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

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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.

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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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SIGMA ALPHA IOTA NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL MUSIC FRATERNITY Sigma Alpha Iota, the oldest national music fraternity for women, was estab- lished in 1903 at the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, by seven women whose aim was to give moral and material aid to the members of the group during the course of their musical education. The fraternity now has a member- ship of more than twelve thousand with seventy-two active chapters located in the leading universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the country. Zeta Chapter was established at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music in 1911. There is a patroness group as well as an alumnae chapter located in Indian- apolis. Each year Zeta Chapter holds auditions for awarding the Eva Schurmann Scholarship of $100 to be used toward the tuition of a student carrying a full collegiate course at the Conservatory. Monthly musicales are held by the chapter to develop poise and to increase the knowledge of musical literature and program building. Indianapolis SAI ' s are prominently engaged in the activities of the Indi- ana Federation of Music Clubs, the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale, the Harmonic Club, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and various other organizations. Sigma Alpha Iota accepts for its members only girls of earnest purpose, high scholarship, high personal character, and marked musical talent. The fraternity is happy to elect worthy undergraduates to membership as well as upperclassmen. Operating thus as a professional organization demands professional ethics and a professional attitude on the part of all members. Moreover, it affords a close and helpful alliance with women in other professional fields. In changing its corporate name from honorary to professional, Sigma Alpha Iota did not lower its standards for membership. Sigma Alpha Iota takes pride in its national honorary members who are out- standing in the music world today. Such artists are: Rose Bampton, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Lily Pons, Rosa Raisa, Elizabeth Rethberg, Mana- Zucca, Gladys Swarthout, and others, whose accomplishments are familiar to all. The honors bestowed by the fraternity on its members are the Ring of Excel- lence, the highest honor offered for outstanding musical achievements; the Sword of Honor, for work in the chapter over and above that which is required; and the Honor Certificate, awarded annually to the graduate in the chapter with the high- est scholastic average. The Sigma Alpha Iota objectives are: to form bodies of representative women who shall by their influence and their musical interest uphold the highest ideals of a musical education to raise the standards of productive musical work among the women stu- dents of colleges, conservatories, and universities to further the development of music in America and promote a stronger bond of musical interest and understanding between foreign countries and America to give inspiration and material aid to its members to organize the social life of its members as a contributing factor to their educational program to cooperate whole-heartedly with the ideals and aims of the Alma Mater to adhere to the high standards of American citizenship and democracy.