Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music - Opus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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ALPHA SIGMA CHAPTER PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA fS i i 1 If %J I First Roiv: Kichavd Orton, E. H. Jones, Alonzo Eidson, Hugh McGibeny, Carl Daivson, J. J. Albion, Rca Williams. Second Row: Pasqiiale Montani, Franklin Taylor, B. F. Suartbont, Harold Wins- low, Edward Emery, Stanley Norris. Third Row: Waldo Littell, Howard Hanscom, John White, Sam Scott, Francis Fitzgerald, Bcldon Leonard, Russell Paxton. Members not in picture — Gerald Bettcher, Gene Chenoweth, Richard Foster, Rus- sell Goucher, Robert Griflfey, Charles A. Henzie, Herbert Kaiser, Gilbert Kellberg, Henry A. Marshall, James W. Miers, Van J. Miller, William Moon, Raymond G. Oster, Roger Riley, Robert Shambaugh, Robert B. Shepard, Amos Smith, Vernon E. Spaulding, Mark F. Walker. Newly inducted members — Doyle Bowman, John Detroy, Paul Harder, Dale Har- rod, Charles Knowles, Paul Mueller, Golden Smith, Vincent Studer, Malvin Walker. Honorary member — Edward Bailey Birge. It shall be the object and purpose of the fraternity: To advance the cause of music in America. To foster the mutual welfare and brotherhood of students of music in America. To develop the truest fraternal spirit among its members. To encourage loyalty to the Alma Mater. - - To give recognition for outstanding worth in musical activity. Sinfonia was founded at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, October 6, 1898, by Ossian E. Mills. Its seventy-two chapters comprise the largest men ' s musical fraternity in America. Alpha Sigma Chapter was installed at the Metropolitan School of Music, May 2 5, 1926.

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FRATERNITIES MU PHI EPSILON NATIONAL MUSIC HONOR SOCIETY Mu Phi Epsilon is a national music honor society for women which was founded November 13, 1903, by W. S. Sterling and Elizabeth Mathias at the Metropolitan College of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio. The objects of Mu Phi Epsilon are the ad- vancement of music in America by maintaining high standards for membership requirements, the promotion of musicianship, scholarship, and friendship among music students in American colleges and schools of music, the constant endeavor to stimulate musical excellence in the entire student body of institutions where chapters are located, the maintenance of national contest awards and Scholarship awards, cooperation with national and civic music movements of importance, and the development of a true sisterhood, a spirit of mutual loyalty. Mu Phi Epsilon has forty-eight active chapters in colleges, conservatories and universities of the highest standing in the United States, twenty-nine alumnae clubs in various cities, and many patroness groups throughout the country. Kappa chapter at the Jordan Conservatory was granted its charter in November, 1906. Mu Phi Epsilon was not founded as a social organization and therefore does not rush or bid, but election for membership is made twice during each school year from the upper scholastic quarter of the junior, senior, and graduate classes, and is based on performance, character, and leadership as well as high scholarship. Annually, Kappa chapter awards a scholarship for the ensuing year ' s study with the artist teacher in piano, organ, voice, violin, or cello to one woman student in her sophomore, junior or senior year who wins the annual competition usually held in May. At the end of each school year Kappa chapter also awards two medals, one each to the freshman and sophomore girl who has maintained the highest scholastic average for the year. In addition to its regular monthly musicales, the sorority sponsors a reception at the beginning of the school year for all women students and also presents two public concerts each season. This year they included a program by active mem- bers in March and another in April by the scholarship winners of the last two years. Marion Laut was president of the chapter for the current year, and members of Mu Phi Epsilon also on the Jordan faculty include Mae Engle, Alice Harper, Vir- ginia Leyenberger, Isabelle Mossman, Dorothy Munger, Harriet Payne, Imogene Pierson, Helen Louise Quig, Leone Kinder Rickman, Lucille Wagner, Frances Wish- ard, Dorothy Woods, Hazel Steele, and Lois Buskirk.

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ETA CHAPTER PHI SIGMA MU National Honorary Sorority in Music Education OFFICERS OF ETA CHAPTER President Jean Hegg Vice-President Mary Flora Wilson Recording Secretary Doris Miller Corresponding Secretary Patricia Pearson Treasurer Margaretann Herzig Historian Elma Baker AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF PHI SIGMA MU 1. To promote music education as a profession in America. 2. To achieve a unity among music educators geographically separated. 3. To overcome professional isolation. 4. To bring about an expansion of service through closer relationship between schools of allied purposes and policies. 5. To identify our fraternity with standards of approved musicianship and with professional goals of superior attainment. 6. To befriend and assist the young teachers in our profession and to aid the needy student financially. 7. To sponsor music enterprises in our school and our community and among the less privileged. 8. To maintain worthy standards of ethical conduct both in our personal and in our professional lives. 9. To foster lovaltv to our Alma Mater.