Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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Rush Week Stampede % Manor b rookt the Buffalo? Already the old imagination has caught on and visions of fish go swimming by. Then a mad dash upstairs and into a suitcase, shedding a few moths in the hurry, but revealing a formal ready and waiting for a few salt breezes. The lapse of time until evening is taken care of by some nondescript classes which she has al- ready been informed by upperclassmen are cinch- es and so are shelved. Finally, party time comes sneaking around and a bevy of beauties troop slowly down the hill to the Masonic Hall. Everything is in ship-shape order with oyster soup and creamed tuna fish. Meantime she has found a seashell bracelet by her plate and has uttered appreciative oh ' s and ah ' s. When all is scaled to the last shell, dancing begins and continues until the party moves to the Phi Mu house. She found out later that the part that impressed her most at all these parties was that time when everyone sat down by candlelight to sing and talk. In this instance a gold locket is placed about her neck and a book of Phi Mu songs given her. She leaves with stars in her eyes, fish in her stomach and a thrill that her first party at Beth- any had been so nice. Continued on Vuge Eighteen Upper right — After-dinner dancing at the T,eta Tan Alpha party. Right — Virginia Joseph, Phyllis Ann Miles and Jean Lois Matheny buying cones during Rush Week. Lower right — Lee Ficss leads a song jest with the Kappa Delta ' s white piano. Lower left — Rushees enjoy an appetizer at the Kappa Delta party. Pige Ni

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Sorority The Feminine The Freshmen descends. Amid the sound of the clatter of trunks, keys, and the fog that en- velops her, the green outline that infringes the fledgling is bearly visible. Time goes tramping along and a week later even the healthy, rosy complexion has vanished like a glamour girl who has just washed her face, and pale bewilderment takes its place. Why? Because a coup d ' etat of amazing swiftness and confusion has descend- ed to perplex and behaggle — Rush Week. Girls, everywhere girls. Bright and gay and zealous with an ardour that creates everything and more than is intended. Teasing smiles and winning invitations which please and flatter and spread sunshine with a butter knife. To show just what eight muscles assuming the right posi- tion can do, by the end of the week each Fresh- man had decided that each sorority had the best girls on the campus, the most popular, and the most intellectual. That opinion in itself is fatal, for one must narrow down to a margin before the margin narrows down to you, a wreck of your former self. To show how this interesting process works, let ' s follow a Freshman in her flight. The day creeps unsuspectingly up and before a new class can be more than mentioned it is 10:00 A. M. and mail time. In her own little box she discovers an invitation. The Phi Mu ' s are having seafood at Bethany. Whatever got into Upper left — Jane Williamson pla s maid-of- honor at the Alpha Xi wedding. Left — The Alpha Xi ' s converse with rushees at their house. Lower left — Table chat at the Phi Mn dinner. Lcwer right — Rushees enjoy seafood with tin- Phi Mns. t Page Eight

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Fraternity Or, I Pledged JVith My The freshmen were sprawled all over the ounge talking about mundane and highly intel- lectual subjects, when I made my entrance by tripping on the carpet. I deemed myself not bright enough to grasp the finer points of this conversation, but I soon heard somebody say, she ' s a pip, and knowing that he was not speaking of Einstein ' s theory, and by using ad- vanced algebra and a smattering of trig I calcu- lated he was talking about the freshmen girls. This interesting and highly enjoyable talk was suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a fresh- man—exuberant. He blurted our something about being over at the Sig house, and what a swell place it was. I inquired who was Sig and in what business did he make all his dough. The fresh- man all of a sudden took an aloft and distant air, and replied that Sig was not a person, but a fra- ternity. I told him to come off his higher plane before I divcd-bombed him. And then and there we started discussing fraternities, and I never heard so many Greek words in all my life. And what questions do you think were asked? What is the background of the A K Pi ' s? How many chapters have the Beta ' s? and What is their fraternity flower? No. They asked such Top left — Don Hilhtrom and Roy Heckel demonstrate the best method of rushing attack. Upper left — The Betas entertain with a jam session in their east wing extension. Left — Bud Deer and Ed Gudgel talk to Dare Perry, Frank McEvoy and Frank Buecbley in a room at the AKPi house. Loner left — Herman Steinberg, Karl W ass- man and Dick Wallace discuss athletics at the AKPi fireplace. Below — Geenan entertains with another fam- ous anecdote. Page Ten