University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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j . we! II!I!I!I; Texas Phi Chapter of Alpha Chi, Incarnate Word College, is the bright goal of scholarship honors that ambitious students envision to be gained as the reward of distinguished effort when they will have come into the province of the Junior and Senior years. The society is eminent in its sponsorship of serious scholarly effort and achievement as in its sanction of supreme human values in educational ideals. The discussions held in the monthly meetings of the group were happily supplemented by auditions 0f the recorded works of famous musical composers. More notable among the events of the year were the box lunch held on the campus for increase of the Alpha Chi scholarship fund, the tea given by the chapter as host to'the members of the N ational Honor Society in the city high schools, a continuing custom and tradition, and the attend- ance of Frances Hynes and Consuelo Puck as delegates of the chapter at the meeting of the National Council of Alpha Chi, which was held in Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. Officers of the chapter, 1939-1940, are reported as Frances Hynes, president; Consuelo Puck, Vice president; Maurine Scott, secretary, and Mary Ann Dunn, treasurer. The membership roster for the year bears the names of Elizabeth Frizzell, Juanita Vaughan, Mary Ann Dunn, Gail Davis, Helene Houssiere, Patsy McGoohan, Ellenita Buckley, Mary Frances Devine, Clare Notzon, Ruth Dukes, Ellen Shropshire, Geraldine Blumberg, Maurine Scott, Frances Hynes, Hibernia Swain, Marie Del Socorro Ruiz, Consuelo Puck, Dorothy McCann.

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Top R0w:-Marjorie Brite, George Ann Farley, Lynette Goldman, Frances Hynes. Bottom Row:gDorothy McCann, Mary Ruiz, Juanita Vaughan. 7h Z0904 Staff EditOT in Chief ................. J UANITA VAUGHAN Society Editor .................. DOROTHY MCCANN Sports Editor ................. : . . .MARJORIE BRITE Business M anageos ............... LYNETTE GOLDMAN Assistant Business M anage? ............. MARY RUIZ Advertising M anager ............... FRANCES HYNES High School Editor ............ GEORGE ANN FARLEY

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A national honors society, Phi Sigma Kappa functions primarily to cultivate interest in the physical sciences. The formal activities of I. W. C. chapter of the society, for 1939-1940, were begun with a card party, October 25. In the course of its program of events, delegates from the local body attended the annual convention of the Texas Academy of Science, at Austin, November 9 to 11. During that meeting Aurora Elizondo read a paper entitled nAn Experiment Confirming the Presence of Violanin in Sophora Secundiflora tMountain Lauren and Jane Lowery reported on itExperimental Evidence of the Nature of the Glucosides in the Lupinus Texensis. In honor of thirty pledges the club members gave a tea, December 13, in the Home Economics Building. Subsequent to the mock initiation, January 6, and the formal initiation, January 10, the 901d members were entertained with a supper, February 6, by the newly enrolled. The policy of cooperative enterprise was marked in the meeting of Phi Sigma Kappa with St. Edwardts Academy of Science, January 13. After a tour of the compus on this occasion, a buffet supper was served. Throughout the year lectures were provided, to keep the members instructed in the latest developments in physical science. Speaking to the Texas Division of the American Chemical Society, which met at Incarnate Word College, February 8, 1940, Dr. Roger John Williams described his discovery of Pantothenic Acid in his laboratory at the University of Texas. Doctors Hochte, Lenze, Schoch, and Felsing, were among the distinguished physical scientists who attended this meeting. Notable 0n the program of lectures for the year was that of the Reverend Stanley Kusman, of St. Marys University, a discussion of the various philosophies of matter. Phi Sigma Kappa celebrated the conclusion of the year, informally, with a picnic, May 2, and formally with a dinner dance, May 25. The activities of the society were carried out under the direction of Lynette Goldman, president; Lulu Mims, Vice president; Mary del Socorro Ruiz, secretary; Frances Hynes, treasurer; and Gerda Balluder, reporter.