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

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I ETA CHAPTER ] PHI SIGMA MU 1 National Honorary Sorority in Music Education It ' s been a busy and a prosperous year for Eta Chapter here at Jordan and honestly, we don ' t mean to brag. It ' s just that we ' re bubbhn ' over. There is no better place than here to offer a vote of thanks to our new officers who have been super . They ' ve worked tirelessly and we ' re proud of them. Per- haps you would like to know who they are. President, Jean Hegg; Vice-President, Mary Flora Wilson; Corresponding Secretary, Pat Pearson; Recording Secretary, Doris Miller; Treasurer, Mildred Reimer; and Historian, Elma Baker. Congratulations are in order! First of all to our new members. Five pledges were initiated Sunday morning, October 20th, at an impressive sunrise initiation service. Following the initiation, the new members M ere guests of the chapter at breakfast. The new members are Mrs. Melvin Crafton, clarinetist; June Floyd, Mary Emily Spilman, and Marion Thompson, vocalists; and Ruth Pearson, flutist. We are quite proud of our new pledges: Maxine Snell, trumpeter; Mary Jane Harper, clarinetist; and Jo Marilyn Brown, ' cellist. May we welcome back Mrs. Beatrice Kerr, one of our former members, who returned this year to Indianapolis. Incidentally, did you notice the Mrs. in the group above? Our congratulations to Beth Ann who was recently married to Private Melvin Crafton. Private Crafton is an A. J. C. graduate and was teaching in the Shelbyville Schools. While our thoughts are turned to romance — Lieutenant and Mrs. Lyle D. Hegg have an- nounced the engagement of their daughter, Jean, to Pfc. Lou Pirko, Long Island, N. Y. Prior to his induction. Private Pirko was a member of the Indianapolis Sym- phony Orchestra and the Jordan faculty. Congratulations, Madame President and Lou. Best wishes go to Mary Emily Spilman and Elma Baker, both of whom are being very true to their fiances serving in the armed forces. And could this be the place to mention our Jerry Mohler and Bud Stone? Due to the national emergency, it has been necessary for the campus to do away with many of its social functions. However, it seemed to all that now, more than ever, music was needed to help stabilize an otherwise turbulent world. So as usual Phi Sigma Mu joined with Mu Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Iota and Phi Mu Alpha - Sinfonia for the annual Noel Fest. Service men were invited and it seemed that the words of the old familiar carols — Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men — I ' ang out more clearly and sincerely than ever. We say goodbye this year to three of our old members, Jean Hegg, Jerry Mohler, and Sally Wilson. Jean ' s plans for the future include a bungalow for two while Sally and Jerry intend to teach school. We bid them a most fond adieu and best wishes for the future. We ' ll miss them greatly, but already we have started planning another interesting and eventful year with a renewed desire to uphold the ideals of Phi Sigma Mu and to keep alive the contacts it has made. ,.?,

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ALPHA SIGMA CHAPTER PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA National Honorary Music Fraternity OFFICERS OF ALPHA SIGMA CHAPTER ' . ■ ' Supreme Councilman J. Russell Paxton President ....:.......... Louis B. Rutan Vice-President ' . William F. Moon Secretary Kelvin Masson Treasurer j. j, Albion Warden Alonzo Eidson Historian X aldo UtteW Alumni Secretary Harold E. Winslow Sinfonia was founded at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, October 6, 1898, by Ossian E. Mills. Its seventy-two chapters com- prise the largest men ' s musical fraternity in America. Alpha Sigma Chapter was installed at the Metropolitan School of Music, May 2 5, 1926. Alpha Sigma sends greetings to all Sinfonia Chapters. Our bonds of sympathetic understanding for your problems are great and full. We, too, are fa cing grave problems of organization and progress. For all of us the opportunity of service to the first object of our Fraternity is whether in camp, company, squad, or at home, promoting in the hearts of those young and old the ideals, the courage and the hope that is particularly the heritage of music itself. Our chapter activities have been particularly successful. The male students and faculty members of the Conservatory were feted with a reception and a program shortly after the opening of the school year in September. Was it well attended? You answer that. Our invitation included the word refreshments. This initial activity led to the pledging of six fine men: James Edington, Robert Barton, Mal- lory Bransford, Ralph Coverston, Ervin Reed, and Charles Hamilton. Our joy will be complete late in March when these pledges accept for all time the honor and privileges of a Sinfonian. Object and Purpose of the Fraternity: To advance the cause of music in America. To foster the mutual welfare and brotherhood of students 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. Once a Sinfonuui, always a Siufoiiian. Long Live Sinfonia!

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SIGMA ALPHA IOTA National Professional Music Sorority OFFICERS OF ZETA CHAPTER President Martha Egger Vice-President Jeanadele Schaefer Recording Secretary Mary Alice Billing Corresponding Secretary Charmion Harp Treasurer Elma Lemley Chaplain ; Nellie Jones Sergeant-at-Arms Pat RJieinhardt Editor Lily King Shaw Sigma Alpha Iota is proud of the high merit of the thirteen thousand perform- ers, teachers, and composers who comprise its ranks. Zeta Chapter has a present membership of forty-one, supported by a select patroness group, and Nu Zeta Alumnae Chapter of over one hundred members. Early in the school year our beloved National President, Gertrude Evans, heard the call to duty and resigned her office to serve our country through the WAACS. Kathleen Davison succeeds her. In our own chapter Mary Louise Houk and Jeanne Burr, vice-president and sergeant-at-arms, respectively, relinquished their offices to engage in professional performance and teaching in other states. SAI ' s everywhere are following a Victory program. Zeta Chapter has wisely invested in war bonds and has appointed Pat Rheinhardt as Victory Chairman to lead these activities. Many of our members devote their talents to entertaining groups of men in the service. Each year the Eva Schurman scholarship is awarded to some outstanding and deserving SAL The present recipient and winner of the faculty judged auditions is Jacquelyn Mitchell, pianist, who is one of the artists of the Spring Musicale. This event is open to the public each year. Despite many wartime limitations, Indianapolis SAI ' s have been culturally active, continuing traditional monthly musicales, on which every member performs during the year. We celebrated our Incorporation Day, December first, with a banquet at which some of the original minvites of our group were read by a chapter founder. We participated in the All Fraternal Noel Fest near the Christmas sea- son. Our province president, Mrs. J. Alfred Neu, was entertained here during her inspectional visit. With proud hearts we greeted Rose Bampton, national honorary member, when she appeared with the Indianapolis Symphony in March, wearing the sorority colors, red and white. Other nationally famed members include Gladys Swarthout, Myra Hess, Lucrezia Bori, Lily Pons, Kirsten Flagstad,.Rosa Raisa, Lotte Lehman, Deanne Durbin, Rise Stevens and others. The Initiation Service held March sixteenth climaxed the year ' s activities when our president, Martha Egger, completed the induction of nine new members. A buffet supper, toasts, and a musical program followed to honor the new initiates, who in turn presented the musicale for April. Election of officers and an annual picnic successfully rounded out the year. It ' s the fairest flower blooming — the Rose of SAI!