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OF ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA
SPRING, 1960
VOLUME 45, NUMBER 3
WILMA WILSON SHARP PRESIDENT EMERITUS WILMA WILSON SHARP (Mrs. Fred M.) ZZ was honored for distinguished service and devotion to Alpha Sigma Ailpha by the national council in meeting in J uly, 1959. The honorary title of President Emeritus was bestowed upon her as an expression of appreciation for the years of service dedicated to Mpha Sigma Alpha. As a sweet girl graduate, Wilma was elected to the office of national registrar, and this was the beginning of an era of accretion for Alpha Sigma Alpha in which she was to play a leading role. The personification of savior-vivre, Wilma proved to be an astute administrator as national president for a term in the thirties and again during the war and post-war years. During the interim between her two terms as president, she was national finance chairman and national education director. Wilma's great gift of authorship has been shared freely with Alpha Sigm a Alph a and he is a spellbinder as a speaker. The Fiftieth Anniversary Convention accepted, with regret, Wilma Sharp's resignation as president. She continued untioJ 1957 as delegate to the National Panhellenic Conference.
ASA AWARDS THE 1959 WINNERS THE Wilma W ilson Sharp Award was presented to Virginia Carpente r 00 at the O hio State Day Luncheon on M ay 2, 1959, by the former national
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a lumnae director Helen B. Swart. Mardelle Bruning BK wa the recipient of the Elizabeth Bird Small Award, an d Bette Siefried r6. and Patricia Sue Strider ZZ were both winners of the Frost Fidelity Award . Th Amy M. Swisher Graduate Fellowship was Cliwarded to Betty Taylor XX.
NPC CONVENES BOCA RATON, FLORIDA TH E thiPty-sixth c sion of the National Panhellenic Conference was held at the Boca R aton Hotel, Boca Raton, Florida November 9-13, 1959. The Execu tive Committee of NPC included M rs. Darrell R . Nordwall Alpha Chi Omega, chairm an ; Mrs. Joseph D. Grigsby, D elta Delta Delta, secretary; and Mrs. William Nash, Alpha Xi D elta, treasurer. Mrs. Donald Pierce, Phi Mu, was chairman of the NPC Editors' Conference, and Mrs. H . Winton Jenkins, Zeta Tau Alpha, erved as president of the Association of Central Office Executives. Dr. George F. Baugham, vice-pre ident and treasurer of N ew York niversity, was the speaker at ·the Tuesday night banquet, and the title of his address was " Belonging." Miss Lenora Slaughter executive director of the Mis America Pag ant, w~ the speaker at the banquet on Thursday evening. She discu ssed the hi tory of the pageant. Alpha Sigma Alpha was represented at this session of the Na tional Panhellenic Conference by Esther Bucher, delegate; Jean R . Grady, first alternate; M artha G. Dimond, second altern~te and incoming delegate; Mary E . Blackstone, th1rd a lternate; and Hi wana C. Crompton delegate to tl1e Editors' Conference.
THE PHOENIX OF ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA is publ ished in the fall, winter, spring ":I'd sum_mer of each year ~~ 2642 Univers!tY The Fraternity Press), offiCial publishers for the soronty. The subscnJ>Avenue, St . Paul 14, Minn esota, by Lelan d P u bli sh ers , I nc. ( tion pnce is $1 a year. . AI 1 Ce tr I Offic 37? Argonne Drive Kenmore 23, New York . Send change of address and business .cor:espondence to A! ph ~, StgmaM P ;,_a n C ;;pto~ Jr 7001 Spring Road #3 , Richmond Address all correspondence of an editonal nature to the ewtor, ' rs . ugene · ro • ·• 28, Virginia. Second-class postage paid at St. Paul, Mj nnesota. Postmast er: Send Form 3579 to Alpha Sigma Alpha, 372 Argonne Drive, Kenmore 23 , e!w York .
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