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

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MU PHI EPSILON KAPPA CHAPTER NATIONAL MUSIC SORORITY Greetings again from Kappa! The first Mu Phi activity for the year 1944- ' 45 was the reception given for women students on September 19. A very fine program was presented by Marjorie Bernat who played several delightful violoncello numbers; Dorothy Munger who performed beautifully on the piano, and Victoria Balser who sang several very lovely solos. The reception was well attended and we feel sure everyone enjoyed the program as well as the social period following. Our Founder ' s Day Celebration and Initiation was held on November fourteenth this year instead of the usual date of November thirteenth. We enjoyed a very nice dinner at the Marott Hotel. After a program given by the initiates, we held our initiation in our chapter room. Those who were taken into Mu Phi were Charlotte Brim, Jo Marilyn Brown, Florine Duff and Lucy Smith. On December nineteenth we had a joint Christmas program with the Alumnae Chapter and our Patronesses. We had a lovely program of old Christmas customs and also a white elephant gift exchange. Mrs. Henry Schricker was our hostess. Twice during the year we had a Candlelight Musicale on Sunday afternoon at the Marott Hotel. On April seventeenth cur election and installation of officers was held. The program on that evening was given by our scholarship student, June Floyd Gwyn. Spring initiation and installation of Patronesses took place on May 15. On June fifth our active year will close with the annual June Frolic. [21 ]

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PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA FRATERNITY ALPHA SIGMA CHAPTER THE WOUNDED DO NOT CRY Two hours after Lieut. Frances Slanger and other Army nurses waded ashore in Normandy on D-plus-four, they were at work. They slept on the ground, wore the same clothes four days running. In five weeks of rugged going they helped handle 3,000 casualties. Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I. ' s mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awe- some to behold. Stars and Stripes published it under the heading Nurse Writes Editorial. But Nurse Slanger never saw it in print. The night after she wrote the piece, a German shell had ripped into her tent and wounded her fatally. She did not cry, died a half hour later. — Time, December 4, 1944. For these and countless thousands like them Sinfonia most humbly and reverently bows its head in a prayer to God that they might be protected and spared to come home to a new, greater world wherein men will live as un- selfishly in peace as they have suffered unselfishly during war. Phi Mu Alpha Sm- fonia members of Alpha Sigma chapter have twenty-three brothers in uniform who all join in the sincere prayer that the day will come soon when all mankmd will live as one family, meriting the love of their Maker. . . . Earth shall be fair, and all her people one. [20]

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PHI SIGMA MU ETA CHAPTER As is the annual custom, Eta Chapter greeted the women students of Jordan, both old and new, at an informal reception on October 3. Founder ' s Day was celebrated on December 9 with a favorite of Eta mem- bers — a chili supper followed by a Christmas party and gift exchange. Initiation for pledges was held in February, with breakfast following, as a compensation, more or less, for the early 7:00 A. M. initiation hour. We are happy to welcome into our organization Mary Mae Stamper, Lillian Steinkeller, Ruby Montgomery, Betty Bowers, and Connie McClure. Recitals were given this year by June Gwyn, Mu Phi scholarship winner, Jo Marilyn Brown and Mary Euphrat, who combined in a program of vocal and ' cello music. Members come and go but we are eager to have them join our circle. Mary Emily Davisson was with us until October when she returned to her home in Virginia. Our sincere wishes follow Pat Pearson who left in November to study at the University of Los Angeles in California. With the approach of June and graduation, four of our members will join the school mar ' m brigade. To Mary Jane Kent, Marion Thompson, June Gwyn, Muriel Oeth and Mary Jane Harper, who will embark soon on teaching careers we say Best of luck. We send a vote of thanks to Mary Jane Harper, our president, and her as- sisting officers for leading us through another successful year. Phi Sigma Mu takes this opportunity to wish a pleasant summer and suc- cessful year to all. [22]