Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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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

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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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Back Row: left fo right: Jean Merrill, Virginia Feighner, and Vera Baney. Second Row: Marjorie Hines, Virginia Reiberg, Doris Koppin, and Elizabeth Mayville. Front Row: Marian Spalsbury, Veda Crewe, Gloria Albinana, Lois Hawkins, and Dona Peterson Election time for Pi Sigma Nu members comes once a semester. For the first half of the present school year, the president's duties were capably handled by Lois Hawkins. Doris Koppin was elected vice-president. Financial affairs were under the supervision of Treasurer Veda Crewe, and the meetings were recorded by Secretary Dona Peterson. Virginia Reiberg was the Almanian reporter, while Virginia Feighner acted as critic. Dona Peterson ably filled the president's office for the second semester, while Virginia Feighner acted as vice-president. Elected as secretary and treasurer were Doris Koppin and Lois Hawkins, respectively. Critic Betsy Mayville and Almanian Reporter Veda Crewe completed the list of officers for the last semester. 91