T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Elizabeth Breazeale COLLECTION: 4700:0304

IDENTIFICATION: [1919- ] Kappa Gamma House Board President

INTERVIEWER: Melisse Campbell

PROJECT: LSU History -- Sororities

DATE(S): July 2, 1993 FOCUS DATES: 1940-1960s

ABSTRACT:

Tape 426

Family background nee: Gauger; Breazeale's impressions of LSU when she arrived in 1939; descriptions of LSU social life, women's clothing, rush week, formals, tea dances, Third Street, State Street and Chimes Street; Margaret Herdman, head of LSU library school; rooms in Annie Boyd Hall; roommates Janet Skove, Dorothy Merle Cobb; dorm rules; Panhellenic Building, layout and use of; description of Kappa room in that building; pledging, initiation important ceremonies; president of Kappa Kappa Gamma; 1942 graduation in north end of stadium; discusses campus leaders, Jimmy Stoker, Bob Chinn, Deanie Frazier, Bill Reinschmidt(deceased), Herman Moyse, "Red" Evans, Mildred Wallace; Breazeale as president of sorority alum group 1956 or '58; Amy Blanch Sloe and beginning of push for sorority houses; Kappa National Secretary Clara O. Pierce; Dean of Students James Reddoch; Dean of Women Gordon; lists other Kappa alums involved in building sorority houses; drawing for house lots March 1963; Kappa house construction; "Boo" Fuselier, president, first to move into house Christmas 1965; Mrs. Kirby first house mother or director; house dedication March 1966; Breazeale's involvement on house board; LSU Kappa Gamma Chapter (Delta Iota) founded 1935. Breazeale's thoughts on LSU today; problems with Legislature and university funding.

TAPES: 426 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 50 min.

PAGES TRANSCRIPT/INDEX: Transcript - 35, Index - 13

RESTRICTIONS: None