Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Sigma Tau Gamma Beta chapter began its fifty-first year on our cam- pus in September of this year. Activities started v ith a rush to the La Plata Lake for a picnic. Fall rush season ended v ith six pledges. . . Walter Beard was a fine papa bear . . . Winter quarter came with the annual rush banquet. Randolph Davis was speaker . . . Next came the 49'er Dance v ith the unusual deco- rations. Twelve pledges went through Hell Week, what with field trips for the Goats and Prexy Schmid. . . Uncle Sam began to call our boys and Paul Myers, a past president, presented us with a service flag, which now displays over one hundred stars. . . The spring formal was held early to beat the call of the Army Air Corps. . . What a time. . . Red, white and blue, with the white rose as favors. . . Outstanding sport event was when the “B team almost beat the A' team. . . Then came that smoker at Kemble Stout's and three new Goats. . . A fine year indeed. 27

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Hin»' k ‘ A national honorary fraternity. Blue Key serves the school and student body. The main purpose of the original chapter of the Blue Key was to sponsor Horne coming. Too badl Homecoming had to be enjoyed this year by remembering former queens, attendants, floats and the grand old football. Due to the war. Blue Key's activities have been limited. The Blue Key sponsored the Croatian musical organization, the Tamburitzans and sold tickets to a very successful performance. One of the highlights of the year was the annual Blue Key dance with the cooperation of Cardinal Key. War stamp corsages made by Cardinal Key girls for the Blue Key Cardinal Key dance put $50 in stamps in the war effort. Other activities of the Blue Key include ushering at various events through the year and awarding a scholarship to an outstanding sophomore boy. Cardinal Key Yards of shining ribbon, acres of shimmering cello- phane and brilliant crepe paper . . . oh, yes, and defense stamps . . . these were the principal ingredi- ents of the warchids , or defense stamp corsages, made by Cardinal Key which adorned every girl at the big Cardinal Key-Blue Key dance in February. Officers for this year were: Amy Ayres, president; Jane Jarman, vice-president; Janice Timson, secretary; Martha Taggart, treasurer; and Emma Jo Leslie, his- torian. At the beginning of the spring quarter Mar- garet Richardson was elected president and Frances Raine vice-president to replace the two who were graduated. Cardinal Key girls adopted a needy family at Christmas, gave money for first aid kits, worked at the gasoline rationing office, and gave two scholar- ships which were used in the fall quarter. Seventeen girls were initiated throughout the year. Teas were given at the homes of the sponsors, Misses Agnes Slemons and Nan E. Wade, during the year. 29