1938 June ANCHOR by Alpha Sigma Tau National Sorority

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1938

VOL. XIII . . NO.4

This issue is Dedicated to Miss Lu ella Chapman in appreciation of her ten years of service to A lp ha Sigma Tau

Entered as second class matter November 25, 1937, at th e pos t office a t Menasha, \'Viscon s m, under the Act of Augu s t 24, 1912. TH E ANCHOR of Alpha S ig m a Tau is publis hed during th e month s of Octob er, D ecember, March, a nd June. Sub scrip tion price $2.00 per year. Publication office, George Banta Publishing Co., 450 -454 Ahnaip St. , Men a~ h a , Wi s. Editorial offi ce: Mt路s. Ju stin G . D oy le. P eek skill Mi litary Academ y, P ee ks kill; N.Y.

CONTENTS Page Our Second President

A Pageant for Michigan . . .... . . __ ... .. _.

Instruction of Handicapped Pupils ... . ___ .

Pottery Travels

Fiesta Espafiol

A. E. S.- Its Place in the Teachers College

An Alumna's Part ..... . .. __ . . . . _....... _.

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Growing Pains . . ___ _.... . . .. _. .. _. _... . . .

The Gateway City to the West

Let Us Cooperate .. . ... . _.

Looking Forward . _. _. . _.. . . _. . .... . . . . .. .

The Second Crusade

Book Review, "The Prodigal Parents" .... . .

Poems and Songs

Collegiate News

Alumnre News . . .. .. .. . ......... _. __ .... .

Directory __. _. _.. _.... .. _. ... .... . ... . .. .

Resignation There are wrongs that cannot be righted ; There are crosses that must be borne ; There are duties that cannot be slighted ; There are thorn-crowns that must be worn. There are griefs that cannot find comfort, And wounds that cannot be healed ; There are sorrows so deep in the human heart They cannot be half revealed. But oh! let us carry our crosses; We carry them not alone; Let us tread over earth's rough places Even as Christ has done. Let us bury our bitter sorrows Deep in His Sacred Heart, And think what a blessed thing it is To have in His sorrows a part. Let us think of the wrongs He suffered, Let us think of the Cross He bore ; Let us think of His weary journeys, Let us think of the Crown He wore. Surely the pain and the sorrow Christ chose for Himself must be best ; Let us follow Him , then, in the way of the Cross ; 'Twill lead unto heaven's sweet rest.

THE ANCHOR OF ALPHA SIGMA TAU Our Second President El years ago this spring the 1 ational Council of Alpha Sigma Tau was not very optimistic. Besides being still busy with the detail connected with nationalization which had occurred in 192 5, the Council was suddenly confronted with the task of choosing a new national president. The first president, Grace Erb Ritchie who , because of illness in her family and because of the many extra duties which were hers as principal of an elementary school, had found it necessary to resign . To take care of the resignation the vice-president, Miss Edith Mansell, called a council meeting May 19, 1928, at the home of Miss Ada A. Norton, Ypsilanti, Michigan . The first choice of the Council was Miss Luella Chapman. She had attended the first national convention, and everyone remembered her as being especially lovely and very much interested in Alpha Sigma Tau. The optimism of the Council speedily revived when Miss Chapman expressed her willingness to accept the office of national president until the next convention which was in Buffalo in August 1929. There she was elected LUELLA CHAPMAN to serve again for two years and likewise reelected at the Denver Convention in 1931. Miss Chapman was unable to attend the convention in Cleveland in 1934 and much to the regret of all Alpha Sigma Taus, she sent in her resignation at that time. During the six years that Miss Chapman was national president she was also adviser for Sigma chapter at Buffalo State Teachers College. She had to devote her evenings, week-ends, and vacations to sorority work because she was a full time instructor at the college. She installed Rho chapter at Durant and Nu chapter at Greeley besides visiting many other chapters when she had the opportunity. You may recall this paragraph which she wrote in one of her letters : "I am most anxious about our dear Alpha Sigma Tau and have pledged myself to do everything that I can to strengthen it. I find I have plenty of desire, some ideas, enough physi-

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cal strength and endurance but not sufficient time to carry out my plans in a manner satisfactory to myself. " Considering the small amount of time which Miss Chapman had "to devote to national interests she certainly did much to develop national consciousness, to strengthen our purposes, and to make Alpha Sigma Tau better known amongst the other A.E.S. groups. There was hardly a letter written by her which did not contain one of these phrases-It is your sorority, girls-Let's be constitutionalLet's be national-minded . Also in another letter she stated everal vital points to remember. Among them were these: "Our responsibility does not end with our own chapter. Each one of us is a part of a large national organization to which we are obligated .... We are responsible to graduate members, especially the founders of our chapters, for maintaining the standards and traditions established by them .... Our colleges grant us a favor by permitting us to organize under their protection . Appreciate the favor. Loyalty to college comes before loyalty to sorority. " Although Miss Chapman re igned from her national office three years ago, she continued to act as adviser to Sigma chapter until last fall. Now that she has severed her active relationship with the sorority we wish to give her our sincere thanks for her years of devotion to Alpha Sigma Tau. We appreciate all she did to make us stronger, more purposeful, and lovelier. CARRIE

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National President

A Pageant for Michigan

HIS year, Michigan will be in the spotlight. The producers will be Mayor Reading of Detroit, with a civic committee of representative citizens, and the theme of the production will revolve about Henry Ford 's seventy-fifth birthday in July. The producers realize that their pageant will find many in the gallery and some in the orchestra circle " booing." They are aware that labor has at times made a target of Henry Ford ; that members of the New Deal do not hesitate to make inuendos regarding some of his practices; and that since the publication of a certain book, he is, to some, one of the "sixty families. " These producers know , too, however, that Henry Ford at seventy-five is still the progressive industrialist. A short time aao a reporter quoted Henry Ford as saying that brain trusters and economics profes ors and statisticians could delve into the causes and cures of depre sion but probably some ob cure experimenter is working on a discovery that will change our entire civilization. That theory evolved further recently when it wa announced that Henry Ford will manufacture a cheaper tractor that will attract more people to aariculture. He believes that hi dentist will develop from farm products material u eful for industrial purp - that

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in time almost an entire automobile can be made from substances derived from such products as soy beans, wheat chaff, and corn husks. But regardless of the differences in attitudes toward this industrialist, the business of the producers is to put on a pageant. Usually the theme of a pageant is born of history, and so excellent is their subject that these men are quite willing to gamble on the success of the production . The curtain will rise on a prologue disclosing the site of Detroit. With the first white man, the value of Detroit's location is recognized. The Indians watch the setting of so many of their lovely manitou legends pass from French to English to the United States. Pontiac offers the Indians incomparable leadership, but to no avail. Time passes rapidly after Michigan's entrance to the Union as the twenty-sixth state. Lumbering and fur trading peter out ; a new enterprise is in the offing. One warm autumn day in 1880, a boy walks along a road leading to Detroit. H e can see the big maples along the River Rouge, splotched with crimson and gold. Sun-burned and blood-red sumach fringes, rail fences. This boy has left his comfortable farm home at Dearborn to go to Detroit to learn of the mechanics of engines. He finds a job offering that opportunity and incidentally two-fifty a week. Detroit then has but one electric arc light, regarded as an experiment, and fo lks hear the ring of a telephone with a thrill of excitement. T he scenes change: Henry Ford, chief engineer ; the first Ford factory , a two-story, general store-appearing construction where the first " Model A" is assembled ; city laws excluding motor carriages from parks between ten in the morning to nine in the evening because of the numerous horse runaways; friendship with Edison ; the peace ship ; the Ford Airport ; the Ford monoplane taken by Commander Byrd on his Antarctic expedition; the River Rouge Plant, with its ;::oke ovens, power plant, foundry , blast furnaces, storage bins for ore, coal, and limestone, and steel mill, is pronounced one of the greater industrial enterprises of history. That Henry Ford is social-minded is alluded to by a review of the Henry Ford Trade School that gives preference to underprivileged boy:; and to sons of Ford workers ; and by Greenfield Village, equally interesting to adults, and to school children who come from miles around and who doubtless learn more about the history of transportation in one day than in a year in the class room. Others will appear in this pageant : Druyea, Dodge, Nash, Erskine, Durant, the Fishers, and Chrysler. But among them Henry Ford stands out as an individual personality, for he, with only his son, has managed through skill and strategy to grow to the greatest degree of independence. The finale will suggest present-day Michigan , the Great Lakes state with the two chi ef motor cities. And after the curtain falls there will burst a thunder of applause because everyone present will feel deeply the story of this motor genius, Michigan 's contribution to a higher standard of living. LuCILLE GALE , Flint Alumnce

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Instruction of Handicapped Pupils HERE is no psychology of the handicapped . Handicapped persons are just human beings, with human urges needs, aspirations and affections." That statement comes from none other than Margaret S. Quayle, who conducts Buffalo 's sole course in psychology of the handicapped. This University of Buffalo course is given Tuesday afternoons, at St. Mary's School fo r the Deaf on Main Street. Dr. Quayle realizes that handicapped persons must make special adjustments to a world that makes no exceptions for physical limitations. "Teach your pupils to accept and face reality," she advises teachers of the handicapped. "Develop in them means of self-expression, and build up their self confidence. " Dr. Quayle has observed among handicapped persons a marked tendency to live in a makebelieve world. To counteract this tendency, she urges their teachers to equip and direct them to find satisfaction in real accomplishment. This involves self-expression which, in her opinion, plays an important part in developing courage and self confidence. " For it takes courage to express oneself," she points out. " 1any people dare not try, for fear of ridicule or disapproval. " She urges teachers to encourage handicapped persons to make their own decisions, assume responsibility, and develop " a sense of mutuality," which she defines as " recog11ition of the obligation to compen ate, in some 路way, for the favors they must ask and receive." " And here's my harping string that I never tire of thrumming," she said: " Encourage the handicapped person to base his choice of school activities and of a vocation or profession primarily on his individual abilities. Don't let him be content to choose a vocation merely because it is possible to a man of his limitation. Advise him instead to make the most of his po-

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Dr. Quayle approves of residential schools for the handicapped, believing that the intelligent, experienced teachers of such institutions are better qualified than the average parent to help handicapped children make nece sary adjustments and to teach them skills. " For instance," she says, " the deaf, unable to acquire rhythm through sound, can be taught rhythm through tap dancing and exercises involving the waving of their bodies. " Dr. Quayle thinks friendships between persons with the same physical limitation may have certain advantages such as complete freedom from selfconsciousne s and all feeling of inferiority. " The enjoyment of such friendships and in fact everything else I ve mentioned in connection with the handicapped, are matter each individual mu t decide for himself. We can't lay down hard and fa t rule for the per on with a physical limitation any more than for any other human b incr. H i an individual , and a such must olve his problem . ' Dr. Quale wa born at Hope, rkan as. Her grandfather wa a l\[am:

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sea captain and her father, too, found the wanderlust irresistible. "My mother used to say, 'Quayles were hatched running'," she recalled. Such a comment might well be applied to Margaret Quayle, for she has made a number of trips to Europe and traveled this country from coast to coast. After graduation from Galioway College of her native state, she taught for several years. Came the war, and she was among the first to volunteer as a Y.M.C .A. overseas canteen worker. After the armistice, she did relief work among students in Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. " Universities the world over were contributing to those students," she said, "yet they were so poor that often two students shared one meal ticket, or had only one suit of clothes between them." With the backing of a nationally known industrial executive, Dr. Quayle brought seven Russian students to the United States to work their way through American colleges. She still keeps in touch with them. Two, now living in Toronto, frequently motor to Buffalo for a heart-to-heart chat with their first American friend , Dr. Quayle. One is an engineer, the other a professor at the University of Toronto. Another of th e seven is a professor of astronomy in a Western college, while four are in New York City, one a financial adviser in the firm of J Pierpont Morgan, one a buyer in one of this country's largest department stores, one an executive in an art gallery, and one a pioneer in television research. For eight years, Dr. Quayle traveled throughout this country, as lecturer for the Student Friendship Fund . Subsequently, she was a social worker in New York City. Next, she was identified with the Child Guidance Clinic of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Worcester, Massachusetts. After taking the first course in psychological counselling offered by Columbia University , Dr. Quayle went to Paris for psycho-therapy with the eminent Dr. Otto Rank. On her return to this country, she undertook the interesting work of re-educating an eighteen-year-old boy, unable to solve his own adjustment problems. In a year and a day, she had him ready for college from which he was graduated last June. In 1935 , Dr. Quayle took her Ph.D. degree at Columbia University. The subject for her thesis was Some Aspects of Satisfaction In Vocational Stenography .... A simplified version of it, As Told by Business Girls, was published in pamphlet form and is widely read by Y.W.C.A. members. In September, 193 5, Dr. Quayle joined the faculty of the Buffalo State Teachers College as assistant professor of education and psychological consultant, the two-fold post which she now holds. Every year she helps scores of State Teachers College students learn to get on with people by broadening their interests and developing social ski11s and sense of hurrior, solve their home problems, and form good study habits. Her connection with the University of ;Buffalo began last year, when she gave her course on the Psychology of the Handicapped for teachers of crippled children. She is also giving a series of lectures for teachers at the w路omen Teachers' Association. Although she lives in one room at the Tovm Club, Dr. Quayle can't re(Continued on page 44)

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Pottery Travels NE of the most interesting, unusual, and colorful pottery collections in Emporia is the one owned by Miss Mary Alice Seller, Latin supervisor at Roosevelt High School. She has 150 pieces, representing pottery from twelve states and from various parts of the world. Miss Seller has collected most of these pieces in the last three years. It was while she was attending school at the University of Southern California during the summer, 1935 , that she became actively interested in pottery. The collection represents both handmade and factory-made pottery. That made by hand is somewhat irregular in shape and is more expensive. The colors and shades are varied; often two pieces that are supposed to be alike are different because of dye changes in processing quantities of Pottery. Miss Seller estimates that she has 75 different shades of color including unusual tones and hues of red, blue, orange, green, yellow, and brown . Orange and red glazes are more expensive. The glaze or finish of pieces in the collection varies widely; some are smooth, some rough, some dull, some bright, and some have a soft glaze. A large number of the pieces are from California. Those from California include Winfield, hand-made at Pasadena. This is usually white with turquoise blue, rose, or green lining although it is also made in many other color combinations. Other kinds are Brayton, deep-colored, hand-made at Laguna Beach ; Franciscan, from Glendale ; Catalina, of which she has 35 pieces, manufactured on Catalina Island ; Pacific, machine-made near Los Angeles; Bauer, machine-made, and suitable for oven cooking; Kay , made by a young girl at Carmel-by-the-Sea ; Shirley, who specializes in caricatures especially of animals. Other kinds from California are Metlox Poppy Trail, Meyer, La Canada, Cemar, Fiesta, and Hollywood or Tudor. Pisgah Forest pottery, which is usually blue with a rose lining, is from North Carolina. Other states from which Miss Seller has pottery are Indiana, Arkansas, Colorado , Oklahoma, Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin, I owa Tew Mexico and Kansas. She has an Aztec Indian pitcher which is the only Indian pottery that will hold water ; a bowl of Tarascan pottery from Mexico City; an inkwell from The Hague, Holland ; a bowl from Upsala Sweden ; a small bowl , stamped with a gum leaf, from Melrose, Au tralia ; a vase from Alberta, Canada; a rose-colored vase from Italy, and a vase of Bewley pottery from England. The collection includes many vases, no two of which are the arne shape or color ; candle holders, bowls, salt and pepper shakers, sugar and cream sets, tea pots, plates, muas, cups, saucers pitchers, nut cups jug , bud vases, coasters for water glasses, flower pots, and other . he ha a complete ervice for four in Catalina pottery in fo ur color . Out tanding piece in the collection are a blue flat a e of artisti de ign of Cowan pottery, a kind no lonaer made ince the d pre ion; a

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brown jug twelve inches high with a soft green leaf design, from the Brown County Pottery at Nashville, Indiana; a soft tan "chinese bottle" bud vase of Frankoma pottery made at Norman, Oklahoma ; two pieces of the well-known Van Briggle pottery from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in blue, shading from light to dark- a bud vase and a bowl ; a blue Mexican mug decorated with cactus and yucca with dull red, yellow and black stripes around the bottom and top and down the handle ; a tan colored mayonnaise or salad jar shaped like a cucumber, with stopper of green and green plate to match from Catalina Island ; a large orange-red salad bowl decorated in dull gold with plate, salt and pepper shakers, and candle holders to match of La Canada pottery ; a pure white Cemar vase twelve inches high with curved handles on each side ; a bowl of Pisgah pottery ; turquoise blue lined with rose ; a wine-red fluted bowl and a soft deep rose " fat" pitcher of Brayton ; a three piece coffee set- jug, sugar, and creamer- of Franciscan in " Sunset Glow," a rich tan shade ; four nut cups, each a different color with a different lining, Sun-flower pottery, made by Karl Martz, an Indiana artist ; a tea tile with a quaint colonial design , also from Indiana, Brown county pottery; and twin vases ten inches high of deep orange Mettox Poppy Trail. Other states make pottery, and Miss Seller hopes to have a piece of pottery from every one of these. In addition, she plans to increase her collection with pieces from all parts of the world. E M PORIA ALUMN A':

Fiesta Espanol HE Queen of the Casino was to be crowned, after several months of preliminary announcement balls, proclamation balls, triumphal tours, and public appearances of all kinds. Miss Puerto Rico of 1938, Queen of the Ponce de Leon Carnival, had been officially crowned the week before, and now ruled over all Puerto Rico, but next in importance was the Queen of the Casino. In fact, she was really more in the public eye, being the daughter of the political dictator of the island. Preceding this tremendous fiesta, you must imagine a continuous series of balls, lasting from February 17 to the date of the coronation, February 2 6, not to mention the daytime affairs such as luncheons, afternoon parades, cocktail parties, and dinners leading up to the balls. A pretty seventeenyear-old school girl, the Queen not only managed to bear up under this activity for over a month, but continued to look radiant as ever throughout the whole Carnival. The coronation was to take place at the Casino de Puertoriqueiios, and it was my good fortunate to be invited to watch the parade from the official box of the great man himself. The parade was to start from the Capitol Building of the island , go to the Casino , have the coronation, and then the real " baile" of the evening would begin.

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Boxes had been built for several blocks along the street, particularly for this occasion, and since the parade was to start at about 8:30, the boxes began to be filled around 9:00 or 9:30. We arrived on the scene about 10:00 P.M., and at that time several floats were being assembled on the street, but still no signs of the beginning of the parade. The box, the largest and most important one there, was draped with flags and bunting, and filled with senoras and senoritas in the most elaborate formal attire one can well imagine. Plumes, high Spanish combs and shawls, sequin, brocades, and metallics were there in abundance, escorted by caballeros in tails and white gloves. About 11:00, it became apparent that the Queen was about to arrive. Flood lights illuminated the steps of the Capitol, in addition to the electric bulbs that decorated almost every square foot of the outside of the building. The floats began to pass, one at a time. The theme of the parade was the Oriental opera "Lakme," and the " damas de honor" represented different kinds of jewels. The costumes were elaborate in the extreme, and very beautiful, many of them having jeweled headdresses about three feet in height, and twelve- or fifteen-foot trains completely covered with ostrich plumes. The floats were oriental in character also, some representing seafoam with the girls dressed as pearls riding on them, some representing various animals, such as ostrich, zebra, elephant, lion, tiger, with the " princesa" of the group riding the animal and her maidens grouped around her. Each group of jewels had as their attendants huge negroes, dressed as court eunuchs, and holding canopies, fans, or large scimitars. Finally, amid tremendous applause and cries of "Viene la rein a" (the Queen comes), the doors of the Capitol opened and a procession of pages, gift-bearers, and the little crown-bearer came forth. At last, facing a barrage of flashlights, the Queen could be seen at the top of the Capitol steps, attended by eight or ten large negroes who carried a large umbrella over her, completely covered with white ostrich plumes. Her dress was the most gorgeous that can be imagined, of silver cloth completely bejeweled. The sectional train was likewise covered with jewels, and her headdress was the pagoda shaped one, matching the wing-like extensions on the top of the shoulders. Mounting her float , she was borne on to the Casino. Proceeding likewise to the Casino, we found a great many of the invited guests on the balconies, waiting to ee the approach of the procession from that point. The throne, in all Oriental splendor, had been erected on the stage. A little after midnight, the various eastern princesses began to be announced. Each princess was attended by two to four huge negroe , making an excellent foil for the real beauty of the lovely girls. They were announced as " Senorita Miranda, Princesa de Iquir" and so on, while the mere ladies of honor, likewise bejeweled, approached the throne after the announcement of their names. The Queen, still under the white o trich plume umbrella, made her way through her loyal subject to the top of the teps to the throne, wher tb Pre ident of theCa ino was awaiting her and the retiring Queen "a r ad to place the crown on her head . This wa done, to con id rabl applau e

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noise, and confusion, as the room was very crowded and only a few fortunate spectators had seats. After the actual coronation , the "bailerinas" of the Queen danced charmingly. The recession of the damas, caballeros, attendants, and princesas then began. As the last of the lovely jewels left the throne steps, the Queen's train was detached from her shoulders, and left spread out over the throne and down the steps, and she stepped down to the dance floor to dance the first dance with her chosen escort. It was now after 1:00, and now the rest of us could dance. The music continued without stopping until about 4: 30 with no signs of weariness on the part of anyone. Tables downstairs were crowded with merrymakers and the party went on gaily. The champagne, an essential part of these celebrations, had been left for later in the evening. Although a constant stream of cocktails had been passed, there was a total absence of drunkenness at the fi esta, probably due to the enthusiastic manner of dancing. One could hardly, I imagine, feel the effects of drink while doing the rumba. After the Queen and her immediate family had been duly congratulated, our party left for a favorite restaurant in Santurce, where every holiday night (any time near dawn) can be found people returning from balls who stop there fo r " asopao. " This is a favorite Puerto Rican dish of rice and chicken, and is delicious. We stopped for the customary asopao, accompanied by toasted Mallorcas, and fini shing with the champagne, which always accompanies celebrations of this kind. The Queen had been crowned , and we started hom e with the first streaks of daylight touching the white tops of the waves along the top of the old wall of San Juan. MAXINE MIRus, St. L ouis Alumnce EDITOR's NoTE: Maxine and her sister Lucille are at present teachi ng in Puerto Rico.

The Family Album DEAR FRIENDS : I thought you would be interested in a page from our old family album : BIRTHS Born to Oscar Fitzalyn and Maria Scott Wilkins. September 10, 1858, a son, Osryck Fitzlen路 Llewellyn. April 6, 1860, a daughter, Elswitha Xarifa Zamo ra June 3, 1863, a son, Sygtryg H elmuth Cholmondeley. October 1, 1864, a daughter Zitella Ocquaga Dagmar. May 21, 1866, a daughter, Alvarata H ermione Oaxaca. August 11, 1872, a son, Elias Montague Cholmondeley. June 22, 1874, a da ughter, Mary Campaspa fane. July 12 , 1876, a son, Leogaire Morcar Delatouche. Of these eight children , three died in infancy, and two are still living, Elias M . C. Wilkins being my father-in-law. Most of the names are of English-Welsh origin and a few are Flemish and Scotch. Yours for names like Ruth and Paul. Fraternally VERONICA WILKINS, B1tf!alo Alumna'

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The Ass o ciation of Education Sororities Its Place in the Teachers College ILL ROGERS when asked if his ance tors came over on the Mayfio wer drawled, " No, but I reckon they met the boat. " If teachers college students lack the aristocratic background of rich parentage, they do have the heritage of the great middle class of American society. Dr. M'Ledge Moffett in her interpretative study of the social background and activities of teachers college students, states that forty-two per cent of them come from rural homes. Dr. Moffett feel s that the prospective teacher " has had the experience which makes her a compeer of an American citizen who is slightly above the average. The number of students who must, of necessity, work their way through college testifies to the seriousness of purpose and deeper appreciation of the results of an education which are characteristic of the teachers college student. " Something of the history and background of the organization of the Association of Education Sororities which serves the teachers co1lege student may be interesting. In 1911 , a survey of American colleges was made in an endeavor to learn in what type of institution sororities were not functioning . It was revealed that the normal school was the only one without organized national Greek letter societies. As a result of this study, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Alpha determined, in 1915, to confine their activities exclusively to the normal school and to education departments of universities. Both sororities had been founded at the close of the nineteenth century at the State Female ormal School at Farmville, Virginia, and both had existed as general sororities serving liberal arts colleges and universities. Together the two sororities established the Association of Education Sororities because they wished to give the student in training for the teaching profession the same opportunities of sorority affiliation which the liberal arts students and those in other professions enjoyed. At that time, the normal school and the education departments of universities offered a two-year course. In the evolution of the educational system, the normal school has become the great teachers college of the present day , and the Association of Education Sororities has advanced with it. Today no petitioning group from an institution which does no t offer a four-year course in education may be considered as eligible for membership in the Association of Education Sororities. Since 1915 five sororities, in the order named, have qualified for admittance to the Association: Pi Kappa Sigma, Delta igma Epsilon Theta igma Upsilon, Alpha Sigma Tau and Pi Delta Theta. Because the A sociation of Education Sororities has had a part and a place in the dramatic growth of the teachers college it keenly appreciates the cooperation it has enjoyed from teachers college admini trators. It is aware that ' ince fraternities exist in the college because the co11ege authoritie permit them to exi t, there mu t be a complete under tanding betw en c 11 o-e and fraternity ."

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The chancellor of a large university has said "There is a law that brings people together in groups. It acts like the law of gravity and regardless of what is done to divert it, it holds true. Thus we have the college fraternity." The Association of Education Sororities is a fraternity organization that has been planned and built around the teachers college student. Within its chapter units, the organization fosters friendships, promotes team work, stimulates leadership, encourages scholarship, gives executive training and in general develops cultured personalities. In the effort to shape our organization so that it can best serve the teachers college girl, emphasis is placed not only upon professionalism but also upon " the educational value of sorority life as an opportunity in group and education relationships." In the matter of the financial obligation of sorority membership, the education sororities have developed a scale of fees commensurate with the limited income of teachers college students. The speaker, who has recently vis路ited many teachers colleges where her own sorority functions, has found that the administrative officers realize and appreciate the value of sorority organization on their campuses. Without exception, they agree that our greatest usefulness to the college and to the student body lies in the cultural training for which our set-up of national supervision is so ideally adapted. In 1931, to assure uniformity in this phase of training, the Association of Education Sororities compiled a booklet entitled "Social Precedents and Sorority Ethics" which has been used continuously as a basis for our cultural program. In September 1936 copies of this booklet were issued to presidents and deans of colleges where chapters of the Association of Education Sororities do not exist. In addition to a cultural program, member sororities consider a health program of equal importance as a sorority project. Anti-tuberculosis work is an example of this service. Other typical activities of the different education sororities are: student loan funds , establishment of hospital beds, local social service projects such as crippled children's assistance, free counseling at a camp for under-privileged children. One project which has received state and national attention and comment as a Greek letter accomplishment is the endowment of a rural school library in Virginia. Potential teachers not only need training in the social amenities of life and in the care of health but they should be made to realize that service to others is the highest call in the development of a well balanced life. In our American colleges increasing numbers of students are working to put themselves through school and there is a new student spirit abroad. Shot through its wholecome and serious practicality is a cheering return to idealism. Students are seeking " the significant life" and in their search there is need for direction and guidance. The Association of Education Sororities considers it a privilege to cooperate with the teachers colleges in a sincere effort to develop in our American young womanhood, especially in our prospective teachers, a desire for " relationships that broaden, experiences that enrich, character that stabilizes and service that spells happiness. ' MABEL LEE WALTON,

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An Alumna's Part HE Tau's purpose, as stated in the pledge, is ethical, social, cultural. What are we, as alumnre, doing to demonstrate our interpretation of the more significant, more encompassing sense of the terms? No pledge is meaningful until it is translated into action, into daily living. No alumna wants to remain in infancy enjoying only the narrower cultural and social benefits of the sorority life. She has gone beyond that after leaving the so rority house and college campus into the pursuit of a career ; has learned the lessons of responsibility ; has seen life and lived it. In that growth she should experience a desire to broaden her activities to include her community, her state, even her nation , and some day, in some way, the world. " For none of us liveth unto himself alone. " Women can no longer be bound by narrow horizons. There is work to be done, suffering to be relieved, real living to do. How? Alumnre groups are made up of girls who make their homes in certain geographically linked communities. As citizens of these communities we should interest ourselves in some of their affairs. We should turn "social " into "social service"; enlist in the work of helping the underprivileged in our own towns, those whom we know. We should put our efforts and our funds to work for some real purpose, not just to provide a good time for an already favored group. How take part in the affairs of our state? Aren 't we an organized group of educated, intelligent, select young wo men who should be keeping abreast of events? Wouldn 't our expressions of opinion carry so me weight where legislators try in vain to get an idea of their constituents' wishes? We are all too apathetic too remote from the problems directly affecting our live and happiness. We asked for the privilege of voting, but what do we do between elections? We try to get what we want in narrower measures. Why not try our wings in something greater? We can even be citizens of the world. Would it be unheard-of fo r sorority girls to be sisters of girls in India, China, Africa, South America? Would it be such a far cry from home missionary work to foreign? Since I have read Katherine Mayo's book, Mother India, I have had many hours of thought about an American missionary from Ohio whom I know, and of her brave work among some of the world 's most pitiful girls and women . I know how little money there is for her work and I know that it is because American women, satisfied with their own little plea ures and empty activitie , do not think of, or care about their sister in another part of the world. Our first step mi ght easily be to read and inform our el e of exi ting condition , then act. I am sure that we could all find sati faction and fulfillm ent in some real ocial and cultural pur uit which could make the meaning of the word " orority " far transcend anything it ha meant thu far.

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Let us grow socially in proportion to our years. Let us keep in mind that we must be world citizens in this year 1938. Our borders have widened, our vision is greater. Let us follow it to its farthest horizon! CAROLINE PIERSON

Akron-Kent A lumnce

Growing Pains F THERE are any qualities which we as sorority girls should cultivate above all others, I would say that they should be loyalty, courage, sincerity, ability to make friends and willingness to serve. Let every girl learn to be true to the spirits who made her college what it is. There were men and women who long ago preceded her in those old college halls, on that campus, and on that athletic field , who never stooped to do a mean thing, who fought in classroom and on athletic field with a spirit of fair play in their hearts. And there is always room for the kind of loyalty which will not allow baseness to come in to do dishonor to the noble qualities of a good home. Any young girl should uphold at all costs whatever of fineness she has seen woven into family traditions. It is not enough to talk about the honor which characterized our ancestors ; somewhere we must get the sense of loyalty to keep that honor unstained. Courage is another quality which every girl should seek to innoculate in herself. Not mere physical bravery but mental and moral fortitude as well; the courage of your own convictions. Abraham Lincoln once said, "There is no halfway position that you can take in the face of difficulty. Either you go down before it or you stand up to it courageously." The day comes, sooner or later, when every person finds sorrow and tragedy mingled with joy. When that day comes, it is not the part of courage to dodge it or circumvent it, or to expect some one else to stand the shock for you. It will take courage, too, on the one hand, never to disown those of low degree, and on the other hand, not to bend the knee before insolent might. It takes courage to be the champion of human rights, not of one class, but of all classes. We must keep our thinking clear, and our hearts warm toward all persons. If we have the quality of sincerity uppermost in our nature, we will have no trouble displaying real courage and true loyalty. We will tie this into the ability to be sincere friends with our sisters and will always be willing and ready to serve when needed. Sincerity, loyalty, courage, and- "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. " HESTER SEASONS, Akron-Kent Alumnce

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The Gateway City to the West WAS born in St. Louis and my earliest memories are concerned with quaint and unique corners in this historic and robust city. Names of streets are reminiscent of the early French settlers who e tablished a fur-trading post at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri River , the gateway to the west, in the time of Louis IX of France after whom St. Louis was named. One may still visit the Old Rock House where Mark Twain visited with his cronies in the time of the glamorous steamboat traffic on the Mississippi about which he wrote so colorfully and wittily. The Eugene Field house is still standing with the same furniture used by the author of " Little Boy Blue." My earliest memories are of the Veiled Prophet Parade, a breath-taking spectacle to a child of five. The theme that year was " Bookland" with all the characters out of Mother Goose, Hans Christen Anderson, including Red Riding H ood and Alice in Wonderland all marvelously come to life in a fairy tale setting. Later there were eerie trips of exploration through tunnels in an ante bellum mansion, a stopping place in the un derground railway through which runaway slaves were smuggled up North. After reading Winston Churchill's Th e Crisis there was the Old Cour t House to visit, with the block where slaves were auctioned, and the whipping post where recalcitrant slaves were chastised. Inside was the starting point of the famous Dred Scott case. Nearby is the house where Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent were married. During high school days I visited a li ttle known corner of our Art museum, the library. In it there were rare and unusual books, one of which gave explicit directions with illustrations of the embalming of an Egyptian mummy. There were other rare illustrated manu cripts from the Middle Ages and the incantations and formulas of the alchemists, and reproductions of H ogarth . Later in an art course an a signment was given which kept me delving in little known corners of our public buildings and churches searching for animal motifs in decoration. It took me to our Public Library with its Roman lamps and Roman arches, to the Old Cathedral on the site of the first church built in 1764 to Christ s Church Cathedral in a Medieval atmosphere and to the New Cathedral with its magnificent mosaics. A pleasure reserved fo r my later years was the Municipal Opera. It occupies a magnificent site on a hillside, built in imitation of a Greek amphitheater. The stage in a natural setting of fine old tree that tower over the stage on whi ch to the accompaniment of a symphony orche tra are presented light operas and musical plays. The setting and mu ic are unbelievably delicate and charming, the lighting effect and cenery ar lovely. N ine to ten thousand people come ni crhtly in the ummer t enjoy thi grand pectacle. LILLI \ OCT f. L ouis l!umna:

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Let Us Cooperate ~AMWORK, united effort, cooperation, or whatever phrase one may g1ve to that attempt to get along together, is surely the basis of a successful sorority chapter whether it be collegiate or alumnre. Each of us needs to do her part of the work of the chapter, no matter hom small it may be. The failure to send reports in to national headquarters on time not only gives a chapter a bad name, but it also degrades that individual, upon whose shoulders this duty falls, in the esteem of the sorority members. There is an old adage that states, "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. " That old adage definitely applies to each of us. There is no quicker way for a chapter to disband than for an inclividual to fail to do on time and with the best that is within her, that which she is assigned to do. Learn to do the little things gladly, when asked, and greater ones will follow. As we have entered into another new and unspotted year of our sorority life, let each of us discover and live up to this keypiece of our life- the spirit of cooperation. DoRIS CoATEs, Norfolk-Portsmouth Alumnce

Loo king Forward S ALPHA SIGMA TAUS we are proud of having a strong national organization. At our regional conference here at Emporia in October, we were proud of the alumni whose loyalty and enthusiasm gave us the feeling that the vows we made when we were initiated were enduring and would not become forgotten lip service after graduation . Some of us will soon be graduating and joining that body of alumnre. We realize that we will be watching collegiate chapters and comparing their activities and achievements with our activities and achievements. We know what we want the future of Alpha Sigma Tau to be. We hope to do our share in helping those who follow us. And so we plan to do these things : to keep in touch with our own Iota chapter but to give support to any chapter we may be near; to send in names of really desirable girls to our rush captains ; to be absolutely certain that these girls fulfill the best requirements of our organization; to be sure that they will add to the rating of the chapter on the campus, scholastically and socially, and that they will be able to meet financial obligations; that when the name has been sent in not to consider our job fini shed, but to give whatever help we can in influencing that girl to pledge our group; and finally, remembering how it inconvenienced us when alumnre ignored letters of inquiry or requests for information, we hope that we will be prompt in

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answering all communications from the girls who are carrying on the ideals and traditions of Alpha Sigma Tau. IoTA CHAPTER

The Second Crusade HE crusade for better movies seems to have ucceeded, at least the pictures shown lately, in Buffalo, have been those of the better class. The reason for this is that public opinion against undesirable films was aroused and people really withheld patronage of films of that kind. It is a known fact that the body acts through the mind. You are, I presume, feeding that body the best food you can obtain. Now, what of the food that is given to your mind. Do you select that with equal care? I admit that judging from the selection of periodicals you have at the news stands, your body has the better chance. Not all of us have the time to select or the wealth to own good books and our reading must necessarily be simmered down or predigested. Short story magazines and readers' digests appeal to us and we buy them. Even the newest fad, the pictorial magazine saves us time; there is little for us to do but read the picture. Against the best of these, I am not speaking, but amongst them there has appeared a superabundance of trash which I appeal to you to regard just as such. Most of them are too bold and insolent even for adults and think of the danger to a child who may accidentally pick it up ! Even the youngest child can read pictures and so obtain a lasti ng impression. I believe that loose reading leads to loose thinking and so, as I said before, the body acts as the mind thinks. Buy only the best known to you, read only the best. Women who spend an hour or two in the beauty parlor under the drier, can help too, by demanding the best. Just once have I found R eader's Digest in a beauty parlor. Other times I have preferred to scan the cover of so me one's True Confession or gaze awfully at Atlas, the strong man on the reverse ide. Ask for the better grade of magazine when you stop in for a 'wave." I have found the ladies willing to supply you if you only state your preference. Your patronage means much to them. If you know of any publication which offends the laws of decency or . morals, write a card to the publisher and tate your objections. Should we care what our neiahbor reads? Are we not con tantly in touch with other people whose thinking and living does influence us ? If we can , it is our duty to see that the mind which controls the e bodies of ours, is given only the best. In thi way we are building up a whole orne community, tate and nation . VERO ICA WILKI Buffalo .-llumnre

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The Prodigal Parents by SINCLAIR LEWIS

If you are a mother with young or grown-up children ; if you are a young woman looking into the bewildering world beyond the shelter of parents or college; especially if you are curious about human problems today-you will find Sinclair Lewis' new novel absorbing and entertaining. Frederick William Cornplow, a successful business man, realizes the fact that his son Howard, and daughter Sara look upon him as a convenience; one whom they can call upon at any time for financ ial aid, or for help in any kind of trouble, but for whom they return neither affection nor thoughtfulness. Sara becomes infatuated with a young communist, Eugene Silga. With meagre financial backing, Sara and Eugene start a monthly communistic paper called P1Âˇotest and Progress . After the third issue, the townspeople take matters in hand and decide to rid the city of Silga and his followers. Although all this time Fred has been very much opposed to this new alliance of his daughter 's, it is due to his skillfulness, and , of course, money that Sara escapes the hands of the law and Silga is able to leave town unmolested. Added to this Father Cornplow has to pay a hospital bill for Howard as well as the expenses of having his car fixed for the third time, which is just one time too many for Mr. Cornplow. Then, too, some shiftless relatives arrive at his home with serious intentions of paying him an extended visit. But with some sagacity and determination, the promise of a job to the two eldest sons, to say nothing of financial reimbursement, the relatives are persuaded to go elsewhere. All these events succeeding each other so closely lead Fred to make a decision about himself and the people he loves. He must teach Sara, Howard and his newly-acquired wife, Annabel (a young girl far too good for Howard, but who loves him deeply) to take care of themselves. Insisting that his wife Hazel accompany him, they depart suddenly for an unknown destination , which turns out to be a cottage in the Berkshires. For seven days these parents enjoy themselves doing just as they please; hiking, conversing with the natives, keeping house and enjoying each other's company, as in their younger days.

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But this is too good to last. On the seventh day, Sara and Howard locate them and demand their return with : "You promised Ben to let us have some more capital, and we need it pretty bad. " "And the cook has quit- and I swear I don't know why-I gave her so much attention." "And I had to go to the Rochester tournament without any chaperon - oh, that was so thoughtless of you. " "And everybody's talking- wondering whatever possessed you. " "And of course, after all Sara and I are only kids, and we've done our best to carry on, but- I'd never think of trying to tell you your duty, but-" So Fred and Hazel went back into captivity. After their return Fred finds everything just as before. Howard, who has been attempting to find his niche in life by trying a new job every few days, at last, financed by his father, has entered the real estate business. He requests that, owing to his position in this fi eld, and the need of a suitable playground for the baby who is to make his appearance at some future date, his father help him to move into a more luxurious home. Father refuses. About this time Sara surprises her family by redecorating their living room to the tune of nineteen hundred dollars. It is a surprise! The family just cannot understand what is happening to F red. He has been doing the most unusual things lately! He refu es to add to thei r allowances, he offers opposition to their plans. He talks about retiring ; of going on a trip. When Sara invites her father to accompany her to New York he is flattered , but when he find s himself being examined by a psychiatrist, F red rebels. Leaving Sara to pay the fee of one hundred dollars he leaves fo r home immediately. Upon arrival Freel tells Hazel " I am leaving for Europe tonight and I want you to go with me." She agrees. The children are unaware of their plans. As the gangplank is slid up and flopped on the deck two people gallop along the pier below them . It is H oward , and Annabel, calling " Take me with you ! Please! Take me along. " " How did we ever get here on this boat? " marveled the completely astonished Frederick William. For five months Hazel and her husband have a delightful time touring foreign countries. One day their daughter-in-law, Annabel and her six weeks' old son arrive at their hotel. " But" says Hazel " I can 't believe my eyes. I can't. I can't. ' Fred mumbles " Oh, yes, you can. It just means Howard has gone to piece , and I 've go t to sail from Havre tomorrow and yank him out of it. ' o Fred arrives home and by slow degree bring Howard out of his drunken stuper and once more, attempt to make a man of him. Father and on go for a ft shino- ext edition in anada. ' h r , in a

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new world, with new thoughts, free of all fancy romantic ideas, Fred hopes that Howard will make the start of turning from an "easy-going young gentleman into a stalwart hero, so dependable that he might someday become assistant to the assistant to the first Vice-president of a chewing gum factory ." Hazel joins father and son on their pilgrimage and life goes on smoothly once more. Sara is happily married to a former employer, Mr. Lindbeck, Annabel is in Paris waiting for Howard to earn her as his wife, and, at last Frederick William Cornplow is able to make his decisions and carry them out without interference from his children. FLORENCE STRAYER, Johnstown Alumnce

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POEMS AND SONGS SPRING The Spring is here And all around me are the notes Of Hope, of Love, sincere. But in my heart There is a place that ne'er can be So sweet, so full of glee. For thou hast gone and with thee, Spring. The fresh sweet flow 'rs are nought to me, The dawning light, or evening close, Hold only dreams of thee. And as I pass another day I see thy face, A-glow, within my memory. And when I hear the happy lark Sing out in joyful sound I seem to hear another voice Ring out, and waken in me A sadness, quite profound. For everything I used to love Has faded, and no more is bright, The paths thou used to trod with me Are still adorned the same as old But they have vanished from my sight For thou hast gone, and with thee, Spring. ANITA

BARR,

THE ANCHOR THE TAU SONG (To tune of " After You've Gone.") I'm so glad that I joined this sorority, I know that it's going to mean a lot to me. I'll always do my best ; do everything with zest. We came here, bewildered, just as we could be, All freshmen green, And then we saw the Taus, who told us allWe've added gold to our scheme. Chorus: After we've gone, you 'll be remembered. Splendid times had by every member. We'll feel sad, we'll feel blue. We'll miss the grandest pals we've ever had. We'll always try to keep the standard. We'll never wander or meander We'll wear green and gold colors. We'll show our loyalty to you and no others After we've gone, after we've gone away. H ELEN MAVER,

D elta

THI GS I WANT TO SAY I take up my pencil to write And try as hard as I might With all the words that I posse s I cannot find one that will express The thing I want to say. It's all about how much you mean to me And about how much I want you to seeYou wouldn 't believe it were true Even if I did tell you You'd call it just a line Or another foolish mood of mine But- honestly I do I think I love you ! ]o H

Y LYBROOK

Zeta Tau

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THE FALL OF DARKNESS Behind the mountain, the sun had set; And all the birds and their mates had met. Each flower was closing and nodding its head And mothers were putting their babies to bed. The sky was swept with traces of pink, And gradually stars came out to wink. The sweet, soft breeze was cool and refreshing, As it brushed my face, gently caressing. Darkness came down; took all neath its wing And then the tree-frogs began to sing. But later, all was enclosed in a hush, And the whole world seemed to stop its rush. The moon came out and sailed through the skyThe trees 路were heard to whisper and sigh. In the sweet cool grass, as the clouds unfurl'd, I lay there still, at peace with the world. ANN FLEMING CoLE,

Z eta Tau

SONG (Air: " Stardust") Of all the sweethearts of our school days, There is one whom we hold most dear; Her memory Of true sorority We'll always cherish and adore; Alpha Sigma Tau You 'll always be our inspiration; Our love to you we 'll vow, And to the Gold and Em 'rald, And to our sisters one and all. (Hum softly to next five lines) And through all the years We will promise to be true,For Alpha Sigma Tau, We really are in love with you. MARGARET wALLIS,

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ALPHA February 21- We held formal initiation for Louise Skellenger and Pauline Collins, in the home of our patroness Mrs. B. H. Vanden Belt. After the initiation ice cream and wafers were enjoyed by the girls. April 10- This elate began spri ng rushing. Open House Tea was held at the home of Mrs. B. H. Vanden Belt. April 12- A Social gathering was held at the home of our patroness Mrs. Vanden Belt. Popcorn and apples were enjoyed in front ·of the fireplace. April 14- A supper party was held for our rushees at the home of our President, Maxine Ackley. May 9- Formal initiation will be held for our pledge, Florence Bowers. June 4-This marks the date of our spring formal which will be held in Charles McKenny Hall. J ANET MUNGER

DELTA Virginia Reeled through the Gay Nineties at a rush party, Rustic Lodge, March 2 5, 1938 .. . Attended the Musical Festivals in Europe through Miss Mary Lowman, faculty member, at our professional meeting . . . Welcomed a new Tau when we held pledge services for Betty Brown at Miss King's home on April 7 .. . Plowed through the April snow to Rustic Lodge for coffee and doughnuts . . . Held informal get-togethers during which our candid camera addicts created furor and proved themselves actual fiends of photography ... Went ri tzy at a Formal Dinner Party for Freshmen April 30, 1938 ... Enjoyed ribbon service for our Freshman Sisters on Thursday, May 5 .. . Bid farewell to our outgoing Taus at a luncheon on May 14, at the tea room.

ZETA A brief resume of the activities of individual Zetas will show how active we are in other organizations on campus. Our president for 193 7-38, Doris Yarrison, was also Art Club president and Panhellenic secretary. Her successor, June Freed, was president of Bel Canto Choral Club, representative on the Governing Board of the Student Cooperative Council and representative to a Y.W.C.A. conference. Louise Selleck, our corresponding secretary this year was elected president of the Art Club for 1938-39. DeRonda Weakland, recording secretary for 1937-38, is historian for next

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year; attended conference at New York City for Scholastic Press Association. Yours truly, the editor, is Honor Chairman in Chi Kappa Sigma, and a member of the Governing Board of S.C.C. Ruth Datesman, our new vice-president, was Panhellenic representative last year. Vera Lyons is the Bel Cantos accomplished pianist and Ruth Conn acts in the same capacity for the Canterinas. Myrtle Andrews is our Poet Laureate. Ruth Barner, our artist. Emma Lloyd, Doris Anderson, Jean Bartel, Claire Antes, Anne Banzhaf, Claire Davis, and Gladys Mapstone our singers. Leona Fern, Marguerite Wiedhahn and Shirley Byrol, make-up artists in dramatics. ANNE BANZHAF

THETA The most recent exciting event was the appearance of a " dope sheet" under the title of Alpha Sig 'Em with a notation that a similar paper would appear twice monthly in the sorority apartment. Since the identity of the editor was a mystery, it behooved the girls to guard their thoughts lest they show up in the miniature newspaper. The secret was out at last when someone discovered pledge Lorraine Mettler assembling material, whereupon she has received the credit due her for such clever work. Again we take this opportunity to thank the Detroit Alumnre for their generous Christmas gift, which, in addition to the proceeds of our annual bridge, enabled us to buy a studio couch, a radio, and two lamps for the apartment- still the only one on the campus. Although most of the social affairs are now past history, it is nice to recall the Christmas dance and the pledges' skating party in Windsor, Canada; also the two rush parties arranged around the themes of Palm Beach and a Cub Reporter, respectively. The next event will be the annual Mother's Day dinner at Frames with its lovely colonial atmosphere. In June will follow the usual spring dinner dance, and later the now regular house party at one of the lake cottages.' At the bi-monthly meetings, the Theta chapter has continued to invite outstanding personalities to discuss current problems and intere ts, and another feature which will be tried out will be a series of dinners at foreign restaurants, including Japanese, Swedish, Russian, and so on. Inasmuch as most of the girls live right in Detroit, it is possible to carry this on throughout the summer. ARLE E KER

IOTA The second semester pledges of Iota chapter entertained the acti es and their guests with a Valentine house party on February 12. On March 13, at 3: 00 the actives gave a St. Patrick's Tea in honor of the pledge . At that time the pledges sang their pledge songs. lumni and pledge held a very succe sful benefit bridge on March 29 and 30. The proceed w re used to buy new mattre es for the sleeping porch. The prino- Formal

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was held at the Broadview Hotel on April 29. A midnight supper was served at the Mitway cafe. The decorations were in keeping with the sorority's colors, emerald and gold.

LAMBDA Lambda has something to boast of at last! We didn 't have any of our girls selected as homecoming or smile queens, but we did win a cup. It was the biggest surprise we have had in a long time, and it all happened at the Panhellenic Tea given at Temple University way back in November. The first thing we knew we heard someone announce that Alpha Sigma Tau won the Panhellenic award for having the highest scholarship standing among sororities at Temple University for the year 1936-37. Words failed us, but fortunately Ethel Weimar, our president, regained her composure and saved the day by giving an impromptu " thank you" speech. The spring rushing activities of Lambda began with a game party in the Alumne:e Room of Mitten Hall, Temple University. This turned out to be quite a lively affair, despite the fact it was attended only by the fair sex; at any rate, it gives us opportunity to become acquainted with some of the girls whom we invited to the dinner in March at Reed's Restaurant, Philadelphia. We owe the success of this dinner to the Alumne:e, who, in the absence of our President, Ethel Weimar, seriously ill at the time, gave us their wholehearted support and cooperation . We were amply repaid for our rushing program by the pledging of three lovely girls: Lois Schweikart, Alice Keeler, and Bertha Brobson. Lambda actives and pledges spent the evening of April 30 at the home of Mrs. Barnes, one of our patronesses. And with not undue excitement, we are looking forward with high hopes to another enjoyable week-end at Shipbottom, New Jersey, sometime near the end of May. CORA ZIMMERMAN

OMICRON Six girls were formally initiated into Alpha Sigma Tau , April 2 7, making a total membership of twenty in Omicron chapter. Our new sisters are Deane Donohoe, Anna Margaret Hurd, Dorothy Liddle, Lucille Litz, Irene Martin, and Beulah Stone. Nine of our members will graduate in June. Our annual spring formal was held at the Bluefield Country Club, Bluefield, West Virginia, April 29 . The ballroom was attractively decorated with spring flowers and the Alpha Sigma Tau shield was hung in one end of the room. Music was furnished by the college orchestra, The Concord Commanders. Everyone had a delightful time. A May Day festival was given May 14 with a May queen, May court, May pole, and singing by the Glee Club. Dorothy Klingensmith, Eveline Brown, Mildred Osbourne, and Deane Donohoe were in the May court while some of the May pole dancers were

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Louise French, Lucille Litz, Luella Harper, Dorothy Liddle, Henrietta Mahood, and Naomi Vance. Our new vice-president also has a new name. Irene French became Mrs. Everett N. Harris, February 5, 1938. WHo 's WHo IN OMICRON Dorothy Klin gensmith- junior, president Alpha Sigma Tau; secretarytreasurer Gamma Phi Omicron , journalism fraternity; Kappa Delta Pi, national educational fraternity; Pi Gamma Mu, national social science fraternity ; pledge Cardinal Key ; Concord Players, local dramatic club路 chapel committee ; Concordian 路taff; Pine Tree staff ; and a member of the Panhellenic council. Eveline Brown- senior, vice-president Alpha Sigma Tau ; a member of Panhellenic council ; student council ; Conco rd Players, local dramatic club . Irene French Harris- sophomore, reco rding ecretary Alpha Sigma Tau ; president Concord Players, local dramatic club ; Alpha Psi Omega, national dramatic fraternity ; Gamma Theta Ups ilon, national geography fraternity. Virginia Cushman- senior, treasurer Alpha Sigma Tau ; Gamma Phi Omicron, journalism fraternity ; Kappa Delta Pi , national educational fraternity; Pi Gamma Mu, national social science fraternity. Elizabeth T. Morgan- sophomore, corresponding secretary Alpha Sigma Tau; Gamma Theta Upsilon , national geography fraternity ; Concord Players, local dramatic fraternity; student council. Edith Elliott- sophomore, editor Alpha Sigma Tau ; president secondary sophomore class; Concord Players, local dramatic club ; member chapel committee. Susan Perry- sophomore, president Women ' thletic Association 路 member college band, Y.W.C.A. Josephine McCorkle-senior, historian Alpha igma Tau ; vice-president Gamma Theta Upsilon , national geography fra ternity. Madeline McNeill-senior, custodian Alpha igma Tau, member Women 's Athletic Association. Lillyan Lilly- sophomore, vice-president secondary sophomore class路 Concord Players, local dramatic club ; member Women 's Athletic Association . Marcella Whitlock- junior, chaplain Alpha Sigma Tau ; member student council. Katherine Hoffstetter- sophomore. Louise Barberry- sophomore. Elizabeth She! ton- so phomore. Irene Martin- sophomore, Women 's . thletic . s ociation. nne Margaret Hurd- ophomore secretary-treasurer el mentary , ophomore cia .

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Dorothy Liddle- sophomore, member of student council. Lucile Litz-freshman, Concord Players, local dramatic club路 Women's Athletic Association. ' Deane Donohoe- freshman , Y.W.C.A. , college glee club. Beulah Stone- freshman.

PI CAN You IMAGINE Miss Gladfelter- not knowing what flower it is? Fleming- not doing her part? Barr- not saying " I 'm really worried, girls" ? Wallis- not lending her artistic ability? Priebe-not being dignified? Scott- talking in a loud tone of voice? Marcinkowski- not zipping someone's zipper? Flotte- not asking for ANCHOR articles? Ryan- not knowing all about the rushees ? Morlan- not flitting from one group to another? Wamhoff- not with her eyebrows raised? McGee- not referring to South Carolina? Miller- not staying home to tudy? Croft- not being with Ulrich? Ulrich- not asking Croft's opinion ? O'Connell- not reading a book or writing an essay? Klupe- being a chatter-box? Surkamp- being late for 8 :30 Glee Club practice ? Kilburg- not ge tting a math problem? JEANNE Sco IT

RHO We received an honor last fall which thrilled us all very much when we were awarded the Blue Key trophy for having the highest scholastic standing of any organized group on the campus. We used the cup much the same as a traveling prize, lett ing each girl keep it a week so that her parents and friends could see it.

SIGMA We are having open rushin g this spring. This was suggested to all the sororities on our campus by the college p:路esident. Our first party was a mock operetta ; our second , to be held on April 29, will be a dormitory party. It appears that we are certainly fond of wearing " night" dresses! Rita Kick very kindly invited us to her cottage at Highland, on Lake Erie, for a spring houseparty. The girls who attended turned scientist and searched the region of the Eighteen-Mile Creek for fo ssils. Believe it or

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not (and we have an option on that expression, as one of our members lives in Ripley), we actually found a fossilized rassberry! We are planning to purchase white dresses for Panhellenic Day, with which we intend to wear green ascot scarves and our wooden A.S.T. pins . Elizabeth Prohaska, our president, is in charge of the skit for the day, which she tells us will be a parody on Cinderella. We wish we could see you all at " the ball "! DoRIS ToBER

SoNG oF THE SEVEN SrGMA GRADUATES

We feel like Snow White's seven dwarves, When they had to leave Snow White ; But we're leaving our sorority In capable hands, all right! Evelyn Wenzel, president, Frances Perine, as chaplain, Rene " twin" Smith, our new editor, Will keep control of what's hap'nin '! Helen Stachowicz, treasurer, And Lee and Kick, our secretaries, In their new office, are sure to be To put it mildly, the berries! Kate Baxter, custodian, Lucille Mattern, vice-president, Amy Ballagh, histo rian, Are surely not too hesitant To work on, day by day, For good old A.S.T. And discover every bit of fun There's in our sorority!

ZETA TAU March 5-The college celebrated its 54th birthday with hundreds of alumnre returning. March 8- Roland Leveque played for the Costume Ball. Frankie Bryan and Gay Stieffen were in the court figure. J ohnny Lybrook and her date won the prize as the most attractive couple on the floor . March 23- Chapter elections were held . April 2- Spring Cotillion with Don Bestor playing! Among the .T. "' returning for the dance were Margaret Pittard, fary Ethel Barne , Jane Lybrook, Maud Reeves and Mildred Chandler. April 23- The annual spring banquet was held at Lonawood . May 7- May Day was held in the natural amphitheater at Lonawo d. Gay tieffen and Franki e Bryan were in the court and Martha D . raw-

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ley, Frances Pope, Katherine Underwood, Theresa Brinkley, Frances Pritchard, Faye Brandon and Jean Moyer were in the dances. June 7-Margaret Bailey, Musse Hoyer, Gay Stieffen, Pattie Jefferies, Mary Anness Harper and Doris Isabel will receive their B.S. degrees. Laura Morris, Katherine Underwood, Alice Gayle Ferguson, Frances Pope and Kitty Brooks will receive their normal professional certificates. Looking back over the year Zeta Taus realize that 1937-38 has been a most successful year of years. Peeping anxiously into the future we see prospects for another successful year with newly elected outstanding A.S.T.s Adelaide Dressier- president of Gamma Psi Louise Painter- art editor of the annual, Th e Vi1路ginian Mable Burton- head of the make-up department of the dramatic club Johnny Lybrook- business manager of the magazine, Th e Farmville Quarterly R eview LeNoir Hubbard-editor of the college newspaper, Th e Rotunda

UPSILON Two Alpha Tau girls, Dena Rae Jones and Louise Meacham won high honors at the Grand Eastern Debate Tournament at Rock Hill, South Carolina in April. Dena Rae won the the Grand Eastern Extempore final and first place in after-dinner speaking. She and Louise were two in a team of four which won first place in Women's Debate at the Tournament. These girls have won many honors in tournaments throughout the state of Arkansas and in various other states. Upsilon honored them with a tea at the home of its faculty adviser, Dr. Ada Jane Harvey, to which all the sororities and fraternities were invited.

POEM We live in deeds, not years, in thought, not breath, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most , feels the noblest, acts the best. PHILIP }AMES BAILEY

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AKRON-KENT ALUMNIE In our last news letter we told you of our plans, and prospects for the future. Now we can give final reports on a few of them. Our interest in the Children 's Home in Akron where Mary Cook is matron took the form of Thanksgiving table decorations which a committee arranged. The rummage sale which we had in December netted us thirty-two dollars. A more recent effort to replenish the treasury by means of a hosiery raffle brought in about forty dollars, so, for a time at least, we are in good financial condition. We have tried to show some progress since our delegates returned from the convention at Detroit with their new ideas, and now we have appointed two representatives to attend the Active meetings for a month at a time. Several girls have decided to begin paying on Life Memberships. Helen Lundeen (also of the Cleveland Alumnre chapter), Martha Chapman, Bernice Baumberger, Mildred Pyle, Katherine Bauer, and Hester Season have given their names. Further activities of the chapter have been two social affairs- one a dance. in which both actives and alums cooperated, held at Silver Lake on January 28; the other a dinner and social meeting for alums at the Garden Grill in Akron on February 15. Now for some news about personalities. Mildred Pyle and Bernice Baumberger who teach together in Kent are attending 'night classes at the University in the interest of improving the teaching of reading. Mildred Pyle, our alumnre representative, has been elected head of the Kent Junior Women 's Club for the coming year. As incoming chairman she was sent to Columbus as delegate to the convention. Even then she did not forget sorority, ·for she managed to squeeze in time to call on 1rs. Top , left to right: Akron-Kent, left to right: back row, Dorothy Fynn, Imogene Hughes, Caroline Pierson, Martha Chapman, Beatrice Braden; front row, Mildred Nihausen, Margaret Whittlesey, Peg Joles. Maxine and Lucille Mirus, St. Louis, at Escambron Beach Club, San Juan, Puerto Rico . Akron-Kent, left to right: front row , Ada Swan, Hester Season, Bernice Baumberger, Maxine Darrah; back row , Janet Knott, Mildred Pyle, Margaret Whittlesey. Cent er, left to right: Flint , top row , Hazel Schultz, Grace Abbey, Harriet Pfeiffer, Pauline Wood , Geraldine Herbert, Crystal Hearn ; middle row, Luella Clapp, Shirley Neinas, Sarah Perri.ne, president, orma Wheeler, Eloise Crow; bottom row, Lucille Gale, Janet Beehler, Geraldine Shugart, Gwen Mahoney. Edna Romans, Denver-Greeley at Berthoud Pass. Bottom, left to right: Charleston Alumme . Beckley Rt its March meeting.

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Carrie Staehle, the National President. One outcome of the call was a renewed interest in drawing the Youngstown and Akron-Kent chapters closer together. One step in that direction was an invitation to them to join with the Cleveland chapter and ours in a tea to be given in June for Dean Blanche Verder who leaves the University in July, and the A.S.T. graduates. Martha Baumberger Chapman has accepted a full time position in Aurora, teaching second grade. She and Veron now work together. We had as visitor at our meeting in March, RoMayne McGrath Kent who left us to go to Cadillac, Michigan. The girls presented her with a compact in appreciation of her services in helping to organize the chapter. Her sister, Dolores (now Mrs. Benjamin Rittenhauer) , of Ravenna, Ohio , was with her. We hope to have her, and also Iris Follin who attended for the first time in April, for new members of our group. Our most recent member is Mrs. Virginia Betteridge Hinkle, of Barberton. Beatrice Shively Braden is preparing for a blessed event. At the March meeting the girls gave her a soft woolly shawl for the little stranger. Katherine Smith Bauer lost her mother in April after a long illness. News from alums not affiliated with the Akron-Kent organization: Elizabeth Rufener Lewis (Mrs. Gomer ) of Edinburgh (Eta) bas a little son, born in March. Mary Klepinger of Eaton, Ohio (Kappa ), is teaching in Miami University, Oxford. She is a former teacher in the Kent schools.

BECKLEY ALUMNIE Dorcie Shumate, president, teaches third grade and lives at Glen Daniels. Margaret Davis Moses, vice-president, at home in Oak Hill has a baby boy. Dessie Sarrett, chaplain, teaches third grade and lives in Beckley. Theda Crotty, secretary, a new member from Omicron and a teacher too. Nelle (Gunter ) Kidd , corresponding secretary, our newest bride will reside in Mullens. She will always be a K i dd. Ferne (Shumate) Phipps, treasurer, teaches English and spends the week-ends in Charleston with her husband. She'll be moving there in June . Kitty (Bowling) Rice, hi storian, keeps house for her husband and two precious sons- she is busy. Ina (Ring ) Cook, and Helen (Cheer) Cook, co-editors, married brothers and live at Winding Gulf. Ina has a fine boy, Harry, Jr. Jessie Worley, teaches fifth grade and lives at Beckley. Opal ( Montgomery ) Via teaches and keeps house in Beckley. Belva (Farley) McVey is at home at Sophia. Lillian (Moses ) Baumgartner is busy caring for her daughter Rita, and attending night cia es at Beckley College. Marie Bruster has a three-year-old daughter and li e at E . Rainelle. Ruth Farley teache Engli h , live in Beckley and i our piani t.

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MARRIAGES

Nelle Gunter to Pat Kidd, December 24, 1937. Helen Moses to Fred Fleshman. BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Moses (Margaret Davis) a son, Charles. To Mr. and Mrs. James Rice (Kitty Bowling) a son, Frederick King.

BLUEFIELD ALUMNJE The outstanding social event this year of the Bluefield Alumn~ chapter of Alpha Sigma Tau was a " backward " party given at the home of Miss Gladys Udy, Bluefield, February 12 , honoring the girls who had been pledged to the Omicron chapter at Concord. Members and pledges of the Omicron chapter and patronesses were guests for the affair. Games were played at eight tables and prizes were awarded the winners. A valentine scheme was predominate in that the score cards were double hearts joined by arrows, and the favors given to each honoree were chocolate hearts bearing the letters A.S.T. and contained in individual red heart-shaped boxes. Miss Mae R. Hunter, faculty adviser, was presented lovely birthday gifts from the Bluefield Alumn~ and Omicron chapters. Refreshments consisting of tea cakes, ice cream, with a heart molded in the center, candied grapefruit and coffee were served soon after the guests arrived. The guests registered just before they departed. H ELEN BRADLEY

The Bluefield Alumn~ chapter will sponsor the annual picnic May 28 , at the new pump house, at Athens, West Virginia. Actives, Pledges, Patronesses and all alumn~ Alpha Sigma Tau's of Omicron chapter are to be the guests. loUI SE ANDERSON

BUFFALO ALUMNJE Sigma alumn~ met on April 18 for their Easter Monday luncheon which may soon be called a tradition. About 20 girls were present at a downtown restaurant. Some were out-of-town girls, home for the vacation and so everyone enjoyed either renewing old acquaintances or, in some cases, meeting sorority sisters for the first time . The Affiliation Tea took place on Sunday, May 22. This is always a realization of one of sorority's greatest, if not the greatest, benefits-that of being in an organization which makes possible the continuation of colleg ~ friendships. Everyone looks forward to the congenial informality of the annual June

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picnic. This year it was held at Mary Harsch's lovely home in the outskirts of Buffalo. PERSONALS Cupid was very busy of late. His most recent " targets" among the Buffalo alumnre girls have been: Betty Mahoney, who is now engaged to Thomas F. Callaghan. Wedding bells will ring in June. Jeanette Cady whose lovely diamond was a Christmas present from Donald Adams. Clare Prozeller, who is making plans for her June wedding with Frank Ripple. Eleanor Hird, who will be wed to Julian Mason this summer. Marion Borst, whose fiance teaches and attends Law School in Paulsboro, New Jersey, where Marion now lives. We received the good news that Betty Barton, Sigma president '3 6-'3 7, is now teaching the second grade in a private school at West Point. Marjorie Milius, '3 7, and Annette Kennedy, January '3 8, are now "subbing" in the Buffalo Public Schools. Edith Manter Babcock, '3 7, is teaching first grade in Batavia. Ruth Fischer who graduated in January, is teaching first grade in Norwich, New York. Mary Strand, '37, who has been teaching in Eden, New York, for the past year will be located as a Home Economics teacher in her home city, Jamestown, for the coming year. The first of the 1938 graduates to obtain a position is Arline Walker who will be teaching in Lewiston, her home town. Congratulations! Hazel Mapes, '37, is now fini shing a Library Science course at the University of Buffalo. She has been doing practice work at the Grosvenor Library as well as the Public Library. Adeline Thiele Hurley has returned to S.T.C. this semester to complete work toward her degree. Rita Bird, '3 7, is now working in the offices of the Colonial Radio Corporation. In January, Eleanor Erickson has the e:x.'ireme misfortune to break her arm in a skiing accident. Hope it's as good as new now, Eleanor. Among the Sigmas who are planning to continue their studies is Katherine Few who will go to the Albany S.T.C. for graduate work. We also heard rumors that Helen Sue Reynolds was going to New York as a tuderit at Columbia University. Margaret Kane, '3 7, now working in the College Co-op Bookstore has had her poem, " Noon Quiet" published by the Beacon Company. Ruth Beebee, '3 7, recently received a letter from the Cara an Pres~ ew York City, asking permission to use her poem, ' Turn from the tar in an anthology of modern verse. The Caravan Pre s noticed Ruth po m in the December 1935 ANCHOR! Miss Luella Chapman, former igma faculty ad i er ha ~ be n nj ying

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a most pleasant leave of absence from S.T.C. On February 5 she sailed from New York on the S.S. California for a 16-day trip to San Francisco via the Panama Canal. Since her arrival on the Coast she has been staying at the Hotel Mayfair in San Francisco. She plans to study at the University at Los Angeles this spring; after which she will journey to Boulder University in Colorado for the Summer Session there. Among the alumnre " newly-weds" we find these girls: Josephine Severine who was married on Thanksgiving Day, ovember 25, 1937, at the Church of Epiphany in Niagara Falls to Mr. Arja R. Williams. Eugenia MacBain who is now Mrs. Burton Wells Viquesney of 151 Prospect Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York. There have been a great many new Alpha Sigma Tau babies this year. There has been born: To Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Holt (Betty Kennedy) a daughter, Valeria Jane on September 28, 1937. To Mr. and Mrs. Laurence B. Lane (Ruth Rech) a daughter, Marjorie Lee, on October 7, 1937 . To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Gross (Agnes Isaacson) a son, Alfred John , Jr. , on December 17, 1937. To Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Pautler (Dorothy Brumley) a daughter in January, 1938. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hyatt (Marion Miller) a son, David Francis, on February 3, 1938 . To Dr. and Mrs. Fred M. Havens (Elsa Prozeller) a son, Craig Prozeller, on February 20, 1938. To Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lilga (Dorothy Maxwell) a daughter, Joan Elizabeth, on February 20, 1938.

CHARLESTON ALUMNJE The Charleston alumnre have had a meeting each month at the homes of the various members. We have visited the County Farm, supplied the inmates with magazines and fruits, celebrated Founders' Day with a luncheon and a theater party and had a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Ilva Williams. We plan to have a dinner and a theater party April 9 to celebrate our first anniversary and have a group outing this summer. We expect to have a new member by Spring, making a total of seven in the Charleston group. MACIL STEPHENS

CLEVELAND ALUMNJE Betty (Deering) Schmied, Kappa, who lives in North Olmsted, is the mother of a baby boy, born in October. Virginia (Darrah) Baharic, Eta, was married last August and now lives in Lorain, Ohio.

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Catherine Brink, Sigma, our treasurer, is in Nurses Training in Lakeside Hospital. Grace Conlin, Alpha, is teaching in Cleveland. Jewel Leighton, Eta, has become a " number, please" girl since she started working for the Telephone Company in Lorain. Ruth Merrick, Eta, after spending the summer in California has returned to Cleveland to find a job. Leota Stanley, Eta, our corresponding secretary, teaches commercial subjects in Hartville, Ohio. Eleanor Boder, Eta, is head of the new art department at Brush High School, South Euclid , Ohio. Helen (B ruce ) Campbell, Sigma, is the mother of an eight-monthold baby. Evelyn (Haase) Lunham , Eta, has just moved into a lovely new apartment. Mary Louise (Morris) Dramon, Eta, is working at the Higbee Co. Helen Sixt, Eta, has a new teaching position this year at North Royalton. Edythe Oliver, Eta, is teaching in Lakewood, Ohio . Mildred (Call) Stieskal, Eta, has followed her husband to Austentown, Ohio, where he is a coach. Ruth (Goss) Borlet, Eta, was married on June 5, 1937. She IS now living in East Cleveland. La Grace (Williams) Foote, Eta, has two lovely children . Eileen (Hullsman) Jandt is quite domestic and the mother of one boy. Helen Lundeen, Eta, is a member of both our chapter and the AkronKent chapter, so she is kept quite busy. Edith (Griswold) Siple, Beta, is busy with her lovely home and her dog, Betsy. Dorothy Strunk, Theta, is the proud mother of an eighteen-month-old baby. Dorothy Stadler, Eta, our able president, is not to be forgotten. She teaches in the Cleveland High Schools. Jane Buck, Eta, besides writing for the A CHOR, teaches in Vermilion, Ohio. J A E BucK

DENVER-GREELEY ALUM Nit Nu alumnre in Denver started several years ago under the inspiration of Alberta O'Neill vvho is now living in Wichita, Kansas. From a nucleu of six member we have grown until we really feel that we have somethina to write about. A large number of the N u alumnre have married and Dan upid late ~ t conquest is Burnadine Womack. Her engagement to Don was announced at hri tmas time. She i wearing a perfectly goraeou dian1ond. onaratulation , Burnie.

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Audrey Lucke's little girl, Lynn, is already whooping it up, takes after her parents. Oh, pardon me, I mean she has the whooping cough. Edna Romans is known as " The Silver Streak" on Berthoud Passdressed in her silver jacket and hat, she is really well named. We all envy her energy and enthusiasm. When she isn't skiing she is coaching basketball or learning the latest tango. The young married group have a club within the sorority. They discuss problems of home, children and husbands, or do they? Anyhow, they do have fun. Dorothy Atschell, our competent secretary, is so very nice to do what ever is asked of her. We were thrilled to initiate three new alumnre members at a very lovely waffle supper given at Edna Roman 's during Christmas vacation. The girls were, Dorothy Baab, a stenographer in Denver, Juanito Emerick, a senior at Denver University, and Lillian Griffith, who is teaching at Kremmling, Colorado. Pauline Allen made a little whoopee during Christmas vacation by attending the game at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas. In fact it was so much fun she wants to take a real trip next summer. PAULINE ALLEN

DETROIT ALUMN!t The second Christmas Charity Party for children at the Brightmoor Community Center was thoroughly enjoyed by the alumnre members as well as the children entertained. There were games, prizes, and refreshments. The Valentine Dance was given at the Whittier Apartment Hotel. The active alumnre members enjoyed a Bingo Party at their last March meeting at Cecil Barrett's home. A Mother's Day luncheon was held at Devon 's Gables on May 7. Isabelle Macquire has kindly invited the girls to her summer cottage for a June party , which will be similar to a rushing party and will be given for the active sisters who are graduating from the University. E NGAGEMENTS

Betty Marsh has announced her engagement to Phillip Bresnach. The wedding will be on June 30. Sylvia Sorola and Frank Targner are to be married on July 19. BIRTHS

Frederick William arrived in January at the home of Frances and Edgar Sherrin . Carolyn is the new daughter of Corrinne and Bud Carpenter. H AZEL FOSSEN

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EMPORIA ALUMNJE At the Founders' Day dinner in November, the alumnre, as a contribution to the Sesquicentennial Celebration, pledged a flowering tree to be planted this spring in memory of the Founders of the Sorority and of the United States Constitution. The alumnre and husbands entertained the collegiates and boy friends with a Christmas party at the chapter house. Each person brought a toy which was later given to the Goodfellows Organization to be distributed to poor children of the town. In March the alumnre were guests at a tea given by the collegiate girls to meet the pledges. This tea was most delightful, and gave a fine opportunity for the alumnre and collegiates to visit. As a cooperative project the alumnre sold tickets to a bridge party given by the collegiates to raise money fo r needed mattresses. Our chapter house can hold eighteen tables of bridge comfortably so we had a series of three parties, two afternoons for women, and one evening fo r couples. Altogether we had fifty-two tables. The Alpha Sigma Tau married couples do not have a club but they certainly have had some enjoyable bridge parties at the homes of Lee and Ida Wayman, Dr. and Ethel Partridge, Walter and Mary K. Schultz, Howard and Perle Dall, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Jackson. The next planned meeting will be in May with a covered dish luncheon to which the graduates of this spring will be guests . In addition to these activities, we have had our regular business and bridge meetings the first Saturday of each month . MARRIAGES

Glennis Lile to Warren Miller, October 24, 1937. Charlotte Hull to Daniel C. Nye, December 25, 1937. Kathryn Blair to Samuel Tomas O'Brien, April 17, 1938. BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Clark Ulrich (Leta Swisher) a son, Albert Clark, November 16, 1937. To Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Unruh (Glenny Green) a daughter, Marla Kay, December 10, 193 7. . To Mr. and Mrs. Sam Huebner (Ruby Graeber) a son Glen Allen December 11 , 1937. To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wedin (Edith Forrester) a daughter, IJ ary Judith, December 19, 1937. To Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hammond (Mable Jack on ) a daughter andra J ean , March 22, 1938. To Mr. and Mrs. 'farion Fall (Helen Norris) a . on Robert Douglas, March 28, 1938.

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FLINT ALUMNIE Steadily the Flint alumnre are assuming characteristics of a well organized group. Through the efforts of Sarah Perrine and Pauline Wood , individual programs of the year with a membership directory were handed out. Through the work of Eloise Crow, a definite program has been followed. Faithfully the Flint Journal Calendm' has announced a luncheon including the Lansing alumnre, at the Hotel Dresden, and each successive monthly event. At the luncheon, Pauline Wood gave a report on the regional meeting in Detroit. Others covered their impressions from weekending at the Statler to the thrill of seeing girls for the first time in twelve years. The Lansing guests were Florence Baker, Allura Custer, Hazel Eaegle , Gertrude Kimmich, Mary Walton , and Dorothy Morton. Margaret Pollock was there from Pontiac. Throughout the year our hostesses have been Luella Clapp and Crystal Hearn; Eloise Crow and Harriet Pfeiffer; Shirley N einas and Hazel Schultz ; Grace Abbey and Geraldine Shugart ; and Gretchen Gaffney and Gwendolyn Mahoney. Entertainment has included a Christmas party, motion pictures of vacations and family groups ; a splendid book review by Gwen Mahoney ; and a Constitution event. The last mentioned was a skillful blending of instruction and fun. All came clad in knee-length dimities or ginghams and wore cunning braids and pigtails. Hazel Schultz, as teacher, however, maintained her dignity and was so ruthless as to give a test over the work of the evening. As for personal chatter: Janet (Cook) Beehler is now living in Flint and manages despite a family of three boys and a girl (the youngest and whom she calls her consolation prize after three boys) to attend every meeting ; out of the industrial hubbub of Flint, Gretchen Gaffney was discovered ; Grace Abbey traveled to Mexico City and back via ew Orleans and Florida ; and Sarah Perrine has consented, to everyone's satisfaction , to reelection as president. At the time of this writing, the most pleasant event in the offing is a May breakfast to be given by the Lansing alumnre. LUCILE G ALE

JOHNSTOWN ALUMNIE The Johnstown Alpha Sigma Taus have been meeting the second Monday evening of each month. Margaret Pfarr was hostess to the group at her home in February. For our March meeting we met at the Hendler Hotel for dinner and a short business meeting. Letters were read at this meeting and the group selected a new scrap book from an assortment the committee had. In April we met at the home of Florence Strayer. Mrs. Betty"McClintock was presented the Alpha Sigma Tau silver baby spoon and fork for her little daughter, Diane, who was born February 28. The group decided to

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make it a tradition to give this gift to all newly born babies of our local chapter. Bunco was played with awards going to Josephine Paul and Jane Snow. MARRIAGE

Helen McCandles became the bride of John E. Berry of Detroit, Michigan-formerly of Johnstown- on Christmas Day. The couple will make their home in Detroit where Helen expects to meet many Alpha Sigma Taus. Much happiness to you, Helen. ENGAGEMENT

Congratulations to Gladys Mom berger! Gladys' engagement was made known at Christmas time. All of us are wondering just when her wedding bells will ring.

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DINNER

On a wintry night in January the members of the Lansing Alumnre chapter gathered in the cozy Green Room of Hunt's Food Shop in East Lansing to enjoy a dinner meeting. Dinner, served by candlelight, was followed by a short business session and a game of bridge. FEBRUARY-BE EFIT BRIDGE

Our February meeting was a benefit bridge held at the Arctic Dairy in Lansing. The tables featured patriotic decorations, and packages of ice cream were given to prize winners. ~lARCH-MUSICALE

Our March meeting was held at the home of Gertrude Kimmich-- a short business meeting, music and sorority songs. APRIL-

SOCIAL MEETING

Florence Baker who has recently moved to a lovely new home in East Lansing, the Michigan State College town, entertained the members for our April meeting. Florence's guests did a little house-inspecting during the evening. MAY-

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Our May business meeting held , at the home of Allura Cu ter was devoted to the election of officers. Our Lansing chapter entertained the Flint lumnre at a Ma lornina Breakfa t held at Hunt's Food Shop in Ea t Lan ing.

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NORFOLK-PORTSMOUTH ALUMNA: Playing the part of the Easter Bunny, the Norfolk-Portsmouth chapter met at the home of Mrs. Page Gaffigon. We had a guest with us for the meeting. She was a little underprivileged girl, upon whom we bestowed all the odd shaped boxes which we had brought with us. She wa quite delighted at the many packages that the " bunny" had left for her in the form of new dresses, socks, shoes, underclothes and other necessities. Margaret is almost another Shirley Temple. We only wished that all of the other Alpha Sigma Taus could have seen her. EDITOR's NoTE: Taking charge of a little girl from the Edgewater Orphanage for a year, supplying her with the necessary clothes, is this chapter's charitable project for the year. DoRIS CoATES BIRTHS To Ensign and Mrs. J. S. Enright (Virginia Robertson) a boy, September 27, 193 7. Honolulu, H.I. To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Long (Marian Fitchett) a girl, September 6, 1937. Cape Charles, Va. To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomson (Mable Hayes) a boy, November 3, 1937.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNA: Alpha Sigma Taus (active members of Lambda chapter and alumn re) in and around Philadelphia, met for a Founders' Day Banquet at the Tally Ho Restaurant in Philadelphia, on November 15 , 1937. After the dinner the alumnre held a business meeting. Officers were elected fo r the coming year. It was decided at this meeting that this chapter should become a national chapter of A.S.T. The second meeting, a Christmas dinner party, was held at the Tally Ho on December 6. During the business meeting, plans were made for the January meeting which was held at Hotel Philadelphian as an installation meeting and banquet. Miss Edith Paul, district president, conducted the installation service when the members renewed their pledges to A.S.T. The following members were installed: Lambda- Rebecca Brown, Mrs. Clarice (Duke) Collins, Mrs. Mildred (Curry) Day, Elinore Decou, Christine Megargee, Helen Megargee, Mrs. Alice Mosteller, Mrs. Jacqueline Postpichal, Mrs. Margaret (Gentel) Reed, Mabel Schreiber. Delta-Gladys Overholt, Carolyn Simpson. Zeta-Jean Kopenhauer. Zeta Tau-Mrs. Jac Hawkins. The fourth meeting was held at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Febru-

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ary. Plans were made for the rush party which was given for the Lambda chapter at Leed's Restaurant on March 16. The last meeting was a second installation service at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel on April 6, when Cora Daminger, Mrs. Betty (Cole ) Maisch, Agnes Waad, and Mrs. Dorothy (Kitch ) Fahy from Lambda chapter were installed.

W ELCH ALUMNIE CHAPTER DOINGS In February the Welch Alumme chapter of Omicron, in keeping with the so rority traditions, were guests at an especially attractive Valentine Day dinner party at War, West Virginia. The unusual decorations and favors were prepared by Lil Wolstencroft. After the dinner the members and their escorts attended a dance featuring a well known orchestra. MARRIAGE Miss Mellie Cassel of Amonate, Virginia, to Mr. Barnes Mustard of Pocahontas, Virginia, J une 2, 19 3 7.

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sist collecting etchings. Her collection of them virtually covers her walls. Art, music, books, and contract bridge all contribute to her recreations. She is a member of the Town Club, the American Psychological A ociation, the American Association of Applied Psychologists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Education Association. TorE: This article, by H . Katherine Smith, was taken from the Buffalo CourierExpress of April 10, 1938.

NOTIC E!! LI FE MEMBERSHIPS I

ORDER to obtain the reduced life members/tip rate of 12 .SO,

all girls who had an alumnre status before June 1936 must pay this fee befor e September 1, 1938, after which time the original fee hall be in effect.

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