26—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1984 '
Residents of the town in Capote's "In Cold Blood" saw him
as both a charming individual and a very demanding author
HOLCOMB, Kan. (AP) Author
Truman Capote was charming but
also could be overbearing as he
dashed around town in his sporty
Jaguar and strange clothes, gather
ing details that led to his book “In
Cold Blood” about the murder of a
farm family, say folks in this prairie
community.
“He was hard to forget,” said Bill
Brown, then a newspaper editor in
nearby Garden City. “His personality
and appearance were foreign to west
ern Kansas.”
“After I knew him about a week I
decided I liked him,” said 81-year-old
Myrtle Clare, who was the town’s
postmistress when Capote spent the
early 1960 s gathering information for
his best-selling book. “He was awful
ly friendly.”
Brown recalls that Capote, who
died Saturday in Los Angeles, would
strut jauntily into the newsroom of
the Garden City Tglegram and expect
immediate attention. Brown says he
never thought much of Capote’s
ways, and vice versa.
“He’d come in right before dead
line and think I could drop every
thing,” said Brown, who was editor of
the newspaper 25 years ago when two
men murdered Herb Clutter, his wife
and two of their children Nancy
and Kenyon in their farm home at
Holcomb, a few miles west of Garden
City.
“He had this celebrity air,” Brown
said. “He thought he deserved imme
diate and undivided attention.”
Capote arrived a few weeks after
the slayings on Nov. 15,1959, and the
frail writer with a droning voice did
not go unnoticed long. By the first of
the year, he was a guest in several
homes. The town had a celebrity in its
midst. Parties were given for him,
and he gave parties in return.
“He was an interesting fellow,”
said Duane West, former county at
torney for Finney County.
“It’s my impression that, in Gar
den City, Capote made an effort to
accentuate his eccentricities,” said
West. “(Capote) went out of his way
to appear more of a character than he
History repeats itself ’cause
no one listens the first time
was, wearing that huge, sheep lined “I’m sure he was accurate, but he
coat and an army pillbox cap.” came in way too soon, and stirred up
West said that in 1964 he and his a lot of things people were trying to
wife visited New York City and called forget,” said Rupp. He said he was
Capote, who had told them to phone if interviewed by Capote over .several
ever they were in town.He said Ca- afternoons, and now regrets giving
pote and his friend and fellow author him permission to use his name in the
Harper Lee took them to “Hello, book.
Dolly,” which had just opened on Rupp said he never read Capote’s
Broadway. book or saw the film that was based
“In the New York setting, he was on it. “I never had the desire to,” he
much less eccentric,” West said. said. -
Bob Rupp, 41, who was Nancy Clut- “I can’t see that anything worth
ter’s boyfriend, said his memory of while came out of the book except to
Capote is stained by the fact that the generate sympathy for a couple of
author made millions writing about cold-blooded killers who deserved
something that shopk a community so none,” West said. ' ,
terribly. ' > “In Cold Blood” was published in
Friends remember Capote as a creative writer
By 808 THOMAS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) Author
Truman Capote “took giant steps in
the clouds and he walked among, the
stars,” actor Robert Blake told about
250 mourners gathered Tuesday at a
memorial service for the writer.
The service for Capote, who loved
publicity and celebrity friends, was
filled with readings of his works,
playings of his favorite songs, and
eulogies from bandleader Artie
Shaw, Joanne Carson and author
Christopher Isherwood.
Recordings by Frank Sinatra and
Ella Fitzgerald filled the Westwood
Village Mortuary chapel, located in
the cemetery that contains the tomb
of Marilyn Monroe, about whom Ca
pote wrote in his last published book,
“Music for Chameleons.”
A mahogany casket with a spray of
pink roses on top dominated the tiny
chapel.-The services were non-reli
gious but several speakers referred
to the author’s belief in God.
Blake, who played one of the killers
in the movie version of Capote’s “In
Cold Blood,” told of meeting the
writer on the film location.
“He taught me more about life and
acting out there in Kansas than any-
‘One almost started laughing before he told
the jokes.’
one else in my life,” Blake said.
“In Cold Blood,” acclaimed as the
first “non-fiction novel,” detailed the
murder of four members of a' family
outside Garden City, Kan.
“He had the excitement and
amusement of a nursery, he was so
childlike,” Isherwood said. “One al
most started laughing before-he told
the jokes.”
Others referred to the .sorrows of
Capote’s life. His attorney, Allen
Schwartz, confimented on “the terri
ble price he paid for his talent and his
savage wit.”
Schwartz said Capote had lost seve
ral longtime friends with publication
of “La Cote Basque,” a short story
which had acidic portraits of New
York notables. Schwartz said that
Capote snapped, “Wtiat did they
think they had around them a court
jester? They had a writer! ”
Mrs. Carson, the divorced second
wife of “Tonight Show” host Johnny
Carson, sobbed through a reading of
1966, after the murderers Richard
Hickock and Perry Smith were
hanged.ln the years before the execu
tion, Capote was in constant contact
with Smith and Hickock. He visited
them, on death row, sent them money
for necessities and wrote to them.
Cliff Hope, who was Herb Clutter’s
attorney, said Capote was “gracious,
businesslike and intelligent.”
' But he regrets having helped him
with the book.
“I’m sorry it was ever written,” he
said. “It brought fame and fortune to.
Capote, but you might say it didn’t do
anyone any particular good, least of
all Capote. He wrote very little of
consequence after that.”
Christopher Isherwood
the last paragraph of Capote’s “A
Christmas Memory,” which told of
the abrupt end to Capote’s childhood.
Shaw read at length from Capote’s
works and mused on the speculation
about the cause of his death. Capote,
said Shaw, “died of living; it was the
deep and rich and full life that killed
him.”
Shaw added: “I met him a few
times in recent years and he seemed
to have lost his avidity for life. He
was ready to go.”
During the services, recordings
were played of Capote’s favorite
songs: “In the Wee Small Hours of
the Morning” sung by Frank Sinatra;
“It Never Entered My Mind” sung by
Ella Fitzgerald; “Moon River,” from
the film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,”
which was based on a Capote novel;
and selections from the score of his
Broadway show, “House of Flow
ers.”
Capote’s body will be cremated and
sent to New York.
Broadway honors Burton
By MICHAEL KUCHWARA
AP Drama Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - On a stage
decorated with a Welsh flag and a
large earthenware vase filled with
red roses, Broadway shared its mem
ories Tuesday of actor Richard Bur
ton with an appreciative audience.
Richard Harris told a favorite Bur
ton joke, Shirley Knight softly sang a
hymn, Robert Merrill boomed out a
Neapolitan folk song, and Lauren
Bacall, Roscoe'.Lee Browne and Sir'
Richard Attenborough recited some
of the Welsh'actor’s favorite poetry.
“Many of us who were'his friends
and many of us who just knew of him
are gathered here to recall some
personal things, some warm things
and his generosity,” said producer
Mike Merrick, who brought Burton
back to New York in 1980 in a revival
of “Camelot.”
Merrick organized the tribute,
which was held at the Lunt-Fontanne
Theater.
All of those appearing, including
Dick Cavett, Shirlee Fonda, Alfred
Drake and director Sidney Lumet,
had special remembrances of Burton,
who died Aug. 5 in Geneva, Switzer
land, of a brain hemorrhage.
For Kathryn Walker it was the five
performances she acted opposite
Burton in Noel Coward’s “Private
Lives,” when his co-star and ex-wife
Elizabeth Taylor became ill. “It was
undoubtedly among the most exciting
and joyful times I have ever had in
the theater,” she said.
For Browne, it was Burton’s help in
guiding Browne through his first film,
“The Comedians.”
But Burton warned him, ‘“Don’t
take my word for it. Everybody
knows I can’t act on film.’ Of course,
we all knew that not to be true at all,”
Browne said with a laugh.
For Miss Knight, it was Burton’s
assistance in overcoming her flat
Kansas accent in her first movie,
“Ice Palace.”
“Mr. Burton took the time to take
this naive, 20-year-old girl from Kan
sas and teach her how to speak,” she
said. '
Sally Hay, Burton’s fourth wife,
attended the memorial, as did his
daughter, Kate, and some of his rela
tives from Wales who burst into spir
ited Welsh hymns near the end of the
program.
It was at the Lunt-Fontanne that
Burton made his last New York stage
appearance, the 1983 revival of “Pri
vate Lives.” Burton also appeared at
the theater in 1964 in “Hamlet,” di
rected by Sir John Gielgud.
Another tribute to Burton will be
held Thursday at the Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields Church in Lon
don.
Richard Burton
PENN STATE
STUDENT
ORGANIZATION
DIRECTORY
1984-1985
Keep this directory for future reference
EXECUTIVE & GOVERNMENT ORGAN IZATIONS
Students are involved in decision making at the Universi
ty in several ways and in matters as important as
teaching assignments, curricular evaluation and design,
and prospective faculty considerations. Besides the
governing groups listed here, students are involved at
levels all the way up to the Board of Trustees. Students
constitute 10 percent of the membership of the Universi
ty Faculty Senate; four students are included in the
twelve-member University Council, an advisory body to
the President, which also includes faculty and adminis-
GREEK ORGANIZATIONS
Penn State has 51 active fraternities, most of which have
houses in State College or on campus. The University’s
twenty sororities have floors and suites in the residence
halls on campus. Each chapter is distinct from the
others, though a certain philosophy is shared by all: a
philosophy involving goals of friendship, academic
achievement, social enjoyment, athletic endeavor, and
an interest in the welfare of others.
Penn State's fraternities and sororities are known for
,their charitable and philanthropic projects. These range
from fund-raising drives for various charities to active
volunteer work in community groups. In addition to
individual chapter activities, the Greeks as a whole
sponsor special events which benefit the entire commu
nity. Two of these are Homecoming (the Greeks brought
back the Homecoming parade, a tradition which had
been discontinued) and the Dance Marathon (the pro
ceeds go to charity).
When groups select members, each uses its own
criteria. Some look for students majoring in specific
fields, having certain career interests, or engaging in
particular extracurricular activities. Other groups seek
diversity in members' backgrounds and goals.
But members of all groups experience the sense of
brotherhood and sisterhood through sharing common
concerns over grades, studies, and social interests.
Through their membership in fraternities and sororities,
most Greeks develop lifelong friendships and associa
tions.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Want to know more?
More information can be obtained on up to 3 of
these organizations by completing the
accompanying form and returning it to the HUB
desk. A copy of your selection sheet will be
forwarded to each organization you have listed.
The organization then will personally contact you
trators; one student is appointed by the Governor of
Pennsylvania to serve on the University’s Board of
Trustees; and students participate in many college and
departmental committees.
Also, there is the Student advisory Board, which meets
regularly with President Jordan to discuss campus
issues and other student-related matters. The Board is
composed of seventeen student leaders from the follow
ing governmental groups plus representatives from the
student governments at the Commonwealth Campuses,
the University Council, and the International Student
Council.
ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENCE HALL STUDENTS
(ARHS) (1) is a link between students living in resi
dence halls and administrators in Student Affairs and
Housing and Food Service, striving to maintain and
improve the quality of life in the residence halls. The
main office is in 101 C HUB.
BLACK CAUCUS (2) coordinates all Black organiza
tions on campus, helping to set priorities and direc
tion. Its membership is open to all students, faculty,
and staff. The Black Caucus aims to promote the
positive and successful growth and development of
Black students at Penn State. Its office is in 101 E
. HUB.
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (GSA) (3) is the
representative student government for approximately
6,000 graduate students. It provides programming,
services, and activities for graduate students and the
University community. Office 305 Kern Graduate
Building.
SOCIAL FRATERNITIES (9)
Fraternity
ACACIA
ALPHA CHI RHO (Crow House) ......
. ALPHA CHI SIGMA (Axe)
ALPHA EPSILON PI (A E Pi)
ALPHA GAMMA RHO (AGR)
ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA (AKL)
ALPHA PHI ALPHA (Alphas)
ALPHA PHI DELTA (A.P.D.)
ALPHA RHO CHI (Archi)
ALPHA SIGMA PHI (Alpha 5ig).......
ALPHA ZETA (A.Z.)
BETA SIGMA BETA (Beta Sig)
BETA THETA PI (Beta)
CHI PHI .....
DELTA CHI
DELTA KAPPA PHI (D.K.Phi)
DELTA SIGMA PHI (Pink Elph.)
DELTA TAU DELTA (Delts)
DELTA THETA SIGMA (D.T.S.)
DELTA UPSILON (D.U.)
KAPPA ALPHA PSI (Kappa)
KAPPA DELTA RHO (KDR)
KAPPA SIGMA (Kappa Sig)
LAMBDA CHI ALPHA (Lambda Chi)
OMEGA PSI PHI
PHI DELTA THETA (Phi Delt)!
PHI GAMMA DELTA (Fiji)
PHI KAPPA PSI (Phi Psi)
PHI KAPPA SIGMA (Skull House)....
PHI KAPPA TAU (Phi Tau)
PHI KAPPA THETA (Phi Who)
PHI MU DELTA (Phi Mud)
PHI SIGMA KAPPA (Phi Sig)
PI KAPPA ALPHA (Pika)
PI KAPPA PHI (Pi Kapp)
PI LAMBDA PHI (Pi Lam)
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON (SAE)'
SIGMA ALPHA MU
SIGMA CHI
.ddress
Please fill in organization and code number.
Address
234 Locust Lane...
425 Locust Lane....
406 S. Pugh Street.
321 E. Fairmont
322 Fraternity Row
339 Fraternity Row
2038 HUB
134 W. Fairmount Avenue
.. No House
.. 328 E. Fairmount Avenue
.j 360 N. Burrowes Road ....
.. 255 E. Fairmount Avenue
.. 220 N. Burrowes Road ....
.. 360 E. Hamilton Avenue..
. 424 E. Fairmount Avenue
. 240 Prospect Avenue
. 508 Locust Lane
. 429 E. Hamilton Avenue..
. 101 N. Patterson Street...
. 229 Locust Lane
. 320 S. Fraser Street
.. 420 E. Prospect Avenue..
.. 255 Highland Avenue
.. 351 E. Fairmount Avenue
.. No House/2038 HUB
.. 240 N. Burrowes Road ....
.. 319 N. Burrowes Road ....
.. 403 Locust Lane
.. 234 E. Beaver Avenue
~ 408 E. Fairmount Avenue
.. 338 E. Fairmount Avenue
.. 500 S. Allen Street
„ 501 S. Allen Street
~ 417 E. Prospect Avenue..
. 409 E. Fairmount Avenue
. 622 W. College Avenue...
. 200 E. Beaver Avenue
. 232 E. Nittany Ave
. 400 E. Prospect Avenue..
And we bet you didn’t know Penn
State offered over 300 activities ...
Don’t overlook a tremendous resource you have at
University Park; the opportunity to participate in
any of more than 300 student organizations. The
effort you make has a gc/od chance of rewarding
both your academic life and your sense of
personal accomplishment.
Student organizations provide a good means of
enriching your time, be it a fund drive, field trip, or
sports marathon, the activity you are involved in
will supplement the time you spend immersed in a
textbook, library carrel, or language lab.
You may want to stay within your major by
selecting a professional student organization in
your field. Then again, you might take the
opportunity to explore something entirely
different: another culture, a new game, or the out
of-doors.
Involvement in a student organization is the time
spent on yourself, reflecting your personal
interests.
Also, planning and conducting projects with your
peers provides a valuable experience for "real
world” activities.
INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL (IFC) (4) includes the
presidents of the 50 social fraternities at University
Park. IFC coordinates the efforts of the fraternity
system and provides services for individual chapters.
You can call the IFC office (865-3455) or stop by (2038
HUB) if you have questions about the fraternity
system.
ORGANIZATION FOR TOWN INDEPENDENT STUDENTS
(OTIS) (5) was established to "serve, protect, and
promote the rights and responsibilities of students,"
particularly in their relationships with the municipali
ty of State College. OTIS's services are many: tips on
apartment living in Foundations (publication avail
able at the OTIS office in 101 B HUB); information on
checking and savings account policies of local banks
and savings and loan institutions; a housing list and
advice for apartment hunters; consumer information;
and lease reading and complaint resolution services.
THE PANHELLENIC COUNCIL (6) represents the nine
teen sororities on campus. Panhel tries to help
individual sororities achieve their own goals by
providing centralized services, arid it coordinates
community service projects and University-wide so
cial functions. Questions about the sorority system
can be answered in the Panhellenic Council office in
2038 HUB (865-3701).
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT (USG)
( (7) is the primary student governing body at the
University Park campus, with offices in Rooms 203,
203 A, and 213 HUB. USG is divided into three
branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.
The executive branch consists of a president and vice
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STUDENT ORGANIZATION SELECTION SHEET
SIGMA NU.
SIGMA PHI EPSILON (Sig Ep)
SIGMA PI
SIGMA TAU GAMMA (STG)
TAU EPSILON PHI (TEP)
TAU KAPPA EPSILON (Teke)..
TAU PHI DELTA (Tree House).
THETA CHI
THETA DELTA CHI
THETA XI
TRIANGLE
2ETA PSI (Z Harp)
SOCIAL SORORITIES (10)
Sorority
ALPHA CHI OMEGA (Alpha Chi) 101-S Hibbs Hall
ALPHA GAMMA DELTA (AGD) 5 Ritner Hall
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA (AKA) 2038 HUB
ALPHA OMICRON PI (AOPI) 15 Hiester
ALPHA PHI 1 Wolf Hall
ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA (ASA) 101-S Cooper Hall
ALPHA XI DELTA (AZD)
CHI OMEGA (Chi O) 101-S Haller Hall
DELTA DELTA DELTA (Tri Delt) . 108-S Cross Hall
DELTA GAMMA (DG) i 10 Shulze Ha 11....
DELTA SIGMA THETA (Delts) 108-S Hibbs Hall
GAMMA PHI BETA (Gamma Phi) 108-S Haller Hall
KAPPA ALPHA THETA (Thetas) 10 Wolf Hall
KAPPA DELTA (KD’s) ;. 101-S Cross Hall.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA (Kappa's)...... 108-S Cooper Hall
PHI MU
PI BETA PHI (Pi Phi)
SIGMA DELTA TAU
ZETA PHI BETA
ZETA TAU ALPHA (ZTA)
Stop by the Panhel-IFC Office (2038 HUB) to learn more about Penn State’s fraternities
and sororities. You may sign up for rush at registration any semester.
Semester
The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 29,1984 —2'
And don’t think that as a newcomer you aren’t
invited! Each of the organizations listed below
extends an enthusiastic welcome to all students.
They need your support.
Student Organizations and Program Development,
218 HUB, 863-4624
Literally hundreds of student activities are
available at Penn State. Support services and
coordination of these activities is provided by
offices in the Division of Student Programs
The staff in the Office of Student Organizations
and Program Development are prepared to provide
information which supplements that which
appears in this summary .If you want to join one of
the organizations or even form a new group, visit
the Office of Student Organizations and Program
Development. Available to enhance the
organizations’ performance is a number of
brochures, including a Publicity Manual for .
Student Organizations, Leadership Manual, and
the Student Organization Directory.
At the request of student groups, staff members
will provide leadership training in communication
skills, decision-making, program planning, goal
setting, and financial management.
president, elected by the student body every Spring
Semester, and the executive council, which includes
the presidents of the governing groups described
herein.
Executive departments have been created to provide
various services to students. Areas covered are
political affairs, student welfare, legal affairs, aca
demic affairs, and Commonwealth Campuses.
The legislative branch Is bicameral, with a Student
Senate and an Academic Assembly.
The USG Academic Assembly is composed of three
members from each of the ten college student
councils and is concerned with social matters such
as consumer protection and legal aid.
The USG student senate consists of 35 elected
members representing dormitory, town, and fraterni
ty students. Ad hoc committees investigate various
University policies and services.
The judicial branch includes a Supreme Court and
several other courts, such as the Elections Court and
Traffic Court. The Supreme Court consists of a chief
justice appointed by the USG president and eight
associate justices appointed by the executive coun
cil, all nine of whom must be approved by the Student
Senate.
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY VETERANS ORGANIZATION
(8) is concerned with the social and intellectual
growth of its members, all of whom are veterans' of
the armed forces. It also is interested in “mutual aid"
and “preservation of the common interests” of its
members, according to the group’s constitution. Its
office is in 212 HUB.
. 340 Burrowes Road
524 Locust Lane
303 Fraternity Row
329 E. Beaver Avenue
328 E. Foster Avenue
346 E. Prospect Avenue.,
427 E. Fairmount Avenue
523 S. Allen Street
305 E. Prospect Avenue..
251 S. Pugh St
226 E. Beaver Avenue
225 E. Foster Ave
Address
13 Wolf Hall
2 Hiester Hall
5 Hiester Hall
1 Shulze Hall..
13 Shulze Hall
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865-2141
865-3701
965-7863
865-5922
865-9741
865-7361
865-2241
865-2671
865-6293
865-8396
865-4011
865-2742
865-2462
865-2721
865-5562
865-6912
865-5701
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