WEDNESDAY. MARCH 19. 1958 « Sororities Lived in Houses % As Late as 10 Years Ago By LYNN WARD * First of a Series Once upon a time sorority women could use a term now reserved for fraternity men, This term was HOUSE. In fact just ten years ago several sororities were living in cottages now used for faculty offices and miscellaneous purposes. In the early days of “the Pennsylvania State College the cottages, which are gradually giving way to larger construction, ;were faculty homes. When faculty | members moved out in the 1920’5, the cottages were used as dormi tories for women students. At about the same time, wom en’s clubs were developing. These social clubs were the fore runners of sororities. In 1921 the first social club was recognized and granted a charter by the Committee on Student Welfare. This group was known as Nita .Nee Campus Club, now Kappa .Alpha Theta. Four other groups were soon granted their charters: Sychor - (Kappa Kappa Gamma), Arete (Alpha Omicron Pi). La Camara derie (Delta Gamma) and Al fost (Chi Omega). The Dean of Women, Charlotte E. Ray, realized a problem in the housing of these groups. The. first step was taken in the summer of 1928 when the first five sororities (known as clubs) were assigned to cottages. - - The sororities had full time chaperones who were usually teachers, secretaries or graduate students. The seniors could re ceive callers until 10:30 p.m. on weekends. Sophomores and jun iors could receive callers in the •afternoon. The telephone curfew was 8 p.m. Dean- Ray, who had worked closely with the coeds in the campus club formation, wrote in the February 1930 issue of the Penn State Alumni-News that, the main problem the clubs faced was finding suitable hous ing. - She mentioned that investiga tions were made into similar situ ations on other campuses and that lodges were successfully used at Swarthmore and . Randolph-Ma con. Each social group had a small lodge especially equipped for social and business meetings. Sometimes these lodges were separate units of larger buildings. Dean Ray cited two advan tages of social and business . lodge: they could be maintained at a low cost and the students could enjoy the full opporluni - ties of large dormitory living and yet have a fraternity or sorority center. The ideas Dean Ray expressed in .1930 .closely parallel the cir cumstances under which sorori-| ties exist today. Prof to Address Bus Ad Grad Club Dr. A. L. Rodgers, associate pro fessor of geography, will talk on “A Geographic Study of an In dustrial -Port," to the College of Business Administration : Grad uate Club at' 8 tonight at Zeta Beta Tau. . The material for his talk was gathered while he was doing a research project in Genova, Italy. A Business meeting at 7:30 will immediately precede the talk. Metallurgy Seminar • The Metallurgy Seminar 'will meet at 4:10 this afternoon in 317 Willard to hear Dr. W. A. Weyl, professor’ of glass technology, speak on “Surface Chemistry.” For Fine Composites SEE KEPLER Studio Photographers 324 W. Beaver AO 8-0131 " THE'DAILY jCOLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Riding With Star Can Be Pleasant When Y oil Know It Riding in a taxi with a celebrity can be a pleasant experience. But Ellen Ganapol, sophomore in elementary education from Waverly, N.V., didn’t know she was sitting with a celebrity when she rode from, the Lewistown sta tion to the Lewistown Hotel Sun day. It was not -until she hap pened “to mention that- she was going to State College that she discovered that Rise Stevens was in the same cab. • “Miss Stevens is going to sing at State College this evening,” the mezzo-soprano’s agent said. Hearing this, Miss Ganapol turned! a deep scarlet and tried to make] up for her blunder. “My father is! a fan of yours,” she said, “and II learned in Music 5 that you are a mezzo-soprano.” Arriving _at the hotel,. Miss Ganapol tried to pay -for her cab fare, but it had already been taken care of—by Miss Stevens. “I felt sort of out of it,” Miss Ganapol said. “There I was sitting next to chic Rise Stevens andj what was I wearing! Sneakers' and a trench coat!” Williamson to Talk At Eng Seminar Dr. Merritt A. Williamson, Dean of the College of Engineer ing and Architecture, will discuss “The Faculty Environment to Optimize the Exposure of the Student to the Realm of Values” at a faculty seminar at 8 tonight in the main lounge of the Chapel. This is the fourth of a series of five meetings treating the Uni versity's responsibilities -in the realm of student values today, the College of Education, will Dr. John R. Rackley, dean of serve as chairman of the seminar. SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! 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Women's Chorus To Meet Tonight The Women’s Chorus will meet at 7 tonight in the Hetzel Union assembly room for a dress re hearsal of Sunday’s performance. Members of the triple trio will i rehearse at 6:15 tonight in the IHUB assembly room. Nominations for officers also will be held tonight. PENN STATE DINER Fine Foods OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY "Tradition Demands Quality" Ike Invites Prof To Conference Dr. Frank I. Anthony, assistant professor of agricultural educa tion. has been invited by Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower to attend the President’s 10th anni versary conference on occupa tional safety to be held next Tues day and Wednesday in Washing ton, D.C. Around the theme “Safety Conserves Manpower , . . Man power Builds the Future” the conference will consider methods of safeguarding the changing labor force against the emerging technological hazards of the Space Age. Anthony is vice president of; the Pennsylvania Rural Councill Anachronism? 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