Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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MEMBERS FIRST Row : Vivian Ann Adolph. Barbara Ann Blanchard. Marilyn Caillouet. Ruth Caver. SECOND Row: Carolyn Cecilia Clause. Betty Lou Dickert. Patsy Kay Johnson. Madga L. Lieux. THIRD Row: Ann McPhearson. Frances Magee. Barbara Alice Prisk. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB OFFICERS BARBARA BLANCHARD President MARILYN CAILLOtET I ' ice-Presideni MARITTA SMITH Secretary KAY JOHNSON .. ..Treasurer The Home Economics Club is an organization of stu- dents interested in professional home economics and home- making. The club is affiliated with the Louisiana Home Economics Association and the American Home Economics --ociation. Throughout the year the organization plans and carries out activities to promote the program set up by the College Clubs Department of the Louisiana Home Economic? As- sociation, as well as the objectives of the American Home Economics Association. The main purposes of the local club are to promote pro- fessional attitudes and interests, develop leadership abil- ity, promote better international relations, and to promote friendship between the faculty and students interested in the same field. MEMBERS SEATED, Left to Right: Philip Levy. Jonas deBarros. William A. Wintz. John Harris. Arthur Rogers. STANDING: Frank Weaver. Arman- do F. Diaz. Billy Reed. J. E. Clem- ent. Marco Raudales. Robert Power. NOT PICTURED: Rafeal Andrade. William Frank Wilke. SIGMA TAU SIGMA OFFICERS ARTHl R D. ROGERS President JOHN R. HARRIS yict-PresiJent JONAS deBARROS Secretary PHILIP LEVY - - - Treasurer Sigma Tau Sigma, local honorary civil engineering fra- ternity, was established at L.S.U. in 1922. The purpose of this organization is to foster a higher initiative for scholar- ship and to promote the ethics and ideals of the Civil En- gineering profession. Most of the meetings were held jointly with the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. These meetings featured a guest speaker, a practicing engineer, or a member of the faculty who usually illustrated his talk with a film. Pledges of Sigma Tau Sigma were initiated in October. Junior standing in Civil Engineernig with a sufficient aca- demic record is necessary for initiation into the fraternity.

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MEMBERS FIRST Row: Carl A. Blomquist. Luis A. Colmenares, Richard D. Denson. SECOND Row: Leonard C. Hoop- er, Ralph W. Lewis, Larry Plei- man. PI T AU SIGMA OFFICERS RAYMOND WAGUESPACK President RONALD MELANCON Vice-President HENRY LEE Secretary LAINCDON FRYE Treasurer Pi Tau Sigma is an honorary mechanical engineering fraternity composed of outstanding students in the Junior and Senior classes in the College of Engineering. Eligibil- ity for membership requires standing in the top twenty per cent of the Junior class or the top thirty-five per cent of the Senior class. MEMBERS FIRST Row: Doss Berry. Vi liam D. Brown. William F. Crawford. Billy H. Hines. SECOND Row: Charles Hollier. Bennett Johnston, George T. Owen, Guy W. Smith. PHI DELTA PHI OFFICERS JOHN S. WHITE, JR President WILLIAM C. HOLLIER Vice-president BILLY H. HINES Secretary J. BENNETT JOHNSTON Treasurer Martin Inn of Phi Delta Phi, international legal fra- ternity, was chartered at Louisiana State University in 1927. It has for its purpose the fostering of higher stand- ards of professional ethics and culture in the law school and in the profession at large. To be eligible for member- ship a student must have a 1.2 scholastic average. Phi Delta Phi sponsors a scholarship of the same name which is given to the freshman who makes the highest average in his first semester of law school. The members of Martin Inn who were also members of the Student Board of the Louisiana Law Review were: Donald J. Tate. Editor-in-Chief; William C. Hollier. Charles M. Lanier, and John M. Shaw. Associate Editors.

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MEMBERS John W. Bowers, George W. Ca- baniss. Odom McDaniel, Jr., Jo- seph Steve Webb. XI SIGMA PI OFFICERS GEORGE CABANISS President JOHN BOWERS V ice-President ODOM McDANIEL, JR Secretary STEVE WEBB Treasurer XI Sigma Pi is a national honorary forestry fraternity composed of men who have shown promise of obtaining high professional achievement in practical forestry, and who have done good scholastic work. Nu chapter of L.S.U. is composed of outstanding students in forestry and of the School of Forestry faculty members. An award is given each year at the fall Agriculture Con- vocation to the outstanding Sophomore of the previous year, and his name is burned into the Cedar Log in the forestry building. Nu chapter is serving as national headquarters during the 1954-55 and 1955-56 seasons for the chapters located in the various colleges and universities in the nation. MEMBERS LEFT TO RIGHT: Beth Freeman. Joan Houck. Norma Archard, Connie Alach, Barbara Herwig, Dottie Rahme. T AU BETA SIGMA OFFICERS BARBARA HERWIG Pn-s,,l,-,,i MARIE CAMPBELL Vice-President NORMA ARCHARD Secretary CONNIE ALACH .. ..Treasurer Operating exclusively in the field of the college and university bands, Tau Beta Sigma, honorary sorority for College Bandswomen, has for its purposes the promoting of the existence and welfare of the college and university bands, the cultivation of a large and wholesome respect for their activities and achievements, the honoring of out- standing women in the band through the privilege of membership extended as a reward for technical achieve- ment and appreciation for the best in music, and coopera- tion with other musical organizations in any manner con- sistent with the purpose of the institution at which chap- ters are located.