University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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A(ielfilUa Delevoryas, Stowe, Mann Kirshen, Smith, Richards, Parker Adelphia, local honor society for senior men, was founded in 1916. Its function is to promote good fellowship and foster the highest ideals of Massachusetts State by an active support of campus activities. They sponsor rallies and special drives and cooperate with Isogon and the Senate on campus projects. Seven juniors are tapped as active mem- bers at a spring convocation, and eight honorary members are elected in the spring of their senior year. Selection of members is based on popularity, extra- curriculum activities, and character. Be- sides the undergraduate members, one alumnus and one faculty member may be elected each year. The society has at present a total membership of 369. When, in 1943, all seven active mem- bers entered the Armed Forces, Mr. George E. Emery, Prof. Curry S. Hicks, and Dr. Vernon P. Helming were en- trusted with the affairs of the society. The small number of men students on campus during the war made it advisable to suspend the function of Adelphia temporarily. Wlien Don Parker, ' 44 member of Adelphia, returned last fall, however, he and the above-named mem- bers of the faculty formed a committee of four, who reinstated Adelphia as an active organization, by electing the fol- lowing members of the senior class to honorary membership: Roger Richards, vice-president; Don Smith, secretary; Jack Blalock, John Delevoryas, Jason Kirshen, Chet Mann, and Bill Stowe. Don Parker became president when the organization resumed activity. During the year, Adelphia supported several movements. It conducted a March-of-Dimes drive at a basketball game in January; and it cooperated with Isogon on such plans as the temporary post office to be constructed in Mem Hall, and the organization of Pepsters, a large group representative of the stvident body to act as a nucleus of support to the cheer leaders at games. 24

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PUi lieia Kap pLa Last fall, the local association of Phi Beta Kappa members held a joint meet- ing with Phi Kappa Phi. The speaker was Dr. Tso-llsin Cheng, Dean and pro- fessor of biology at Fukien Christian University, China. His subject was The History of Science in China. In the spring of 1945, the society elected Doris Roberts ' 45 Phi Beta Kappa Scholar. Officers: Frank C. Moore, president; Mrs. Kenneth L. Bullis, vice-president; and Marion E. Smith, secretary-treasurer. Members: A. B. Beaumont, Ray Stan- nard Baker, Mrs. Kenneth L. Bullis, Guy C. Crampton, Charles H. Dubois , Mrs. William B. Easton, Jr., Mrs. G. E. Erickson, Stowell C. Coding, W. R. Ham- lin, Vernon P. Helming, Arthur N. Julian, Hastings Lyon, William L. Machmer, A. Anderson Mackimmie, Helen S. Mitchell , Frank C. Moore, Roy Pearson, Mrs. Harry Rich, William H. Ross, James Schoonmaker, Mrs. Frank R. Shaw, H. R. Shipherd, Marion E. Smith, W. R. Wlieeler, Basil B. Wood, G. L. Woodside. In military service. UJ Biatna Xi This year, Sigma Xi spon.sored lectures given by Dr. D. D. Stakeman of the L niversity of Minnesota, Leonor Mich- alis, of the Rockefeller Institute, and Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the Nation- al Academy of Sciences. Officers: Frank Hayes, president; John Archibald, vice-president; Emmett Ben- nett, secretary; John Bailey, treasurer. Members: Charles P. Alexander, George W. Alderman, Allen E. Anderson, Hugh P. Baker, Lawrence M. Bartlett, William B. Becker, John H. Blair, Arthur I. Bourne, Oran C. Boyd, Leon A. Brad- ley, K. L. Bullis, William G. Colby, Mrs. Sara Coolidge, G. C. Crampton, S. Gilbert Davis, William E. Esselan, Jr., Walter S. Eisenmenger, Carl R. Fellers, Richard W. Fessenden, William H. Fitz- patrick, James A. Ford, Ralph France, J. H. Frandsen, Henry J. Franklin, Mon- roe Freeman, Arthur French, James I. Fuller, Constantine J. Gilgut, Clarence E. Gordon, Emil F. Guba, Christian I. Gunness, Marie S. Gutowska, Francil P. Griffiths, A. D. Holmes, Mrs. Julia O. Holmes, Fred P. Jeflery, Linus H. Jones, Clifford V. Knightlinger, J. S. Kuzman- ski, W. H. Lachman, Arthur Levine, John E. W. McConnell, Malcolm A. McKenzie, Walter A. MacLinn, George A. Marston, Oreana A. Merriam, William S. Mueller, A. Vincent Osman, John Joseph Powers, Wallace F. Powers, J. Harry Rich, Bryan C. Redmond, Walter S. Ritchie, Arnold D. Rhodes, William H. Ross, Frank R. Shaw, Jacob K. Shaw, Dale H. Sieling, Fred J. Sievers, J. Harold Smith, Marion E. Smith, Thomas Sproston, Jr., Harvey L. Sweetman, Jay R. Traver, Reuben Trippensee, Ralph VanMeter, Henry VanRockel, William Vinal, Walter Weeks, Mrs. Anne W. Wertz, Warren Whitcomb, Harold White, Gilbert L. Woodside, Robert E. Young. 23

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96J0 fO4 Hl.knian. Schiffi-r, Hcaly Slcclo. Whilmore, Kcynolds At the Junior-Senior Processional that is held on campus each spring, eleven juniors are tapped as members of Isogon, the senior women ' s honor society. These students are chosen on the basis of their scholarship, leadership ability, character, and campus activities. The functions of Isogon include the sponsoring of the Junior-Senior Proces- sional, ushering during the Commence- ment exercises, and the publishing of Coediquette, a manual of campus customs distributed to incoming freshman girls each fall. The organization also acts as advisory body to Scrolls, sophomore women ' s honor society, which was found- ed by Isogon last year. Under the advisership of Miss Curtis, Dean of Women, Isogon successfully or- ganized campus cooperation with the Amherst USO this year. Early last fall, Isogon, in collaboration with the Senate, sponsored an informal dance for the benefit of the World Student Service Fund. Cooperating with Adelphia, Iso- gon made plans for the publication of a student-faculty directory and for the establishment of a temporary campus mail box to fulfill the function of a future post office in the new Student Building. Through the efforts of this organization, too, Mountain Day was again introduced to campus life. In order to eliminate honorary mem- bership, Isogon provided for the election of all eleven members in the spring of their junior year. To effect the change from the old system, by which no more than seven juniors were tapped at the Junior-Senior Processional and no more than four seniors at the beginning of the second semester, Isogon elected three senior members early last fall. The members this year included Caro- lyn Whitmore, president, and vice-presi- dent of SCA; Ruth Steele, vice-president,- president of Chi Omega; Ruth Reynolds, secretary-treasurer, Business Manager of the Index; Marjorie Hickman, president of Panhellenic; Claire Healy, presideiat of SCA; Eva Schiffer, chairman of the Quarterly Chib, member of the Index Board; Shirley Chaves, president of the Hillel Foundation and of the United Re- ligious Council, member of WSGA; Dorothy Johnson, president of Kappa Alpha Theta, vice-president of the Senior Class; and Dorothy Hurlock, secretary of the Senior Class, vice-president of the Panhellenic Association. 25