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THE CAMPUS CHAT. DENTON, TEXAS. FRIDAY, MARCH 81. 1M4
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"Once upon a timf nearly 25 yearn ago
there lived in a little town of Denton,
Texas, a group of students who were
going to school at North Texas* State
Teachers College These stu*fl| who
were strong and fearless, dccided that
the college needed a union building for
recreational purpose* and went to th«ir
fairy godfather for help.
"The godfather, who was dinguised as
a college president, told th# students that
only through long and hard work could
there ever be a union building on the
campus, but the young people wer«- de-
termined to succeed and they set to work
collecting money. D«MMM were given,,
play? were presented, parties were held,
and a fund wa- started at North Texas
in Immmt of the boys who were fighting
overseas.
"The funds continued to grow, and after
the war was over a beautiful union build-
ing was built on the campus of the college,
where the students lived happily ever
after."
Only the story didn't really end like
that, for the group of students fjuit work
after the first year and all they ever
did was talk about how nice it would be
to have a union building like other schools.
Now after nearly 26 years, they are still
talking ats ut the 'building and are doing
absolutely nothing about it.
If that first group of students could
work long enough and hard enough to
get started, why can't today's North
Texan* at least equal their work? AH that
is needed is for some one to take the lead in
a big drive. There are at least 45 dubs on
t he campus who could undertake the lead
there are at least 180 faculty members
who ought to be interested and there
are 1800 wide awake students on the cam-
pun.
How about it, North Texans?
Viotasuf Council SeeJu
$500 jo* lied C*a4A
In year* of peace; the annual Red Cross
drive Comes and goes without a too im-
pressive participation by the student Imdy.
This year the students have expressed a
wish to give more during the drive, to
help with the Red Cross program gener-
ally.
Organized to help promote the Red
CroM movement and other subsequent
drives on the campus is the new Victory
Council, composed of students chosen from
each class. This committee will be re-
sponsible for seeing that the student body
is well informed when and why a move-
ment is needed.
This campus effort by the students
will augment the .great nation-wide Red
Cross movement which is Is ing pushed
with such vigor and success through the
mediums of movies and radio.
The Victory Committee has been pledg-
ed to raise a total of $500 for this cur-
rent Red Cross Drive which will end to-
morrow on the campus. Therefore, quick
action on the part of you, the student
body, is needed.
(living to the Red Cross is like giving
dintctly to those many boys you know who
are now in uniform, for there is not a
man in uniform who is not directly or in-
directly influenced by the Red Cross. The
current appeal* through the local theatres
portray the countless ways the soldier is
IhrMmI kqr (fee Red Cross. The organi-
zation saves the soldiers' lives during
battle, provides the touch of home before
and after battles. Remember, your letters
and the Red Cross are practically the only
tangible contacts with home that a soldier
has.
It is the very least that you who are
so c<>m for table and safe can do to help the
soldier who ia ill and homesick -to con-
tribute generously to the Red Cross.
—M.K.K.
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HART, HHAKPFNEK AND STIFF . . .
Old brother Stiff went to hia closet to
find hia poor frame a coat, but when he
got there, the closet waa bare and then
the poor frame had no shoulders for the
reat of the week.
Brother Stiffs frame gave up ita cus-
tom tailored ratiaclei so that some old
beat up sorority pledge could make like
Sinatra or be head of some dreamed-up
family on the intersorority stunt night.
Piece by reluctant piece my unattached
wardrobe trickled off in the hands of for-
ced mute pledges who gestured wildly and
wrote voluble notes to convey their mooch-
ing intentions and then ran quickly away.
Apprehensively I purchased a slight hoard
of adhesive tape, hemp rope, and safety
pins for securing my better lingerie to
my person, thereby preserving my native
modesty and my better lingerie. It is quite
lucky that I wear a siate nine and one-half
slippm—dipper denoting a sense of daint-
iness which shoe lacks for if I did not
wear a siae nine and one-half slipper I
would not even have had any slippers left,
Few of the pledges wear nine and orie-
halfs in my narrow width, that is.
Not content with bumming me down
to my hemp rope and safety pins, Green
Jacket pledges made away with my black
Heottie dog and featured him in their
traditional circus. This dog was terrific,
naturally, and was reported devastating in
a chic paper hat, a paf er hat being rather
more than his master was left with at
this stage.
Personally. I am just ready to com-
mercialise m my wardrobe, purchase a
plate-glass window and get me unto a
haberdashery, but friends assure me that
these old beat up pledges looked far bet-
ter than I in my clothes and this is not en-
couraging. One must have confidence down
to his last belted back to haberdash suc-
cessfully, and I am a little baggy about
the whole thing.
SWKATKR HOY . . .
No, I am not angry. Not at all. Just
wounded. Seared to the depths of my soul,
that is all. Crushed.
Perhaps I am not bright. I cannot help
it. If one must be cruel, why does not one
be cruel to my parents or my first grade
teacher or some dog that frightened me
as a child. I cannot help it.
Even, for argument's sake, say that I
am not charming and lovely. I cannot
help it. My rugged beauty is simply not
obvious to the untrained eye. I was joking
when I said that in one measly, single,
candid photograph my neck resembled that
of a turtle. People do not understand. He-
sides, quite a few turtles art- extremely
attractive.
No, I am not angry Youngblood and
Hoke and Miss ell and Hall have a perfect
right to purchase a small china turtle in
a Houston, Texas, curio shop and bring
it back to me with implications of kinship
and resemblance. Rut not only a small and
china turtle, but a small and china turtle
wearing a derby hat and a large floppy
collar and a green-apotted back and a
poorly tied necktie and just flat dissipated
eyes and dreadful posture.
Gad, but I am hurt. But the gods have
not forsaken me. No accident was it that
Elizabeth Ann Mizell upset a whole tray
of bric-a-brac in this hateful curio shop
and shattered a goodly number of This-
isn ouvenirofHoustiin,Texas ash trays,
doorknockers, Kleenex holders, and vases.
Fate, it was. She paid. And they'll all pay.
Oh my, how they'll pay.
REST IN PEACE . . .
Large quantities of very black crepe have
been draped tastefully over the Chat of-
fice door; type faces have been scoured
and set in solemn little rows; a veil of
dampish sorrow hushes all.
Eager reporters have trustingly attribut-
ed this luscious gloom to my impending
death and have gathered in small informal
circles about the room to watch savoringly
my every convulsion. However roseate
this picture may lie, this is not my con-
vulsing week ami I will not be rushed.
The demise celebrated is that of the
Campus Chat -which has had a slight de-
mise due for some issues. In fact, often
has it been suggested that final, defi-
nite termination of its career would indeed
be lovely. We, too, think it would be quite
lovely. We have most earnestly striven
toward mediocrity, trusting that the print-
ers would balk at subjecting their type to
our own inimitable drivel, but they just
keep ordering new fonts.
But the spring holidays knock the
scheduled Chats into blissful oblivion and
the e's and the fs and the little p's and
q's will have time to get a second inking
and straighten their serifs for the coming
flHMlk.
SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT . . .
Possessing a rather severe face, I am
letting my hair fluff into soft little curls
over each graceful ear. This change in coif
is not due entirely to my facial contours,
however. Mrs. Myrtle Hardy has set a
very definite foot down on haircuts for
memt>ers of the "Damask Cheek" cast.
Haircuts leave nasty white margins en-
circling the head where the fruit bowl
ends and do not make for suave effects.
And, of course, I would be caught with-
out a harpsichord.
Nicholas Sings
Song Cycles
With Success
by Or. Huqh Millar
Louis Sir holm, tenor, appeared
Tuesday night in tine second of two
recitals devoted to rrpn-wnUtive
song cycles Mi<i vocal rhumber
merit.
The program of laat night itaelf
special eewMmtin. The
id« a of presenting modern vocal
rhimlirr muair and infrequently
heard nortg eycl«* in thtfir Mitiroty
is not only nn ambitious under-
taking, but it affords an unusual
opportunity for the muatr lower to
Irtfoms acquainted with worthwhile
literature.
The Uwee composition* for voice
with various instrumental com-
binations were heart! in Denton
for the first time. Opening the
program was "Madame Soy" by
the contemporary British com
poser Arthur Bliss
The second composition was
l.oafflar's "Hansons !« fhrue" in
which the viola, played by Ijtw
ranee rhideater. reiterate* u rust
ic dance tune. The third com-
poser represented in the vocal
chamber music classification was
the modern Brazilian composer,
Villa-trf bos.
The first of two ong cycle* that
Mr Nicholas performed was the
Kroup of four sonjfs entitled "I
Oanti delta Sera" by the modern
Italian composer, Santoliquiido,
who wrote the verses as well ast
the music. The delightfully roman
tie sentiments were expresed in a
restrained m'ulcrn style
The second nong cycle wan "La
Bonne Chanson" by the great nine
leenlh century French composer,
fia'briel Faure, The nine songs of
thi* cycle reveal the depth of this
composer, the near-impressionis-
tic atmosphere of the music as
well as the verses of the impres
sionist poet Paul Verlaine.
For the first time in Denton,
Mr*. Nicholan appeared as accom-
panist Her contribution to the pro
gram deserve* ample praise
Moviewer Says:
Off the C a m p u $ With the Exas
Busy Rabbit Clan Fills Exes' Easter Baskets
With Cream of Mr. McGreggor's Crop
by Eiiiebatk Yeunqbtood
FLOPHY, M'ip.HY, COTTON-
TAIL, and Meter and all the other
member* of the royal rabbit clan
are helping that famed old gentle-
man of rabbit land, the (vaster
Benny, get off to an extra good
start in \i<U by leaving North
Tagax eae super-special Buster
prawn ts.
For Carl M Watson the bunny
and a lot of individual work leave
a pair of wings of goitl and the
commlaaion of ermtgn in the U. S,
Naval Reserve Kiislgn Watson
graduate;! from < orpun •'hristi
and is rated n expert flyer, navi-
gator, aerologist, gunner, and
radio operator.
A romm.- tion a# lieutenant (j.g )
is also an extra present for Frank-
lin I .enter Klder, who has just
completed hi* training and han
reported to the t S. Naval Armed
Guard t enter in New Orleans for
assignment to duty as commander
of a Navy (,un crew on a mer-
chant ship Another new lieuten-
ant (j.g ), F H (B ) Evans, is
stationed on the I". S S. Gazelle.
EA.STF.lt FLEW IN EARLY for
W itfiam Truett Martin on the
wlng« of the Army Air Force
when he was commissioned a sec-
ond lieutenant after graduation
from Turner Field, Albany, Ga
William Uootle also received his
wings and commission from Sari
Marcos Air Field and is now fly-
ing a B 17.
Clear across the Atlantic ocean
to England, the holiday spirit
reached Lt. David VV. McKinney.
who was awarded the Air Medal
for meritorious performance of
duty a- a navigator on a Fortress
MAKINti ONLY ONE STOP
to visit these North Texans, Ea
ter will find Harvey Patterson,
Jimmy Shepherd, Mac Walsh, Joe
Hpecht, and M. G. Slate all at Camp
MacDonough Hattaburg, N. Y.
From New York, the rabbit bri-
gade might head down the old
CllUwiffi Trail to the Enid Army
Air Field, where it would find two
other exes. Aviation Cadeu Wil-
liam D Young and Thomas V
Hart. Both are there for nine
weeks of basic flight training.
Home for the festivities is Ed
Brewer, who has just returned
from the Italian theatre, twinging
with him the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross, the Air Medal, and 7
Oak Leaf Clusters. Brewer was a
member of the stage band in IMS
Also at home now are Lt. R. L.
Marquis and Doyle Preston, who
CAMPUS CAMERA
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Dft. ALEXANDER MEANS,
FOCMtP PRESIDENT Of- feMOftV UNI- *
VeftSITV, ATLANTA,.PRODUCED TH6 FIRST
EUsC7Rlt LIGHT IN AMERICA -21 YEA0S
BE PORE fDlSOJ./ DR. WEANS* LIGHT CON-
SISTED OF A PIECE OF CHARCOAL WIRED
TO AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE AND PLACED
IN A LACGE GLASS TUBE. WHEN THE CUR-
RENT WAS ON, THE CHARCOAL REACHED
A WHITE MEAT OF DAZZUNG BRILLIANCE
HARVARD
VALE
PRINCETON
OF ST PAUL IS
IN THE ARMY AIR
CORPS/
THE KANSAS-MISSOURI
STATE BOUNDARY RUNS THRU
LINCOLN AND LE6 UNIVERSITY
KANSAS aw
Well-Curried Clothes-Horse
With Smoothly-Coordinated
Carries Brisk Comedy
Repertoire of Gaits
by Ciydene Hoke
Examples of how the movies have
progressed in the last ten yennt
can he found in the development
of film stars as well as in produc-
tions themselves. As pictures have
let pass brainless plots, too obvious
allusions, and sob racking dia
logue along the way, so have al-
ters dm ted off their wigs, toned
tlown gestures, and come to act
like the morally responsible hu
man lieings that you meet and
speak to everyday in ordinary
places like the post office.
The change is more apparent
in women. Ten years ago it sue
cessful actress might have Iteen
typed as the coy heroine of jinxed
ranches, and today the same ac
tress, still successful, may be typed
as the exdebutnnte who never gets
out of a picture without a hope
less love affair, malaria fever,
antl countless cigarettes. An ex-
ample of this extreme character
development is Kosalind Russell,
currently starring in "What A
Woman." During her career Miss
Russell has done 20 pictures and
each has brought her nearer a
final type of screen personality
Her first picture was with Wil-
liam Powell in "Rendessvoim," in
which she replaced Myrna I.oy and
was advertised ns the new M. L.
A guccesaion of roles, mostly of the
lesser variety, followed, and then
Ro-ahnd finally got, to portray
• raig's wife in the picture of the
same title After that she became
the noble type, playing ladies
of high rank who leaned on bal-
conies and let their curls wave In
the breer.f as they tragically sent
lovers off to the wars When heavy
eye shadow had disappeared and
eyebrows had come back in style,
Itosalind got rid of heavy-handed
roles an l was featured as the
comedienne that she had al-
ways wanted to he, Today she is
popular on the screen as a tall,
smart career woman,
"What A Woman" stars Rosalind
Russell with Brian Aherne and
Williard Parker, newcomer to the
screen from the stage play of
"Lady in the Dark." Well dressed
and sophisticated as always, Miss
Russell has the part of a talent
seout who is looking for an actor
to play in a film adaptation of a
sensational iiest seller. She decides
that the author of the Hook himself
ia the man she needs and brings
him to Hollywood. However, he
turns out to !>e a dud at acting
until he falls in love with Rosalind,
anil then Brian Aherne comes int"
the picture.
With Miss Russell and Aherne
working together the screen has
one of its best comedy teams
Nevertheless, Rosalind is the most
interesting iierson in this film.
Whenever she is on the screen she
is the center of attention.
HOLLYWOOD FEATURES
A mild panic broke out on the
set of Parao ount's "Story of Dr.
Waasell" when Cecil B. De Mille
fell off a tin roof, He fell only
three feet, mto a high camera
platform, cutting a slight gash
on the top <>f his head. He was
otherwise unhurt, but at least six
members of his personal stuff
leaped up the platform to help
De Mille, however, waved them
away as he picket! himself up.
"I'd rather fall all by myself than
be killed in i stampede," he soid.
Roland Young, now in Para-
mount's "Standing Room Only,"
earned his first screen role by
directing hi < own test. Twelve
years ago Y aing took a furlough
from Broad vay where he had
scored in a series of hit shows.
Arriving in California, he re-
ceived an offer from MGM, ask-
ing him to make a test. He went
to the studio, found the sound
stage mentioned in the call and
after waiting an hour and a half
for the director, took matters into
his own hands. H> told the camera-
man he would enact a scene from
one of his own plays, repeated the
lines, antl went home.
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
A comedy murder mystery, "A
Night To Remember," will be shown
as the college show for Saturday
night. Loretta Young and Brian
Aherne are starred in the film
In this murder epic, a suave
writer of whodunits gets involved
in a mystery of real-life blackmail
Floyd Graham, m.c. of the tra-
ditional Saturday night clambake,
reminds prospective comers that
the starting time, as of this Sat-
urday, is : 15.
Know the Campus Clubs . ..
are Stationed at San Antonio.
LEADING THE EASTER PA-
RADE dressed in wedding clothes
these North Texans are making
one calehration do the work of
two. Row Ann Julian and Ensign
Charles K .Smith, both of North
Texa-, marrietf in Dallas recently.
Another ex now an en ig?i in the
I' S. Navy, Frank Childress,
married Betty McMillan . , Mary
T Bryant, a former memiier of
the Kaghiir sorority, became the
bride of I.t. A. Richard Rhyne in
a chapel at Camp Maxey recently.
Anotht i picture for the roto-
gravure section I- Mary Frances
Morris, bride of ex Jack Turner
also Kathei ine Evans, l>ride
•4 George II mold Smith and
Mary Eioise Ijine, who married
('pi. Laurence Antos in u double
ring ceremony in Santa Fe, N. Mex.
OCT OF THE OLI MAIL BAG
comes word from Lt, Hit! Hamilton
of the Navy, formerly of the edu-
ration faculty, who reports that he
has talked with four North Texas
exes Dick Peacock, James Nic-
holson, Travis I.atincr and Harley
Redin. The first two arc in am-
phibia* work as officers in charge
of landing barges, and the iust
two are flying medium bombers
for the Marines,
Another letter from Virginia
Sue Williamson states that she is
teaching harmony, public school
music, voice, piano, choir, music
in the demonstration school, play-
ground supervision, and two clas-
ses of physical education in the
Arkansas Polytechnic College.
OLD DOC STORK brought the
best Easter presents of all. To
Ensign and Mrs,, 'o&eph W
Jugoe III. both North fes
exes, he left a daughter. Katherine
Pearson, on March 15. Mrs. Jagoe
is the former Katherine Medders,
daughtcd of the late George Med-
ders of the English faculty and
Mrs. Medders of the library sci
ence department.
To Lt. and Mrs. Ronald W.
Terry was born a son, Ronald
Wayne, on March 11 in Ediitburg.
Mrs. Terry is the former Mae
Hamme, former dietician at Chil-
ton hall. For Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Will of Fort Worth it's a daugh-
ter, Julia Haughton; Mr. Will is
a former member of the North
Texas music faculty.
GLIDING ALONG IN RABBIT
STYLE into the Army Air Base
at Roswell. N Mex , we find Jean
Richardson, who has .iilst been
transferred from Shcppard Field
and is now ready for his pre-
flight training. . Back in Texas at
the Amurillo Army Air Field is
Sgt. Lovell B. McKinney, who is
it clerk in a headquarters squad
ron. . . And across the sea again
to Italy where II. C. Withempoon
was recently wounded in action.
The extent of his injuries is not
known.
The "weaker sex" proved an
other point recently when Sp.
(gl .1 c Hazel Adkins of the Waves
returned to the campus and told
friends that she is an instructor
in aerial gunnery at San Diego.
Calif.
Grade Card Triumphs Gain
Entry to Three Societies
Countess Rejects Coronet for College
In Best Comic Opera Heroine Tradition
A tall, slender co-ed who car
ries her own books, works regular
hours, and likes soda crackers is
a far version from the feminine
nobility deacritied in fairy tales,
but Marguerite Milke, Dallas, could
have been a countess, nevertheless
The story goes back to the
marriage of one of Marguerite's
near kin into the royal family of
Germany almost 30 years ago. The
name of count was thereby be-
stowed upon Marguerite's father
and hi* brothers, but Mr. Milke de-
clined the tiUe even though some
of his relative* accepted it.
PaMing up nobility a* insigni-
ficant is merely one of the ad-
ventures of the countless unusual
ones that the Milke family has
had. The history of Marguerite's
paternal and maternal grandpar-
ents read* something like excerpts
from a ficticious and dramatic
novel. Her paternal grandfather
waa a diamond merchant from Ger-
many who met the shy daughter
of a Philadelphia chemist and mar-
ried her. The couple had eight
children, including Maririfcrite'*
father, and lived in Veracruz un-
til they finally settled in Yuca-
tan. Her maternal grandmother
was born in Spain and at the age
of 16 ran away from home to fol-
low an opera company into Mex-
ico and become a singer. Her
family tmt forgave her.
During its stay in Mexico,
the opera company toured Yuca-
tan and the dark beauty who was
to lie Marguerite's grandmother
fell in love with the owner of
several big haciendas or planta-
tions, threw her ambition to be a
great star to the wind, and prompt-
ly married him letter he was to
become mayor of Merida, one of
Yucatan's most important cities.
The co-ed's father and mother
grew up together in Yucatan, and
after they were married they lived
in other ports of Mexico. They re-
turned to Yucatan where Mar-
guerite was born and in 192" they
came to the United States.
Recounting harrowing experien-
ces undergone by her mother when
she was a girl in Mexico brings
a shade of anger into Marguerite's
eyes. At one time during an upris-
ing in Mexico City. Mrs. Milke,
along with her brothers and sis-
ters, was forced to escape from
Mexico into Cuba until the clamor
had died down. A more modem
tale on a similar tragic scale ia
the story of Marguerite's aunt, a
German widow who returned to
the Fatherland shortly after Hit-
ler came into dictatorship and
was never heard of again, A cous-
in was sent to look for htr. but
she found no clue to heT disap-
pearance
Marguerite was only 4*
old when sh< left Yucatan and her
remembranct t of life there are
vague. Heading the list of her
memories arc the sight of mango
trees along i ie street by her home
"with soft, f tushy things on them
sort of like pears that we stuck
sticks into for arms and legs
and made little people"; the sound
of natives clashing regularly in
swimming i ools in back yards;
the movement of windmill arms
"winding up like clocks" and kites
flying everywhere.
Until she came to the States,
Marguerite > ad never spoken Eng-
lish and Anerican customs were
as unfamili tr as the language.
"Our first Hallowe'en was miser-
able," the ct> ed laughs. "We didn't
know what :t meant and the next
morning we had to go all over
town collect ng our property"
Although she is not yet an
American c isen, Marguerite ex-
pects to bee .me one, even though
she may not live in the United
States later on. A foreign lan-
guage maj' , her ambition i* to
go back to Vucatan as a diplomat
after she graduates from North
Texas. Unti! then she studies her
French taMu ns, works on watches
at McCray's jewelers, and corres-
ponds with f iends in various coun-
tries. She insiders good grades
compensation for the sacrifice of
h«r royal trka.
by Elizabeth Youngblood
For poor luckless students who
are over-burdened with an extra
large amount of A's and B's on
their report cards, there are three
honorary scholastic organisations
on the North Texas campus for
the purpose of recognizing and en-
couraging scholarship and high
moral standards among the stu-
dents.
First to be organised and father
of the other two organisations
was Alpha Chi, which made its
first appearance on the campus in
1923, since NTSTC was a charter
member of the organisation for-
merly known as the Scholarship
Societies of the South.
Miss Bessie Shook of the Eng-
lish department, Miss Myrtle
Brown of the mathematics depart-
ment, and Dr. L. W. Newton, head
of the history department, spon-
sors of the organisation at the
present time, decided that a school
as large as North Texas needed
two honorary scholastic organi-
sations. and they made application
to the national honor society of
Kappa Delta Pi to establish a
chapter here.
After nearly two years permis-
sion was granted in January, 1026,
and the Alpha Iota Chapter of
Kappa Delta Pi was established
with the same three faculty mem-
bers acting as sponsors.
Membership hi both clubs is
limited to the upper ten percent
of the junior and senior classes,
and besides the scholastic require-
ments a student must be able to
meet rigid character requirement*
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at least six hours* credit in college
education.
Ideals are much the same, with
both clubs stressing the principle
that intelligent people are open
minded toward all situations and
that it is the duty of these people
to serve humanity regardless of
race, creed, or color.
"Ye shall know the truth and
the truth shall make you free,"
was made the motto of Alpha Chi,
and Kappa Delta Pi visualised its
purpose on its pin. which shows a
scroll for knowledge and a bee-
hive for industry
An offspring of the two honor-
ary societies for upper classmen
was born on May 14, 1931, and was
christened the Gammadion Club.
The name was taken from the
Greek letter gamma, which sym-
bolised the corner stone in ancient
days, and the club selected for its
motto. "The stone which the build-
er rejected the same is become the
head of the corner,"
Originally four gammas, which
resemble an upside down L, were
put together to form a swastika
for the club symbol, but during
recent years it was abandoned be-
cause of the significance that it
gained from Nazi Germany.
Miss Caroline Currie of the
business administration depart-
ment, the first program chair-
man of the organisation, has
served as sponsor since 1938.
Requirements for membership
are the same as in the other two
clubs except that members are
selected from the freshman and
sophomore classes. Alpha r^>
meets on the first Thursday of
every month. Kappa Delta Pi on
the second Thursday, and Gamma-
dlons on the third Thursday,
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