University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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J-(ittle Jaunts Witn virreat Journalists-— or JWarqie V rites ner V olumn (It looks like the Pi Phis haven ' t done a thing this week) Dear Diary: Well, folks, the biggest event in Austin this week was Pi Beta Phi election of officers. Ted Lewis Moody (the cute thing) was elected president, and Clara Couth (isn ' t she smart!) was appointed secretary and the vice-president will be Dora Decorum; and the Grand Assistant Keeper of Cutlery (and you just think that isn ' t important) will be Margie (your own dear) Bite. Other officers will be treas- urer, Pan-Hellenic rep. will be so-and-so and so-and-so. Next week is Fiesta week in San Antonio. Miss Cytheria Bumpkin will be Duchess of Podunk. She is a Pi-Beta- Phi. Miss Martha Edmond (Pi-Beta-Phi mind you) will be the Duchess of I-forgot. Ruth Ropy (Pi — spell it right — Beta-Phi) and Lucille Sharp, Pi-Beta-Phi, repre- sented Austin, the University and Enfield, and all the other suburbs, including Toonerville. Some other non-sorority girls and Zetas went over too. In case you Fort Worth people don ' t know it, the fraternity dance is one of the things that mean success to a girl. Well, Delta Theta Phi had a dance and all us girls were there. Among those present were Nattie Nouveau- Riche, Pi-Beta-Phi; Gloria Gets Out, Pi-Beta Phi; this one and that one, Pi-Beta-Phi; and Margie Bite, Pi-Beta- Phi. Well, I saw that cute Tommy Gay yesterday hurrying to school. Well, that ' s just another part of college life. Last night at the Pi-Phi house we had pork roast and turnip greens and head lettuce and black eyed beans. Some of us girls drank milk and some of us had iced tea. It was so much fun, just us girls — just another gay pas- time of college life. Well I saw that cute, cute Woody Bunn standing in front of the Drug Store, and that ' s another part of college life. Well, that ' s just about all for this week. Love and kisses, — Margie. THOUGHTS WHILE STROLLING- STROLLING? -OR WERE WE Louise Lattimer doesn ' t know whether her feet are large or small; she hasn ' t seen them in years. Virginia Suggs is reported to have joined the police force; at all events. Wade Hollowell ' s badge is missing. There was a rush week this year; Kappa Sigma harvested its usual crop of offal. SIMILE: As busy as a Deke trying to act like a gentle- man. This University has the sorriest brother acts that can possibly be imagined. F ancy what a good school this would be if it were not for the Brothers Veltmann, Sullivan, Crowder and Guthrie. The Grisham-Davis romance has entered the tenth round, and is still a draw. Helen White could have attained some degree of popu- larity had it not been her misfortune to become associated with that perennial Austin Playboy, Billy Butler. She might have overcome even this handicap if she had not suddenly gone high-hat. After all, her chief claim to fame is that she is a Theta, and Goodness knows that is distinction meagre enough. We think that the Buzzard got off one crack this year which is worthy of perpetuation in story, song and print. Can you remember when he so eruditely remarked that he saw Mary Tom Blackwood surrounded by her pledge sisters like a star on a cloudy night. We agree insofar as the pledge sisters are concerned, but cannot discover the identity of the star. And speaking of the Pi Phew pledges, does anybody know as swell a gal as Ruth Robey, or as silly a little miss as Margaret Harrison? Is there any excuse for the Ay Tee Ohs? Of all the people who are deserving of ridicule, scorn, contempt and disapprobation we are of opinion that the most worthy are those Tattle-Tale-Student-Cops who haunt what are laughingly referred to as Germans. If our choice were between starvation and a position of that nature we should soon appeal to the Salvation Army for free food. Page 339

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AV liat ' s AV rong AV ith The Ivappa Oi5ternooa; That poignant question has bothered the loyal support- ers of Kappa Kappa Gamma for some years. We submit that the trouble is largely due to the follow- ing items — -some large and some small — although in general they may be said to carry out the Kappa tonnage tradition. First Dorothy Rose is a shining light though somewhat dimmed by the Sweetheart election. Three years ago, fresh from Wellesley, the tender bud felt the necessity of bursting into full blossom. Which she did by joining every organization that asked her, and by assuming that sweet but serious air so necessary for female executives. But nobody gathered the bud or the full blown Rose and its sweetness is being rapidly wasted on the desert air (or is it hot air such as Bubba Harkrider). Rachel (the Horse) Dougherty, it is said never smiles because she is afraid she might freeze that way and give somebody the impression that she could be pleasant oc- casionally. Then there is Shiny Baby Griffith but everybody knows about her or has at least heard her. Just one ex- ample of Dorris (you must have both r ' s ) Williams ' repertoire of childish tricks will suffice, though this one back- fired on her: she called Jim (Pinky) McLain and in what she supposed was a disguised voice told him that there was a calf for him at the Express office. He replied that if it looked like Dorris Williams keep it down there, and might we add that if there had of been a calf it probably would have looked like her. Since time immemorial the Kappas have been famous for their big women (and we don ' t mean big on the campus) and though many of the finer and bigger specimens have departed there are several newcomers to carry on high, to- wit: Dorothy Milroy, Eleanor Chance, and Mariana Butz. Then last but no means least, the Kappa House is no longer, if it ever was, inviting because it is constantly in- fested with A. T. O ' s and Dekes. Nell (Malaprop) Colgin ' s remark seems classic. The Pi Phis after their usual fashion of tending to everybody ' s business were discussing the resignation of Lucy Field ' s campaign manager Adoue Parker due to a rift in their relationship. Nell said: I don ' t think it was very demo- cratic of Lucy to break up with Adoue in the middle of the campaign. Little did she realize (but does she ever realize) that many lost votes were regained by that move. The Sigma Nus managed to keep the ugly fact that Fleming Waters was one of the brothers for a year and a half, but the truth is out now. They might have known that a Skeleton in the Closet of the magnitude of Flaming could not be kept a secret for long. Things began to get hot Rush Week when Mary Edson and Margie Bright stomped into Mrs. Goldbeck ' s office to complain about th e Kappas (but who doesn ' t?) and the Thetas (ditto) and their dirty rushing tactics. The Pi Phis seem to think that whenever anyone else does better than they do that there is something dirty about it. Well, it ' s time the rushees were getting better educated. Imagine anyone wanting to pledge Phi Gam in the first place, and then consider the sad case of Al (Pike ' s Peak) Kendall who has hung around school (much to everyone ' s disgust) just to do that. Now he is finally successful (?) and is another wearer of the shining star, and we might say a worthy one. The rumor persists that the A. D. Pis broke Althea Klumpps ' pledge because of Joe Scott, but we discount it — for who could get excited over Joe Scott? You cannot say the Zetas are not trying anyhow; they require their pledges to drink cokes at Mac ' s three times a week. A V lassic ol JVionterre 7 Monterrey! Ah, Monterrey, the hunting ground of false and facetious males from the fojlishly, frolicking circles of the Phi Gap and Sigh intramural clique, was a place of beauty which could not be duplicated in the length and breadth of the land. But that was before the influx of the weaker sistren, the Wearers of the Golden Error. A place to lure some eager lad, who due to his lack of brain power and consistency of allowance had become the owner of a neatly jeweled pin, which to his calloused mind lifted him into a classic set apart. There some damsel The gay revellers shining in front oj old A ncira might surreptitiously and with foul intent lift the afore- said pin from his heaving and adolescent breast and re- turn to the city of Austin to bask in the benign, dubiously approving smiles of their more fortunate sistren who do not long to see the pen-house of the old Hotel Ancira. One trip should hardly be singled out to receive ac- clamation and defamation, but it so happens that upon this particular trip the success of the female Tarzans was unprecedented. So much so, in fact, that their raucous strident cries of triumph could be heard in Austin for weeks. Four girls (count ' em): Harrison, Edson, Jackson, and Hancock returned wearing pins — the first two brazenly and the last two brazierly. And four boys (don ' t count ' em): H. Chilton, Seewald, Kolhausen, and Adair returned. Howie and Ridgeway also ran — too fast for Korth and Miles (the Olive King). The brethren and sistren will retire to the ranks singing He-pinned Me in Monterrey. We are glad to see the Betas make some move even though it merely carries out their usual self-effacing atti- tude. When Frank Ryburn went to the Phi House for his rush date, he announced that the Betas had abolished the paddle. That might have pledged Ryburn but think of its effect on the ordinary freshman. It is all right for the Dekes to go around praising their members, if you go in for that sort of stuff (and we hope you don ' t), but it ' s carrying things a little too far for Joe Sullivan to always be bragging about the athletic ability of his brother Gordon, but then it ' s going too far to allow Joe around anyway. Page 341