Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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Top Row: left to right: Elizabeth Aron, Phyllis Yunker, Rea Rae Smith, Virginia Frank, and Shirley Wenger. Third Row: Kay Peshke, Rama Kirkwood, Blanche Bahlke, Lois Fowler, Barbara Malcolm, and Patricia Williams. Second Row: Shirley Wilson, Jeanne Maxson, Christine Agorgianitis, Lenore Meyer, Dorothy Strauss, and Silena Luchini. Bottom Row: Lois Ritchie, Phyllis Dunnette, Mary Goadwyn, Helen Dehnke, Norma Lincoln, and Nancy Miller. Not pictured: Dorothy Champ and Betsy Ross. Mary Goodwyn was president of Kappa Iota for the first of the three electoral periods of this school year. She also represented the sorority as president of the Women's League. Blanche Bahlke, another senior and president of the Wright Hall Senate, assisted her as vice-president. Alice Peterson served as recording secretary. During the second period, Blanche Bahlke was elected president, Phyllis Dunnette, vice-presi- dentp and Kay Peshke, recording secretary. Since March, Phyllis Dunnette has been president, Mary Goodwyn, vice-president, and Lois Ritchie, recording secretary. Some of the offices were filled by one person throughout the entire year. The duties of corresponding secretary were carried out by Marjorie Croft, of critic, by Norma Lincoln, of sentinel, by Virginia Frank, and of social chairman, by Shirley Wenger. 89

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KHPPH IOTEI Kappa lota became of age this year, celebrating its twenty-first year on the Alma College campus. Dean Elizabeth Roberts founded this society, the second youngest sorority, in 1921. The members strive to promote interest in literature, inspire higher ideals, and further the social activities of the college. The Kappa Iota social calendar for the year was a full one. Last fall the society held its annual informal closed party in the chapel recreation room. For this occasion im- pressive curtains of purple Spangled with gold K.l. emblems. For the Homecoming Parade, the sorority float was a clever portrayal of the slogan H99 and 44f10O percent pure . In the evening of Homecoming Day, a banquet was held, with many former members of the society returning for the event. Later in the year, a tea was held in honor of the patronesses. The patronesses, in return, gave a Coke Dance for the members of the chapel recreation room. The Saddle Shoe Shuffle, an all-college, girl-bid dance sponsored by the sorority, was an outstanding social success. Song of the Islands would have been an appropriate theme song for the society's rushing party for freshmen, which was an authentic tropical affair, complete even to bare feet and grass skirts. Other social highlights of the year were the formal initiation banquet and the annual formal dinner-dance at the Midland Country Club on May 16. The group presented a riotous burlesque of Little Red Riding Hood for their Thursday chapel program. The cast included Marjorie Croft as the cigar-smoking, gum-chewing grandmother, Lenore Meyer, as the big bad wolf, Rama Kirkwood as sweet, innocent, little Red, and Dorothy Champ as the lisping hero. All of the members contributed to the success of the affair, but much of the credit was due to the fine supervision of Lois Fowler. The entire sorority, under Phyllis Dunnette's guidance, made Bundles for Britain in a scheduled sewing class every Friday afternoon. Those who could, knitted sweaters and caps for children, while the others made flannel night gowns. The project was completed in time for Christmas. Kappa Iota is grateful for the interest its patronesses have shown in it. The patronesses are: Mrs. Jess W. Ewer, Mrs. Gordon MacDonald, Mrs. Edward Lobdell and Mrs. C. F. DuBois. Three honorary members, Mrs. Herbert Wiltsee, Mrs. H. Woodley, and Mrs. H. McClure, were welcomed into the sorority this spring at its annual formal banquet. 88

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PHI SIGMA NU Pi Sigma Nu, Alma College's infant sorority, is in its fourth year of existence. Former Dean Florence Steward instigated its organization in the spring of 1939 with the cooperation of a committee appointed for that purpose. The patronesses of the society are Mrs. Henry Howe, Mrs. Paul Rice, and Mrs. Lyder Unstad. The Pi Sigma Nu girls are proud of their scholastic record, and with good reason. The coveted scholarship cup, given each semester to the sorority which has maintained the highest average as a group for the previous semester, has rested in their hands for all but the first semester since the sorority's foundation. As a group they rate second only to Phi Sigma Pi, the campus honor society. To produce girls who will be well developed not only intellectually, but will also be interested in athletics, social functions, and the general campus activities is the aim of Pi Sigma Nu. This well-balanced development is expressed by the Greek letters of the sorority's name. After starting the social season with a tea and later a successful Homecoming banquet, the society decided to arrange some entertainment equally enjoyable, but less formal. A picnic at Turck's Park followed. The Pi Sigs sponsored the Saginaw Eastern High School A Cappella Choir for their Thursday chapel program. Last November, the Pi Sigma Nu girl-bid dance, open to all girls of the college, was the outstanding social event of the month. Striking little Scotchmen made up the programs and formed the decorations. George Washington and his hatchet was the theme upon which their rushing party for freshman women was based. Tiny hatchets were the invitations. At their many spreads, the sorority members have proven to be equally gracious hostesses. Gloria Albinana was inducted into Pi Sigma Nu as an honorary member. She has been attending Alma College for the last year on a scholarship from the New York Institution of International Education. This girl from Mexico has carved for herself a place on the Alma campus. At home she studied for and obtained her lawyer's degree. At the end of her year of study here she was awarded a bachelor's degree by the college. Pi Sigma Nu had real reason to be proud of her, for although she did all her studying in a foreign language, she maintained better than a 2.5 average. Marjorie Hines and Marion Spalsbury were other new members welcomed into the sorority. Their initiation was climaxed by a formal banquet in the spring. The mem- bers of the sorority had their choice of attending the formal dinner-dance of one of the other three sororities if they desired. 90