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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 7, 1958
Sorority Members Recall Life Among Sawdust and Shavings
To move in among sawdust and shavings and watch a house grow into a luxurious home is remembered by members of Sigma Kappa sorority as being an exciting and novel experience.
The sorority officially presented its new house, which has only finishing touches left, to 500 guests at an open house Sunday, Oct. 26.
"It's so different from last year," said Judy Gildehaus, Webster Groves, Mo., senior. "There is so much space and the house is so beautiful."
Mary Sue Childers, Merriam sophomore, said that she likes the big rooms and all the closet space, but most of all the sundeck off her room.
Barbara Jezek, Holyrood junior,
when asked if she found anything
unusual, replied "I had a hard time
getting used to seeing feet and legs
while eating—we have glass-topped
dining tables!"
A steam shovel starting work one morning startled a girl so that she fell out of bed, Miss Jezek said.
The house, which cost $200,000, was scheduled to be completed by the end of August, however, summer rains delayed work. "Returning members roughed it for the first weeks of school while work went on around them," said Mrs. Donald Alderson, chairman of the building committee.
Miss Jezek recalled that rush week was conducted with holes in the floors, workman arriving at 7 a.m. and buzz saws going during all the skits.
There are only finishing touches remaining, Miss Jezek said, but added, "Just when we think things are finished, someone comes up with something else to do."
The modified Georgian house has a light interior decor with pastels and white pine as the basic theme. Its large, white-walled living room has a white-tiled fireplace with gold flecks, a crystal chandelier and velvet chairs.
The basic decorating colors are blue, gray, gold and white. The two and three girl rooms, to be painted in pastel shades, complement the contemporary furnishings.
Suede Jackets Take New Twist Leather has been extremely popular on campus this year in jackets which range in length from below-the-waist to figer-tip. A new twist has been given the jackets in the form of linings—stripes or sometimes red felt are used to perk up earthen-toned suede jackets.
PRETTY VIEW—The new Sigma Kappa sorority house has a view which stretches across the valley toward Potter Lake. Judy Gildehaus, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, left, Jane Boyd, Newton, and Sandra Wiand, Kansas City, Kan., sophomores enjoy the panorama. The new house brings some of the outdoors inside. The entrance hall with willow-like wall paper is reminiscent of the valley in winter. Still hanging newly arrived pictures, the Sigma Kappa members think the house is "the greatest."
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