Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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Pi Epsilon Delta Pi Epsilon Delta is a national hon- orary dramatic fraternity. Its mem- bership is restricted to juniors and seniors who have participated in two or more drama activities pro- duced on the campus. Its chief aimo are to stimulate interest in and raise dramatic standards and achieve- ment through encouraging the best individual and group efforts in play writing, acting, directing, costuming, stage technigue, stage designing, research, and literature. Membership in Pi Epsilon Delta is considered one of the highest honors that can come to a drama student at Southwestern. Angus Springer Sponsor Jimmy Baines Ina Ruth Garrison Joe Bert Sissom

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i Delta LI Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Dobie were initiated into the chapter to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Mustangs . Pictured above are the officers who conducted their initiation. Miss Mary Elizabeth Fox, Hal . Kennedy, Elinor Wyatt, Brad Miller, Mrs. Dobie, Dr. Dobie, and Miss Pearl A. Neas. Pi Delta Epsilon was founded on Southwestern ' s campus on May 28, 1950. It is a National Honorary Collegiate Journalism Fraternity that strives to improve campus publications and to create a keen interest in this field. Requirements for membership are that the person must be a junior or senior and have had a year of experience on a campus publica- tion. OFFICERS Bradley Miller President Hal Kennedy Vice President Elinor Wyatt Secretary Jane Gale Treasurer Clare Easley Historian Pearl A. Neas Grand Councilman Mary Elizabeth Fox Faculty Representative MEMBERS John Vernon Berglund Carl Oscar Berggu st Morris Thad Cage, Jr. David Rankin Cardwell Ruth Morgan Ferguson William Carrington Finch Robert Clarke Ford, Jr. George C. Hester Claud Howard John Vincent LaBarbera Isaac Joel McCook J. Hamilton McCoy Sammye Kaye McLelland Henry Edwin Meyer Nell Jeanne Morin Lois Ernestine Muckelroy Curtis Pickens Roland Angus Springer Oscar Alvin Ullrich James Floyd Valone, Jr. John Raymond Wiggins

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Pi Gamma Mu OFFICERS Alfred G. Seitz President Richard S. Werner Vice-President Diane Coates Secretary-Treasurer Dr. F. E. Gaupp Faculty Representative Miss Pearl A. Neas Faculty Sponsor First Row:Mr. M. L. Williams, Mary Hallauer, Elaine Keith, Mary Strack- bem, Sallie Falkenbury, Kiyoko Tanabe, Jonette Hall, Valda Maeckel, Dr F. E. Luksa. Second Row: Dr. F. E. Gaupp, Ken Clapp, Alfred George Seitz, Frank Douglass, John Mood, Loy Estes, Dick Werner, Dr. L. H Merzbach Not pictured: Dr. J. V. Berglund, Dr. W. H. Burton, Diane Coates, Mrs. Irene Deupree, Dr. W. C. Finch, Miss M. E. Fox, Dr. R. M. Hawkins, Dr. George Hester, Mrs. Elizabeth Lundblad, R. M. Medley, Miss Pearl A. Neas, Angus Springer, Dr. E. H. Steelman, Dr. O. A. Ullrich, Dr. L. J. Waggoner, Harvey D. Watts, Calvin Dickinson, Paul Grady Anderson. A student of junior or senior or graduate classification who has had at least twenty semester hours of social science with an average grade therein of not less than 85 per cent, and who does not have any academic failure on his record, and who has further distinguished himself in the social sciences, is eligible for membership upon election by the members. The purp ose of Pi Gamma Mu is to improve scholarship in the social studies and to achieve synthesis therein; to inspire social service to humanity by an intelligent approach to the solution of social problems; to engender sympathy toward others with different opinions and institu- tions by a better mutual understanding; and to supplement and to sup- port, but not to supplant existing social science organizations by promot- ing sociability and attendance at meetings.