SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1939
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SECTION C
PAGE FIVE
Greek Women's Pan-Hell Settles Sorority Troubles
By Shirely Smith, c'39
When a sorority pledges over its quota, or “hot boxes” during rush week, or spends too much money on rushing, the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council settles the situation.
Two delegates from each sorority house headed by Patricia Owens, Chi Omega, comprise the membership of the Council. The purpose of this group is the perfecting of a uniform plan of action in rushing for all member sororites and the promotion of their common interests during the year.
The Kansas chapter of Women's National Pan-Hellenic came into existence one year after the national intersorior conference which was organized in New York in 1905.
Original membership of the local chapter consisted of Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa KappaGamma, and Chi Omega. Since that time many other organizations have joined in the years only the original four members and five other organizations remain. The other members are: Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omiferon Pi, Gamma Phi Beta, and Sigma Kappa. Last year the Delta Delta sorority went inactive.
The Pan-Hellenic Council makes all rules governing situations and procedure during rush week as well as laws for sorority existence throughout the year. In 1919 the group ruled to give $500, saved during rush week through simplified rushing, to a co-operative house fund to be run on the Wisconsin plan.
In 1925 the Council found many sororities initiating their pledges without the required "C" grade average. The difficulties caused the passing of a ruler that each organization submit to the registrar a complete list of candidates for initiation and graduation. Pan-Hell secretary, who signs it and returns the list to the organization.
The group has sponsored exchange dinners and luncheons between the sororities. At first each house entertained 20 guests, two from each house. This plan was later changed to 10 guests or single exchanges.
On Nov. 17, 1935, the social privileges of seven houses were taken for disobeying the Council rulings regarding rushing methods. The penalty changed the Sunday closing for all members for three months.
In 1937 an annual Pan-Hellenic sponsored party was open to all sorority women and their dates. Before this only 10 girls from each house were issued invitations to the party.
Kappa's Organized At Monmouth
Kappa Kappa Gamma was founded at Monmouth College, Monmouth, Il., early in 1870. Omega chapter was established in Lawrence in 1883. Eight women were initiated as charter members of Omega. There are now 50 active members.
The first Kappa's here could not erect a building, but they did rent a hall in which to hold meetings. On a side street from Massachusetts stood the office building in which the room was located. In 1901 the Kappa's moved into a new rented house. In 1912 they moved into the first house which they built. It was the house which is now occupied by Alpha Kappa Psi. The Kappas were active in working during the world war. In 1927 the Kappas moved into the house in which they live now at Gower Place.
The Kappa pin is in the form of a gold key with 12 pearls on the head and and three pearls at the other end. Kappa colors are light blue and dark blue and the flower is the Fleur-de-Lis.
Saturday Night Club Began Siq Ep
A Saturday Night Club was the basis of the organization of Sigma Phi Epsilon in November, 1901, at Richmond, Va. At the time of inception few, if any, miniskirt students were made fraternity men in Richmond. Sigma Phi Epsilon admitted several to membership and this coupled with the fact that the badge was heart-shaped caused them to be called the "Sacred Hearts."
Six students at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, founded Phil Delta Theta fraternity on Dec. 26, 1848. Two of the men wrote "The Bond of Phil Delta Theta," and since then it has been signed by nearly 50,000 students. It is well-named at the University in 1882, the sixty-first of 106 active chapters.
'The Bond' Rules Phi Delta Theta
The fraternity's first house was across the street from the present Beta house. Later it occupied what is now the Tennessee Club, and in
325 a new house was built on Edgehill road. Last summer it was enlarged to the extent that it now has room enough for 65 members.
Kansas Alpha has initiated 704 members, and among her prominent alumni are William Allen White, Breck Benbericht and Veron Kollenberg.
The local organization has won the Harvard trophy three times, and this year won the inter-fraternity singing contest for the fifth consecutive
Several publications are issued periodically for active members and alumni. Among them are "The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta," "Olympian," "The Palladium," and "A Manual of Phi Delta Theta."
The badge consists of a sword and shield on which is a scroll bearing the Greek letters. The fraternity flower is the white carnation.
On Dec. 10, 1898, at the University of Virginia, five students founded the Kappa Sigma fraternity which has grown to include 107 active chapters, in 46 states, more than any other college fraternity in the United States. The fraternity claims to be second in age to Masonry, tracing its ancestry from a European society. This year is the 70th anniversary of the American founding.
The number five is prominent in the rituals, traditions, and insignia of Kappa Sigma, dating back to the 1920s. The name "the five friends and brothers."
Kappa Sig Claims Most Chapters
Gamma Omicron chapter was founded at this University in 1912. The chapter house is located at 1045 West Hills Parkway. This chapter's twenty-seventh anniversary is celebrated in the spring of this year.
Local Lodge of Chi Omega Organized at Foster Home
The badge is a crescent of chased gold with points turned downward and holding suspended a five pointed star enameled in black, with a narrow border of white enamel and a wide border of blue badge being of convex form; within the star are the Greek letters surrounded by a circle of jewels.
Lambda chapter of Chi Omega, the fourth sorochia on the Hill, was organized in 1902 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George O. Foster. The ten charter members were installed by mother of a priest; the mother chapter at Fayetteville, Ark.
The chapter at this university offers the Chi Omega Award of $23 each spring to the most outstanding graduate student in one of the fields of psychology, soe-
These ten student friends had read the record of Chi Omega sorority while looking through a yearbook of the University of Wisconsin. They sent to national headquarters for information and later a representative came from the original chapter to visit the group.
Every other year a national chapter convention is held and every alternate year chapter groups meet in regional conventions. The fraternity sponsors the National Achievement Award, a bronze medal which is given to the most outstanding woman in the United States each year. A national congratulatory medal the medal is awarded by Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt and every other year the award is presented at the White House.
The first chapter of Chi Omega was established at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville on April 5, 1895. The sorority has grown to include 46 members in 44 of the 48 states and 64 alumnus chapters.
Gives May Awards
Lamda chaper was installed on December 18, 1902 and its meetings were held in the attic of the George Foster residence. The following year they established the first organized house with a housemother on the campus. Chi Omega was also the first fraternity to undertake the construction of their home, which was completed in 1911. The present house at 1345 West Campus was erected in 1925 at a cost of $70,000.
First Meeting in an Attic
They Govern Women Greek Houses----
Sigma Phi Epsilon established Kansas Gamma chapter at this University on April 30, 1923. The present Sig Ep house in the West Wills was built in 1928 at a cost of $70,000. The fraternity issues a quarterly periodical called the Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal for its 72 active chapter and alumn members. The colors are purple and red.
Mcclemen of the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council: Top row, left to right: Mitchell, Norton, Dyer, Markham and Hall. Middle row, Cannell, Irvine, McCoy, January, Gaines, Woods and Cook. bottom row, Cochrane, Beakrue, Grayson, Owens, Foust, Heinlein and Hurd.
The Chi Omega pin is an X composed of 14 pearls upon a horsehoean an owl, a skull and cross bones and five Greek letters. The colors, cardinal and straw, have long stood for the social and civic service, cooperation, and collective attainment of the sorority. Chi Omega sponsors a book the Mystagogue and publishes a quarterly, the Eleusis.
iology, or economics. Lambad had five alumnae listed in the 1938 publications of American Women. Doris Fleshan, Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News is a member of Lambad.
Every October and April Lambald's 47 members celebrate the national traditional Eleusinian banquet based on the ritual of the Eleusinian myth of Persephone.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was founded on March 1, 1868, at the University of Virginia by seven men who had been friends while attending the Virginia Military Institute. Their coming together again at the University was crystalized in an enduring bond of the fraternity.
Although Pi Kappa Alpha was not organized as a sectional fraternity of the South, it became so by constitutional provision in 1880 and remained exclusively southern until New Orleans Convention in 1900.
Pi K.A. Was Only In South at First
The Friday before national Mother's Day is celebrated as Mother's Day by the fraternity with suitable commemorating ceremonies.
Pi Kappa Alpha has 59 active chapters and 61 alumni chapters. The organization publishes a quarterly magazine, The Shield and Diamond, the Dagger and Key, The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Register, the Pi Kappa Alpha Songbook, and a Directory.
The fraternity is now governed between conventions by a Supreme Council and a Resident Alumnus Secretary in every town of an active chapter. The pin is a white shield surmounted by a black diamond with the Greek letters thereon in gold.
Nine Members In First Chapter Of Phi Kappa Psi
The Journalism building was originally used as the chapel by University students.
The Phi Kappa Pi fraternity was founded on Mt. Oread on Feb. 19, 1876. The first chapter had nine charter members. Since then the fraternity has grown to have an average group of 60 members a year Phi Pai was the second of such organizations to be founded here.
The fraternity has had six houses. The first was the house of a prominent Lawrence businessman, but a few years later the boys moved into a house at 12th and Louisiana. The Phi Pals owned this house outright but in 1900, they sold it to a Mrs Smith.
They then moved to 822 Kentucky where they lived until 1906, when they were pressed for more room. They then agreed to move to the larger house at 1140 Louisiana, where they lived until 1918. Then The World War came along and cut the number of men down to eight freshmen and two acts. With this heavy loss in numbers, they moved to a Martinsville facility but they remained there only a year. Build Fraternity House
On March 11, 1920, the plans were finished for the present Phi Pa house and the boys moved into their new home. At that time it was the first time that a boys house was built and it is still rated as one of the outstanding houses on the Campus.
Phi Kappa Psi has always been noted for its activities. In 1916, during the War, the members of the fraternity got the idea to take care of a French War baby, who had been left homeless because of the War. They sent money to France to care for this baby. A few weeks later, alice may fraternity and assemble on the Hill had taken a baby to care for it.
The national fraternity was founded in 1882 at Washington and Jefferson College. At the present time, it is active among chapters throughout the country.
oed in 1852 at Washington and Jeff. jr. College. At the present time, Phi Kappa Psi has 52 active chapters throughout the country. Kansas Alpha of Phi Kappa Psi boasts of many famous alumni: Sun Summerfield, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Fred M. Harris, Chester Woodward, Dr. F. C. Allen, Pref Frank O. Marsh, Dr. H. Hodge, Prof F. H. Hodge, Prof J. Hodge, Strickland, Al Peterson, Dick Wills, Stan Lindley, Lud Grady, Dorman O. Laurie, Paul L'Acure, Prof O.
Since 1914, Kansas Alpha has has
16 Phi Beta Kappa, 7 Student Council presidents, 65 "K" Men, 5 Owl Society, and 18 Sukem members.
The Kansas Chapter of Phi Gam-
Delta is known as Pi Deuteron.
Pi Deuteron first made its appearance
on the campus of the University
in 1881. Although he shared
the honor of founding Pi Deuteron
with four others, Glenn Miller is
accredited to be the founder of the
Kansas Chapter. W. Y. Morgan was
the first pllege of Pi Deuteron,
and is commonly known as the father of
the Chapter.
Founded at old Jefferson College at Cantonsburg, Pa., on May 1, 1848, Phi Gamma Delta is the thirteenth oldest Greek-letter society in America. Its solemn vows have been taken by more than 34,000 college men, of whom 29,000 are living. John Templleton McCarty is considered to be the leader and founder of the fraternity.
Legion of Honor Was First Name of Sigma Nu
Phi Gams Have 34,000 Members
Pi Deuteron is particularly well represented by famous alumni, Alf M. Landon, 1363 presidential candidate, and Glenn Cunningham, the world's greatest miler, are probably the most famous.
Sigma Nu fraternity was organized in October, 1868, as the Virginia Military Institute and was known as the Legion of Honor. The existence of the society was kept secret until the first formal meeting on January 1, 1869, which is accepted as the date of the founding of the fraternity.
Thith ith not funny but it filleth spath.—Dally Kansan, 1912.
The tradition of the famed White Star of Sigma Nu is traceable to one eventful night when the three founders, then young men, met on a lonely knoll outside the city of Lexington and solemnly swore their allegiance to the brotherhood which was desired to become a great fraternity. One star in the sky loomed conspicuously brighter than the rest; so men decided to adopt this as their symbol of fraternal guidance.
Three non-fraternity men organized a secret anti-secret society on this campus. Meetings were held in the basement of the Unitarian Church. The operations of the secret anti-secret society were so skillfully obscured that its existence was not suspected. While the fraternities were alert in plots and counterplots against each other, this organization worked as a wheel within wheels, and controlled them all. This organization collapsed when its secret operations became known.
organization paved the way for the founding of Nu Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity at the University. Joel Howard presented the plan to his associates for the formation of a Sigma Nu chapter. His associates for the formation of a Sigma Nu chapter. His associates institutes of honors for students to the plan so that they might chick and perpetuate their friendships. Accordingly five men agreed to join Joel Howard's fraternity.
This break-down of the secret or-
Nu chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity was thus founded on June 2, 1884. This chapter is the oldest chapter of Sigma University, west of the Mississippi river
The annual winter formal, the Hi-
Rickety party, was started by Noch
chapter and is now a national ob-
session, all by chapters of the fraternity.
It was the purpose of the founders of Sigma Smu to establish through the warm friendships of a group of conglernal college men, on the foundation stone of honor, ideals of intellectual achievement, character development, all to the end of become better men and better citizens.
The official flower of the fraternity is the famed White Rose.
D.U. Is Oldest National Frat On the Campus
Delta Upson at Kansas holds a peculiar position with regard to age in that it is the youngest fraternity from standpoint of existence here at the University and yet is the oldest social fraternity on the Campus ma-
Established in 1920
The national organization was founded at Williams college in 1834 in protest against control of that university by secret organizations. The fraternity has since become national in scope with 60 active chapters; a trust fund of $300,000; 51 houses representing a total investment of over $3,000,000. The fraternity magazine called the "Delta Upson Quarterly" was one of the first fraternity publications.
The Kansas chapter of Delta Upsilon was founded at the University in 1920 when the Kanza Club was initiated into the national fraternity. The Kanza Club had petitioned Delta Upsilon for a charter since its foundation in 1912. The initiation of the new chapter took place in the Plymouth Congregational Church, Chancellor Strong spoke before more than a hundred institutes and members.
The new chapter lived for nine years in a frame house on Oread near the present Phi Chi house. In 1029 the present house at 1025 West Bromwich was refurbished to a $75,000. The house was used as a model for ideal modern fraternity homes in several architectural magazines at that time.
Absorb Pi Upsilon
In 1933 a local social fraternity, Pl Upsalon, was partially absorbed by the Kansas chapter of Delta Upsalon. A number of alumni who were to maintain fraternal affiliations with other universities were also initiated at this time.
A a few of the prominent men this young chapter has graduated and a few of the Delta Upsilons who have been prominent at the University of Kansas are: Miles "Pep" Vaughn, night manager of New York offices of the United Press; Paul G. Goldman, general press; Paul B. Broadcasting company; Franklin E. Snow, for whom Snow hall was named; Donald Hatch, one of main architects for New York's World Fair.
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