"On January 29, 1958, the Delta Alpha Delta Alumnae who wished to join were pledged to Alpha Delta Pi in the home of Bernice Gordon. The ninetieth chapter of Alpha Delta Pi was installed February 1 as the Delta Eta chapter at McNeese State University.
Virginia Cooper Huffman was Chair of all the installation festivities. The weekend celebration began with an informal open house at the home of Ruth Perkins King on Friday evening where guests were received by Mrs. King, Miss Maxine Blake, Grand President, Mrs. Louis Iten, Grand Second Vice-President, Miss Eunice Lewis, Grand Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Rodman Genet, Beta Province President, and Joyce Knox, chapter President. Initiation services were held Saturday in the home of Bernice Gordon, and the installation banquet, where the charter was presented by Miss Blake, was held at the Chateau Charles on Saturday evening. Actives honored were Joyce Knox for being named to Who?s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Carolyn Gay Hudson and Nancy Marie David as having the highest scholastic averages, and Laura Louise Boone as the outstanding woman student in the College of Education. Laura also received the Lake Charles Alumnae Scholarship. Following church services on Sunday, a formal tea was held at the home of Edith Burton Plauche? where Gene Sorensen Jones, Alumnae President, Mable Lewis Kitt, McNeese Dean of Women, Grace Ramke, faculty sponsor, and Joyce Knox, chapter president received guests. Presiding at the tea table were Lucille Kennon Cusic, newly initiated honorary member and wife of the President of the college, Mr. Wayne Cusic; Virginia Cooper Huffman, general chairman of the installation activities; and Marian Palmer Colon. The picture of the newly initiated twenty-seven collegians in their white formal gowns at Mrs. Plauche?s residence graced the cover of the Spring 1958 Adelphean."
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