Test #1 Flashcards
Credit requirements for MCs
2 Sisterhood
2 Service
2 Music
Five qualities
- Knowledge and development of your physical powers in the quest for good health and bodily perfection.
- Recognition and development of you intellectual potential.
- Appreciation for and the maintenance of the highest moral standards
- Achievement of and the personification within you of lofty spiritual ideals
- Cultivation and maintenance of your emotional poise under all conditions
The “Eight Essential Factors” which promote friendship and respect among sorority members
- Physical and mental qualities of an attractive nature
- Demonstrated loyalty and dependability to those persons and institutions deserving of it
- A truthfulness and honesty which instills a sense of trust in others
- A cheerfulness at all times and under all circumstances, even in the face of great trial
- A mutual interest in the Art of Music in its performance and in the aesthetic qualities it can project to others
- Generosity of mind, heart, and hand
- Tolerance, tempered with kindness and a consideration for the needs of others
- Fortitude and courage to see an ideal, to seize upon it, and follow it wherever it may lead you in Tau Beta Sigma
Official colors
White and Blue
Flower
The “American Beauty” Red Rose, long-stemmed
Motto
“Tau Beta Sigma for Greater Bands”
Flag
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Types of fraternities
There are four types of fraternities today: General Proffessional, Honor Society, and Recognition Society. TBS is a Recognition Society.
HIstory
In the spring semester of 1939, Wava Banes, along with two of her classmates (Emily SoRelle and Ruth La Nell Williams) took the idea to director D.O. Wiley of the Texas Technological College Band. The first officers of the organization were: president, Wava Banes; vice-president, Emily SoRelle; secretary, Lillian Horner; treasurer, Nita Furr; reporter, Barbara Griggs; and faculty sponsor, Mrs. D.O. Wiley. Miss SoRelle provided all of the sketch work on the emblem and shield that were adopted as the official emblems of the sorority. By Oct 1941, TVS had begun communications with the National Executive Secretary of Kappa Kappa Psi for assistance in becoming a national organization. In June, 1943, the TEch women petitioned the Greand Council of Kappa Kappa Psi to become an auxiliary part of the National Fraternity as an active chapter. When applying for a national charter, D.O. Wiley and the girls at Texas Tech again turned to A. Frank Martin and offered to turn over their work and the name Tau Beta Sigma to the women’s band sorority at Oklahoma A&M, known as Kappa Psi, to submit the articles of incorporation in Oklahoma, Through this act, the chapter at Oklahoma A&M would become the Alpha Chapter. As part of this agreement, the chapter at Texas Tech, Beta, would be known as the founding location of the Sorority and the members stipulated that Wava Banes would be known as the Founder, the agreement also specified that the 1st National President would be from the Beta Chapter. On March 26, 1946, a charter was granted by the Department of State for the State of Oklahoma legally establishing “Tau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Band Sorority”, later amended to “Tau Beta Sigma.” On May 4 of 1946, the members of the Alpha Chapter travelled to Lubbock, Texas to officially install the women of Texas Tech as the Beta Chapter of the National Sorority. In 1977, all former membership restrictions were removed and chapters were afforded the opportunity to initiate male members of the band. In addition, the national fee structure was aligned and all former debts of the Sorority were eliminated. The Gamma Kappa Chapter at the University of Connecticut was the first coed chapter by more than one year. During the 1980s ,Tau Beta Sigma adopted national policies on hazing and alcohol.
National President
Dr. Nicole Sanchez
National Vice President of Colonization & Membership
Dr. Kathryn Kelly
National Vice President of Special Projects
Jonathan Markowski
National Vice President of Communication & Recognition
Amy Dauphinias
National Vice President for Professional Relations
Beth Bronk
Board of Trustees Chair
Kelly Eidson
