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OF ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT POSTOmCE AT ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA
VOLUME XLI. Number 3
MARCH. 1956
ALUMNAE BULLETIN
Can You Recommend A Prospective ASA? • THE 1955 national convention held in Biloxi, Mississippi, in July, elected the following national council for the 1955-58 triennium: Miss Evelyn G. Bell, president; Miss Virginia Carpenter, vice president; Miss Helen L. Corey, secretary; Mrs. Clayton A. Richard, treasurer; Mrs. William Niemeyer, membership director ; Miss Esther Bucher, editor; Mrs. Helen B. Swart, alumnae director. The office of registrar was deleted inasmuch as more of the record-keeping is now handled by the Central Office in charge of Mrs. Richard. A new council post was established to coordinate rushing and membership selection, to be called membership director. Dr. Ethel J. Alpenfels, professor on anthropology in the school of education, New York University, a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha, was the principal convention speaker.
CHARTER GRANTS 1955-56 COLLEGE Gamma Alpha, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Gamma Betft, Wisconsin State College, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. ALUMNAE Lake Charles, Louisiana Paducah, Kentucky Fox Valley (Aurora-Elgin, Illinois) Dallas, Texas Omaha, Nebraska Houston, Texas
• PERSONNEL OFFICES in the business world today are spending large sums of money in research to perfect a tool which they consider vital to the success of their work. There are various forms but in the main a statement is included that " commends, offers, or suggests as meriting consideration of a person for employment." Research shows much is gained by receiving completed recommendation letters or forms from school executives, community leaders, and lay people who are acquainted with the candidate and his work. For years Alpha Sigma Alpha has had a tool comparable to the one used in the business world -REcoMMENDATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN AL'PHA SIGMA ALPHA. Too few A~As are completing this one page form and sending it to one of our thirty-nine college chapters. Many ask, "Shall I take time to complete this form when the girl may never become an A~A ?" THIS rs A PLEAplease do! On many campuses freshmen women are housed in separate units with few opportunities for knowing sorority women. Recommendations provide chapters with names of girls whom they may make a special effort to meet. There is a trend for Panhellenic Associations to sponsor an " Open House" for all freshmen women to meet sorority members in a few hours. To get to know many of the several hundred freshmen women is difficult unless a chapter knows the answers to some of these questions about some of the rushees. Is she interested in joining a sorority? Can she afford it? Do her high school grades indicate she can make a C average necessary · for initiation? Has she been a contributing member to the better activities of her school? R ecommendation blanks are available from the Central Office for individual members as well as college and alumnae chapters. By completing a
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