Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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timefworn is the Press club that was founded, according to President Espey, while save ages yet roamed the wilds of Escarpa. Members still go to meetings heavily armed with knitting needles. Freshmen and Sophomore women who desire to pen dear little sonnets may do so under the auspices of the Dial Club. An annual award is made to the member who holds the greatest number of rejection slips from the editors of the L'Occidental . More exclusive is the Laurean Club, open to Upper Class women only. Literary efforts are not offered for local publication. The girls who slave away the weary hours in the musty recesses of the Library 39-nd surcease from sorrow in the Babylonian revels sponf sored by the Varronian Club. Varro, as all -doubtless know, was the Librarian of fulius Caesar, and the inventor of fifty cent fines for overdue books. The Cosmopolitan Club worries about race problems, international brotherhood, and climaxed this year's program by consuming untold quantities of frijoles con, chiley con carne at Olvera Street. Cam' pus life was given the needed spiritual touch by the activities of the 'Y.M.C.A. and the T.W.C.A Bill Roney, dynamic leader of the 'T.M.C.A., is desperately attempting to breathe the breath of life into his group by floo-ding the postfojflce with bulletins. An attempt to subsidize the Occidental was recently thwarted. Lettermen are ipso facto members of the HO Club. These stalwarts meet monthly in strictly stag session, and when not in training sponsor certain beach parties. We come now to a slightly different form of life, the fraternity and the sorority. These people will immediately be recognized as the ones whose night life is so thoroughly discussed in Society on Parade and another unnientionable dirt column. They continue, despite the invention of the integral calculus, such quaint customs as rushing, pledging, initiating, hanging of pins, and Hell Week. They are said to live gay, carefree lives consecrated to Bacchus and Eros, and to attend occasional classes simply to break the monotony of continuous revelry. All this, of course, is mere hearsay. The InterfFraternity Council is supposed to keep the vagaries of the brothers within the limits ascribed by the college, and to supervise the interfraternity dance. This year's affair was held in an empty linen closet of the Biltmore Hotel. The Pane Hellenic Council, with similar duties, threw the year's big dance at the BelfAir Country Club, where the sardine effect was also quite evident, some of the fish being neatly oiled. The sudden rise of Rooseveltian prosperity enabled the Phi Cams to maintain their tra' dition of financing new tuxedos, and, despite the furious inroads of the Kappa Sigs, to retain an unbreakable hold on the ladies who reside at 145 8 Armadale. Not to be out' done by the plutocrats across the street, the K.Z.'s blossomed forth in blue uniforms reminiscent of San Quentin, and moved en masse on the Gammas, who were taken by storm. Nevertheless, two Psi Delts were seen dancing sheepishly at the Gamma formal. Alpha Tau Omega, famous for supplying Phi Betes and tough hombres, maintained the latter tradition in tact. The S.A.E.'s from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house on the hill were too busy supplying Coach Pipal with track stars to defend their scholastic cup that was quietly moved over to the Phi Gamma Delta house. An importation of geniuses from Dr. Stelter,s English Department is expected to win back lost laurels. The S.A.E.'s, by the way, are the ones who call their officers such cute names and carry brief cases from force of habit only. Pert sorority madcaps frolicked as usual during Hell Week. The Alf pha neophytes were glimpsed at twilight throwing kisses hopefully at the sun. Kappas, brilliantly bedecked in makefup, showed unforeseen potentialities. The Delta pledges were forbidden to wear any cosmetics whatsoever, and so roamed unrecognized until ordered off the campus by Mr. McLain. The Deltas still claim to be the most sophisticated and, naturally, the most dated. Zetas are said to kick the gong around more than somewhat, but this rumour was not verified by anyone on the La Encina staff, and should not be taken too seriously. Beta Phils join the 'Y.W.C.A. Nothing much is known about the

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Kalshian and Lyons held down the infield, while Cosby, Wirriterburn, Lewis, Sheridan and Punaro dozed in the outfield, or played little games among themselves. Seven members of the squad are three'year veterans, and will migrate to the St. Louis Cardinals next season. The tennis tea.m, captained by Hal Demarest, took seven straight beatings in a row. But as La Encina goes to press, the Racquet boys hold high hopes of winning the conference championship, since there are only three teams in the league, none of which have met the Tiger. Last year, the Bengal Tarzans tied for first place in the aquatic championship, but lost th.e cup to Pomona on an illftimed flip of a coin. At this date, the Tiger water babies have only met L.A.f.C., and have thus tasted only one defeat. However, the Occidental swimmers, led by Rod Markley, rate prefseason favorites. Kinney, Markley, and Geer in the breastfstroke, O,Neil in the backstroke, and Calhoun in the sprints, hold high hopes of submerging the Aztecs, only stiff competition this year. Wally Anderson should do well in the dives. Before the gong rang, each game seemed on ice, but the Bengal Ice Hockey Team maintained its perfect record of no hits, and no runs. The Tiger was very much the soggy, badly mussed kitten throughout the season. Carl Fishel, one time hockey ace and high scorer from the University of Southern California, coached the team, but even Dave Woodbiiry, imported from I,.A.f.C. to play goalie, was unable to stem the tide. George Darneille and Bob Cosby stayed on their feet most of the time, and Dick Snyder breaks into print by virtue of having gotten his head cracked open. This, says Anderson, ma' terially increases Dick's chances of becoming an allfconference guard next season. 7e5g?9:fk'V'pg5 RCM TIME IMMEMORIAL, man has. tended to break away from his fellow man, and form little clans. This pernicious form of statificaf 'ggi tion of society reaches its zenith on a college campus where the natural W evolution toward the caste system is aggravated by the hoary custom 5352 of forming honorary societies. Not only is this tradition a direct conf 'Qil tradiction to the spirit and tenets of Democracy, but it renders nigh 'N GW- ff'f'm lp impossible the task of the Editor who needs must assort, and describe each and every organization. As a reward for burning the midnight oil for four long years, the 7710315 proficient scholars are elected to membership in the Delta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Vv'ith gold at 3335.00 an ounce, this becomes a rather doubtful honour. For rather vaguely defined services to their Alma Mater, a select group of Men and Wonieri seniors are elected to membership in the D. O. and Dranzen clubs. This is conceded with' out argument to be the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a worthy senior. I-fav' ing won this award, a senior is thereby raised high above the common herd, and in a few short months is eligible to go forth to a bigger world and Federal Relief. Kappa Nu Sigf ma, honorary history fraternity, keeps a sharp lookout on world affairs, and gravely pon' ders matters of International import. Phi Kappa Alpha watches the wheels of industry turn, listens carefully to the drop of the dollar, and meets occasionally un-der the leader' ship of President Daniel Hammack to discuss matters of economics. Dedicated to one of the f'lTLC7' things of life is Sigma Alpha Iota, national women's musical fraternity. Scatf tered recitals throughout the year kept the spirit of the masters alive on the campus. Book and Candle, honorary language fraternity, busies itself with the literature and culture of foreign lands, and holds meetings by candle light. The Tiger Claws, picked from the cream of the Sophomore mein, keep alive the traditions of the campus and the Boy Scouts, and guard with their lives the sacred efhgy of the Bengal Tiger. .Quietly pursuing their exist' ence throughout the year are a legion of clubs that foster meetings now and then, and clif max the year's activities by getting their picture taken for La Encina. Most ancient and

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Gammas except their unholy alliance with Kappa Sigma. Alphas ttace the-iv lineage back to the tum of the centwry, and are also nice girls. All the sorority girls are nice, in fact and pretty, too.