Epsilon Cast of the Alpha Psi Omega Honorary Society Is Established

1925 National Dramatic Fraternity Founds Lynchburg Chapter

A Cast of Alpha Psi Omega Fraternity. National honorary dramatic society, will be installed at Lynchburg College in the near future as a result of action taken recently by the Expression Department. 

Negotiations leading to this end were started about a month ago when the Expression Department appointed a committee to petition the Grand Cast of Alpha Psi Omega for admission into the fraternity. A petition was then sent in bearing the signatures of seven students eligible for membership. The committee was notified last week that the petition had received favorable action, and that the Cast would be installed upon receipt of the initiation fees. These are to be sent in at once. 

The seven eligible students, who will be the charter members of the local Cast, are Ada Belch, Kathleen Boyer, Cecile Davis, Elizabeth Tench, Harrison McMains, Louis Shearer, and Norton Smith. To be eligible a student must have played a major role in one long play or two one-act plays given by the institution. A student is also eligible if he has written a play which has produced, or served as stage or business manager for two long plays. Other local students can meet the membership qualifications as a result of participation in the play “The Charm School ” given by Expression Department last week. These students will probably be admitted into the cast immediately after its establishment. 

The Alpha Psi Omega Fraternity is of very recent origin being organized last year. The purpose of the Society, as stated in the preamble of the constitution is “to develop dramatic talent and the art of acting, to cultivate a taste for the best in the drama, and finally to foster the cultural values, which we believe dramatics develop, and to unite the dramatic forces of the several colleges and universities, members of this order in mutual brotherhood and service.” 

But four casts have been established during the one year of the fraternity, located at Fairmont State College, Marshall College, Broaddus College and Arcadia University. The group to be installed at Lynchburg will be the fifth and will be known as Epsilon Cast. It is understood that other colleges are applying for admission at the present time.