MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1948 Chimes Active In Orientation Chimes, national junior wom en’s honorary, is the honor open to those girls who have particu larly proven themselves active at the College during their soph omore year. One of the main functions of Chimes is to help in the orienta tion of all those women who transfer to the College after their freshman year. Each member comes to school a week early in order to be on hand to help ad just newcomers. Chimed prin ciple function is to maintain this service throughout the school year. Girls who have been selected on the basis of their leadership, scholarship, and activity are tapped during the spring semes ter of their sophomore year. Coeds must have a 1.5 All-Col lege average and one main ac tivity. Gins who have previous ly been tapped for Owens, soph omore women's honorary, are in eligible. Chimes became a national or ganization hnt year largely through the work of the chapter at the College. The local junior honoraries at Penn State, Ohio State Univer sity, Temolo University and Uni versity of West Virginia became the charter members of the new national junior honorary known as Chimes. The College chanter bad been called Junior Service Board. Nantry Ault, former pres ident of the College chanter, was the first national president. Louise Homer Club Louise Homer Club, a women’s musical honorary, took the name of the great concert singer in 1929. Louise Homer, who died several months ago, was born in Pittsburgh; Like so many groups on cam pus, the club was inactive during the war but was reorganized in the spring of 1946. Tts member ship increased from 13 to 40 dur ing the past year. TEXT BOOKS New Used SHEARER - VATERMAH POD-POKES Frosh Green Retires , Blue and White Moves In No frosh, no green ribbons or dinks! Sophomore women, how-* ever, will be asked to wear blue and white bows and small name tags, while the sophomore men will be required to wear only the name cards. Women will Teceive their name cards in the dormitory meetings tonight and men will be given theirs at counselor meetings Mon day or Tuesday. Name tags should be worn immediately upon receiv ing them from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during all classes. Further notice will be given to announce the last day of wearing them. Girls must purchase the blue and white bows at the local five and-ten cent store. These need not he worn until 8 a.m, Monday, September 27, and will be worn from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day for three weeks. The bows need not be worn to any social functions. Previously, freshmen women were seen about camous adorned in green ribbons and hearing pla cards designating the wearer’s name and home town. In addition and especially painful was the fact that new girls were not allowed to date or even speak to the oppo site sex for three weeks. Most of you sophomores have already been through a freshman initiation of customs and tradi tions Peculiar to another campus, and thus the leniency shown now. Student government is calling upon the good sportsmanship of its new students in this effort to learn names and make new ac quaintances. Since the first woman was graduated in 1872. the College has granted diplomas to 7000 woman students. Organized gym classes began in 1893 with coeds donning heavy blue wool serge bloomers, middy blouses, black stockings and white tennis shoes. LAUNDRY CASES The Athletic St THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Dean Weston Greets Coeds The members of my staff and I extend a sincere welcome to to you have come to the campus this fall. We hope that m your work here at The Pennsylvania State College you may continue to strive toward the standards and characteristics which mark the well educated person. Your success in College will be determined by your ability to think, by your willingness to invest time and serious study in your academic subjects, and by your ability to implement what you study so that it becomes a part of vou and your thinking. We are here to heln vou. Come to our office, 105 Old Main, at any time for we are ea»er to become acquainted with vou. Pearl O. Weston, Dean of Women McAllister Hall was a men’s dormitory until it wa= converted for women's used in 1915. Grange Dormitory was con structed in 1929 from contribu tions of Pennsylvania’s potato growers. ROTE BOORS - FILLERS DETZGEN and K & E SUDE RULES - DRAWS opposite Main Gate PEARL O WESTON NATIONAL Coeds Register for Greeks, Attend Sorority Gatherings All coeds on campus are elig ible to join one of the 19 national sororities providing they have the required scholastic average. This is a 1.00 or 1.3 All-College average depending on the soror ity. Coed transfers who do not have a Penn State average can not be initiated into a sorority until they have been on campus one semester. They may, how ever, pledge a sorority. Women _ students who are in terested in joining a sorority should register at the entrance of Atherton Hall between 8 and 5 p.m. on Thursday or at the same place between 8 and 12 noon on Monday. Registrants must have a 1.00 All-College av erage and pay a $l.OO registration fee. Students with deferred grades may not register. Open Houses The first Open House to ac quaint new coeds with the soror ities will be held in the sorority suites or houses from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Two Open Houses are scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 n.m. on Sunday. In order that the coeds may visit as many sororities as pos sible _ during the Open House a rotating schedule has been set up. reported .Adelaide Finkeiston. president of Pan-Hellenic Conn ed. sorority governing board. Tn this svstem the rushees have been into three sections geographically. Section I of the sororities in cludes Kanna Aloha Theta. Delta Gamma. Alpha Xi Delta. Delta. Zeta. Alpha Gamma Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha. Section TI includes Aloha Chi Omega. Gamma Phi Beta. Chi J Omega. Phi Mu. and Theta Phi! Aloha. I Section HI includes Aloha Om- 1 icron Pi. Beta Sigma Omicron. Delta Delta Delta, Kaooa Delta. l and Kappa Kappa Gamma. ; Rushees are divided A to H. I to Q. and R to Z according to last names. Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m* Section I of the sororities will entertain rushees from A to FL, while Section II entertains those from T to Q and Section in from R to Z. On Sunday from 2 to 5 p.mu Section I entertains those from I to Q. Section II from R to Z; and Section 111 from A to H. Sunday from 6:30 to 9:30 Sec tion I entertains those from R to Z, Section II from A to H; and Section 111 from I to Q. Jewish Groups The three Jewish sororiftas will have only two Open Houses from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. On Saturday, Alpha Epsilon Phi wH entertain A to H from 2 to 3 p.nu; 1 to Q from 3 to 4 p.m.; and R to Z from 4 to 5 p.m. Phi Sigma Sigma will enter tain I to Q from 2 to 3 p.m.; R to Z from 3 to 4 p.m.; and A to H from 4 to 5 p.m. Sigma Dettn Tau will entertain R to Z from 2 to 3 pm.: A to H from 3 to 4 p.m.: and I to O from 4 to 5 p.m. On Sundav AEPhi will enter* tain I to O from 2 to 3 p.m.; R to Z from 3 to 4 p.m.: and A to H from 4to 5 p.m. Phi Sig Sig wfll be hostesses to R to Z from 3 to 3 p.m.: A to H from 3 to 4 p.m,; anr) I to O from 4 to S p.m. SOT "dll entertain A to H from 2 to 3 pm.: T to Q from 3 to 4 p.nfc£ apd R to Z from 4 to 5 p.m. Of her rush ip v information and the location of the sororitv suites •md houses will be printed in the Wedpocdav issue of the DaHr Collegian. When Home Economies wae troduced in 1891. it was listed M Domestic Economy and i ipTato cd as the application of scieneeto work of th* kitchen and laumiry. * * * In 1888 a woman was sclented as associate editor of Free T«ana% predecessor of the Daily Ctdlß- HAMMERHUL BOND-20 pond SPORTING GOODS PAGE THIRTEEN
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