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

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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!

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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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1228 Dear A ' Lums: Wonder perhaps if you ' d like to hear, The news of the Dorm this past hectic year? Things are so changed with the men all gone, That a male on the campus is a phenomenon. To their sweethearts away our girls are quite true, And we all do our best so they won ' t get too blue. In the big south room, the war widows hold sway, And all that they do is write letters all day. Jean Hegg writes to Lou (that tall symphony guy) and a swell big diamond for her he did buy. To another Lou, Mary Alice does write. If their letters got mixed it would cause quite a fright. A question: we wonder, are Dick and Pavila yet wed? A thought for another never enters her head. Jacquie these days has become quite thin. Do you suppose for a minute it could be Jim? And Sally still can ' t make up her mind. Is her heart by Marines, Navy or Army entwined? Betty Lou must be thinking of Howard these days. When she stares at her left hand with a pensive gaze; And her roommate, Marjorie ' s, head ' s in a whirl. She too wears a ring, and it ' s not a pearl. Now Pat ' s roaming fancy seems to have settled down, On a black-haired Romeo in a far southern town. Doris of course still runs on the grace. And more power to her who stands high in her clace. There is a soldier that writes to Muriel quite often, I ' m sure her heart he is trying to soften. And as Queenie trips merrily along on her way, Her bubbling laugh helps brighten the day. Then there ' s blonde Lucy — to her cheeks come a blush. When you say Bob — it ' s the big campus crush! The light brown hair of our Jeanne we admit. With her Cvitie-Pie sure made a big hit. Helen is new in the Dorm, with energy unended; Her determination in school must be commended. Three of our girls are working these days — Rosie, Betsy and Jacquie — and all say it pays. That to serve our country and help turn the tide Is something in which they take great pride. Sally, Jean and Ann, their country did serve, To Red Cross they gave blood, a life to preserve. Mrs. Woodie sits hours, knitting needles in hand. She can wear on her arm, an Air Raid Warden band. Two more of our girls we must mention here. They are now teaching school and it surely seems queer, That Ann and Jeanne, roomies the four years past.