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Theta Rho
"Necessity is the mother of invention." Needing an outlet for our "social" energy Theta Rho was formed. A small group of girls banded together to create activities that would grow to involve all of old Algiers. Probably each girl who longed to be the first President was too modest to vote for herself. They all secretly voted for the one who was least likely to get a majority of the votes and I was selected \/one of my most cherished memories).
From the very beginningNTheta Rno was destined to play a vital role in the coming-together ol the/teenage boys and girls.
Theta Rho, Delta Sigma, and\floi Ro Sororities and Etta Banana Fraternity were the glue to bind /x-qgether friends forever. Each held a dance on a different Saturday of the month. The Pythian Hall was rented continuously and hw. many struggling musicians gained their musical reputations because of us? Remember Larry Veca, Johnny Detroit, Val Barbara, etc.? \There were style shows, plays and wonder-of-wonders, Carnival BallV,
No one bothered to tell us that we had no experience in presenting a Carnival Ball. /But each successive one caused a great flurry of activity to obtairy invitations. We even had the audacity to design scenery and coscumes and more nervy of all we each considered ourselves a choreographer - a person who creates dance compositions and plans and arranges dance movements and patterns for stage dances, especially ballet dancers. We solved that problem by not having ballet dances (unless you consider the floating around waltz-like movements that we taught for "Madame Butterfly") . The titles we picked out of thin air were as aweinspiring as the presentations themselves.
Instant Tuxedos
Every Saturday afternoon during the Carnival season the "house at 914" became an instant tuxedo shop. At least five or six boys came by with their one and only suit - basic black.
Mamma put them (the boys,\rc>t the suits) in the bathroom while she sewed satin strips on the grouser pants. Then she sewed satin lapels on the coats - an ins;cant\tuxedo. Only bad part was that the boys had to come back af?er theyball and have the satin removed so they could wear the suirs to cmnrch the next morning. (Often the boys were dating gijz'ls other than one of the four of us.) Mamma always made the eiorsages, too - flowers right out of her garden.