Theta Sigma Phi is a national professional society for women in journalism and communications. Oregon State’s Alpha Eta chapter was established in 1924, replacing a predecessor organization called The Scribe. The national organization, now known as the Association for Women in Communications, allowed men to become members in 1972.
Left to right: Cora M. Stone of Frster; Annie Blacklaw of Lebanon; Myrie Connet of Lebanon; Mrs. A. H. Parrish of Sodaville, and Mrs. M. S. Bellinger of Berlin; Mrs. Nevin McCormick of Waterloo; and Mrs W. C. Skelton of Tennessee.
The annual Barometer Bust, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, is scheduled every spring. All members of the Barometer staff attend and are amused by the antics of Sigma Delta Chi members and prospective pledges. A future Sigma Delta Chi member loses his pants as faculty members laugh in the background.
C. D. Byrne, Director of Information for the Oregon State System of Higher Education and a member of the Wisconsin chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, takes a bite of ice cream between words with Dr. Rex F. Harlow, Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford School Press Relations Investigation. Dick Kennedy, Editor of the Daily Barometer, is on Dr. Harlow's left. The banquet followed Dr. Harlow's initiation as an associate member of the OSC chapter.
This group under the guidance of Hal Higgs, Sigma Delta Chi man shown in front center, edits the campus Student Directory, a telephone book showing home addresses, school addresses, and school registered. Published in 1938 Beaver, p. 127.
Part of the "festive board" at the Sigma Delta Chi banquet honoring Dr. Rex Harlow, Director of the Stanford School Press Relations Investigation, who was made an associate member of the OSC chapter last April. Dick Gearhart, president of the chapter and last year's delegate, is shown on the extreme right.
Sigma Delta Chi Dick Kennedy, editor of the student daily, and Fred M. Shideler, Head of Journalism Department and alumni member of Sigma Delta Chi, tap out stories at the downtown editorial offices of the student daily newspaper.
Chapter adviser John C. Burtner spreads it on at the annual Barometer Bust, funfest, and party sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi for all students enrolled in journalism or working on the staff of a major publication on the campus. Published in the 1939 Beaver, p. 121.
