The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-12
ALMOST A HUNDRED.
Fraternity Members in 7. H. 5.
Doomed to Suspension.
Another List Of Names Sub
mitted Today.

That a few of the members OF the
fraternities and sororities of the hisn
school have been discriminate
against. that the high school officials
are acting in bad faith when they re-
Fuse to give the students chance 70
drop all connections with secret So
cieties and that there is poAlica a.
move in the recent action, on the PAL.
of the school board in expeling
number of the students for violating
the fraternity ruling, is the opILlio ~
of the irate fathers and mothers VI
the wronged young people TO-DAY.
Following the suspension OF SIX poS o1
and three girls from the nlsn S01o ~
last night, a delegation OF the par
ents of the students called upon super
intendent Whittemore and pIeaueu .
with the official for SdtlsLdesOiy
move of some kind and 1alr enoIns
of this fraternity fight wnlch mas Iss
aroused high school circles during the
last few days.
SUPERINTENDENT Whittemore refused
to give a satisfactory answer OF any
kind to the parents. and with the
blinds pulled tight over their 1utnre
actions today, the parents are asking
for fair play and decent punishment.
At the conference last night be-
tween the parents and Superintendent
Whittemore, the parents asked these
questions:
/. WI nave YOU pAChCO ON'
dren out of the hundred fraternity
and sorority members in this school?
2 Now, that you have Disseminated
against these children, what are you
going to do with them?
3. What can be done by the stu
dents to reinstate them in their
studies?
4. What can the students do to sat
isfy the school officials that they Will
drop all fraternity affiliations here
after?
5. When, where and how may the
students prepare to continue their
studies in high school work?
Everyone of these questions was
placed before superintendent White
more and everyone of them was
lodged and placed on the shelf. AS
result, it il a large number of irate
parents that wait for the action of the
superintendent of the school board in
the punishment of the high school
students who have kept up their mem
bership in their fraternities.
The following boys and girls were
temporarily suspended last evening by
superintendent Whittemore for violat-
ing the secret society rule: Miss
Rachel Coston,- Miss Dorothy. Scott,
Miss Helen Mitchell, Clyde Mills, Roy
Agard, Lyle Bailey, Ernest Mold,
Merle Snyder and Charles Haynes.
The three girls were members of the
lambda Alpha Lambda sorority and
admitted it. The six boys were al
legged to have belonged to the Kappa
Alpha Pi fraternity
Girls Are Picked Out.
The three girls were supposed to
have been the only members of the
Lamba Alpha lambda. I'VE know
positively that these three girls were
Disseminated against" said a parent
this morning. There were at least
two other girls who were just as guilty
and who were in just as deep as the
girls who were picked to stand the
punishment. This kind of action is
what hurts the parents"
The three girls were allowed to re-
turn to the high school this morning
on a sort of a probation They will
be allowed to continue their studies,
but when the guillotine finally falls
they will have to face the music The
boys were suspended from their
studies temporarily and asked to re-
port for further orders to Superin-
tendent Whittemore
What is arousing the ire of the par
ents over the city is the action that
they must expect. At the conference
with the superintendent last night
they made all kinds of attempts to
influence the official to let them know
what could be done by the students to
prove to them that they would aban-
don their fraternities and thus con-
tinue with their studies. 1t is the in
tention of both the girls and the boys