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Page 4 Social Activities Social Activities Call in events to Mrs. Jean Whitaker at her HOME, between hours of 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., at Phone 865. 1 BENCH AND SUNDIAL combination placed on the Longwood College campus in 1928 by Kappa Deta, first of the four national sororities founded at Longwood, is a covenient meeting spot for modern KD's Lisa Buchanan, of Brownsburg; Shirley Hauptman, of Winchester: Betsy Ruckman of Richmond: President Lucia Hart, of York, S. Carolyn Waugaman.

of Roanoke, and Sarah Hackworth, of Halifax. Zeta Tau Alpha, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Alpha were also founded at Longwood, the "Mother of Sororities." Longwood Is 'Home' to 100.000 Women, Members of 4 Sororities Founded Here Longwood College- mother of sororities. Just as a small college in Oxford. Ohio, now named Miami University, has become known as the mother of fraternities, Longwood College and Farmville may lay a similar claim to their sister groups. Of the 32 sororities listed by the National Panhellenic Conference.

four were founded at Longwood. Several groups were founded at the University of California, but most of those have merged and are 110 longer active as independent STOLDS. Thus Logwood's record stands as having been the founding place of more national sororities than any other college. It was back in 1897, the year of the Turco-Greek war and the year that Eugene V. Debs formed the Social Democrat party, that a group of girls sitting around a dormitory room at Virginia State Normal School decided to start a sorority.

October 23. 1897 was the date. Kappa Delta First There weren't any sororities at Longwood then. and Mary Somerville Sparks, Julia G. Tyler (now Mrs.

James S. Wilson, of Charlottesville), Lenore Ashmore, and Sara Turner (now Mrs. Arthur M. White, of Norfolk) laid the foundations for Kappa Delta. From those beginnings came a national organization of 91 chapters and 41,000 members.

Mrs. W. M. Holladay, of Farmville. was the first national president of the organization.

Nearly another year went by, a year in which the Curies discovered radium, before a second group, Zeta Tau Alpha, was founded October 15. 1898. Nine women, Miss Alice Bland Coleman, Gloucester: Ethel Coleman Mrs. Arthur Van Narce, of Urbanna): Della Lewis Mrs. William S.

Hundley); Mary Campbell MRS. ROBERT CECIL JONES The former Miss Jo Lancaster College Church Ceremony Unites Miss Lancaster, Jones The marriage of Miss Jo Lancaster and Robert Cecil Jones was an event of March 9 at College Presbyterian Church 111 Hampden-Sydney. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Albert Heenan Lancaster, of Farmville, and the late Mr. Lancaster.

The bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Junes, of New Canton. Dr. Eon Lacy.

Jo, pastor of College church, officiated at the afternoon ceremony. He was assisted by the Rev. Earl Woodall, pastor of Arvon Presbyterian church at Arvonia. Albert Heenan Lancaster. gave his sister in marriage.

She wore a dress of white chantilly lace over taffeta. and carried an orchid on a white prayer book. A coronet of lace and seed pearls held her Illusion veil in place. THE FARMVILLE (Va.) HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1957 Legion Auxiliary To Sponsor Supper On Anniversary Members of the American Legion auxiliary will help the Jack Garland American Legion post celebrate the 38th anniversary of the Legion Tuesday. Legion members will be guests at a covered dish supper sponsored by the auxiliary at 6:45 p.

m. in the Methodist church fellowship room. New auxiliary members will be initiated, and Mrs. Paul F. Critz, of McLean.

state auxilary president. will be the speaker. Other state officers expected to attend are Mrs. Charles T. Lewin, of Suffolk.

vice-president: Mrs. Frank V. Acres, of Roanoke. secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Lewis Jordan.

of Richmond. chaplain. The Legion was organized in March, 1919, by members of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Club Calendar Elementary school Thursday, March 14, 8 p. at the school.

Executive board. 7:30 p. preceding the regular meeting. Delta Kappa Gamma Friday, March 15, 8 p. in the little auditorium Longwood College.

Dr. Francis G. Lankford. speaker. Duplicate bridge club No.

2 Thursday. March 14, 8 p. at Woman's club house. American Legion auxiliary, Jack Garland unit Tuesday, March 19. 6:45 p.

Fellowship room of Methodist church. Dinner meeting. celebrating birthday of Legion. Weyanoke Garden club Friday, March 15, 3:30 p. with Mrs.

John Varner, Speaker, Mrs. H. C. Kayton, MRS. CURTIS JOHN MARION Miss Miles Marries Curtis John Marion Miss Alice Faye Miles, of Dillwyn, became the bride of Curtis John Marion February 24 in Chesterfield.

$. C. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack M.

Miles, of Dillwyn. The bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. John D. Marion, of Cumberland.

He is a 1956 graduate of Cumberland High School. Mr. and Mrs. Marion are making their home in Cumberland. for Jarman Hall and the organ, the sororities were among the first to give.

Kappa Delta supports six beds at the Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond and Zeta Tau Alpah maintains the health center at Currin Valleye. Over 100.000 students and alumnae across the United States and 111 Canada look today to Virginia and to Longwood, to their Alpha chapters and "home." LONGWOOD COLLEGE MAY DAY will have a Jamestown theme this year. Plans for the annual pageant are being made by committee chairmen Anita Hef.in Jeanne Saunders, Sue Taylor, Gayle Rex' Reign Planned for May 4 At Longwood Estate Rex" will reign at the Longwood College May Day. May 4. at Longwood estate.

The annual May fete has been planned around a theme suggested by the Jamestown festival this spring. It was named in honor of King James I. England's ruler in 1607. the year of the founding of Jamestown. An afternoon pageant centering around the events of the years between 1607 and 1619 will be presented.

Following the pageant. an orchestra concert will be held at the Longwood estate. The same musicians will play at the May Day dance that evening at Longwood. Carolyn Clark is general chairman of the festival. Working with hee are Anita Heflin.

Jeanne Saunders. Sue Taylor, Gayle Peoples. Amy McFall. Nancy Quarles, Carol King, Kate Krehbiel Lillian Rosson, Nancy Brubeck. Carol DeHaven, Helen Young and Jean O'Connell.

Members of the May court were selected recently. 'Aim High' To Be BPW Theme For District Meeting "Aim High for a Firm Foundation" will be the theme of fifth district meeting of the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Prince Edward Hotel, Mis Tussing will speak on career advancement chairman, of Richmond, and Dr. Gardner B.

Taplin. associate professor of English at Longwood College. will be the guest speakers. Miss Tussing wilwl speak on We Cast Our Own Foundations." and Taplin will discuss his book 011 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. District officers will be elected at the meeting and installed by Dr.

Cornelia Adair. of Richmond. Mrs. Annie V. Putney, of Farmville, is the current fifth district chairman.

A coffee hour will be held folMrs. the meeting. Murphys Announce Birth of Daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Berman Murphy.

of Crewe, announce the birth of a daughter. Laura Evelyn, March 3. at Southsida Community Hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

George Newman, of Farmville, and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Murphy.

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Own it now. Conweight solid silver! Each piece expertly fashioned to the highest venient terms arranged. Miss Frances Beer spent several days in Washington as the guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. H.

Smith. 0 FUS Students to Hear Korean at SCA Convention Dr. You Chan Yang, Korean ambassador to the United States, will address the opening session of the Virginia Student Cooperative association convention at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg Friday. More than 700 high school representatives from throughout the state will hear Dr. Yang as they gather for a two day program of discussion and speeches centered around the theme.

Other principal guests at the convention will be Coleman Brown, former president of the National Association of Student Councils, who will address the group, and Gerald M. Van Pool, assistant secretary for student activities of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals, who will moderate at a panel discussion 011 "International Relations Delegates will attend a. banquet and dance on Friday night. Saturday morning will bring group discussions of such topics as improving the SCA Council projects to be spensored and honor systems. New officers for the year 1957-58 will be elected and installed Satur- Buckingham Student To Sing With Ferrum Miss Cathy Anne Worley.

of Buck ngham, will sing with the Ferrum Junior College concert choir this spring when it presents sacred music concerts in seven Virginia cities. The concerts will be given at Alexandria. Arlington. Hampton. Norfolk.

Parksley. Petersburg and Staunton or Winchester. Miss Whorley and the other members of the concert choir make frequent appearances throughout the state, on radio and television, and sing regularly to church and private groups. Mrs. Mann Honored With A Shower folMrs.

Edward Mann was honored with 2 miscellaneous shower Monday evening at the Billy Druen home on Second street. by the Farmville, Baptist church Gleaners Sunday school class. day afternoon. Four Farmville High School students. Virginia Bass, Jimmy Johns.

Billy Uhrich and George Ferguson. will attend the conference. They will be accompanied by Miss Alma Porter and Miss Lillian Minkel. Urben Honored At Reception Miss Josephine Bailey entertained at a reception Tuesday evening at her home on Third avenue honoring Walter Urben. The reception followed the Urben concert at Jarman hall.

Mrs. R. A. Merchant poured. Personal Mention Lester Grimes.

of New Rochelle. N. Y. will arrive Friday to spend a few days with Dr. and Mrs.

D. Whitaker. Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Ellington and daughter, June Carole, and Mr. and Mrs. Mack Wilkerson visited Mrs. Laura Tate and Mrs.

F. J. Rolfe in Richmond during the week end. Dr. and Mrs.

A. M. DeMuth and family have returned from Washington. D. where Dr.

DeMuth attended the District of Columbia post graduate dental clinic this week. Miss Frances Johns, of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ca. arrived today to spend the sprin holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

J. Monroe Johns. Jr. Mr. and viral Robert Thalman and Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Miller attended the Southern conference basketball tournament in Richmond last week. The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Parks and children, Joan and Beverly, of Concord.

N. were recent guests of Mrs. Parks' parents. Mr. and Mrs.

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N. where she was called by the illness of her daughter. Mrs. Joe Wiggins. Mrs.

Collins' grandson, Curtis returned home with her for a visit. Mrs. Wiggins is still in the hospital. The YOUR COMMUNITY CENTER IN FARMVILLE, VA. WIN A PRIZE! against the experts ACADEMY AWARD SWEEPSTAKES CONTEST ENDS MARCH 26, 1957 GET YOUR ENTRY BLANK NOW--PRIZES TO WINNERS 1st Prize 20 Guest Ticket 2nd Prize 10 Guest Ticket 3rd Prize 5 Guest Ticket NOW PLAYING ALAN VIRGINIA EDMOND O'BRIEN THE BIG LAND Jones Mrs.

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Organi, of Dinwiddie): Miss Frances Yancey Smith. of Charlotte C. Miss Helen M. Crafford, Lee Hall; Miss Alice Grey Walsh, Honolulu, Hawaii, and the late Maud Jones, Mrs. William F.

Horner), the first president, founded it. ZTA Spreads From those beginnings the first sorority chartered in Virginia, ZTA has spread to 81 chapters and 30.104 members. Next in line were Sigma Sigma Sigma, founded by eight students in 1898. and Aipha Sigma Alpha, founded November 15. 1901.

Mrs. J. L. Jones. of Sheppards, was a charter member of the latter group and also its first national president.

The year 1912 brought tragedy to the nation with the sinking of the Titanic and sorrow to Longwood when Kappa Delta and Zeta Tau Alpha were required to give up their charters. Sororities 111 liberal arts institutions and those in teachers colleges came to a parting of their ways. Sigma Sigma gma and Sigma Alpha elected to remain in the teachers college group. and the other two chapters resigned their charters so that their national organizations could affiliate with the National Panhellenic Conference. Gamma Theta Fills KD Void Gamma Theta, a local organization.

was formed to fill the void left by Kappa Delta. and Mu Omega was organized to take the place of Zeta Tau Alpha. In 1947. the two women's Greek organizations re-united, making it possible for KD and ZTA to go back 011 campus at Longwood. With all the ceremony of a child returning to his birthplace, they did SO in 1949.

Members of the four national organizations have taken an active interest in Longwood College throughout the years. Kappa Delta placed a memorial bench and sundial on the campus. Zeta Tau Alpha a plaque in the Rotunda and a garden. Sigma Sigma Sigma a clock in the Rotunda. When money was being donated 17-18 FULL OF LAUGHS! FULL OF LOVE! FULL OF YOUTH! COLUMBIA PICTURES presents Judy Richard I CONTE FULL OF LIFE introducing SALVATORE BACCALONI MARCH 19-20 PARENTS--This is not a picture for children.

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17 The Arrow-Flaming Story of Eetay-O-Wahnee, Heroine of the Badlands! THE WHITE SQUAW starting David May William BRIAN WYNN BISHOP A COLUMBIA PICTURE -PLUSChapter No. 11 of Serial "THE MONSTER AND THE APE MARCH 18-19 HOT DRAMA OF GANGLAND HIDE OUTI HOT SUMMER NIGHT A LESLIE NIELSEN COLLEEN MILLER -MAR. 20-21 DOUBLE FEATURE 'BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL' -AND 'NIGHTMARE" Mrs. Paul D. Jenkins.

of Richmond, was matron of honor for her sister. Hamden W. Seay Jr. of New Canton, was best man. and the ushers were Arthur Ellis Lancaster, brother of the bride.

of F'armville, and Paul D. Jenkins. Earl Davidson and Donald Pendleton. all of Richmond. Barbara Cheryl Jenkins.

niece of the bride, was flower gil. and Thomas Edward Jones. brother of the bridegroom, was ringbearer. Ronald Weston Davis, of Hampden played the wedding music, and Miss Sandra Markham, cousin of the bride. sang "The Lord's Prayer" and "Because." Mrs.

Kenneth Markham, of Charlotte, N. C. was mistress of ceremonies. After a Southern wedding trip. th couple will be at home 111 Spray.

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