William Paterson University - Pioneer Yearbook (Wayne, NJ)

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KAPPA DELTA PI CHARTER MEMBERS Edith C. Coyle Joyce Frericks Phyllis C. Murphy Carol M. Le Beau Betty Thompson Eugenia F. Muller Anne C. Bigg Alice Mae Schofield Alice H. Bogert Emilie E. Schwehm Ruth Simpson Engelken Dorothea Van Duzer Eleanor E. Wiegand Genevieve Via Cava Miss Edith L. jackson, Dean Dr. Clair S. Wightman, President Zeta Alpha, our college chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the largest Greek Letter honor fraternity in the country, was installed at the Alexander Hamil- ton Hotel on Thursday, May thirty-hrst, by Wt. William C. Bagley, Editor of School and Society and Professor Emeritus of Education at Teachers' College, Columbia University. At this time fourteen students and two faculty mem- bers partook in the formal initiation and installation ceremony. Dr. Louise E. Alteneder took the leadership in preparing the petition for 14

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New Iersey State Teachers' College TVX'-. Paterson, N. I. sn, if t S New jersey State Teachers' College at Paterson was established in 1855 as a City 1nst1- tution for the purpose of providing teachers for the City of Paterson. In the early days ses- sions were held outside of regular school hours on Saturdays or during late hours of the regu- lar school day. Later regular sessions were established with hours similar to those of other schools and a regular one-year course was provided. In the early nineties the course was in- creased to two years, and it has gradually increased to its present proportions, In 1925 it became a State Normal School supervised by the State Board of Education. Beginning in September, 1929, the course was lengthened to three years, and in May, 1955, to four. For the successful completion of this curriculum the B.S. degree in Elementary Educa- tion is conferred. The first class to study for the degree was admitted in September, 1935. In September, 1937, the scope of the curriculum was enlarged to include the two-year General College Department, and on April 9, 1945, the State Board of Education brought another innovation to Paterson State Teachers' College by authorizing the College to prepare students as teachers of kindergarten and business education subjects in high schools in New Jersey. -Tfzkczz from the zllmzznzl of lbe Legirfclflllff Of New fH'J'6'-1 169ffJ 5653012 - 1945. Cr1,h'1f1'igf9f by Domtlay A. Filzgerfzlrf.

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the establishment of the chapter and is its first counselor. Miss Marguerite B. Tiffany, from Columbia University, and Dr. Edith Shannon, and Mr. Gor- don Matthews, from N. Y. U., are KAU members from other college chapters. The two major qualifications for acceptance into this fraternity are high scholarship and leadership in college. The purpose of Kappa Delta Pi is to encourage high professional, intellectual, and personal standards, and to rec- ognize outstanding contributions to education. To this end it invites to mem- bership such persons as exhibit commendable personal qualities, worthy edu- cational ideals, and sound scholarship, It endeavors to maintain a high de- gree of professional growth by honoring achievement in educational work. Kappa Delta Pi was first organized at the University of Illinois in 1911. There are now 146 chapters, State being the latest addition. Dr. Thomas C. McCracken, of Ohio University, is president of the Executive Council. Membership in Kappa Delta Pi is limited to juniors and seniors in schools of education. Its national colors are jade green and violet, its national flower is violet, and its emblem is a key in the form of a scroll pierced by a stylus upon which is imposed a beehive and the letters Kappa Delta Pi. 15