Asa phoenix vol 30 no 1 nov 1944

THE PHOENIX OF ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA

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A. S. A. Service Roll .............. .. .

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Wilma Wilson Sharp Award Winner .

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Elizabeth Bird Small Award Winner. ... . .. .... . .

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Ruth Vorhees, National Alumn<r Editor .... . . . ....... . 7 Helen Cory, National Secretary .

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Whos Who In American Colleges .

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A Challenge to Leadership .

A. S. A. Officers Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Alpha Alpha Award Winner. ........... . .

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A Summer at the Gurnet .. ... . . . . . .. ..... .

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Colorado Springs Colorado Alumn<e Chapter .

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News Letters-Alumn<r Chapters News Letters-College Chapters . . . . . . . ... . . .... . . . . ... ·36 Announcements

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Directory . . . . .. .. . . . ... . . .. . . .

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FOUNDERS' DAY

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To All Alpha Sigma Alphas: More than four decades ago there was written into the Chart~r of Alpha Sigma Alpha this simple statement of magnificent objectives: "The purpose of the Association shall be To cultivate friendship among its members And in every way to create pure and elevating sentiments, To perform such deeds and mould such opinions As will tend to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world."

The advent of another Founders' Day invites us to consider respectfully and well our heritage in Alpha Sigma Alpha, the honor due our five Founders and the gratitude we owe all Alpha Sigmas who have extended the ideals of the sorority. It is particularly appropriate on Founders' Day in Nineteen Hundred Forty-four that we should pay tribute also to the many gallant Alpha Sigmas in the Armed Services of our Country. We proudly hail these courageous Alpha Sigma Alpha women, our eager patriots who with distinction "perform such deeds" as the time requires.

Let all Alpha Sigma Alphas everywhere keep Founder's Day on November fifteenth by an undaunted determination to carry on the ideals of our Founders to ever wider relationships; and by an aroused and compelling consciousness of our individual obliga_tion "to mould such opinions" as will bring Ultimate Victory and Peace. Thus each and every Alpha Sigma in her special place and way can become an effective, cooperative agent "to elevate and ennoble womanhood in the world."

WILMA WILSON SHARP,

National President.

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Alpha Sigma Alpha Service Roll WACS Eleanor Wales, ®® Jeanne McCarty, XX Mildred Etta Boss, XX Frances Holbrook, IT IT Betty Mallue, IT IT Katherine Burlingame, IT IT Nancy Gibson, :S:S Vivian Ross, A Thelma Detweiler, KK Gladys Buller, BZ Katherine E. Mayer, BB Betty Lou Pelska, BH Martha Jane Hamilton, <H> Jacqueline A . l\!Iaxwell , EE Marjory Block Wilt, KK

WAVES Beatrice J acquart, TT Dorothy Lasalle, <I><I> Marianna Obermjller, <1><1> Katherine Hale, ®® Helen Buck, NN Liane Rose, EE Mary Osborn, EE Virginia Coho, IT IT · Mary Emma Lindemuth, KK Helen Witmyer, KK

Oliver Mae Hitter BZ ' Sopha Lee Husman, ZZ Rosa Lee Montgomery, rr Mary Truax Donaldson rr ' Mabel E. Barlow, BE Virginia Pegg, HH Betty Russing, HH Louise Jordan, KK Winifred Wright, A Jane Cannon, BB Marguerite Rice, EE Ouida Hoeninger, B® Bobby Copas, rr M. Louise Ralston, YY Patricia l\!Ieeham, BB Dorothy Chockie, BB Hilda Heid, BB Winifred J. Donnellon, EE Mary E . Russell, EE Mary Ellen Linsey, KK Anne Willaner, KK Barbara Rogers, BE

ARMY· NURSE CORPS Nell Russell, Ar Gladys Rambler, t..<l' Mary Detwiler, KK Barbara F orschet, KK Challis Hames, KK E leanor Oakes, KK Martha Keppler, KK

RED CROSS FIELD SERVICE .Kather.ine Polly, EE Virginia Watt, <1'<1' Pat Wallace, EE Margaret Bailey, EE Georgia Schulte, <1'<1' Rose Lamme!, BB Helen McClaflin, AA Patsy Smith, A

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SPARS Beatrice Ball, rr E llen McConnell, KK Vida Bowers, EE Ruby Woverton Lawler, :S:S

WAFS Daphne Kerrison, BZ

MARINES Jean Patrick, <I><l' Ethel Bergeron Burleigh, BZ Virginia Fields, BZ Betty Krieder, KK Virginia Carpenter, ®® Magna Mattern, MM Anna Louise Brown, Be..

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Ruth Jeremy, EE Edna Louise Turner, EE Barbara O'Connell, EE Minerva Z. l\!Iessenger, KK Bayonne Gray Glenn, EE

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June Smith is 1944 Winner of the Wilma Wilson Sharp Alumna Award

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SIGi\1 \ ALI H \ i proud to preA LPI-Ir\ sent the 1944 路w ilma 路w ilson harp ward to an A lumna who is a combination of the Modern Career vVoman and the O ld P ioneer Girl. It is with pride that we anounce S . JUI E SMITH as the award winner. t present June is Director of Special Ed ucati on in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This particular job deals with the abnormal child , sub-a nd above normal.

But let us go back a few yea r .

In 1924 June Smith left her home town of Beechwoocls, Pennsylvania and journeyed to P hiladelphia and enroll ed in the Childh ood Education Department of Temple U niversity. A lpha Sigs of Kappa Kappa chapter were oon won over by her charm and were proud when she became one of its members. Jun e showed her power of leadership right from the beginning and held various offices, becoming President her Senior year. ' June lef t Temple in 1928 and became upervisor of Kindergarten in Lebanon, Pa. Public

chool until 1930 at which time, she became Supervisor of Kindergarten at l\lillersville State Teacher College Training School. June continued with her ow n studies and in 1933 received her 1\II.A. at Teachers College, Columbia. To mo t o f us we would feel that a job well clonebut not June. She continued her studies and in 1940 received her Pennsylvania P ychologi t's ertificate ( la ter's plus 66 additional credits in Psychology). Still June continued and before 1945 roll around our June will be Dr. Jun e mith with a Ph.D. in Ed ucation. Is it any wonder that in 1940 June wa chosen for the important job he now holds as "Director of Special Education?"

June's work deals with the chi ld who must be educated outside of the Public School, such a those in ho pi taL, mental in titutions, and those at home. It means finding out why the child is abnormal ;-because of hearing defects, or los of vi ion, or poor speech, as with a cleft palate.

It means go ing into the hospitals of the county

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and teaching the children confined there, or supplying teachers to do this. It means obtaining glasses and hearing aids for those in need. Her work includes caring for those whose personality has become warped through maladjustment, and arranging to get into the proper institutions those who can never become adjusted to normal life.

June has contributed a great deal to Community Welfare. While she was affiliated with Millersville State Teachers College, she served as Advisor to the Day Students and was one of the local sorority sponsors. She has been interested in and continues as an active mBmber in the following organizations: The Lancaster College Club, where she has served on various committees; The Temple University Alumn<e of Lancaster; The Reformed Church, Millersville.:.....-] une has served as President of the Young Ladies Guild, of the church and is usually responsible for the "Food Table" at the Christmas Bazaar.

Annually June is requested to teach in the Church School, which the Churches of Lancaster County hold once a year for Sunday School workers. This request has been granted year after year even though it means one or two extra nights a week in an overloaded schedule.

Frequently on Sunday you will find her in one of the hospitals giving aptitude tests to prospective student nurses or nurses' aides, because this is their "only day."

With all these interests Alpha Sigma Alpha has remained dear to June's heart. She is an active member of the Central Pennsylvania Alumn<e Chapter and has done national work also .

She served as Installation Officer and Inspection Officer, when those offices existed. June had to give up her national work to concentrate on her Ph.D. One would think that all this vvoulcl more than take up all of one woman's time-but June leads the life of a true American citizen in wartime. She is a casualty station attendant, helps out in the hospital and has a Victory garden.

By this time I'm sure you will agree that June is a "Modern Career Woman"-and now what of the "Old Pioneer Girl." She and her mother live together in a house furnished almost exclusively with antiques, rugs which June has hooked hresel拢 ( for the last year she has been

s work ing on a 9 x 12 for the dining room ), pieces which she has purchased at auctions and refinished. Yes, the woodwork and 路needlepoint, candles which she has started f~om the wick and hand clipped, and here and there are other pieces of her handiwork, such as the hammered copper tray and the pop-corn bedspread . Besides this, June is a wicked cook.

This summer she gardened on no small scale and boasts all of her winter's supply of potatoes ( white and sweet) together with frozen lima beans, corn on 路 the cob, raspberries and blackberries . One frozen locker was not enough, so she rented another and to be sure she could take on at least one of the small European countries and thereby prevent starvation. She is equally at home in slacks, digging potatoes, o~ in front of the County Dental Association expounding the virtues of the "Cleft-Palate" Clinic.

June has a radiant personality and is more than pleasing to the eye and is so full of pep that it takes a double dose of vi~amins to keep up with her. It is definitely an experience to go places with her and watch people's admiring glances.

Think of her patience and perseverance. Her recognition' has come, we are sure, from the smiles of children she has helped, and of gratifying results. June is poised, rarely is at a loss for the right answer and can carry on an interesting conversation on a wide variety of subjects.

Her friends are many and varied-from her contemporaries to her mother's "Girl Friends" (seventy and Up) to all the children and clogs in the neighborhood. Besides this, June likes to ride, swim, and play with Scottie dogs.

June is truly a great woman acording to professional status and a healthy vibrant American woman and above all an Alpha Sig of whom we are very proud.

Here is one more girl who really thtes th e Alpha Sigma Alpha Creed"To fill my clays with satisfying activity To find dominant beauty in art, literature, nature and friendships, To love life and joyously live each day to its ultimate goodThis is my creed in Alpha Sigma Alpha."

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The Alpha Girl of 1944, Evelyn Merrifield Winner of the Elizabeth Bird Small Award

EI' ELYN MERRII'IELll

in the deep so uth , th e air wa1路e hav e D O\Vl\' vibrated with the magnetic vo ice of South western Louisiana In stitute's Evelyn Me rrifi eld. '路"S.L.I . T ime is Your T ime" said J~ ve l yn a he announ ced the dai ly radio program from the F in e rts Buil ding studio on the campu . A one of the two g irl s honored with a full ma intenance scholarship in rad io for her junior and eni or years Evelyn's work was in cri pt wri ting and directing radio plays.

T hough radi o was the highlight of her curriculum , her debate team won fo ur consecutive champi onships in 1944 at J acks n, lVI i 路si ipp i, P in eville. Loui siana, D urant, Oklahoma and L-Iuntsv ille, Texas. t the e debate tournaments Evelyn won many honors in extemporaneous speaking, poetry read ing and rad io speaking.

Southwestern's M ixed horu s pre entecl " otton how " and the annual Blossom," "V icto ry Chri stmas program with Evelyn compl ementing the performances as narrator.

P resident and Vice-Pre ident of Be ta Zeta chapter, and Panh ell en ic representative indicate

Evelyn's peppy activity in the orority . Her name \\'aS among tho e li sted to appear in "Who's \i\ ho in A meri can College and U niver itie " of 194344. proof of her ver atility in campu activitie Evelyn was feature editor and later an as ociate editor of the chool paper. Honoring her activities in Foren ics he wa awarded the degree of special distinction in oratory and debate. ~ h e wa a member of the pep and junior scholastic organi zations, d ramatic, p ychology and relig ion clubs; she served as a member of the War Fo rum Boa rd . \.long with her talent go a rema rkab le sense of humor, a courage in upholding right a nd a charm that i as meltin g as her brown eye .

T hroughout her sen ior year at outhw este rn Evelyn appea red w ith everal other peech students in the Fourth and F ifth V\ ar Bond drives program . The Fou rth 'v\ ar Done! drive wa opened in the school gymnasium with the appearance of E rrol F lynn. Evelyn and other tudents appeared on that opening program. They later pre en ted their show to the La fayette L ion 路

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and Rotary Clubs. Her public appearances give Alpha Sigma Alpha every reason to be proud of Evelyn and her dynamic personality which meets every situation with poise and aplomb .

June brought two deserving honors to Evelyn: a degree with majors in chemistry and speech, and a graduate assistanceship in the speech department at Denver University. Sq in September, Evelyn invaded Mayo Hall and took up her duties as Graduate Forensics Manager under the inspirational guidance of Dr. E lwood Murray. " Y e southern belle" has not gone unnoticed, and it is with pride that note is made of Dr. Murray's reference to our Evelyn's "cultured voice of a southerner."

And too, romance has played its part, her Air Force Captain was made a prisoner of war in Germany on his fifteenth mission a year ago, after having received the P urple Heart, two Oak Leaf clusters and the Silver Star. When he couldn't get home for her graduation this courageous pilot promised to be there for her wedding: Alpha Sigma's hopes and prayers are with Evelyn and her Captain.

7 committee. Mrs. Chamberlain will maintain an office at 320 Peerine Bldg., Oklahoma City.

Newly elected president of the Tulsa, Okla. , Panhellenic is Mrs. H. Clay F isk, a member of the Tulsa Alumn<e Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha.

Helen Corey.,

National Secretary

Ruth Vorhees National Alumnae Editor This year we welcome a new Alumn<e Editor, All About HelenAlpha Sigs, we'd like you to meet a grand M rs. Ralph Vorhees, who is taking the place of Vi rginia Carpenter, busy serving U ncle Sam in person and a dear friend, Helen Co rey-our the :f\Iarines. M rs. Vorhees, as Ruth Selly, en- new, National Secretary. tered the Kirksville State Teachers College in For the past six years she has been advisor 1922, where she became a member of Alpha Beta to Kappa Kappa here at Temple U niversity chapter. Since her grad!lation there in 1926 she where she first joined Alpha Sigma Alpha while has been a member of first the K irksville, in undergraduate school. W hen not busy with M issou ri and now the Cleveland, Oh io alumn<e the active organization, she may be found workchapter. ing with the alumn<e group in the P hiladelphia \tVith this issue of THE PHOENIX your area. During the day you find her teaching Alumn<e Editor does something she has always Home Economics subjects to junior high school yearned to do-that is to write a column. But students in Upper Darby, Pennsylvani a.

Alas ! She has only two items for her column, so Helen's untiring loy<11lty and perseverance clear PHOENIX Co rrespondent, won't you please have guided her own chapter into a position of come to her aid when comes the time for another prominence on the campus. To those who know deadline and let us sing the praises of the sister s her, she is one who seemingly can solve the most preplexing problems with a human underwho have ennobled our name.

Urs. D. Edna Chamberlain, Gamma Gamma standing found in few people and one who is chapter, has again been chosen for a position of most enthusiastic about even the smallest success. merit by those of her profession. She has been Her deep confidence is a constant source of granted a year's leave of absence from her duties inspi ration.

We hope that at sometime you might all at Ed ison School, Tulsa, to become a fi eld worker for the National Education Association. She has have the privilege of meeting Helen. whom we been state director for NEA for two years, and is of Kappa Kappa feel truly reflects everything a member of the national board and of the budget . that an Alpha Sig should represent.

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Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities~ 1943-1944

A JULIA EASON State Teachers College, Farmville, Va.

P re ident of Ho u e

ouncil

Alpha Kappa Gamma

AB MARJORIE MAGRUDER State Teachers College, Kirksville, Mo.

P re ident P i O mega P i ec retary Kappa Alpha P i Kappa Delta P i

AB JUDITH LA FRENZ State Teachers College, Kirksville, Mo.

Kappa Delta P i

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Ar MARTHA PERRY State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.

BETTY MOSTLER State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.

Kappa Delta Pi Honor Grades Year Book Beauty 路

JEAN WIDDOWSON State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa.

P resident Seni or Class Kappa Delta P i

BB DOROTHY A VERY SUTTER Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colo.

President of Junior Class

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BB SHffiLEY BECK FARNHAM Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colo.

Co-Ed itor of Mirror

BB MARJORIE ANNE PINER Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colo.

Yice President of Student Body

rr MARGY MAHONEY EWALT Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, Okla.

Deans Honor Roll

HH MARIE HEMBREE State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas

Honor Gardes President of Panhellenic Vice President F uture Teachers of America Kappa Delta Pi

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NN NANCY GUNDRUM Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa.

P resident of \i\Tomens S tudent Government Association

NN JEANNETTE SPERR Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa.

P resident of P anhellenic Treasurer of Womens Student Government Association Key and Triangle

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MARILYN MOOR路

University of California, Los Angeles, California

GLORIA BAYARD Louisiana State Normal, Natchitoches, La.

P resident of Newman Club Councilman-at-la rge of S tudent Body

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<I> <I> EMMA RUTH KENDALL Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri

Honor Grades Secretary-Trea urer of Pi O mega Pi \ ice President of Dance Club aptain of Peppers Club Women Ensembl e

t)_l<}> BETTY TOWNSEND Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri

H istorian of P i Omega P i \'ice P re ident of Peppers tudent Senate Art lub

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SUE MOORE Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri

Vice P resident of Senior Class P resident of P i O mega P i P resident Green and \1\!hite Peppe r 路 Honor Grades Speech ouncil

<I> <I> MELBA SEITZ Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri

Secretary of Senior Cia V ice President of P i O mega Pi Green and White Peppers i\I usic Council l\I usic Ensemble

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路BE JEAN JONES Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia

P resident of Stud ent Government Honor Grades Kappa Delta P i

BZ PAULINE GAUDET Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana

EVELYN MERRIFIELD Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana

Debate Team Feature E ditor of School Paper

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ARLENE HOPKINS

Central Michig an College of Educat ion, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

路Honor Grades Secretary of Student Council Ed itor of Year Book

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B@ MARY JEAN COON Central Michigan College of Education, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Honor Grades \ ' ice P resident of S igma T au Delta Managing E dito r of Lif e :\fa nager of Greek N cws

BI KATHERINE KARNES State Teachers Col路lege, Radford, Va.

Honor Grades P resident o f emor Clas K appa Delta P i

BK MARGIE JEANNE MINER Wes tern Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois

Kappa Delta P i P re ident of W. A. W . tuclent Council Member P hi Tau P hi Chairman Student Loun ge Committee

BA MARION COOPER Arkansas State Teachers College, Conway, Ark.

E ditor College P aper P resident Royal Rooter

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BA LA NELLE SIEGLE Arkansas State Teachers College, Conway, Ark.

President Alpha Chi Phi Alpha Theta Honor Grades

BA DORIS POWELL Arkansas State Teachers College, Conway, Ark.

Vice President of Senior Class Vice President of Royal Rooters Sigma Beta Lambda

HH MARTHA RUTH HOWARD State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas

Honor Grades President of Y.W.C.A. Kappa Delta Pi Alpha Gamma Tau l\Iu Epsilon A.A.U.W. Tuition Award E ulalia Award

Alpha Beta

Alpha Gamma

Beta Gamma

Beta Epsilon

MARIE HIDALGO

MARIE HETAGER

LouiSE CoLE

EvANGELINE B .\LLINGER

FRANCES M ACK

HENRIETTA STOLPER

LEE ANNA DEADRICK

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A Challenge to Leadership HE acti vities of our "Keen T eens," no longer like a di sciplina ry measure which it shouldn 't be all. I wish that college stud ents, preferabl y T problem children, a re in the new headlines atupper-cia smen, could take over the responsibility,

all over the country. T he curfew bell does not appeal to young American lVIoderns. "What they partially anyway, of chaperoning on certain nights. I know that th e ma jor ity of us woul d want is fun " and they a re showin g city dad enj oy it and it would relieve pa rents and teachers eve ryw here that, given the chance, they ca n plan who are already overworked ." and execute a program of recreation. He re Penny S tolper , Beta Gamm a write : "Our stands the chall enge to Alpha igma college girl little tow n of Tahlequah is just beginning to in training fo r teaching and youth guidance . reali ze the nece sity fo r eradi cating and preventTeen-Age Centers need wi e ad ult supervision. juvenil e delin quency. An excell ent commiting Pa rents and teacher working on thi s vitally imtee, .headed by our coll ege president, is now planportant problem would welcome the ervice of ning a program whi ch will stress w holesome, college girl s trul y interested in boys and girl . activities fo r gro up of var ious ages . upervi eel T hi s work is p roposed as an lpha Sigma I talked with our president, ~I r. J ohn Yaug han, A)pha project. Now people are alert to social today, and he wa very pleased with th e suggesproblems, they know that planned recreation fo r tions outlined in your letter. Beta Gamma girl youth is not a war time problem but an a ll time will be needed to upervi e th e play actiYiti es of need fo r city and town children of our machine the di fferent g roups, and our girl are well age. He re's a chance to et our ow n pattern of qualified for thi s tas k. T he prog ram will not beservice. It i a new idea fo r a college sorori ty come effective until about the mi dd le of N ovemto ponsor or even be interested in such a cause. ber, but we a re hoping for great accompli hm ents Some of our Coll ege chapter Vva r Service Chair- then." men have re ponded enthu siastically.

J erry J oan teinmiller, P i P i, says, "I personally Ru ssell , Epsilon Epsilon, ha thi s to say: ''Our think the project of helping out th e teen agers is town (Empo ria, Kansas) has a Teen Age Center . an excellent one. We w ill help th e 'kid s' and ga in It was opened thi s summer. T he whole idea was so me va luable experi ence. I hope our so rority brought before the tow n by the high school tusiste r all over the co un t ry like th e idea a much dents. T he Traveler's Club has spon ored the as did all the Alpha Sig at Buffalo S tate. I 11 idea and with va ri ous money-makin 0o- schemes . keep you po ted on our progress and woul d love raised money enough to open a place clow n tow n. to hear what other chapters a re doing." Mar jorie T he name, Jump Town, was selected by the memP iner, Beta Beta suggests that Alpha Sig ponso r bers. They have a mall membershi p fee. Recentone night a week or however often as they could. ly the members held election follow ing regular ·w ide publicity has been given to the excellent methods, th,ey elected a mayor , police judge and work being clone in many place . T he Rea.der's others. 0£ course there was a racial problem as Digest, S urvey Graphic and P are11ts' M a.ga:::ine there seem to be everywhere. T hi s was settl ed have given permi ssion to reprin t their articl es apby hav ing ce rtain nights fo r l\Iexicans, Colored pearing on the subj ect. and W hites. Because I am interested in the fi eld of recreati on and also social work, I have walked by there evenings and the crowds seem to be fall- YOU CAN GET THEM OFF ing off in number . I have heard that chaperons THE STREET CORNERS are hard to fi nd . T hat is where I beli eve A lph a F rom Sw·ve.\• Graphic, August, 1944 by E leanor Lake Sigma Alph a and all college people can do the as condensed in the R eader's D igest, September, 1944. most work here. T here is something to me about happy, noi y revo lution has taken place a Teen Age Center whi ch still seems too schooli sh, a fter school hou rs. In more than 500 youth centoo much like a party wh ere teachers chaperon ters f rom Maine to Cali fo rnia, our hi gh school who don' t have enough spiri t of fun . Youth is youngsters are prov ing that, given a chance to loud and reckless, what I am t rying to say is help run the show, they can produce the kind of that I think they resent goin g to a place wh er e fun that pulls teen-ager s out of th e bee r joints they are watched by parents and teachers. T hey and into a decent place of th eir own. . ~hem s:l ves have hea rd all thi s publicity about T he youth centers are the kids' om1 idea.

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youngsters: a juke box, plenty of cokes, and some furniture you can put your feet on. Then they proceed into anything, the teen-agers themselves want: all kinds of games, war work, orchestras, athletic leagues, discussion groups. \Vhen I took a swing around some of the most successful youth centers lately, I could see why nundreds of other towns are eager to start them. I could see, too, how important it is to give them community backing.

In Morgantown, West Virginia, for instance, the路 room was simply a deserted automobile salesroom, that the youngsters themselves had scrubbed spotless. It had a cement floor, for jitterbugging needs no shiny parquet. Boys and girls were lined up five deep at pingpong tables. They leaned against the coke bar, talking baseball, with a bottle in one hand and an ice-cream sandwich in the other. They seethed blissfully around the crowded dance floor, where the red belly of a juke box glowed under soft lighting. The din was terrific: a nerve-searing mixture of clicks, bangs, yells and discordant song against the piercing background of Harry James's trumpet.

The place was really "solid." In the midst of the noise, half a dozen boys calmly played checkers; a few were reading.

"We're open every afternoon and evening," said Alice VanLaningham, the city recreation director, "because we feel it should be a real drop-in spot. We have a paid director, which is highly important if you're going to have any continuity."

When . the Citizens' Recreation Committee, worried by mounting teen-age trouble, set up a special Youth Committee, they not only called in every group in Morgantown--churches, women's clubs, labor unions, teachers, service clubs; they also cr.e ated a high school committe~ representing every type of boy and girl. "The Youth Center is the best thing that ever happened to tlorgantown."

All hands agree, however, that it is only a beginning. Dancing and cokes alone won't hold the high school crowd forever. You want other things, too.

Take a big-town center like that in Fort Wayne, Indiana. There 4500 youngsters pay SO cents a year to use a three-story building which houses not only juke boxes but pool tables, a workshop, lounges, pianos, a hot-dog stand, a monthly newspaper, a dozen kinds of games from pingpong to darts, and even a weekly radio program .

But even Fort Wayne misses one thingglamour, which is as important to a youth center

as to a night club. Teen-agers are really "sent" by centers like the Des Moines Bombardier (black oilcloth background with silver planes), the Arkansas City Ranch House (stick furniture, rough cloth curtains and cowboy murals, all by the kids themselves), the Clinton, Iowa, Deep Sea Dive (deep-blue walls with life-size murals of mermaids, sea serpents and ships).

Most big cities find that neighborhood centers picked and run by local boys and girls work better than these oversize youth clubs. In Raleigh a flourishing Teen-Age Club collapsed of its own weight, so big that discipline became difficult, the budget too oppressive. It also slipped into another pitfall: it became too much the hangout of a single high school. Indianapolis has avoided this with a series of 12 small centers furnished and decorated by the neighborhood crowd.

A problem that faces every youth center is the curious caste system of age. Sixteen-year-olds will leave a place cold if it swarms with 13-yearolds, whom they consider sad sacks and dimmies: Different centers have found different solutions to this snobbery. Some give afternoon hours exclusively to the junior high ; others set aside special days or special rooms.

In most cities, schools are morgues after three o'clock, dark monuments to our lack of imagination. Not in Richmond, Virginia. There the schoolhouses are turned into community centers after hours. In Richmond's F\tlton School I saw a room done in Williamsburg blue, decorated with Walt Disney cutouts, and full of jitterbugging boys and girls.

In small towns, the new youth centers are sometimes the first sign of real community spirit.

Laurel, Maryland, for instance, midway between Washington and Baltimore, had no program until nearby Camp Meade, and gas rationing, kept youngsters idling around the streets. Then a young physician, Dr. John Warren, started a crusade for a youth center. Through the Lions Club he got the entire town together, making talks between shows at the movie house, asking ministers to mention the project from their pulpits. The idea caught like wildfire, and Laurel adults found themselves having as much fun as the youngsters.

George Barkmann, florist. who raised the money for the Center, says , '' It's the first time we've been a real town instead of a place to commute from .' ' But Laurel, like other towns, warns that you should have an idea of what you're in for before you' start a youth center.

The important thing is for adults to give youngsters understanding and help. To quote

18 V. K. Brown, head of Chicago's recreation program: "The youngsters want to write their own ticket, but we have found they have a sense of relief when they are sure that community resource are theirs on call, whether in equipment or in expert know-how."

Good youth centers are no flash in the pan.

Some, like the one in Minneapolis, are more than four year old and still growing. No one pretend they are a cure for delinquency, but they have proved to be a way of preventing situations that lead to delinquency, a way of drawing off the glamour-struck following of the gang leader or hep chick. And they are a great outlet for the 99 percent of normal, noisy, adolescent boys and girl s.

We have been slow to realize that the high school crowd needs to sit in with us, with all their jive talk, their T shirts and sloppy joes and clamdiggers. Youth center have proved that the terrible teens can solve their own problems, without "snoopervision," and that their own idea of a good time is as mystifying, as wholesome and a generally all reet as the high chool boys and girls themselves.

WHAT THEY WANT IS FUN!

By Helen Buckler and condensed from article路 appearing in Th e Parents' Maga:;ine for March, 1944.

Hats off to the teen-age boys and girls from Hartford to Herlands, Watseka to Wyoming.

They are making their elders sit up and take notice. No calling them the Terrible Teens any longer. Keen Teens would be politer-and more in line with the facts.

When alarming juvenil e delinquency reports began to come in from all over the country some months ago-a result that might have been anticipated if British experience had been studiedone reaction was to peal again the ancient curfew bell. Cities in Massachusetts, in Michigan, and in Wisconsin did just that. No matter where youngsters went, just so they got off the streets.

Other cities passed the buck by making a law against allowing minors in honky-ton ks and taverns. But who could tell in stantly whether a youngster was 17 or 18? Even a 14-year-old girl so easily passed for years more with the aid of a 1ittle lipstick and mascara.

Some communities remained inert about the matter-at least for a time. These you ngsters, they aiel, were the sort who ultimately went wrong anyhow. Too bad if war conditions hastened the process, but it couldn't be helped .

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to be found those of "good" fami ly. A new type of girl was discovered drifting into an old type of delinquency-the r esult of uniform hysteria. And the banker's son as well as the janitor's boy was fo und confusing bravado with bravery. \ -andalism, rape, thievery, and various cases of personal violence were traced to junior commandos from both sides of the tracks. 路 When a Chicago paper charged that :\Ioline, Illinois, a town of 35,000, was allowing minors to buy liquor and to gamble, the citizen were furious . A girl editor of the high-school paper, on the other hand, wrote that it was true. Her forthrightness has had interesting results. The Dad's Club invited the boys and girls in to talk it over. T hey came, twenty of them, and asked first that the law be enforced! Then they asked for a recreation center of their own, without superviSIOn. This point is significant, for 1\Ioline had 36 agencie dealing with youth welfare, but all adult- upervisecl. The youngsters said they wanted to be trusted, they didn't object to adult help, but they didn't want parents traipsing in every half hour and they didn't want teachers snooping. Moreover, they wanted the center open all the time, not just one night a week.

The 9ad we re startled, but the kids came back with the signatures of 500 other kids to back up their request. The dads were game and a Citizens' Committee was formed and raised $1,500 to finance the project until it could hope to become self-supporting, or almost so. from ales at the nack Bar and admission charge to the Saturday dances. A former A & P store was found right at the hub of things and, under the direction of the High School A rt Department and with the help of its future patrons, was transformed into a cheerful rendezvous, vvith sports murals on the walls and gaily decorated booths for coke-elates, and replete with juke box, pingpong and billiard tables, shuffleboard, and games galore. On July 31 last, the now famous Moline "Rek" (affectionate diminutive for Recreation Center) was opened with a paid-up membership ,of 1200. Dues at first were 25 cents a yea r, later raised to $1. Daily attendance is around 600, counting those who bring their lunches . A P lanning Board of eight has wise adult guidance, but not dominance, and the House Committee of 45 member take turns keeping order and enf orcing the rules which they made them elves. The Chief of Poli ce reports that delinquency has dropped 25 to 50 percent.

Teen-age rs in other communities were eq ually articulate and vocal about their problems. In

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Raleigh, I orth Carolina, when boys and girls had the opportunity to get on a local radio program, they used it to ca:il for "a place. of our own."

In Wisconsin, a Rotarian luncheon was invaded by a group of high-school boys who said: "You squawk about high-school kids going to taverns. \iVhere do you want us to go? We got to go somewhere. \iVhat about the town auditoriumwhat are you saving it for? A museum?" They got it.

In the same state, at Portage, 75 girls and boys appeared at the City Council and asked for a hang-out, and again a civic building was found avai lable and turned over to them, fitted out with gym equipment and dance floor.

The high-school paper of Marshalltown, Iowa, carried an editorial that said, "We want a place where we can eat, dance, visit, and haye. good wholesome fun." On the west side of Detroit when labor unions and social agencies opened an old .firehouse in a neighborhood of mixed nationality and race as a center for adult war workers, the teeners poured in and literally jammed the place. Reports are that the younger folk will be allowed to keep the old firehouse for their own, and that another place will be found for those over 18. Southvvestern Center is particularly interesting because it is a true melting pot for the generation that must carry on those principles of democracy for which brothers and fathers are now dying.

And so, finally, months after recreation was seen to be a wartime necessity for the man in uniform and the woman in overalls, it has 路been recognized as a requirement likewise for the boy and girl! That it must be on a ,community basis, and that the youngsters themselves must have a hand in the planning and the responsibility is not always seen. Aroused individuals and groups determined at last to do something, too often attempt to do everything. They glow with paternalism and laclybountifulness.

They raise the money, hire the hall, decorate it, plan the refreshments, provide the music, issue the invitationsand are hurt and simply can't understand it when no one shows up. They don't know that you can't put 2,000,000 kids to work (figures of' the National Probation Association ) , give them independence with a pay check, and then attempt to impose the double standard of being treated as an adult at work and as a child at play. They don't understand yet what progressive educators and group work agencies have been saying for years, even in peacetime: You can 't plan what you

think they ought to have, you have to ask them what they want.

Where that has been clone, where youth themselves, both boys and girls, have been in on the planning from the beginning, where they have seen the problems of financing and leadership, and have helped make the decisions about both facilities and program, where they have he~pecl handle the publicity; above all where the place has been truly their own, theirs to refurbish and paint, to clean and -run and regulate-there the youth center has met a need and been a success. It may not have been quite as much fun for the Elks and Kiwanis and the Women's Club, but it has been a lot more fun for the kids.

There are other things that enthusiastic, but amateur, workers with teeners have to learn and be prepared for. The noise. Don't try to stop the noise. They must have a place to yell it out in, says Grace Louks Elliott, author of many books on adolescent psychology and now executive secretary of the National Board of the YWCA. An old tenet in dealing with adolescents, it is now more important than ev~r when so many homes have to be kept quiet for the swing-shift sleeper. The destruction of furniture . This is kept to a minimum by pride of ownership and interest in what has been painted and waxed by themselves. The silly talk, the brutal frankness.

If you can't stand it, you better not try to work with teeners. The gangs. Don't let your theories about democracy try to break these up; they're natural for adolescents. Just let the place be big enough for all the gangs to congregate in at once.

Give them date booths to gather in. The scoffers.

There will always be some scoffers, but if your youth center is handled right and succeeds, the scoffers will gradually join in the fun. The civilian boy- don't forget him! The service forces have their USO's. If uniformed youth are admitted at all, take care that the civilian boy has duties as host that give him a sense of security. And remember that one of the teenage girl's problems is uniform glamour. And youth representation-don't take the easy way of calling on high-school class officers. They're busy as it is. Get the less occupied boys and girls to take on the youth center jobs. They need selfexpression and will put more into it.

With all this in mind, what are some of the musts that have proved themselves essential as literally hundreds of youth centers have sprung up mushroomwise, from Los .Angeles to Dorchestel", the Carolinas to Caspar, 路w yom ing? That it must be a place they can call their own, run by

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themselves with wise adult guidance kept in the background-these have been mentioned.

No anxious adult need fear the rul es will not be trict enough. Here are some adopted by patrons of a USO center in the Deep South , where quarters are granted the teen-agers once a week. They are all working tetmer s- a lively gt:oup of young truck drivers, cafe waitres es, stove foundry workers. coalyard employees. arsenal line girls, store clerks, ambulance drivers, cotton-mill workers. creamery and laundry workers, plus many girls in domestic empl oy ment.

Their own rules are: " Every one must wear hoe ; no smoke 路, no pop, no hat on the dance floor; only laclie and gentlemen above 13 allowed ; all over admission 5 cents per head .' ' These rules were adopted following an evening when the fun got too hilariou at a barn dance and corn and pop bottles were spinning dangerously over the Aoor. When the dance was halted and th e director aiel " Let路 talk this thing over ,'' the discussion was ve ry frank. "\Vhy should every one have to suffer because a few do wrong ? Who is to blame, and wh y? I-Iow can we all help so that thi s won't happen again?"

Finally Jack got up and confessed: "I sp un .the first bottle and threw th e fir st corn. I'm sorry and I won't do it again. I think I should be punished by being banished for one week.' The group agreed and J ack stalked out-and too k a post at the window.

Following are some rules adopted by a New England youth center: "Membership ca rd will be taken away f rom anyone wh o does not follow these standa rds: I\o drinking, or evidence of drinking befo re coming ; boys may smoke in second floor lobby, but not in auditorium; no smoking by girl s ; no use of elevators without regular operators; for girls, any informal dress or sports clothes, but not slacks; for boys, shirts and neckties November to April, collared sports shirts during warm month s, Ap ril to October. " Youth is its own severest critic wh en left on its own . Likewise, the center should be a community-wide project, and located where th e youngsters like to congregate. Large cities may need several : Seattle has eight, Wichita is planning for six. The center should be kept open almost continuously; early closing only means they go elsewhere.

The name is extremely important. It must be snappy. Here are some that have proved popular, and they show the love and imagination that have gone into the whole affair. T een Town Columbia Mo., and Lowville. N . Y.; Club 36, vVilkesbarr~:

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Pa. ; Hide O ut, Hamilton, Ohio; Sail Inn, Erie, Pa.; The Spieler's Web, Burlington, Ia.; The Hangout, Philadelphia and Muskegon; Teen Canteen, Topeka; High Spot, White Plains, N. Y.; Open House, Charleston; Rendezvous, V an Wert, O hi o; Teenville, Warrensburg, 1\IIo . ; Hobby J-Iouse, Cleveland ; Gung Ho (Chinese for work harmony) , Pasadena ; The T AC, Van Dyke, l\iich.

Then the decoration . These need not be expensive, but they must be colorful. If the boys and girls are allowed to do them themselv es, so much the better. "Fixing up was such fun ,'' they invariably say. nd if they carry a motif suggestive of the na me, better still. The Bombardier, in Des Moines, has silver planes on a black background on walls, lamp shades. table cover , and menu cards. The Flamingo Club in Seattle has the long-legged bird on walls, mirrors, screens. The Co ral Reef. fun spot of Columbus youth. is a ship with promenade, sports deck, and ship's grill-the re ult of three clays ' intensive work on the part o f member . "The result is so realistic, you can almost feel the sp ray as you sit on deck. The launching was a huge success with hundreds dancing to the mu sic of the orchestra and visiting with friends.'' The Bar- None Co rral , in O klahoma, has a ll the we tern trappings, saddles and harness covered blotches on the wall, and a high-school girl planned it.

This ti e-.up of name and decor gives not just unity, but a sense of being well planned and provided for. It wins respect and develops pride, assures that longed-for sophistication, a sense of having what th e grownups have. Sof t lights and glamour are essential. So is the juke box. Many teeners don't dance, but they like the juke box going for atmosphere and background even while th ey play games, horse around, or just sit, hang out, and talk interminably. Games and puzzles of all kind s are important. to keep the non-dancers from being ' 'drips," and to pick up before the crowd gathers. Variety of program is essential if all are to have a satisfying experience. Not every one likes the same thing, and no teener likes anything for long. Questionnaires listing all sorts of interests can be given out to be checked. The Florida State Recreation Association has prepared some that run the gamut from sports and outings. scavenger and treasbre hunts, to dramatics, music, square dances ; from hobbies such as photography. crafts, and aircraft models, to mental and linguistic activities like quiz programs, forums, travel talks . There is no end to what a little imagination and subtle suggestion can produce. A hike

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can always be a Gypsy Trailer, or a Vagabond mittees of youth centers arranging participation Voyage. A dance can be a United Tations Ball, in bond and stamp drives, Victory Gardens, givwith appropriate decorations. ing aiel in hospitals, making toys, furniture, acting At least one trained leader is a must, too. as messengers, recreation leaders for still younger There can be an extreme of youthful indepen- children, and as aides to mothers. The girls in a dence, as the children in a Florida center found Michigan group cleciclecl not to charge for caring out. Left to their own devices, at their insistence, for young children when the mothers were going they got so bored in the middle of the evening out to do war volunteer work, but to charge when that they trooped down to the YWCA and asked they went to parties. A Massachusetts group for advice. One trained leader and four volun- voted to give from its dance income $20 to the teers-young married couples are an excellent Community Chest, $54 to the World Fellowship choice-can handle about 100 youngsters. accord- Fund, and $60 to the Reel. Cross at Fort Devens ing to Dorothy Richardson, consultant on adoles- for a rug loom. Such emphasis heeds the warning of Children's Bureau Publication 300 "Undercents for the YWCA-USO . standing Juvenile Delinquency" that everyone .A warning about budgets and permanent needs not. only fun, relaxation and release, but backing is given by Virginia Musselman, of the self-expression, too, and that involves feeling useNational Recreation Association. Some towns ful. enthusiastically raised goodly sums and spent it When a community sponsored youth center all in setting up too elaborate centers with no thought for the ongoing rent, salaries. replace- can accomplish all this, "then the population" ment of worn equipment, record keeping. Few again we quote Mark McC!oskey-"gets the feel centers can be entirely self-supporting. And that their community is sound and solid, its teeners grow up, move away, marry, are drafted. stature rises in the eyes of its young people, they There should be a continuing adult organization lose their cynicism, gain a sense of belonging, become creative, responsible." This is winning the back of the enterprise. l\1any centers that have been running success- . peace on the home front. fully for six months or a year are now in their PoLLY S cHLOSSER, critical period. The big job seems to be done, National T楼a7' Se1~uice Chairman. interest is beginning to flag. "We need,' " points out Elise Moller, Iational Girl Reserve Secretary, " to run a sort of double-header. Young people ASA OFFICERS MEET IN CHICAGO Alpha Sigma Alpha National Councilors and need to belong to a big thing that is a successful. going concern. This gives security . But the Chairmen held a conference at the Edgewater individual can get lost; sometimes only the Beach Hotel, Chicago, July 1-8. They were welcouncil members are getting a truly responsible comed by the Chicago Alumnre who entertained and satisfactory experience. We have to find a in their honor at the home of the chapter's presiway to initiate smaller groups within the larger dent, Mrs . Ralph Wegar. The conference was so that more individuals can participate. And concerned with sorority business and . planning the adults who serve must be more than chape- which under normal conditions would have been ron . They must understand what is happening carried on by a 1944 national conve路ntion. A reto these youngsters today; they must be willing view of the general condition of the 路sorority since to just stand around and talk, and above all to last convention showed increased chapter memberlisten. Teachers don't have time, parents are ships and the addition to so rority rolls of four away working. A training evening for volun- college chapters and four chartered alumnre chapteers, with a good speaker on adolescent psych- ters. Alpha Sigma's War Services, under the ology, and discussion afterward can be helpful. " direction of the National V ice-president, received It is not incongruous that many youth centers additional impetus through the en listments of two have moved beyond the purely recreation field National Officers, Lt. ( j.g. ) Katherine l\1. Hale, into that of war service and community better- former National Treasurer and Sgt. V irginia ment. Says Mark McCloskey, Director of Recre- Carpenter, MCWR, Alumnre Ed itor.

ASA's college leadership program which has ation of the Community Services Division of the been emphasized for the past three years will be Federal Security Agency, "Youth wants recognicontinued and extended to include recent college tion, security and action-particularly does he graduates.

Former chapter leaders will serve as want to be in the midst of thi s most dynamic and alumnre visitors to their college chapters to codramatic experience. " So we have service com-

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ordinate college and alumna: activities and promote college loyalty. Although new sorority publications will be held at a minimum for the duration the conference planned for three: Leadership Manual for College Chapter PI'esidents, Hi tory of Alpha Sigma Alpha, Handbook for alumna:.

The ASA Fellow hip Loan Fund, enthusia tically supported by college and alumna: chapters, served twenty-seven college members in the past three years. During the conference a loan was granted to a student 路for graduate study in the University of i\Iexico.

The resignation of Mrs. harles Moyer, National Secretary, was regretfully accepted.

Miss Helen Corey of Philadelphia is the new secretary and Mrs. Ralph Vorhees, Shaker Heights, Ohio, Alumna: Editor.

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for girl with highest scholastic average in graduating class, and received Readers Digest award for person with highest scholastic average in graduating class.

You can easily see why Kathryn was eager to ANNUAL ALPHA ALPHA A WARD enter the activities open to Freshmen girls in the AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY, GOES TO: University. The ones she elected are above the KATHRYN IRENE BAILEY average for a College fershman and they include The sixth annual fifteen dollar cash pnze the following: given by Alpha Alpha of Alpha Sigma lpha was During her fre hman year in Miami Unione of the honors presented at the last assembly versity, she was a member of the Recensio Staff; in May, 1944. a member of the Inter-Faith Committee of the It is always an interesting adventure to watch Y.W.C.A. and has worked with the Miami the best student girls in the freshman class as Theater group; was a member of the Holiday they begin to how their merits at the beginning Hop Committee; has served as President of the of the second semester. There are so many at- pledge of Delta Delta Delta. On May Day she tractions that many times a girl whose record was was elected to Cwen, Sophmore honorary for high in High School makes quite the opposite women. record as a freshma_n in college.

Kathryn has unusual personality and much The selection of the girl this year was an un- mitiative. Before coming to Miami she had usually happy one. It is quite generally known earned $900 for her 路expenses. During this year that fewer girls are entering the field of teach- she has worked part time at the local telephone ing-yet we found one who is alert and keenly office and will have earned about $200. This interested to become as fine a teacher as she can takes something 'plus' in order to keep up a be. May I introduce to you, Kathryn Irene creditable recorcL and carry the different activities.

Bailey, who is majoring in Mathematics in the Her Freshman Adviser recommended her highly School of Education. She is from Sandusky, and the committee agreed unanimously that Ohio.

Kathryn was the most outstanding freshman girl Kathryn's High School activities included : in the School of Education. Her average for Secretary of Mathematics Club, Fomm Club, the first semester was 3.65 (B-) which is quite Major part in "Letters To Lucerne," minor part above the general record. in "Swing Fever" in Dramatic Club, member of We believe with Kathryn that college training College Guidance Club, Jr. Reel Cross speaking has something of eternal value. We are delighted representative to the Tational Convention, Wash- she is eager to be one of the best teachers in the ington, D. C., 1939, member editorial staff of field of Education.

Fra:m, Antholog路y, Associate Editor Pram YearAMY M. SWISHER, booll, Co-editor Fra.m Yearbook, Received cup C!rai路m wn AA Award A.S.A.

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A SUMMER AT THE GURNET

BY GERTRUDE. DURR CALVERT

Boston Alumna: Chapter

路w hen the blackout restrictions for the Atlantic coast were removed last spring, we (my husband and I) began to think in terms of a summer at the beach for the boys (George Jr. aged ten, Billy aged seven, Stephen aged four, and a foster son, Gene, aged three ) . We had visited many times at Gurnet Point near Duxbury, Massachusetts and found we could rent a cottage there, but the big problem would be getting there and getting supplies as it was not very accessible.

Gurnet Point is a small headland on a point of land that extends about four and a half miles out in the harbor from Duxbury, overlooking Plymouth. In order to get there it is necessary to ride or walk the four and a half miles down the beach as there is no road , and this is only possible at low tide. We found we could park our car in Duxbury and hire a jalopy at the local garage to transport us down the beach; so with much courage and many boxes of provisions we arrived at the Gurnet in July. My husband had one week's vacation so he helped us to get settled and we had a wonderful week just having a grand family vacation. \"1\T e had two b~autiful beaches to choose between, one on the ocean side and one on the bay side. There are a light house, a coast guard station, an old fort and perhaps twenty cottages at the Gurnet. The boys had a grand time exploring, playing in the old fort, sliding down the steep grass banks at the base of the light house, besides swimming and enjoying the beaches. \Ve all felt pretty blue when it was time for Daddy to leave us, although he promised to write often and to come down for a week-end in two weeks time. He decided to walk back to Duxbury, so we walked about a mile up the beach with him, and then watched until he disappeared from sight around a point of land.

"Uncle Jim," an 路old timer, who has been coming to the Gurnet for the past sixty years, said he would look out for us, and he certainly did. He came to see us every morning and then came over to say good-night to the boys every evening. He took us "clamming" and showed us where to find the best ones. He helped the two older boys with all of their building projects and told us many interesting things about the place. For instance, that one small cottage was formerly a deck house on a boat that ran aground there; how the old farm house used to be a boarding house in the days when the boats made regular trips to the Gurnet from Plymouth; that there used to be

twin light houses at the Gurnet but one had been removed; not to mention all of the family histories of the families who came there.

The mast which the Coast Guard used in practicing the breeches buoy was just behind our cottage, so every Monday morning we had a special view of the Coast Guard weekly practice, much to the delight of four small boys. Seven year old Billy spent two mornings erecting a breeches buoy in our front yard, which finnlly with the help of Uncle Jim was completed and worked sm:cessfully until Billy decided to ride in it himself instead of the teddy bear for which it was intended. Great was the fall thereof!

There were perhaps ten families at the most, there at any one time, and we found every one very friendly and helpful. Just when we would almost run out of some needful supplies, some one would offer to get things for us. We had all of the black berries we could eat just for the picking, and plenty of fresh fish and clams. George, the ten year old, learned to fish and became quite an enthusiastic fisherman. Stephen, the four year old, was our good-will ambassador, he made friends with every one and had a regular round of visits he made every morning after breakfast, usually taking Gene with him.

The boys helped some other boys build a raft which they anchored just off shore on the bay side, and which was a great source of pleasure for all of the children. For Billy's birthday we organized a treasure hunt and invited all of the children on the Gurnet; there were fourteen at the time. After the treasure hunt which was quite exciting, we served refreshments and then took them all swimming and ended up playing games on the beach.

The children collected stones, shells and many souvenirs they found on the beaches., fter a storm or high seas we always went beach combing and returned laden with trophies from Davy Jones' Locker. Another favorite past time for the children was ' toboganning down the sides of the big sand dunes. Going to the Coast Guard Station every day for the mail, which was brought in by a jeep and looking for the highly anticipated boxes of candy which we received from home every week were all events of great importance.

So in this quiet, peaceful, secluded spot the days and week sped by until it was time to come home and get ready tor the opening of school.

We gathered beach plums and wild cherries to bring back with us and what grand jelly they made!

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â&#x20AC;˘ It's In the Air!

We're Everywhere!

Welcome Sister Alumnae

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO ALUMNAE CHAPTER CHARTER MEMBERS

Maiden Name

Chapter Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Alpha Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Sigma Sigma and Beta Beta

Mis Gertrude Crane Vena Bryan Mildred K irkpatrick W ini fred John on Grace Harris Virginia Romans Melva Shady Miss Virginia hepherd Mildred Larson

Married Name 1\lrs.

M rs.

Mrs. l\frs.

Robert Crowder Dan Harmon Lester Hay William Lloyd, Jr. !Irs. Vincent Maloney M r s. Melva Shady Ross

Mrs. Chester Trum<m

Mi s Helen Ruth Wilcoxin

Date of petition-October 14, 1944

Officers : President-Gertrude Crane Vice-President-Grace Lloyd Secretary-\i\fini fred Johnson Treasurer-Helen Ruth Wilcox\n PHOENIX Correspondence-Virgin ia Maloney

Gertrude Crane

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Candlelight reflected the happy faces of ten Alpha Sigmas around a beautifully laid table on Saturday, October fourteenth. A private banquet room at the Acacia Hotel in Colorado Springs was the scene of the organization meeting of our newest alumnce chapter. Renewing old friendships and getting acquainted throughout a sumptuous turkey dinner a truly enthusiastic chapter had its beginning. Bringing the girls up to elate on Alpha Sigma news, Polly Schlosser presided for the discussion and election of officers. A simple candlelight service was held at the close of the meeting to install the officers. Betty Hills Smith of Beta Beta attended the dinner. Betty is teaching at Kimball, Nebraska. At one time Colorado Springs was a part of the Southern Colorado Alumn<e chapter being within the area of the several towns represented. Now when ten Alpha Sigs were found to be living in the city Grace Lloyd and Gertrude Crane began making plans to organize an alumn<e chapter. 1'v1any PHOENIX readers will know these Alpha Sigmas.

Grace Lloyd moved to Colorado Springs a few months ago and brings with her valuable experience in executive work in clubs and organizations. Mr. Lloyd is an employee of the telephone company, a son attends North Junior H igh school.

Gertrude Crane graduated from Colorado State College of Education last June and is teaching at South Junior High school. Gertrude lives with her mother.

Winifred Hay's two young children keep her, a busy mother . Mr. Hay teaches commercial subjects and athletics in the high school.

Helen Ruth Wilcoxin has been a member of both Colorado college chapters and graduated from C.S.C.E. three years ago, she teaches English in the high school.

Virginia Maloney comes from an Alpha Sig family being a sister of Elizabeth Woody in our St. Louis chapter. She has lived in the Springs since 1927. Her young daughter two with her five step children give V irginia a busy, happy home life. One daughter is out of school, two children are in high school and two are in North Junior high school.

Mr. Maloney is in the United States office of Internal Revenue.

Virginia Shepherd teaches social science at Torth Junior High school and has the young ters of several of the group in her classes.

Virginia lives with her mother.

Mildred Truman has a son in the Coast Guard and one attending North Junior High

school. Mr. Truman is superintendent of the Northfield Water Works.

Melva Ross is a Woman Ordnance Worker at Camp Carson where her work is that of an automotive technician. She also handles first aid cases for 'her area and is a lieutenant in the Red Cross Motor Corps. Melva's daughter attends North Junior High school.

Vena Crowder has had two sisters initiated in Alpha Sigma, Thelma and Eva. Mr. Crowder is in the insurance business.

Mildred Harmon and her husband are both teaching in the city schools. She has grade school work and Mr. Harmon has manual training at the high school. Their daughter is in the sixth grade.

P lanning to meet the first Wednesday of every mouth the girls are eager to be again Alpha Sigmas working and playing together.

PoLLY ScHLOSSER.

NIGHT I have heard the voice of night And asked in solemn litany That God should send again the light To chase away a child's timidity.

But now I know that night can be So glorious for humanity; Holiest eternity night can be To soothe away anxiety.

Some day On its Yet when May I

my soul shall fold way to eternity; I leave this earthly hold go nocturnally.

FLORENCE GRAMSCH. St. Louise Alumn<e Chapter.

SPRING I wakened once to the sound of rain As the flowers waken and the hills turn green.

I heard the frogs in the thirty main Call t<; leaf, and bud, and bird a-wing.

I looked and saw the early spring Come in with cold and drenching rain ,In garments that were drenched and green, Yet Spring looked happy in the rain.

FLORENCE GRA MSCH. St. Louise Alumn;e Chapter.

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News Letters- Alumnae Chapters AKRON, OHIO We held our first fall meeting recently at the home of our new President Louise Holt. We were all so glad to see each other after not being together all summer.

Judy Brucken was back looking fully recuperated from her illness of last spring. And we all kept Martha Young busy answering questions about her brand new six weeks old baby boy of whom she is mighty proud. Martha's husband is with the armed forces overseas. Two of the girls, Helen Snyder and Helen Bunts employed taxi, streetcar, and bus service to get there so we do not question their loyalty. Even though transportation still presents a problem, we are going to meet in homes this year where there is always warm hospitality and the glow of real friendship.

Everyone "Oh'd" and "ah'd" when Louise passed out our program booklets. They were very cleverly designed and made by Louise. The cover is black paper and in each corner is a white ink drawing portraying our projects for the year. ASA in white is written across the center. Incidentally our projects are, finishing an afghan for a hospital, sending gifts to the local childrens' home, and making comic scrapbooks for Crile Hospital. So at each meeting we spend our social hour knitting, pasting, cutting, etc. Aren't we ambitious? And its fun too.

You might like to know that our new officers for the year are as follows President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loui.se Holt Vice-President ..... . ... . ... . .......... . Lil Greer . . . . . . . . . . Marjorie Miranda 路 Secretary . . . . . .

Emma Blythe Treasurer ...............

Historian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helen Snyder PHOENIX Correspondent . . .. . .. . .. Margorie Miranda Sincerely in A.S.A. MARJORIE MIRANDA. The Akron Group of A.S.A. Keeps very busy, I would say At their meetings they don't just sit They pick up yarn, and start to knit Pictured jokes from magazines take And each month, a scrapbook they make And when downtown, through stores they roam For toys. and things for "Childrens Home" "Working together" is just "play" Say Akron Girls of A.S.A. MRs. LEONARD F. SNYDER.

ALVA, OKLAHOMA Here it is October already, and time for more news of Alpha Sigs wherever they may be! And believe me, they're really scattered-In fact it is hard to keep up with the girls these days .

Now that formal rush season is over, things are

beginning to quiet down and everyone seems to be settling down for the usual winter activities.

For our first meeting this fall, we met with our president, Luella Harzman. Of course most of the even ing was spent discussing rush plans.

The Annual Black Diamond Dinner, our formal rush dinner, and the seventh one, was really nice and we had a lovely group of girls present. We think the girls did right well. We now have five new pledges, and we couldn't ask for better ones. Our group on the hill may be small this year-it may lack quantity, but it certainly has the quality! And we're proud of them.

Also, we're especially proud of our two new sponsors, Miss Frances Donnell and Miss Aurice Huguley.

Confidentially, girls, they're tops! Aurice was initiated the night before the Black Diamond Dinner and she's been going strong ever since.

We had a big group of girls out for our October meeting. Phyllis Card Rahe, Barbara Card Dunn, and I were hostesses. We were so happy to have Dorothy Jean Certain Capper and Jonnie Lane Gentry there. They both happened to be in town this week.

Jonnie is on her way to join her husband who is attending chiropractic school in Chicago. They have been living in Oklahoma City the past two years.

Jonnie says they will be in Chicago two years, then they'll come back to Oklahoma. We hope they do.

Dorothy Jean has been with her husband who is stationed in Texas in Anti-aircraft. She and Barbara (19 months old and really a doll) came home for a visit while Victor is on maneuvers. They have gone back now.

Guess we'll be losing Phyllis again, but since it's for a good cause we'll let her go. We'll miss her too.

Her husband, Max Rahe, is a pilot and has been stationed in England . The last word she had was that he had finished his number of 路missions so perhaps he's on his way home. Max was awarded the Air Medal a few months ago .

Wilma Jean Fullerton is here in Alva now working at the Central National Bank. And by the way, the boy friend, George Hildinger of Burlington, Oklahoma, who has been in the Pacific Theatre for over two years is back in the stat~s . He called her the other morning at 3:30 a. m. from California, and they talked forty-five minutes. She says she absolutely -refuses to pay the bill. But after two years why wouldn't they have a lot to sayDorothy Harzman Crowder and baby are in Florida with Earl now. He is an instructer at an amphibious base, Camp Pierce.

T alking about babies, we do have two new ones since I last wrote and one was born the day after the other. These Alpha Sigs believe in sticking together.

Eva Ames Wood had a baby, a girl this time, July 19. She is named Karen Edith.

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Also Verlynda, daughter of Mabel Chew Smithson, was born July 20 .

Emogene Cox had an appendectomy just before school started. She is getting along fine now but has to take it pretty easy for awhile. We miss her at our sorority meetings and parties but she'll be back with us soon.

I just learned the other day that Stella and Clyde Bullard-she used to be Stella Lansdowne- have gone to Pearl Harbor and are in defense work there.

They have been working in Houston, Texas. I think it's grand for them to go.

I also hear there is soon to be another member in the Dorothy Riggs- Loren Roseberry family, but I'll tell you all about that next time.

Vivian Chew Reed, husband and baby are back in Alva to live. He is manager of the Amsden Lumber Company. It's always good to have the girls come home again.

Miss Shockley tells me that D . Edna Chamberlain, The State Director of the National Education Association, is to be here soon for meetings. We're always proud of D. Edna and glad to have her come.

Well, this seems to be all for this time. I'll leave the rest and tell all laterYours in A.S.A .

ERL LENE CLINE.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Boston Alumnae Chapter was off to a good start Saturday, October 7, when fourteen members met in Quincy. Our members being scattered on both sides of Boston and being curtailed in the use of gasoline, sometimes find it difficult to attend meetings. This first gathering of the year was held at the home of Mrs. Marie Poland. The most vital business of the afternoon was to plan our meeting places and activities for the coming winter. The meetings are scheduled for the first Saturday in each month.

Mrs. Poland had invited one of her neighbors, an English woman from Capetown, South Africa, to meet with us. In an informal way she compared life there with life in New England . She had many pictures, jewelry, and carvings to show us.

Her talk was not so formal as a lecture would have been and we gained information of a more personal nature regarding the intimate life of the Dutch and English in South Africa. She was very anxious for us to know that long before she left Africa they had installed the dial system for their telephones. The better movies were a formal occasion, somewhat like our theater, the women wearing long evening dresses.

During the evening there was an interval, at which time everyone went out and had coffee or tea to drink. All during her talk she made us feel that we could be at home in South Africa even though we do have such different customs.

Our meeting ended with the serving of a most delicious baked bean supper.

RuTH E. MAYO.

27 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA Lt. (jg) Helen Witmyer of the WAVES has been stationed in Philadefphia and in charge of the Philadelphia area for athletics and recreation of the WAVES. She gets back home to see her Lancaster friends quite frequently .

Virginia Hoffman attended a short Workshop session at Pennsylvania State College this summer.

Ju~e Smith also attended State College completing res1dence for doctorate deg~ee. Geraldine Smith attended Summer School at New York University to study music in the graduate school. .

Elinor Dobler Brown assisted on the staff of the Lancaster City Day Nursery during the Spring and Summer and continues to give as much time during these winter months as family responsibilities will permit.

Alice Hart Beaver is back in Harrisburg wi~h her two children. Captain Beaver is stationed in New York City and is able to get home every second week-end.

Mary Wilson Aungst another war wife occupies her time profitably by a full time job on the Red Cross staff of the Harrisburg unit. Her Chaplain and Captain husband is still stationed in Hawaii.

We are glad to hear that Olive Wirth's mother has improved in health and that Olive and her recently acquired husband are able to "set-up housekeeping" in an apartment in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

S. JuNE SMITH.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Sinc;e entertaining the Council at our newly elected president's home in July, we have had two meetings.

Nelle Raney entertained us at luncheon in a Loop tea room in September and for our October meeting we had a lovely luncheon at Jeanne Ramsey's home in Austin. Martha Green Diamond's young son, Johnny, was a distinguished guest at this meeting and Jeanne's cat "Panda" could have served as a touch of Halloween had he been entirely black. We were all delighted to hear of the arrival of Donald James Thomas and to know that his mother, Eleanore, was taking him home from the hospital that day (Oct.

14) 路 Carolyn Millard told us about her new apartment which we all are anxious to visit-if just to play "Sardines". Dorothy Masters, too, has a new address so you see we do manage to move around and still stay within our Chicago limits. The way folks up in Evaston have to play "Pussy Wants a Corner" when they contemplate a move, I'm sure the writer will still be in the same apartment when the next PHOENIX news is due. Wilma Wolf was lucky, though, when she came here about a month ago to attend Northwestern and we think we're lucky to have her with us. If Indianapolis can spare any more like her we'll be glad to include them too.

We probably won't have any more babies to report

by February, but I'll save up any other ne.ws for you.

ETHEL LLEWELLYN WILSON.

THE PHOENIX

CLEVELAND, OHIO Our new officers presided at our the 1944-1945 season.

President . . ..............

Vice-President . . . . . . . . . .

Secretary .... .... ... . . .....

Treasurer . . . . . . . .........

Publicity ........

first meeting of Georgia Kurtz Esther Coates . . . ... Jane Fry Leta Crawford Bette Furness

Our meeting took the form of a luncheon at Higbee's small dining room on September 30. Esther Coates was hostess for the lovely party.

We planned our program for the year and took care of the remainder of the old business. Helen Swart and Ruth Duffy will co-hostess the October meeting. We shall have our Founders Day luncheon at the Athletic Club on November r8 .

How happy we are when an Alpha Sig moves to town and looks us up. That is exactly what Helen Boggess Swart (Miami) did soon after she arrived.

She is settling down on Overlook Road in Cleveland Heights with her twelve year old son. Her husband, J. A., will join her very shortly. We can scarcely wait for the October meeting when Helen will tell us of her exciting life with a husband who is a mining engineer. They've lived in Peru and Chile. When J. A. arrives, she has promised us that he will show their colorful movies at one of our men's nite meetings. Helen is a charming person and will add much to our alumna: group.

It was fun seeing everyone after the long summer.

We talked of times way back-the fun we had at Ralph and Betsey's ''nite club" dance last April. Fred Borch and Lora Smith will remember that party fo r awhile-only they know how well! That was when all of us first met Jane and Dick Fry. That was Esther and Leata's first Cleveland A.S.A. party with their husbands. It took a big recreation room for a fourteen couple dance, but the Besse's had room to spare.

Then we talked, too, of our last business meeting in June at the Women's City Club. We felt we had done well in selecting such a fine group of officers for this season.

Everyone wanted to know about Ada and Bill Harvey's baby Susan. Coast Guard Bill would scarcely let Ethel Goddard handle Susan. It really surprises us that he can sti ll tend the fog hem at his light house. Wonder if he gives an extra long toot to awaken Ada for the ro:oo p. m. feeding! Ethel had gone over to visit them after a busy day at Graphite Bronze Co. where she worked this summer. She's back at teaching now.

Leta Crawford continues to hear from her two boys in the European theater. Her youngest son entered the Navy in September. We'll wager she's plenty thankful to have her fine young daughter home with her.

Phyllis still keeps up her volunteer work at the Stage Door Canteen.

Ruth Duffy, after spending part of the summer

at her home in South Charleston, made the loveliest plans for the month of August. But she made the grave error of stopping in Cleveland before getting started. She became ill and ended up in one of our hospitals and was there until just before school started . She was looking fine, however, at the September luncheon.

Leota Merion and her family spent part of the summer in the cool climate of Northern Minnesota.

Martha Borch stayed home beside her own lake.

Her whole family practically lived in the water. Lots of A.S.A.'s who could save enough gasoline to go out to Brier Hill Lake enjoyed the swimming as guests of Martha and Fred.

Bette and George Furness spent the hot weather in Cleveland . Valerie Ann and Bette got suntanned to a turn.

Esther spent some time at Chautauqua Lake in New York. Later she was in Michigan.

Jane Fry, whose eye is fully recovered from the accident, had fun in Buffalo seeing her A.S.A . friends.

Betty Barrie, from the Buffalo chapter, visited Jane and Dick.

Betsey and Ralph Besse took a couple of weeks off to go to Michigan.

Georgia Kurtz spent a summer of service, we think. She was in Pleasantville, 0 ., a great part of the time, caring for her sister who was ill.

Helen Carrington visited her sister in Columbus, Ohio. She was telling us that Gary, in one of his few golfing days this summer, holed his drive. He hasn't been the same man since. Well, would you be?

Ruth Vorhees has returned to teaching this year.

She has a sixth grade at Outhwaite, a new Negro housing project. With a greater number of teachers like Ruth, our race problem could be reduced to a mm1mum.

And we saved the best until last. When Ginny Carpenter felt she had to give up her national sorority duties, the national council appointed Ruth Vorhees to the position of National Alumnae Editor.

We are very proud that another of our Cleveland girls can continue Ginny's fine work.

Are you mothers doing substitute teaching if at all possible? You should be. Give it a think.

LoRA MABEL JoNEs SMITH.

COLUMBUS, OHIO The Columbus Chapter is breaking into print again. Last year after the first magazine had gone to press our PHOENIX representative, Jo Ambacher, was forced into a much needed retirement and couldn't send our news to the magazine. For months Jo had been very active in various clubs, besides doing work in umpteen war agencies, plus taking care of her lovely family, and on ad infinitum. But there is a limit to one's endurance and Jo realized it only after a long seige in the hospital cuddled under an oxygen tent. (She's such a tiny mite they probably had to make a special size for her.) You see we can sort

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of joke about it now for she has her second wind, but we were surely a concerned bunch of Alpha Sigs for several weeks. We hope she won't try again this year to do the work of a 路 dozen people.

I hope this year I won't be accused of neglecting to give credit where credit is due. Getting acquainted with all the girls in our group is still a happy experience to me for last year was my first year with them. And speaking of credit, let me say here and now that this group deserves a big chunk of it. I am impressea most by the excellent attendance at meetings plus the fact that the membership with the exception of not more than four are the original campus group here at Ohio State. The college chapter was disbanded some fourteen Y.ears ago, I believe, yet twenty-six still are together having meetings every month! Sure, many of them have married and have children; many have moved away but have come back; some still come a distance to meetings; but here they are through it all and still togethe~ enjoying Alpha Sig sisterhood! We have a membership of thirty, usually have twenty or more at each meeting, and we hear few gripes about being forced to use the streetcar or bus because of gasoline shortage. I was thrilled to know I could be a part of such a group.

They are so modest I'll probably be accused of preaching a sermon when they read all this, but if you gals could drop in and learn to know them just a teeny weeny bit, I'll bet you would be as impressed as I was.

We had our first meeting of the sorority year in September. Ethel Wolfgram, the new president, was hostess assisted by Ruth (Hessenauer) Siples and Carolyn Southard. Our 1944-45 program booklets were handed to us and the September meeting page was headed by "The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things." That is all the cue we needed! After a short business session we babbled and babbled . All the time my ears were trying to pick up chatterings here and 路there and by jiminy I had a bit of success! With so many doing war work there was no time for extended vacations this summer but most everyone took a week to get away from the hustle and bustle of their job. Some stayed in our own state, while others got to New York, Canada, Indiana, Michigan, and Martha Bell, unfortunate one, spent her vacation in a local hospital. Yes, it was a major operation. She's feeling very well now, thank you.

We all listened to Dottie Windon's vacation story with great interest. No, she didn't 路 take a long trip, but she certainly walked on air for thirty days while her husband, Lt. Col. Loren was home all be-ribboned and be-meadled after nearly three years at Bougainville. The pair of nylons that Dotty had saved all these months to wear when hubby Loren came home finally got plenty of wear. Now Col. Windom is back with his outfit and they are on their way to other fighting grounds.

Many other of the husbands are oversea路s and I'll be sure to mention them at another writing. Right now I realize my ramblings are becoming lengthy.

I must tell you though that our last year's president, Mildred Nalley, is now Mildred Nalley Creager.

Last summer Mildred and I van repeated those pretty words after the preacher and now they are Mr. and Mrs. At this writing Ivan is somewhere in France and Mildred is ready to start a "lonely hearts club."

Embarrassing moments: at our September meeting Ethel made recordings of our voices and, so help me, I couldn't think of a thing to say other than a brief hello or something to that effect. Everyone said it was the first time they had seen me when I couldn't think of anything to talk about! You can be the judges-was that a slam or a compliment? Blessed intervening miles that I can't hear your answers!

Another highlight of our meeting was a Know Your Sorority Sisters or What's My Name contest.

Try it sometime. You'll be amazed at how little you know about your sisters, their talents, etc. Two descriptions after you have written Helen's name down you're all mixed up and think this one should have been Helen's description. Slow insanity, but intensely interesting and lots of fun. You also find some girls with talents that they have kept under their hats and now that it is out, they have to use them when called upon.

And now, until time for the next meandering of words, our chapter sends all of you other chapters wishes for a successful year. In the meantime we are eagerly looking forward to our next meeting with the children as guests and entertainment by Ronny and His Magic Tricks.

Yours in Alpha Sigma Alpha, MARY TENNELL CALHOUN.

DENVER, COLORADO On October twenty-seventh, we in the Denver area, will celebrate our Founder's Day at a luncheon during the Colorado Education Association convention. We've invited girls who will be attending the meetings and the Beta Beta chapter girls in Greeley.

The announcement will appear in the state school Journal and in the local papers so we are hoping for a good attendance .

As we make plans for the coming year we find that some of our girls temporarily making their homes away from Denver but sometime in the near future we hope to have them here again. We're happy to have Grace Dalby Davies back from California and we are eager to meet Eva Ames Wood, Gamma Gamma, recently of Wichita and Jean Knapp, one of Beta Beta's outstanding members, now teaching near Denver. We'll really be fortunate if we are able to become acquainted with Evelyn Merrifield, Beta Zeta's pride and joy and also Alpha Sigma's, for Evelyn, the ALPHA girl of 1944, is doing graduate work in speech at Denver University.

Our meetings this year should bring us together at Christmas, St. Valentine's Day and for a tea in the spring.

PoLLY ScHLossER.

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30 DETROIT, MICHIGAN Once more Autumn rolls around and we can proudly lay aside our victory garden tools an_d gaze approvingly on the fruits of our efforts. Ye scnbe a~d family shared a nearby vacant lot-SOXISO-WJth three other neighbors as a garden and enjoyed much good eating therefrom .

Our fir t meeting of the year was held last Saturday, October 7th, at Flossie Boening's with Loui~e 路 McArthur and Juva Beeman as co-hostesses. Floss1e had sent out some extra-special invitations via telephone and twenty-one members were present. Hostesses were chosen for ensuing meetings and dues were collected in the amount of $26-another good start.

Kathryn Buchinger's husband, a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, has returned from duty in the South Pacific and is at present on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D. C. Louise Stirton's husband, William E ., who was formerly Assistant Principal of Cass Technical High School, and more recently Executive Secretary of the Detroit victory Council, has just been appointed Principal of Cass. Our congratulations go out to him.

Hazel Hall has been serving in the capacity of supervisor of a Federal Nursery school under the Highland Park Board of Education, caring for some eighty children, eleven hours a day, six days a week, for the past two years. 路 Marion Martin, who formerly taught sixth grade at the Davison Elementary, has been promoted to Attendance officer at the Burns school, which entails attendance and social problems of the children there.

Dorothy Rice, Mrs. Herbert W., has a new daughter, Kay Lynne, born July 3, 1944路 And, speaking of daughters, our Helen Ann is off to college at Northwestern university in Evanston this fall.

Could be that Jim Aliber's-Norma's son-name might be seen in the Sports News, as he is Qn the University of Michigan football squad this fall .

We are all looking forward to our November meeting at the home of Mildred Koch in Dearborn but more about that in the next issue.

Yours in A.S.A ., MARIE FoLMER LuTz.

EMPORIA, KANSAS Another year has rolled on into the space of time leaving its happiness and sorrows deep in the hearts of all who live on this great sphere. Happiness is a contagious disease carried from one to another through pleasant associations in our sisterhood. Included in our pleasantries are the marriages of our sisters and the birth of their children, Our own sorrows become lighter as we help share the burdens of others. Now as never before the sorority holds us together through this time of turmoil. It's monthly f!leetings are a time we look forward to sharing with others.

Our Founder's Day will be celebrated with the annual buffet supper with the active chapter as our

guests. This affair is looked forward to every year as one of gala occasion, as well as giving the "alums" the opportunity of meeting the girls of the active chapter.

Our sincere sympathy is extended to Betty Cremer Johnson, alumnae president, whose husband, Captain Stanley Johnson of the Army Air Corps, met his death in a plane crash in North Africa.

Anne Goldsmith Lord is acting as Chairman of the Lyon County Junior Red Cross. She reports that the work of this group is enthusiastically and well done.

Summer marriages and births include: Kathleen Cannon to Darrell Stiffler, Joan Bailey to Rex Juller, Ardis Jean Reigle to Robert Lemons, Virginia Smith to Vernort Pennington, Marianna White to Dan McClenny, Marjorie Anderson to Bert Findley. A son was born to Helen Tubbs Berentz.

WINIFRED REMY.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Once again I send you greetings from the Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter. We are looking forward to a pleasant year together. When we first met this fall it was with the news that our President, Wilma Mae Wolf had returned to College and therefore was forced to resign. It was with regret that we accepted Wilma Mae's resignation but we wish her a happy future . We are most fortunate to have Betty Kidwell ' Soland for our President for the next two years . Betty is another of those people who have a talent for making friends. We're proud to follow her leader-路 ship. ' In October we are having a night party so that the girls may bring their husbands and friends. The memory of last years' party has caused eager anticipation for this one. I nearly burst with pride when I see that Alpha Sigs have so m{;ch ingenuity and so many varied talents and I know that I, too, am a Alpha Sig. Did such a thought ever occur to you, too?

This year our own Letha Heckman Gaskins is President of the Eliza A . Blaker Club. This organization of girls who attended Mrs. Blakers' Teachers College in Indianapolis is a growing group in our city the influence of which reaches far. You've read about Letha in the PHoENIX before, so you know how much her talent, real friendliness, and interest must meau to the Elizl! Blaker Club~ Next issue I hope to have more news. If you are ever in Indianapolis we want you to get in touch with the Alpha Sigs here and join us.

Yours in A.S.A., GERRY HoLTON.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Although the Kansas City Alumnae has been inactive during the past summer, we really started out with a Bang! in September. We had a lovely time at a "Covered dish supper" at Ruby Waterbury's home.

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were the assisting hostesses. There were 30 A.S.A.'s present which showed enough enthusiasm, we hope, to carry us through the year.

We are very busy now with our Christmas Cards, and Christmas paper sale, from which we expect tb make our usual quota for the year.

Our October meeting is a Luncheon downtown, at the Advertising Club with the following hostesses: Esther Bucher, Mary Moore, Vella McKeen and Dorothy Hutchison.

In November we will have our Founders Day party and program with the following hostesses: Katherine Keirns, Ruth Grubb, Virginia Carder and Louise Gillis.

Kansas City sends Greetings to all Alumnae Chapters, and hope if there are any new arrivals in our area, someone will let us know, or that they will make themselves known.

Yours in A.S.A., MARY ALICE HAMILTON.

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS Our first meeting! In May we had a delightful time getting organized with the help of Annette Gruber, a transfer from the chapter at Buffalo, New York. Polly White is our president and Georgiana White is our treasurer. We had a lovely dinner followed by a most enjoyable evening of dancing.

Twelve of our members were present. We made plans to have five meetings a year, one to be in conjunction with the Beta Lambda chapter's summer convention.

Being a recent bride and being honored by a most unique shower, your PHoENIX Editor especially Ten of our enjoyed the September meeting. members attended the dinner and business meeting.

We found that a very efficient membership committee had been chosen, as our membership has ~een raised to nineteen. Ruby Shambarger and Faydene Carroll had arranged a very interesting program. We also had a pleasant surprise when, late in the night, Harriet Umsted and Viola Caraway drove in, all the way from Tulsa.

We are looking forward to meeting again in December.

Loyally yours in A.S.A ., EMMADELL HIGH MITCHELL.

MARYVILLE, MISSOURI Our alumnae group has had two meetings since I last sent in news. On Saturday morning, June 17, we entertained the senior members of the active chapter at a breakfast at the Country Club. Six senior girls were present. They were: Sue Moore, Emma Ruth Kendall, Irene Heideman, Betty Townsend, Helen Smigh, and Betty Jo Thompson. Fifteen alumnae members were present. Miss Lewis and Loretta Milner were hostesses.

We.had our annual summer picnic with the active Chapter on Saturday, July 22. There were thirty-two present. Our group gave a pink and blue shower for

31 Harriet Lasell Ray. The following officers were elected for this year: President, Mary Jeanette An- . thony Hull; Vice-president, Harriet Lasell Ray; Secretary, Mary Frances Young Shura; Treasurer, Mary Margot Phares; and PHoENIX editor, Ruth Lawrence.

Mrs. Kuchs gave a report of the council meeting that she attended in Chicago.

Our calendar for the year is as follows: OctoberMrs. Kuchs and Mary Jeanette Hull, hostesses; November- Founders' Day- Winifred Christie, Mary Margot Phares, Harriet Ray, and Ruth Lawrence; January-Mrs. Charles Bell and Mrs. J. W. Jones ; March-Loretta Milner, Mary Ann Scott, and !sable Stalcup; April-Mrs. Clun Price and Miss Inez Lewis; May-Senior breakfast-Mrs. J. M. Townsend, Mary Frances Shura, Mary Kurtz, and Mildred Lyle.

We were so glad to have Vada Cliser Linville of Chevy Chase, Maryland,' with us for the senior breakfast and the picnic.

Dorothy Lee Montgomery was married on June u, to Ensign John Talcott Dixon, U. S. N. R. The . wedding took place at the Montgomery home in Maryville.

On June 21, Melba Seitz and W. K. VanVickle were married at the Presbyterian Church in Mound City.

Peggy Cunningham was married to Ensign Roy C. Smith, U . S. N. R., at the Mt. Washington Baptist Chuch in Kansas City on June 30.

Virginia W a.tt, American Red Cross staff assistant, is now working in a Red Cross center and rest camp in Rome.

Georgia Schulte is now stationed in China.

RuTH L AWRENCE.

MUNCIE, INDIANA Hello all you Alpha Sig's! Muncie Alumnae has been pretty busy since our last news was sent to the PHOENIX so I'll first start with our May meeting.

Mrs. Max Montgomery was hostess for our meeting on May 6th, with Mrs. Everett Thresher as assistant. It was an afternoon meeting and guests were the senior members of the active chapter at Ball State College. During the business session officers were elected. Mrs. Helen Reed Pennington was re-elected President; Vice-President, Mrs. Leroy Miller; Secretary, Mrs. Max Montgomery; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Monroe; PHOENIX Correspondent, Mrs. Everett Thresher; Mrs. Joe Gardner is retiring Vice-President and Mildred Warner retiring Treasurer. Also during the meeting Miss Deirdra Kimball, Vice-President reported the activities of the active chapter and we learned some of the plans of some of the seniors.

On July 13th we had a picnic on the lawn at the home of Mrs. Harold Bull. Picnics are always so m~ch fun and we spent the evening mostly eating and talking. We had two guests at this meeting from our active chapter who were attending summer school.

Mrs. Mildred Monroe just recently moved to Winchester where her husband is now principal at a school there. She ,has a lovely new home and we

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journeyed to Winchester for our meeting on September 23rd. This was our last meeting. Miss Deir~ra Kimball told us about the rush plans for the actlve chapter and they certainly sounded interesting. We were so glad to have Mrs. Laverne Harader and her little boy from Union City at this meeting. A letter from Carmen Alvey of Indianapolis was read and she is anxious to meet any new Alpha Sigs in Indianapolis .

We were sorry to learn that Lt. Eugene Freidt of the Navy had been killed in action on July 14th and was buried at sea. Mrs. Freidt was formerly Miss Dorothy "Dot" Arnold.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lee Young of Swayzee have a new boy Mark Allen. Mrs. Young was Miss Phyllis Sampson before her marriage.

Here's where some of our girls are and what they are doing! Mildred Warner Zoss is teaching in Gary .

Arminta Chappelle is working in the Transportation Office at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Velva Bere is teaching at Richmond.

Letters were sent from our president to all of our alumnae members . We're hoping to hear from many of them and learn some "newsy" items about them.

Our next meeting will be a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Richard Rankin here in Muncie. So until thenSincerely, VELMA THRESHER.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK The new year for the New York chapter got under way with a bang last week. The luncheon meeting was held at Toffenettie's Restaurant at Times Square, and more members turned out to this meeting than any in the past year or two. New President Martha Morse had an interesting agenda to present and the season really looks interesting for the New York girls.

Next meeting is to be held at Martha's lovely new home in Manhasset, Long Island. Martha is serving luncheon, but at this one we'll be able to mix about and see each other better than the confines of the crowded restaurant permitted at the last meeting.

Then too, at the next meeting we expect to see Em Frost, who recently returned from a vacation in Arizona. She'll probably give us her interesting sidelights and laughs on how she spent most of her time besitting her plane flight out in airport terminals .

Then too, we expect to see some of the old crowd back again, and we hope they'll really keep coming rather than iust visit.

The De~ember meeting is not certain as yet as to place, but we have an idea that Em Frost will entertain us at her Park School of Cookery in usual style.

That will be a real come-on for anyone as well as a Christmas celebration.

January will be a luncheon-theater parry, and already tickets have been purchased for the new Broadway hit "Bloomer Girl." By the tempo of the reviews, it promises to be a good afternoon.

That's as far as Martha got on her agenda at the first meeting. However, plans were made for producing a directory and meeting schedule of the New York Chapter. This will be printed by the November meeting.

We're still looking for some way to lend a helping hand to a volunteer agency. The "Save the Children Federation" in which we have been giving our time for the last two years has closed for the time being.

We still send out a welcome and hang out the latch string to any Alpha Sig in the armed services, or any one traveling New York City way. Truly, we'd love to have them visit us . If near us, contact Em Frost at Park School of Cookery on East 65th Street, and she'll tell you when we're all getting together, and will second this welcome we extend.

BILLIE BARRETT.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLANIA A hilarious rush parry at the Kappa Kappa house served as a spring board to dive into our year's activities. Under the capable co-chairmanship of Jean Keogan and Bernice Leonard, the new alums became acquainted with older alums while playing the game "Yip and Yap." Several other games followed and it all ended too soon but a business meeting took priority over fun. This was the first meeting which was conducted by our new officers: President - Jane Ehlers; Vice-President-Betty Janes; Corresponding Secretary-Grace Rumpf; Recording Secretary- Jean Aller; Treasurer-Dorothy Hutton; Assistant Treasurer-Libby Landes; PHOENIX CorrespondentsHelen Giebel and Ruth Taylor; Social Service- VirLois Meadowcraft and ginia Becker; Program Bertha UnderkoAer. A novel program for the events of the coming year was distributed. We have planned eight meetings for the year and each one has a definite purpose.

The Rush Party on October 12, started off our activities and is to be followed by: A Consecration Service on November 14, at the Nu Nu room; War Effort meeting on December 7, at the Kappa Kappa house; Card Party and Fashion Show on January 13, at a local department store; Valentine Tea on February II, at the home of Bertha UnderkoAer; G. I. night on March 5, at the Kappa Kappa house . As usual, we will end our season with a Spring Dinner sometime in May .

So many of our girls have been changing their names, addresses and family size that it is impossible for us to keep up with them. To make this easier we have compiled a news letter and hope to follow it R T with two more issue.s.

UTH AYLOR. HELEN GEIBEL.

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Greetings from the St. Louis Alumnae Chapter!

Our group is somewhat smaller than usual this year, but we hope that this issue of the PHOENIX will be instrumental in recruiting more girls in this area.

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Meetings are held the second Saturday of each month, usually in our homes, so if you are a newcomer to St. Louis please contact Mrs. Edgar Davis, 36 E. Jackson Road, Webster Groves I9, Mo., Telephone, Webster 246.

Our October meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Davis, with Maurine Lemley assisting hostess.

Plans for the year were made. Officers for the ensuing year are: President . . . .

Mrs. Edgar Davis Hope Green Vice-President Secretary .. . ..... . ' . . . . . .

Mrs. U. C. Gramach Treasurer . . .........

Mrs. A. F. Madaus PHOENIX Correspondent Mrs. Warren Griffith Helen Mayers Clark (Mrs. Maurice, jr.) has joined her husband in Maryland. We're hoping that after the war is over they will make St. Louis their permanent home.

Margaret Sutton was married in St. Louis, June 7, to S. J. Hall and is living in Richmond Heights.

We all missed Margaret last year while she was teaching in Columbus, and we're mighty happy to have her back with us.

We will miss Hildred Fitz this year. She has moved to Kansas City. I'm sure the Kansas City Alumnae will enjoy her.

All of our members are more than busy these days with extra home duties, war and Red Cross work and teaching-but we enjoy our Alumnae activities and we are hoping to carry on and give our full measure.

HELEN JoHNSON GRIFFITH.

TULSA, OKLAHOMA Our first meeting of the fall season was a luncheon in the home of Hazel Row, our new president.

She was assisted by Ann Swan and Marsette Ham. It was a joy to have Julia Christie Sliger back with us again. Her husband overseas, she returned to her teaching job in Tulsa. We were happy to welcome a new member of the Tulsa Teaching Staff, an Alpha Sigma Alpha sister, Marjorie Minor. She comes to us from Beta Kappa Chapter, Macomb, Illinois.

We are all very proud of our Jennie Fisk who was elected president of the city wide Panhellenic Association. This is indeed a large responsibility but Jennie is the capable one who qualifies in every way. She

33 proved that serving as program chairman of the Association last year.

We are again making cookies for U. S. 0. or at least as long as the sugar holds out.

Plans were made for the programs of the year.

They were turned over to Julia Sliger and Helen Hooper who will compile our year books.

Our Rummage Sale which seems to be an annual affair will be Saturday November I I.

WICHITA., KANSAS At our last spring meeting we made plans for a summer picnic to include our families but we did not know this would be a farewell get together for our popular president, Effie Small. Orville, Effie and their two boys moved to Denver in August.

Gladys . Carr is our new president and we met at her home in September. Our card sales have been so successful the last three years and we've derived such satisfaction and pleasure from being able to help several worthy causes and still have money left for some fun that we started right in on card plans. Much of this work is done by Fern Jackson. She does all the ordering and record keeping and that takes plenty of time. Of course we had time to catch up on news of our girls. Here it is: Fred and Dorothy (Lindsay) Fields have a son, born June I5, whom they named Frederick Theodore. Karen Edith Wood arrived July 19. Her mother is Eva (Amas) Wood. The Woods moved here from Alva, Oklahoma, and Eva has become one of our most valued members.

The Leo Ptucuks have moved to their new home.

Ruth Yockey reported progress in getting settled in a new home. She was so successful in this she invited us to meet there in Oct. We thoroughly inspected the house and voted it a lovely home.

We were so pleased to welcome Frances Middlebrook to our group. Her husband, Earl, is with the Army in Alaska, and Frances is doing her part in a war plant. here.

Margaret Ann (Tharrington) Weaver and three little children are leaving Wichita to make their home in Texas while Lawrence is with the Navy at Corpus Christy.

We are planning to do some Red Cross work at our next meeting, more about that later.

L AU RA SHERMAN.

Keeping Pace with Our 1944 Graduates BETA DELTA Evelyn Hocutt is still at the University of Tennessee working on her masters and expects to get it in the spring or summer.

Margaret Lee Saulter, Katherine Schlonaker, Cecil Glen Dixon and Evelyn McNeese are teaching again.

Mary Pickering is still working at the Base hos-

pita! at Camp Shelby but I still don't know any thing about her work.

I 路have joined Martha Miller in working for Standard Oil here in Baton Rouge. She is working with synthetic rubber in the Chemical Products lab and I run tests on lube oil in the Refinery lab.

Do you know of any Alpha Sigs from colleges other than Mississippi Southern that are in Baton

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I received a letter from Doris Balthis Boley that not only told me about herself but had news of other Zeta Zeta members. Doris taught for four years, two of which were after her marriage to Ed Boley. She has a baby girl, Barbara Virginia, who was a year old KAPPA KAPPA last August. At the present time, she is home like so I've been trying to gather as much information many of us, awaiting the return of her husband from about the members of my class as possible. However, the armed forces. She told of Mary Dean Killion, there may be a f.ew things of which I have not been路 who is now Mrs. Dorman E. Sisk. Mary Dean's husinformed. Perhaps you can use some of this infor- band is a minister in Marshall, Missouri and they have a daughter two years old. mation.

Ruth Stormant Shanks ("Stormy") wrote from Mary Sponsellor became Mrs. Gale Lawrence sometime during the summer. She is now teaching Scott Field, Illinois, that the Shanks are "infanticiHome Economics in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. pating." Stormy graduated in 1941, has taught school, Helen Kingston has announced her engagement to and married that Phi Sig Leslie Shanks, now a 1st Warren Miller. Helen is working as a Personnel Sergeant. We all agreed that Stormy and Les will be Manager. wonderful parents. At least, the child can't help havBettee Krieder, our one member of the armed ing a sense of humor. forces, is now a corporal in the Marines. She is That's about all the space I have. I'd like to say stationed at an air base in Edenton, North Carolina. that I am very happily back on the campus of The other members of the class are all teaching CMSTC since my husband went overseas. I have lots school. Virginia Bond is teaching 3rd grade in York, and lots of titles. of not much value, but I guess the Pennsylvania. Marjorie Kendall is teaching 3rd grade official one is Personnel Secretary. The thing I like in Wilmington, Delaware. Jean Oller is teaching about this position is that I am better able to keep in nursery school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I, too, touch with all the girls. am teaching. The only difference is that I'm teaching After looking over the list of girls for my next mathematics in a high school in Clifton Heights, Pa. letter, I would say that Virginia Greer was exactly As you probably know the class of 1943 was very right about Alpha Sigs getting their men. Until next small and I believe that I have given some informa- time-Love in A .S.A. tion about everyone except Doris Fox. I'm sorry that SuE CovEY SPARKs. I can't tell you about Doris because I haven't heard from or about her.

CHI CHI Loyally yours in A .S.A., It really is a job keeping up with these girls; but RuTH TAYLOR. here it is: ZETA ZETA Lenna, "Sis," Arnold took charge of a play ground this summer, and is teaching Physical Education at The saddest news this fall is, of course, the death of Myrtle Downs, sponsor of Zeta Zeta Chapter for so Harrison Hill in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She can be many years. We loved her so much and felt so well reached at her home at 404 E. Berry St. Dorothy Arnold Freidt had the misfortune to lose taken care of when she was here. My hope is that her husband in combat on July 17. She, to my knowlsome day I can be as good an Alpha Sig as she was.

This past summer I wrote to several Zeta Zeta girls edge, is not teaching and is at her home at 1705 E. whom I did not know but had "heard about" to find Minnesota St., Indianapolis, Indiana.

Berniece Brambleth Allen is in Larriso, Indiana. out what they had been doing since leaving college.

The response I received was more than gratifying. It Her husband returned from overseas on June 15 after won't be possible for me to take the space here to tell being across 18 months. He is now with the Air Force at Bruning, Nebraska. Berniece will be teachyou about all of the girls but I will about a few.

One of the most interesting ones was from Vir- ing at Van Buren, Indiana, this year, having History ginia Welch Greer, who was here in 1922. After and Typing. leaving, she attended 路the University of Chicago, Mary Rosalyn Carey Brown's husband also came taught school, and married. As she puts it, "An home from overseas on June the 4th for a month's Alpha Sig girl always gets her man!" After her mar- leave. He was then sent to Little Creek, Virginia, riage she had a position on the staff of the St. Louis and she was able to be with him until the start of Post-Dispatch and in 1932 became a life member of school. Mary Rosalyn is going back to teach at ThornAlpha Sigma Alpha. In 1936, after taking a special town this year. Her address is 512 S. Pearl St., art course at Washburn College, she wa9 honored by Thorntown, Indiana. having severa,l of her pictures hung at the Kansas Mary Houghton is teaching elementary in South State J:'air. She ended her letter by saying, "the latch- Bend, Indiana, and is living at home at 1038 N. key will always be out for you and all Alpha Sigs." Huly St. Thank you, Virginia, for the wonderful letter and the Lorraine Riebeling Lowellan's husband a Lt. in kind invitation . the Paratroops landed in France on "D-Day." After Rouge? There are three of us here from Beta Delta Chapter. I wish we could organize an alumnae chapter here.

LIB LANGDON.

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a very narrow escape, and the loss of a thumb he was able to reach friendly lines. He was returned to the states and Lorraine has 路 been with him all summer at Eaton, Indiana. Lt. Lowellan will be sent to a camp somewhere in this country, and Lorraine plans to go with him.

Delana Southard Peden is going to teach in her home at Boonville, Indiana, this year. I have 路had no word as to where her husband is stationed. He is a member of the U.S. Army. . Elizabethe Lee Gardner, whose husband was in San Antonio, Texas, joined him for a month this summer, returned to her home in Winchester, Indiana, for the summer Home Economics program, and will teach there this year. She may be contacted at Greenville A venue, Winchester.

Mim Partridge is now the possessor of her Private's License in aviation. She made her first cross country to Gary, Indiana, her home, and as a humorous note she said,- "The folks all come out to meet me in great style." Mim is still working at the Airport in Muncie, Indiana, and her new address is 417 Wheeling Ave. Donnabelle Courtner Wright, whose name has been missing from the last two editions has been heard from. She has been working at Delco-Remy in Anderson, Indiana, since last September. She took a

course in drafting and is now working as a tracer in the drafting room. I believe Donna is finding the work most fascinating. Her husband is still with her and they have a lovely new house at 312 E. 38th St., Anderson, Indiana.

Dona Jean Pierce, who taught in Cambridge city, Indiana, last year carried on the summer 4-A program this year and plans to continue there this fall. Her address-305 Hill Drive, Cambridge City.

Mary McCrea, who was working in government work in Indianapolis last year has been transferred to the Chicago, Illinois, branch. Sorry-no address as yet.

Now-Mildred Warner, your correspondent. So much has happened. This summer I lived in Washington, D. C., with my sister who is a WAVE, and worked as cashier in the Mayflower Hotel. I returned to teach in East Gary, Indiana, and just after the start of school, I was married to Sgt. A. Zoss who is stationed at Ft. Meade, Maryland. We were married in South Bend, Indiana, on September 25. It was a beautiful wedding and I'm very happy. I plan to continue teaching the rest of this year. My address is 425 W. Fourth Avenue, Gary, Indiana.

Sincerely in A.S.A., MILLIE WARNER Zoss.

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News Letters-College Chapters ALPHA State Teachers College, Farmville, Virginia

For the Alpha chapter, I943-44 was a happy and successful year. The fall quarter was quite full of entertainment. We had a banquet on Founder's Day, November I I . Miss Hall, our new adviser gave us a Waffle and Chicken supper. Miss Moran entertained us with an informal dinner at her home. During fall rushing, we took in three new girls.

Winter rushing was quite exciting, and we took in eleven new girls. March 4th was Founders Day and we were happy to have several of our Alpha Sig sisters back with us then. There was a small reception for them in the chapter room Saturday night.

Just a few days later, March I rth, came our annual banquet. Such food-and the formal dress added the "finishing touch! " The new initiates were given A. S. A. bracelets by the chapter.

Pan-He! Dance was super! Our " No break" dance was "Night and Day," and with the pretty decorations, it was just all 1·ightf We elected our new officers in March. Ruth Brooks was elected as our president for the coming year. Lillian Elliot was elected vice-president; Lucy Bradley, secretary; Jean Riddick, treasurer; Kitty East, chaplain; and Elsie Tompson, registrar.

Spring rushing came, and again there was the excitement of any rush season. On May 25, six girls were pledged into our sorority. After pledging we had a party for the new girls.

As the year drew to a close, we packed our belongings in our room, locked our door, and bid farewell to Farmville and our friends until September.

Love in A. S. A., PATSY DALE.

ALPHA BETA Kirksville State Teachers College, Kirksville, Missouri

Dear Alpha Sigs, School begun at K. S. T. C. this fall bringing with it several changes for Alpha Beta chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha . Marjorie Magruder and Maria Hidalgo, two of our actives graduated last spring, but to compensate for our loss, Trudy Curry and Wilma Ruth Epperson, two of our former members returned to college this fall, and will be active again in the chapter.

Trudy is taking a post-graduate cour~e here and is also teaching Home Economics in the Junior High School.

Our president, LaVera Dye, who recently became Mrs. Eugene Andereck, has accepted a position as secretary at Stephen's College at Columbia, Missouri.

Our new president for this year is Iris Mittendorf, a Junior who is very active in A. S. A.

K. S. T. C.'s good-will student from Costa Rica, Maria Hidalgo, who is an Alpha, left for her home last week. Everybody in the sorority and in fact, everybody who knew her was very sorry to see her leave. She has helped tremendously to give us a better understanding of her country and of the other South American countries. As a farewell gesture, the Alphas, with Maria as the honor guest, held a d~fl­ ner at the hotel and afterwards went to the movies in a body. We presented her with a friendship bracelet with the name of each girl in the sorority engraved on the hearts.

Last summer we Alphas did a number of various things. Judy LaFrenz worked in St. Louis, Iris Mittendorf worked at a defense plant in Chicago, Erma Lee Rieger and her husband visited the latter's parents in New York while he was home on a two-week furlough, and Dorothy Holcomb accompanied her language teacher to Mexico City, where she attended the National University of Mexico. Most of the rest of us went to school, too.

We still have our same house this year, and we're all terrifically busy making big plans for the approaching rush season. We have some excellent prospects in view in the way of rushees and we're all looking forward to a lot of excitement and fun in the near future, soHappy Rushing, DoROTHY HoLCOMB.

ALPHA GAMMA State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsyh-ania

Dear Alpha Sigs, Back to school again, and all the Alpha Gams are busy comparing notes on a wonderful summer.

Some of us spent our time at camp, some tried their talent at working, a few industrious ones went to summer school, and all in all it seems that we had a busy and very enjoyable time.

We came back to find a space left by our seniors who graduated last spring, but otherwise our roll call shows an almost perfect attendance. Only one of our pledges is not with us now, but we expect Ginny Mahoney back next semester. We were happy to find a new pledge, Natalie Slagle, who is a transfer from Nu Nu Chapter at Drexel. She is already a real Alpha Gam. All of our pledges were anxious to. become real members, so they took their pledge test and joined last Thursday night. The ceremony was held at the home of the "Johnson twins," and afterward Mrs. Johnson 'made it something extra special by the luncheon she served. We also have another new pledge to be proud of, Margie Hawkins, the sister of our former prexy, Sally.

We are impatiently• waiting for rushing season to begin so we can really get busy. There are a lot of

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new freshmen, and as usual the Alpha Sigs want to make good choices. Everyone already has prospects of a good year. The Pan-Hellenic Coffee Hour next week will officially start things out.

The Alpha Sigma Alpha girls have already started in again doing their bit for the boys in service by spending free afternoons helping to assemble the News Letter which is published here on campus and mailed out each month . We learned last year that this is one way of keeping track of all our I. S. T. C. men.

We have just heard that Frannie Mack, one of our graduates last year, is wearing a beautiful new diamond. She is engaged to Sergeant Bob Maybell.

Toni Licastro is also going around star-eyed, proudly showing her new diamond and her Sam whenever she has the chance. Best wishes from all your sisters, Toni and Frannie!

Here's hoping this year will be a good one for all Alpha Sigs everywhere. 'Bye till next time!

Yours in A.S .A ., EuzABETH PouTosKE.

BETA BETA Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colorado

Twenty active members of Beta Beta chapter were back in school this fall after a summer of interesting and varied experiences. Eight of the girls stayed in Greeley to attend summer school at C. S, C . E. Big events of the summer included the- wedding of Shirley Erixon to Cpl. Russell Widlund, and the announcement of Margery Piner's engagement to Naval Cadet George Zimmerman. Margery is our Vice-President this year .

Two of our girls, Dorothy Chockie and Hilda Heid, enlisted in the WAVES late in the summer.

Helen Brown, an Alpha Sig from Muncie, Indiana, who attended summer school here, was a guest of our chapter's summer activities.

This year our campus had only two weeks of rushing, instead of the usual month. Coking parties, teas, informal get-togethers, and parties of all sorts made rushing a busy but thoroughly enjoyable two weeks .

One of our biggest parties was built around the theme of a waterfront cafe, and was called "Asa's Anchorage- where the bums cum to chum." A huge fish-net which covered the entire ceiling of the front room was strung with small fish, sea-horses, and starfish. The guests sat at small tables lighted by candles in the center and were served coke and pretzels. For favors they were each given a small shell which contained a fortune.

Another party which afforded a great deal of fun was our picnic for rushees. The picnic was held at a near-by park. As each girl arrived she was given a red bandana bundle containing her lunch. It was announced that one of the cup-cakes contained a ring, and the girl who found it was crowned queen with a garland of yellow Marigolds.

The biggest party, which marked the culmination of our rushing activities, was our traditional formal

37 Cinderella Banquet. Using the cinderella theme, each table had for its centerpiece a small pumpkin placed in a white star-bedecked ruff. The pumpkins had been covered with silver glitter, and the room was lighted by candle-light. On the mantel stood Cinderella, with her pumpkin coach drawn by six white mice. At the close of the program one of the girls read the story of the Alpha Sig Cinderella, and as she finished the clock was made to strike twelve, ending the evening. Small gold slippers were used for favors.

Beta Beta chapter pledged ten new girls this fall, which almost brings us up to our full quota. They are a grand bunch of pledges, and we are looking forward to a wonderful year together.

Yours in A .S.A., JoELLA KIRTON.

EPSILON EPSILON Emporia State Teachers Colleg路e, Emporia, Kansas

Greetings Alpha Sigs: Hey wait! Where has the time gone? Already those crisp, crackly autumn days are beginning to creep up on us and its time again to report the latest happenings on our home front.

"There have been some changes made" was our chant when we returned to school after summer vacation. The chapter house almost over night groomed with beautiful floral design paper, paint and varnish gave out a sparkling and shining appearance.

So with zeal and enthusiasm we went forth into rush week. "The Circus Parade" as our theme, hot dogs, pop and cracker jack were the attraction of the week. And we are happy to report the pledging of eight grand, little pledges. Our lovely Hearts Win preferential dinner concluded the weeks events and I might add that there were many misty eyed actives around the table that evening who recalled the happy day when they, too, had first joined the ranks of Alpha Sigs. But now the song has changed, and our pledges are fastly learning the arts of opening doors and toting an active's books.

The first business meeting of the year started off with a bang when chocolates were passed after the announcement of the engagement 路 on July r of Marjorie Gates to Cpl. John Wallace stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana. We are still amazed by the fact that Marjorie could have kept the secret from us so long.

We are quite pleased with the election results that recently took place on our campus. Two Alphas, Eleanor Randell and Martha Berndt won the offices on the United Students' ticket of Secretary-Treasurer of the Junior class and Secretary-Treasurer of the Sophomore class. Also orchids go to Evelyn Cooper who has been elected into membership of Xi Phi, honorary leadership fraternity . Evelyn is also president of the Sphinx literary club. Another new member of Sphinx is Celeste Conklin. I might say also that Alpha Sigs are well represented in the Alphothenian Literary Society. Three of our girls hold

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offices in the organization: Mary Jean Gladfelter, vice president; Maureen Murphy, secretary and Joan Wallis, treasurer.

Cupid certainly hasn't wasted any time since last spring bec;~use the reports show that eleven of our girls have entered into the holy bonds. Congratulations to you all! Also several other Alpha Sigs have gone into the armed forces or into war work . In spite of it all, our chapter still maintains the largest membership on the campus.

These days, the(e is much whispering going on behind closed doors among the pledges and the suspicion is that it is talk of the annual pledge sneak . Also coming up soon on our calendar is the annual hay-rack ride and though there will be a noticeable absence of the male factor, we hope to make it a festive occasiOn. So 'til we meet again.

Lots of love in A.S.A., GLORIA DAVIDSON.

ZETA ZETA Central Missouri State Teachers College, Warrensburg, Missouri

Dear Alpha Sigs: The new school year began with a bang although Zeta Zeta had only nine actives enrolling September 4¡ We're living at 220 Broad again this year and "220" really looks sharp with two new coats of paint on the outside and new drapes on the inside.

That's not the only difference inside the house these days. Mrs. Gladys Magee, charter member of Zeta Zeta and mother of Pat Magee, last year's president, is our new house-mother. She really rates tops with us. CMSTC fixed up the kitchen for her and she has certainly been generous about letting us use it, too.

Sue Covey Sparks, president in 1942-43, is back in the house this year, since she is Personnel Secretary at CMSTC. Rush season was really rushed this year with our informal party held September 15, the second week of school. Our theme was "Cook Your Own." We entertained our rushees at the Shelter House on the West Campus. The girls cooked their own hotdogs and weiners and served themselves from the counter. They were seated at two long tables.

Favors were red and white aprons. Our own version of the "Saga of Jenny," with the words written by Sue Sparks and Joan Turnbow, was introduced and was well received. . Our formal preferential dinner was a progressive dmner, the courses of which were served at various homes by our alumna: and patronesses. The dinner course was served at "220." Following the meal coffee and nuts were served at the house. Helen Wells, prexy, poured the coffee.

Informal initiation for our nine new pledges was held September 25. Our pledges certainly looked sharp and were right on the beam!

On September 21, we suffered an irrevocable loss

in the death of our sponsor, Miss Myrtle Downs. A number of actives and alumna:s attended the funeral at Odessa, Missouri on September 23, at which Joan Turnbow sang. We held a memorial service following sorority meeting September 27. Joan Turnbow and Becky Wade, a new pledge, sang. Helen Wells read the resolutions for the chapter and Katey Thurston, the ones written by Dr. Clay J. Anderson for the faculty. Lillian McMeekin, charter member, expressed the sympathy of the alumna: and Sue Sparks spoke as a past president.

The pledges have elected Becky Wade, president; Helen Johnson, vice president and song leader; Mary Moore, secretary; and Lyda Gerster, treasurer; Edith Osborn, chaplain.

On Wednesday night, October 4, following the regular meeting, we had a decorating party to prepare for Homecoming. Refreshments of sandwiches, hot chocolate and candy were served. The sorority house looked nice by the time the decorations were up and drew a lot of comment. Most of the credit goes to Bunny Purvis and Becky Wade . Ann Caldwell was the Alpha candidate for Homecoming queen .

Several of our alumna: have been back to visit us. Jane Jackson and P . S. Ewell have dropped in on us several times, but we feel that the Alphas rate second to the Navy as an attraction . Oletha Skidmore and Dort Richardson came for Homecoming and Sue Raker, who'll be back i~ November, was also here for Homecoming. Vivagene Pack was here for the informal rush party.

We've lost one active this year. Juanita Merrifield, editor of the Student-Rhetor, campus monthly publication, left October 1 to study for three months at the University of Minnesota.

One of the highlights of the season was the wedding of Jeanne Loman, '42, and James W. Scott, aviation machinist mate 1/ c at the Methodist Church in Warrensburg at 4 o'clock, Sunday afternoon, October 8. The Alphas attended in a body. Bonnie Payne was maid of honor and Lois Muchmore, "44, played the organ. Katie Hopkins Owings was another alumna: who attended in addition to those who were here for homecoming week-end .

Zeta Zeta girls are looking forward to their fall formal for the new pledges on October 21. We're hoping that the whole V-12 unit isn't restricted that week-end. 'Til next time, KATEY THURSTON â&#x20AC;˘

RESOLUTIONS OF APPRECIATION OF MYRTLE DOWNS FRIEND AND SPONSOR Since, our Creator has deemed it fitting that our dear friend and sponsor, Mary Myrtle Downs be taken from us; since, our members, actives, pledges, a?~ alumna:, feel that the sorority and the girls, indiVIdually, have lost a true friend, therefore be it resolved that:

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In Myrtle Downs Alpha Sigma Alpha had a sponsor who understood and loved young people, whose cheerful outlook on life made her an inspiration in the lives of people of all ages.

She respected the ideas and ideals of others and stood by her friends in their need. Her loyalty to those she loved was unwavering.

She was an outstanding member of the faculty of Central Missouri State Teachers College. Her influence has been felt in the lives of the students of the college. She had a beautiful and successful life and she will be sadly missed .

Be it further resolved that this expression of appreciation of love by Zeta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha be sent to her family, the faculty of Central Missouri State Teachers College, and THE PHoENIX, and that it be made a matter of record in the minutes of this organization .

KAPPA KAPPA Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Alpha Sigs : Isn't It wonderful to be back again? We of Kappa Kappa are looking forward to a big year, full of activities and loads of fun. Things here are beginning to come back to normal, but the first week or two was really a mess. General pandemonium reigned here last week, what with unpacking trunks, painting furniture, covering chairs and the like. Two of the girls painted their whole room, and it really looks nice. Frankly, my roomie and I wanted to hire them to paint ours, but they said the union wouldn't permit it. Nevertheless the house has finally settled down to good running order this second week of school. Our latest problem is to find a cook, so that we can have dinners in the house. Think we stand a chance of locating one?

By the way, I'd like you to meet our new member. Her name is Lady Alpha, and she's the cutest Cocker Spanial you have ever seen. She made quite a hit at the football game last week, dressed in her red and white blanket, and she paraded beautifully in front of the freshmen between halves. Although she is really a fresh~an herself, she refused to wear a dink, and I don't blame her. It didn't fit too well.

Plans for homecoming week end are the order of the day. We just have to win the house decoration cup again this year, so at this point any suggestions are gladly received. Our annual dinner for the "alums" is scheduled for Friday, November roth, insead of the day of the game. We're looking forward to a wonderful time, 'cause, as you know, it's always such fun to see old friends. Then too, we'll be hearing from all of you about that time, via THE PHoENIX, so it should be a bang-up week end.

On Sunday, October rsth, the Kappa Kappas are _having a tea in honor of Miss Osgood, the new director of social affairs at Temple U., and the new librarian, Miss Fay. Later in the month we are in-

39 VItmg all ghosts and goblins to a Hallowe'en open house.

Pledging service for our two ribbon pledges will be held next Tuesday night after meeting. Tw9 weeks later several pledges from last year, together with the two new girls, will become full fledged Alpha Sigs. And speaking of pledging, our fall rush sea~on will get under way very soon. The Alpha Sig party is scheduled for November 20th, and we're inviting several grand girls. Certainly hope they will see things our way.

That's about all the news from this end of the line. We're anxious to hear from the rest of you soon. Until then, Yours in A.S.A., LYNN MYER.

NU NU Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

We Alpha Sigs celebrated the opening of the fall term with a get-together meeting the second day of school. We just couldn't wait to hear all the news of the summer and start making plans for the coming year.

The highlight of the evening was the announcement of an A.S.A. week end at the Drexel Lodge beginning on October 20. An experiment is being tried- the Home Ecs. are rebelling, so Business students are taking over the food situation. Here's hoping!

Ideas were presented for our philanthropic undertakings, and we have decided to have an extra meeting a month devoted to canteen work, as well as give individual time to the Red Cross in and out of school.

We are all expecting to becom路e thoroughly fat and happy from the pounds and pounds of candychocolate, of course~promised us by our newly engaged sisters. Since the last news . letter, several of our number have come forth with that tell-tale grin and outstreached left hand: namely, Joanne Ridings, Betty Robinson, R0berta Butterworth, Inge Rihm, and Esther Wells. Not bad for a summer! There have been two fall weddings as well. Both Roberta Butterworth and Gerry Eaton, an alumna, were recently married. Ilse Graenz, another alumna, expects to tie the knot on October 14.

Going back to last term, school elections found our president, Marion Barron, also president of the Women's Athletic Association; and Leanna Chase president of the Y.W.C.A. Other Alpha Sigs, Rae Schaeffer, Virginia Briner, and Esther Wells, filled the Y.W.C .A . offices of vice-president, treasurer, and secretary respectively.

We bid our seniors a sad farewell on May 22 at the Annual Farewell Dinner, at which they presented us with a sorely needed bench for the sorority room. At this Dinner, Suzanne Baker was awarded the Frances Saylor Lawrence Cup, presented annually to the girl who best represents A.S.A . and Its ideals.

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En masse we stormed Ocean City the following week end and had the traditional "wonderful time!"

Even now I remember it perfectly-wonderful weather, wonderful food, and, best of all, lots of Alpha Sigs.

The pledges surprised us on Memorial Day with a party which ended the season with a bang. To top it off, they contributed a lovely lamp to the sorority room; so this year we will really live in style!

Well, that's the news, past and present; so good bye until the next time, and here's to the year ahead路 of us all.

DANA DAVIS.

XI XI University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Dear Alpha Sigs: Climaxi!lg a summer buzzing with actiVIties the Xi Xi's dined at the Westwood House to bid farewell to National Registrar Marie Berry, in anticipation of her trip east.

Another dinner in June at the home of alumna Catherine Hunsicker here in Westwood. And in May there was that wonderful barbeque in Prexy Lila Watumull's patio.

Cupid has been kept busy, too. Treasurer Mary Lou Me Vey last month announced her engagement to Eric Moreno, graduate of Southern California, and an engineer at the Dow Chemical Plant in Los Angeles. Joyce Lindsay was married in June to Charlie Cosser, and Barbara Smith to James Dilley, way back in Alabama.

President Lila Watumull vacationed in Mexico, and then dashed back to school in Boston . Eloise Gaspar spent the summer in Alliance, Nebraska.

She's kept as busy as ever, dancing for the G. I's.

Past president Viveen Kumpf is now in the Cadet Nurse Corps in San Francisco. Jacquot Waymire is in the same city, attending Secretarial Med. SchooL Marion Lee Jones is assistant manager at Templeton Furniture Manufacturing Co. in Beverly Hills.

Mary Lou McVey is now going to Whittier College.

That's all the news for now, but we're looking forward to a gay and busy fall semester.

Yours in Alpha Sigma Alpha, MARION

MAJOR.

PI PI Buffalo State Teachers College, Buffalo, New York

Hi Alpha Sigs: We're all back again to begin the Fall term in true Alpha Sig fashion. By that I mean, plans for our future campus activities are already well under way, and everyone is working zealously doing her share. Right now we're all concentrating fervently on plans ~or rushing, and plans for our Dessert-Bridge and FashiOn Show, which is to be held in the college Gym on November 3rd, under the chairmanship of

Phyllis Tatu.

Proceeds from this philanthropic enterprise-incidentally it's replacing the annual Sweethear~ Dance-are to be donated to some deserving cause. A dry night club has been suggested, and personally I approve.

Informal rush party plans are formulated to carry out last year's mediaval theme-that of Tudor Castle. Betty Gene Treiber, rush chairman, claims that the only difference is that this year the party will be "bigger and better," and with Sandy Peoney in charge of entertainment, we can't miss.

This past summer was bursting with exciting things. Jane Simon and Jean Schwarzmeier, our president were married. And just last week an alum, Mary Clark, changed her name to Mrs. Harvey Nevalls. The house was full of girls attending either summer sessions or the accelerated program, and alumns who were in defense work . I can assure you there was never a dull moment, and studying was difficult to accomplish. Two general "get-togethers" were held at our castle-the second being a Garden Party to announce Mary Clark's betrothal. Our new white hammock, a gift from the United State's Navy, was fully initiated that night with the autographs of all members.

Almost forgot to mention our house-party last June at Bay Beach. The only factor which marred the merriment was the senior's inevitable departure.

Back to the present again! 'Tis red-letter day every day for the Pi Pi Alpha Sigs- for Joan Steinmiller has been industriously correcting the State Serviceman's Birthday Lists-and cards are mailed daily, whether the addressee is known or not. Cards and gifts are also being sent on special days, such as Christmas and Easter. So many of these servicemen have written to say that it makes them feel so much closer to home, to hear from the Alpha Sigs.

And we are proud to think that such a "little thought" can convey so much good will.

We've had a scrumptious send-off for this ensuing year-and I know Pi Pi chapter intends to maintain its high standards and reputable record. Good luck to you all!

Love in A.S.A ., RuTH CHRISTMAN.

SIGMA SIGMA Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado

Dear Alpha Sigs: Our fall rushing season began with five actives on the campus. Doris Ogsbury, our president, is editor of our college newspaper the Top of The World, a member of Press Club, student council, treasurer of Panhellenic, and a member of the Women's Athletic Association. Ruth Fogg, secretary, is business manager of the paper anq a member of Press Club. Helen Rossi, treasurer, is secretary of Chipeta Hall, a member of the band, and belongs to the Newman Club. Marie Zavislan and 'Frances Enderud returned to school this fall after teaching.

Marie is chaplain of Sigma Sigma, and is a member

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of. Cec~ian Chorus.

Frances, vice-president and ed1tor, IS a member of 路Kappa Delta Pi. She will graduate at the end of fall quarter.

We have our sorority room furnished and had our first two meetings there. Miss Vera Clark is our adviser.

All the girls are working on plans for our fo rmal rush banquet which will be in the Allen Hotel Tuesday, October 17th. Our alumns are doing a grand job of helping us.

FRANCES CRAIG ENDERUD.

PHI PHI Northwest State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri

Hello, Alpha Sigs: Hasn't this been a busy month? We like this time of year, however, because rush season is so exciting.

Some _of our girls did not come back this year, but w~ still h~ve a very good group. Ellin Graham, our VIce pres1dent last year, is now a pledge of Delta. Gamma at Colorado University. We certainly do m1ss her. Another one of our favo rite members Connie Curnutt, was married October 7, and is no; Mrs. F. L. Searcy. As the wedding took place in New York City, it was impossible for any of us to be present, but we are very happy for her.

This is our second year in our sorority house and we wonder what we ever did without it. Our House Mother, Mrs. Mattie Moore is so sweet to us and helps us with all our problems.

We are certa_inly _proud of our pledge class. They are_all outstandmg m some way and will make fine act1ves. They all have tan crew hats which the actives signed. And they really create' a sensation at school.

Five Alphas were chosen as members of the Women's Vocal Ensemble. We felt that this was a pretty good showing out of the ten chosen for this group .

We have three girl cheerleaders at school and two of them are Alpha Sigs. They are very cute girls and full of the old "vim, vigor, and vitality."

The football queen and her attendants are elected by the football boys themselves. She is then presented at the dance which is given especially for that occasion . This is to take place in the next two weeks a.nd we are all holding our breath. Last year the queen and her attendants were all Alpha Sigs and we hope for the same this year. Well, we shall see.

Our rush parties were a big success. We had a progressive dinner for our informal party. The girls were taken from house to house via hayracks and everyone had a wonderful time. Our formal party had a Chinese theme, which was carried out in all the decorations, entertainment and refreshments. The big thrill of the evening came when the girls were led into the dining room, where the tables were on the floor and the girls sat on pillows while eating their chow mein with chopsticks, from wooden bowls.

Do I sound too self-satisfied? I hope not, but we are very proud of our chapter this year and I sincerely hope that you all feel the same. ' 'By for now-see you soon, SHIRLEY ANDERSON.

CHI CHI Ball State .:reachers College, Muncie, Indiana

Hello, all you sisters and fellow-bookworms : . We of Chi Chi have started a new school year with a rush of enthusiasm for A.S .A. And speaking of rush, we had some good times at our rush parties last week end. Dorothy Coots and Helen Herberger were our rush cap~ains. We had a very lovely Fall Flower Formal dmner on Friday evening at the Roberts Hotel ballroom, and everyone had a grand time. On ?aturday afternoon we had a circus party at our adv1ser Mrs. L. H. Whitcraft's home. We had, read about Kapp~ Kappa's circus party in last year s PHoENIX, and 1t sounded like so much fun that we borrowed the idea. We had the bearded lady, the Siamese twins, a fat woman (somewhat reduced because of food rationing restrictions), a fortune teller, a trick dog on wheels. The dancing "horse" almost created a riot. It was made up of Barbara Bray, Phyllis Robbins, a horse blanket, some paper bags, and two maps, with Velva Bere an alumna, astride as the Western cow-girl. We' also had clowns, a barker, pink lemonade, pop corn, candy, and with my apologies to Dierda Kimball, Jean Taylor, Phyllis Kuckuck, Charlotte Priest and Joan Whitcraft, a typical "corny" circus band. We were especially hapy to see so many of our alumna: attending rush this fall, and we hope they will come back often. They even entered some of the acts. And best of all, we got eleven grand new pledges.

We are all very proud of Betty Mathews Chi Chi's president, because she was recently elect~d to the presidency of the senior class of all State. She is also president of W.A.A., and a member of the Student Executive Council, Alpha Phi Gamma, Girls Club, Religious Council, Inter-sorority Council, Y.W.C.A., and the Ball State News Staff, so you can see our prexy is really a leader. Rebecca Walters was elected treasurer of the junior class, Maxine Stafford, treasurer of the sophomore class, and Vesta Prohl and Charlotte Priest representatives to the Student Executive Council.

Now that all military units have left Ball State campus, we are back in the dormitories again, with the A .S.A.'s much in evidence. Barbara Bray, a Chi Chi girl, is the president of Lucina Hall.

Isabelle Starkey was appointed news editor for the Ball State News, and Nora Fuller was elected secretary of the Biology club. So you can see that A.S.A. is really at the top at Ball State.

We are planning several service meetings this year, to replace our regular business sessions, during which time we will do Red Cross work. Since rush

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is over now, and we have settled down a bit, we can see some "handwriting on the wall" to hit those books.

So until next time-Love in A.S.A., HELEN HERBERGER.

PSI PSI Louisiana State Normal College, Natchitoches, Louisiana

Dear Alpha Sigs: Most of our girls are back this fall as full of pep as ever. With the rush of registering and starting to school over, we have settled down to a year of hard work.

We still have our rush party to work on, however, for rushing here was delayed until the tenth week of school. This is to give us a chance to know the rushees better.

One of our A.S.A. sisters, Pauline Holland, went to Washington, D.C. this summer to work in ' the Navy Department for three months. She says she had a wonderful time combining pleasure with work.

With the resignation of our recording secretary, Dorothy Brack, now Mrs. Ralph McFarland, Annie Sue Miller has taken over her duties. Maurine Nee! is now corresponding secretary.

Alpha Sig spirit is high at Normal this year.

We're anxious to get into the swing of rushing, because there are a lot of good prospects here this semester.

Next time, we hope to tell you more about our rush party and the outcome of our rush season.

Love in A .S.A., CARRIE NELL RoDGERS.

BETA EPSILON Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Hello Alpha Sigs: Beta Epsilon chapter started this school year on September the eighteenth. What a day to remember! The "Welcome" mat really took a beating on this day. The doors were opened, the rugs unrolled, the furniture uncovered, the lamps connected, the draperies hung, and presto! right away we began to feel at home.

We are happy, and why not, with five hundred and ten odd freshmen rambling around our campus.

Evelyn MacDonald, our rush captain, is doing an excellent job with these new girls and everyone is in gay spirits at meeting so many new and wonderful personalities.

Frances Wadel! Camden and Joyce Poole, two of our former belles, surprised us with a visit recently .

This called for a celebration-yes, a party! Flythe entertained us with a song while Emily's talented fingers played rhythmic melodies on the piano.

Our first meeting for the school year 1944-45 was in the form of a consecration Service presented by Miss Boje, adviser; Betty Lou Flythe, president; and Betty Clougherty, chaplain. The meeting was inspiring to all.

Barbara Rogers has left us this year to join the WAVES. We hope Uncle Sam will love her beaming smile as we do. Jane Cary, noted for her efficiency, is now a busy newspaper woman. Rose Erwin, due to her health, has left us for a warmer climate, you guessed it, Florida. The lucky girl!

There will be more news next time, so until then Love in A.S.A., CATHARINE CLODFELTER.

BETA ZETA Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana

Dear Alpha Sigs: Since S.L.I. is on the tri-mester schedule Beta Zetas have been extremely busy trying to keep up all their campus activities as well as studies. The proof that we succeeded came when it was announced that for the last semester of the 1943-44 year, Alpha Sigma Alpha had the best scholastic average of any campus sorority. Prominent Beta Zetas in extracurricula activities are Lucille Toup~, president, and Carolyn Reeve, vice president of the campus Red Cross chapter; Louise Gaudet and Ouida Sue Ristom are vice-president and treasurer, respectively of the Women's Student Government Association; Paddy Richard is vice-president of Orchesis, a club for those interested in dancing; Louise Gaudet is vice-president, and Stella Dryer secretary of the Newman Club; Lois Beall is editor of the yearbook, L' Acadien; Ouida Sue Ristom is president of the Women's Intramural Association. She is also president of Evangeline Hall dormitory, and Ruth Gaudet is vice-president of the same. Louise Gaudet is president of Buchanan Hall dormitory, and Lorraine Baudoin is treasurer of DeClouet Hall dormitory.

As a reward for their scholastic efforts, Lorraine Morel, Kathleen Toups, and Frances Griffith were received into Kappa Delta Pi, education fraternity.

Louise Gaudet received a bid to Sigma Theta, Home Economics fraternity; Alice Joyce Bourgeois received a bid to Alpha Chi, chemistry fraternity. Stella Dryer, Marian Fields, and Kathleen Toups were initiated into Pi Gamma Mu social sciences fraternity.

And last but not least, our own Evelyn Merrifield, whose many honors led her to be selected as the Alpha Girl of 1944.

Late in April we gave our frat brothers, Pi Theta Rho, a banquet in the Biddle Student Center. The Spring theme was carried out in pastel decorations, and an abundance of Bowers, and soft candlelight.

A Boor show of sorority talent provided entertainment for this most successful affair.

We celebrated Hermes Day by arising early and tramping out to some nearby woods for a sunnse breakfast. The pledges planned it and we feasted royally on bacon and eggs, rolls, milk, coffee and cocoa.

In May we welcomed a patroness back to the campus, Mrs. Kenneth B. Hait. We also pledged and initiated another patroness Mrs. J. B. Wooley.

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We started off the new semester in July by working in the Red Cross room, rolling bandages, working on scrapbooks and waste baskets, and kits for service men. Entering in the Women's Intramural Association softball tournament, Beta Zeta succeeded in coming out in third place, losing only two games.

Formal rushing was opened with a tea, carrying out our traditional Old-Fashioned theme. Yours truly provided accordion music of ASA songs. Our informal tea climaxed the formal rush season. The theme was a country circus and we had peanuts, pop corn, pink lemonade and other circus delicacies.

There were game concessions, such sideshows as the bearded lady, tatooed lady, fortune teller, even a booth taking pictures. An organ grinder and his monkey and Beta Zetas dressed in appropriate costumes further enlivened the afternoon . It ended of course with a ring show and our favorite Alpha Sig songs. Bids were signed on September r6 and on September 19, we pledged twenty-one cute new pledges. Each one a valuable addition to our chapter.

Right now it's nearing the end of a semester and term papers and visions of final exams are haunting us . Vve're settling down for a session with our books.

Yours in A.S.A., KATHLEEN TouPs.

BETA ETA State Teachers College, Dickinson, North Dakota

Hello Sister Sigs: Goodness-we have so much news for this issue that it's hard to know where to begin. The beginning is always the best; during the last week in July all the Alpha Sigs were invited to a supper party at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Scott, our Mother-patroness . All the alumn<e attending summer school were there and we had a grand get-together.

When school started Beta Eta jumped into the social world. First on the bill was a "Get Acquainted Party" for all the girls of the school. Fun filled mixer games started the evening off with a bang. Then card fiends played until tea was poured by our President, Charlotte Parker.

Next on our Social Calendar was a rush dinner given by the Beta girls. And can those girl s cook.

I'm not bragging, even if I did help a wee bit. The sixteen rushees were seated at four tables in ' the student lounge. A yellow theme, including yellow flowers, candles, and luncheon cloths, was found through out the room . Place cards, little scrolls on which was written an invitation to Alpha Sigma Alpha, was made by our clever Margie Kronsnobel.

Pledging day rolls around on October 23, 1944路 Our seven smiling sisters to be are Betty Reardon, Catherine Brown, Irene Schatz, Elaine Nordstrom, Elizabeth Nolan, Leota Swanson, and Ethel Tayler.

This grand group of girls will be initiated at the end of the quarter. By then we hope to have an even larger group of pledges.

Right now the Alpha Sigs are up "to their necks"

43 campaigning for the student council election. One of our members and one pledge is on the ticket.

Every one is busy signing petitions, preparing speeches, and putting in a good word for their friends . Now I must get busy and bolster up the campaign with some posters.

Until the next PHOENIX. Yours in A.S.A ., GEoRGINE TrLLQUIST.

BETA THETA Central Michigan College of Education, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Editors' fall deadline this year finds Beta Thetas still scattered throughout Michig;,tn, making lastminute preparations for the opening of the fall semester which comes on November r again, in coordination with V-r2 regulations.

The girls have been corresponding all summer, though, and have found time for several get-togethers in Mt. Pleasant, Detroit, picnics in Saginaw and Bay "City, plus a bang-up week-end in Gladwin for the Hiram Becker- Beth Booth wedding which took place July 22. Chief topics of conversation and correspondence-in addition to chapter plans for this year, of course-have been the numerous engagements and weddings involving Beta Thetas.

We're terribly anxious for school to start again, so we can begin fall rushing, Red Cross work, parties, bowling with our team, and our favorite meetings and gab sessions. The prospects of fewer men (Yes, the V-r2 allotment has been cut and the naval cadets are gone for keeps.) and probably more week-ends to be spent on campus have us especially enthusiastic for a well-crowded program of activities for the largest membership in Beta Theta's history.

So, here's to a grand year, Alpha Sigs. We'll let you know pow things work out.

Love in A.S.A., MARY JEAN CooN.

BETA IOTA State Teachers College, Radford, Virginia

Dear Alpha Sigs: Beta Iota started out this year ~n fine fashion! We had a call meeting the very first week of school to plan our skit for the first assembly program which was given for the freshmen. Our skit was a review of all the good times we had together last year, and every member took part. We ha,ve received compliments from freshmen, upperclassmen, and faculty members; and many have said it was the best skit given by any organization. Well, that really made us feel good, so we were all ready to start to work on our room which was given to us last year.

The first thing we did on our room this year was to buy new drapes, and you know what drapes can do for a room. They are a btautiful floral design and go nicely with our walls and furniture. There has been quite a bit of discussion and shopping around for new furniture, but we still have not found exactly

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44 what we want; isn't wartime shopping a problem!

The Alpha Sig Seniors of 1944 gave us a lovely coffee table over which we are quite proud. Everyone's happy with these improvements but we expect to do still more on our room later on this year.

Beta Iota's first big social event of the year was Home Coming Week-End, held October 21 and 22.

All the former members were invited, and by Saturday Alpha Sigs were having a perfectly wonderful time welcoming back old friends and getting acquainted with some of our sorority sisters. We gave a party Saturday night in the Student Activity Building, and at that time gifts were presented to the 1944 seniors, and to the recent Alpha Sigma Alpha brides. The party was one of those slumber parties we told you about last year; a nd we all spent the night over there, but were up bright and early to go to church together Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church. We then came back to the college where we had dinner together in the main dining hall.

Then there was our Rush Party, we must tell you all about. We gave a Century party this time; and all the members and rushees had to come dressed to represent a certain century, any except the 2oth.

They were all represented too, and we had some very humorous as well as beautiful costumes. The refreshments and entertai nment, of course, were in keeping with the theme.

This fall we all felt that we wanted to do something for Miss Beverly Holmes, our sponsor, who has been with us for the last three years . We gave a dinner for her at the Governor Tyler Hotel, and all of us really had a nice time. This we hope helped to express our love for Miss Holmes and our gratefulness for all that she has done for us.

Love in A.S.A ., EvELYN PAMPLIN.

BETA KAPPA Western Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb, Illinois

Dear Alpha Sig sisters: Our year started off September I 5 with fifteen Beta Kappas returning to the campus, with Joyce Lee Staples as president, Erva Mae Montgomery, vicepresident; Alice Jones, secretary; Mary Alice Benner, treasurer; Virginia Hankins, chaplain; Mary Lou Howat, registrar; and Dorothy Binder, editor.

We immediately began making those all-important contacts for discovering new Alpha Sig material. Our first rush party was the "Alpha Sig County Fair," complete in every sense of the word (except horse racing). Complimentary tickets were sent as invitations. A peasant theme was used at a dessert bridge, held at the home of one of our patronesses. Each rushee carried away a hand-painted wooden shoe to remind her of the pleasant evening. Results: ten of the snappiest pledges you've ever known received the PHOENIX degree, and are now proudly wearing their pledge pins.

Our first contribution to social life on campus was a "Back to School" dance, complete with dance programs, orchestra, and men (compliments of a neighboring camp).

Honors are also coming our way, with Helen Sowder and Alice Jones as president and treasurer of Student Council, respectively . Mildred Koch shows typical Alpha Sig leadership as president of the Sophomore class. Pledge Betty Viar presides over the Senior Class. A.S .A. is represented in the field of journalism by capable Dorothy Binder as business manager of Western's weekly publication .

We will celebrate our first anniversary October 20 and 21 at Homecoming time, since our alums will be back that week-end . Our sponsor, Miss Scott is entertaining us at a "coffee" on Saturday morning. Five actives and one pledge will 路a ppear in the Homecoming Play, "The Man Who Came to Dinner."

There is every indication that our initial success will continue. through-out the year. Until later-Love in A .S.A., HELEN SowDER .

BETA LAMBDA Arkansas State Teachers College Conway, Arkansas

Dear Alpha Sigs: Hello again from your "baby" chapter. It is the beginning of a new school year and we already feel quite grown up. Now, to get up-to-date on Beta Lambda activities since last spring: We had only time to breath after the close of school before we were back together again on June I9.

Our summer convention was held this year at the Albert Pike Hotel in Little Rock with I8 active members, 7 alumna: and, of course, Miss Schichtl. We had a gala time. Gossip, banquet, USO dance, dates, a midnight snack (very little sleep) , a delicious late Sunday breakfast, church, dinner, a show and -well, we surely were tired, but happy. We returned home with memories of a perfect week-end.

After going our various ways for three months, we arrived back at dear ol' A.S.T.C. on September II. We have 17 active members and four pledges back and do they get around on the campus. We hold the presidencies of six organizations and Bernard Hall, Senior girls dormitory, as well as the chairmanship of the Student Interest Committee.

Our presidencies are as follows: Royal RootersJoyce Lively; Art Club-Ida Mae Parker; Spanish Club-Frances Burkett; Phi Alpha Theta-Joyce Lively; Y.W.C.A.-Dorothy Wilkerson; Sigma Beta Lambda-Margie Brown; Bernard Hall-Dorothy Wilkerson. Seven seats on S.I.C. are occupied by Alpha Sigs and Frances Burkett is chairman.

Our first meeting of the year was called for the purpose of electing a president to fill the vacancy left by Norma Henderson, who did not return to school this fall. Frances Burkett is our new presi-

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dent and, confidentally,_ we think she is tops . In fact, the whole campus does -for she was selected as the first campus personality to be fea tured in our college paper.

Two other Alpha Sigs who are walking away with top honors are Margie Brown, recently elected Scroll (year book) Queen and Elizabeth Mills, new Business Manager of the Echo (college paper).

In our own chapter, Glenna Phillips was elected

assistant treasurer and I have taken over the duties of Frances Burkett as editor.

As this letter goes to press, we of Beta Lambda are deep in plans for rush week to be held early in November. We are truly having fun and believe all our time, efforts and money will be well spent when pledging arrives .

Yours in A.S.A., loA MAE PARKER.

1943-1944 Efficiency Ratings of Chapter Officers Presid't

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THE PHOENIX

,

Presenting: The Pledges!

Septembe?路 1, 1943 to Septembe?路 1, 1944 ALPHA-Farmville, Virginia Barbara Ann Surface Jane Kathren East Dorothy Elizabeth Overstreet Cecelia Gray Arthur Lucy Hardwicke Bralley Mary Steward Buford Doris W ellington Burks Patsy Jane Dale Betty Graves Johnson Betty Juliet Jones Barbara L ee Myers Dorothy L ewis Owen Catharine Ammen Stoner Dorothy Louise Turley Lucile Derby Upshur May Justi n Derieux Mary E. Harvey Betty Parrish Nancy Parrish Vidillia Waller Margaret Wilson ALPHA BETA-Kirksville, Missouri Nancy Joyce Cox Cecelia Juan ita Greenwell Maria Elena Hildalgo Dorothy Alice Holcomb Letha Alene Layman Maysel Pauline Lynch Charlotte Marjorie Magruder Carolyn Wood Magruder Dorothy Ruth Nicker son Doris J ean R eid Martha Reynolds Martha Mae Ruth Mary Ann Tonkinson ALPHA GAMMA- Indiana, Pennsylvania Patricia lama Mary Louise Knepper Mary Johnson Patricia John son Rose Taucher Natalie Jane Keller Alice Clara Ehrenfeld Margery Lou Beck Madolyn J ean Conrath Betty Ruth Johnson Marion Eli~abeth Smith Marilyn Gertrude Fees Virginia Maureen Mahoney Janice Eleanor Sharbaugh Edna Jan e Nissley Margaret Vivian Davis

Florence Thecla Schatz Marjorie Katherine Llewellyn BETA BETA-Greeley, Colorado Elma Ruth Baker Velma L. Bay Martha Almeda Dick erson Louise Lillian Huber Betty Ann Peterson Doris Thelm a Rieger Lisa De Santis Louisa Anette Sittler V era Bell Smith Patricia Ann Whitman Marcia Lynne Fisher Dorothy H etzer Verna S chull Elizabeth Louise Herman Roberta Ehrman Conny Mari e McDonald Geraldine H. Hanselmann Edith Jaen Joppa GAMMA GAMMA-Alva, Okla.

Betty Louise H edges Betty Lee Hill Lo Eva Kragh Wilna Irene Lane Catherine Burnell Littell Margy Mahon ey Ewalt Ella Louise Wiebener Bette J ean N ew lin L ela Mae Sutton Beatrice Kirth Helen Frances Donnell

EPSILON EPSILON-Emporia, Kansas Dorothy Joan Calhoun Joann Wallis Naomi May Meinen Merry Feane McCasland Edna Bergman Mary J ean Gladfelter Joan Marie Bailey Mary Mauren e Murphy Martha Janice Berndt Norma Jean Donnelson Kathleen Marie Cannon Hazel Marjorie Gates Carol Elaine Drum Geraldine Hartley Pauline R eid Lucille Bender Beverly Jordon J ewel James Betty Adams Mary Jan e Ladner ZETA ZETA- Warrensburg, Missouri Anna Lou Caldwell Rosalie Clark Annetta Clatworthy Beulah Mae Paul Lelia Jane Purves Ma ry Sue Raker Oletha Pearle Skidmore Kathryn Lou Thurston Alice Fischer .

H elen Boltz Barbara Holmes Doris Ravena Martin ETA ETA-Pittsburg, Kansas Cleis Eileen Armour Corinne Ann Bogatie Margaret Mary Brackett Mary N ell Clark Christine Cottrell Mary Elizabeth Cronin Freda J ean Elmore Marjorie Dean Fadler Virginia Katherin e Gore Marguerite Goudy Doris Eileen Halfhill Jo Ann Harjung Mary Alice Just Mildred Rae K ells Frances Ann McFarland Colleen Michie Deborah Marie Naylor Betty Pease Pratz H elen Athene R eeder Evelyne Vera Roeber Virginia D ewain Sanden Beverly J eanne Swanson Eleanor Jane W est Rosalie Kathryn William son Ruth Cordelia Wray N ellie Jo Tharrington Merry Carol Sherman Muriel Ester Fulks Joan Hutchings Betty Sternitzke THETA THETA-Boston, Mass.

Doris Frances Bartone Anne Margaret Gallagher Katherine Louise Gott Eunice Emerson Hurd Mary E. McFarland Antoinette Marie Nardone H elene Margaret Schnurbush KAPPA KAPPA- Philadelphia, Pa. Marian Elizabeth Nolt Thelma Virginia Funk Evelyn Mae Lesoine Mary Ellinor Balke Virginia Elsa Clark Dorothy May Colville Marilyn Constance DeNooyer Patricia Ann D etrow Barbara Ann Detwiler Virginia Laura Evans

June Evelyn Houseknecht Alma Marie Lauth Janet Isabella Panton Isabel Anne Scott Joann Elizabeth Tyson Barbara Walsh

Carol Zahn Eleanor Walsh Thelma Wuchter Naomi Hartman NU NU-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Eleanor Adeline Bahafarano Evelyn Irene Brierley Helen Mary Giebel Gladys Mae Detwiler Anna Gertrude Keene Norma L. Schaeffer Joanne Victoria Ware J eanne B. Brown Gertrude E. Carney Elizabeth S . Cox J ean A. Dougherty Norma Elwert Marilyn F. Goodman Genevieve Gorman Eugenia Griffith Eleanor J effries Eleanor G. Kingman R. Shirley Maines Judith I. Mainwaring Margaret M. McCormick L. Elizabeth McFadden Constance Pennypacker Beverly R eam s Joanne Ridings Elizabeth M. Robinson Amy Elizabeth Russell Rae J . Schaeffer Eleanor B. Scofield Ruth S. Shellhamer Natalie Slagle Rosemarie Verlinde L ois H. Young Dorcas Bates Rachel Garber Margaret Reed Thelma Rottler Laura Taylor Dorothy Weniger J ean Cooper XI XI-Los Angeles, California Edna Inez Bergman Zelma Elaine Chamberlin Dorothy Polly Holland Marion Burnham Major Mary Lou Catharine McVey Betty Dove Rudman Dorcas Haines Dorothy Ides Patricia Ruth Wallace Eleanor Thomas Fitch Nor rna J ean Kruse Elizabeth Rose Broggi Lucille Stevens Alice Gordon Munro Lila Anne Watummull PI PI-Buffalo, N ew York Betty Jane Aescbach Ann Andrews Betty Jane Ansell Jacqueline MacDonald Barrie Constance Batt Evelyn Benson Ruth Benzinger Ruth Christman Nancy Diggins Gerte Farrell Eileen Carberry Virginia Carol Godfrey Arline Guenther Patricia Marie Hanson

Mary Ethel Kayes Olga Milich Ge rry McCarthy Syril Marion P evney Marge Woodruff Martha Katherine Yager Joan Steinmiller Betty Ann Fitzgibbons Janet K. Gibbons Mary Alta Pettibone Patricia Ann Phillips Jane Susan Simon Alice Mary Wincenc RHO RHO- Huntington, W. Va. Jeannette Woodside Kelly Gloria Rosilda LeClair Lois Lucille Long Ruth Matilda Oberholtzer Doris Louise Weekley Margaret Elain e Winn Pauline Elizabeth Angelo Carol J ean Kaiser

NovEMBER,

1944

SIGMA SIGMA-Gunnison, Colo.

Ruth Marie Fogg Jean Marie Parks Ruth Elaine Trosper Mildred Jean Fa'irbrother TAU TAU-Hays, Kansas Mary Alice Clarke Norma Maxine Giess Marjorie Helen Lahey lletty Lang Helen Frances P etterson Janie Von Feldt Agnes Ann Weissbeck Wanda Opal Weyrich Neva Geraldine Daniel Gene Marie Herbert Margaret LaVon Mcilrath Marjorie Maxine Neptune Gladys Margaret Schreiber PHI PHI-Maryville, Missouri Catherine Aldrich Mary Katherine Bruce Bernetta Lee Cushman Lois Alas ton Johnson Emma Ruth Kendall Berniece Evelyn Laughlin Helen Marie Medsker Thelma Clementine Schively Virginia Beatrice Schmille Joyce Agler Ardina Lynn Combs Carrie Margaret Martin Virginia Frances Akers Virginia Esther Rogers Gloria Lee Thompson Audrey Hisel Dorothy Jean Myers CHI CHI-Muncie, Indiana Laura Jean Barlow Betty Jean Brown Rosemary M. Cox Ella Jeanne Friar Nora Uva Fuller Margaret Gregory Phyllis Ailleen Kuckuck Nyla Joan Loudenback Mary Jo Martin Alice June Martz Susette Mitchell Barbara Jane Mullen Vesta Lucille Prohl Wilma Jean Pyle Lois Jeannette Shultz Maxine Louise Stafford Mary Isabelle Starkey Katherine Joan Whitcraft Janice Grubb Madelyn Keasley Alice Miedma Carolyn Miller Charlotte Priest Martha Ritchey Marjorie Stafford Jean Taylor Helen Weber PSI PSI-Natchitoches, Louisiana Amelia Ann Adcock Elizabeth Caldwell Shirley May F ew Virginia Lee Forester Salley J o Foster Eunice Elaine McGraw Olive McMichael Marion Russell Martin Eula Catherine Offutt Millie Josephine Pully Dorothy Mae Russell Margie Selby Clarice Slaughter Laurine Paul Stephens Delaney Elizabeth Woodall Elna Berneice Rogers BETA GAMMA-Tahlequah, Oklahoma Dorothy Dolores Bartlett Wanda Lee Chronister Berdena Clark Mary Loretta Kerr Bonnie Jean Mosier Marjorie Elizabeth Ray Gwen Reeder Mary Louise Roberts Wanda Irene Womble Melonee Gray

47 Irma Lee Hail Kathleen Jane Bailey Ruth Pauline Rasnic BETA DELTA-Hattiesburg, Mississippi Merion Bernich Louise Carter Walline Cowart Mary Douglas Ford Jessie Wayne Gandy Jeanne King Mary Evelyn Lee Dorothy McGowan Bertha Patton Blanche Rimes Doris Rogers Bessie George Smith Mary Dell Weatherford Jimmy Faye Wilshire Laura Jane McCradle Betty Jean Saxon BETA EPSILON-Harrisonburg, Va. Pauline Victoria Booker Davilee Stack Bryant Mary Ann Chaplin Catherine Elizabeth Clodfelter Frances Maxine Mullen Dorothy Lucile P eak Julia Massoletti Peters Oro Louise Thompson Fannie Claire Bennett Anna LaMar Bowman Mabel Frances Brumley Joy Ann Corkan Janet Eileen Cornelisen Hilda Davis Marjorie Ann Dickie Laura Virginia Foltz Virginia Frances Harvey Ruth Florence Heller Julia Ann Kelly Emily Frances Leitner Frances Nunley Milam Betty Jane Milliner Jane Moorman Morgan Betty Way Myers June Payson Patricia P earl Pumphrey Mary Jane Rodgers Barbara Lois Rogers June Courtney Sterling Betty Jo Stretchberry Maria Washington Tucker Edith May Turpin Lois Virginia Wiley BETA ZETA-Lafayette, Louis iana Ouida Sue Riston Carol Ern est Roberta Katherine Amrhein Gloria J ean Drisner BETA ETA-Dickinson, N.D. Jla Mae Hansen Majorie June Kronschnabel Marjorie Irene Talkington Louise Elvina Zander Frances Gayle Chappell Virginia Marie Roberts Chery Elizabeth Schaffner BETA THETA- Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Bette Marie Baldwin Jessie Elizabeth Booth Mary Jean Coon Mary Lou Larson Yvonne Bates Eleanor Brietzke Gertrude Brietzke Betty Chauvin Jane Faust Maxine Elliott Ina Gaylord Betty Jane Hawkins Louise Hayes Dorothy Lang Shirley Laugeson Jeanne Layster Jessie Milne Eleanore Philip Phyllis Sunquist Jean Wile BET A lOT A-Radford, Virginia Esther Bobbitt Graham Nan Edna Wolfe

Margaret Lee Dennison Mary Ann Jones Alice Brown Kidd Pauline Lester Mildred Opal Mattox Mary Elizabeth Pennington Rachel Rosamond Reames Billie Sue Sma lley Peggy Dalton Wilson Elizabeth Catherine Covey Virginia Miller Fanning Ruth Anne Godbey Mary Louise Hodges Frances Smyth Howard Maybe Katherine McCoy Anzianetta Ramsey Jenoese White Spradlin BET A KAPPA-Macomb, Illinois Elna P. Scott Mary Elizabeth Weinberg Margie Jeanne Mine r Merna Painter Johnson Stella L. Pletkovich Lee Carolyn Morrison Margaret Earline Lanterman Dorothy Margaret Binder Marian Eileen H azelleaf Betty Jo Lawless Betty Lee Lyon Mary Jean McManus Erva Mae Montgomery Gladys Lennea Norstrom Ruth E. Pletkovich Florence Louise Robinson Joyce Lee Staples Marjorie Eleanor Yarde Norma Iren e Brown Velma Maxine Duvendack Louise Shinkevich Frieda Lois Sowers Helen Louise Sowder Phyllis Marie Young Alice Evelyn Jones Patricia Ball Juanita Ara Appenheimer Mary Alice Benner Mare! Catherine Boyer Mynabelle Mohrman Beverly Joanne Johnson Marie Te r ese Carlson Mary Louise Howat Betty Alice Miller Virginia L ee Hankins Mildred Lucille Koch Joyce Harris Davenport BETA LAMBDA- Conway, Arkansas Jean Lile Baker Virginia Sue Brooks Marjorie Brown

Frances Burkett Faydene Carroll Vivienne Clifton Hilda Eidson Jean Frazier Martha Goode Dorothy Hall Norma H enderson Peggy Hime Betty Ruth Joyce Joyce Lively Elizabeth Mills Frances McGinnis Ida Mae Parker Glenna .Jo Phillips La N elle Siegel Jean Frances Trice Glennie Trimble Dorothy Wilkerson Ruth Worm Doris Powell Virginia L ee Chaney Jacqueline A. Duncan Sara J eanne Goode Carrol Maurine Laman Alexa Betty Williams Florence Morris Lull Mary Barbara Shuffield Ruby J . Shambarger Christine Calvert Georgiana White Alva Wanda Green Elizabeth E . Peters Harriet R. Umsted Mary Fra nces Gist Marion Wilker son Cooper Emma Dell High Polly White Marie Schichtl

THE PHOENIX

Alpha Sigma Alpha Initiates September 1, 1943 w Se]Jtemb er 1, 1944.

ALPHA-Farmville, Virginia Billy Dudley Moore Waid Florence Louise Smith Viola Mae Surring Barbara Ann Surface Jane Kathrene East Dorothy Elizabeth Overstreet Cecelia Gray Arthur Lucy Hardwicke Bralley Mary Stewart Buford Doris W ellington Burks Patsy Jane Dale Betty Graves Johnson Barbara L ee Myers Dorothy Lewis Owen Catharine Ammen Stoner Dorothy Louise Turley Lucile Derby Upshur May Derieux Mary E. Harvey Betty Parrish Nancy Parrish Vi Walle r Margaret Wilson ALPHA BETA- Kirksville, Missouri Lave ra Marie Dye Eleanor Ruth Evans Iris Charlotte Mittendorf Lo rene Sommers Maria Elena Hidalgo Dorothy A. Holcomb Charlotte Marjorie Magruder Martha Reynolds Nancy Joyce Cox Letha Alena Layman Maysel Pauline Lunch Dorothy Ruth Nicke rson Martha Mae Ruth ALPHA GAMMA- Indiana, Pa. Mary Elizabeth Carroll Nancy Ann Coombs Audrey Evangeline George Betty Clare K eller Elizabeth Donn Politos ke Eleanor Ruth Wilson Patricia J eann e lams Mary Kathleen John son Patricia Ann e Johnson Mary Louise Knepp er BETA BETA- Greeley, Colorado Ethel Shirley Erixon Hilda Hazel H eid Lillian Loydean Haworth Gloria Grace Scrogin Louise Mae Willia mson Martha Alm eda Dicker son Elma Ruth Baker Betty Ann P et er son Betty Zerkle Patricia Ann Whitman V era Bell Smith V erna !dell Shull Conny Marie McDonald Dorothy H etzer Marcia Lynn e Fischer Roberta K. Ehrman Lisa DeSantis GAMMA GAMMA-Alva, Oklahoma Bette Jean N ewlin Margy Mahoney Ewalt Lo Eva Kragh Betty Louise H edges Wilna Irene Lane Catherine Burnell Littell Ella Louise Wiebener L ela Mae Sutton Virginia Katherine Rader Mais ie Arnett Shirey H elen Frances Donnell EPSILON EPSILON- Emporia, Kan sas Mary Jane Ladner Edna Bergman Martha Janice Berndt Norma J ean Donnelson

Hazel Marjorie Gates Mary J ean Gladfelter Merry F erne McCasland Naomi May Mein en J oann Wallis Kathleen Marie Cannon Mary Maurene Murphy Betty J ean Adam Joan Marie Bailey Lucille Bender Dorothy Joan Calhoun Carol Elain e Drum Geraldine Iren e Hartley J ewell L ee James Beverly Mary Jordan ZETA ZETA-Warrensburg, Missouri Mary Sue Raker Rosali e Clark Kathryn Lou Thurston Oletha P earle Skidmore L elia Jane Purves Power s Lois LaVerne Muchmore Bonnie Mae Payn e Doris Ravena Martin ETA ETA-Pittsburg, Kansas Zoe Wilma Baade Corinne Ann Bogatie Mary N ell Clark Mary Elizabeth Cronin Freda J ean Elmore Marguerite Goudy Jo Ann H arjung Doris Eileen Halfhill Mary Alice Just Frances Ann McFarland Evelyn e V . Roeber Virginia De wain Sanden Beverly Jeanne Swan son Rosalie Kathryn William son Cleis Eileen Armour Christine Cottrell Collen Michie Betty P ease Pratz H elen Athene R eeder Merry Carol She rman Betty Sternitzke Muriel E st er Fulks Joan Hutchings THETA THETA- Boston.Mass.

Doris Frances Bartone Anna Margaret Gallaghe r Kathe rine Louise Gott Eunice Emer son Hurd Mary E. M cFarland Antoin ette Marie Narden e H elen e Margaret Schnurbu sh KAPPA KAPPA- Philadelphia, Pa. Thelma Virginia Funk Maria n Elizabeth N olt Amy Ruth Hodges Mary Ellinor Balke Evelyn Mae L esoine Virginia Elsa Clark Dorothy May Colville Marilyn Constance DeNooyer Patricia Ann Detrow Barbara Ann D etwiler Virginia Laura Evans

June Evelyn H ouseknecht Alma Marie Lauth Janet Isabella Panton Isabel Anne Scott Joann Elizabeth Tyson Barbara Walsh

H elen Mary Giebel Anna Ge rtrude K een e J eanne H. Brown Gertrude E. Carney S. Elizabeth Cox Norma Elwe rt Marilyn F. Goodman Euge nia M. Griffith Eleanor G. Kingman R. Shirley Maines Judith I. Mainwaring Margaret M. McCormick L. Elizabeth McFadden Joanne Ridings Elizabeth M. Robin son Rae J. Schaeffer Eleanor B. Scofi eld Ruth S. Shellhamer Rosemarie V erlinde Dorothy W eniger Lois Young Margaret J ean R eimet Margaret R eed Laura Taylor XI XI- L os Angeles, Calif.

Barbara J ea n O ' Connell Martha Marilyn Moore Edna Inez B ergman Zelma Elain e Chamberlin Dorothy P olly Holland Marion Burnham Major Mary Lou Catharine McVey Betty Dove Rudman Lila Anne Watumull Patricia Ruth Wallace Eleanor Thomas Fiteh Norma J ean Kruse Elizabeth Rose Broggi Lucille Steven s Alice Gordon Munro PI PI-Buffalo, N e w York Lillian Blackmore Viner Marjori e Woodruff Ann Andrews Cons tance Batt Nancy Jane Diggin s Virginia Carol Godfrey Patricia Marie Han sen Martha Katherin e Yeager Betty Jane Aeschbach Betty Jane An sell Jacquelin e MacDonald Barrie Evelyn Ruth Benson Ruth Alice Benzinger Ruth I sabel Christman Gerte Farrell Eileen Alice Carbe ry Arline A. Guenther Mary Ethel Kayes Olga Theresa Milich Joan Ste inmiller Syril Marion P evney B etty Ann Fitzg ibbons Janet K . Gibbon s Alice Mary Wincenc Patricia Ann Phillips Jan e Susan Simon RHO RHO- Huntington, W. Virginia Ethel Mae Grosse Virginia Melrose Marjorie Edythe Osborne Ruth Wilma Harmon Norma Faye Brake Dori s Louise W eekley Gloria Rosilda L eClair SIGMA SIGMA- Gunnison, Colorado Ruth Marie Fogg H elen Irma Rossi Vera Clark Mildred Fairbrothe r

NU NU- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gladys Mae Detwiler Nancy K eene Norma L. Schaeffer Joanne Victoria Ware Ruth Rose Zapp Wanda Kulpinska Margaret Wortman Eleanor Adeline Bahafarano

TAU TAU- Hays, Kansas N orma Maxine Giess Marjorie H elen Lahey Agnes Ann Weissbeck Rubie Loreg Betty Lang Marjorie Maxine N eptun e Geraldine Daniel

NovEMBER,

1944

PHI PHI-Maryville, Missouri Mary Frances Young Melba Wyllian Seitz Mary Marie Smith Helen La Dean Campbell Mary Katherine Bruce Bernetta Lee Cushman Lois Alas ton Johnson Emma Ruth Kendall Berniece Evelyn Laughlin Guilford Helen Marie Medsker Thelma Clementine Schively Virginia Beatrice 路Schmille Sue Moore Joyce Ellen Agler Ardina Lynn Combs Carrie Margaret Martin Lucille Lawrence CHI CHI-Muncie, Indiana Laura Jean Barlow Rosemary M. Cox Ella Jeanne Friar Nora Uva Fuller Margaret Gregory Phyllis Aileen Kuckuck Nyla Joan Loudenback Alice June tdartz Susette Mitchell Barbara Jane Mullen Vesta Lucille Prohl Wilma Jean Pyle Lois Jeannette Schultz Maxine Louise Stafford Mary Isabelle Starkey Katherine Joan Whitcraft PSI PSI-Natchitoches, Louis iana Eunice Elaine McGraw Olive McMichael Dorothy Mae Russell Laurie Paul Stephens Clarice Slaughter Elizabeth Caldwell Virginia Lee Forester Hilda Guillory Betty Woodall BET A GAMMA-Tahlequah, Oklahoma Dorothy Dolores Bartlett Wanda L ee Chronister Berdena Clark Mary Loretta Kerr Bonnie J ean Mosier Marjorie Elizabeth Ray Wanda Irene Womble Ollie Mae Bittle Billie Ray Hogue Betty Lou Chronister BETA DELTA-Hattiesburg, Mississippi Jessey Wayne Gandy J"eanne King Mary Evelyn Lee Bertha Velma Patton Fannie Blanche Rimes Bessie George Smith Mary Dell Weatherford Laura. Jane McCradle Betty J ean Saxon Minnie Louise Carter Walline Cowart Dorothy Jean McGowan BETA EPSILON-Harrison , Virginia Davilee Stack Bryant Mary Ann Chaplin Pauline Victoria Booker Catherine Elizabeth Clodfelter Frances Maxine Mullen Dorothy Lucile P eak Julia Massoletti P e t er s Ora Louise Thompson Mabel Frances .Brumley

49 June Payson Patricia Pearl Pumphrey Barbara Lois Rogers Maria Washington Tucker Fannie Claire Bennett Anna LaMar Bowman Joy Ann Corkan Janet Eileen Cornelisen Hilda Davis Marjorie Ann Dickie Laura Virginia Foltz Virginia Frances Harvey Ruth Florence Heller Julia Ann Kelly Emily Frances Leitner Frances Nunley Milam Betty Jane Milliner Jane Moorman Morgan Betty Way Myers June Courtney Sterling Betty J o Stretchberry Lois Vi.rginia Wiley BET A ZETA-Lafayette, Louisiana Alice Joyce Bourgeois Sue Camille Griffin Shirley Anne Laurent Frances Allen Betty Orvis Carylyne Reeve Mary Margaret Cornay Ethelyn Clarie Danneker Roberta Annetta Foster Shirley Ruth Gaudet Mary Lou Hoffpauir Allie Ann e Labat Mary Gregory Lambousy Shirley Marie Rhodes Jacquelyn Marie Savoi 路Tamea Avonlea Pilgrim Winifred Richard Ouida Sue Ristom Linda Delaware Vollrath Frances Golino Carol Ernst BETA ETA-Dickinson, North Dakota Ila Mae H ansen Marjorie June Kronschnabel Marjori e Irene Talkington Louise Elvina Zander Fran ces Gayle Chappell Virginia Marie Roberts Chery Elizabeth Schaffner.

BETA THETA-Mt. Pleasant, Mich .

Betta Marie Baldwin J essie Elizabeth Booth Mary Jane Coon Mary Lou Larson Yvonne Bates Eleanor Brietzke Gertrude Brietzke Betty Chauvin Jane Faust Betty Jane Hawkins Louise Hayes Dorothy Lang Shirley Laugeson J essie Milne Eleanore Philip Phyllis Sunquist BETA IOTA- Radford, Virginia Esther Bobbitt Graham Nan Edna Wolfe Margaret L ee D ennison Mary Ann Jones Alice Brown Kidd Panline L est er Mildred Opal Mattox Mary Elizabeth P en nington Rachel Ros amond Reames Billie Sue Smalley Peggy Dalton Wilson

Elizabeth Catherine Covey Virginia Miller Fanning Ruth Ann e Godbey Mary Louise Hodges Frances Smyth Howard Mayme Katherine McCoy Anzianetta Ramsey J enoese White Spradlin BETA KAPPA- Macomb, Illinois Elna P. Scott Mary Elizabeth W einberg Margie Jeanne Miner 1 Merna Painter Johnson Stella L. Pletkovich Lee Carolyn Morrison Margaret Earline Lantenrian Dorothy Margaret Binder Marian Eileen Hazelleaf Betty Jo Lawless Betty L ee Lyon Mary Jean McManus Erva Mae Montgomery Gladys L ennea Norstrom Ruth E . Pletkovich Floren ce Louise Robinson Joyce Lee Staples Marjorie Eleanor Yarde Norma Iren e Brown Velma Maxine Duvendack Louise Shinkevich Frieda Lois Sowers H elen Louise Sowder Phyllis Marie Young Alice Evelyn Jones Patricia Ball Mary Alice Benner Mare! Catherine Boyer Beverly Joanne Johnson Marie Terese Carlson Mary Louise Howat Betty Alice Miller Virginia L ee Hankins Mildred Lucille Koch Joyce Harris Juanita Appenheimer BETA LAMBDA-Conway, Arkansas J ean Lile Bake r Virginia Sue Brooks Marjorie Brown

Frances Burkett Faydene Ca rroll Vivienne . Clifton Hilda Eidson J ean Frazier

Martha Goode Dorothy Hall N orma H enderson Peggy Hime Betty Ruth Joyce Joyce Lively Elizabeth Mills Frances McGinnis Ida Mae Park er Glenna Jo Phillips La N elle Siegel J ean Frances Trice Glennie Trimble Dorothv Wilke rson Ruth Worm Doris Powell Florence Morris Lull Mary Barbara Shuffie ld Ruby J. Shambarger Christine Calvert Georgiana White Alva Wanda Green El izabeth E. Peters Harriet R. Umsted Ma r y Fran ces Gist Marion Wilkerson Cooper Emma Dell High Polly White, K en s it Marie Schichtl

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THE PHOENIX

Announcements MARRIAGES ALPHA Myrtle Lee Holt to Richard Cullen Johnson on March 23> 1944· ALPHA BETA Erma Lee Minor to Thomas Rieger on February 27, 1944. At home 515 S. High Street, Kirksville, Missouri.

Anita Begole to Reese Harold Wade on September 30, 1944· At home Drake Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri.

THETA THETA Marjory Glendon to Joseph DeMaro on February 22, 1944. At home r 88 Central Street, Somerville, Massachusetts.

Doris Corbett to Lt. John Foley on October 9, 1943· At home 21 Rowe Street, Roslindale 13, Mass.

LAMBDA LAMBDA Mildred Nalley to Ivan D. Creager on May 29, 1944.

At home 885 Gilbert, Columbus, Ohio.

Ethel Marie Straw to Raymond Guthrie on July 14, 1944. At home 512 4th Street, Marietta, Ohio.

MU MU Barbara Lois Brown to Charles William Parsons on June 15, 194!. At home 7498 Whittaker Road, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

NU NU Grace Willis to Lt. John Louis Rumpf on April 1, 1944. At home 217 W. Spencer Avenue, Philadelphia, 20, Pennsylvania.

XI XI Patricia Warner to Everett Ralph Lamphear on December 4, 1943· At home 485 Ellis Street, Pasadena 2, California.

Leola Florence Hetzler to Joseph Emanuel Endrizzi on November 9, 194r. At home 617 Rhode Island, Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Elaine Cole to Robert Franklin Erb on April 4, 1944.

At home 1152 East rst St., Long Beach, Calif.

PI PI Ann Padden to James V. W alsh on December 26, 1940. At home 391 Marilla Street, Buffalo, New York.

Janet L. Stowell to Christian G. Koelbl on April 29, 1944. At home Richlands, North Carolina.

Alma St. Amand to Gustave Alexander Limbach on May 5, 1944·

Gertrude Ethel Hemstreet to Lt. Philip Henry Snyder on May 6, 1944.

Madalene Marshall to Bernard F . Groh on June 3, 1944. At home II30 Kenmore Avenue, Buffalo, New York.

Zita Frances Oliver to John Joseph Mahoney on June 10, 1944· Jeanne Marie Schwarzmeier to Lt. William A. Thornton, Jr. on July 21, 1944· Virginia Evelyn Rawe to Elton F. Ransom on July 27, 1944. At home 190 S. Adeline Street, Buffalo r1, New York.

Norma J. Munger to Owen R. Munger on August 19, I944· At home 92 Davidson Avenue, Buffalo, New York.

Jane Susan Simon to Harry F. Cornwell on August 23, 1944. At home 135 East North Street, Buffalo, New York.

Marjorie Gertrude Duthie to Morley Carleton Townsend on August 26, 1944. At home 8 Byron Avenue, Kenmore, New York.

Mary Eileen Clark to Ensign Harvey K . Nevalls, Jr. on September 22, 1944· PHI PHI Mary Frances Young t<>; B. C. Shura on October 24, 1943. At home 301 West 8th, Maryville, Missouri.

Nadean Allen to Ensign Charles Naylor Reynolds on July 2, 1944· CHI CHI Helen Reed to Lt. (j .g.) E. Louis Pennington on April 2, 1944· At home 2004 West Gilbert St., Muncie, Indiana.

Mildred Warner to Sgt. A. Zoss on September 25, 1944. At hoine 425 W . Fourth Avenue, Gary, Indiana.

BETA DELTA Kathryn Robbins to Corp. Emerson Jerrald Slonaker on March 18, 1944. At home Bassfield, Miss.

BET A EPSILON Edwaina Coggins to Lt. Robert W. Holland III on December 25, 1943. At home 402 First Street, Palacias, Texas.

Julia Annette Rogers to Lt. Thomas Leslie Carter, Jr. on April 1, 1944. At home 1713 Pine Street, Philadelphia 3, Pennsylvania.

BETA LAMBDA Mary Frances Gist to Rodney K. Shaw on May 24, 1944· Emma Dell High to Capt. Raymond A. Mitchell on July I7, 1944·

NovEMBER,

1944

TAU TAU Verna Jane Thompson to Lt. E. L. Carmichael on October r8, 1944. At home, Moscow, Kansas.

BETA ETA Frances Morrell to Edward Were. At home Kildeer, North Dakota.

BIRTHS ALPHA BETA Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Matoney (Virginia Romans), a daughter, Dorothy, March 2, 1942.

BETA BETA Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bonham (Phyllis Green), a son, Jack Edward, on June 4, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bartletter (Helen Nelson), a son, Robert Lee, on December 5, 1943.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester L. Hay (Winifred Johnson), a daughter, Susan, on April 25, 1942, a son, Lester L. II, May II, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dobbins (Vivi Bjork), a daughter, Telicite Ann, on September 30, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross D. Kay (Grace Belwood), a son, Thomas Wilson, on May 3f, 1944.

THETA THETA To Lt. and Mrs. C. E. Kneib (Muriel Barber), a daughter, Karen Elizabeth, on January 17, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Einar Christiansen (Evelyn Jackson), a son, Robert Wayne, on February 18, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pickering (Louise Musgrove), a daughter, Ann Louise, on February r, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross _Calhoun (Dulcie Baird) , a daughter, Marian Carol, on May 4, 1944.

IOTA IOTA Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Nitchy, Jr. (Isabelle Diehl Jones), a daughter, Sarah Ann,. on April 7, 1944.

SI PI PI Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mowry (Mary Lou Christiansen), a daughter, Martha, on December 8, 1942.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Vincent Cooley (Eleanor Carland), a son, James Vincent, Jr., June, 1943.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kranz (Eleanor Schiersing), a daughter, Katherine Ann, on February 17, I944· Mr. and Mrs. Cranston Covell (Betty Jean Williams), a daughter, Tanna Jean, on March 6, 19.44· Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Upton (Lucille Swick), a son, Thomas, on March 2, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mear (Marjorie Needham), a son, Peter, on March 7, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. William Fritton (Margaret O'Brein), a son, William.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pilkey (Margaret Zoller), a daughter, Gail Margaret, on April 25, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur York (Dorothy Kuhn), a daughter, Susan Kay, on May 6, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. John Appleyard (Marion Lewis), a son, Dennis Edward, on May 14, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spencer (Mary Martiny), twin daughters, Mary Joan and Ann Roberta, on May 28, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Donald Munson (Marion Mollnow ), a son, Donald Gary, on June r, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hickey (Margaret Mcintire), a son, on June 24, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hauser. (June Perry), a son, James Perry, on July 27, 1944.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar N. Thomas (Eleanor Thorn), a son, David Bruce, on August 23, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. John E. Finn (Virginia Blake), a son, Lawrence James, on September II, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Arthus Pickup (Marion Edwards), a son, Robert James, on September 12, I944· Mr. and Mrs. Donald Noonan (Muriel Sullivan), a daughter, Judith Anne on September 20, I944· PHI PHI Mr. and Mrs. James Ray (Harriett Lasell), a daughter, Dorothy Ann, on July 24, 1944· ·

MU MU

CHI CHI Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Thom~s (Thelma Blasdel), a son, Charles David, on June 23, 1944· Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Silden (Eshter Arnott), a son, David Carl on June 7, 1944·

.Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Parsons (Barbara Brown), a son, Charles Richard, on March r, 1943·

BETA ZETA Mr. and Mrs. Allen R. Fruge (Laura Nelle McEiray ), a son, Allen Edward, on July 25, 1944·

XI XI Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Warner (Lois Lyle), a son, Ronald DeWitt, on January r6, '1944·

BET A EPSILON Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hewitt (Frances Beaton), a daughter, Sandra, September, I943·

KAPPA KAPPA Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas (Eleanor Smith), a son, Donald James, on October 4, I944·

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Directory National Council 1944-1945 President-Mrs. Fred M. Sharp, Hardy Avenue, Independence,

Roll of College Chapters Alpha- State T eachers College, Farmville, Virginia.

Alpha Beta- State Teachers College, Kirksville, Missouri.

Alpha Gamma-State T each ers College,

1405 Mis -

souri.

Vice-President- Mrs. Reinard Schlosser, 2800 Dexter Street, Denver, 7, Colorado.

Secretary-Miss H elen Corey, 6310 Sherwood Road. Overbrook, Philadelphia,

Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Beta Beta-Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colorado.

Gamma Gamma- Northwestern State Teachers College, Alva, Oklahoma.

Epsilon Epsilon- Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas.

Zeta Zeta-Central Missouri State Teachers College, Warrensburg, Missouri.

Eta Eta--State Teachers College, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Theta Theta-Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Kappa Kappa- Temple Univers ity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nu Nu-Drexel Institute of Technology, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania.

Xi Xi- University of California, Los Angeles , California.

Pi Pi- Buffalo State T eachers College, Buffalo, N ew York.

Rho Rho--Marshall College, Huntington , West Virginia.

Sigma Sigma- Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado.

Tau Tau- Fort Hays Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas.

Phi Phi - Northwest Missouri State T each er s College, Maryville, Missouri.

Chi Chi- Ball State T each ers College, Muncie, Indiana.

Psi Psi - Louisiana State Normal, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Beta Gamma-Northeastern State T eachers College, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Beta Delta- Mi ssissippi Southern College, Hattiesburg, Mi ssissippi.

Beta Epsilon- Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

B eta Z eta-Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Beta Eta--State T each ers College, Dickinson, North Datota.

B eta Theta- Central Michigan College of Education, Mount Pleasant, Mi chigan.

B eta Iota- State T each ers College, Radford. Virginia.

B eta Kappa - Western Illinois State Teachers Coll ege. Macomb . Illinois.

B eta Lambda-Arkansas State T eacher s College, Conway. Arkansas.

21, Pennsylvania.

Treasurer-Miss Esther Bucher, 4134 Eaton Avenue, Kansas City.

3, Kansas.

Registrar-Mrs. Clinton Berry, 281 Wapello Lane, Altadena, California.

Director of Alumnae-Miss Evelyn G. Bell, 767 Lafayette Avenue, Buffalo, 9, N ew York.

Editor-Mrs. B. F. Leib, 3540 N. Pennsylvania Street, Apartment T, Indianapolis, 5, Indiana.

National Chairmen Alumnae Editor - Mrs. Ralph Vorhees, 3300 Gren way Road, Shaker H eights , 22, Ohio.

Constitution-Mrs. Albert Kuchs, 614 N. Market Street, Maryville, Missouri.

F ellowship Chairman - Mrs. W . C. Thomas, 3330 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 13, Illinois.

Scholarship - Mrs. Bertram M . Stone, Picayun e, Mississippi.

Historian- Miss Louise Stewart, 555 'h Adair Ave., Zanesville, Ohio.

Convention - Miss H elen Corey, 6310 Sherwood Road, Overbrook, Philadelphia, 21, P ennsylvania.

Paraphernalia-Mrs. J ohn Horter 1480 Corporation Street, Beaver, P ~nn sy l颅 vania.

Officers of Association of Education Sororities Chairman - Mrs. Robert S. Hill, Delta Sigma Epsilon, 816 Columbus Rapid City, South Dakota. ' Secretary-Miss Carrie E. Walter, Theta Sigma Upsilon, 210 Sagamore Road , Brookline, Pennsylvania.

Trea~urer - Miss Edith Manse ll, Alpha S1gma Tau , 161 Highland Avenue Highland Park, Michigan. ' Director of Local Panhellenics-Mrs. Fred M. Sharp, Alpha Sigma Alpha, 1405 Har~y Avenue, Independence, Missourt.

Chairman of Publicity-Mrs. C. P. N eidig, Pi Kappa Sigma, 1503 First National Bank Building Cincinnati, Ohio. ' Chairman of Interfraternity R elationships-Miss Mabel Lee Walton Sigma Sigma Sigma, P. 0. Box lOS, Clerm ont, Florida.

Affiliated Panhellenics

COUNCIL MEMBERS Chairman-Mrs. John B. Davison, Professional Panhellenic Association.

Secretary- Mrs. E. Granville Crabtree National Panhellenic Congress. ' Chairman of Publicity Committee-Mi ss Mabel L ee Walton , Association of Education Sororities.

son College, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

B eta Zeta-Miss J essie Keep, 300 General Gardner, Lafayette, Louis iana.

B eta Eta- Miss Leila G. Woods, 115 First Ave., East. Dickinson, N . Dakota.

Beta Theta-Opa l Thorpe, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

B eta Iota - Miss Beverly Elizabeth Holm es, S. T. C., Radford, Virginia.

B eta Kappa- Miss Elna Scott, 234 West Adams, Macomb, Illinois.

B eta Lambda-Miss Marie Schichtl, 414 Conway Blvd., Conway, Arkansas.

College Chapter House Address and name of House Mother Alpha Beta-606 S. Franklin, Kirksville, Missouri, Mrs. Chris Pi errot.

Beta B eta - 1731 11th Ave., Greeley, Colorado, Mrs. George Dauth.

Epsilon Epsilon- 116 West 12th, Emporia, Kansas, Mrs. Rose West.

Z eta Z eta-220 Broad St., Warren sburg, Mo.. Mrs. Gladys Magee.

Eta Eta-201 East Williams, Pittsburg, Kansas, Mrs. G. E. Hutchinson.

Kappa Kappa-1938 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia. 22, Pa., Mrs. Katherine Bair.

Pi Pi-17 Tudor Place, Buffalo, 9, N ew York, Mrs . Buno Cooper.

Phi Phi-304 West 7th, Maryv ille, Mo., Mrs. Mattie E. Moore.

B eta Epsilon- Carter House, Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Mi s Marcia Durham.

College Chapter Officers

Board of Advisers Alpha- Mi ss Margaret Sprunt Hall, State T each er s College, Farmville, Va. Alpha Beta-Miss Alma K. Zoller, 207 E. Patterson, Kirksv ille, Mo. Alpha Gamma - Miss Ethel A. Belden.

John Sutton Hall , Indian a State T each er s College, Indiana, Pa. Beta Beta- Miss Elizabeth Lehr, 1832 14th Ave., Greeley Colorado.

Gamma Gamma - Miss Frances D on n ell , N orthwestern State College, Alva , Okl ahom a.

Epsilon Epsilon- Miss Edna Olivia McCullough, 1017 Rural, Emporia. K a n s.

Miss J a n e Ladner, 224 West S eventh .

President-Ruth D owns Brooks, 203 St. George St. , Farmville, Virginia.

Vice-President - Frances Lillian Elliott, 409 Buffalo St.. Farmville, Virginia.

S ecr etary-Lucy Hardwicke Brolley, Box 259, S.T.C. , Farmville, Virginia.

Treasurer-Alma J ean Riddick, Box 368, S.T.C., Farmville, Virginia .

Chaplain-Jane Katheryn East, Box 259, S .T.C. , Farmville, Virginia.

Registrar-Elsie Ire ne Thompson, Box 96, S .T.C., Farmville, Virginia.

Editor- Patsy Dale, Box 265, S. T .C., Farmville, Virginia.

Eta Eta-Mrs. Perva M. Hughes, 209 E. Monroe, Pittsburg, Kansas. Dr. Jane M. Carroll, 509 South Broadway, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Theta Th eta-Miss Ethel Kimball, 53 Grove St., Boston, Massachusetts.

Kappa Kappa- Miss H elen L. Corey, 6310 Sherwood Rd. , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nu Nn- Miss Phoebe Maxfield, Sergeant 1

Maryville, Missouri.

Chi Chi- Mrs. L eslie H . Whitcraft, 32 Meadow Lane, Muncie, Indiana.

Psi Psi-Miss Clio Allen, 120 Behan St., Natchitoch es, Louisiana.

Beta Gamma- Miss Fern Pascoe, 521 Seminary Ave., Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Beta Delta-Miss Elinor Leek, Sta. "A," Mississippi Southern College, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

B eta Epsilon- Miss Marie Louise Boje, Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Miss Edythe Schneide r, Madi-

ALPHA

Emporia, Kansas.

MEMBERS National Panhellenic Congress Association of Education Sororities Professional Panhellenic Association

Sigma Sigma-Miss Vera Clark, Gunnison , Colorado.

Tau Tau-Miss Mary Mae Paul, 500 W est 7th, Hays, Kansas.

Phi Phi-Miss Inez L ewis, 503 W. First,

Hall, University of P ennsylvania , Philadelphia, 4, P en nsylvania .

Pi Pi- Mrs. Carolvn 路H eyman, 175 North St., Apt. 615, Buffalo, New York.

ALPHA BETA President-Iris Mittendorf, 515 S . High, Kirksville, Missouri. t Vice-President- V elda Linder, R. R. No. 5, Kirksville, Missouri.

Secretary - Carolyn Magruder, 511 S. Franklin, Kirksville, Missouri.

Treasurer - Martha Ruth, 606 S. Franklin, Kirksville, Missouri.

Chaplain-Nancy Cox, 606 S. Franklin, Kirksville, Missouri.

Registrar- Doris J ean R eed, 511 S. Franklin , Kirksville, Missouri.

Editor- Dorothy Holcomb, 411 N. High, Kirksville, Missouri.

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1944

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ALPHA GAMMA

THETA THETA

TAU TAU

President-Eleanor Wilson, 311 N. John Sutton Hall, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Vice-President - Audrey George, 108 N. John Sutton Hall, Indiana, Pa. Secretary - Mary J ean Licastro, Clark H all, Indiana, P ennsylvania.

Treasurer- Nancy Coombs, 107 N. John Sutton Hall, Indiana, Pa. Chaplain- Betty Keller, 108 N. John Sutton H all, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Registrar - Mary Elizabeth Carroll, I.S .T.C., Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Editor-Elizabeth Politoske, 311 N. John Sutton Hall, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

President-Katherine L. Gott 4 Daniels St., Arlington, Massachusetts.

Vice-President- Doris Bartone, Summer St., Taunton, Massachusetts.

Secretary- Eunice E. Hurd, 164 Brooks St. Medford, Massachusetts.

Treasurer - Anne Nardon e, P earl St., N ewton Massachusetts.

Chaplain-Helene Schnurbush, 220 Nah ant St., Wakefield, Massachusetts R egistrar-Anne Gallagher, 621 E. Sth St., South Boston, Massachusetts.

Editor- Mary Mac Farlane, 84 Exeter St., Boston, Massachusetts.

President-Agnes Weissbeck, 408 Walnut, H ays, Kansas.

Vice-President- Geraldine Daniel, Hays, Kansas.

Secretary-Betty Long, 213 W est 6th , Hays, Kansas.

Treasurer- Frances Locker, Custer Hall, H ays, Kansas.

Chaplain-Gladys Schreiber, Custer Hall, H ays, Kansas.

Registrar-Frances Locker, Custer H all, Hays, Kansas.

Editor- Mary Ethel Earl Pierson, Hays, Kansas.

KAPPA KAPPA

PHI PHI

President-Marion Gladfelter , 1938 N. . Park Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa. VIce-President-Norma Adnee, 1938 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa. Secretary-Carol Williams, 1938 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa. Treasurer- Annabelle Miller, 1938 N .

Park Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa. Chaplain-Hester Louise Snyder, 1938 N. f:'ark Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa. R egistrar- Lorraine Booth, 1938 N. Park Ave. , Philadelphia, 22, Pa. Editor- Lynn Myer, 1938 N. Park Ave., Philadelphia, 22, Pa.

President - Jun e Morris, 304 W . 7th, Maryville, Missouri.

Vice-President- Clem Shivley, 511 W. 3rd, Maryville, Missouri.

• Secretary - Jody Montgomery, · 830 S. Buchanan, Maryville, Missouri.

Treasurer- Virginia Schmille, 304 W . 7th, Maryville, Missouri.

Chaplain-Mary Marie Smith, 304 W. 7th, Maryville, Missouri.

Registrar- Mary Bruce, 304 W. 7th, Maryville, Missouri.

Editor-Shirley Anderson, 714 N . Walnut, Maryville, Missouri.

BETA BETA President-Charlotte Herman, 1214 16th St., Greeley, Colorado.

Vice-President - Marjorie Ann Piner, 1731 11th Ave., Greeley, Colorado.

Secretary- Gloria Scrogin , Snyder Hall, Greeley, Colorado.

Treasurer- Shirley Delbridge, 1116 16th St. , Greeley, Colorado.

Chaplain - Shirley Swayze, 1731 11th Ave ., Greeley, Colorado.

Registrar-Ruth Baker, 1731 11th Ave., Greeley, Colorado.

Editor - Joella Kirton, 1803 7th Ave ., Greeley, Colorado.

GAMMA GAMMA President-Betty Clifford (Mrs.), 920 4th St., Alva, Oklahoma.

Vice-PresidentSecretary- Lo Eva Kragh, Alva, Okla homa.

Treasurer- Ella Louise Wiebener, R. R. , Alva, Oklahoma.

Chaplain- Lela May Sutton , Alva, Okhahoma.

Registrar- Lela May Sutton, Alva, Oklahoma.

Editor- Lo Eva Kragh, Alva, Oklahom a.

EPSILON EPSILON Pres ident-Evelyn Cooper, 116 W . 12th, Emporia, Kansas.

Vice-Preside nt-Gen e Russell, 1601 Merchant, Emporia, Kansas.

Secr etary - Carol Bron sema, 721 West 9th, Emporia, Kansa s.

Treasurer- Eleanor Randel, 1020 Wa shington, Emporia, Kansas.

Chaplain - Celeste Conklin, 1733 East Wilman Court, Emporia, Kansas.

RegistrarEditor-Gloria Davidson , 919 Union , Emporia, Kansas .

ZETA ZETA President- H elen W ells, 220 Broad, Warrensburg, Missouri.

Vice-Preside nt- Bernadine Cole, Warren sburg, Missouri.

Secretary-Bonnie Payne, 220 Broad, Warrensburg, Missouri.

Treasurer (acting) - Jane Purves, 220 Broad, Warrensburg, Missouri.

Chaplain- Rosalie Clark, 220 Broad.

Warrensburg, Missouri.

Registrar - Betty Kullman, 220 Broad, Warrensburg, Missouri.

Editor-Katherine Thurston, 220 Broad, · Warrensburg, Missouri.

NU Ntr

CHI CHI

President- Marion Barron, 1020 Collings . Ave., yv. Collingswood, N ew J ersey.

VIce-President Marion Houtz, 111 3 Stokes Ave., Collingswood, N . J. Secretary- Marion Fischer, 215 Waring Rd., Elkins Park, P ennsylvania.

Treasurer - Jeanne Kennedy, 502 Kirst Ave., Penfield, Delaware Co., Pa. Chaplain- lngeborg Rihm , R. D. No. 4, Norristown, Pa. R egistrar- Leanna Chase, 27 W. Clea rfield Rd, , Upper Darby, Pa. Editor- Dana Davis, 5237 Wissahickon Ave., Philadelphia, Pa .

President-B etty Mathews, Lucina Hall, Muncie, Indiana.

Vice-President-Deirdra Kimball, Lucina H a ll, Muncie, Indiana.

Secretary - Barbara Bray, Lucina H all, Muncie, Indiana.

Treasurer- Betty Sheets, 200 N. College Ave., Muncie, Indiana.

Chaplain - Rosemary Northam, 121 N. Calvert, Muncie, Indiana.

Registrar-Maude Scherer, 200 N . College Ave., Muncie, Indiana.

Editor - H elen H erberger, Lucina H all, Muncie, Indiana.

PI PI President- Jeanne Thornton (Mrs.), 17 Tudor Pl., Buffalo, 9, New York.

Vice-President - Joan Steinmille r 89 K eswick Rd., Eggertsville, N. Y : S ecr etary- Dorothy Hawthorne, 87 Stillwell Rd., Kenmore, N. Y .

Treasurer-Jane H arris, 17 Tudor Pl., Buffalo, New York.

Chaplain-Ellen Davey, 110 Ande r son Pl. , Buffalo, New York.

Registrar-Bette Treiber, 17 Tudor Pl., (After Tha nksgiving, 107 Claremont Ave., Buffalo, 13, N ew York.)

Editor- Ruth Christman , 289 Woodside Ave. , Buffalo, N ew York .

PSI PSI President Evelyn Horn , Box 754, L.S.N.C., Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Vice-President - Pauline Holland, 119 Cypress Ave., Natchitoches, Louisiana.

SecretaryTreasurer-Gloria Bayard, L. S . N. C., Natchitoches , Louisiana.

Chaplain- Kathleen Killen, 429 H enry Ave., Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Registrar - Barbara Graves, Box 158, L .S.N.C., Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Editor-Carrie N ell Rodger s, L.S.N.C., Natchitoches, Louisiana.

RHO RHO President - Evelyn Haws, 314 Divis ion St., Huntington, 2, W est Virginia.

Vice-President- Marjorie Osborne, Marshall Colleg e, Huntington , W est Va .

S ecr etary - Elouise Campbell, Ma rshall College, Huntington, W est Virginia.

Treasurer-- Helen Herbst, Marshall College, Huntin gton, W est Virginia.

Chaplain- Janice Cook, Marshall College, Huntington, West Virginia.

R egistrar- Norma Brake, Marshall College, Huntington, W est Virginia.

Editor- Ethel Grosse, Marshall College, Huntington, W est Virginia.

President-Ollie Mae Bittle, Wilson Hall, Tahlequah , Oklahoma.

Vice-President- Henrietta Stolper, Wilson Hall, Tahleq uah, Oklahoma.

Secretary - Robbie Farris, Wilson Hall, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. · Treasurer - Wanda Chronister, Wilson Hall, T a hlequah , Oklahom a .

Chaplain- Billye Hogue, Wilson Hall, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Registrar-Wanda Womble, Wilson Hall, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Editor- Dorothy Bartlett, Wilson Hall, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

BETA GAMMA

BETA DELTA ETA ETA President- Janet Ma lcolm, 1003 S. Olive, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Vice-President-Freda Elmore, 201 East William s, Pittsb urg, Kansas.

Secretary- Merry Carol Sherman , 203 East Carlton, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Treas ure r - Betty Lance, 105 W est Quincy, Pittsburg Kansas.

Chaplain-Mary Elizabeth Anderson, 422 West J efferson , Pittsburg, Kansas.

Registrar- J ean Bell, 201 East Williams, Pittsburg, Kansas.

Editor - Betty Sternitzke, 216 East Williams, Pittsburg, Kansas.

SIGMA SIGMA President-Doris Ogsbury, Chipeta Hall, Gunnison , Colorado.

Vice-President- Mrs. Frances Craig Enderud, Chipeta Hall, Gunnison , Colorado.

Secr etary - Ruth Fogg, Chipeta Hall, Gunnison, Colorado.

Treasurer-Helen Rossi, Chipeta Hall, Gunnison, Colorado.

Chaplain- Marie Zavislan, Chipeta Hall, Gunnison, Colorado.

RegistrarEditor- Mrs. Frances Craig Enderud, Chipeta H a ll, Gunnison, Colorado.

President- N ell Hocutt, 536 W est 4th St. , H attiesburg, Mississippi.

Vice-President - Ophelia Baylis, Sta tion "A," Miss. Southern Col., Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Secr etary - Bessie George Smith, 304 Mable St., H attiesburg, Mississippi.

Treasurer - Mary Langdon, Sta. "A," Miss. Southern Col., Hattiesburg, Miss.

Chaplain- Blanche Rimes, Sta. "A," Miss. Southern Col., Hattiesburg, Miss .

Registrar- Mary Evelyn L ee, Sta. " A," Miss. Southern Col., Hattiesburg, Miss.

Editor-J eanne King, Sta. " A," Miss.

Southern Col., Hatti esburg, Miss.

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BETA KAP P A

President- Betty L ou Flythe, Box 271 , Ma dison Colleg e, H a rrisonburg, V a.

Vice-President- Phyllis Early, 221 Dix ie A ve., H a rrisonburg, Virginia.

Secr etary-Betty Mae W om ack, Box 271 , Madison College, H a rrisonburg , V a .

Treasurer - Cornelia Simms, Madison College, H a rrisonburg , V a .

Ch a pla in - Bette Clough er ty, Ma dison College, H a rriso nburg , Virginia .

Regis trar-Ellen Mitchell , Box 335, Ma dison College, H a rrisonburg, Virg inia.

Editor - Catherine Clodfelte r, Ma dison College, Harrisonburg , Virg inia.

Preside nt - J oyce L ee Sta ples, Monroe Hall, Macomb , Illin ois.

Vice-President- Erva Mae Montgom er y, Monroe H a ll, Macomb , Illinois.

S ecr et a ry- Alice E. J on es, Monroe H a ll , Macomb, Illinois.

Treasurer - Ma r y Alice Benn er, Monroe H a ll, Macomb , Illinois.

Cha pla in- Virg inia H a nkin s, 22 4 Sherman A ve., Macomb, Illinois.

R egistrar- Ma r y L ou H owa tt, Monroe H a ll , Macomb, Illinois.

Edito r - Dor oth y Binder , M onroe Hall, Macomb, Illinois.

BETA ZETA P r esident -L ois L . Beall, Box 235, S .L.I. , L a fa . ette, L ou is ia n a .

Vice-Presiden t - Stella Dryer, S.L.I. , L a f ayette, L o uis ia n a.

Fra nces Griffi t h , S . L. I. , Secr et a r y L a f ayette, L ouis ia n a.

Treasurer Lucille T ou ps, S. L . I. , L afayette, L ouis ia n a.

Ch a pla in - L orr a in e Morrel, S. L. I., Lafayette, L ouis ian a .

R egistr a r - Bet ty Orvis, S .L.I. , L afayette, L ouis iana.

Editor K athl een T oups, S . L . I. , L a fayette, Louis ia na.

BETA ETA P resident - Ch a rlotte Parker, Box 664, Dickin son , N orth Da kota.

Vice-Pres iden t - Georg ine Tillquist, 545 1st Ave., East, Dickinson , N orth Da kota.

Secretary-Ruby S t r a nd, Stickn ey H a ll, S .T .C., Dickinson, N orth Da kota .

T reas u re r- Marjorie Krons n a bel, 137 2nd Ave., W est , Dickin son , N orth Dakot a .

Cha pla in - Ruby Stra nd (temp or a r y), Stick ney H a ll, S .T. C., Dickinson, N orth Da kot a.

Regist ra r - Ma r jorie Kronsnabel (tempory) , 137 2nd AYe., W est, Dickin son , N or t h Da kota.

Editor- Georgine Tillq uist (temp or a r y ), 545 1st Ave., E ast, Dickinson, N orth Da kot a .

BETA THETA President- J a ne Brads ha w, Sloan H a ll, Mt. Pleasant, Michiga n .

Vice-Presiden t- Lela Bennett, Sloa n H a ll, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Secr etary-J ay ne Gillesp ie, Sloan Hall, Mt. P leasant, Michigan.

Trea surer - P a tricia Ba tes, Sloan Hall, Mt. Pleasant, Michiga n .

Chaplain- Beth Booth , Sloan H a ll, Mt. Pleasan t, Michigan .

R egistra r - Bette Ba ldwin, Sloan Hall, Mt. Plea sant, Mic!)igan .

Editor - Ma ry J ean Cook , Sloan H a ll. , Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

BETA LAMBDA President - F r a nces Bu rk ett, Box 282, A.S.T.C .. Conwa y, A rka n sas .

Vice-President- Ma rjorie B rown, Box 22, A.S .T .C .. Conway, Ark a nsas.

Secr etary-Dor othy Wilker son, Box 205, A.S.T.C ., Conway, Arkansas.

Treasurer- J ean F razier , A.S .T .C., Con w ay , Arka nsas.

Chap la in- Betty Ru t h J oyce, Box 232, A.S.T.C. , Conway, Ark a nsas.

Registr a r - Dor oth y H a ll.

Box 235, A.S .T. C., Conway, Ar ka n sas.

Editor - Ida Mae P a rke r , 23 5 L ocus t , Conway, Ark a nsas .

Alumnae Chapter Officers AKRON, OHIO President - Mrs. H . H olt, 11 6 N oble Aven ue, Akron , Ohio.

Vice-Preside nt- Miss Lilli e Greer , 39 3 H ollywood Avenu e, A kron, Ohio.

Sec retar y-Mrs. J ohn Mira nda, 742 E cton R oad, Akron, Ohio.

Treasurer - Mrs. E mma Blythe, 288 K enilwor t h Avenu e, Akron, Ohio.

PH OENIX Corresp ondent - Mrs. J ohn Mira nda, 742 Ect on Road, Akron, Ohio.

ALVA, OKLAHOMA President - Miss Luella H a r zm a n, 917 F lynn Avenue, Alva, Oklahoma .

Vice-President - Mrs. Ollie Smithson , Alva, Okla homa.

Secr etary - Mrs. Alvin R. P a ris, 304 Third Street , Alva, Oklahom a .

Treasure r - Miss Zelm a Bra n so n, 710 L ocust Street, Alva, Okla h om a.

PH OENIX Corres pondent- Miss Erl L en e Clin e, 626 Cen ter Street, Alva, Okla h oma.

BOSTON, MASS ACHUSETTS Presiden t -Mrs. L ouis E . Flet ch er , 141 Marked Tree R oad, N eedha m , Ma ssachusetts.

Vice-President- Miss Con stance Spav in, 174 Stratford Street, W est Roxbury, Mass.

Secr et a r y - Miss Cha rlotte Ada m s, 35 R oad, W a t ertown , Commonwealth Massachusetts.

Treas urer - Miss Laura McQuide, 137 Par k Drive, Boston , Mass.

PHOENIX Corresp onde nt - Mi ss Ruth Mayo, 785 Commrecia l Street , E ast W eym outh , Massachusetts .

BETA IOTA President- Mickey Cl em en t, Box 44, Radf ord College, Radford, Virg inia .

Vice-President- Ma r gar et Dennison, Box 215-A, R a dford College, Ra dford, V a .

Secr et a r y-Sue Smalley, Box 215-A , R a df ord College, Radford , Virg inia .

Trea s urer- P a uline L ester , Box 211-A , R a dford College, Ra dford, Virginia.

Chap la in- J ean Hyp es, Box 123-A , Radford College, Radford, Virg inia.

Registra r - Mary Elizabeth P enning ton , Box 224 -A, Radford College, R a dford, Virginia .

Editor- Evelyn P a mplin , Box 115, R a dford College, Radford, Virg inia.

BUFFALO , NEW YORK President- Mrs. J ohn Finn, 3911 Ma in Street, E gg erts ville, N ew York.

Vice-Preside nt- Mrs. Willia m Ba rre, 38 0 Fra nklin Street , Buffalo, N ew Y ork.

Secr etary-Corresp onding-Mrs. J ohn C. W ende, 22 8 Sumner Place, Buffalo, 11 , N ew York.

Secreta r y-Recording- Mrs. Rich a rd L ebo, 189 Pine Avenue, H a mburg, N ew York .

Treasure r- Mrs. Harry L. Case, 279 Minnesota Ave nue, Buffa lo, 15, N ew York .

PHOE NIX Corresp ondent- Mrs. Edward J. N elson , 19 H a g en St., Buffalo, N ew Y ork .

CANTON. OHIO President- Mrs . Richar d E. R oth, 925 Broad Avenue, N . W. , Ca nton 3, Ohio.

Vice-President- Mrs. Dean Ca lhoun, 712 H oover Place, N . W., Ca nton 3, Ohio.

Secr etary- Mrs. L en Miller , 1307 Market Avenue, N. , Can to n 3, Ohio.

Trea surer - Mrs. L en Miller , 1307 Mark et A venue, N., Canton 3, Ohio.

PH OENIX Corresp ondent - Mrs. Pressly Campbell, Jr. , 3206 Enfield R oad , N. W. , Ca nton , Ohi o.

CENTRAL, PENNSYLVANIA Pres ident Mrs. H elyn Brookhar t Bishop, 822 N . 5th Street , R eading, P ennsylvania .

Vice-P r eside nt - M rs. Elean or D obler Brow n , 324 Ma r s ha ll Street, Lanca ster, P ennsylva nia .

S ecr eta r y-Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson R os t , 425 N . Fra nklin St r eet, R ed Lion , P enn sylvania .

Treasurer- Mrs. Eli zabeth Wilson Rost , 425 N orth Franklin , R ed Lion, P ennsylva nia .

PH OEN IX Corresp onde nt - Miss S. June Smith. 125 Ma nor Avenue, Millersville, Penn sylvania.

LITTLE RO CK , ARKANS AS P r es iden t -Miss Polly Whi te, 318 W . H ., Hill, N or t h Little R ock , P a rk Arka nsa s.

Treasurer-Mi ss Georg ia na Whi te, H a rrison , Arka n sas.

PH OENIX Corresponde nt- Mrs. R ay m ond A. Mitch ell, S ch ool for the Blind, Litt le R ock , Arka n sas.

LOS ANGELES, C ALIFORNIA Presiden t -Mi ss Ethel T obin , 3011 Ma lcolm Aven ue, L os Angeles, Cali fo rnia .

Vice-Preside nt- Miss Bar bar a H eld, 3680 Vin ton Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif.

Secr etary-Corresp onding-Mrs. G. Bolton, 5742- Gth Avenue, L os A ngeles, Calif.

Sec r et a r y-Recording - Miss Ma ri a n L ee J on es, 4538 Melbourn e Avenue , H oll yw ood 27, qalifornia .

T reas urer-Miss Lilli a n Bradley, 47 01 6th A ve., L os Angeles, California.

PHOE NIX Corresponden t - Mrs. Whi t n ey Hindes, 1166 E . Firest on e Blvd. , Downey . California .

MARYVILLE , MISSOURI Pres iden t - Mrs. H a r old M. Hull , 503 W est 3rd, Ma r yville, Missouri.

Treasurer - Miss Ma r y Ma r got Phares, Ma ryville, Missouri.

P HOENIX Corres p ondent - Miss Ruth Lawre nce, Maryville, Missouri.

Vice-President - Mrs. J a m es W. Ray, Maryville, Missouri.

Secr et a r y - Mrs. Dan Shura, Maryville, Missouri.

MUNCIE , INDIANA President - Mrs. E. L ouis P enning ton , 2004 W. Gilbert St., Muncie, India n a.

Vice-President - Mrs. L eR oy Miller , 816 W est Fift h St., Muncie, India na.

S ecr etar y-Mrs. M . J . Montg omer y, 302 Alden R oad, Mun cie, Indi a na.

Treasurer- Mrs. J. Monroe, 1606 W est Ada m s St., Mun cie, India n a .

PHOENIX Cor res p ondent - Mrs. Ever ett Thresh er , 1314 E ast Adams Street , Muncie, Indiana.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK President- Mrs. Gerr y E . Morse, 235 Trumbull Road , Manhasset , L on g I sland , N ew York.

Vice-President - Miss Gertrude Y orke, The P a rkside, 18 Gramer cy Park , South , N ew Y ork 3, N ew Y ork .

Secr et a r y-Mrs . J. D onald P et erson , 313 Centre Ave nue, N ew R och elle, N ew York.

Trea surer - Miss Elsy S. J essup, 19 Willia m Street , Mt. V ernon, N ew York.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Miss Ethel E .

Ba rrett, 9 Vincent Place, Montclair, New J er sey.

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COLUMBUS, OHIO President- Miss Ethel Wolfgram , 329 , S. T errace Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.

Vice-PTesident - Mrs. Loren Windom, R eynoldsburg, Ohio, R .F.D. S e c r e t a r y - Miss Marion Powell, Y.W.C.A ., 65 S. Fourth St., Columbus 15, Ohio.

T r e a s u r e r - Miss Marion Powell , Y .W .C.A ., 65 S . Fourth St., Columbus 15, Ohio.

PHOENIX Correspondent- Mrs. C. H . Calhoun, 152 E. 12th Avenue, Columbus , Ohio.

President- Mrs. J ean R. Ehlers, 721 8 Sellers Avenue, Upper Darby, P ennsylvania.

Vice-President-Miss Elizabeth G. Jones, 6619 McCallum St., Philadelp hia 19, P ensylvania.

Secretary-Corresponding Mrs. Grace Willis Rumpf, 217 Sp encer St. , Philadelphia 20, P ennsylvania.

Secretary-Recording Miss J ean Oller, Pelham Court, Emlen St., and Carpenter La. , Philadelphia 19, P ennsylvania.

Treasurer- Miss Dorothy Hutton , 112 Poplar Avenue , Wayne, P ennsylvania.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Miss H elen Geibel, 1300 W . Ontario Street, Philadelphia, P enns ylvania.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN President- Mrs. H a r old R. Chapel, 336 Suffield Road , Birmingham, Michigan .

Vice-President - Miss Caroline Evans, 557 N. L ewist on, Ferndale, Michigan.

Secretary- Mrs. W. C. Butterfield, 18435 Ohio Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

Treasurer - Mrs. A. Vredenberg, 18960 Snowden , Detroit, Michiga n.

PHOENIX Correspondent Mrs . Earl Lutz, 14044 Abington Road, Detroit, Michigan.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA President - Mrs. Philip Meyer, · 6800 Me ade Street, Pittsburg 8, P ennsylvania.

Vice-President- Miss Rhoda Hunter, 141 8 Mifflin R oad, Pittsburg 7, Pennsylvania.

Secr etary- Miss B eatrice J effries, 827 Ch est er Avenue, Pittsburg 2, Pennsylvania.

Treasurer-Miss Janet Benedict, 285 N. Dithridge Street , Pittsburgh 13, P ennsylvania.

PHOENIX Correspondent- Miss Frances Parry, 14 L ehigh Ave., W est View, P ennsylvania .

CLEVELAND, OHIO President-Mrs. H arry Kurtz, 1906 East 105th St., Cleveland, Ohio.

Vice-President- Mrs. Willia m E. Coates, 1199 Warren R oad, L a kewood, Ohio.

Secr etary- Mrs. Rich a rd Fry, 12505 Edgewat er Drive, L a k ewood, Ohio.

Treasurer- Mrs. W . F . Crawford, 1432 Arthur Avenue,. L a k ewood, Ohio.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Mrs. C. R .

Smith, 48 Eldred Avenue, Bedford, Ohio.

COLORADO SPRINGS , COLORADO President-Miss Gertrude Crane, 424 E. San Miguel, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Vice-President- M rs. William Lloyd, 2017 N . T ejou, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Secr etary Mrs. L ester Hay, 201 Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Treasurer-Miss H elen Ruth Wilcoxin , 2826 W. Pla tte, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

PHOENIX Correspondent-Mrs . Vicent E .

Maloney, 1224 N. Wahsatch, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA President-Miss Ann e Ireland, 208 W. 37th St. , Norfolk , V irginia.

Vice-President-M iss Martha Halloway, 800 Baldwin Avenue, Norfolk, Va. Secr etary-Mrs. John Donald, 933 Rippard Avenue , Norfolk , Virginia.

Treasurer- Miss Shirley Rowls, S . N or f olk, Virginia.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Mrs. Warren White, 917 Gates Avenue, Norfolk , Virginia.

INDIANAPOLIS , INDIANA President - Mrs. E. J . Soland, 4125 R ciokwood A venue, Indianapolis, Ind. Vice-President- Mrs. Frederick Grumme, 5701 Carrolton Avenu e, Indianapolis , India na.

Secretary-Corresponding - Mrs. Willia m F. Noblitt, 2068 Broadway, Indian a polis, Indiana.

Secr etary-R ecordil)g-Miss Adela ide McCarty, 3444 N . P ennsylvania St. , Indianapolis, Indiana.

Treasurer - Mrs . Clifford 3328 N. N ew J ersey, Indiana.

PHOENIX Corr espondent Holton , 3234 Winthrop , Indiana.

E. Sn edek er , Indianapolis , Mrs. Ralph Indianapolis,

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI President- Mrs. R. C. Aitchison , 310 W. 45th T errace, Ka n sas City, Missouri.

Vi ce-President- Mrs. Cha rles W. Sharp , 54 35 Forest, Kan sa s City, Missouri.

Secr etary-Corresponding-Mrs. C. Carder , 33 0 N. Chelsea, Kansas City, Missouri.

S ecr et a ry - R ecording - Miss Dor oth y Hutchison , 1203 E . 21s t Ave., North ·Kansas City, Missouri.

Treasurer - Miss Da phen e Copenhaver, • 3749 Eaton , Kansa s City, Kan sas.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Mrs. C. E. Hamilton , 185 1 E. 76th T errace, Kansas City, Missouri.

RICHMOND , VIRGINIA President- Mrs. Smead Camden , 908 West St., Apt. 2, Richmond, Virg inia.

Vice-President-Miss Gwendolyn S a mpson, 1113 E ssex Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.

Secretary-Miss Mary Elizabeth White, 2911 Noble Avenue, Richmond, Va. Treasurer - Mrs. Grace Wallace Folkes, 3919 W . Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia.

PHOENIX Correspondent- Miss Ann Mart enstein, 1106 Lake Front Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI President- Mrs. E. D. Da vis, 36 E. J ackson R oad, W ebster Groves, Missouri.

Vice-President-Miss Hildred Fitz, 71 2 Fairvie w , Webster Groves, Missouri.

S ecr etary- Mrs. W . C. Gramsch , 3905 Utah, St. Louis, Mi ssouri.

Treasure r-Mrs. A. F. Ma dares, 131.9 Andrew Drive, Glendale, Missouri.

PHOENIX Correspondent - Mrs. W. M. Griffith, 498 W. L ockwood, W ebs t er Groves , Missouri.

TULSA, OKLAHOMA President - Mrs. Willia m R ow, 3130 South Cincinnati , Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Vice-President- Mrs. Richard C. Carson, 224 East 33 rd Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma .

Secr etary-Mrs. William F . Park, 1423 E ast 36th Street , Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Treasurer- Mrs. William F. Park, 1423 East 36th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma .

PHOENIX Correspondent - Mrs. R oyce Wagoner , 1415 South N orfolk , Tulsa , Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON, D. C. President Mrs. Georgeanna N ewby Page, 1809 20th Street , N . W. Apt. 51, Washington, D C. Vice- President- Mrs. J essie Scott Arn old, 1730 M Street , N . W ., Apt 4, W as hington, D . C. Secretary-Mrs. N. H . Eiselman, 1575 Spring Place, N. W ., W as hin g ton , D. C. Treasur er - Mrs. N. H. Ei selma n , 1575 Spring Place, N. W ., W ashing t on, D. C. PHOENIX Corresp ondent - Mrs. J essie Scott Arnold, 1730 M Street , N . W. , Apt. 4, Washington, D. C. WI CHIT A , KANSAS President- Mrs. W . W . Carr, 3733 Sleepy Hollow, Wichita, K a n sas.

Vice-President- Mrs. W . G. H alderman, 940 N. Ruta n , Wichita, K a n sas.

Secr et a r y-Mrs. E . W . Y ac key, 252 N .

Glenda le, Wichita, Ka n sas.

Treasurer - Mrs. E . W . Y ack ey, 252 N. Glendale, Wichita , K ansas.

PHOEN IX Correspondent - Mrs. H a r old She rman, 420 N. T op eka, K a n sas.

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