Kappa Alpha Theta - Purdue University

KAPPA ALPHA THETA 3 (Left) The mortgage burning cake before it was cut. (Middle) With great joy, Ann Fawcett Murphy '72, campaign co-chairman, Mary Lincoln Campbell '64, retiring FCB president, and Linda Markins Sorensen '60, Alpha Chi Educational Foundation president, officially burn the mortgage for 607 Russell Street. Kay Murphy Yeomans '64, campaign co-chairman, was unable to attend. (Right) Pictured are six smiling members of the original Facility Corporation Board who bravely voted to begin a $1 million campaign to reduce Alpha Chi's $1 million house mortgage. They returned at Homecoming to see the mortgage burned. Five of them are retiring this year after serving six years, confident with the knowledge that a very capable new board has been elected. Seated, left to right, are Mary Lincoln Campbell '64, president, Marilynn Bottomley Dammon '66, vice president, and Judy Bernet Evans '64, vice president. Standing, left to right, are Barbara Allen Berling '65, Marcia Erickson Weber '63, and Louise Cummins Volpp '65. Marilyn Bottomley Dammon '66 is staying on as secretary, and Kay Murphy Yeomans '64 has one more year to serve. Meredith (Bee) Hunt Horner '51 and Judy Kirkpatrick McKinney '51 standing by the Theta marker that they were instrumental in having installed in 2002. Several women from the class of 1951 began the fund in 2000 as they looked toward celebrating their 50th year in Theta. A few from the initiation classes of 1952 and 1953 also donated, since members of those classes often joined each other at reunions. Judy McKinney remembers that she and Beverly Starnes Gerding '51, Zoe Coulson '51, and Sally Ashbaucher McIlveen '51 were in the fundraising group. Bee Horner and her husband, Chuck, did the work of selecting a stone, engraving and positioning it. This marker is on the corner of Northwestern and Russell Streets. On June 3, Virginia Kienly '36 of West Lafayette turned 100! Several members of the West Lafayette alumnae group took her a small bouquet of flowers to celebrate the occasion. Sheila Johnson Klinker, Indiana State representa- tive, brought her a framed certificate marking the day. Front row, left to right: Sheila Klinker, Gamma '57, Virginia Sidwell Kienly '36, and Linda Martins Sorensen '60. Back row: Nancy Crockett Ince, Beta '47, Beverly Beck McCollough '55, Mary Ellen Binney Lovell '50, Katie Baugh Nielsen '69, Marty Schroyer Hudlow '46, and Marilynn Bottomley Dammon '66. Purchase a Memorial Tree T he Facility Corporation Board has created a memorial area along the fence line that separates Theta's parking lot from the dorms behind it. The board is planting a row of trees and forsythia bushes. For a donation of $600, each can be marked in memory of a deceased sister with her name and the name of the pledge class making the gift. The trees and the forsythia will one day grow together to block the view of the fence with masses of early yellow spring flowers. For more information, contact Elaine Rush Haehl '69, Alpha Chi Facility Corporation, P.O. Box 2164, West Lafayette, IN 47996.

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