University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

KAPPA ALPHA THETA BACK Row: Nicholson, Walker, Calhoun, Wilson, Forbes, Givens, Everham, Davis, Eichenberger. FOURTH Row: Hause, Fritz, Smith, Team, J. Russell, Dyer, Grant, Carruth, Kilty, DeMotte. THIRD Row: Linscott, Eidson, F. Burrow, Ingleman, McKeen, Mur- ray, Tyler, Hamilton, Hawk, Snyder. SECOND Row: James, Shockley, Wahl, Haines, Hartnett, Swan, Creager, Gibson, Simpson, Armstrong, Miller. FIRST Row: Werner, J. Burrow, Bowen, Shearer, Kroh, Fry, Lebrecht, Hartley, Swarthout, Bramwell, Hare, A. Russell. Actives Ruth Armstrong, Scott City; Jeanette Bowen, Topeka; Barbara Bramwell, Belleville; Frances Burrow, Topeka; Josephine Burrow, Topeka; Nancy Calhoun, Fort Scott; Betty Creager, Milwaukee, Wis. ; Martha Davis, Topeka; Betty Eidson, Topeka; Barbara Everham, Kansas City, Mo. ; Marie Forbes, Eureka ; Dorothy Fry, Fairfax, Okla. ; Betty Gibson, Ottawa; Jean Haines, Topeka; Bette Hamilton, Kansas City, Mo.; Mary Hartnett ' Stafford; Catherine Hartley, Des Moines, Iowa; Mary Hause, Sabetha; Lucy Lee Hawk, Tulsa, Okla.; Nadine Ingleman, Des Moines, Iowa; Shirley Kroh, Kansas City, Mo.; Mary Grace Linscott, Topeka; Florence E. Lebrecht, Kansas City, Mo.; Jean McKeen, Topeka; Mary Ellen Miller, Lawrence; Mary Nicholson, Ellis; Jean Russell, Lawrence; Lillian Sands, Bartlesville, Okla.; Eliza- beth Shearer, Chillicothe, Mo. ; Betty Ruth Smith, Wichita ; Mary Simp- son, Topeka; Dorothy Snyder, Winfield; Ruth Swarthout, Lawrence; Catherine Swan, Topeka; Alice Team, Wichita; Helen Tyler, Bartles- ville, Okla.; Marjorie Wahl, Kansas City; Maxine Wilhelmi, Lawrence; Nancy Wilson, Horton. Pledges Charlene Barber, Ralston, Okla. ; Elizabeth Carruth, Topeka ; Mary Ellen DeMotte, Kansas City, Mo.; Meredith Dyer, Kansas City, Mo.; Jean Eichenberger, Macksville; Dorothy Fritz, Wichita; Jane Givens, Fort Scott; Esther Grant, Kansas City, Mo.; Olive Hare, Lawrence; Joan James, Shawnee, Okla.; Catherine Kilty, Kansas City, Mo.; Eleanor Murray, Douglastown, N. Y. ; Alice Russell, Lawrence; Mary Jane Shockley, Kansas City, Mo.; Betty Walker, Hutchinson; Dorothy Werner, Lawrence. 1116 INDIANA Kappa Alpha Theta was founded at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, on January 27, 1870. Its founders were Betty Locke, Alice Allen, Bettie Tipton, and Hanna Fitch. This was the first Greek letter organization for women organized with principles and methods similar to those of the men ' s fraternity. There are sixty-four chapters of which the Kansas chapter, Kappa, is one of the oldest. It wa. ' founded at the University of Kansas in 1881 and is situated at 1116 Indiana Street. Florence E. Lebrecht, of Kansas City, is now president of the chapter.