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Show Much of Marsha's social life of course revolves around the Greeks, even though she has restricted her dating lately to two or three fellows. The Kappas sponsor two formals during the year - one just before Christmas and a Spring formal. In addition, most of the girls are invited to the fraternity formals held approximately the same time, which adds up to two moderately hectic social seasons. Like any girl, Marsha likes to dress up for a formal affair, which usually consists of an early evening cocktail party at a member's home followed by a dance at a club or one of the major hotels in Salt Lake. But she prefers casual and more frequent exchanges and stomps. An exchange will be arranged by the social chairmen of a sorority and fraternity to take place after chapter meetings on Monday nights. The fraternity members arrive at the sorority house in a group and promptly match up. Some - the Pi Kaps and Betas, for instance - ramble, i.e. form a line and pick the girls one by one as the line rambles through the house. The couples talk for a few minutes, the group might sing a song or two and then be off to a club or a lounge or any kind of dance floor for a stomp and some liquid entertainment. Before the year is out each sorority will have had an exchange with every fraternity. As a freshmen, Marsha lived in Van Cott Sixteen girls live in the Kappa house from a membership of over fifty. When rushing, Marsha considered Delta Gamma and Pi Beta Phi but pledged Kappa because she preferred the atmosphere there and because her mother had been a Kappa. As freshmen, all Greek pledges must live in the dorms. No novice to dorm life, Marsha mentions that, "I've done so much of it that I just naturally accepted it. There is very little privacy, and you almost get to the point where you ignore the other people. You ignore the noise and the fact that people are walking in and out of your room all the time." But like most freshman pledges, "Living in the dorm last year I didn't really feel like I was a part of the Greek system. Id go to meetings, but that was about it." Living in the Kappa house this year, she notes as the most striking changes the privacy and the fact that not all of her possessions are located in one room. The girls have a house mother who carries out limited chaperoning duties but primarily "just worries like she were our mother. Belonging to a sorority tends to center a girl's life about one group of girls whom she naturally chooses as her friends. It is a situation which draws some criticism from outside but which can be both good and bad as, according to Marsha, "I think maybe by my senior year I'll get so close to some of them I'll wish I hadn't." Steve Harmon, Marsha's boyfriend for the past two years, escorts her to the Symphony. They are going in part to satisfy an assignment for Marsha's Music I class. Steve goes to Westminster College where he plays football. They have known each other for several years through their families. In the picture below, Marsha gossips with sorority sisters (left to right) Sonja Paulsen, Nanette Jackson and Sherry Richards while grabbing a late evening snack. |
