San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Active officers and members include, left to right, by rows: Mary Ann Ro manek, president; Carolyn White, vice-president; Crystal Foster, secretary Patty Felder, treasurer; Carole Flowers, parliamentarian — pledi e mistress Mary Rentz, chaplain; Paula Meadows, reporter-historian; Barbara Ash, Pa- tricia Barry, Brenda Creighton, Carolyn Fraser, Virginia Fritze, Gladys Hab- ermann, Patricia Huey, Linda Irvin, Darlene Mathis, Sherri McCartney, Alic ia Turpin, Sarah Agnew, Jan Aiken, Susan Beane, Patricia Cameron, Diane Haigler, Elizabeth Irwin, Dorothy Kuehne, Ella Miller, Gladys Oltjendiers, Mary Perkins, Diane Roethemeyer, Jeannie Stover. Beta List of Events hi clii des Moius,D ads The Betas spent one Sunday afternoon in April at Landa Park, in New Braunfels. Follow- ing a picnic lunch, the girls and their dates par- ticipated in the sports activities available at the park. The club has taken part in many civic proj- ects such as helping with the annual Business and Professional Women ' s Career Night, giving fruit to the Holmgreen Children ' s Home, and assisting at the State Mental Hospital. Parents are also included in sorority activi- ties. For instance, before Christmas the Mother- Daughter Tea was held to promote friendship. Officers for next year were named at the annual Father-Daughter Banquet at the close of the spring term. Fall rush brings out the punch bowl for another club year with Dee Savage serving to member Patti Necaster and rushees.

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Surrounded by new sorority sisters is Jan Aiken who i; ceiving her drop, which made her a Beta, from Mary Romanek. Charlie, enlisted in Beta ' s Royal Army, appears to be guarding foreign refreshments at the Around the World dance. Sorority Recognized For Scholastic Skill BETA ALPHA OMEGA proved itself scho- lastically this year by winning the award for the best academic grade average of a sorority at the Awards Assembly in May, and by having two members who were chosen as Top Ten students. Members of the sorority also belonged to the scholastic and journalistic honor fraternities. Passports admitted Betas to their Around the World spring dance which highlighted their year of activities. Gary Deckard and his orchestra provided music and entertainment with a foreign flair as depicted in the Shangri-La Ballroom with decorative scenes from the Orient, Spain, France, and Italy. mv 186 At the spring dance, Le Garcon ' is serving these couples at the Gay Paree Cafe on their trip Around the World.

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Margaret Cotham Madeline Wood Donna Henry Mary Helen Booth President Vice-President Secretary Chaplain Ending her reign after one year. Queen Carolyn Stappenbeck crowns President Margaret Cotham the Rho Delta Chi Dorothy of Rainbow Land. Dance Theme Depicted lu Rai)iboiv, Flowers RHO DELTA CHi, youngest campus social sorority, sold boxes of candy during the winter to raise funds for their traditional spring formal en- titled Over the Rainbow. To arrive in the land over the rainbow guests crossed a bridge spanning a blue river at the en- trance of the Shangri-La Ballroom. A huge taf- feta rainbow and hundreds of flowers were in- cluded in the decorations. Rho Delta Chi mem- bers and their dates received miniature pots of gold as mementos of the occasion. Newly-elected honorary members, mothers, and college administrators were entertained at the annual Mother-Daughter Tea. Rushee Shirley Montgomery is greeted at the guest book by Rho Delta members at the joint Spring Rush Party held in the Ballroom. 188