r AGE FOURTEEN Leonides, Philotes Open To Independent Women Two independent-women's organizations, Leonides and Philotes, are open for membership to all non-sorority women. All independent women are automatically members of Leonides and become active members if they participate in Leonides' meetings. The original purpose, of Leonides, organized and becoming active last year to replace the Independent Women's Association, is to foster a closer, relationship between in dependent women, insure equal representation in student govern ment, and provide better social and athletic opportunities. , • Leonides! . Council Last year the group sponsored a dance, several mixers, a pajama party for independent women, and teas. Under the leadership' of Rose Eifert, Leonides' council' met and made various' plans.. ' • This council is composed of representatives and alterhates who are elected from 33 women's units at the College. Meetings of the council are open although coeds attending who are not rep resentatives have no voting power. Officers Officers of Leonides are Rose Eifert, president; Mary. Lou Henry,vice-president; Joan Bur lein, treasurer; ,Marie . Card, cor responding secretary;. Mary Ro mash, recording. secretary;. Sally Greenberger, athletic chairman, Joan Wentzel, social chairman; and Anne Allen, publicity chair, man. Philotes was ,organized, in. 1937 to bring independent. women into. a closer relationship. It unifies non -sorority .members, helps Active Sophomore Women Eligible For Chimes,. Jnnior Girl's Honorary Girls who have proven themselves active during their Soph omore year at 'the.College are eligible for Chimes, national junior woman's honorary... , • '• • ~ • Thse, girls are tapped each spring on the basis of leadership, scholarship, and activities. They must 'have a minimum , All= r •• A College average of 1.5 and take part in two .activities which-,have been of service to the College. Girls who have been previously tapped by Cwens are ineligible. ,One of the main functions. of Chimes is to help in the orienta tion of sophomore and upper class women transfers. A schedule has been arranged' by both Chimes and Cwens under the leadership of Miss Edith ~,Zinn,l assistant to the. Dean ,of - Women, to help new women students. be- , come more. quickly.. adjusted to and acquainted ' with their. new campus life: Chimes also. Main tains a. counseling sy s t,e throughout the first - semester for this purpose. National , Chimes •becaine a 'national. or:- ganization two years agO largely through the work of the chapter at the College. Previously, Chimes ' on this campus 'was a local honor group, Junior Service Board. Local junior honoraries from Ohio State ,University, Temple University and the University of West Virginia together with Penn State met here at the College to lay the foundation for the organ ization. TheSe four schools make up the charter colleges of the or= ganization. The first national con vention was held in June, 1948, at NEW STUDENTS AND OLD Welcome To State College Rea & Dell& Drug Store Students and Faculty them acquire self-confidence, stimulates interest in scholastic activities, and promotes friendly yelations with all other campus organizations. Bids • are sent to future members by the organiza tion. Ohio State University. At that time Butler ' University, Indian apolis, Ind., was admitted. Since then, Bradley University, ,Peoria,. 111., has also joined the organiza:- tion. Plans are under, way. .to merge Chimes with Key and Scroll, a western national junior honorary. A constitution combining the two is being worked 'on at the.present time. With the culmination of 'these plans Chimes will be an national honorary with • equal fco:ting in the West as well as the East. 'Officers of the local. chapter are, 'Eileen Bonnert, president; ,Mar garet Lapp, vice-president, Bar bara Sprenkle, . secretary; ,Rose Eifert, treasurer; and Virginia .Richards, historian. Frances Esh leman is senior advisor. • . . Members are Miss . Bonnert, Joan Burlein, Miss DePalma, Miss Eifert, Joyce Fosa, Nancy George, Miss Ellen Grube, Nancy Hanna. Carolyn Henshaw, Jackie, Hunter. Betty Lou Jones, Lois, Kenyon. Miss Richards, Mary ''Rowland; Miss Sprenkle, 'Jackie Warner: Miss. Lapp, .Lois:Van Vactor, and Joanne Wagner. Come In And See Us At Your Convience. a favorite with THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. sTATr, c!ottiEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Rose Eifert Officers Old Timers Baffled As Cottages Add To Confusion To feel confused is a condition to which all new students on campus are entitled. This year because of the extensive construc tion projects and changes on campus, these students can feel that' they have plenty of com pany. The upperclassmen may be just as confused. All sorority houses on campus have been renamed. Elm Cottage, the only house to hold Freshmen women, was originally the Kappa Alpha Thett house. The other cottages will house sophomores and upperclass women transfers with the exception of Moffat Cot tage, the old Kappa Kappa Gamma house, where Physical Education offices will be located. The other houses renamed are the Alpha Omicron Pi house, Maple; Kappa Delta, formerly Delta Gamma, Hemlock; Phi Mu, Pine; Theta Phi Alpha, Spruce; Beta Sigma Omicron, formerly the Chi Omega house, Oak; and Willow Cottage, the former resi dence of Arthur Warnock, Dean Emeritus of Men, will house sophomores and upperclass trans fern temporarily. Mortar Board Taps Outstanding Coeds. Admission to Mortar Board, largest and oldest of the national honoraries, for women, is one of the outstanding honors bestowed on a coed. A girl is tapped for, Mortar Board on the basis of her scholar ship, leadership, and service to the, College. Since it is a senior hthibrary, all new.. ,members are tapped during the spring senies ter of their junior year. Girls eligible to be tapped must show outstanding ,leadership and service to the, College in one or several activities. They must also have an All-College average .3 of a point higher than the lege average for women. Prospective tappees• are seren aded each spring. by the but-going members the evening proceeding the tapping. Following an early morning tapping, both old and, new members dine together at the traditional Mortar Board breakfast. A maximum of, .20 girls can be tapped each year, and they may have been active in either Cwens or Chimes. This last year nine, girls were chosen. They are 'Mary Cohen, Shirley.. Gauger, Marilyn Guillet, Anna Keller, Ruth Leh-. man, Virginia' Miller, Piuline Miss, Nancy Smith, and - Eliza beth Taylor. , . The College chapter sponsors several activities during the year. One,of its first activities this, fall will be the Mortar Board. , Carni- Val. Proceeds froth it go to the Charlotte E. Ray Scholarship Fund. " • Gauger Welcome§' Campus Ne - fis, Blood To all new women students: - . Although the total enrollment of full-time students at Perm State approaches 15,000. You women, as "new blood" on our campus are not to succumb to oblivion. • • On the contrary•WSGA offers each girl the opportunlix to contribute opinions, questions, and service for a "rear student government organization. You are important in making•WSGA what you want it to be. and so again we urge you to take an active interest. —Shirley Gauger WSGA President' IT'S NOT ONLY A TRADITION, BUT .. . A PENN STATE INSTITUTION , 4 TAILOR HArreß HABERDASHER Nineteen Sororities Offer Membership to Eligible Coeds Nineteen national sororities having charters ,at the College are open forOnembership to all coeds who have a Cl.OO 0c21.i All- College average and who have a standing of at least a second semester freshman. Coed transfers who do not have a College average cannot be initiated into • a sorority until they have been on eaMptis one semester. They may, however, pledge a sorority. First semester freshmen may not be rushed until Delores Jelacic National;` Sophomore Honorary Acts As Service Organization To College Cwens, national sophomore honoraiy, functions as a service unit. to ' the College. Girls' are chosen for membership- on the basis of leadership, ' scholarship, and participation in activities A minimum• Alf-College average of 1.5 is required in ordei, Alpha. Lambda Delta Hon. Ors Scholarship Girls ?kilo 'maintain a 2.5 aver age during their ,freshman • year are eligi,ble for .Alpha' Lambd4 Delta, national freshman' honor; ary, • Alpha Lamb<l'a Delta was found- ed at the University of Illinqii•Oti May 31, 1924. It now,has 54 active chapters. Its purpose is to 'l3l : .omote'intel, ligent 'Wing, a high standard of learning,.and io . .encourage super ior scholarship attainment among the freshmen tin colleges and'unlL versifies: f " ' 1 - ' Each year senior certificates are awarded to Alpha Lambda. Deltas at the tollege who haVe „ maintained their average . throughout, their college years. AlSo.la book award. is presented .each year to the Alpha Lambda Delta With the highest average. B.urlein is president. Other officers are Gay Brunner, vice president; Rose Intorre, secretarY; Marie Starikevitcz, treasures; Patricia Roseberry, historian; and Mary Cohen, senior,. adVisor; Miss Edith Zinn is, their adviser, =23 Members are. Ruth Aaron, Gay Brunner, Joan Butlein, Jacque line Bush, Sarah, Chinn, Clara Cooner, JoAnne Engman, Lois Evans, Anne • Forrest, Rose In torre, Sarah Ellen Klausman, Josephine. Relit, Patricia Rose berry, Janet Rosen,. Mary Row land, Harriet Rubenstein, Marie Stankevitcz, and Patricia Weaver. Girls are tapped the spring semester of their freshman year. WEDNESDAY, SWIM= 21, 1049 , they have secured a College' tiver age and - been at the College for one semester. , Two 'representatives fro m: each sorority comprise 'Panhellenic Counci 1, organization' Which establishes and enforces all .rush- ing rules. Panhel has,, designated the first formal rushing period to be held fiorn October 1 to October 15. Women students ivhiti'iir,On terested in joining a sorority will . be able to register on September 29. Open houses, held to acquaint new coeds with! the sororities, Will set off the formal Period Saturday, October 'l. ' dates and times concerning this first rushing period will be printed in fixture issues Of Col legian. Panhel, headed this "year by Delores Jelacic; ' meets every second week and addition. to , 'planning and superviiing the. rushing program 'conducts a sor rority workshop and devises plans for the general betterment of - sororities. o be tapped. , Girls are' tapped :•during the spring semester of their Fresh man year. The last. several years, . because of : the College farm-out system, the girls were tapped during the, fall semester of their sophomore year on the, basis of • work" done at their respective col lege§,the previous year and their, participation "in .camPlis activi ties their first: semester •here. .Cvie;,was founded at' the Uni versity'of- Pittsburgh., June 4, 4927. - The local Delta • chanter earriel, on a program p fnetivi tie.s'Ahrotiahout I the year. Dungaree Drag ...They ~.sponsor the. Dungaree Drag, 'a girl-ask-boy affnir...held annually •each fall. Last yearthey acted as floaters at the Junior- Senior .Reception, sold poppies on Memorial Day, and snonsOred• a dance far the, benefit of WSSF. They,also are. in charge oL Fresh man orientation. This year Cwens and Chimes are • cooperating 'in the orientation of all new women students. Approximately 25 girls are tapped. each. year. After their in- , itiation they become the functfon ing service group, while the tote vious members retire as alumnae. , Officers are Gay • Brunner, president;` Suzanne • Scurfield, vice-presidert; Betty•' Swift ,sec- , retary; and Ruth• Johnson, treas urer. Members ~ ! • Members are Patricia Bender, Audrey : Brua, Gay! • - Brunner, Jacqueline Bush, =Mary Cortrath, ' Bernice .•Curson, -.Janet - EVins, Lois Evans, Marjorie Evalui,,Annel Forrest. Shirley. Giles. Rita: Gbuld, ' Jeanne Haas, Delores Horne, Ruth Johnson, Evelyn Lanning, %Tessca . Mar a ' Lightner, Dorothy. Luft,, , • t l i McMillan. Helen . Pond , , !-!Elou se Powers,. Suzanne Scurfieldi Ella Mae Seitz, Jean • Smucker.--Jane Sutherland, Elizabeth Swift, jvca ,- lorie Wieder, Ella` Louise Wi - Hams, Regina Williams.. Miss F t llamae Jackson,. assista , • to the Dean of.-•Women,!;-isi- a• - visor. Grange Dormitory, was con structed in 1929 ; front, ,contribu tions of "Pennsylvania's potat, growers. , In 1888 a vironian was selectet as associate editcti• of Frio' Lanc e t predecesSor of the Pally' ColI glut, , . Since the first Virentian' gradtiated In 1872, the granted diplomas to. 7004 IA! • lEREEI
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