A

block print of the ame symbolic bird form ed the cover of the program and tally booklet. Luella Harzman introduced th e prog ram of music and talks on the th eme of "Life in Alpha igma Alpha".

Several of the alumnce who returned for this anniversary dinner were: Ada Lane, Edith Johnston, and Lorinda Love, all charter members of Gamma Gamma; Elizabeth Green and Roberta Camp of Shattuck; the Mayfield quartet: Verda Bear, Exona Harper, Edith Case, and George Delling of Harper, Kansas; Jennie Locken of Selman; Ruth Rudy of Waukomis, and Selma Cox of Stafford, Kansas.

Although Iva D. Mayfield Myer has had no contact with our A . S. A . group for many years, she sent a message for Founders' Day. She has graduated from San Jose State Teachers College in California since leaving Northwestern. Would you believe she has a thirteen year old daughter? Friends will be interested to hear that for the past five years she has been Executive Secretary for Almeda Chamber of Commerce. Her notes on the "pageant of the Pacific," which is sponsored by the cities on the bay, sounds like a real exposition for 1939.

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Edna Ker t- Chamberlain of Tulsa served a delicious buffet supper for the Gamma Gammas who were on their way to Tahlequah for the installation of Beta Gamma.

Then he invited the girls for the "evening." Imagine a slumber party where a dozen girls actually lept!?

Our alumn<e assisting with the impresive initiation ceremony were: Edna Donley, Luella Harzman, Loi$ Rodgers, Edna K. Chamberlain and Lora Patterson. Six from the college chapter accompanied by their sponsors, Misses Leeper and picer, were active in welcoming the new chapter.

There are secrets in the air as the college girls plan to entertain the alums with a Christmas party in the sorority room. All are anticipating -a merry time.

January will bring a party with da Lane, Lois Rodgers, and Sue Trenary as hostesses.

Lois RooGERS.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Our October meeting was hard on the poor husbands of all Boston alums. Alfa Guyer's display and talk on "Interior Decoration," coming just around housecleaning time, was to blame. We all went home eager to tear off our wall paper and stuff our old curtains and drapes in the Morgan Memorial bag! Alfa had o many lovely new papers, curtain materials, draperies, etc. on display that one felt like a change. I noticed all the sugo-estions were moderately priced; but SO lovely! Our social time, bu iness meeting and delicious tea

served by Mary McCauley were enjoyed too. Mary is our new president and things look promising for the coming year. \ ith a few word of appreciation, Mary presented a lovely autumn corsage to Hazel Jones, our retiring president. And how we do appreciate!

Winchester saw us again in November at Hazel Jones' where we were all greeted 'mid bowers of wisteria by lovely ladies from old Nipon ! Decorations, costumes and food-even to sitting on the floor and eating with chopsticks-were consistently and beautifully J apanese. Our guests were the members of the Theta Theta Chapter and their pledges. Preceding the Japanese supper and pleasant hour of games a lovely pledge service was held.

On December 4th we went to Edith Lindquist's home in Melrose, laden with gifts and pennies. Our Annual Penny Sale was a successbut some girls received all the gifts ! I didn't happen to hold a lucky number-so that's why I'm still feeling a bit "sour." However, Edith's delicious coffee and luncheon made me feel a bit better. Five dollars of our pennies is being spent immediately, for we are giving that donation to a poor family.

We must mention here that we were indeed glad to see Phoebe Helms and Esther Smith whom we had been missing from our several recent meetings.

With my ears open I heard the following items: Young Rufus Ripley Chalmers is doing well and lives in Concord. New Hampshire.

Alice Northrup is teaching in New

THE PHOENIX Milford, Conn. She reports having spent a very interesting summer in study at the University of Wisconsm.

Helen Weeks is teaching in Norridgewock, Maine and likes it very much.

Edith Carleton Johnson is teaching English and Library work at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire High School.

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Marg Houston our Prexy wa aoing to have a difficult time of it.

But she did have fun-trying to make herself heard over the din of 48 feminine voices! Our bu ine consisted mainly in making plan for our December luncheon. Thi we consider more of a "home coming day" for it is planned so that all of the out-of-town girl who return to Buffalo for the Chri tmas holidays are able to attend.

It's a grand gab fest-and we're all looking forward to it.

BETTY . MURPHY.

We're gonna hire a hall! A great big one too! We'ye gotta! Time . was when the Buffalo Alumnce Chapter could hold a meeting at one of the member's homes; but no more of that!

At the November supper meeting at Mary Blackstone's house there was a total of forty-eight members present. At the rate we're growing, we'll have to take up flag-pole sitting so we'll feel at home sitting on the top of chandeliers, floor lamps or the mantel.

Mary-nevertheless-was a very gracious hostess as was the entire committee in charge. Those who presided over the "tres delicieux chow mein" were Kay Strickland, Martha Steinhauser, Rose Kraft, Dorothy Duffy and Madeline Faulkner. All huddled together like bugs in a rug (and some of us were sitting on the floor) we had oodles of fun trying to hold Chinese noodles on our forks. We recommend it as a great indoor sport !

For a time it seemed as though

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

The Chicago Alumnce chapter has changed from a luncheon club to a series of tea parties. We have tried changing the time of our meetings so that they will be available to all of the members and enjoy meeting at different members homes each month.

Mrs. Helen Ball was hostess at a lovely tea at her home at 434 'vV. Roslyn street for the October meeting where the guests of honor were her small son and daughter.

M;s. Wilma Weymouth entertained the Chicago member for the Founder's Day meeting in November with a delightful tea at her home in Oak Park.

Members will be advised of future meetings by our efficient ecretary, Nelle Rainey, and we are glad to add to our mailing li st the names of any Alpha Sigs who may have moved into the Chicago area.

DoROTHY

MASTERS.

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she finished and we certainly owe her a vote of thanks for making Carol Tibbals, our President, things seem so desirable that we opened our fall activities with a just had to bid way up. meeting and social gathering at her Dorothy Porter Cummings was home on Milford Road. Tentative present at this meeting-a fact plans were made to take care of alone which was cause for celebraone of Mildred Nalley's families Dorothy has not attended any tion. at Christmas time. Our group bemeetings since her son was born, ing small this is the first activity a matter of some nineteen months of the kind that we have underago.

Still the same soft-spoken taken and quite a good bit of Dorothy and we surely hope that enthusiasm has resulted. she is again started toward being Our first project, born of this an active member of our group. inspiration, occurred on November We are planning a swell party 18th at the home of Mrs. Maxine for December-so all of you Alpha Jones on Arden Road. Our first snow fell that day and believe me Sig alums within driving distance we were full of Christmas en- of Columbus let us hear from you. thusiasm. Maxine certainly has a Your presence is desired at our lovely home and when all the girls meetings. The more the merrier. arrived the fun began. We had Don't forget ! ! !

May we extend our heartfelt each brought one or two objects from home which to us were sympathy to Ruth Kaiser Zimmer"White Elephants." It certainly is man of Moulton, Ohio, who lost funny how tastes differ, for what her mother on November 14th. is a white elephant to some is just Mrs. Kaiser will be sorely missed what the other person has often by the Mother Patroness Club of desired. With , Ethel Wolfgram as Columbus. She was president of auctioneer, we sold all of the do- this group and very rarely missed nations, netting a profit of seven a meeting. She had been in poor dollars. Not bad, considering there health for quite some time, but were only sixteen girls present. We never once was she heard to comwere not only proud to have plain.

Personal Notes made so much money so painlessly but were gleeful over the wonder- .

On October 9th, Grace Groff ful bargains we had obtained. and Howard Van Atta were united Johnny Jones did her Christmas in a beautiful church ceremony shopping and Rachel Van Hook with Mary Gaal as maid of honor. was permitted to purchase a good Grace naturally made a beautiful pair of shoes for only ten cents bride and those of us who have (because no one else could wear seen her since her marriage can them!). Let me recommend this testify to the fact that she radiates idea as a good one to make money happiness. and to entertain 路 everyone present.

Ruth Ludwig and Charles Roth Poor Ethel! She was hoarse when were united on October 23rd in a COLUMBUS, OHIO

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lovely home ceremony with GwenThe goodly number of 46 atdolyn Glandon as 'attendant. tended our big luncheon of th Johnny took moving pictures of year,-including ten from the Gre the happy couple leaving the house ley Alumnce Chapter and four from being pelted with rice and we hope the College Chapter at Greeley to have a "showing" at the very one of whom was Vesta Wood who first meeting held at Johnny's 路 is a transfer from the Epsilon Ephome. Imagine having a perman- silon Chapter at Emporia. Za ent record of that happy event.

Lawrenson, our pre ident introThen, my dears, Dr. Thelma duced some girls who had not been Hutchfield "pulled a fast one" to the luncheon for many year : on us . She was married on October Florence Wolf of Fort Collin 路 16th in Tennessee to Stanley Potts. Ethel Olinger Haa ted of Denver, All the parties honoring her had to Edna Welch Mann, our former be post-nuptial, as it was one of faculty adviser; and her i ter, those secret affairs. We certainly Miss Welch, who was a member of wish to offer our heartiest con- Theta Zeta Beta, the local sorority gratulations to all of the recent which became Alpha Sigma Alpha brides and wish to state that if at Greeley. Vera Campbell prethey are just half as happy as the sented the Denver lumnce choleditor of this column, everything arship ring to Helen Nelson, pre ident of the College Chapter at ought to be pretty swell.

Greeley.

The ring, which is beKathryn Fuller Loechler's new stowed on the active having the baby had to be a girl-for if it highest grades for the preceding were a boy Herb was going to have to stay home and care for it. All's quarter, has an anonymous donor . well that ends well-Ruth Ann Laurene Grant was given the Pledge Award of $5.00 toward her weighed eight pounds!

Life Membership. Polly chlosser Dr. Emily Stogdil, our former told us about the pledging of the faculty adviser, is back on campus new Chapter at Tahlequah and again. She is now a proud mother hinted that she was thrilled because 路and in the future will combine her she was to help install it. We are professional career with that of proud and happy that our own motherhood. Congratulations.

Polly is so capable and altogether DoROTHEA WrNDOM. charming, bless her.

Our Book Review was a means DENVER, COLORADO of making money for some of our Since we last went to press, we obligations.

Edith Thornton, Marhave been seen twice in public ian Wierman Thornton's sisterplaces! The first our Founders' Day Luncheon at the Junior in-law, reviewed "Turning Wheels" League shop ; and the second a by Cloete and did it excellently.

Book Review and Musicale bene- She is affiliated with The Denver fit at the Public Service Hospi- Public Library and we are very grateful to her for her genera ity. tality Room.

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This affair was well attended. Refreshments which were served were all donated so there was no expense. Twenty-five cents was the charge per person and we made $11.00. We see the treasury begin to expand!

Our Christmas party comes the last week of the year and puts us all in a sparkling frame of mind to start the New Year right.

Our heartiest wishes go to Alpha Sigs everywhere for a cheerful and harmonious New Year!

Vrvr

DoBBINS.

DES MOINES, lOW A Thoughts Thought While Thinkmg.

Dear me, is it time for a Phoenix write-up again? Guess I'll call some of the girls and have them do the wOTk this time. Think I need a vacation anyhow. 路 That meeting last October was a real vacation recital for us what with Myrna Treimer telling us all about her trip East last summer.

She saw Buffalo, New York City, Washington D. C. and many other interesting places as she drove with her parents. I think the high-light of her trip was a Major Bowes broadcast.

Leola Byers May of Detroit was a visitor that night too. She was on her way home after a six weeks trip West. Her visit in Los Angeles was most exciting. She and her sister were hunting up the homes of the movie stars and at Richard Arlen's home they talked so hard and fast that the gardener allowed them to enter the garden and they took a few snapshots just to prove

they had really been there. They saw Constance Bennett arrive at her home with pomp and ceremony and about the last day they were there they saw John Boles. They saw him driving in an old car and after trailing him a ways finally plucked up the courage to ask if he really were John Boles. He admitted it and then very graciously gave them his autograph. Well, well that was a trip! Hope I can travel sometime. These talks and all those interesting travel articles in the last Phoenix surely gave me the fever. That meeting was at Rita Selvey's home with Mildred Nighswonger as assistant hostess.

Clare Lockhart Weissinger of Fargo, N. D. was also a visitor.

She has been a frequent visitor of late due to the illness of her mother. We do enjoy the visits of our out-of-town girls.

We did do things and go places in November. That luncheon we had at Grace Ransom's Tearoom, for our girls who come in to the Iowa State Teacher's meetings, was a good get-to-gether. There were nineteen of us. Alberta Williams came from Rose Hill, Doris Taylor from Sidney, Mary Dailey from Grundy Center, Dorothy Curtis from Waterloo, Lucille Williams from Johnston, Letha Dailey Russell from Panora, Minnie Key Flickinger from Iowa City and Nelle Raney from Chicago. Time certainly did fly as we visited, told where we were living and our occupations. The meeting ended with our president, Albertine Geist, telling us all to plan to spend our vacation at Convention.

THE PHOENIX Before we had drawn a deep breath Founders' Day was upon us. Rita Selvey was chairman and as a surprise invited Helen Bradley ASA's Alumnc:e Chairman to be our guest speaker. Helen arrived just in time for the dinner which was held at Grace Ransom's Tea Room. She chose to speak on ''Alpha Sig Leadership" and told us also of the activities of many other alumnc:e groups. V.fe enjoyed having a speaker and an outside singer as we have always had toast programs before. Helen surely must have worked on that speech, she gave it so nicely and says it was only the second one she ever gave in her life. Well, we wonder.

That dinner brought out Mrs. Blackhurst, a patroness and also our former house mother, Mother McCormick and her daughter Margaret Dailey. Dorothy Haley Whitten who has recently moved to Des Moines was also there.

The girls certainly turned out well for the tea for Helen. It was at Rita's. Mrs. Blackhurst poured and while having tea we chattered and visited. Almost all of the girls who had not been at the dinner dropped in so I believe Helen has met us all now. We hope that we made a good impression; but then we must have for she has since sent her dues and requests that she be counted a member of our chapter. It would be nice if some more out-of-town girls would er-a-feel inclined to pay dues and be members. Details furnished on request.

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however, we probably wont ee much of her before spring I'm afraid.

Our Christmas party is next week I hear. Guess I'd better get my grab-bag pre ent bought.

Georgia said to wrap it at lea t three times . There is to be a musical grab-bag, something about pa sing a present around a circle until the music top and then removing a wrapping. Sounds like fun and a present for the one who removes the last wrapper. I haven't heard where the party is to be. It is scheduled for Mayme Meston's but I understand she has a trip to Mexico in the offing.

Here I have been "thunking" for three pages, guess it i time to stop. Oh, no, just heard that Bernice Samuel on Stevens is. leaving to pend the winter in Arizona with her mother and small daughter.

LILLIAN JACOBSON,

Pho eui.1: CO?Tespondent.

We Celebrate Founders' Day Founders' Day resumed new significance this year for Des Moines Alumnc:e Chapter. On November 15th with the able assistance and vivacious personality of Helen Bradley, National Alumnc:e Chairman, we retraced our significant history. The setting was the beautiful Grace Ranson Tea Room; the hour 6 :30 p. m.

In this modern day of whirlwind activity, with days, even hours built on a planned formulae, it was exhilarating to pause for an evening and reminisce. Our accomplishments have been many. Our girls, with the cultural training of Alpha

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igma Alpha, ha,路e proven themselves invaluable in many field of endeavor. By their efforts cience has progressed, school leader hip has been established on a much higher plane, classroom activity has advanced materially and club programs, such as study groups and voters organizations, have been enhanced by new leader hip.

Those of us who have departed from some of these fields for that of home management believe our training in lpha igma lpha has spurred us on. We hope through training in our homes to promote a greater under tanding of good will among men.

But our progress of the past cannot carry us on. We cannot grow on inactivity and no greater message of forwardness could have been given than the one by Helen Bradley -who has that real new fashioned spizzerinktum engraved on her lively souL She was a real inspiration for the future.

During the evening we were permitted to enjoy a beautiful number of current popular music. Dorothy Jean Grundman, a Roosevelt High School Student entertained us with "Roses in December" and "Indian Love Call" from "Rose Marie."

We are grateful indeed to our founders for our heritage in Alpha Sigma lpha.

RITA \V. ELVEY, Founders Day Chainna11.

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Time pas es quickly in its flight and leave us wondering what it's all about. I m so knee-deep in

church work and other out ide activities right now that Helen Bradley's last letter was indeed a shock to my not too steady nervou system. So here I am again ready to flash a bit of news from the Eastern Pennsylvania Alumnre Group to you who peruse our dear PHOENIX.

Winchell will have nothing over me for news is not plentiful this trip and I feel "real low down" just as he does when he doesn't have the choicest bits and morsels of news right at his finger tips.

Flash! We are still active; our last meeting was held at the home of Anna Grim, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 16th with Mary Kirlen and Eleanor Carpenter a co-hostesses. There were twelve of us there, and what a meeting we had! ! vVe observed Founder's Day at that time as we were not meeting in November, because of the Alumnre Home Coming 路at old Temple University.

Thelma Stotz traveled all the way from Laurel, Delaware to be with us and we surely were glad to have her as well as those girls who had not been with us for sometime.

Business of an interesting nature was transacted by our President, nne Willauer, following which we all enjoyed a delightful repast prepared by our hostesses. We all went home feeling refreshed in that we as A. S. A.'s had been privileged to meet, greet, and converse with each other once again.

Flash! A choice bit of news similar to Hollywood's flash of Blessed

THE PHOE Event . Norma Nyce Heberling is expecting Old Man tork in January so those of you know her will rejoice with her. Hope it' twins, don't you?

Flash! Dot Gebhardt and Anne Willauer were acting as Faculty Aides, flower girls, hostesses-or what have you-at Kiwanis Convention dance in Easton last month.

Just broadening their scope in education!

Flash! Personel news is scarce! !

Soon after this goes to press we will be having our December meeting. Hope to gather much more news which I'll pass along to you next time.

MARGARET BRENHOLTZ

GoH::-<.

HAYS, KANSAS

Our November meeting, held on Saturday the 6th, was very successful. In spite of the fact that a number of the town girls were unable to attend, several members were in town because of the State Teachers' Meeting, so that our attendance was at its normal number. The program was a study of MacDowell's music. After a paper on the life of MacDowell, there were voice, piano, and violin solo .

Our December meeting will be a social service meeting. Plans for the program haven't as yet been completed.

Word has been received of the birth of a son to Kathryn Fisher Vaughn, in November. Although the news is a little delayed, we also hear that Gwendolene Stewart Engel has a boy-now almost a year old.

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ding in our chapter ha been that of Louise Peter on to Eugene Holm, at Lind borg on October 2. They are now living in \ il on, Kansas.

IIIRLEY BAIRD .

HUNTINGTON, W. VIRGINIA

Two meetings were held by our alumna! group during the month of November. The fir t and regular meeting was filled with plan for "balancing our budget" for the year, ways in which we could be of more help to the active chapter at Marshall and propo ing our social program for the next six month . At the close of the busine s Helen Maxwell gave u an account of her trip to Mexico City.

A few of the high points were her vi it to the Texas Pan- merican Exposition at Dallas, the sightseeing trip through the old and new parts of San Antonio and her visit to Randolph Field, the "We t Point of the Air." November twentieth was a day to be remembered! Marshall beat the Dayton Tigers which gave them the Buckeye Conference crown. All those who could not go to Dayton "first-hand" sat by their radios and rooted. That evening the alumna! chapter had a dinner in honor of Miss June Smith who was here on an inspection visit.

Five brave members of the newly formed Charleston Alumna! group drove down to attend the dinner.

The roads were o icy it took them four hours to make the fifty-mile trip. Vve do appreciate their coming and were so glad to have them "ith us. Miss Smith's visit, a be-

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fore, gave everyone new sorority pep and lots of ideas.

Phyllis Madeira, one of our members, received word while dressing for the dinner that her father had been injured in a train wreck at Bluefield. The next morning we learned that ohe of our charter members, Dora Gammon, was seriously hurt in 路 the same wreck. We are glad to report that both are recovering nicely.

On Monday, November 22nd, we had as our second meeting of the month, a covered dish dinner at the home of Mrs. Mortimer Buck, our President. Games were to follow but the dinner was such a success that most of the games had to be omitted. We did settle down, however, long enough to make our plans for a Christmas Dance.

We hope to have a reunion of our out-of-town alumme at this time.

December fourth was the day for a linen sale held at the home of Mrs. Krumplemann, one of our very enthusiastic patronesses. The linens and costume jewelry were some that had been brought from China and Mrs. Krumplemann had so kindly allowed the college chapter to sell these and keep the profits.

The Huntington Alumnce Chapter wishes to extend to all of the members of Alpha Sigma Alpha a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

DoRis L.

FEELEY.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Our November 6th meeting was with Genevieve Leib. Vve were happy to have Esther Arnott of

Anderson and Julia Gerblach once more in attendance after long absences.

Since Marie Kingdon, our President, was attending a bridal party in honor of her new daughter-tobe, Letha Gaskins, our Vice President conducted the meeting.

It requires a lot of self-control not to tell right here of the thrilling reports on how each member earned money for our convention fund, but I have been requested to leave it for a feature article. So look for it in a later issue!

Our investigating committee reported visiting several social agencies which need outside help. The one in greatest need at present was the Day Nursery, which has an overflow of children-from babies to children twelve years of age.

The Kindergarten Group need every kind of play equipment and materials, so we decided to concentrate our efforts there. To date \ve have made eight animal jigsaw puzzles of plywood and two wooden color towers. We are also sending a number of scrapbooks and colored illustrated story books.

We hope to do more throughout the year.

MARIE

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KANSAS CITY, KANSAS October weather proved to be too much for the outdoor picnic which had been planned for that meeting. Martha May Marquis came to the rescue, however; and the few girls who did attend the meeting were entertained at her home in Independence.

November saw a good crowd at the home of Dulcie Baird. We

THE PHOENIX talked of money-making projects and of coming events for our calendar. With a convention so close upon us, we must have more money. We accordingly planned a benefit bridge for the spring, and in the offing are a rummage sale and a doll show. Bridge followed the business meeting. Fun was introduced in the form of a galloping prize which was given to any player who took a trick with the two of spades. The prize remained in the po session of the player who had it at the end of the afternoon's playing.

In December we'll again have our Christmas luncheon at a downtown hotel. Christmas is in the air so there will probably be conversation and more conversation about Christmas shopping and vacations for the "school manns."

Wilma Wilson Sharp and her cohostesses will be in charge of the luncheon.

Now for some personal news Karol Oliphant Greeson who teaches in Webster Grove, Missouri, spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Kansas City. Her visit was the signal for many get-to-gethers of her friends. vVilma Wilson Sharp was very busy during the recent Allied Charities Drive in Kansas City.

Esther Noel of Eta Eta, Mildred Johnson Harmon of Zeta Zeta, and Dorothy Krick of Zeta Zeta recently joined our group. We have been after these girls for some time and it is good to see them among us.

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during the recent meeting of Mi souri State Teachers' ociation held in that city.

Phon Johnson has returned from her vacation to California. h hasn't attended a meeting recently so we have still to hear of her trip.

Esther Bucher recently went to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, with Polly Schlosser to install Beta Gamma.

She reports a fine group in that chapter.

Jean Hutchison and her husband have been very busy lately furnishing the recreation room in their new home.

Lynette Breithaupt and her husband have moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. We do miss her indeed.

MARY HAMLIN.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Founder's Day The last meeting of the Los Angeles Alumnce Association was a joint affair with Xi Xi active Chapter on the occasion of the Founder's Day Banquet. After an excellent dinner wa served at Caldwell's, Miss Doniece Rose, the Xi Xi Chapter president, presided as toastmistress. Miss Elizabeth Small gave a very interesting and inspirational talk upon the founders of our Sorority. The Alumnce Scholarship Cup was presented to Doniece Rose and Doris Currier, who had the same high grade point average, by the _AJumnce President Katherine Hunsicker.

After the' program everyone joined in singing Sorority songs and finishing out a very pleasant evening.

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Christmas Party MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!

The Alpha Sigma Alpha's of Los Angeles all joined in with their mothers to have a marvelous time on December 6 at the annual Christmas Party. The affair was held at the beautiful home of Mrs. Isabell Jones in Beverly Hills.

A total of forty people were there full of good cheer and fun. Everyone joined in to sing Christmas Carols and Sorority songs and later to play bridge or other games with many lovely prizes. Near the close of the evening the presents were taken from under the Christmas tree and distributed. -Delicious refreshments were then served.

News Rosa Mathews, who spent the summer at General Grant National Park and had a lovely time, is back to La Habra to teach school.

Both Altha De Camp and Fern White are teaching school in Santa Monica this year.

Julia ;;parkes is a Y. W. C. A. Secretary in Los Angeles this year.

A few of our Alums have been continuing with their . education after graduation. Carol Colfax received her M. A. last June. Catherine Kelly is attending library school at the Los Angeles Public Library. Dorothy Linden is attending U. S. C. and is planning upon receiving her M. A. in June.

DOROTHY LINDEN.

MARYVILLE, MISSOURI Our chapter swings on-meeting once a month for social activity, mainly bridge. We generally have

three tables and-a really good time! We each pay one dollar a year-out of which Palm expenses, postage, gifts for members and Fellowship dues are paid. nd somehow we always have a little left at the end of each year. Hostesses are notified at the beginning of each year, by a program schedule, and generally are in groups of two, who share the party's expenses.

R Dell Chick Dinsdale is this year's president, Luretta Gooden Milner is treasurer and secretary-:and you know only too well what I do.

By the way-we are so proud of alums not in active affiliation with our alumnce chapter. We received dollars from all over the country; our girls are loyal even though distanc.e separates them.

Personal News Margaret Sutton and Ludmilla Vavaa, both of whom were former assistants in the primary department of education at the Northwest Missouri State Teachers' College, are now teaching primary work in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

Grace Helen Goodson, who taught the past year in Lenox, Iowa, is teaching commerce in the high school at Maryville, Missouri.

She is really busy, too, helping edit the high school annual.

Luretta Gooden Milner is a recent addition to our alumnce group.

Her husband who ha been coach at Jackson Missouri is now football coach at the college.

MARY WRAY KURTZ.

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PHILADELPHIA, P A. On November the nineteenth at six p. m. thirty-four enthusiastic A. S. A. alums gathered at Whitman's in Philadelphia for their annual dinner meeting; the first one of the year. vVe enjoyed chatting with old friends and were glad to welcome some newcomers .

Mrs. Rhea Blakely from Beta Beta chapter has now joined our group and we hope she will feel at home with us. Eighteen of the number present represented Nu Nu and fourteen Kappa Kappa. We were indeed pleased to have Miss Jean Richmond, sponsor for Nu Nu, Hope Morrison, Vice president of Nu Nu, and Alice Carl, pre ident of Kappa Kappa as our guests.

(We hear that Alice is singing with an illu trious trio from Kappa Kappa over the radio.) We found at our places programs for the year-another of Sally Ogden's artistic achievements.

After a delicious chicken dinner the meeting opened by a presentation; a lovely corsage for our beloved Dotty Crook, National Vicepresident. Mrs. Crook then spoke to us about National affairs and new alumnre chapters and concluded by urging us all to keep up with A. S. A. doings by reading and most of all subscribing to the PHOENIX lice Carl and Hope Morrison brought greetings to us from their respective chapters and gave us a glimpse of their plans for the coming year. Our president, Betty Wilson, next told us about the alumnre program for 1937-38 and asked for volunteer hostesses for the various occasions. An attractive

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bronze tray was given to l\fr .

Helen Henne berg, in appreciation of her faithful service la t year as president. nd so our fir t meeting closed. I'm sure a good time wa had by all. card party on January eighth at Strawbridge and Clothier's tore, is our next big affair and we are looking forward to eeing you, and you, and you, and your fri end on that day.

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PITT SBURGH, PA. Inasmuch as we are a bit in arrears with news, due to a change in correspondents, I shall tell you now of our first fall meeting. October 9th was the date of this meeting,-a tea at the home of Blanche Landau. Assistant ho tesse were Blanche's sister, Marion Wilson and myself. Virginia Squires, our new president, called the business meeting to order, dues were collected and plans for the meetings throughout the year submitted and discussed. We had a thoroughly good time, too .

On Saturday, November 20th, we met for luncheon at the Metropolitan Club. Our hostesses were Beatrice Jeffries, Gretchen Way, Kathryn Davey and Helen Wirth.

Sixteen girls were present. vVe 路were indeed glad to welcome to our group two lpha Gamma alumnre, Iva rnold and Mildred vVeber. At the time of this meeting Mary Mauntel was vacationing in Bermuda and Monna Power was enjoying a trip to Havana and Nassau.

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Virginia Karlen's illness and also offer deepest sympathy in the loss of her father.

Helen Bishop is moving to Reading, Pennsylvania and we shall miss her at our meetings. Her stay in Pittsburgh was short but it was nice to have had her with us for even a brief time.

We have planned a Christmas Tea for the afternoon of December

BOOK WEEK!

30th to be held at the Women's City Club in Hotel William Penn.

We are inviting Alpha Gamma Chapter to be our guest and sincerely hope we shall see many of the girls at this time. lso we hope all A. S. A. alumnce within the vicinity will join us. Ann Schade is chairman of the committee in charge.

EDITH

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SIMPSON.

MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE DoROTHY

WEEK! flashed across BOOK the nation a short time ago. It flashed on our campus and everybody became inspired by an exceptionally _interesting person who is very active on our campus. Miss Ruth A. Barnes, Professor in the English Department, is an authority on children's literature and thus conducted a book week sponsored by the City Women's Club.

A group of several girls from her Children's Literature class were given the opportunity of assisting with their most interesting project.

Miss Barnes exhibited her extensive collection of children's books and a near-by book store lent a

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large number of books. Po ters of all kinds and description added to the glamour of the occasion.

On our campus the password in most English classes is, "I Hear American Singing," famous title of Walt Whitman's poem. Why? Miss Barnes recently completed her nthology of Folk Poetry by this name. The book which is especially appropriate for older boys was published last month and the attractive red and black cover of it is already making rapid appearances here.

"The coming out" of Dr. Barnes' book was the highlight of our enthusiastic book week.

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College Chapters ALPHA State Teachers College Farmville, Virgini:a

Do you know what?-That old superstition about "unlucky thirteen" is all just plain hooey. Because why ?-We took in that exact number of some of the fin est of fine pledges, and every day we are more convinced of the luck that is ours.

The good omens that make up the said number are: Lucy Staples, Lynchburg, Va.; Eleanor Watts, Roanoke, V a. ; Esther Adkinson, Hampden Sydney, Va.; Jean Upshur, Cheniton, Va.; Lois Griffin, Williamsburg, Va.; Frances Dickinson, Richmond, Va. ; Shirley Stevens, Petersburg, Va. ; Patsy Smith, Brookneal, Va. ; Evelyn Byrd Hutcheson, Gloucestor Court Housf!, V a. ; Jane Porter Shepherd, Chester, Va. ; Ann Camp, Amherst, Va. ; Margaret Godwin and Martha Holloway, Norfolk, Va. Come May, seven of our chapter will be repeating the old poem (with a few changes)-"Wake me early," room mate dear, for I'm to be in the May court. These damsels are Susan Lane, Carolyn Upshur, Virginia Doughty, Frances Maxey, Virginia Lee Pettis, Mary Harvey, and Katherine Roberts.

They are among the group which was elected by popular vote of the student body to be in the court at our annual May Day festivity.

Now absolutely, we couldn't stop this letter without mentioning the thing that's in the bones of every Alpha Sig and of everyone else all over the world,-Merry Xmas ! !

Um-humm! At our last meeting we set the date for our -ma party. We have it every yearChristmas tree and all-and ' e all draw name to ee to which one each of us gives a gift. imple silly, sweet symbols (how's that for alliteration?) they are, of love and companionship, and typical of the particular girls to whom they are given.

Oh,-and the most fun is fixing a basket for some family in need.

Doesn't it bring just the warmest glow to your heart to make joy in the hearts of others!

Goodby for now, and here's the very merriest Xmas to you from us, and smooth sailing through a shiny new year. K. S. RoBERTS.

ALPHA ALPH A Miami U niversity Oxford, Ohio

Due to complications of various sorts, Alpha Alpha chapter has not done so much in the social field during the last two months.

Sorry to say, Miami University seems to 路 have the social calendar filled with all-campus affairs with the result that any sorority could not make many plans.

Besides the regular meetings, the only party Alpha Alpha had was a dinner at the home of one of our alumnce. This was enough to make up for the lack of other social gatherings. A dinner away from the dormitories always brings sighs of happiness as we do not have sorority houses as the other Alpha Sigma Alpha girls do.

BETTY FRESHWATER.

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ALPHA BETA State Teachers College Kirksville, Missouri

We were very fortunate in the drawing dates for rush parties.

Our afternoon party held November 5 opened the rush functions, and our dance of November 13 closed the rush season. A member of our alumnce chapter very graciously allowed us to have our party in her beautiful new home in Macon, Missouri. As has become the custom in Alpha Beta, our alumn;:e took complete charge of this party, making all arrangements-even to the transportation.

Our caravan started from the sorority house about one o'clock and arrived at Mrs. Still's home some after two. The party was officially to have started at 2:30 and we were all quite delighted to have the leisure tiroe to brouse about in such a "story-book" house.

The game for the afternoon was bridge, and, to add interest and pep to the occasion, it was played according to crazy rules, each hand having an admonition: such as, playing with wrists tied together, taking tricks with hairpins, singing all conversation during an entire hand, and consuming ali-day suckers. Bridge was followed by tea with colorful, delicious, openfaced sandwiches and cakes.

It was nice to leave the party with the feeling that every one of the rushees had had a lovely time-for the party really was a huge success.

Standing firmly by the rules that Panhellanic had set down, we did no per onal rushing all that week. Then on Saturday night,

November 13, we held our Gypsy Rush Dance. This dance will always be remembered as one of the most successful dances lpha Beta has ever given. All the guests were dressed as gypsies which added color and vitality to the occasion. The hall was decorated in red and black paper, making a "false ceiling." A huge old bar was at one end of the room from which doughnuts and cider were served.

Around the sides of the room were bales of hay for seats and tables with old bottles with candles in the tops of them. Clever signs, for example-"Dunk Your Doughnuts Here" and "Good to the Last Dance," were hung at random all over the room. The orchestra was good and the dance was certainly not lacking in pep. All of the girls still remark what a marvelous evening it was and we thought ourselves that the other sororities would have had to "go some" to beat us!

Then at last on Monday, November 22, the suspense of wondering what girl would go what, etc., was broken and with shouts from the Alphas too. We gained a lovely bunch of girls-"the cream of the crop," so to speak. That same day we held pledging services at the sorority house for eighteen girls who are the following: Eleanor Cisco, Trenton, Mo.; Hester Webb, Hannibal, Mo. ; Mildred Diekroeger, Wright City, Mo.; Elizabeth Burns, Brookfield, Mo.; Jane Givons Kirksville, Mo.; Nell Russell, Kirksville, Mo.; Martha Crigler, Glasgow, Mo.; Caroline Krebs, Kirksville, Mo.; Agnes Mueller, St. Charles, Mo.; Marian Porter,

THE PHOE St. Charles, Mo .; Lilly V . Haley, Macon, Mo. ; Mary Elizabeth Thomas, Macon, Mo. ; Gertrude Mallinckrodt, Augusta, Mo.; Anna Mallinckrodt, Augusta, Mo. ; Edith La Bonta, Salisbury, Mo.; Betty Sue Thomson, Milan, Mo.; Betty Young, Kirksville, Mo.; Benjie Briggs, Memphis, Mo. After pledging we took the new girls to dinner with much excitement and celebration.

The following Monday one of our town girls, Emily Smith, gave a party for the actives and pledges.

It was a lovely party and a grand chance for us all to become better acquainted.

Last Tuesday night started our sorority "Hell Week." The pledges really seem to be enjoying doing all the crazy things this time and are being grand sports about it.

We are very happy to announce the marriage of Miss Laura Lou Courtney to Homer Gabriel, a senior student of Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery, on November 25. They will be living here in Kirksville the remainder of the school term.

ALPHA GAMMA State Teachers College Indiana, Pennsylvania

Since the last PHOENIX was issued, Alpha Sigma Alpha has had quite a few interesting gatherings.

First, we celebrated our Founder's Day on November sixth at the College Inn where we had a very lovely luncheon and then spent the remainder of the afternoon at Miss Belden's. We had forty-nine persons to entertain that afternoon including our alumnce, patronesses,

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other gue t and acti ve member .

The afternoon ' program wa devoted to a play, "The Beau of Bath" given by Claire Cre man, Mildred Baumgardner and rl ene Miller. Sara Miller gave a readi ng entitled "Opera Di cords." You never saw anyone o cleverl y attired to repre ent a country lass upon her fir st trip to the opera in a large city. Sara ha omething there! We later sang many of the sorority songs letting the alumnce choose their favorites and of course we helped them with our newer ones. It was a great day for all the Alpha Sigs.

Our next event was being entertained by the Sophomores of Alpha Gamma at the chool Lodge on October twenty-eighth. De pite the inclement weather the Alpha Sigs arrived at the Lodge in good spirits. We all literally tuffed ourselves with weiners, which we roasted in the open fireplace, cider, apples, doughnuts and toasted marshmallows.

On Tuesday evening, November second, we held initiation at the home of Mrs. R. E . Heiges, a former Alpha Sig, for Lorma Querry, Katherine Deitrick, Thelma Trusal, Mildred Baumgardner, and Sara Miller. Following the service, pledge degree was given to Joyce Spiker. After the service , tea was served by Mrs. Heige .

Saturday, December fourth , the Alpha Gammians were gue t of our patronesses at a luncheon served at the College Inn and a theatre party later in the afternoon.

The movie being shown was ' Conquest" and wa enjoyed by all the girls. We even had lounge seats if

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you please and everything was so grand. It is very nice to have such lovely patronesses don't you think?

Our next scheduled event is to take place Saturday December the eleventh at Rustic Lodge. We are having a "getacquainted" party for the freshman and Alpha Sigs. The theme of our party is centered around Chocolate. Our invitations were penny chocolate bars to which was attached a little note telling in verse about the party. Among the features of the evening there is to be a string hunt, a broken cup dance, skits and dancing. The chocolate soldier on the dance program will command its owner with whom she is to dance.

Saturday afternoon, December eighteenth, is to be the annual Christmas party at Miss Belden's.

This party, given by our sponsors, Miss Belden and Miss Mahachek, is always looked forward to with much enthusiasm. We draw names previous to the party and buy gifts which Santa gives us as we gather about the lovely fire Miss Belden always has for us on this occasion.

BETA BETA Colorado State College of Education Greeley, Colorado

We in Beta Beta chapter are just in the middle of all our plans for formal Rush Week, which will be from January 10, to January

14.

Last week all the sororities on the campus entertained at prerush teas. We had sixty-five lovely guests at our tea, November 30.

Tea decorations were carried out in Christmas colors of green and

red. Mrs. Gary Nel on pre iderl at the tea table.

This year on Friday afternoons, two members volunteer to entertain informally at tea for the members and guests. We have found this to be an invaluable aid in rushing as well as a very enjoyable way to spend Friday afternoons.

We have also set aside Thursday evenings to entertain dinner guests. We have three or four each week.

FLORENCE THOMPSON.

Homecoming Floats at Colorado State College of Education Nov. 6, 1937 Alpha Sig'lna Alpha The truck bed was covered with crumpled newspapers over which were stretched sheets. The truck cab was covered with white crepe paper. In the center of the truck bed was a large Champagne glass made of a wire frame covered with crumpled clear cellophane. The crum.pled cellophane gave a cutglass effect. The glass was filled from the base to the top with yellow balloons representing champagne bubbles. Four girls dressed in black velvet evening dresses and black velvet wraps stood on the four corners of the truck bed.

Each held a champagne glass in her outer hand. From her wrist a streamer was suspended to the base of the large glass and fastened. "A Toast-Alums" was made of white letters pasted on black crepe paper. This was stretched from the front of the truck bed to the back to cover up the wheels.

There was one on each side. On

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Pi Kappa Sigma The sides of the truck were covered with pastel paper flowers.

On the truck bed was a large painter's palette of white. It was made like a box so girls could get inside and stick their heads out through the holes to represent the different color paints. Each girl had a different colored crepe paper flower shaped cap to represent the painter's colors. The painter was a girl who sat on the truck dressed in a pretty smock and hat.

Homecoming Homecoming at Colorado State College of Education at Greeley, Colorado, was a big success this year. The houses were judged Friday evening, Nov. 5. Beta Beta had a bear dummy with a big spoon in his hand and a bison dummy on either side of a large cardboard bottle with the words "Pizzon the Bison" written on it.

Saturday began with a parade at 11 :00 a. m. We entered a float which ha already been described.

At the game each sorority had one or two girls to sell mums. The one girl selling the most mums was to be crowned Mum Queen at the Homecoming Dance that evening. 'vVe were a happy bunch of girl when Florence Thompson, member of Beta Beta Chapter of Alpha igma Alpha, was crowned Mum Queen. We hope we can have one of our girls as Homecoming Queen again next year.

LAURINE GRANT.

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GAMMA GAMMA Northwestern State Teachers College Alva, Oklahoma

Founders Day Shades of green, gold and white featured the appointments when members of Gamma Gamma Chapter held a banquet at the Bell Hotel to observe the thirty-sixth anniversary of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

White and yellow chrysanthemums, tied with green cellophane, centered the tables. A miniature gold Phoenix on green marked the place of each guest and on the attractive program booklets were block print designs of the same symbolic bird.

During the banquet, Mi s Luella Harzman, alumnce president, presided at the program on the theme, "Life in Alpha Sigma Alpha."

An octette from the college chapter sang "Hail, Alpha Sigma."

Miss Erl Lene Cline talked on "Thru Friendship." Mrs. Arthur Lane sang "I Love Life," after which Mrs. Charles Wood presented the next phase of the program, "Thru Service."

A vocal duet by Miss Nancy Beth Galyean and Miss Phyllis Card with Miss Pauline Haworth playing the piano accompaniment, introduced the last talk, "Of Our Found(!rs," by Miss Lois Rodgers.

While the toast program was in progress, Miss Edna Donley in behalf of the sorority, pre ented a bouquet of red roses to Mi s Minnie Shockley, who was recently inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

After the banquet a rotative party was enjoyed.

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Gamma Gamma goes to Tahlequah Eleven girls went from Gamma Gamma chapter to Tahlequah to help in the installation of Beta Gamma Chapter at Northeastern State Teachers' College.

We left Alva Friday noon and went to Tulsa, where we were entertained by Mrs. Edna K. Chamberlain, an alumnce. Saturday morning we went to Tahlequah to attend the initiation.

Saturday evening a lovely banquet was held in the dining room of Wilson Hall, with red and white as the color scheme.

Sunday morning the sororities of the campus entertained with a breakfast for the visiting girls.

Beta Gamma chapter certainly has a lot of fine girls, who made a great impression for being such nice hostesses.

Initiation Held Miss Phyllis Card, Miss lola Ricks and Miss Erl Lene Cline were initiated into Alpha Sigma Alpha October 19. The initiation was held in the Tower room of Herod Hall.

Following the initiation a short business meeting was held. Erl Lene was elected vice-president, lola chaplain and Phyllis reporter.

Halloween Party One of the most enjoyable parties of the year was held at the home of our patroness, Mrs. H. B. Ames. n attractive Halloween motif was employed in decorations, appointments and the menu. Games in keeping with the occasion featured the evening's entertainment,

New Sponsor We are most fortunate in having as our new sponsor, Miss Racine Spicer.

The candelight service was held for her November 9, in the sorority room in Herod Hall.

Miss Spicer teaches French, having spent last summer in France.

Wedding Announced at Christmas Party As a surprise to everyone at the close of our annual Christmas party December 6 was the telegram and the box of chocolates announcing the approaching marraige of our sponsor, Miss Vera Leeper, to Jess Cullison, of Anthony, Kansas. The wedding will be an event of the holiday season.

Vera has served as our sponsor for several years and is loved by all of the girls. We all give her our best wishes.

As the guests arrived they found the sorority room attractively decorated in blue and silver, lighted with tapers. The refreshment course repeated the color scheme. Candle holders with a star shaped base were given as favors.

Bridge and dominoes were played, after which individual gifts were distributed.

The alumnce gave the active girls for the sorority room a table, lace cloth, and mirror. The actives decided not to spend so much for individual gifts and also buy a gift for the room. They selected a floor lamp.

Special gift were pre ented to Miss Shockley, and to the sponsors, Miss Leeper and Miss Spicer.

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EPSILON EPSILON State Teachers College Emporia, Kansas

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alumnce of Emporia aY our orority a dinner at the l\Iit-v ay Hotel. We enjoyed it v ry much. t this 路dinner the award of the payment of the ocial due wa made to the girl who had had the highest schola tic standing in the sorority during her Junior year.

This a ward wa made to Mary Louise Butcher.

In December, the Mother~ Club gave us a Chri tma Party. t this party the pledge ang u the songs which they are required to write about the orority. Many of them were very clever, and we were quite proud of them. We also had an exchange of gift , and an Alpha Sigma Alpha ring was presented to our president, Edna Louise Turner.

We also had our " nowball Formal" at the Country Club. This is one of the prettie t dances, I think our chapter has. Each room is decorated in a certain color scheme.

Each year the same plan is carried out and everyone looks forward to it for it is o lovely.

Although it is a little late, we wish a happy and successful New Year to the other chapters of lpha Sigma lpha.

Epsilon Epsilon Chapt r ha been quite busy socially ince the last PHOENIX was issued. In October the Hayrack Ride was given which was a great deal of fun. We had five hayrack and drove to a grove north of town. After the good eats we .gathered around a camp fire singing our sorority and school songs. A few of our pledges also entertained us with solos .

Homecoming was also in October, and the active chapter held a buffet supper for the alumnce at the chapter house. There was a large crowd attended, and it was grand to see the girls who had graduated last year, and also to meet some of them whom we had not been in school with.

It was this month that our pledges sneaked from meeting and held a dance to which the actives were not invited. Thi 1 called "Sneak Night" and is an annual affair on our campus in which all the sororities and fraternities cooperate, holding a party without the consent or knowledge of the actives. Although it is against rules }ANE FINDLY, to do anything to the pledges for Chapter Editor. sneaking, many of them returned Edna Louise Turner home to find that their rooms had been turned topsy turvy, and some, It was last year when the Gilson if they did not find cracker crumbs players were on tour that Eddie in their beds, found to their as- Lou found her stage-door Johnny. tonishment that the slat had been It seems that in one town in which they stopped their dre ing room removed.

In November we had our Pledge was a class-room. \rVhile waiting Party at the Student Union. Each for the play to begin, Eddie Lou year the pledges give the actives always on the alert, discovered a a dance; thi year's was one of boy's notebook. Thinking she the best. On Founders Day the would be clever (on her own

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statement!), she wrote the boy a note, giving her name and address and asking him, if he liked the play, to write and tell her so. To her surprise she received several weeks later, in answer to her note, a letter from a senior in high school, who, incidentally, wanted to continue the correspondence.

Eddie Lou's friends attribute this incident to her magnetic personality and winning smile. Anywaythis is the long-hidden story of Eddie Lou's stage-door Johnny.

Eddie Lou is formally known as Edna Louise Turner, daughter of the science professor, president of Alpha Sigma Alpha, a member of Pan-Hellenic Council, of Sorority President's Council, and the HomeEconomics Club, besides the Gilson Players, a dramatic club. She is a versatile girl, and one of unusual executive ability. And speaking of executive ability-she manages the affairs of Alpha Sigma Alpha quite efficiently, but when it comes to her own love affairswen, this story is too good to keep.

This fall, when the Alpha Sig pledges were giving the actives a dance, Eddie Lou was so undecided about whom she should ask as her date that the other actives, always ready to help a pal in trouble, took up the matter in sorority meeting.

The question was considered from the athletic, and political, and the family viewpoints, and finally the family side was voted best. Eddie Lou was rather chargrined that the matter should be taken so completely out of her hands, but she had to admit the voting had its good points.

Graduating from Emporia State

in May, Eddie Lou has attended Emporia schools almost all her life.

She plans to receive a B. S. in Education, with majors in English and Speech, and ranks practi;:e teaching as one of the best courses she has ever taken.

As society editor of the Bulletin, our school paper, Eddie Lou assumes a responsible position in school affairs, and is a valuable senior to Emporia State.

LILLIAN CLOUGH.

ZETA ZETA Central Missouri State Teachers ;College Warrensburg, Missouri

On Saturday, November 13th, we held our Founders Day Banquet at the house. Sorority colors of red and white were carried out in the decorations. A centerpiece of red and white '路Mums adorned the head table, while American beauty rosebuds formed the centerpieces of the other tables. About thirty alumn::e and patronesses attended, and we are happy to tell you it was a grand occasion for Zeta Zeta.

Mrs. Wilma Wilson Sharp also attended, and of course the very presence of one so loved, made the banquet even more perfect!

Christmas Activities Saturday night, the fourth of December, our annual formal Christmas Dance was held. Our dance programs were hand painted, bearing a lighted candle with holly in the background, and the letters AlA, and tied with red and green cords. Favors, of Christmas candies and china Santa Clauses wrapped in cellophane, were given.

THE PHOENIX Next Sunday evening we are invited to the home of Mrs. N. M. Bradley, one of our patronesses, for 路 a vesper hour. This is also an annual occasion for Zeta Zeta and we are looking forward to it.

Our sorority meeting hour will be given over next week to our "family" Christmas party. We all exchange our gifts around the tree and then go caroling-returning home for chili.

On Debate Team Gene Smith, sophomore active of Zeta Zeta, has recently been named on the girl's debate team of the college. November 27, 28, and 29, she debated in the annual preseason tournament at Winfield, Kansas.

Dorothy Wilcoxon of Odessa was initiated last month into Alpha Phi Delta, honorary for sophomore girls.

Wilma Smith of Sedalia, Missouri, and Mary V ivian King of Warrensburg were pledged to Zeta Zeta recently.

Happy New Year!

RuTH BuEKER, Editor.

ETA ETA State Teachers College Pittsburg, Kansas

Eta Eta chapter is just "bubbling over" with news. Pittsburg teachers' seems to be a college of queens for there have already been three contests for queenships.

The Alpha girls mu t bear royal blood for all three of the queens were Alpha candidates. Betty Dorsey, who was a maid of honor at the Kansas City Jubilesta last year,

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' as cho en by a popular vote to be Homecoming Queen this year.

Maudean Clift of Windfield, won the honor of being K Club Queen.

The K Club is made up of lettermen.

And finally, and most important Virginia Martin will rule as Kanza Queen for 1937. By elling the most yearbooks he won a coveted trip to New York City and Washington during the Christmas Holidays.

Queening is not all we do here at Pittsburg. Several of us were fortunate enough to be able to help install our new Beta Gamma chapter at Tahlequah, Okla. We made many new friends during our weekend, and returned after a delightful visit with promises from them to visit us soon.

Perhaps we do not realize the possibilities of inter-chapter relationships. To meet and know girls of other campuses who have the same interests as own strengthens our chapters individually and nationally. Each girl who went to Tahlequah last November, I am sure, realizes more fully the unity, the power and purpose, of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

Surely informal week-end visits could be arranged. For instance, during the basketball season when "our" team goes to play "your" team we 路 could all pile into the school bus and visit you.

So we, who were shown the possibilities of an inter-chapter friendship by the example set at Tahlequah, champion the cause with banners flying!

MARY ALICE MoNTGOMERY.

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THETA THETA Boston University Boston, Massachusetts

My, my how time doe fly! I can't believe that two months have passed since I last sent in the PHOEN"Ix material. \\ e Theta Theta have been busy every minute and some of us even forget the days of the week and dates of course, "outstanding dates" are alway remembered, but I mean those dates you put on a clean sheet of note paper after entering class and settling down to an hour's lecture.

In our beautiful Lounge, which h~s been newly decorated, we held our Rush party on the afternoon of October 22. Tea was served from three to five o'clock, and many new acquaintances were made. ll the active members were on hand, and as we all sat around, sipping tea and eating dainty sandwiches, we told our rushees what AlA was and what it had meant to us girl who were initiated last year. ix charming girls have joined our sisterhood. Three were pledged on November 6 at the beautiful home of one of our Alumnce members, Mrs. Hazel Jones. This pledge service was followed by the annual Japanese Party. On November 15, three more lovely girls were pledged and were afterwards entertained by the active members at the "Yell ow Lantern." After a delicious chicken dinner our President, V. Ann King, spoke about the founding of AlA and its history.

Our initiation wa held in B. U. chool of Education on No-

ember 18. In an impressive Candle-light service, we accepted the following girl into our chapterMary ngu , race Ea ton Cora Hay, Florence Mullin , Gladys Tennyson, and Kay Wood . We welcome these fine new girls most cordially into our orority and we are looking forward to some happy moments together. t the dinner, which followed the Initiation, at our Women's Building, our dviser, Miss Bragg was toa tmi tress. Mary Macauley spoke about the lumnce Chapter and Cora Hay spoke for the new initiates. Mrs. Hazel Jones, welcomed the girls in her own charming manner and other members from the Alumnre spoke a few words to the new girls. The active members present at Initiation were V . Ann King, Glenna Gibson, Phyllis Dumphey, Helen Newhall, and Doris Corbett.

We have just heard that ,many of our last year's AlA graduates have. positions. Alice Moore is teaching the second grade in Exeter, N. H. ; Helen Newhall is teaching the first grade in North Reading, but is still carrying some courses at B. U.; Mary Moran is teaching in Maine, as i Helen Weeks; Etta Christian on is teaching at Thompson's Island and lpha Guyer is employed with an Interior Decorating Concern.

Good luck to you sister ! We know you'll be succe sful!

Theta Theta has had no marriages on record for the past two or three years. \ hat's the matter sisters, are you holding out on this news? ! Surely Dan Cupid is

THE PHOE JIX around Theta Theta with his arrow as well as other chapters !

For our philanthropic work this Christmas, we have planned to send Christmas baskets to the homes of two men who are employed at B. U. School of Education. Gifts will be sent to their children, a! o, to make their Christmas a little happier than it might otherwise be.

Social Calendar Our first big social event of this new A~A year was a Barn Dance, given in cooperation with the School of Education Glee Club, in honor of our most victorious football squad. Everyone turned out to this affair, and between Virginia Reels and Paul Jones' as well as other breath-taking dances, (I guess we're getting old) we were worn out but still excited when the clock struck twelve o'clock.

Phyllis Dunphey, Theta Theta's Secretary, received the prize for the best girl's costume-she went as broom. This social success followed our last football game, played against Boston College, in which we were most victorious.

Victorious isn't quite the word, because this was our first victory in fifteen games played.

Other events on our social calendar include our Annual Christmas Party, which is to be heid this year at the most attractive apartment of Cora Hay. A Theatre Party is planned for January, and in February we are in hopes of having our Formal Dance.

Miss Bragg, our adviser entertained the cabinet at "The Smargasband," Norse Restaurant.

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foods we " ampled"-pre edin our lusciou teak dinner! orne thing , a yet, we do not know what they are, but never-the-le were mo t deliciou . fter thi dinner party, we went to Mi Bragg's cozy apartment, where we ettled down ( omewhat uncomfortable after the big dinner ' e had eaten) to the seriou bu ine s of our Cabinet meeting.

Pledge Service-Japanese Party On Saturday, Nov. 6, a group of happy, excited girls met in the Lounge of the chool Education at I :45 p. m. Among them were: Kay Woods, Gladys Tenny on, Mary Angus, Violett King, Doris Corbett, Helen Newhall, Glenna Gibson.

Marjorie Horne, lfa Guyer and Phyllis Dunphey. They were on their way to a Pledge ServiceJapanese Party at the home of Mr .

Hazel J one , one of our alumn~, in Winchester.

Some of the girls rode out there in "Hilda," Violett King' car, and the other rode in "Phillip," A!fa Guyer's beach wagon.

We arrived at Mr . Jones' home about three o'clock. The first thing that attracted our attention a we entered were the beautiful decorations of Japanese lanterns and paper flowers. We were greeted by Mrs. Jones and a group of alum nee.

The Pledge ervice began at 3 :45.

Violett King, opened the service, Glenna Gibson, read King Asa, and Helen Newhall was the chaplain .

Those pledged were: Kay Wood , Gladys Tenny on and Mary ngus.

After the ervice we all played Japanese Bridge. What fun we all had! The highest score was ob-

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tained by a member of the alumnce, for which she received a prize.

Fallowing this we were all ushered into a room, bare of chairs but filled with pillows. In true Japanese custom we sat on these pillows on the floor, and ate our chop suey with chop sticks, and drank Japanese tea.

The active and new members were given as souvenirs, a beautiful J apanese fan and chop sticks.

The party ended at six o'clock; and we all started on our journey homeward.

PHYLLIS

M.

DUNPHEY.

KAPPA KAPPA Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .

What a week this is on Temple campus- exams, meetings, initiations, plays, holiday excitement, Christmas shopping, parties, reports ! The Kappa Kappas dash around in frenzies, but get nothing accomplished except the scouring of time tables for "the train home."

We did get our fall rushing done with before the present mad rush set in. Through the medium of a very goose - pimply ghost party, we "scared" five new girls into joining our happy band: Polly Shallcross, Allegra Stone, Marjorie Block, Lynn Davis, and Alvadee Hutton.

On November 13, we held a dance at Maxine Carroll's, with a magician show on the side, mainly to raise money for our game room. The game room, incidentally, finally got its ping pong table and now the chief worry is who'll use it next and who the heck sat on the balls?

Alumnce week-end went off with the usual bang and with the usual

number of people sleeping on the floor, kitchen table, laundry tubs, and what not. We were pleased to learn at the banquet that one of our alumns, Thelma Stortz, is now ational Examination Chairman.

The Lancaster alumnce chapter also presented us with a lovely floor lamp that week-end.

The biggest excitement since my last letter, however, ha been the Temple hour on the Pontiac Varsity Show. For further details, consult another article in this issue.

Affairs coming up are a baby shower for Dod Chadderton on December 10, and our Christmas party on the next Sunday-Santa will be there (two to one his voice will squeak), and everyone will get a present costing the enormous sum of ten cents-just can't wait!

The Friday night before vacation starts we are having our Christmas formal at the Hotel Walton with pine trees and tinsel and colored lights.

Another holiday project is the sending of a gift box to Mrs. Clarke, our former house mother, who is convalescing in Florida.

Holiday functions for the whole university are the Yuletide Celebration in the Great Court of our recreation hall, and the White Supper.

The latter is a dinner sponsored by the Student Christian Association, at which everyone and everything is attired in white.

If we live through all the celebration, you may hear from Kappa Kappa again next issue. Don't eat too much cranberry sauce.

P. S.-Just got back from Mitten Hall, where the Music Department gave "The Messiah," and Ann Price

THE PHOENIX and Lillian Morris surely did lpha Sig up proud. They had the solo parts, and really were mar-vee-lous.

KITTY DUNAVANT.

MU MU State Normal College Ypsilanti, Michigan

October 22 to 24 were gala days for Michigan State Normal College.

It was homecoming, with football games, parades, pep-meeting, theatre rush, dances, teas, and a general get-together with alumn<ÂŁ.

Mu Mu had a float in the parade.

The cab part of the truck represented a log cabin. We had white squares spelling out Alpha Sigma Alpha hung on a clothes line. Four of us blackened our faces, and dressed as southern mammies and rode on the float. Our make-up was so good that . in a write up in the daily paper, we were called Alpha Kappa Alpha (a negro sorority on campus).

We were not awarded any prize, but we had great sport getting it ready.

Saturday, October 23, we had our annual homecoming tea. This year we held the tea in honor of Miss Harris.

Seventen alumnre came back to renew their ties with A.S.A. Mrs. Barss (our patroness) poured.

Our guests were Mrs. Helen Bradly, Pi Pi chapter; Mesdames Barss, hephard, and Smith.

Recently, we had, what we called, a sandwich spread. Everyone invited had to bring something that made sandwiches or went with them.

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celery, potato chip , and tea. It was load of fun. Ju t try it!

It i Chri tma time, o we ha e been making layettes for the city nurse. orne of the girl certainly e are have the natural nack of it. also filling a large red tacking for the Y. V\T. C. This term Iu Mu ha hit upon a plan we think work beautifully.

We hold our meetina every Monday night; one week we have a bu ines meeting, the next, a ocial. \\ e feel that the e social meeting are bringing us girls closer together, and we know that we are really getting acquainted.

For one ocial meeting, Mr .

Smith opened her home for a Tl.anksgiving dinner. eated around a campfire (made of an electric bulb covered with red paper and tick ) we sang our campus and sorority songs. Mrs. Kennedy was our guest.

Mary Margaret Schroer and Dorothy Beach were in charge.

Lyla Stenzel and Marjorie DeJaforce were in charge of the Founder's Day program. We ang sorority songs and tudied our Sorority Sheets. Light refreshment were served. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Smith were our guests.

December 6, we had our Christmas party with Mildred Bingham; Elsie Navy, and Marjorie Delaforce acting as the committee in charge. The room was all decorated in Christmas fashion with a tree and candles. Several games were played, and Santa gave each girl a gift. Mrs. rnith and Mrs. Barss were our guests.

M. S. r. C. has been very honored lately by having two very fine program of international value: Mr.

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Ko e of Czecho lovakia poke on the relationship between his country and ours.

Then on November 18, James A. Brown and Ronald V. Gibson from Oxford and Cambridge College respectively came here for a debate with two M. S. . C. boys. They were honored at a formal banquet at Charles McKenny Hall. VIe found the English boys very clever and witty, and afforded us much faughter. The subject debated was "Resolved, that the absolute veto of the Supreme Court is an anachronism." There was no decision.

Every year, the Women's League gives a party for girls only. This year they gave a "Santa Claus Swing." Each girl dressed in any costume that she wished. The evening was spent in games and dancing. It afforded much enjoyment.

Many of Mu Mu's girls attended.

As an affair at Christmas time the choir, under the direction of Professor Alexander gives a concert. This year it is to be held December 9. Some of the numbers to be offered are: "Christmas Night" arranged by Frank Damrosch ; "Christmas Song" by Peter Cornelius; "By Babylon's Wave" by Ch. Gounod; and "VI/e Have o Other Guide" by C. Shvedof. Five Mu Mu' sing in the Choir.

Since writing this article, I have found out that the program is to be broadcast over WJBK, Detroit, at 8 p.m.

VIVIAN LEE

Gownv.

Rushing Ru hing sea on i approaching so we fu Mu girl are bu y with plans.

We've et a high goal for we are

losing five girls through graduation in June and now that our chapter is progressing we want to keep the number up. s rushing sea on will last three weeks, we have plans made for fourteen parties within that time. VIe have three major parties planned, an open house tea at the chapter house, an Aunt J emima breakfast and a Formal Nautical dinner.

Since our season is very long and we have an extensive program it has necessitated careful planning of duties. We have worked out a system of committees whereby each girl has a chance to serve as chairman for one party and she serves on two other committees, making her three duties in all for the entire three weeks. We thought that this system would allow each girl an opportunity to take an active part in rushing and that no one girl would have too much responsibility. By working on committees the girls become better acquainted and this make? for a stronger chapter.

In the last PHOE rx, November, we read of Omicron Omicron's cardcatalog system whereby all sorority members were responsible for two or more cards in the file describing the rushee as to grades, personality family, etc. We thought this a splendid idea and are going to adopt it this year. We have secured, through discussion of rushees at business meetings, data for our cards and Leontine Rylko and I are meeting during Christmas vacation to complete the file which will stress the talent, hobbies, course, interest and what each girl can offer Alpha Sigma lpha as well as her address and other necessary items that will be

THE PHOE needed. The entire ru hee list ha been allotted out to each girl, every girl will be respon ible for a certain group of girls and may have the use of the catalog to guide her during the year. We hope that by following this system we will be able to contact worthwhile girls and make our rushing eason a success. Wish us luck Alpha Sigs!

FERNE BROWN,

Rush Captai1t.

An Open Forum in the P. E. A. How many of you Alpha Sigs have ever attended a convention of the Progressive Education ssociaation? All of you that have will know what Lois Reilly and I were in on when we were at one of the meetings of the regional convention that was recently held in Ann Arbor.

On Saturday afternoon, both the Men's Union and the Women's League from Ypsi sent two delegates to represent Michigan onnal at an open forum in the ballroom of the Michigan Union. We two Alpha Sigs were the delegates sent by the League. The topic discussed at the meeting we attended was "A More Effective College Education."

Professor Weaver, of the English department at the University of Michigan, presided at the meeting.

Before the meeting started he did not seem at all like an exceptional person. But the moment he began to talk we just knew that he was one person to whom we could listen for a long, long time before being bored. He is just one of those person whose voice seems to come right out from the powerful inside of the being. He was witty, clear, understanding, and, above all, considerate and tactful. Under his

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capable direction the ao- -old que tion 'Extra-Curricular . ctiviti " \\路a di cu ed for fully an hour. "\fter that, ince a great many tudent were attending, the general value of education wa gi n a one of the mo t vague problem in our chool y tern. E pecially the development of the per onalitie of students through faculty and other relation hips wa frankly and even ad to ay, heatedly questioned. however, no definite conclu ion were reached by which thi could be remedied.

At the end, Profe or Eurich of Torthwe tern niver ity, gave a brief summary of the ground that had been covered in the short time the meeting lasted. Hearing problems that come so do e home di cu sed with such lack of re traint and yet with all due respect to the people who are responsible for our present system of education wa interesting, broadening, and extremely revealing.

LYLA

STE

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Armistice Day at M. S. N. C. Ju t nineteen years from that eventful ovember 11 , the thriving Y. \i\ . C. . on our campus celebrated Armistice Day. The observance of thi memorable day i an annual occasion, each year finds students enjoying omething different.

This year it was a well-attended Armistice Day tea. But the important feature of the afternoon wa the presence of honored guests, Dr. and Mrs. R. Ko e, the former a noted Czecho lovakian diplomat connected with the League of ation and the latter was the fir t Czecholovakian woman to enter assar on

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a scholar hip. They are a most interesting couple and we were honored by their everal days presence on our campus.

For the occasion, Starkweather, our homey Y. W . C. . building was attractively decorated with flags, potted plants and ferns, and the glow of soft light reflected peacefulness and tranquility. One of our own Mu Mu girls, Mary Margaret chroer, had charge of the decorations which suggested her fine. artistic ability. My position on Y. W. C. A. Cabinet entitled me to the privilege of heading the receiving line, giving me the opportunity of enjoying the presence of our honored guests. Muriel Bremer, also a Mu Mu girl, lent her assistance as an able hostess.

Dr. Kose said a few words in a very informal manner, making other guests feel at perfect ease. His closing words not only apply to the Nations of the world but to our own Alpha Sigma Alpha, "We must work together."

DOROTHY

F.

BEACH.

NU NU Drexel Institute of Technology Philadelphia. Pennsylvania

Busy Days What busy days these have been for all good Alpha Sigs at Drexel Tech ! eems like we just got to school and began to know the new girls when along came mid-term exams ; and we j u t recover from the shock of tho e when finals rear their ugly head . But what care we?

End of the term alway seems like the end of the world, but A. S. A.ers come up smiling.

We've been on the go for Alpha ig too-witness the grand Harve t Moon Dance which was held in the Court on October twenty-sixth, about which Clare Bowman speaks her piece in this issue.

On the thirty-first of October, N u Nu gave a tea for its alumnre in Drexel Dormitory. Miss Jean Richmond, our adviser, and Mrs. Leon Stratton, one of our patronesses, presided at the tea table, and a pleasant afternoon was spent visiting with the old girls who have made good. It was grand to see again the smiling faces of Jean Mueller, Phoebe Maxfield, Leona Siewicz, and Mary Lentz. Claire Bowman was Chairman of the Committee in charge, and deserves a lot of credit for a happy reunion.

On November first, seven of our pledges were initiated into the chapter. They were: Doris and Helene Rice, Adelaide Mason, Sybil Weller, Helen Buck, Betty Campbell, and Helen Albert. This adds materially to the strength of our group, and we are expecting great things from our new initiates.

Plans are already in the making, and are being carried out, to send a big car full of girls to convention next summer. Every meeting brings from the Committee a new scheme for adding to the purse, which will give Nu Nu a good representation at Convention, and mean a happy time for several lucky girls.

Rushing plans are also occupying our attention. The "open season" won't begin until about the middle of January, but Flo Reiff and her committee have things down to a system, and are doing exceptionally fine work on getting us all organ-

THE PHOE ized. We'll tell you all about our parties in a later issue, but here is a choice bit which just can't wait.

For years, everyone has been saying a lot about the "Alpha Sig type" of girl, but it develops that no one in N u N u (until now) ever thought to put in exact words just what we mean by this expression. Here it is-All credit to the rushing committeeWe want Alpha Sigs to haveA L P H A

animation loyalty poise honor ambition

S I G S

stability individuality graciousness sportsmanship

We all think that gives a pretty fine idea of what A. S. A . is all about. Anyhow, it gives us all something to think about.

MARIAN MARSH.

The Harvest Moon Dance If you like to have lots of fun and a good time, you should have been with the u N u girls at the end of October when they had their Harvest Moon Dance in the Great Court at Drexel. This dance, which is a regular annual occurence, is open to the whole school, and was full to overflowing with Alpha girls, their friends, and many of our alum nee.

The Royal Crusaders played for dancing. The traditional decorations, a blue sky with silver stars hanging high above the Court, were effective. The Court is impressive in

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it elf becau e of the wide marble staircase and the famou pieces of statuary against the wall .

Because of a new fire law here, the sky, which is made up of yard and yards of blue bunting, had to be sprayed with an inflamable liquid to make it fire-proof. For real amusement, you should have been on hand when this was done with two tiny hand sprays of the "Quick, Henry, the Flit" variety.

To sum things up-there was fun for all, and we were glad to be there and to see so many of our alumnce having a happy time with us.

CLAIRE BOWJ\IAN .

Social Service Work at Nu Nu This year the N u u chapter of A. S. A. has turned their social service work into various fields. The first project of the season was giving a layette to the Needlework Guild of America, to be used for one of the babies at the Preston Retreat in Philadelphia The baby to whom this was given was born December 5, a darling little boy named Billy.

This contribution makes N u N u chapter a director of the eedlework Guild.

Then we had called to our attention the fact that a talented young Philadelphia musician, Joseph Battiste, studying onder a scholarship at the J ulliard School of Music in New York City, needed a little financial aid aside from hi scholarship. We found it a real opportunity to help him by giving him studs and a scarf for hi full dress suit, at the time of his recital in the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.

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At Christmas, we followed the usual Yuletide custom of giving ba kets to needy families. This has concluded our activities up to the pre ent time, but we hope that we may be able to be of ervice throughout the coming year.

LYDIA

M.

Chain11a1~,

LODGE,

Social Service.

XI XI University of California Los Angeles, California

Each year before Christmas vacation, Xi Xi chapter has a Christmas party for the purpose of obtaining gifts for the girls who attended our camp at Big Pines last summer.

This year we had the party at the home of an alumna member, Mrs. Isabelle Jones. Our guests were the alumnce and the mothers of the girls in the chapter.

By way of entertainment, we played Bridge and Monopoly, and the alumnce and the mothers walked off with all the prizes, but then they don't have to worry about term papers and quizzes at this time of the year.

Each person brought a small, inexpensive gift to the party, and these were placed in a large basket and distributed, one to each of us.

We are an imaginative group; the presents ranged from a Donald Duck made of soap to etchings.

The Christmas spirit was created with the singing of carols and hymns, colorful decorations, and the gayly beribboned gifts. We all became more conscious of the approach of the yuletide season; our weather has been so clear and warm that it has seemed more like early Fall.

Our party was a distinct success, and we not only have a nice collection of gifts for the camp girls, but we had a grand social evening.

VIRGINIA BUNDREN.

OMICRON OMICRON Kent S tate University Kent, Ohio

Rush P arty \1\Touldn't you like to attend the formal opening of a Parisian cafe.

Our rush party committee did its best to create that atmosphere for the "AlA Cafe" formal opening Tuesday, November 23 at the Kent Hotel.

There were sixty-five interested rushees, our patronesses, adviser, ten alumnces, and, of course, all the actives.

The idea was carried out by cozy little tables accommodating four, set with red and white checked table cloths. Vari-colored candles set in wooden blocks and match boxes covered with red and white checkered material were the centerpieces of each table.

A novel bar, which used the checkered material motif again, was a point of interest. Pretty waitresses in knee-high smocks served red punch, potato chips and pretzels. A glamorous cigarette girl dispensed "cigs" and the favors. She was dressed in a white satin suit trimmed with white maribou; there were red velvet trunks and red velvet lining the skirt.

There was social dancing during the evening. We did the "Big pple" in which the rushees joined en.thusiastically. Palm reading by an alumnce added greatly. A floor how by the actives complete with

THE PHOE amber spot light was the climax of the party. Singing, a monologue, and tap dancing were included.

The evening ended with the A. actives proudly singing their sorority songs, while standing in an impre sive circle The only illumination in the room was a candle in the center of the circle.

The rushees were reluctant to leave.

New Pledges Initiation services for nineteen new pledges were held at the K. of C. hall, Sunday, December 12, at three o'clock. ew pledges initiated into Omicron Omicron chapter were : Charlotte Boedecker, Silver Lake; Jane Clarke, East Cleveland; Mary Daltoria, Macedonia .: Dorothy Dyson, North Olmsted; lola Evans.

Dover; Martha Foltz, Akron; Marian Franklin, Akron; Ruth Gill, Youngstown ; Julia Lyons, Lima; Jeannette M a I at, Youngstown; Martha Jane Murtaugh, Marion ; Harriet Nunnally, Youngstown; Janet Petty, Cuyahoga Falls; Roslyn Spencer, Lakewood; Dorothy Ulmer, Mogadore; Virginia Weber, Massillon; Margaret Williamson, Cuyahoga Falls; Shirley Wilbur, Cuyahoga Fall ; and Mary Elizabeth Zimmerman, Akron.

Homecoming Fish swaying in the breeze. Does that sound too fantastic? Homecoming at Kent State University gives the Greek societies a chance to show their originality.

Omicron Omicron chapter had a clever scheme this year which made a gay splash of color on the campus to welcome the alums.

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The color of the I ent team and tho e of the vi iting football team made the goal po t bright before the hou e. From the e po t to the hou e and al o for a backdrop, cheesecloth of a pale blue billowed and rippled forming an aquarium.

Football with painted cardboard fins and tail were fish, repre entinrr each team that the Golden Fla he played during the ea on. The e pigskin fish were u pended in the a~quarium. Perched on the porch roof just above the acquarium wa a dummy of a player in a Golden Flash uniform. He wa fi bing in the acquarium with a long pole and the fish that he had caught lay beside him. It was the game that Kent had won. Sea anemone and snails crept across the bottom of the blue cloth water. ]EAN

HouT.

Homecoming Queen Jean Ulmer, Omicron Omicron prexy, reigned as queen over Kent State University's homecoming celebration.

Presented first to the alumnce at the homecoming game Jean wa driven onto the field in a blue green phceton with her official escort. She wore a black fur coat setting off her golden blond hair which was further enhanced by the huge bouquet of golden chrysanthemums which she carried. he then spoke over a P. A. y tern welcoming the alums and presenting the football captain with the ball. Afte r her presentation speech she was escorted to a reserved ection in the tadium.

Jean wa pre en ted for a second time at the annual homecoming dance in the evening. Wearing white

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at the Park Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Jean Ulmer

satin with rhinestone straps, her blond hair confined by a sparkling Juliet cap Jean was every inch a queen as she was introduced by a fanfare of trumpets. The backdrop of royal blue with a golden crown decoration was a fitting background for our queen.

After her introduction she gre~ted the alumnce in a receiving line at one end of the dance floor.

* * * * In the Fall class elections on the campus Jean Davis was elected secretary of the senior class. Women's League representatives elected were, Virginia Himes, sophomore degree; Jean Kelly, sophomore diploma; and Dorothy Ulmer, freshman degree.

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Margaret nne Spencer, A~A, is to be married to Richard Owen Bolick, on Tuesday, December 28,

Walls hung with travel postersadvertising far away, exotic corners of the earth, long folded round the \\"orld tickets-no we're not leaving school, these were the decorations for our pledge dance, first big social event given by the sorority this year.

The place earby Ravenna Masonic Hall.

The date- December 18, 1937.

The guests - Our patrons and patronesses, our adviser, the proud new pledges and their best beaus and, last but not least, the actives and their men.

The committee, headed by Jeanne Hout, ably assisted by Bette Madison and Marion Crotser, worked very hard on the plans for the dance and were rewC;Lrded by having every ene say what a huge success it had been.

Different parts of the room represented路 different countries and the orchestra entered into the spirit of things by playing one or two national anthems as we merrily trucked on down. The dance was strictly formal, not that that is the accepted way to dress when traveling, but we A~A's like to be different and do things up right.

PI PI State Teachers College Buffalo, New York

Since my last letter to the PHOENIX, two very important things have happened. First, we added to our number, the grandest twenty new members, four of whom are

THE PHOENIX pledging, that any sorority has ever had the honor to initiate. With their combination of loyalty, pep and ingenuity they ought to carry Alpha Sigma Alpha up to even greater heights. More power to them !

The second important thing iswe're snow bound. It just keeps on snowing and snowing and we just keep on shoveling and shoveling, 'til now I guess it's come to the point where everyone is inside curled up next to the fire and waiting for the snow to stop. It certainly is a record breaker. For once that conversational deadlock, "the weather" is interesting to us.

Thi news letter is going to be quite short, thanks to the new members who have expressed their eagerness to start right in by showing us what they can do. They are going to tell you about our doings since the last issue, leaving me only the matter of our Formal Initiation to tell you about.

Our Formal Initiation Dinner and Dance was held at the Hotel Statler on ovember 20. The initiation itself was held at school in the morning so giving our chaplain, Betty Bernhard, a breathing spell between the Initiation service and the dinner.

At the dinner, Evelyn Bell, our National Pre ident; Mary Gaglay, a member; Frances Skidmore, a new member, and yours truly, gave after dinner speeches. I'm afraid no one heard your narrators' little piece above the rattle of her knees.

Congratulations - Betty Bernhard and Gert Van Arsdale, on making Initiation Day a perfect event.

Here is a list of our new member : Doris Anderson, Betty Barber,

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Katherine Burlingame, L uris sa Childress, Jean Clark, Rena Fish, Jane Gillist, Ruth Kimpland, Betty Mallue, Dori eedham, Marian Passage, uzanne ate, Grace Schreiner, Frances Skidmore, Edith Snedecor and Muriel ullivan . The four who are pledging are: Virginia Blake, Diana Blakely, Hazel Bonnell and Margaret McEntire.

There's one other important item before I close-On the behalf of the sorority and myself may I wish the best of luck to our new "baby sister" Beta Gamma at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. May you prove to be a strong link in our ever growing chain.

Goodbye for now but you'll hear from me in the next is ue, that is, if this snow ever decides to stop, you will.

MARGARET URBAN,

Editor.

Penguin Parade "Peppy Penguins Present Pompous Parade! Everyone looked for Admiral Byrd yesterday after four peppy penguins waddled onto the stage, sporting pertinent posters."

This statement brightened the front page oÂŁ our college Record.

Penguin Parade proved a great success; laurels going to Ro alind Scharch who acted as general chairman.

Brrr-! Icebergs and penguins, penguins and icebergs made the Antarctic setting. Josephine Phillippi was responsible for the cold wave. Marian Thomas and Helen Pratt were chairmen of the programs. Again our perky penguin's were in evidence. Music was furn-

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i hed by the " iking " with Lou Fenton and Gert Van r dale a chairmen. Other committees included the following: Marian Lewi , arrangement and refreshments; Margaret Dapp, chaperones; Frances Cummins, finance; Annette Pausewang, publicity; and Hilda Weeland, clean-up.

The "Penguin Parade''-one to be remembered by all of us who attended. Now to a bigger success next year. ]EAN

E. CLARK.

Impressions of the Formal Initiation On Saturday, November the twentieth, the Pi Pi chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority held its formal initiation service in the Social Center of the Buffalo State TeachersL College.

The initiates, accompanied by their spon~ors, were ushered, into the room where Miss Doris Wyatt, president, assisted by the Misses Josephine Phillippi, Marian Thomas, and Betty Bernard presented for us the purposes and ideals of the sorority in a simple, but impressive devotional.

This day will be remembered eternally by us, who are the newest members. The creed, the discipline, and the aims, as they were set forth, have changed my attitude toward humanity. By carefully following the un elfi h principle of thi organization, I believe that I can live advantageously not only for my elf but for others.

BETTY MALLUE.

RHO RHO Marshall College West Virginia

Huntingt~n,

Sorority Gives Tea in Honor of Miss Smith Member of Rho Rho chapter of lpha Sigma Alpha orority at Marshall College entertained with a formal tea yesterday afternoon between 3 :30 and 4 :30 o'clock at College Hall, honoring Miss June Smith of Miller ville, Pa., inspecting officer for the sorority and for National Pan-Hellenic.

In the receiving line were Miss Smith, Miss Esther McQueen, president of the local chapter ; and Miss Dorris Henry, faculty adviser. Mrs. Mortimer Buck, president of the local alumnce chapter poured tea.

Decorations of red and white, sorority colors, were used through flowers. About 35 guests were present.

During the afternoon initiation ceremonies were conducted for three pledges, Miss Mayne ias of Milton Miss Ida Katherine Smith ' of Ripley and Miss Adrienne Anderson of Charleston.

This evening member~ of the alumnce chapter will have a dinner party at 6:30 o'clock at Mrs. S. E. Langfitt's tea room on Tenth avenue honoring Miss Smith. Mrs. Buck, as president, has charge of the plans and about 15 guests from Charleston and Huntington will be present.

Taken from the Huntington Paper, November 20, 1937.

THE PHOENIX SIGMA SIGMA Western State College Gunnison, Colo.

Sigma Sigma chapter has joyous news to announce to her sister chapters this month.

When pledging preferences were handed into the dean of women November 15, Alpha Sigma Alpha was chosen by 15 of the loveliest girls in a grand group of rushees.

This large group is making an active and outstanding pledge chapter on the Western Sta.te campus.

They are Eleanor Pricoo, Vivian McClaren, Frances Craig, Phyllis Y ewell, Peggy Cook, Margaret Hammond, Celia Rescorla, Nona Newby, Marie Stalk, Leola Mills, Edith Enbom, Helen Ruth Wilcoxen, Alice Te Grotenhuis, Phyllis Farmer and Betty Welborn.

So Sigma Sigma plans " big things" this year with a group of interested pledges.

We entertained at a formal dinner-dance for our rushees November 13 at the La Veta Hotel. A large number of patronesses and alumnce helped us make the evening enjoyable for our rushees .

Joan Adams, one of our talented actives, played a violin solo, and two of the members of the Kappa Delta Mu fraternit y and Mrs. Lewis Miller, one of our alums, sang two of our song . The tables were all in red and white, and A. S. A. fun reigned for a night.

And to bring furth er joy to a successful quarter, Mrs. Polly Schlosser wa with us la t week-end.

Jus tine Kelleher was initiated into the active order in her presence.

Both pledges, actives, alumnce and patronesses enjoyed dinner with

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her aturday e ening. Mr . chlo er told u of our new chapter at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Becau h aided with the in tallation of th pledge and active chapter , w eemed to really fe 1 the pirit with which Tau igma chapt r b gan its work. May they find the happine and value I have found in lpha Sigma lpha.

Sunday morning, the pledge and active attended church in a body.

That evening, Mrs. chlo er returned to Denv r leaving \\"ith u the new zeal he always brings.

Mother-P atroness Returns A fter spending three months in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her daughter, Mrs. C. . Helmecke, one of our most zealous and lovable patronesses, has returned and is again aiding igma igma. We felt her absence greatly during rushing 路 and are so g lad she i back with us. Mr . Helmecke i more than a patrone s; he is a Mother-Patroness. Her daughter, Roberta, now Mrs. Ed Janney of Albuquerque, was one of tgma Sigma's fine t president .

Next Quarter Next Wedne day, we plan to enjoy an hour of fun-playing with children's toys. No, we haven't suddenly let all our good fortune go to our heads. We decided to give each other toys thi year instead of the usual adult Chri tma gift. A fter we enjoy a social hour. we wi ll gather up our toy and turn them over to the American Legion to be di tributed to needy children in basket of food .

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our annual serenading. We will go during winter quarter in a sleigh-providing Old Man Winter will give us some snow.

We also look forward to the return of last year's editor to Gunnison next quarter. She is now Mrs. Charles Melien and will, with her husband, move here from Connecticut after Christmas.

MARY KAY YoKLAVICH.

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The Alpha Sigma lpha formal dinner and dance was scheduled for Saturday evening, December the eighteenth at the Lamer Hotel.

Due to the fact that Chri tmas vacation is to begin the seventeenth instead of the twenty second as was planned, it was necessary for us to postpone our party until January the fourteenth. Naturally now the theme of our party must be changed from a Christmas party, with the use of all Christmas things, to that of a snow scene.

RuTH

ANGELL,

Taz~

Tal拢 Pledge.

Christmas Gat hering Philanthropy Plans for the annual active and Tau Tau Chapter is planning pledge Christmas party are getting underway. This party is not only their philanthropic work. With the for our own enjoyment, but also aid of the alumn::e chapter we are for the sick children at the hos- planning to do work at the Hays pital, because at this party we Protestant Hospital. draw ri~mes, and instead of ex- 路 We are also planning to give changing personal articles, we ex- toys to the crippled children in the change toys, which are then taken ward at St. Anthony's Hospital at to the hospital. This is part of our Christmas. In addition to this we philanthropic work for this year. are looking for families who will Since the hospitals are so crowded, not receive other aid, and help them.

ELIZABETH LEIDIGH. they don't want the girls to work there. These toys will all be put Panhellenic Study Program under a brightly decorated ChristThe Fort Hays Panhellenic Counmas tree.

Part of the evening will be spent cil has planned a study program in addressing Christmas cards to with "Social Usage" as its basis.

Meetings are held the first Monthe parents of the actives and day of every month. The yearly pledges, to the alumnre, to the other program is as follows : September Alpha Sig chapters, and to the 6, a business meeting was held and other sororities on our local camrush rules were discused. On Seppus. Each girl takes two letters the Panhellenic gave a tember 11, and is responsible for seeing that 路 tea for all women on the campus. they are mailed.

After refreshments have been September 12-17 was pronounced served, the rest of the evening will as formal rush week.

The October meetings consisted be spent in singing A. S. A. songs. of a business meeting and reports We then plan to go caroling. from each sorority on rush week MILDRED ScHWARTZKOPF.

THE PHOENIX expenses on October fourth, and a Pan-Hellenic dinner October 11, for every sorority girl. The purpose of the dinner was to award the scholarship shield to the sorority receiving the highest grades for the spring semester.

The November meeting included plans for the winter formal and arrangements for carrying out the study program. On November 13, Mrs. Helen Car.twright, A. E. S. National Inspector, of Denver, Colorado, who is also a Sigma Sigma Sigma was here. The council entertained her at tea and presented a model business meeting for her inspection.

On December 6, all Panhellenic members were invited to attend a book review given by one of Tau Tau's patronesses Mrs. Frank Motz.

Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Alpha have charge of the Study of Social Precedents for the January meeting. And on February 2, the Tri Sigmas are going to present an Etiquette Questionnaire.

Also in February the second Panhellenic dinner for a warding the scholarship shield for the fall semester is to be held. Miss Manetta Heidman, instructor in home economics, will give a talk on "Grooming and Personality."

Another interesting meeting has been scheduled for March 7, when Mrs. Thelma Hruza, instructor of English and Delta Sigma Epsilon adviser, will review a book.

A Study of Sorority Ethics by Theta Sigma Epsilon and Pi Kappa Sigma are to be given on April 4.

The final meeting of the council is to be held on May 2, when the

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new officers are in talled ru h week dates for 1938-39 are drawn and plans are made for the Panhellenic Tea of 1938-39.

FLORA

LEE

COCHRAN.

Of extra curricular activiti s for the pledges of lpha Sigma lpha the Little Theatre of Fort Hays State ranks very high. Four of her pledges are members of the Little Theatre organization and each one has had important work to do in at least one of its perfomances this year. Being the center of dramatics for the college, its members are always busy. One of the freshman pledges has won parts in three different plays this year. Another had a heavy role to enact in the play "Dover Road," B~ A. A. Milne. This play was g1ven for Western Kansas teachers at their annual Teacher's Meeting this fall, and has been given twice since. Of our other two pledges, one is always prepared to provide the necessary mu ical entertainment, and the other at present aids in the applying of stage make-up.

Little Theatre stands for love of music as well as for love of acting; and the Alpha Sigma Alpha pledges are doing their part in upholding these talents.

HELEN MARKWELL,

T. T. Pledge.

Incidents As I glanced over the last issue of the PHOENIX, I noticed that several Alpha Sigs spent the summer in Mexico City. I, too, spent the summer there and I was fortunate enough to meet Kay White, an alumna from Kappa Kappa chapter. We both attend:d the University but I do not believe we

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would have met if it hadn't been for the fact that I wore my pin every day.

Our acquaintance was quite accidental. I attended the fiesta one Thur day afternoon, given for the tudents at the University. Some girl walked up to me and asked if I weren't wearing an Alpha pin.

It did not take us long to make conversation when we knew we were both Alphas.

I must say that it is a thrill to meet an Alpha from some distant chapter and find that we have common interests.

RITA JAcoBs, Active.

On Armistice Day, Mr. Virgil Edmonds, director of the college band, had charge of a program that was to be given for the citizens of Hays. :f!e asked the city schools, high schools, the Catholic college, and Fort Hays College to enter into a parade.

The Alphas' decorated a float which was worked out to stress peace. Crosses were placed on grass and girls were dressed to represent America, Spain, China, and France. They were kneeling behind the crosses with bowed heads. Behind them was a red cross nurse standing by an injured soldier. girl symbolic of Peace, was standing in the background.

Alpha Sigma Alpha was printed on the sides of the truck.

The float was very attractive and original and due credit should be given to Francis and our pledges.

EUNICE GAINES,

Active, Tau Tau.

PHI PHI Northwest

Missouri S tate Teachers College Marysville, Missouri

Rush Week Things started off with a whiz and a bang.

Girls came and went-telephones rang.

It looked as though one and all Had come to live at Residence Hall.

I want to tell you an good authority Of a very, very good sorority.

It's group of girls with hearts so big.

Yes, you've guessed it, the Alpha Sigs.

The very first evening before we knew the trend In Mary Turner we found a friend.

She invited us out to spend the evenmg And we knew her smile was not deceiving. pleasant time by all was had And all went home feeling gay and glad.

Then when I was invited to the Alpha Sig Party, I felt as pert as Charlie McCarthy.

On Monday evening we were invited to spend. t Mr . Kuchs, we found a new friend.

At the Country Club on Wednesday night They entertained us just about right.

THE PHOE At these parties we had such a nice time I felt that I wanted to put it in rhyme.

Everyone was o lovely and kind By the time I got home I had made up my mind To become a pledge of the A. S. A. And try to serve them in my humble way.

So here I am to do my best and It's up to you to do the rest. lOLA ARGO.

Rush Week Rush Week in reality has pa sed, but in my imagination it is present for I have relived it many times since.

I look back and see the many lovely new friendships being made; friendships of high ideals, and friendships that one is proud to have. I grew to know each individual b.etter through various social events to which I was invited such as the Pan-Hellenic Tea, the formal dance, and the informal party. On knowing the A. S. A. actives better I decided I, too, would like to possess the respect that others had for them.

Never before have I witnessed the excitement, thrills, and fun as was gtven me by members of the Alpha Sigma lpha sorority.

WINIFRED

CATON.

To the Alpha Sigs The happy hours we'll spend with you, \i\Till speed on golden wings, With friendly smile and willing hands, You'll teach us many things.

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\ e'll think of tgs, nd when kie \Ve're all quite come, No matter what

you, dear Alpha are not o blue, ure that h lp will we do.

And thi we a! o know, o matter where you are, You'll alway have a kindly thouuht, For your pledges of HARRIETT

LA ELL.

Alpha Sigma Alpha Two Months I have been a pledge of Alpha ig, So that means I mu t 1路eally dig.

We have had ru h partie , dance and good times galore, The like of thi I have never experienced before.

Companionship so weet and rare, It makes the world a place more fair; A loyalty so true and fine, It warms and cheers thi hearts of mine.

Comfort in time of grief and stress, nd sharing too of happines , May I grow nearer their high ideals each day, For this I strive, for this I pray.

DoROTHY

LASELL.

PSI PSI Louisiana State Normal College Natchitoches, Louisiana

A Pledge Looks at Some Interesting Psi Psi's Alpha Sigma Alpha is obviously an out tanding organization on the hill at the Louisiana tate Normal College in Natchitoche . A look at

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Exchanges We are indebted to the Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta for the privilege of reprinting this article.

G E ' E\' IE\""E . LEIB, Editot路.

T he Formula for Supremacy By

wILLIAM

L.

FLETCHER,

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When I became a member of Delta Tap Delta Fraternity at the U niversity of Maine in the fall of 1909, I entered what I believed to be an offensive and defensive alliance for life. " If you like me and the things I stand for," said "Sol" Harmon, my sponsor, and the head of the chapter, "you will like the men in Delta Tau Delta. They are my brothers and they will be your brothers. With the men in this chapter behind you, you can go many times as far as you can pos路 sibly go_alone. Thirty men can do more in a month than one man can do in thirty months, or even sometimes in a lifetime. We will study you. We will help you set up. definite worth while objectives. We will criticize constructively your efforts.

On the other hand, we expect from you for each of these men everything which a man can do for his brother. Don't forget that this is a national organization. Delta Tau Delta will help you as much afte; you get out of college as it will when you are in college; also, the pledges you take now are for life."

It has been said that men are like the units in the olar system. Some are like the sun and radiate light and heat; some are reflectors like the moon; and some are like the earth and only ab orb. "Sol ' Harmon deri,路ed hi nickname partly from his

blond hair and partly becau e he radiated ideas and enthusia m. He was a serious man-a man with two purposes in life: to become eventually a worth while citizen and to put Delta Tau Delta at the top of all the fraternities at Maine and keep it there. Other serious, purposeful men were in that chapter. Their "drive" was tremendous. Speaking generally, they were God-fearing men. They started fighting for Delta Tau Delta when they opened their eyes in the morning and they didn't quit until they closed them, after they had said their prayers, at night. Miracles were wrought in that chapter. I saw a freshman come into the house with a good head and a talent for playing the violin. Every evening after dinner the whole chapter sat around the music room and listened to that boy play. He grew in that environment.

In a few weeks he beat the leader of the orchestra out for solist. I saw a man with an inferior high school education, who for four year had been driving log on a river in northern Maine, become an honor student in his studies and, in a football game, push an All- merican center all over the field. 1 saw men disciplined, and watched them profit by that discipline.

Delta Tau Delta at Maine had leadership in the finest sense of the word. Every man was studied carefully and given a concept of what he was supposed to do for himself and the chapter. Objectives were well considered. Chapter policie were thrashed out thoroughly, fre-

TH E PH O E N I X quently un til way into the night.

Little time was wasted. o man was asked to do more than might reasonably be expected of him, but every man was expected an d required to do that. Our men were far from wealthy but financial asistance was always forthcoming for the brother who was worthy. The volunteer pirit was everywhere. If a man had to sacrifice somethin o- he personally desired for the good of the chapter it was assumed that he would do so, and men consistently did this as a matter of course.

Greed, jeal ousy, hypocrisy, fal se pride , vindictiveness, disloyalty, under - handedness - those traits which wreck men and fraternitie and nations- did not exist in Gamma u. Speaking generally, our pledges were men who did not possess those traits. Destructive tendencies were either lost and foro路otten in the struggle for supremacy or burned out of men with vitriolic criticism as they appeared .

Sometimes at Maine, when I had ta take a little extra hazing becau se of the clas office I held as a result of fraternal direction and support, I asked myself, "What Value Leadership?" Sometimes since then I have asked myself that que tion. What difference can it po sibly make to me or any member of Delta Tau Delta if our Fraternity stands first by a wide margin, or twentieth, or last among social fraternities of merica? Leadership carries penalties. The law of compen ation is inexorable. leader doe not belong to himself, but to the cause for which he i working. \i\Thy should one sacrifice time and money and per onal pleasures to advance the

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best intere t of an organization?

To me there i only one an wer to thi s que tion-one grow or decays-one acrifice or lo e all. 路w hen a man stop truo-gl ino- for supremacy he immediately tart to o doe a fraslide backward. ternity ; so does a nation. pathy leads eventually only to rui n.

I , like most Maine-bred men, am es entially a serious-minded fellow.

I believe that once a man word i given, it should be kept. I gave my word to Delta T au Delta at 1aine.

It is not enough for me to do what the F raternity a ks. I t is not enough even to play the game accordin o- to exi ting rule , if I thin k I can see a way better to play it.

For many year my work has been scouting capable men for r e ponible po itions in industry, and helping men organize their live from an economic standpoint. For a long time it has seemed to me that the world is shifting rapidly in many way . About 1925 or 1926 my contacts 路with large corporations led me to the conclusion that very few, if any, men knew where we were headed . I came to believe that the alumni of Delta Tau Delta have an obligation to our undergraduatesa new one- to help them adjust themselves to changing conditions, and that this obligation was being imperfectly fulfilled.

E ventually, after con ultation with several members high in the counsels of the Fraternity, these ideas were expressed in the Winter, 1932 number of The R ainbow, in an article entitled "Opportunity waits o-Man's-Land." Briefly, the in propo ition advanced was that a committee be appointed to find out

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what the bu ine s \YOrld want in college graduates and evolve a plan for building men to the e specifications. The problem was viewed from the economic standpoint, stre sed business, and ignored the profesions. It was my thought that if a committee were appointed to study this question, members of Delta Tau Delta would get, through its report, not only a plan for building men which would greatly increase the incomes and decrease the hard hips of our younger men over the next ten years, but that, a a byproduct of this survey, all of us might get a new concept of the obligations and opportunities of Delta Tau Delta in the new world in which we are living, and a piritual lift.

The rea on I ignored the professions was that I believe we should do one thing at a time and first things flrst. The profession cannot help but profit from any constructive piece of work in the business field. The ammunition which the theologians need to do an outstanding selling job in their field lies under the surface and must nece sarily be uncovered by any intelligent personnel survey.

The plan was carefully studied and pronounced sound by business leaders. Educator , statesmen, and religious leaders raised some questions. One alumnus said, "\楼hy bother with a committee? It can't be any bigger than its leader anyway. You know what the business world wants. You know what a man ought to be. You know why college men are failing. Go ahead and tell them."

Frankly, I do not know all the

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answer . Half-truth are dang rou . I haYe opinion , Yery definite opinion , on orne point . I know orne thing thi urvey hould cover. Thing which are matter of opinion with mo t men may be to me matters of fact because of the greater opportunity I have had for tudy and ob erYation; but no one man, it seems to me, hould preume to speak for Delta Tau Delta.

I will try, however, to raise orne questions which, after careful consideration and discu sion, can "路ell result in a definite plan, which, backed by concerted action. will mean much to Delta Tau Delta.

It i my opinion that the people of the United tate have suffered during the last few years for ju i one rea on: Our leader , the men we entrusted with the responsibility of looking after those things which are everybody's bu ine s, and consequently nobody's bu ine s, failed in their jobs. Whether they lacked the vision to see what was coming or the intestinal forti tude to acrifice them elves for the good of our people, I do not know. Certainly they failed in their trust . Greed, the unrestrained greed of a small minority, eventually co t counties homes, educational ad ,路antage , and many lives. 'Witness: the foreclosure records of the banks, the matriculation records of our colleges, and the uicide record of the life insurance companie . I the economic and political welfare of the country any busine s of ours? I say, "Yes." Searching for truth seems to have become a feti h in some colleges. Granting that research is necessary, it eem to me that this

THE PHOE . earch can become an ob es ion. . \re we to eli card all axiom ? I nothing old worth while? If so, what? If we give ourselve over unre ervedly to thi task of searching for truth, do we lose the vitalizing effect of definite, con tructive ideals and concrete purposes? Can th "search for truth" become a vitiating influence in a man's life?

It is my opinion that it can.

Have many college Jo t ground a. educational institutions?

I . think so. Our eastern college , peaking generally, were founded to train men for the ministry. Later they trained men for the other profes ions. Every man who went to the e colleges in the early time went with a definite 1 urpose-to 1 repare him elf for a certain profe sion and for leadership in his community. Today, many men go to colleo-e with no purpose, or \\'ith the idea that college i an end rather than a means to an encl.

These men comprise the so-called, "bottom-half of the class." Too often the college years of these men, because of the lack of definite long-range objectives, are given over to drunkenness and fornication with resulting mental, moral, and sometimes phy ical decay. peaking generally, life after college for these men is one drab, sour existence with no enduring atisfactions ending in complete fru tration. I this sensible or necessary?

I don't think so.

There are college authorities who . ay, "Vile have certain things here; if you want them, come and get them: what you do with them after you get them-that's your business, not our ." A a matter of fact, this

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is an 0\·er tatement; all a man ne cl~ to get to ati fy thi cla of educator in -o per cent or 70 per cent of what they off r. Then he is "educated, by go h !" I thi the proper attitude for a colleo-e?

Dusine leader and tati tician. who have been tudying the correlation between a man' chola tic standing in college and hi progres. in busine , now hold conflicting opm1on . ome say that while the honor tuclent in the lower crrade of the grammar · chool is u ually the honor student in ollege, thi correlation breaks clown complete) y when he enter indu try. ome bu ine leaders ay that the correlation carries OYer into bu ine .

Good cholarship i important.

Delta Tau Delta knew this year ago. The business world has been learning it recently. The placement problem of the colleges i with the bottom-half of the class. One brilliant clean said recently, "The top-half of the cia take care of itself and God himself can't help the bottom half." This i the opinion of many busines leaders upon whom depends the economic future of our undergraduates.

But there i more to thi question than appear. on the surface; more than anyone yet know . I que tion eriou ly 1f existing statistics slio1 •illg corrclatiou bef7.CJccn scholastic grades a11d ccollomic success are o.f any ·valltc. Large well-regimented businesses require a certain type of man. mall businesse may require other types of men. College ubject which result in the development of observation, imagination, and 1'easo11i11g are much more important in later life that tho e in

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which a man with only ability to concentrate and a good memory can excel. The ponge type of mind is of little value today. 1 he quality of i1J.Struction varies greatly i1~ differeut colleges. Sontc i11structors educate, others do not. Here is a big and invportant subject. Truth may be had for the seeking-1wt too far below the surface. \ hat does the busine s world want from college men? This question I answered to the best of my ability in an article, "Off the Record," in Scrib1zer's for June, 1935.

Briefly, it wants leaders-men of intelligence, energy, vision, willingness to assume responsibility and character- particularly character.

There are men who think that character is not so important as it used to be. With thi opinion no '' orth wh ile bu iness man agrees. Other men collSider the necessity of sound character so obvious that it should never be mentioned.

With this opinion I cannot agree because one learns the importance of character only through experience. To me, destiny may be expres ed as a formula : ability is the coefficient of expansion of character. I think that character should be built as of steel with white-hot rivets, headed on. peaking of character, there are colleges where genuine loyalty to the college is something which exi ted in the distant past, but is now hopeles ly out of date. There are college which teach that sport should be for sport's sake. I have heard a prominent alumnu say at a big rna s meeting that he hoped the time would come when no one would care \\ hether the college

football team won a big game or not. I have seen the fighting spirit taken out of the spectators, and perhaps out of the team, by a band playing sweet music and a boy singing "Ramona" to the cheering ection. I have watched the attendance at the football games of that college dwindle. I have seen a wonderful alumni morale disintegrate.

I am now told that that college ha, attacked or is planning to attack. the social fraternity system. 'What traits and qualities in men are '"e trying to develop through our athletic system ? Exactly what attitude towards athletics will produce the best results in our men? Should "Ramona" become our national football theme-song?

Why is it that the majority of college textbooks are never sold to business men, and that busine books which are used widely in the busine s world are eldom used as texts in colleges? \Vhy must an author, before he writes a book, decide whether he wishes to sell it to business men or students preparing to enter business? Why this prejudice on the part of many busines leaders against college- trained men? Why is there no prejudice against high school graduates?

What is this thing called rhythm?

Has it any place in a man or a fraternity ? How is it developed? I pride a trait to be fostered or eliminated? What is the value of poise?

How does a young man develop it?

Do people live on leaders, or leaders on people? Does efficiency in an organization grow from the top down or the bottom up? These are ubjects for careful study.

Exactly what place, if any,

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should relig ion have in a man's bu ine s. It grew into its pre life? I s there any correlati on be- ent commanding po ition because tween business condi tions and somewhere at some time some great men's atti tude toward God ? I mind evolved certain policies and asked this questi on of a g reat edu- operating formulas, put t hem into cator ; it was answered by a g r eat operati on and saw to it that they statistician. He said that his organ- we re continued in operation. The ization had for many years com- man who did t his worked with only piled statistics and that "these fi g- two t hi ngs-ideas and men. Usuures show conclusively that as the all y his business met some great economic situation in t his count ry human need. I s this not our own improves and people have money, history? Can we not evolve a new church attendance declines. With formul a for supremacy? Are we money in t heir pockets, men do not not close to it ? feel the need of God. This leads to The problem of men's social adexcesses . The bu siness cycle starts justments to business, which, durdown and eventually m en again ing the last few years, has placed turn to God. While they are with a tremendous burden on industry God they win." So says the statis- and caused untold hardship to countless worth while men, is a sotician.

These statistics suggest that it cial fraternity problem. T he older takes a better man to stand pros- alumni of Delta T au Delta owe it perity than it does adversity. If we to our younger brothers to help are training men for leadership it them see clearly what the business seems to me that this point should world requires of them and build be brought home clearly to our themselves into the right kind of undergraduates. I hold no belief leaders. Here is an obligation we for any r eligious sect. I do know have all assumed and should disthat every outstanding business charge.

Most business men today have man I have ever met and had an opportunity to study carefully and only a foggy idea of what bu siwho is, in my opinion, great, thinks ness needs from the colleges. They of himself habitually, not as an do not really know the specifications individual running a business and for a successful man. Because trying to accomplish the seemingly these specifications do not exi st in impossible, but as an instrument of clear-cut form, the colleges are unan Infinite Power. Is there some- able properly to do their work of thing here which should be ex- building men.

We have among us minds trained amined carefully?

Building a business is largely a in business capable of developing matter of formulas . Is this not true the needed definite concrete speciof a fraternity? The best minds to- . fications. We have able, experiday are in the biggest businesses, enced men in the fields of education but these minds are not there solely and religion. A definite plan for because the business is big. Every building outstandingly successful powerful business was once a weak men can be evolved. Ideas of lead-

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tupidity, untruth, greed faithle er in variou fields can be reconciled. We have demon trated in the nes , expediency, and lazine . V\ e pa t that we can put a plan into are undertaking a great\\ ork which operation and keep in in operation. can be of lasting benefit not only to It has been said that these ideas indu try and education, but to all are radical. re they? I am only men in every field of human acuggesting that Delta Tau Delta ti\ ity. Will our purpo e be misdo in all its chapters, under the understood. garbled, and used direction of our best minds, con- against us? Certainly there exist i tently over a period of years, people who have not the capacity those things which countless indi- to understand and pos ible others viduals like "Sol" Harmon and his who will not understand. uch peoassociates at Maine have done to ple oppose ev~ry great constructi e the best of their ability, and with undertaking. Is not the handling lasting beneficial effects, in various of these people simply a minor chapters at various times. "Sol" problem to be considered and Harmon had an unwritten formula solved?

The social fraternity system i on for supremacy. It worked. Other the defensive in many colleges. men have it. It always works.

How can we fail? There is only Once the social fraternities helped one danger, so far as I can see: v\ e colleges by proYiding dormitories must have the right leadership in and eating accommodations. Mo:,.t this movement; we must do the colleges no longer need thi aid. right and not the expedient thing; vVe mu t develop new and bigger we must do it whole-heartedly or ways to render service to indi iduals and institutions. Outstanding not at all.

The committee which studies this unselfish service brings its own regeneral situation, and determines ward. We are capable of it. tandards and policies for Delta If we do not attack and solve thi · Tau Delta must be composed of our pressing problem of our new age best men. Every member should what are we going to do? Is there be a recognized leader in his field, any question but that the best deable and thoroughly experienced. fense is a good offen e? Is there The members of the committee any question about the crying need hould repre ent not only industry, in many fields today for better leadbut the educational and religiou ers? Grant that we are trying to worlds. The men on · this commit- take a tep forward-a big one, I tee mu t be big enough to see thal hope; grant that hard work is necdemand for our graduate must be e sary for ucce ; can anything 1"nduccd. No one can ell men into po sibly be gained by inactivityaood jobs or keep them in good job and may not much .be lost? except by building the right kind of Let u attack this problem-now. .,. ._.... . .. men and by helping employer get exactly what they need. That i The ctober i sue of Teke of Tau fact. not opinion.

Kappa Epsilon carrie an article en\\-e. are tarting, I hope a war on ti:tled ")davie of Chapter . ctivity ··~ ~,.

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The sugge tion of movie hawing some of the different things that members are doing on campu , in the house and el ewhere i made.

A more elaborate plan include circulating the films among the several chapters as well a the making of a Master one from variou chapter film .

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Banta's Greek! E-1:change carrie an interesting article on an out tanding Philanthropic Activity. ince 1921 Kappa Delta has carried on its philanthropic work at th e rippled Children's Hospital of Richmond, Virginia. While the greater portion of their fund ha been made up of gifts or pledges, money has also been raised by selling Christmas cards, sorority stationery and Kappa Delta Christmas seals. The check for the maintenance of beds in the hospital is always sent on the anniver ary of the sorority's founding .

At this time, too, the young ter have a Kappa Delta birthday party.

Various other custom in giving are also observed, such as gifts to the children at Christmas and Thankso-iving, f un-makers on Hallowe'en and a "Sun hine Box" at national convention. Throughout the entire project it is the "per onal touch" of the Kappa Deltas which has made it more than a "cut and dried" philanthropy. .,. ·'·

Freshman Vivisection Gather up a little Kansas hay, Hollywood tinsel, New York sophi -

tication. \ Y yoming bronco-bu -tin<r and IO\Ya naivete, and what ha\'e you ? A f re hman cia !

The raw materi al aren't all th e ·ame of cour e and the proportion. vary, but the cro - ection ano-le i pretty indicative of allege campu e · from California to ornell. ' onformity set in around the oph more, junior and enior y ar that you have a little trouble parating the Kan a hay from the :\ w York sophi tication but in th fir t few month it' all there for the so roritie anci1J ortar Board and the dean of women to worry over. ·w ith all this geographic cro ection background, then it' not surprising that Mi s College F re hman has her moment of being a problem child. Her too small "adenoid" hat , her sour nail poli h, her over-gooed eyelashe , uncl erpluckecl brows and her fin e unfettered fi gure- usually without benefit of girdle-become the collective worry of whatever group take her in charge. If that sorority fail to realize that out inCa per Wyoming, they sell o11ly cardinal nail poli h and that in New York ity they breed only a generation of ''old-beyond-their-year ," then the make-up mole-hills are likely to become mountains and cultivate a Jot of complexes-inferiority and uperiority-without which college campu es would be a lot better off.

The trend i toward naturalne and individuality the e clay -Deodorant, lipstick and powder beit.;; the only co metic umusts." If l\Ii College Fre hman has come from a big city where the department stJres have hired everyone within tone -· th rowing distance of a college tc

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U ntil the appetite returns, she 11 have no use for the teacups but the second fifty teas are easier than ordeal - and once she starts serving instead of receiving- simple! Then as classes and general campus living routine settles down, she'll come out of her fog and start showing those qualities that made her an individual at home. And her scientific laboraCold oyster handshake tory of human nature with which Hand awkwardness she is in contact twenty-four hours P oor sitting position a day will teach her to think and Gawky standing position analyze and do all those profound " Stymied" introduction attitude things that make the individual more F eeble tea-cup juggling important than her surroundings .

No memory for names This is not to minimize the imGeneral what-do-l-do-next quandry portance of tangible things-clothes, Bored-with-all expression. make-up, hair styles-for after all If you haven't guessed that self- there's nothing much more imconsciou ness is the nigger in the portant about Bolivar's conquest of woodpile for all these campus com- South America ( ee History of plaints, then you didn't go to col- Latin American Republics) than lege. But what can you expect from looking right for the Big Game date. this shy young transplanted tender Since the days when mother flower with the background and cast bought her daughter some demure of characters of her new act all un- dresses and innumerable flounced familiar and no cues or lines written petticoats and deposited her, frightout for her. ened, at the door step of Miss FulShe'll learn. When she finds a ler's Boarding School for a dose of purpose for her hands-hand-shak- culture, the situation has changed . ing, holding a book, holding a In the no-flounced-petticoat deal, a glass- the hands won't seem too campus clothing code is making much like useless glove-size-8-in- 路 itself felt through the movies, newsadequacies. When she relaxes from papers and magazines, and on the the first severe tension, she'll sit 1937 campus the following facts are more naturally and stand more pur- as firmly entrenched in college curposefully, for after all she's young ricula as Latin : and these things come natural to The "major" of the college wardher once she gets over her first dizzi- robe is the sweater and skirt comne s. When she learns to focus on bination. A co-educational college one girl at a time and not take them will raise the degree of sophisticaall in a morning-after blur, she'll tion of campu clothes only the tiniremember her mother's how-do-you- est fraction of one per cent. For exdo instructions, for she has met peo- ample, it will raise flat heels to ple in her brief time. medium heels.

ell in the "college shop," she has a good chance to arrive at school koking like a young American col!ege girl in tead of something made out of an old lampshade. But the chances are that she will still exhibit some of the "commonest" f reshman faults which are ( don"t tell me, let me guess) :

THE PHOENIX The vogue for stockingless legs is disappearing except for the immediately- following- summer vacation period when well-tanned legs are acceptable.

In colder climates, college girl take to silk and wool combinations for their underthings.

The old idea that every girl can't wear a sweater and skirt is out.

Differences in wools take care of the different figured type, i.e., tightly woven wools for the full-busted and sheerer flimsy yarns for the little girls. And a girdle will take care of the hindermost-From the Trident of Delta Delta Delta.

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Some novel rushing ideas were contained in the recent issue of Telu. One which proved most successful was used by the chapter at 路w hitman College. Members wore small ribbons of fraternity colors during rush week, and rushees (who might have had difficulty remembering names or faces) could remember fraternity colors and very readily became acquainted with the TKE members.

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want the younger women 111 h r family to hare the bond o dear to her, to e tabli h or carry on a family tradition of fraternity membership," says The Key of I a1 pa Kappa Gamma.

Concerning the problem to be faced in the matter of legacie , however, " ometimes the younger woman, brought up to under tand that she must follow in her mother's fraternity foot tep , develop what can only be called an inferiority complex. Sometimes the younger woman, going back to her mother路 alma mater, finds the chapter of some other group more congenial.

Sometimes a chapter, with the be t will in the world, cannot agree that a relative will be happy in it membership."

The question should be faced frankly and honestly. If a legacy is not pledged, it is hoped that the alumnce will accept the deci ion "with good grace and a philosophy worthy of older and, presumably, wiser women. In the light of experience it is unfair to place on the chapter all the blame for refusing a legacy."-Sigma Kappa Triangle, as reprinted from the Arrow of Pi Beta Phi.

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Chapter

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General \路eragc

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u Nu .......... ... ...... .

100.00

95.74

9-/. ~颅I

2.

Pi Pi .......... . . .. ...... .

100.00

9-.36

97.6

3.

Tau Tau .... . ............ .

100.00

95 .19

97.60

4.

Kappa Kappa .... . ........ .

100.00

94.31

97.16

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Beta Beta ........... . ... . .

97.44

96.00

96.72

6.

Alpha . . . .. .. . . . ... . .. . ... .

98.00

93 .66

95.83

7.

Alpha Beta ..... . . . ....... .

92.50

9 .68

95.59

8.

lpha.Gamma . ... .. ....... .

100.00

90.87

95.44

9. Eta Eta ...... . ......... .. .

94.06

96.44

95.25

10.

hi Chi . . ... .. . . .... .. . . . .

95.75

94.00

94.88

11.

Theta 1 beta . . .. . .... . . . .. .

98.75

90.73

94.74

12.

Epsilon Epsilon ........ .. . .

94.88

94.15

94.-2

13.

Gamma Gamma . .. ... .. ... .

90.22

97.42

93.82

14.

P i Psi .. .. . . ........ . . .. . .

92.25

94.78

93.52

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Phi P hi .... ....... . . . . .. . .

93.6 3

92. 0

93.22

16.

Zeta Zeta . .. . .. .. ... .. . ... .

87.09

96.3 1

91.70

17.

mtcron Omicron . .... .. .. .

90.31

89.67

89.99

18. 1VIu _Iu .. . . ... .... . ...... .

88.13

89.75

88.94

19.

lpha Alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

81.25

96.00

8 .63

20.

tgma tgma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.25

90. 16

S.:i.71

21.

mega Omega .... .. .. .. .. .

73.00

94.2 1

( 3.61

22.

Rho Rho .. ... . ... .. .. . ... .

65. 4

94.72

80.2

23. Xi Xi

83.75

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First Semester Pledges as Reported by Chapter Registrars Four chapters have ccond emester pi dgina mad no report. Name of tate is given only in ca e other than one in which chapt r is located. arne of where the national re<Yi trar has not received member ALPHA Lois Co ley Griffin, Williamsburg ).1artha Elma Holloway, Norfolk Lucy Clark Staple . Lynchburg ).fargarct E thcr Atkin on, HampdenSydney Ann Mar hall amp, Amherst Margaret Rogers Godwin, Norfolk Jane P rter hcphcrd, Chester Eleanor Virginia \Vatts, Roanoke Pattie Venable mith, Brookneal France Powell Dickinson, Richmond Evelyn Byrd Page Hutcheson, Glouster Court House J can now p hur, Cheriton hirley Ann tephen , Torfolk .\LPHA BETA Benjie Cox Briggs, Memphis ElizaLeth Scanlon Burn , Brookfield Elean 1· Jane Cisco, Trenton Martha Crigler, Glasgow Mildred Lucile Diekroeger, Wright . ity Virginia Jane Givens, I irksville Lilly V. Haley, Macon Su an Caroline Kremb , Shelbina Edith Elizabeth LaBonta, Brunswick Anna Mallinckrodt, Atwu ta Gertrude Mallinckrodt, • ugusta Agne Mueller, St. Charle Marian Fae Porter, VIe t Alton Margaret ell Ru s II, Kirksville Mary Elizabeth Thomas, St. Macon Betty Sue Thomp on, Milan H ter Kathlyn Webb. Hannibal atherine Elizabeth Young, Kirk ville ALPHA GAMMA Joyce Miriam peicher, Salisbury GAMMA G MMA Marjorie Butler Leota Leeper Eleanor Molz El ie Converse Pauline Haworth Louise Harzman Katherine Quinton Catherine Weibener

only. Four chapter hav where the town is in tate town arc omitted in ca. e hip record .

EP ILO::--l' EP ILOX Mary Ellen Fisher, Caldwell Lura Christina Fitzgerald, Emporia usan Loui e Guinn, ewton Carroll Lee Harman, Atchin on Betty Lou Kille, Attica !rna Janeice J !l en, Emporia Betty Jane ·Moore, Emporia Martha Norris, Eureka Clara Jane 0 borne, Eureka Roma June Ozemberger, Eureka Mary Elizabeth Peter . Eureka Katherine . Polley, Be ll eville Ellen Jo Richmond, tchin on Margaret Anne mith, Eureka J anelee wope, Emporia Marjorie Anne Taylor, Caldwell Dorothy Marie \Vii on, trong· City ETA ETA Gwen Bright Jackie Burnett Carlyn Cock rill Connie Cockerill Dolley Jane Condor Betty J o Coulter Betty Davis J o ephine Dickin on Marline Hirni Evonne John ton Marjorie Leaman Donna Loy Beverly McCracken Maribelle Menchetti Delores Sheward Margaret \iV arrinaton THET THETA Cora Gertrude Hay, We tbrook, Maine Florence A. Mullin , Poultney, Vermont Gladys Ruth Tennyson, Bo ton Elizabeth Katherine Wood , Holliston Grace Frances Easton, Central Fall , Rhode Island Mary Sterart Angus, Andover

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K PPA KAPPA Jamie Lee Henry, St. Peter burg, Florida Marjorie Black Lynn Davis Alva Dee Hutton Muriel Jean Nissley Helen Ritter Allegora Stone

XI XI Gracia Ellen Kjos, Los Angeles Leola Florence Hetzler1 Rock Springs, Wyoming Argel Simpson, Oakdale Florence Obere, Los Angeles Elizabeth Ellen Latimer, Trident, Montana OMICRON OMICRON Jane Clark Martha ]. Murtaugh Janet Malat Peggy Williamson Virginia Weber Rosalind Spenser Dorothy Dison Janet Petty Julia Lyons CharlDtte Boedecker Shirley Wilbur Martha Foltz Rutl\ Gill Mary Delterie Mary E. Zimmerman lola Evans .

Dorothy Ulmer Marian Franklin PI PI Reva Veronica Fish, Buffalo Ruth Sara Kimpland, Wallington Grace Helene Schreiner, Buffalo Frances Caroline Skidmore, Norwich Doris Rachel Anderson, Jamestown Betty F. Barber, Buffalo Katherine Burlingame, Buffalo Luris a Jane Childress, Kenmore Jean Elizabeth Oark, Henrietta R. Jane Gilliat, Buffalo Betty E. Mallue, Buffalo Doris Needham, Buffalo Marian Louise Passage, Niagara Falls usanne Sato, Buffalo Edith Homan nedecor, Bayport, Long Island 1uriel Reidpath Sullivan, Buffalo

IGMA IGM Chyllis Marjorie Yewell, Fowler Ruth Edith Enbom, Gunni on Elizabeth Welborn, Telluride Vivian McClaren, Fowler Eleanor Pricco, Ouray ona Mearl ewby, Mt. Harris Margaret Edith Hammond, aguache Phyllis Elaine Farmer, argents Leola Margaret Mills, Gunni on Frances路 Leon Craig, Fowler Celia Frances Rescoila, !mont Alice TeGrotenhui , Hotchki s Marie Runge tolk, Gunnison Helen Ruth Wilcoxon, Hotchki s Flora Margaret Cook, Denver TAU TAU Ruth Angell, Portis Enid Marian Baldwin, Dodge City Geraldine Mable Chittenden, Hays Elva LeRee Hall, LaCrosse Jane Louise Issack , Hays Helen Ethel Markwell, Hays Josephine Louise Kirk, Clayton Elizabeth Floy Richards, LaCrosse Doris Rachel Swanson, Hays Billie Donelle Wirshing, Norton Betty Lee Wallerstedt, Hays PHI PHI Mary }annette Anthony, Maryville lola Rose Argo, Skidmore Mary Winifred Caton, Mound City Margery Curnutt, Kansas City Iris Mae Ebersole, Maryville Rose Mae Fink, Oregon Beluala Dean Goff, Maryville Jane Hutton, Pasadena, California Dorothy Lasell, Maitland Harriett Lasell, Maitland Helen Virginia Lee, Mound City Betty Adelyn Lindley, Maryville Margie Jean Myers, Maryville Dorothy Blanche Olsen, St. Joseph Octa Berniece Owens, Maryville Nyda Elizabeth Snyder, Maitland Mary Louise Turner, Hopkin CHI CHI Betty Irene Miller, Bryant Louise Auch, Hammond Mary Ellen Cornwell, Anderson Rhea Wahneta Beck, Marion Lois Helen Kirkwood, Summitville Mary Margaree Powlen, Logan port Mary Jane Howard, Summitville

THE PHOENIX OMEGA OMEGO June Louise H erzig, San Diego Lizelle Wade, Olney, Texas Gladys Ennis Kleck, San Diego Cecelia Marie Daze, San Diego Mary Louise \Vade, San Diego Nan Josephine Carlson, San Diego Jean Bernice Dupree, hula Vista Marian Frances Bickham, San Diego BETA GAMMA Mrs. Lois Gillis Hall, Tahlequah Virginia Helene Render on, Tahlequah Julia Wiley Christie, Tulsa Mary Alma Stevens, Muskogee Hazel Rennie, Tulsa Velma Pearl VanHorn, Tulsa Betty Virginia Burriss, Broken Arrow Marion Alice Spraker, Muskogee Goldie Evelyn Wit on, Tahlequah Gertrude Carney, Okemah Bernice Bradley, Sallisaw Mary Alice Lee, Altamont, Kan as Opal T. Ramer, Oklahoma City Dorothy Maxine Lee, Tulsa

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Hazel Juanita Phillip , Tahlequah irginia Lee \ ells, Port r De sie Dixie Dickin on, Proyor Merle Geneva Williams, Tahlequah Chrystal Fay Fletcher, Broken Arrow Sylvia E. Adam , Muldro\ Mary Charlotte Beers, Mu kogee Betty Jo Harmon, \ ebber Falls Freda Marie }arne , Sand 12ring Jerry Faye Levy, Muldrow Maxine Annabelle Line, Tul a Marcella Leveda May, McCurtain Ruby Nell Neal, Porum Mary Fern De Lois Pa coe, Tahlequah \Vilma Maxine Pickering, Henryetta Irene Lee Powers, McCurtain Katherine Lorene Whiteturkey Pysher, Tahlequah Abby Louise cott, Tahlequah Alma Margaret Stringer, Inola Mildred Lucille Waggoner, Tul a Florence Rhea Amadon, Vinita Joan Carroll Clark, Tahlequah H elen Louise Ford, Muskogee Wilma Garrett, Tulsa Edna Loui e Trent, Tahlequah

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List of Missing Addresses The following i the li t of names and addre 路 e from which th PHOENIX ha. been returned. Tf you know of any corrections plea e end them to the National Editor, l\fr . B. F. Leib, pt. "T," 35~0 Penn ylvania t., Indianapoli Ind. \ LPHA " LPHA : wart, Mr . John (Helen B "'gess) Chuqueicamata, hile, . America.

LPHA BET Alexander, Mrs. C. G. (Faye Fowler) 11~0 El izabeth t. Denver, Col. Gilliland, J oseph ine, 193 E. Pierce t.

Kirk ville, Mo. Merrick, Lettie, Lancaster, Mo. BET BET : tewa rt, Katherine F .

DELTA DELTA: ]one , Mr . Gl nn . ( ara Long) Box 42~, Scioto. Ohio.

Me oy, i[r . R. M. {Thelma Groome) ta. B. Riverside Dr., Columbu , Ohio.

GAl\fMA GAMMA: vVard,-Faye, Yukon, Oklahoma.

J ohn on, Mr . Harri ( Helen Deal) 309% Husband, Stillwater, Okla.

EP ILON EP ILON: Fraile, Audrey, Broughton, Kan a . ] one , Mrs. W. A. (Maude Barrigar) 1113 Alameda Dr., P ortland, Oregon.

Lewis, Mary, 1044 Fir t Ave., H orton, Kana.

ETA ETA : Corey. Mrs. P . E. {Lodenia Wiley) 311 E. 5th t., Tulsa, Okla.

Dechario, Mrs. Tony, (Enid Frogue) 210 E. Williams St., Pitt burg, Kans.

Goodwin, Margie, 2724 E. Dougla , \Vichita, Kansa . .H eavy, Mr. John ( i\fartha Rogers ) Pierre, . Dakota.

H endrix, Mr . J oe ]. ( Katherine Neviu ) Waterville, Minn.

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J ohnson, Mr . Walter (Zyphla Wal ker) 45 E. 101 t., hicago, Ill. Myer , Mr . Doru H. (Leona \Velch ) E lkhart, Iowa.

KAPPA KAPPA: Tripner, Mr . C. G. (He! n Lutes ) (Elizabeth H offecker, Mr . J ohn, . mith) 4909 19th t. . " '., \Vashington, D. LAl\IBD L MBDA: Little, Mrs. Erne t 路 (Doris Kin r ) 115 E. Finley t., pper andu 路 ky, Ohio.

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XI XI: Dalton, 1-.-frs. R. . (Mona Sachs) 361 Clofore t., Rialto, al.

Van H elm, Mrs. Nita ( 1attie VanHeukelom) 1814 S. \ ilt n, Los Angeles, Cal. PI PI: heperd, Mrs. Jared (Dorothy William ) 202 econd t., P orbmouth, Ohio.

RHO RHO: Gardner, Mrs. Vv. 路 K. (Zara I. Garrett) 225 Church St., Clark burg, W. Virginia .

T U TAU: Cline, Mr . Emer on (Maybelle Schaefer) 330 . 9th. t., alina, Kansas.

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Black, Mrs. Lyle G. (Pauline \ omeldorf f) pringfield, Mo. Iron , Mr . W . D. {Neva Kriner) 718 Myrtle Ave., Kan a City, ~fo.

'PHI PHI: Cli er, Vada, Web ter Grove, Mo. Barbee, Mrs. Fred (The is Norwine Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Prcsidmt-Mi s Evelyn G. Bell, 767 Lafayette Ave., Buffalo, . Y. Vici?-Presidenl-Mrs. \Villiam M. Crook, 511 Essex Ave., Narberth, Pa. Sccretm路y- Miss Esther Bucher, 3134 Eaton, Kansas City, Kans.

T1路easurer-Mrs. Reinard Schlosser, 2800 Dexter St., Denver, Colo.

Rcgistrar-Mi s Mary Mae Paul, 413 y;; West 6th St., Hays, Kan .

C!wplai11-Mi s Louise N. Stewart, cw Holland, Ohio.

A . E. S. R cpreselltath路c-1fr . Fr cl :M. harp, 1-105 Hardy A vc., Ind epcndcnc , Mo.

Ext ension 0 fficcr-Mi . June mith, 35-1 Manor Ave., Millersville, Pa. Editor-Mrs. B. F . Leib., 35-10 N. P nnsylvania St., Apt. "T," Indianapoli , Ind. Cl~airman of Fi11a11 ce - Mrs. Fred M. harp, 1-105 Hardy Ave., Ind ependence, Mo.

BOARD OF ADVISERS Alpha-Miss Grace B. Moran, Farmville, Nu Nu-Miss Jean M. Richmond, 1411 Va. S. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. Alpha Alpha-Miss Amy M. Swisher, Xi Xi-M i s Elizabeth Bird mall. 550 Oxford, Ohio.

Pacific Beach, Long Beach, ali拢.

A lpha Beta- Miss Alma Zoller, State Om-icron Omicron-Miss Helen M. McTeachers College, Ki rksvi lle, Mo. Claflin, 237 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio.

Alpha Gamma.-Miss Ethel A. Belden, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa. Beta Bela- Miss Elizabeth Lehr, State Teachers College, Greeley, Colo.

Gamma. GammU!r-Miss Vera Leeper, College and Choctaw St., Alva, Okla.

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Epsilo11-Miss Edna McCullough, 1017 Rural St., Emporia, Kans.

Zeta Zeta-Miss Myrtle Downs, Warrens. burg, Mo. Eta EtCir-Miss Jane Carroll, 706 South Broadway, Pittsburg, Kans.

Theta Theta-Miss Mabel C. Bragg, 80 Madison Ave., Newtonville, Mass.

Kappa Kappa-Miss Marjorie K. Jones, 1904 No. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Mu illu- Ii Katherine Harri , State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Pi Pi- Ir . Carolyn Heyman, 10 Granger Place, Buffalo, . Y. Rho Rho-Mi s Doris Henry, Hunlin..,.ton, \V. Va. Sigma Sig11~Miss Lucy E. Spicer, 601 No. Taylor St., Gunnison, Colo.

Talt Ta11-Miss Mae Paul, 413 0 West Sixth St., Hays, Kans.

Phi Phi-Miss Miriam 'vV. \Vaggoner, 611 . Buchanan, ).JaryYille, :Mo .

Chi Chi-M rs. L. H . Whitcraft, Westwood, Muncie, Ind. Psi Psi-Miss ).firiam Te!ken, Lou iana State Normal College, Natchitoches, La. Omega Omcga-}.Ii s 1f a ri on Lyon Schwob, La Mesa, Calif.

Beta Cau/1/la-}..frs . Lois Gilli Hall, 300 Pendleton Ave., Tahlequah, Okla.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

Constitution-Mrs. Clyde Jones, 3 Salisbury St., Winchester, Mass.

H istoria1~- Mrs. Roderick McCullough Thomas, 1305 Obispo Ave., Coral Gables, Florida.

Song Booi~-Miss Helen McOaflin, 237 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio.

Examillafio11-Mi s T h e I m a S tort z, Emau , Pa.

Co11vention-Miss Georgia Anne Schulte, 82-1 ourt St., Fulton, M o.

Alum1Ulc - Mr . Lewis Bradley, 1175 Court St., Iowa City, Iowa.

Scholarship-Miss Joy 1\fahacheck, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa. Philanthropic-1fi Ethel Tobin, 7-10 S. Lucerne Bini., Los .\ngele~. Calif.

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ROLL OF COLLEGE CHAPTERS

Teachers College, Farm-

Xn j\ 路u- Dre-cel In titute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa.

Alpha Alpha~Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Xi Xi-Univer ity of California at Los

tate Teachers

Omicro11 Omicron--Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

Alph~State

ville, Va.

Alpha Beta-Ki rk ville College, Kirksville,

{o.

Angele , Los

ngeles, Calif.

Alpha Gamma-State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.

Pi Pi-Buffalo tate Teacher Buffalo, . Y.

Beta Bct~Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colo. tate Gamma Gamma- Northwestern

Rho R/~o-Marshall College, Huntington, W.Va.

Teacher

College, Alva, Okla.

College,

Sigma. Sigma-Western State College, Gunnison, Colo.

Epsilo1~

Epsilon-Kansas State Teachers Colle_ge, Emporia, Kans.

Tan Ta11-Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas.

Zeta Zeta- Central Missouri State Teachers College, Warrensburg, Mo.

Phi Phi- Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Mo.

Eta EI拢V-State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kans.

Chi Chi-Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Ind.

Theta T~et~Boston University, Boston, Mass.

Psi Psi-Louisiana State Normal, Natchitoches, La.

Kappa Kapp~Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.

Omega Omeg~San Diego State College, San Diego, Cali f.

Mzt Mn-Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Beta Gamma-Northeastern State Teacher College, Tahlequah, Okla.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION SORORITIES

Chairmm1--Miss Mabel Lee Walton, Sigma Sigma Sigma, P. 0. Drawer 108, Clermont, Florida.

SecretarY-Mrs. Fred Sharp, Alpha Sigma Alpha, 1405 Hardy Ave., Independence, Mo. Treasurer-Mrs. C. P . Neidig, Pi Kappa Sigma, 3632 Paxton Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Director of Local Pa11helle1~ics-Mrs. Orley See, Delta Sigma Epsilon, 48 Wildwood Ave., Piedmont, Calif.

Director of City Pm1hellenics - Miss Carrie E. Walter, Theta Sigma Upsilon, 3815 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Chairmm~

of Eligibility and Nationali::atioti--Miss Edith Mansell, Alpha Sigma Tau, 161 Highland Ave., Highland Park, Mich.

Chairman of Publicity- Dr. Reba N. Perkins, Pi Delta Theta, Indiana, Pa.

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER PRESIDENTS

Alva, Okla.-Miss Luella Harzman, 917 Flynn Ave., Alva, Okla.

Hays, Kans.-Mrs. \Vayne teeple , Hays, Kans.

Bosto1~,

Hrmtinglon, f,V, Va.-Mr . Mortim r P. Buck, 3309 Crane Ave., Huntington, W.Va.

Mass.-Miss Mary McAuley, 397 Highland Ave., Winchester, Mass.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Miss Margaret Houston, 88 Long Ave., Hamburg, N. Y. Ca11/on, Ohio-Mr . Park Urban, 1622 28th St., N. W., Canton, Ohi o.

Central Pa.-Mrs. Frank B. E hclman, 912 State St., Lancaster, Pa. Charleston, TV. Va.-M rs. Fo ter P. Bryan, 3831 Kanawha Ave., S. E., Charleston, W. Va. Cl1icago, Ill.-Miss Ethel Llwellyn, 322 W. Lincoln, Wheaton, Ill. Clevela11d, Ohio- Mrs. Robert S. DeTchon, 2539 Kenilworth Rd., Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Columbus, Ohio-Mrs. Ralph Tibbals, 506 Milford Ave., Columbus. Ohio.

Delaware-Mrs. Emily Flory, 1005 Madi on St., Wilmington, Delaware

h1dianapolis, Ind.-Mrs. William Kingdon, 3025 N. Meridian St., Apt. 505, Indianapolis, Ind. folmstow1~,

Pa.-Mrs. Edward W. Fleckenstein, 97 G St., Johnstown, Pa.

Kansas City, Mo.-Mrs. Harold H . Sherman, 4134 Eaton St., Kansas City, Kans.

Kent, Ohio-Mrs. Francis Rohaley, 530 Park Ave., Kent, Ohio.

Los Angeles, Calif.-Mrs. Katherine Hunsicker, 1723 Bedford St., Los Angeles, Calif.

J!aryville, Mo.-Mrs. A. G. Dinesdale, 604 S. Mulberry St., Maryville, Mo. Muncie, /ud.-Miss Anna Marie Yate , 312lh W. Charles, Muncie, Ind.

Dmver, Col·o.-Mrs. Za Lawrenson, 4455 Federal Blvd., Denver, Colo.

New York Cit)•, N. Y.-Mrs. John J. Murtaugh, Jr., 98 Oak St., Floral Park, Long Island, N. Y.

Des Moines, /o'W(L--Mrs. R. C. Geist, 103 E. 14th St. Pk., Des Moines, Iowa.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Miss Elizabeth Wilson, Windermere Court, \iVayne, Pa.

Eastem Pa.-Miss Anne Willauer, 23 S. 16th St., Easton, Pa.

Pittsburgh, Pa. - Mrs. Frederick W. Squires, 5524 Fair Oaks St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Emporia, Ka11s.-Miss Faye Douglas, 832 Constitution St., Emporia, Kans.

Crec!e)•, Colo.--Mr . Eugene Vervalin, Lafayette Apt ., Greeley, Colo.

Hampton Roods Area, Va.- 1rs. William \V. Kitchin, 123 35th St., Newport News, Va.

San Diego, Calif.- Miss Cleo Tilton, Carnegie pt ., San Diego, Cali f.

TVic!Jita, Ka1u.-Miss Frances Putnam, 422 S. Yale St., Wichita, Kans.

Y psi!anti, Mich.- Miss Kathryn Hindalan~, Chel ea, Mich.

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COLLEGE CHAPTER PRESIDENTS ~nplw-Miss

u an Lane, Box 137, tate Teachers College, Farmville, Va.

Alpha Alpha-Mi s Detty Hall, Oxford, Ohio.

Xu

Xu-~Ii :Marjorie hambcrs. 32nd and Che nut ts., Drexel Institut , Philadelphia, Pa.

Xi

Xi-~[i s Doniece Rose, 1923 l\ficheltorena, Los Angeles, Cali f.

elli , 12 \ ells

llp!Ja Beta-Miss Charlotte Burdette, 515 . Florence, Kirksville; Mo.

Omicron 01nicra~v-Mi s Jean Shennan t., Kent, Ohio.

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Alpha Gamma-l\Iiss rlene Miller, 219 N. John Sutton Hall, Indiana, Pa.

Pi Pi- 1i s D ri Wyatt, 726 Ashland, Buffalo, N. Y.

Beta Beta-Miss Helen Ave., Greeley, Colo.

el on, 1731 11th

Rho Rho-Mis Esther McQueen, 1681 5th Ave., Huntington, W. Va.

Gamma Gamma-Miss vVilma Greer, 823 2nd Ave., Alva, Okla.

Sigma Sigma- frs. Harriett Peake Mcllistcr, Vole terr tate College, Gunnison, Colo.

EpsilM Epsilo1v-Miss Edna Louise Turner, 1516 vVest St., Emporia, Kans.

Taa Tau-Miss Floi'~ Lee Cochran, 301 Vv. 17th St., Hays, Kans.

Zeta Z eta-Miss Charlotte Reidenbach, 304 E. Culton, Warrensburg, Mo. Eta Eta-Mi s Dorothy Eyman, 1005 S. Olive, Pitt burg, Kans.

Tlieta Tl1cta- Miss Violett King, 8-l Exeter Street, Bo ton, Mass.

KaNa Kappa-Miss Alice Carl, 1917 N. Broad, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrt illu-Mi Leontine Rylko, 209 Normal, Yp ilanti, Mich.

Pl1i Phi-Miss Elisabeth Planck, Residence Hall, Maryville, Mo. Psi Psi-Mi s Jessie Jones, L. Box 465, Natchitoches, La.

. N. C.,

Cl1i Chi-Miss :Mildred Teaney, Lucina Hall, Muncie, Ind.

Omega Omega-Mi s Rosemarie Zinkand, 6166 路w underlin t., San Diego, Calif.

Beta Gamma Pledge Chaplcr-~Ii s ;\lary tcvcn , \Vii on Hall, Tahlequah, Okla.

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EDITORIAL STAFF National Editor

Mrs. B. F. Leib, 3540 North Pennsylvania St., Apt. "T," Indianapoli , Ind. A- Katherine Roberts, Box 43, State Teachers College, Farmville, Va. AA- Betty Freshwater, 221 Pines, Oxford, Ohio.

AD- Virginia Wayland, 207 E. Normal t., Kirksville, Mo. Ar- Helen Mellott, 214 N. Sutton Hall, tate Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.

NN- Marion Mar h, 3320 Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

88-Marion Thomp on, 1020 Glendcn Ave., \Ve t Lo

rr-Ethel Green, 503 Normal, Alva, Okla.

EE- Jane Findley, 1228 Rural, Emporia, Kans.

ZZ-Ruth Buecker, 30-l E. Vofarrensburg, Mo.

Culton,

Angel _,

alif.

00-Marge McNab, 112 Sherman Kent, Ohio.

t.,

II I I - Margaret Urban, State Teachers

College, Buffalo, PP-

DB-Florence Thompson, 915 Sixteenth Ave., Greeley, Colo.

Powelton

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ina Grayce McQuinn, 528 8th Ave., Huntington, \f\T. Va.

~~-Mary

Kay Yoklavich, Box 6-1, Gunnison, Colo.

TT- Jean Fuller, 409 We t 5th

l. ,

Hay , Kan as. ~~-M ariama

Obermiller, 221 t., Maryville, ~1o.

. Main

XX- Jean Mitchell, Lucina Hall, Ball

III-I- Mary Alice Montgomery, 104 W. Washington, Pittsburg, Kans.

E>0-Doris L. orbett, 21 Rowe Roslindale, Mas .

t..

KK-Kit Durranant, 1917 Philadelphia, Pa.

t.,

State Teacher Ind.

College, Muncie,

ql<p- Gloria Griffin, Box 178, L. College, Natchitoches, La. QQ- Mildred

1 .

Broad

Dr., Br-Faye

~1M-\

ivian Gowdy, 209 Yp ilanti, Mich.

annal St.,

wint, -l651 El C rrito an Diego, Calif.

Fletcher,

Torthea tern

\Vii 路on

I-bll,

tate Teacher Col-

lrge, Tahlequah, Okla.

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ALUMNAE CHAlPTER CORRESPONDENTS Alumnae Chairman

M r . Lewi

Bradley, 1175 Court

t., IO\ a City, Iowa.

Alva, OklG-Miss Lois Rodgers. 916 3rd t., Iva, Okla.

Hrmti,~gtol~,

Boston, .M ass.-Mr . Clarence Vaux, 43 Mudge St., Lynn, Mass.

h~dimwpolis,

Buffalo, N. Y.-Miss Betty Murphy, 120 t. James Pl., Buffalo, . Y.

JolmsloWI~,

Ca!Lion, R. D.

Ohio-Mr . Mary Carfagna, o. 7, orth Canton, Ohio.

Cmlral, Pe~.-Miss Jean Wolfe, 157 N. 4th t., Newport, Pa. CllarlestM, W. Va.-Miss Eloise Keller, 612 Main t., Charleston, W. Va. Chicago, Ill.-Miss Dorothy Masters, 7252 Bennett Ave., Chicago, Ill.

W. Va.-Miss Doris Feeley, 2547 Third Ave., Huntington, W. Va.

bul.-Mrs. Richard A. Rice, 5254 Park Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.

Pa.-Mrs. W. J. Mostoller, 399 Liberty Ave., R. D. No. 4, River路 side, Johnstown, Pa.

Ka1~as

City, Mo.-Miss Mary Hamlin, 2029 Swift St., North Kansas City, Mo.

Ke1~t,

Ohio-Miss Helen McGuigan, 623 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio.

Clevela11d, Ohio-

Los Angeles, Calif.-Miss Dorothy Linden, 4719~ W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

Colttmbus,OIIio-Mrs. Loren G. Windon, Reynold burg, Ohio.

Maryville, Mo.-Mrs. John Kurtz, 315 W. First St., Maryville, Mo.

Dclau'!lre-Mi Mary H. rington, Del.

Muncie, Ind.-Mrs. Maxwell J. Mont路 gomery, 1625 University Ave., Mun路 cie, Ind.

hort, Har-

De11vtr, Colo.-Mrs. Cris Dobbins, 1795 Locust St., Denver, Colo.

Des MoilleS, IowG-Mrs. Earl N. Jacobson, 1317 Morton Ave., Des Moines, Iowa.

Eastem, Pa.-Mr . Herman B. Gohn, 517 N. 3rd St., Catasauqua, Pa. Emporia, Kar~.- Mrs. Frank Clough, 1624 Shenvood Way, Emporia, Kans.

Greeley, Colo.-Miss Florence M. Klinger, 427 Iaple St., Eaton, Colo.

New York City, N. Y.-Mrs. J. Donald Peterson, 2954 E. 196th St., N.Y. C. Philadelphia, Pa.-Miss Jane R. Large, 2825 W. Somerset St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pittsbrwgh, Pa.-Mrs. Harold E. Simpson, 429 Sulgrove Rd., Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Pa. San Diego, Calif.-Miss Helen Stevens, 3765 lOth St., San Diego, Calif.

Ilampton Roads Area, Va.-Mrs. K. L. Kellogg, 100 Park ve., Newport New, a.

路w ichita, Ka1~.-Mrs. C. E. Hamilton, 3015 E. Orme, Wichita, Kans.

Hays, Ka1~.-'}.Ii s Kan.

Ypsilauti, 1\Jiclr.-Mrs. Otto E. Kre , 1210 Pearl St., Ypsilanti, Mich.

hirley Baird, Hays,

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