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ent system of having fraternities take office in
rotation be retained.
One of the most interesting features of the
Congress was the c o n f e r e n c e with College
Panhellenic delegates. Alpha Omicron Pi was
very proud to have Alary Alice Burch ( B 0 ) ,
Mad re Brown ( * ) , and Janette Fisher ( 6 ) ,
representing their respective campuses. Much
of the discussion centered on rushing with
particular emphasis on the maximum quota
idea, which has just been tried with success
at Ohio Wesleyan.
Perhaps the most helpful phase of the meet-
ing was the opportunity f o r round-table dis-
cussion and individual talks at which rushing
costs, the eligibility of Junior College entrants, tion of which our own Kathryn Morrnan
inactive members, house finances, and other
pertinent fraternity problems were gone into
f r o m all angles. I t is gratifying to know that of a meeting of this kind. They are found
the next Congress plans to allot much more
time to this informal type of group gathering.
No account of the Congress would be com-
plete without mentioning particularly the de-
lightful, forceful a d d r e s s by Dean Agnes
Wells of the University of Indiana on the
f o r ovovtt
-f- TWENTY-THREE "ladies of the Greek press"
gathered at a luncheon meeting Thursday
noon, October 12, at the Palmer House, Chi-
cago, Illinois, when the biennial session of the
Editors' Conference of the National Panhel-
lenic Congress was called to order by the
Chairman, Wilma S. Leland, editor of To
DRAGMA. Shirley K Krieg, editor of Themis
of ZTA, acted as secretary.
Since a joint dinner with the College Fra-
ternity Editors' Association was scheduled f o r
evening, the sorority editors departed f r o m
precedent in their program arrangements, and
planned a luncheon meeting, instead of a din-
ner session, as had been customary in the
past. But there was no departure f r o m prece-
dent in the group's evident enjoyment of this
biennial gathering of which, in 1931, Mrs. Le-
land most aptly wrote, "in the estimation of
the editors, our meeting is the most enjoyable
of the Panhellenic Congress and this dinner
proved no disappointment." The 1933 meeting
lived up to tradition, and perhaps went a bit
beyond it. Not only through the delightful
personal contacts, but through the frank and
helpful interchange of ideas and experiences
do the editors find this meeting of inspiration
as well as constructive usefulness, and this
year, i f we may be permitted to say so, we
thought the meetings just a little better than
usual.
A t any rate, an interested group met late
into the afternoon, discussing their mutual
problems, and exchanging ideas and plans—
and there was never a lagging moment.
Seated around the long table which was
festively decked with fall flowers for the oc-
casion were: Chairman, Wilma Smith Leland,
editor of To DRAGMA; Secretary, Shirley
Kreasan Krieg, editor of Themis, ZTA; Anna
To DRAGM^
"Responsibilities of Panhellenic and the Futn
of the Organization." Dean Wells, who
member of Gamma Phi Beta, is thorough*
in sympathy with the fraternity system ja n
its contribution to college life. You had th
privilege of reading her entire lecture i n th*
November issue of The Fraternity Month anit
if you missed it, do go back to it.
Another highlight, especially f o r AOri's> w ,
the lovely luncheon given f o r all delegated ja n
visitors by the Oak Park Panhellenic Associa-
( 8 ) is president.
It is difficult to summarize the actual result,
mostly in intangible things—helpful exchange
of methods, greater understanding, realization
of mutual aims. We are fortunate in having
as our delegate Pinckney Estes Glantzberg
who brings to the discussions intelligence and
humor, perspective and vision. Alpha Omicron
Pi, through her, is instrumental in shaping
the future policies of the Congress, so that it
will develop along the lines of real usefulness
inherent in such an organization.
ifOPS c m ecfin5
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- editor, The Lamp o f AZ, and Irene C. Bough-
Shirley K. Krieg, ZTA, who succeeds Wilma
S. Leland as chairman of the Sorority
Editors Conference.
By SHIRLEY K. KRIEG
Zeta Tau Alpha
M i l l e r K n o t e , editor, The Alpha Xi Delia
Quarterly; L . Pearl Green, editor, The Kappa
Alpha Theta; Agnes Aronson Smith, editor,
The Dial of 0 T ; Helen C. Bower, editor, The
Key of K K T ; Ruth Sanders Thomson, editor,
The Alpha Phi Quarterly; Margaret H . Pease,
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Photographed at the Chicago session of the Interfraternity Conference were these four men
who Participated in the first meeting twenty-five years ago, and Afrs. Bessie Leach Priddy,
president of Delta Delta Delta, who participated in the first Panhellenic Congress forty years
ago. From left to right: Clifford Swan, Delta Upsilon; George D. Kimball, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon; Mrs. Priddy, Delta Delta Delta: A. S. Bard, Chi Psi; William L. Phillips,
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
thropic Work." A general d i s c u s s i o n and
ton, business manager, Margaret Daigh van question box followed. Topics covered i n -
Aalst. editor, The Aldebaran of B#A; Chris- cluded everything from the major subject of
telle Ferguson, editor, The Eleusis of XQ; economics to type sizes, exchanges, general
Amy O. Parmelee, editor, The Trident of AAA; contents, and the perennial subject of the dis-
Pearl Bonisteel, business manager, and Daisy position or form of presentation of chapter
Payne Young, staff member, The Trident of letters. This latter subject is always of great
AAA; Florence Merdian, editor, The Aglaia interest to the editors, and is one productive
of * M ; Gertrude I . Barlow, editor, The Urn of varying opinions and policies, although pres-
of BZO; Mary Katherine Lutz, editor, Tlie ent day trend seems to be in the direction of
Arrow of I I B $ ; Jean James, editor, The Adel- limiting chapter letters to two or three issues
phian of AAIT, and Nadine Newbill Jenner, a year. When the time f o r adjournment came
associate editor; Frances Warren Baker, edi- the shop talk was still continuing briskly and
tor, The Triangle of SK, and Marian S. Hem- helpfully, and the meeting dispersed only be-
ingway, staff member; Helen Sims Hall, edi- cause of the lateness of the hour—not at all
tor, The Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly; Theo- because the editors ran out of anything to talk
dora Maltbie Collins, editor, The Lyre of about.
Axn. The new officers elected at this time were:
Chairman, Shirley Kreasan Krieg, editor of
• Place-cards were clever miniature replicas Themis of ZTA; Secretary, Frances Warren
;Pf the various magazines, copies that were Baker, editor, The Triangle of SK.
identical in design, color and even cover stock.
These were the work of the staff artist of the From the days of its inception in 1913 the
Leland Publishers. editors' meetings have grown in usefulness
1 Following luncheon shop talk began in earn- and popularity until now there is no more
est and a magazine clinic was conducted by important feature of the Congress than the
Shirley K . Krieg, ZTA. Helen Sims Hall, Editors' C o n f e r e n c e . And the end of the
AFA, spoke on the timely subject of "Ways twenty-year period, as demonstrated by the
to Cut Corners on Diminished Budgets," while Chicago meeting, found the conference more
Mary Katherine Lutz, IIB$, discussed the topic strongly engrounded than ever—in usefulness
' General Publicity, with Emphasis on Philan- —and unquestionably in popularity.