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

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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

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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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The aim of Whos Who in American Universities and Colleges is four-fold. It incites students to attain the highest possible results from their college ex- perience; it compensates students for outstanding achievement; it presents a standard of measurement of students comparable to that of other recognized scholastic and service organizations; and it recommends students to the business world. MSC students were selected on the basis of leadership in extra-curriculum ac- tivies and scholarship. This year, ten seniors and three jimiors were chosen to appear in the book. Seniors selected were Jack Blalock, Ja- son Kirshen, Don Parker, Roger Rich- ards, Marjorie Hickman, Ruth Reynolds, Carolyn Whitmore, Cornelia Dorgan, Dorothy Johnson, and Eva Schiller. From the junior class, James Falvey, Rosemary Speer, and Lester Giles were nominated. The five students who had been chosen members of Who ' s Who last year as jun- iors were included again in this year ' s book. They were Claire Healy, Don Smith, Jean Spettigue, Ruth Steele, and Anne Tilton. Coodall. VanMeter, Vanderpol, Dover, Elliot, Terry, Honkonen Gilbcrlson, Easland, Cynarski, Romano, Slioenberg, Scrolls, founded by Isogon, is made up of thirteen sophomore women, chosen on the basis of potential leadership, per- sonality, service, and scholarship. Scrolls ' activities included supervision of freshman girls ' hazing, sponsoring a convocation, ushering at college functions, and working with Isogon when necessary. Members of Scrolls were Antonetta Romano, president; Jeannette Cynarski, vice-president; Janet Shoenberg, secre- tary-treasm-er; Elizabeth Gilbcrtson, Lau- ra Easland, Jacqueline Marien, Maija Honkonen, Marjorie Terry, Marcia Van- Meter, Edith Dover, Priscilla Elliot, Betty Goodall, and Adriana Vanderpol. Sc alld Tillon, Smith, Falvey, Blalock, Parker, Richards, Kirshen. Giles, Schiffer .lohnson, Dorgan, Hcaly, Hickman, Whitmore, Reynolds, Steele, Spettigue, Speer 20