[honeychile]

A lot of this 1959 edition is still in the current New Member Book, so I'm trying to pick out parts which aren't. It differs from two later editions (at least!), too.

Page Six is "What Alpha Delta Pi Means". There's a lot of comparison of seeds (Pledges) becoming trees (Sisters, then Alumnae), then there's this piece:

"Each letter of Alpha Delta Pi can be significant to us:
A - "Associations." Such as we find at a convention. Meeting girls from all over the country and parts of the world. Associations with people who have goals of getting college educations, girls who are striving for a better way of life, girls who want to be admirable women.
L - "Love." Love for one another. Love of a sister when she's in trouble or can't quite get those grades she's worked so hard for. Love for people who cannot have all the things in life that we have. Love for school and learning.
P - "Patience." Patience with others. Understanding that others are not always like ourselves. Patience with problems. Patience when living with another who doesn't want to keep her room clean or work as hard as she should. Patience in waiting for those final grades. Patience in waiting in lines to be registered. Patience in all walks of life.
H - Humility, hope, happiness, honor combine in each Alpha Delta Pi.
A - "Appreciation." - Appreciation of being able to live with so many wonderful girls. Appreciation of democratic living. Appreciation when your sisters give you a present for work well done. Appreciating just that you're able to be in college and in a sorority.

D - "Daughters of Democracy." Daughters whose fathers and mothers want them to grow up having all of the best things in life. Democratic living - having officers each doing her own duty to the sorority government and by doing them learning that government and cooperation work side by side. Freedom of speech, expression, and freedom to act at all meetings.
E - "Education." The very essence of college. But education comes from many other sources than books. From a sorority such as ours we are educated three-fold. We learn to strive together, work together, and educate others.
L - "Loyalty." - Loyalty to the sorority and to the college. Going to football, baskeball, hockey, and baseball games. Taking part in campus politics; working on homecoming decorations; working with foreign students; working on Greek Week, Snow Week, Campus Carnival, Freshman Orientation, All-University Congress, college boards and University Plays, all of which are samples of some of the things we do at any of our universities. This loyalty isn't haphazard. It goes all the way from planning to the finished product. What would a college be without fraternities and sororities? They represent three-fourths of the people who make these activities possible. They have goals - philanthropy mostly - helping others. $10,000 from the Greeks at one school was given to Radio Free Europe; $200 is given every year to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from one Alpha Delta Pi chapter. Thousands of dollars are given to Cerebral Palsy funds, Cancer Research, and Crippled Children.
T - "Tolerance." Tolerance for others' religions and beliefs, for others who do not believe as we do. Tolerance we learn in a sorority such as ours.
A - "Attitudes." Not formed but enriched. In a bond of sisterhood they can be developed into grood traits of character, good emotional stability, and love for one another.

PI - P for pledge and I for initiate, the whole inner spirit of a sorority. Girls who work hard, asking nothing in return. They are paid by knowing that they have done womething for others as well as for themselves.

And if we want to put an "S" on our letters - Alpha Delta Pis - it would be for "Sisterhood," the greatest of all words, for in this we hav friendship. And as for this - 'The light of friendship is like the light of our two stars, seen plainest when all around is dark.'"