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formulated or approved by the League of Nations, strictly limiting theif
control and requiring that each year they shall make a full report to the
League of their stewardship. The League has set up a commission to
examine these reports and to in turn report its opinion to the Council as
to whether the administration conforms to the mandate and is conducted m
a manner to promote that well-being and development of the people occupy-
ing the territory which is declared to "form a sacred trust of civilization."
The nations have united in declaring; that freedom of conscience and of
religion shall be guaranteed in such lands; that the slave trade, arms
traffic, and the liquor traffic, shall be prohibited therein; and that equal
opportunities shall be given all members of the League to trade with the
inhabitants of such territories. A l l this is a social and political process
new to the world and it constitutes an advance in civilized method which
should result in the abolition of what has been one of the most fruitful
sources of war in the past.

There are those of us who think that our country should have a share
in this progress toward a higher and better international life.

Dealing ivith Disease

Disease has no respect for international boundaries, and no one
nation can protect itself f r o m epidemic diseases originating in neigh-
boring states.

For the first time in history a comprehensive plan for reporting epidemic
disease wherever it may appear, and for taking action to prevent its spread
has been organized at Geneva through a union of the League of Red Cross
Societies and a commission set up by the League of Nations. The organi-
zation is in charge of medical experts of the first rank, it is comprehensive,
ready for instant action, and with the assistance of many nations it now
covers almost the entire globe. I t has already saved western Europe and
perhaps America from an epidemic of typhus which swept over Russia
and has rendered great service in confining within narrow limits, outbreaks
of yellow fever and plague and smallpox. Its studies extend to malaria,
cancer and tuberculosis. This is universally regarded as one of the most
useful undertakings of the League of Nations and while several Americans
are unofficially assisting in it, its value would be greatly increased by
official participation by the government of the United States.

For Preventing War

I have selected these five from many of the activities of the League of
Nations because they are so entirely different from anything which the
statesmen and politicians critical of the League in 1920 thought could pos-
sibly engage its attention and yet each of these obviously makes for better
understanding, and so for peace, among the nations.

Likewise when we turn to the agencies thus far specifically devised and
depended upon by the League, for the prevention of war, we find that these
also are wholly different from what our timid statesmen in 1920 thought
they would be. They consist i n ; delay, that war passions may have tim?

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to cool; public investigation to bring to bear the force of the moral
opinion of the world upon the merits of the disputes, discussion, conciliation,
arbitration and decision by the World Court. A l l these are civilization's
w a y s of settling disputes and fifty-five of the sixty-four nations in the
world are trying to persuade the other nations, including our own, to
substitute them for war, which is the savage way, inherited f r o m savage
times and savage men. A l l the nations which were our allies in the World
War. all the nations of any consequence in the world which are not in
ruins, save only the United States, are united in this effort. I t is of much
significance that during the past five years of unprecedented turmoil, with
the exception of the Greco-Turkish war which arose before the League
was in working order, peace has been maintained in Europe without a ship
o r a soldier being moved or a shot being fired in execution, or in defense of
va n policy or decision of the League of Nations..

Because the members nations believe that the League cannot fully
achieve its great purpose without the United States they would receive
our government on almost any reasonable terms— very certainly with a
reservation such that there would be no moral or legal obligation upoti
us to share in any war outside the three Americas. And yet we hold aloof
from the greatest effort of all time to organize the world for peace although
our risk in joining the League would be less than that of any other nation
and our loss would be greater in another world war.

Germany and Turkey will join the League probably within a year and
then the only considerable nations outside of it will be Russia and the
United States,—and we are not upon speaking terms with Russia. I t
would be difficult to be proud of such a place in the family of nations.

A K E Quarterly.

A Fraternity Efficiency Scale

100 per cent I did. 40 per cent what is it? Psi.
90 per cent I will. 30 per cent I think I could.
80 per cent I can. 20 per cent I don't know how.

70 per cent I think I can. 10 per cent I can't.
60 per cent I might. 0 per cent I won't.
50 per cent I think I might. —The Shield of Phi Kappa

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HOW T H EC O L L E G E CAP AND GOWN CAME TO BE

P T p H l S ARTICLE WAS prepared by Miss Ruth E. Anderson, B. A., M . A., 0 £
••• the staff of the Board of Education after careful reading of available
treatises on the subject and consultation with authorities on academic cos-
tumes.

Another school year draws to a close and with it brings the round of
festivities so dear to college youth. Campuses aglow with springtime
colors are darkened here and there with the sombre black of the senior
gowns. But commencement itself is a charming and colorful pageant.
The soft flowing robes lend an unwonted grace to the awkward, and the
contrast of hoods in many and varying hues gives to the ceremony a
picturesque beaut}-.

To the uninitiated it is all interesting but meaningless; the significance
of the different modes and colors is lost. Yet in America the system is
simple and so generally used that once learned it will serve on practically
all such occasions. Forseeing the confusion that would arise should each
school adopt an individual code, in 1894, a commission representative of
the leading American colleges met to discuss academic ceremonial. A
year later a statute was drawn up, submitted, and generally adopted, the
three exceptions being Trinity College, St. John's College and the Uni-
versity of the South which years before had established codes that are
observed unto this day. Seven hundred colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada, the Philippines and Porto Rico, in Turkey and
in Syria now observe the intercollegiate system.

Under its regulations the bachelor wears a gown of black worsted
stuff with open or closed front and long pointed sleeves, the Oxford style
of gown being most popular in American colleges. The gown of the
master is made with open front and preferably of silk. I t has long closed
sleeves with squared ends falling well below the knees and a slit for the
arm near the elbow. The gown worn by the doctor is also made of silk
and with the open front but has full, bell-shaped sleeves. The fronts are
faced with velvet and on each sleeve are three bars of velvet, black or
the color of the hood trimming.

The Oxford or mortarboard cap, worn f o r each degree, is of black
cloth, with black tassel except that the doctor's cap may be of velvet with
tassel of gold in whole or part. Unless local custom decrees otherwise,
tassels are worn over the left temple.

I t is in the matter of hoods that our custom differs most from what
used in the mother country. In England each university has its own code
of color symbolism, and hence it is scarcely known beyond its own bounds.
The American genius for organization is seen in the uniformity secured
through the adoption of the Intercollegiate code.

Hoods are of the same material as the gown but differ slightly for the
bachelors, masters and doctors; that of the bachelor being three feet in
length, the master's a foot longer, while to the hood of the doctor is
added a panel usually edged with the lining color. Hoods are lined with
the color or colors of the institution granting the degree. When there
are t w o colors, a chevron of the second is used. Thus the hoods of Wes-
leyan graduates are lined with cardinal on which is a chevron of black.
Institutions having the same colors use different arrangements which are
registered with the Intercollegiate Bureau in Albany. The colored trim-
ming or edging of the hood, which is of velvet varying in width from two
to five inches according to the degree, indicates the department or faculty
of learning. The color code used to distinguish the different faculties is as
follows:

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Arts and Letters White Engineering Orange
Theology Scarlet Pharmacy Olive Green
Law Purple Dentistry Lilac
Philosophy Blue Veterinary Science Gray
Science Golden Yellow Forestry Russet
Pine Arts Brown Library Science Lemon
Medicine Green Pedagogy Light Blue
Music Pink Oratory Silver Gray
Commerce & Accountancy Drab Humanics Crimson
Sage Green Agriculture Maize
Physical Education Salmon Pink Economics Copper
Public Health

Of these colors a few have traditional warrant, but the others have
been selected because of historic or interpretative associations. The white
lot arts is borrowed f r o m the white fur trimming on the hoods of O x f o r d
and Cambridge graduates designating the Bachelor of Arts degree. Scar-
let, which for centuries has been symbolic of the burning faith and zeal of
the church, is worn by the Doctors of Divinity in England and in America
signifies a degree in theology. The pink brocade worn by O x f o r d doctors
of music led to our adoption of that color to indicate the faculty of music.
The royal purple of king's courts inspired its selection for law, while to
philosophy was assigned blue, the color of truth and wisdom. The green of
medicine was suggested by the green stripe in the army surgeon's uniform
and more remotely by the color of medicinal herbs. Pharmacy because of
its association with medicine is denoted by olive green. The golden yellow
of science represents the untold wealth that its research has brought to the
world, while the use of russet is a tribute to the dress of the early English
forester.

Harvard gowns show an interesting variation in the use of braided
double crow's feet ( f o r honorary degrees, triple crow's feet) of the same
color as the hood trimming under the Intercollegiate System. This trim-
ming is placed on each front near the collar. A colored tassel distinctive
of the faculty in place of the regulation black is worn in one middle west
university. Other modifications of costume peculiar to individual schools
are often seen and easily recognized.

Faculty members and other offiicals of the university wear the costumes
of the institutions which conferred their degrees or the appropriate hoods
of the institution with which they are the time connected. Those holding
dotorates in more than one faculty may indicate the fact by the proper
combination of colors on gowns and hoods. For example, the Doctor of
Philosophy, the Doctor of Literature, and the Doctor of Divinity degrees
may be shown by wearing a gown trimmed with philosophy blue velvet,
the Doctor of Literature hood with half of the velvet trimming of scarlet
to denote the Doctor of Divinity degree. The hood would be lined with the
colors of the institution which had granted the Doctor of Literature degree.
When degrees have been conferred by German universities which have no
commencement exercises and no distinguishing academic costumes, it is cus-
tomary to wear the caps, gowns, and hoods indicative of the degrees in the
Intercollegiate System, lining the hoods with the colors of the German uni-
versities upon which is placed a tri-chevron of black, white and red. Presi-
dents, chancellors, and deans may wear the gown trimmed with gold braid
and trustees of the institution may wear the doctor's gown during tenure
of office.

The custom of wearing academic gowns, caps and hoods dates back
to about the twelfth century. In France where the degree system probably
had its inception, the wearing of the cap and gown marked the formal admis-
sion of the "licentiate" to the body of masters, and was usually followed
by some festivity. The cold buildings of medieval times in which the
masters were obliged to teach, required capes and hoods which naturally
were patterned after the long flowing robe, the prevailing dress of the times.

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During this period the dress of friars and nuns became fixed and since the
scholars were usually clerics their robes differed little from those worn by
other church orders. Gradually special forms were set aside for the univer-
sity bodies and in modified style are the costumes worn today. Hoods were
originally fashioned after the monks' cowls and like them attached to the
gown and drawn over the head. Later, when the hood was displaced by
the cap as a head covering, it was made separate sometimes with a border of
color. I n its present form the hood is the most significant and certainly
the most interesting part of the academic costume. The mortarboard is an
evolution of the skull cap worn by the ecclesiastics over the tonsured head.
The pointed shape which it later assumed developed into the modern tassel.

Caps and gowns have been used in this country from colonial times.
Columbia University, or King's College as it' was then known, at an eariy
date adopted a local code. New York, the University of Pennsylvania and
others also had codes in force before 1880. A few years later a student
movement favoring the use of academic costume l>egan. Presidents and
trustees became interested and encouraged it. The Yale Corporation was
one of the first governing bodies to be gowned, but the faculty of Harvard
was not supplied until the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886,
although Columbia and other universities had gowned their faculties at an
earlier date. The democratic appeal in clothing all alike in an outward
equal fellowship, the improvement in the general effect of university func-
tions, and the increased interest aroused in academic ceremonies as a result
of the practice brought about the rapid adoption of the costume. Indeed
it has met with such general favor that many normal and high schools in
recent years supplied their graduating classes with caps and gowns. Dark
blue or gray are the usual colors, and i f black is used the rounded sleeves
distinguish the gowns from those of the collegiate costume.

Thus is preserved in outward form a tradition of academic life symbolic
of the search for truth and the unceasing pursuit of learning down the
centuries.

A f A Quarterly.

Death of Fans' Beloved
Cristy Mathewson, probably in his prime the greatest baseball pitcher
America has known, died at his mountain camp at Saranac Lake, New
York, October 8, from tuberculosis, the result of being gassed while a
captain in the chemical war service in France. He had struggled against
the dread malady since 1920 when he retired to Saranac Lake. Believing
he had won. he returned in 192J to public life, becoming president and
part owner of the Boston Braves, but a bad cold contracted last spring
turned the tide against him.
He was a graduate of Bucknell of the class of 1902 and a member
of Phi Gamma Delta. His son "Christy" is now at Bucknell and a mem-
ber of his father's chapter.—Santa's Greek Fxchangc.

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ITEMS OF INTEREST

T HERE ARE now three active chapters of Alpha Oinicron Pi in each of
three states—Sigma, Lambda and Kappa Theta chapters in California ;
j j u , Epsilon and Chi in New York; and Omicron, N u Omicron and Kappa
Oinicron in Tennessee. Illinois and Indiana each have two active chapters,
jjho and Iota in the former and Theta and Beta Phi in Indiana. The
remaining eighteen active chapters are located in as many different states.
There are no active chapters of Alpha Omicron Pi in twenty-five states,
including Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Vir-
ginia and Wyoming. I n only two of these twenty-five states are there
alumnae chapters, at Kansas City, Missouri, and Providence, Rhode
Island, but there are alumnae resident in every state of the Union and
in all of the provinces of Canada, as well as in many foreign countries.

¥~~VR. MARGARET ALEXANDER G R A U A M , '09, of Epsilon, who is now acting
head of the Biology Department in Hunter College, New York City,,

was recently made a Fellow of the American Association for the A d -
vancement of Science.

' " p H E DISTINCTION of having traveled a greater distance to attend college
ft than any other undergraduate member of the fraternity belongs to
Dorothy and Winona Harris of Epsilon chapter, who came twelve thou-
sand miles from their home in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Ithaca,
N. Y., where they entered Cornell University as members of the class of
1928.

' T ' H E COLLEGE FRATERNITY woman is coming to the foreground in ath-
letics. A recent issue of the New York Evening Post featured in

its sports section articles concerning Helen Wills, famous tennis player,
who is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Ethel McGary, swim-
ming champion, who is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi.

' T V u i DELTA CLAIMS our only official U . S. Weather Observer. May
*• Hamilton Horton, who graduated from Birmingham-Southern last
June, has always helped her father with his work, and when she left col-
lege took up her official position as his assistant.

A WOMAN I N ANY of the professions which custom has appropriated to
the male of the species becomes accustomed to the remark, "You

certainly do not look like a doctor." or a lawyer, or an engineer, as the
case may be. I t is not entirely clear just where the individual fails in
the superficial attributes assigned to her profession, nor how she really
should look, as, for instance, a woman engineer. Should she have large

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soft brown eyes and lustrous soft brown hair? Should a woman engineer
be of less than average height and very feminine; and may she have the
face of a Madonna brightened by a merry smile? I f so, then Margaret
Arronet does look like the excellent engineer that she is. However, with
no intention to disparage the pulchritude of the profession, it may be
hazarded that she is much too good looking to be recognized on sight
as a civil engineer.

Margaret George Arronet was born in the city of Moscow in Russia
in 1899. To Americans. Moscow is only a name, but to Russians, Moscow
stands f o r all that is best in the national arts, drama, literature and edu-
cation. Before the Revolution in 1916 Russian culture was flowering
in Moscow, and it was in this atmosphere that Margaret's eariy years
were spent. Books and the comradeship of fine minds were her everyday
inspiration. I t was during the Revolution, when she was only sixteen years
old, that Margaret decided to come to America to continue her education.
Before she left Russia she met several American engineers who were
Cornell graduates and this chance encounter crystalized her plans. She
had long realized that "far-flung Russia's immediate need was adequate
transportation facilities, and she determined to enter Cornell University,
study engineering, and then return to practice her profession in her
native land.

Early in the year 1917 Margaret landed in New York. She was
barely seventeen and had no relatives nor friends in the strange land to
which she had come. But she had a brave heart and sturdy courage, she
knew some English, and had a letter of introduction to the Y. VV. C. A.
in New York. There were some attempts to dissuade her from her pur-
pose, to turn her attention to a more suitable profession, and several
months were wasted in becoming accustomed to the new ways of America.
Eventually, however, in the fall of 1917 she entered Cornell in the Col-
lege of Civil Engineering. She completed the four year course in three
and one-half years, with high credit as is evidenced by her election to
Phi Kappa Phi. It must be remembered that she was studying in a
foreign language, far f r o m home, and that she had the constant burden
of worry for her family from whom she heard infrequently because of
the unsettled conditions in Russia. Moreover, she helped defray the
expenses of her college course by working several hours daily. And
she was very young.

"Shop work" in an Engineering College is men's work and i t is
difficult for the average woman. Even more arduous is the work of the
six weeks' summer camp required of all Cornell engineers. One of her
fellow students writes of Margaret: "In the summer survey camp in
the summer of 1919, Margaret was elected Chief of the Commissary, and
supervised the preparation of the lunches carried by the camp members
to be eaten at noon while at work in the field. During those strenuous
six weeks, Margaret insisted on doing as large a share of the work as
any of the men in our party. There were about ninety men in this survey
camp and just the two of us of the weaker sex. I must acknowledge

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that I was of the weaker sex and not above accepting help from some
husky male in carrying a heavy transit, but Margaret always went it
'on her own' and set a lively pace too."

In February, 1921, Margaret took her degree and sailed f o r Europe,
bound home to her beloved Russia. A l l the reports of Bolshevism and
the prospect of personal suffering did not deter her from the course which
she had laid. Eager to serve her country, she took a position with the
national railways which were, of course, under government control Her
first six months in Petrograd brought her only disillusionment. In the
disordered condition of the country, with red tape hedging all progress
so closely as to bring it to a standstill, she realized soon that it would be
impossible to accomplish anything constructive. She then entered the
service of the American Relief Administration in Russia and her intimate
knowledge of both English and Russian made her invaluable in this work.
W i t h her natural fearlessness she plunged into the worst of the famine
and typhus fever districts, bringing relief measures and giving instruction
in homes and hospitals to improve the sanitary conditions in the fever
districts. When the work became well organized and her services were
no longer so urgently needed, she returned to America and to her engi-
neering work.

For a time she was with the American Bridge Company in Elmira,
and from there went to her present position with the Research Laboratory
of the Lewis Institute of Technology in Chicago where her expert knowl-
edge of technical terms in many languages has contributed to the excel-
lent work she has done there.

An interesting but unpleasant coincidence in her experiences was
that when she first came to America in 1917, during the W o r l d War, she
was suspected by United States agents of being a Russian spy, and when
she completed her work with the American Relief Administration in
Moscow she was detained there several months by the Cheka under sus--
picion as an American spy because of her American associations and the
large amount of mail she was receiving from the United States.

Margaret Arronet has gone far in the ten years since she formed the
determination to become an engineer. And she will go farther. Alpha
Omicron Pi may well be proud of her, not alone because of her profes-
sional attainments, but because she is a brave woman, a true friend, and
a sister whom to know is to love and admire.

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ALPHA OMICRON PI FELLOWSHIP FOR
GRADUATE WORK

(For the College Year 1926-1927)

FOR MEMBERS A N D NON-MEMBERS
A M O U N T — Tivo Felloxvships of Five Hundred Dollars each are offered,

payable in two installments of Two Hundred and F i f t y Dollars each
on September 1, 1926 and January 1, 1927.

ELIGIBILITY—Applications will be received from any woman graduate of
the institutions listed below. O f the two fellowships offered, the first
is open only to Non-Members of Alpha Omicron Pi. The second, to
be known as the Alpha Omicron Pi Fellowship in Memory of Ruth
Capen Farmer, is open only to Members of Alpha Omicron Pi. The
successful applicants will not be limited to any particular field of
work, but character and a disposition toward humanitarian service
will be considered among other qualifications.

H . Sophie Newcomb Memorial College University of Maine
Randolph-Macon Woman's College Cornell University
Birmingham Southern College
Southern Methodist University Southwestern
Syracuse University
University of Pennsylvania University of Indiana
Leland Stanford University
University of Minnesota Montana State College
Vanderbilt University
University of Washington University of Kansas

New York University Miami University
University of Michigan
University of Tennessee University of Oregon
University of Nebraska
University of California University of Oklahoma
University of Maryland
DePauw University University of Illinois
Tufts College (Jackson)
Northwestern University
University of Wisconsin

University of California Southern Brandt

APPLICATIONS—Application blanks may be obtained from the office of the
Dean of Women of the above institutions or by writing direct to the
Chairman of the Fellowship Award Committee. To be considered,
an application must reach the Chairman of the Committee by mid-
night, March 15. 1926. Announcement of the successful applicant
will be made not later than May 1. 1926.

Correspondence regarding the Fellowship and applications are to be
mailed direct to

E L I Z A B E T H H E Y W O O D W Y M A N . Chairman.
Alpha Omicron Pi Fellowship Committee,

456 Broad Street. Bloonificld, New Jersey.

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ALPHA OMICRON PI F E L L O W S H I P F O R
GRADUATE WORK

APPLICATION BLANK
Instructions:

This application will not be complete unless it is accompanied by a
transcript, officially signed by the college Registrar, giving the applicant's
complete scholastic record. Statements from the major professors and
others best qualified to furnish information in regard to the candidate's
scholastic and personal fitness for achievement in graduate research and
leadership should also be submitted with the application. It must reach
the Chairman of the Alpha Omicron Pi Fellowship Committee, Elizabeth
Hevwood Wyman, 456 Broad Street, Bloomfield, N . J., before midnight
of March 15th. A kodak picture or small photograph of the candidate
may be submitted at her option with application. Announcement of award
will be mailed to all applicants not later than May 1st.

Full Name

Date of Birth Place of Birth

Race Nationality

Religion Church affiliation

Graduate of what institutions (state degrees and date of granting)

Major subject or subjects

Other special scholastic training

General physical condition

Are you entirely self-supporting? Partially self-supporting?

I f so, by what kind of work have you supported yourself?

At what college or university do you wish to do graduate work?

What is the specific nature of the course you wish to pursue?

What use do you expect to make of this advanced training? (state your
plans fully)

What organizations or honor societies do you belong to? (include those
outside of college)

In what activities (other than scholastic) have you participated in col-
lege?

What is the line of your greatest interests?

I f you are awarded the fellowship, do you intend to devote your time
solely to a full college schedule?

What do you consider your personal qualifications for success in the work
you wish to follow? (state fully on the other side of this sheet)

Signed

Date

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EDITORIALS

/ \ NOTHER BIRTHDAY has come and gone; and on birthdays we are sup-
posed to review the accomplishments and achievements, to take

inventory of our progress, to meditate upon what we have to show
for our year's existence. A n d what has Alpha Omicron P i done dur-
ing this passed year? Has she stood still, slipped back, or gone a
step foreward? W e think she has progressed. She has radically
changed her business organization; added a new office to those
already in existence which centralized the business end of our
organization and made it far more efficient. She has been redis-
tricted, according to a more logical and convenient plan. She has
awarded her annual scholarship once more and has established a
second annual scholarship of five hundred dollars to be given a
non-member. She has chartered three new active and three new
alumnae chapters. Her chapters have increased their philanthropic
activities, aided in many cases by the National W o r k Fund. The
mailing list of her magazine has increased so that now t w o thou-
sand of her members receive her quarterly publication. These are
some of your fraternity's achievements of the past year. Coopera-
tion and hard work, of officers, individuals and chapters have brought
about this progress. Shall the next Founders' Day see a corre-
sponding healthy growth in our order?

T T is EMINENTLY fitting that this number of To DRAQMA be dedicated
A to as it was inspired by, (perhaps they won't feel properly flattered)
the Founders. Many of you have never met them; few of you have
known all of them. We hope that, after reading the article by Laura Hurd,
who is well acquainted with them all, and seeing their pictures ( i t was
no easy task to collect them) you w i l l all feel acquainted, or better
acquainted, with these four from whose ideals our fraternity grew.

^ p n A N K YOU, Upsilon; we accept with pleasure." That is what every-
one wanted to say that night at Convention when Upsilon's delegates

extended to Alpha Omicron Pi such a thoroughly attractive and charming
invitation for the 1927 Convention. And now the Executive Committee,
on behalf of the fraternity, has said those very words to Upsilon and

plans are going forward for the NEXT CONVENTION I N SEATTLE I N 1927.

The Executive Committee and Upsilon Chapter have clasped hands in
agreement that the coming convention must be the biggest, best and most
inspiring that Alpha O has ever had. That is a large order—but, with
your help, it can be filled. This is the first call for Convention. Begin
planning and saving now—and, i f need be, make vour motto "Seattle in
1927.

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Y ou SUBSCRIBE TO To DRAGMA. Get your money's worth and read it, too.
This is your fraternity, and your magazine. You should keep abreast of
fraternity developments; know what has been accomplished, by whom,
and how. Portions of our book are quite interesting, once you get the
habit, and we hate to think of it pushed aside on some study or library
table without even a desultory reading. And when you have skimmed
through its pages, we hope you won't feel that you must heed the old
warning, " I f you like this song, don't tell your friends." I f you do like
To DRAGMA, tell your Alpha O friends, they may be inspired to read it
too, or may even invest a dollar in a year's subscription i f they haven't
already done so. I f you don't like it, write the editor and tell her why.
She will be glad to know what is wrong, and will receive suggestions
with open arms.

17*ROM NOW ON we are adopting an "off-with-their-heads" policy toward
delinquent and careless editors. We will give praise where praise is

due, but the late or carelessly prepared letter or notes will be subject to
the direst publicity. Every active and alumnae editor, and alumnae
assistant has been sent an instruction sheet. I f yours has been lost, send
for another. There is no excuse for material on the wrong sized paper, in
the wrong form, late or missing, or careless as to general make-up.
Here are a few of the things that we wish:

That Iota, Chi, Bozeman and Birmingham would send their chapter
letters.

That Alpha Phi, X i , Kappa Theta, Portland and Detroit alumnae
would not be late. You are "better late than never," but, oh, so much
better on time.

That the alumnae assistants of Pi, Nu, Omicron, Kappa, Zeta, Theta,
Epsilon, Lambda, Upsilon, Nu Kappa, Eta, Psi, Phi, Alpha Sigma,
X i , and Pi Delta would send in some alumnae notes f o r their chapters.
The notes for those chapters in this issue were sent by persons other
than the alumnae assistant, in most cases a person outside the chapters
concerned, who was interested enough in the magazine to supply us with
clippings and other items.

That Nu Omicron wouldn't spoil the record by being the only active
chapter not to use standard sized paper as is requested in the instruction
sheet.

That Cleveland alumnae would send its letter on standard sized
paper, and that the Rho and Alpha P h i notes would be on the correct
paper. (The linotype man gives us such dirty looks when we venture into
the press room with material written on dainty note paper.)

That nearly everybody, except the National Panhellenic Delegate,
would not spell it "Pan-Hellenic."

A ND NOW having administered the sulphur and molasses (we hope it
produces results), we follow it by something more pleasant, as a half

an orange dripping golden juice is always nice after a bitter dose. Most of

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the active and alumnae letters are neatly written or typed, names being
printed in all cases where the letters were written. As a whole, W e
think the active letters are a little more carefully prepared than the
alumnae. Iota and Chi are to be congratulated upon their Alumnae As-
sistants. The Alumnae Notes of these two chapters are a pleasure to
read, not only because they are complete and follow instructions as to
form, but because they are charmingly informal and original as to style.
We wish that every chapter had a Mary C. Wedge or a Frances
Carter.

Q PEAKING OF alumnae notes, reminds us that several people, one of
them no less a personage than our Grand President herself, have

asked, during the past two months, who the alumnae assistants for their
chapters were. From now on they will be listed in the Directory in the
back of the magazine, but this time, to make sure you all see them, we
put them here.

You can do much toward making a success of your chapter notes by
sending your assistant interesting news about yourself and other mem-
bers of your chapter. And she will be glad to have help.

Alpha—None yet appointed. News may be sent direct to the editor. I
Pi—None appointed. Please see to this, Pi, and in the meantime the

editor will be glad to get news.
Nu—Virginia Little, 414 Central Park West, New York, N . Y.
Omicron—Jennilee McCracken, c-o H . A . Morgan, Kingston Pike, Knox-

ville, Tenn.
Kappa—Kathryn Hodges, 22 Princeton Circle, Lynchburg, Va.
Zeta—Elsie Fitzgerald. 1871 D St., Lincoln, Neb.
Sigma—Harriet Backhus, 353 Adams St., Oakland, Calif.
Theta—Wilhelmina Hedde, 6th St.. Logansport, Ind.
Delta—Alice J. Spear, 32 Pierce St., Hyde Park, Mass.
Gamma—Barbara Dunn, 11 Bennoch St., Orono, Me.
Epsilotu—Dorothy Trebing, 157 E. 81st St., New York, N . Y.
Rho—Dorothy Duncan.

Lambda—Ellowene D. Evans. 1312 Havenhurst Drive, Hollywood, Calif.
Iota—Mary C Wedge.
Tau—Alice Buckley Goodwin.
Chi—Frances Carter, 35 S. Irving St., Ridgewood. N . S.
Upsilon—Florence McMeekin, 6410 Brooklyn Ave., Seattle, Wash.
Nu Kappa—Mrs. Leon Hull, 6722 Oram Place. Dallas, Texas.
Beta Phi—Edith Huntington Anderson (Mrs. A. K . ) . 4 Heatherbloom

Apts., State College. Pa.
Eta—None elected.
Alpha Phi— Mary Baldwin. 1834 Lowell Ave., Butte, Mont.
Nu Omicron—Helen Morford (Mrs. Theodore), 1706 Cedar Lane, Nash-

ville, Tenn.
Psi— Elizabeth McOwen. 829 S. 48th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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phi—Ida Logue, 1227 Tennessee St.. Lawrence, Kansas.
Omega—Helen Scott, Trenton, Ohio.
Omicron Pi—Virginia Van Zandt, 4011 Pinegrce Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Wlpha Sigma— Florence Morehead, 935 Patterson St., Eugene, Ore.
Xi—Pauline Edwards, 3105 Classen Blvd., Oklahoma City, Okla.
pi Delta—Grace Coe, Glen Mills, Pa.
Tau Delta—
Kappa Theta—
Kappa Omicron—

OUR GRAND PRESIDENT has been doing a bit of traveling of late. Dur-
ing January and early February she visited all the Pacific and Mid-
chapters. She attended the National Panhellenic Congress meet-
ing in Dallas, and acted as the Editor's proxy at the Editors' Conference.
In the next issue we hope she will tell us all about her visits with the
chapters. The chapter letters give their side of it in this issue, and testify
that nothing strengthens the fraternity spirit among the active chapters
more than a visit from a national officer.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

* T " S H E AMENDMENTS to the Constitution which were passed at the Con-
vention held in June are now being printed. Copies of these amend-

ments will be sent to all chapters and to National Officers as soon as they
come from the press. A l l members who have purchased copies of the
Constitution in the past are entitled to receive these amendments and they
will be mailed to you, without further charge, upon request. Please send
your requests for these amendments to

Miss Elizabeth H . Wyman, Registrar,
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" \ 1 7 I T H THE INTENTION of still further centralizing the records of the
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directed that the records of subscriptions to To DRAGMA be changed from
the office of the Business Manager of To DRAGMA to the office of the
Registrar. Hereafter Alumnae should send all new A N N U A L subscrip-
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' T p H E FRATERNITY'S CONTRACT with the L . G. Balfour Company under
••• which that Company acts as the officials jeweler of Alpha Omicron
Pi, is the result of many conferences, much thought and the experience
of many years under contracts of a similar nature. Under this contract,
the Executive Committee feels that it has made the best provision possi-
ble for securing prompt and thoroughly satisfactory service for all of i t l
members. But the working out of this contract to the satisfaction of all

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concerned depends largely upon the cooperation of every active chapter and

every member of the fraternity.
In order to insure this satisfaction, the Executive Committee wishes

- to impress upon you that all Alpha Omicron Pi pins should be sent to the
- W G. Balfour Company, Attleboro, Massachusetts, whenever it is neces-
y jary for any repairs, however small, to be made to the pin. I t is not
e that the Executive Committee does not feel that there are other jewelers
y quite as efficient as the Balfour Company but it is merely because the fra-
d ternity is under contract with the Company and, in case of loss of further

damage to the pin, can hold that Company responsible. I t is for your
own protection that the Executive Committee asks you to bear this in
mind. Furthermore, under the terms of the contract, the Balfour Com-
pany has agreed to supply, without charge, stones which have been lost
from the pin, with the exception of diamonds. The following is a clause
e from the contract:
s "That it guarantees each badge against ordinary wear and tear for
an indefinite period and agrees to repair free of charge any badge that
may be returned under conditions of said clause, and to replace free of
charge any stones which have been lost except diamonds, which will be
replaced at actual cost to the Company of the diamonds replaced; that
it will guarantee all other articles covered by this contract against ordinary
wear and tear, and in accord with representation made at the time of
purchase."

You are proud of your pin. The fraternity and the Balfour Company
are anxious that you should keep it in good condition. A l l that you need
do is cooperate with them.

The Balfour Company has especially requested that the fraternity
advise the Company of any instances of dissatisfaction with orders that they
have filled or of any cases of delay in filling the orders. The Company
will supply plain pins within ten days of the receipt of the order and
jewelled ones will be shipped within three weeks of the receipt of the1
order. This is what the Company agrees to do but the records show that
very often less time is required in filling orders. Jewelled pins have been
delivered within ten days of the receipt of the order by the Company. I f
there is, therefore, any delay in pins being received, the Executive Com-
mittee asks that you first check up to be sure that the delay has not occurred
within the chapter or is due to some individual neglect, and then notify the
Registrar, giving her full details.

T N A N ATTEMPT to broaden the scope of our National Work Program,
at the recent Convention, it was voted to establish a second fellowship

and to alter the basis of awarding the fellowship which has formed a
part of the fraternity's National Work for the past two years.

Under the new ruling, two fellowships of $500.00 each will be awarded
annually. One fellowship will be awarded to a graduate of any college
in which there is established a chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi, "providing
the applicant shall not be a member of Alpha Omicron Pi," and the
other award will be made to "any woman graduate who is a member of

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Alpha Omicron Pi." The second fellowship is to be known as the "Alpha
Omicron Pi Fellowship in memory of Ruth Capen Farmer." The crea-
tion of the second fellowship and the new basis of making the awards
assure one award being made outside of the fraternity and one among
its members. Out of the many applications received during the two years
previous to Convention, the award in each year had gone to a member of
Alpha Omicron Pi because, in each instance, her qualifications were con-
sidered by the Committee to be higher than those of the other applicants.
The first award was made to Thelma Brumfield, Epsilon, and the second
to Wilkie Hughes, Beta Phi.

Miss Elizabeth Heywood Wyman is Chairman of the Fellowship
Committee and will gladly furnish further information concerning the
awards.

WHITE VEILS
I never saw the snow so strange as this,
It whirls and whirls, until, with just a kiss
Upon the earth's warm lips, a touch so light
I t gives, that scarce is left a fleck of white.

I t cannot be that I am really where
These larger snow-flakes hover through the air,
Like veil'd spirits from another sphere,
To glide in mystic silence 'round us here.

The very stream's enchanted with their charm,
Its freezing waters almost seem to warm,
A happy song of welcome forth it sends,
How lonesome it would be without these friends.

The mushroom villages are made for you
To flutter 'round about and vanish through;
I know not veils from flakes when day is done,
The cold moon silvers all and makes you one.

Songdo, Korea, F A N N I E \ V . BUTTERFIELD.
OSAKA, MANICHI.

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ACTIVE CHAPTER LETTERS

PI—H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB MEMORIAL COLLEGE

We've just returned f r o m the Christmas holidays and it's rather
hard to get to work again after having had/ so much pleasure. But then
we've been working so hard to try and do our part for A O I I and we
have become so interested that we can't stop. Before the holidays, we
had a rummage sale and made $50.00. The alumnae were kind enough
to give us their rummage so we divided the proceeds with them. We all
had so much fun trying to develop into expert salesladies and we tried
to get suggestions f r o m Betty Quarles, one of our recent initiates, who
is a genius at rummage sales.

We have adopted two orphans, Evelyn Smith and Helen Rogers, and
took charge of them at the Y. W . C A. Christmas tree before the holi-
days. Our idea is to visit them as often as we can and to try to add
some happiness to their lives. Speaking of being happy, we surely have
a right to be because we have recently initiated Dorothy Dalton, and we
are so proud of her.

Mrs. F. W. Sinclair entertained when Josephine Pratt visited New
Orleans, and gave the active chapter such a treat by inviting them to
enjoy the afternoon with the alumnae. We are extremely fortunate to
have had visits from the Grand Vice-President and from the Grand
President in the same year. Mrs. McDonald was also one of the honorees
at Mrs. Sinclair's and we appreciated fully the pleasure of having her.

Pi is very much excited over the change in the rushing rules. Dates
with rushees are prohibited for a period of three weeks; that is, for the
time from January 21, the beginning of examinations, until reports are
out. A l l the rushees who have made an average of 75% may be pledged,
then initiated the beginning of the sophomore year i f they have made an
average of 80% after being pledged. Our big rushing party will be
given next Saturday and we are going to make a valiant effort to get
those we want.

Now for the strictly personal items. Charlotte Voss, President of
Pi, is a member of the Inter-Collegiate Debating Team. She was on
the winning side in the annual Carnot Debate. Elizabeth Land was
chosen on the 'Varsity Newcomb Basketball Team. Betty Bethea and
Georgia Morrison, who graduated in '24, are visiting Mrs. Bethea in New
Orleans. We were so glad to have them back even f o r a short while.
Edith Bradley, '25, was married on December 21 to M r . Hooper P. Carter.

ELIZABETH LAND.

NU—NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

A f t e r our delightful Founders' Day Banquet everything seemed rather
flat. But soon the Christmas rush was upon us and everyone was en-
gulfed. Santa, Old Boy. stopped at pur house en route and left us two
of the loveliest embroidered towels sent by order of our dear Evelyn
Helland Sprigg.

Directly after Christmas on the 26th the New York Alumnae chapter
held its meeting at our house. We undergrads were so proud to be asked
to help serve tea and the like—to such distinguished guests. Stella George
Stern Perry told us all about her trip west and interested us to such a
degree about the Mothers' club at Rho that we have absolutely made up
our minds to have one. Elizabeth Heywood Wyman told us many inter-
esting things too, as did all the alums. The tea was very interesting and

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we thank Edith Broun for inviting us to join them. The alums were
splendid the way they aided our theatre party plan.

On Jan. 4th Helen Schelnin ran a house benefit, engineering a group
which went to the Hippodrome and paid $1.35 for 85c seats. The addi-
tional 50c going to the house. This party cleared close to $25.00. Three
cheers f o r Helen—do it again, yes?

On February 6th Helen Cock ran is running another house benefit, in
the form of a bridge party, which will be held at the house, 69 Wash-
ington Place.

At the same place on the 26th and 27th of February we are holding
a cake and novelty sale. There will be fortune telling, novelties from lc
to $1.00 (brass, Chinese things and what-nots). In another corner we
plan to have a white elephant table. I f you have anything which may be
useful to some one but not to you, send it to us—Christmas presents,
maybe ?

W i t h exams so near everyone is so rushed, but soon they will all be
behind us and the sun will again shine.

Our newest members taken in on Founders' Day are now well on
the way to hard work. Our dear Julia just filled up her committees right
and left so that now every girl is working diligently.

Nu wishes to take this opportunity to thank all our sister chapters
for their kind Christmas greetings. We were very happy to see them
come to our little house.

R U T H GLORIA LAWLOR.

OMICRON—UNIVERSITY OF TENNSSEE

A f t e r our splendid rushing season we settled down to real work.
Besides regular school work our girls have entered many college
activities. Elizabeth Walker is a member of the Advisory Board of the
Junior class and she and Elizabeth Hale were on the University Carnival
staff. Elizabeth Hale is on the Orange and White staff. Katherine
Alexander and Elizabeth Walker are in the Glee Club. Mary Moore
Shanton and Elizabeth Young made the girls' basketball squad. Evelyn
French, Lyna and Sarah Flowers are among the girls nominated for the
beauty contest. Helen Hobson and Ruth Beck are military sponsors.
Our social calender began with a lovely dinner Hallowe'en, given for
us by Mrs. Coykendall, a former patroness and now the mother of one
of our pledges.
Jo. Pratt spent a day with us on her way to install Kappa Omicron.
On December the second we gave a tea at the home of Josephine
Wallace, one of our pledges, f o r all the alumnae, patronesses, and moth-
ers. The house was beautifully decorated by Jennilee McCracken, who
is now a florist.
Founders' Day was celebrated with a supper in the fraternity room,
the loveliest part of which was a huge birthday cake with twenty-nine
red candles.
In way of philanthropic work, we have made a number of dresses
for the Babies Home and have had our freshmen make scrap-books for
the Children's Hospital. Elizabeth Walker and' Elizabeth Hale conduct
recreational hour at the Babies Home. Martha McLemore, Evelyn
French and Ruth Beck are serving every Tuesday at the Y. W . C. A .
tea-room.
I t was a sad let-down after a glorious Xmas to have to settle down
to "boning" for exams—just two weeks off. We are checking up on our
freshmen to be sure that they all make the required C—but of course
they all will.

HELEN HOBSON.

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KAPPA—RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE

The rushing week is over and Kappa promised, on Oct. 17, seven fine
freshmen they are: Margaret Miller, Alexine Crawford, Lela Ger-
many, Alice Alexander, Virginia Zapp, Louise Ratcliffe and Anne New-
ton- 1» order for these "promisees' to be pledged they must each pass
four three-hour courses, or the equivalent. Exams beg.n Jan. 18, and we
hope that by the time they are over with every one of our promises will
have passed the required numher of hours to be pledged.

There is a saying in college that the sophomores do all the work of
the college and get no credit for it. This is one time when they will get
credit for it. We are indeed very proud of our sophomores. They have
not only won fame for themselves in athletics and scholarship but also
in class work and the general work of the college. Betty Darling was
captain of the hockey squad and out of the twelve other sophomores, nine
of them played on either the basketball or hockey first teams.

In the sophomore play which was presented Saturday, Dec. 19, Mary
Reed originated and coached all of the dances for the play. Betty
Darling, Katherine Pfau and Violet Washburn all had leading roles in
the play. Fan White and Louise Anderson both were chairmen of im-
portant committees for the play and party.

Thanksgiving night the College Dramatic Club presented "Come Out
of the Kitchen." Beryl Madison acted the part of Burton Crane—the lead-
ing man; Frances Germany acted the part of Paul Dangerfie'd—the old
est boy of his family, and Phoebe Paxton acted the part of Charles Dan-
gerfield—the youngest boy of the family.

Kappa decided that her home was in a very run-down and worn out
condition. One of the bright members suggested the idea of having a
shower for the house and inviting the alumnae. The idea proved most
successful. I t was just like the fairy godmother who touched Cinder-
ella's rags with her wand and turned them into a handsome evening
gown. First of all the chapter "enscramble," gave the house a beautiful
new set of dining-room furniture and a beautiful rug for the dining-
room floor. There were various other presents: plenty of pots and pans
and utensils for the kitchen, famous pictures for the living room, brass,
ship-book-ends, vases, new victrola records, sofa pillows, new andirons,
and numerous other things. The house really looks like a new place.

Ann Anderson—our president—was elected by the student body as a
delegate from Randolph Macon to attend the Student Conference at
Princeton University, which was held to discuss the problem of the
World Court. This was quite an honor for the chapter to have the one
representative of the entire college.

News was received from the Belgian Congo that there had been born
unto Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Gilliam a fine baby girl. Mrs. Gilliam was,
before her marriage, Louise Johnson and a prominent AOn.

The Christmas holidays are over. We have all had a marvelous time
during the holidays and are now settling down to hard work so that we
can make good grades on the examinations. Our average for the first
quarter was 91.1—and we stood second place on the campus in the schol-
arship line—the highest being 92.2. We feel that we must keep up the
good work.

PHOEBE PAXTON.

ZETA—UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
So much has happened one hardly knows where to start. A new
house is the predominate thought of most Zetas now. Numerous means
of raising money f o r the fund have been put into force. Last week a
Ford touring car was given away as the result of a contest; a bridge

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benefit held at the governor's mansion was given by our active Mother's
Club, and several rummage sales as well as numerous other things that
are being planned will help the fund grow. Viola Gray, our alumnae
advisor and chairman of the finance committee, is helping us in every
way. We hope that work will be started on the house in February, but
as yet the plans are quite indefinite as to the time when real construction
will begin.

Our Founders' Day banquet was held at the chapter house this year.
A number of out-of-town alumnae as well as the Lincoln alumnae chap-
ter were present. Toasts were given by Mildred Sweet f o r the upper-
classmen and Geraldine Hiekes for the freshmen. The evening was
spent in a round table discussion concerning matters related to the build-
ing of the house.

We have had a number of parties this year which I have failed to
mention. The freshmen gave the upperclassmen a Christmas dance just
before the holiday season and our formal will be given the first of Feb-
ruary, but the spring party money will go to the house fund so we are
planning a large house dance instead.

Plans are being made for mid-semester rushing. We expect to have
a few quite simple parties. We have not pledged1 anyone since the fall
rushing. A t Nebraska under present rules girls may be pledged every
six weeks or at certain quarterly periods. LaVerne Wright is in charge
for the mid-semester and we hope to be able to pledge several new girls.

A special initiation was held December third f o r Louise Wohlenberg.
Louise was pledged last year.

We are very proud of our Mothers' Club which we find to be so
helpful. I t was organized last spring and now has twenty active mem-
bers. Many of our out-of-town mothers have become members too,
although they are unable to meet and be active they have paid their dues
and are working with the Lincoln mothers. The mothers meet every
other Tuesday afternoon at the chapter house for a social and business
hour. They are planning on furnishing the guest room in the new house.

Interest during the holidays centered around the marriage of Bonnie
Hess, and Hugh Drake, 2 N , which took place December twenty-sixth.
A number of Lincoln Alpha Os attended the wedding.

We are all working exceedingly hard this year to bring our scholar-
ship up to the highest possible, with all other activities we are kept quite
busy, but we hope to have a most favorable report to present in the
spring.

RUTH PALMER.

SIGMA—UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

The last scenes at the chapter house were very quiet and subdued in
comparison to former days. Finals reigned supreme and every girl made
a solemn vow to do her best to help AOn win the Rose Gardner Marx
Scholarship Cup this semester. A l l the pledges certainly did everything
they could in the way of studies and grades to win the Cup and we are
mighty proud of them. The freshmen, with their scholarship require-
ments made, arc looking forward to initiation and the girls in the chapter
are planning a beautiful ceremony to show them our great love and appre-
ciation.

Rushing begins Monday, January eleventh. Friday, January seventh,
we are having an informal bridge party at the home of Rose Bell, one
of our dearest alumnae. I t will be the first time since Christmas vacation
the girls have all been together.

We are expecting Katrina Overall McDonald to visit us during the
last few days of rushing and we are all looking forward to our initiation

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ceremonies when we hope she will preside. Even the seniors are wishing
that they were pledged so that they could be initiated by our new Grand
President.

Much has happened in the way of honors for girls of Sigma. Our
president, Mildred Jane Bell, was initiated into Prytanean, a Woman's
Honor Society. Our active Rush Captain, Miriam Collins, also was ini-
tiated into Prytanean, the only junior woman to make it this semester.
Mildred Jane also became a member of Mortar Board, the senior Women's
Honor Society. Isabelle Jackson, vice-president, has stepped into the
position of Women's Editor for the Daily Californian.

Two of our most active girls are leaving college, for a while at least.
Dorothy Anne Mills, our capable secretary, is leaving on February fourth
for Europe to be gone until July. We will miss her very much and all
hope she will have a glorious trip. Genevieve Toye, having received her
teacher's certificate, is leaving us to teach school in San Francisco. We
know, however, that Gen, being so close, will be back to see us often dur-
ing the semester.

MARJORIE MILLS.

THETA—DE PAUW UNIVERSITY

Of first importance to us now, are our two new pledges, Irena Hegner,
of Blue Island, Illinois, and Lydia Weider, of Paris, Illinois. Besides
our new sisters-to-be, we have a new initiate, Clarice McKinney, '28,
who was initiated on November 10, 1925.

Just before we went home for a perfectly grand vacation, we had a
Christmas Bazaar for the benefit of the house fund, and we cleared the
thrilling sum of $130. A l l the alums responded to our S. O. S. and
sent in beautiful things to sell. Besides that, all the girls in the chapter
helped sew and embroider.

On Founders' Day we had a formal dinner f o r the actives, pledges,
and alumnae at the house. Our chapter president, the alumnae advisor,
and one of the charter members of Theta chapter gave us very interesting
and inspiring talks, and we sang fraternity songs while our newest acqui-
sition, an A. O. Pi pin which is electrically lighted to look just like our
own pins, given to us by John Dill, ATA, shone above us.

Frances Gray was elected to History Club, and Katherine Schmidt
was appointed manager of the senior swimming team.

Everyone is busy studying for semester examinations, which come in
a few weeks. They are harder than ever, so we are all working hard
and hoping that we will all be here next semester.

KATHERINE SCHMIDT.

DELTA—TUFTS COLLEGE

Our local rushing system arranges for a six week rushing period.
The first two weeks are "open" rushing with only two rules in force, one
which forbids treating except "Dutch," and another which forbids a
freshman spending the night with a fraternity girl. The second two weeks
are "closed" rushing with the additional rules which forbid an upper
classman being with a freshman more than a half hour at one time, or
being together or conversing together after eight o'clock at night. The
third period consists of two weeks of parties, after which it takes about
a week for the bidding, and this year we have introduced a system of
preferential bidding.

During the first week of the latter period, we had two parties: one.
a formal tea at the home of one of the chapter members, and the second
was a "pirate" party in the slave house of an old revolutionary mansion.

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A t our tea the only entertainment offered was the singing of a group G f
fraternity songs in front of the fire. Here we endeavored to show the
rushees first, what a wonderful feeling it is to be a fraternity woinal
and secondly, with what strong bonds our particular fraternity is held
together. A great deal of joy and inspiration can be gotten by the f l a _
ternity girls Irom a large and well-sung repertoire of songs, and a great
deal of splendid, fine, sentiment aroused in the freshman. Each nuhee
is presented with a Jacqueminot rose to enjoy after the tea.

Later in the week came our "'pirate" party. The girls were requested
to come in costume, and great was the ingenuity we discovered in our
embryonic AOPis. We had several five-minute entertainments inter-
spersed in an evening of dancing, of eating pretzels and drinking cider.
We had skits which amused, and skits which worked on their emotions'
but, primarily, it was just a good fun party.

The invitations to these first two .parties had to be sent at the same
time. For the last party, therefore, we did a great deal of cutting down
on the list of girls we were rushing. The last party was a six-hour
party, while the other two had been two-hour parties. This final party
was given at the home of another of the actives. We transformed the
large living-room into a cabaret hall with small tables in two semi-circles.
The room was illuminated by red candles, and at each freshman's place
was a red and white dog with big, round, flat feet, big ears, and gro-
tesquely appealing face embroidered in black. A regular dinner was
served and in between each course was a clever little bit of five-minute
cabaret production. This took up the first two hours, and while the
girls wandered out into another room, the cabaret room was quickly
transformed into a living-room with a huge blazing fire around which
we gathered. Now had come the time to put fun aside f o r a bit and
enjoy some real AGTI thril's. We sang, this time introducing some
new ones. As a solo number, the "Red Rose" song from "Monsieur Beau-
caire," transformed into an A O I I song, was verv beautiful and effec-
tive. We concluded the evening with "Alpha Omicron P i " and a good-
night song which we have adopted for such occasions.

A l l the work, all the worry, of the season was more than amply
rewarded on Nov. 14, when we pledged thirteen girls. May I introduce:
Margaret Caverly of Norwood, Mass., Virginia Drury of Winthrop,
Mass., Lucile Gardner of Littleton, Mass., Constance Handy of Tufts
College, Mass., Aletha H i l l of Walpole, Mass., Kathryn Maclnerny of
Adams, Mass., Maria McLellan of New York City, Louise Moore of
Foxboro, Mass., Gyneth Prue of Foxboro, Mass., Irene Rachdorf of
North Adams, Mass. (graduate student—Smith '25), Jeanne Relyea of
West Hartford. Conn., Portia Russell of Newton, Mass., and Eleanor
Sanborn of Sharon, Mass.

Our rushing reactions have been varied. We feel more than satis-
fied with actual results. We cannot decide whether or not we've accom-
plished much by the preferential bidding system, but the tendency is
toward a feeling that, taking into consideration the fact that we have
only one season to judge by, it will prove to be much more satisfactory
than the former system. Toward rushing in general, there is a feeling
throughout college that something should be done to break up the atti-
tude during rushing which we more or less unconsciously assume, namely,
the endeavor on the part of the fraternity girl to impress the freshman,
rather than that the freshman be impressed by the fraternity groups. I
am wondering i f other chapters have met with these same difficulties and,
if so. how they coped with them. Our Panhellenic will urge next year
less elaborate parties. There is also strong reason to suspect that second
semester bidding w i l l be initiated next year in an attempt to relieve the
stress and strain which may be due to the present shorter period of rush-

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ing- We should be interested, indeed, to hear from any of the chapters
w h o have adopted these suggested forms of rushing machinery.

Aside from rushing, another thrilling event of the fall months was
the awarding of academic honors when one of our members, Dorothy
Hettinger, received the highest honors that it was possible for the college
to bestow. The real admiration the college felt over both the personality
and scholarship of Dottie, made us an extremely proud group. Scottie
Precott also carried off the honors and the Chi Alpha chapter of Chi
Omega scholarship in sociology.

RUTH FIELD.

GAMMA—UNIVERSITY OF MAINE
First and of greatest importance is our group of new pledges;
twelve girls who are now proudly wearing the little gold sheaf of wheat.
May I present them: "The cream of the freshman class": Ethel Cum-
mings, Jonesport, Me.; Mary Robinson, Bangor, Me.; Pauline Seavey,
Greenfield, Mass.; Alice Webster, Bangor, Me.; Nan Surface, Wash-
ington, D. C.; Evelyn Stalford, Bar Harbor, Me.; Ruth Merservey,
Bangor, Me.; Ida Bamford, Orono, Me.; Jessie Ashworth, Orono, Me.;
Catherine Osgood, Ellsworth, Me.; and Inez Stevens, '27, of Oakland,
Me., a transfer from Colby.
To go back to rushing, on Oct. 16 we gave our progressive dinner
party, progressing f r o m Balentine to Mt. Vernon and then to Sally Pal-
mer's. There long-legged dolls, of red sateen with white ruffs, with
our guest's names on them, were found to be dangling from everywhere,
and nowhere in particular. Needless to say the party was a great success.
The climax came Oct. 26, the night before bids came out, when we
gave a Hallowe'en party at the chalet. You can imagine how excited
and nervous we were—for fear the girls wouldn't go the right way the
next day. We sat around the big fire while Achsa sang to us, and as
she sang we knew that they would choose the right and only way. And
we did come out on top. ahead of every other sorority.
The pledge service was held at Sally's and was very impressive. We
are proud of our pledges and know they will prove themselves worthy
of Alpha O. I must tell you about them. Mary Robinson was captain of
the f rosh hockey team. Three made the dean's list: Alice Webster,
"Gint" Stalford and Jessie Ashworth. Again we seem to have a monopoly
on the freshman basketball team, just as we did last year. Ethel Cum-
mings is captain and forward; Mary Robinson, the other forward; "Gint"
Stalford. center, and "Polly" Seavey. side center.
Nov. 21 we gave a very delightful tea to Mrs. Boardman, wife of
Acting President Boardman, and the dean's wives.
Dec. 5 our pledge dance was held at the Penobscot Valley Countrv
Club.
To celebrate Founders' Day, the Bangor alums gave us a banquet at
the country club.
Our Christmas party at the chalet was a huge success. Achsa made
a corking Santa Clans and distributed the gifts. Have we sisterly love?
You don't know the half of it.
Beulah Osgood, Gamma president, was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and
is also president of the Home Economics Club.
Achsa is president of Phi Sigma, honorary biological society.
Anna Stinchfield. '27. and Serena Wood. '27. have parts in the car-
nival r>lay. "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Anna, Serena and Helen
Peabody, '27. have been elected to the Masque, the dramatic society. This
is the first time that women have been chosen for this society.
"Bobby" White. '28. and "Fran" Fuller, '28, made the 'varsity basket-
ball squad of which Helen Peabody is assistant manager.

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Just a few words about Achsa—but I could say ever so much about her.
She has been our guardian angel, and we owe much of our success to her!
The freshmen adore her, but, then, so do we all.

FRANCES FULLER.

EPSILON—CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Many things have happened this fall, but of course the big event was
rushing. Fortune favored us and we are proud to announce the following
pledges: Constance Cobb, Marion Davidson, Nell Fay, Virginia Gruppe,
Lydia Kitt, Charlotte Kolb, Helene Minor, Sara McGarvey, Cynthia
Parsons, Frances Riegart and Elizabeth Reece.

Connie Cobb is president of the freshman class and Nell Fay is vice-
president. Sara McGarvey was on the frosh basketball team. Helene
Minor and Marion Davidson helped costume one of the dramatic club
plays. Lydia Kitt is a member of Wayside Aftermath.

Besides pledging this fall, we have had initiation. Bertha Leitch
and Roberta Radford, who were pledges last year, and Grace Hanson,
better known as "Sid," who was pledged this fall, were initiated. "Sid"'
is a junior and has already done her share on campus. She is very
athletic besides being an Outside House president and a member of
Raven and Serpent. She has lots of pep and is proving a very fine sister
in Alpha O.

Epsilon has been taking quite an active part in college activities.
This year the Athletic Organization is giving a big affair f o r all
women students in the form of a Barn Dance. I t is being carried off
very successfully under the chairmanship of Carmen Schneider. The
Athletic Council, which is composed of twelve members, includes Katty
Altiemeier, Connie Schneider, Sunny Worden, Sid Hanson and Elsie
Schneider, two of the others are non-sorority girls and the rest are
divided among the thirteen sororities on the hill.
On the 'varsity hockey team this fall we are proud to be able to
include Frances Eagan, Elizabeth McAdam, Pi Baker, Frannie Mount
and Ella Behrer. On the senior class soccer team, May Belle Eisemann
held a place. On the junior team, Sid Hanson and Corinne Messing,
on the sophomore team. On their class basketball teams, Connie Schnei-
der and Elsie Schneider held places.
Frances Eagan and May Belle Eisemann are members of Dot and
Circle. The rifle organization competition is now on f o r the rifle team
and many girls are trying hard to make it.
May Belle Eisemann and Elizabeth McAdam are members of "The
Foil," the fencing club.
M i k k i Wilson is business manager of the Women's News and wom-
en's editor of the Graphic.
A t the recent Thumb Tack Club meeting, the three new women mem-
bers who were taken in were A O n s : Sally Holcomb. Joe Buecking and
Jane George Louise Duggar is already a member of this club.
Johanna Buecking has been elected to Alpha Kappa Delta, an hon-
orary economic society, and Elinor Irish was taken into the honorary
floriculture sorority.
Frances Eagan is a member of the Central Honor Committee and
Connie Schneider is on the Arts College Honor Committee.
Next week the Mandolin Club and Glee Club is giving a concert.
Sally Holcomb is a member of the Mandolin Club and Winona Harris,
Pi Baker, Mikki Wilson and Kay Demorest are in the Glee Club.
This fall we Cornell students were most fortunate in the opening of
our new building, Willard Straight, which is a meeting place for men

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and women, and in it is our campus theater. I t is very beautiful and we
are so glad we have it while we are here at school. For the opening
there was much celebration and one of the greatest plays ever presented
by the Cornell Dramatic Club in which Joe Buecking played the leading
role, was given. Frances Eagan presented a very interesting character
in it also and Betty Michael and Muriel Drummond played minor parts.
Mud Drummond, Betty Michael and Joe Buecking have been in other
presentations this fall and Eagan has been coaching a play. Pi Baker,
Corinne Messing, M i d Leeming and Helen Worden have been proping
Dramatic Club plays.

Speaking of the Willard Straight, Frances Eagan is one of the two
women on the board of directors.

Among all the events of the fall, we found time to observe Founders'
Day. We had a special candle lighting service adapted from Convention,
and heard very entertaining sketches of the lives of the Four Founders.
I t was such an enjoyable observance of Founders' Day.

This Christmas we had a more enjoyable time than ever by giving a
Christmas party f o r the children in the children's home. Sally Johnson
managed the party, which we had Saturday afternoon, with unusual
skill. That we really never grow up in heart was shown that afternoon,
for we had as much f u n as the children. The pledges all stayed with us
that evening and as is the usual custom, Sunday morning the sophomores
awakened us with Christmas carols. We all then had a nice picnic
breakfast in the living-room in front of the fireplace and were so happy
to be altogether. Many thanks are due Winona Harris f o r helping to
make this party such a success.

Even with these two parties our Christmas wasn't over, for Monday
night, just before fraternity meeting, Professor Baker, Pi's father and
head of the drawing department, came with a very mysterious looking
package. When the mystery was known, the contents of the package
turned out to be a beautiful painting of Professor Baker's of a lovely
hillside near Ithaca. Now, our living-room doesn't seem like the same
place. We never will be able to show him how much we appreciate it.

Now after all this happy news, we have a sad part. "Maddie" Koby,
one of our best all around sisters, is graduating in February. She is
contemplating going into a hospital in New York as student dietitian for
six months but we are hoping that she may be able to locate a position
here that will please her as much, so she won't have to leave us. We
just can't imagine what we'll do without her.

L. DALE DAVIS.

RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
The two most important events that have happened here since the last
letter are initiation and our Founders' Day banquet. On December 10
we initiated eight girls: Carol Anger, Virginia Funkhouser, Josephine
Hahn, Dorothy Hills and Margaret Wolf of Chicago. Dorothy Leggett
of Evanston, Kathryn Kendrick of Buffalo, N . Y., and Eleanor Wallace
of New Jersey. We were all very proud and happy to see these girls be-
come full-fledged A O n s and feel confident that they will make the finest
kind of oarsmen f o r our Rho-boat. Virginia Funkhouser started in
with a bang, or rather a splash, by being chosen a member of Daughters
of Neptune, an organization made up of the university's star mermaids.
She was also a member of the sophomore tennis team, which made her
a member of W . A . A. Virginia attended William and Mary College
last year. We're mighty glad she changed her mind last fall and came
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is a member of W . A . A., and also of Campus Players. Josephine Hahn
at the dramatic try-outs this fall, was elected to the "Apprentices" of
Prentice Players, and took part in "The Passion Flower." Dorothy Hills
was a member of the freshman hockey team and also of W . A . A. With
the initiation of Margaret Wolf our pledges had to elect a new president.
We feel that their loss is our gain and we're very glad to have Margaret
upstairs with us.

Mrs. Perry attended our Founders' Day banquet and remained in
Evanston f o r several days afterwards. To really have one of the four
Founders present, made the banquet doubly significant. Mrs. Perry made
us realize what a debt of gratitude we owe to her and the other Found-
ers for presenting us with such a wonderful thing as Alpha Omicron Pi.
By the time she left, we all felt as i f she had always been a member of
Rho chapter. We had several others out of the A O I I hall of fame at
the banquet—Merva Hennings, Melita Skillen, Elizabeth Bond and Eliz-
abeth Hiestand Smith. We were surprised with ten pounds of candy
presented by Verceille Pilling Day and Alice O'Leary. Verceille stole
a march on us and Was Mrs. Ray Day before we received the candy.

In athletics this fall we had Bernice Anderson on the senior archery
team and Lucile Hurley and Dorothy Speirs on the senior soccer team.
Bernice is also a member of Daughters of Neptune. Carol Anger and
Evelyn Pearson were on the junior and sophomore soccer teams respec-
tively. Evelyn was manager of the sophomore team. Florence Hellstrom
was on the senior hockey team. Florence has amassed the 1.000 points
necessary for a women's " N " which she will be awarded at the next
W. A. A. spread. Volleyball, a second quarter sport, has attracted a great
many AOns. Seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen are all out at
practice. The teams have not been picked as yet, but we're all living in
hopes. Grace Languth was elected manager of the freshman team. Ber-
nice Anderson and Carol Anger are out for the rifle team.

The A On team, captained by Blanche MacGregor, came out second
in the "Purp'e Parrot" campaign, bringing us a silver cup f o r our mantel.
In the Syllabus drive, under the leadership of Mildred James we came
out first. Mildred was chosen a member of the Syllabus Board.

Katherine Hodgson, one of our journalists, was elected a member of
Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalistic sorority. Blanche MacGregor
was a member of the junior social committee and did her bit toward
making this year's Junior Prom the best ever. Hortense Reynolds was
made a member of the Judiciary Committee of W . S. G. A. W . S. G. A.
is the Women's Self-Government Association, and one of Hortense's
duties is to pass judgment on co-eds who have exceeded the 12:30 a. m.
limit. Betty Heidman. one of our last year's seniors, is taking the inten-
sive secretarial course at Moser Business Co'lege. Betty tells us that
there are so many Northwestern girls at Moser this year that it might
almost be called the "finishing school" for Northwestern.

At Christmas time we bent all our energies toward the sale of
Christmas cards. The proceeds are going, as per usual, fo our house
fund. I am not sure of the exact sum, but I believe we made something
between two and three hundred dollars.

Helen Hawk announced her engagement to Grafton Carlisle, of Evan-
stom We have not received the five pounds confirming the announcement,
but it is reported to be on the way.

We are now all looking forward to our annual dinner dance, which
is to be held this year at the Belmont Hotel, on Saturday, January 16.

DOROTHY SPEIRS.

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LAMBDA—STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Fall quarter we had eighteen active members enrolled and next quar-
ter we will be even more fortunate, having twenty-two. Four girls will
be living in the house who were not there last quarter. They are: Elea-
nor Forderer, Frances Hadenfeldt, Olga Sievers and Dorothy Quinn.

We were very fortunate in having our Grand Treasurer, Rose Gard-
ner Marx, and our District Superintendent, Daisy Shaw, with us on
November 1 when we gave our general rush tea to the new women. I n
the evening we held a faculty reception. The next night we had initia-
tion, which was followed by a banquet celebrating our chapter birthday.

Many alumnae visited us on December 2 1 , the day of the big game
with California.

Oma Retterath, ' 2 1 , announced her engagement to Mr. Charles Turtle
at a surprise dinner early last quarter.

A new Alpha O, Melissa Ellowene Evans, arrived at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. D. W . Evans in August.

Lillian Force was appointed chairman of the Student Friendship Fund
Committee for Northern California.

Delie Bancroft, a transfer from Pi chapter, is taking her Master's
degree in English.

On December 1 2 we had our Christmas party for the poor children in
Palo Alto. We have made it an annual affair and generally hold it about
a week before final examinations. We invite a child for each girl in
the house and the girls fill the children's stockings with all sorts of nice
presents. Besides we give them bags of fruit, nuts and candy. Our
Christmas tree for the party this year was very unusual. I t was a
revolving tree decorated with red, green and blue lights, which, as the
tree turned illuminated it in red, red and green, green, green and blue,
blue, and blue and red combinations. I t was one of the most successful
Christmas parties we have given and it might be added that we are the
only sorority or fraternity on the campus that gives a party of this kind.

In addition to our Christmas party we helped by filling stockings for
the Convalescent Home on the campus. This is a hospital maintained by
the university for convalescent tubercular children.

AILEEN BROWN.

TAU—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

The hilarious holidays and their attendant festivity have come and
gone all too soon, and we Tau girls have returned with reluctance to
resume the studying so joyously abandoned in December.

Posthumous memories of the last days of 1925 are pleasant in the
extreme. The party which the pledges gave us hoary actives was the
most successful one of the season, and we proudly acclaim them the
world's most charming hostesses. The house girls "threw a jolly brawl"
for the town girls—a collegiate dance, at which we appeared in swanky
but borrowed " f r a t " suits and escorted our own sorority sisters! A
Charleston contest was the main feature of the evening, and Alice Laskey
carried off the honors with Katie Haven a close second. The Twin City
girls entertained a group of poor children at an annual Christmas party;
and one exciting event in the last week of fall quarter—Betty Hostetter,
a ta'ented pledge, and I , humble Mary V., were initiated into Theta Ep-
silon Literary Society.

We've made multitudinous good resolutions, and an equal number of
ambitious plans f o r the New Year of 1926. We anticipate a hectic time
this first month with pledges to put through Probation Week, and twelve
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campus politics and is taking a prominent part in W. S. G . A . work whil
Mary Goodman is running for Secretary of the Junior Ball Associatio
We are happy to have Mugs Whitmore, in exile from Duluth and a"*
inmate once again of our chapter house, but our Elizabeth Mann h
deserted us for the balmy days of Florida and the superior allurement!
of Chicago. We announce the pledging of Claire Fulmer of Minneapolis
and of Margaret Miller of Winona.
s

MARY VIRGINIA GOODMAN.

UPSILON—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Studying has been the main diversion for the past weeks interspersed
with campus affairs and winter teas. During this fall quarter we have had
also four big "thrills" the announcing of the engagements of Florence
McMeekin to Gilbert Schwartz, of Martha Matzner to James Hull, Susan
Scofield to Nels Johanson, and Ethel McCart to Frank Jones. A n engage-
ment announced last summer was that of Betty Brattam to Jack Charles-
ton. Nearly all of these engagements came as surprises to the chapter
and furnished candy, flowers and excitement for many days.

Dorothy Numan of Ketchikan, Alaska after being away from Wash-
ington for two quarters, has returned. We are all mighty glad to have'
"Dot" with us again. We were sorry to lose Frances Dodds, this quarter
who went back to Oregon after being with us this fall.

The Freshman class is taking an active part in many campus affairs.
We have representatives in Freshman committees, Y. W. C. A . commit-
tees, A x and Grindstone (society for campus publications), Sacajawea
(debate) and in the annual "Lyre" work.

The yearly Junior Girls' Vodvil is to be produced soon. Gwendolyn
Showell, in cooperation with other writers on the campus is arranging a
skit which will try out f o r a place on the program.

MARGARET BARE.

NU KAPPA—SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Nu Kappa is delighted to report the initiation of eight girls this fall.
They are Theodora Elliott, Irene Wilson, Margaret Kizer, Alice Reynolds,
Zelia Blanche McClinton, Gracie Cocke, Doris Dowling, and Katherine
McDuffie. We now have fourteen active chapter members. We celebrated
Founders' Day by holding a special initiation service f o r Margaret Kizer,
followed by an informal tea for the active chapter, at the home of Cath-
erine Rasbury.

Two of our girls. Numa Ablowich and Zelia Blanche McClinton have
been elected to the Junior Arden Club, a dramatic society. We know that
they will do credit to A O n in that organization.

Our very trying rushing season ended just before Thanksgiving and
we are happy to say that it was most sucessful. Nu Kappa wishes to
introduce its new pledges—Mabel Hicks, Lois Moseley, Mildred Mitchell,
Melba Cannon, and Marguerite Grady. We are as proud as can be of
every one of them and we're just hoping that they'll all make a B
average so they can be initiated at the first opportunity. Soon after pledg-
ing we held open house honoring our new pledges whom we were so happy
to present.

I t is with deepest regret that we drop Irene Wilson's name from the
roll of Nu Kappa actives. Since the death of her sister a few weeks ago
she has been unable to return to the University. We deeply sympathize
with her in her sorrow and certainly wish that she could remain with us.

Katrina Overall McDonald and Rochelle Rodd Gachet are in the city
this week and Nu Kappa is more than pleased to receive them. We wish
that they could be with us more often but they are very busy attending

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meetings of the National Panhellenic Congress. However, we were able
Jo have "get-acquainted" banquet last night and we who had not had the
oleasure of meeting these wonderful sisters before were thrilled at the
opportunity. We are looking forward to another meeting within the next
f e w days.

Dorothy Tucker Wilkes is N u Kappa's new Alumnae Advisor and
we enjoy our close association with her so much. We feel that with her
wise advice, backed by the alumnae, Nu Kappa should be able to accom-
plish great things.

V N U M A ABLOWICH.

BETA PHI—INDIANA UNIVERSITY
The beginning of the new year, 1926, finds the AOII's at Indiana with
many new and welcome things with which to start the year off right.
First, we have a new pledge, Gladys Weeks, of Lafayette. She is
a sophomore and a darling girl whom we're very glad to have.
Seond, we have two brand new Phi Beta Kappa keys, belonging, one
to our president, Kathryn Bolitho, Chicago, and the other to Roselyn Beal,
Terre Haute. These new owners are trying hard to learn where and how
to wear them modestly. Kate and Roslyn were initiated into their own
fraternity on December 10th, 1925, and since that time we've been feeling
that our scholarship will be higher this semster due to their example.
T h i r d : Marjorie Ashley, although that is not now her name, added a
new AOn husband to the list on New Year's Eve. She is now Mrs.
Harold A . Owen. Marjorie and Packy were married at her home in Fort
Wayne. Capt. Owen is a tactical officer in Howe Academy at Howe, Indi-
ana, and Marjorie is going there in February.
Last but not least, there are three new fraternity pins in the house.
The first to appear was a Lambda Chi Alpha pin which is now being worn
by Katharyn Hoadley, Bloomington, a pledge. This pin was once the
property of John Ellis Fell, of Greentown. John is certainly to be con-
gratulated, but since he's a very likable fellow himself, it's mutual!
During Christmas vacation, Mary Rogers became the proud possessor
of a Phi Kappa Psi pin which was Jimmy Beck's. Both Mary and Jimmy
live in Bloomington and have known and liked each other a long, long time!
Jennv Carpenter, Sullivan, attended the Sigma N u convention at West
Baden during the holidays, and came back wearing the "white star of
Sigma Nu." Don Bowen of Lebanon, was the "bestower" and we agree
with the "bestowee" that he is a very nice one. To Kate, Mary and Jenny,
Beta Phi offers congratulations and her sincere wishes for much happiness
and joy during the coming years.
Beta Phi is taking a lively interest in athletics this year and several
girls are now on teams. Pearl Koegel and Kathryn Hoadley made fresh-
man soccer team; Kathryn Blough and Mary Elizabeth Johnson, freshman
hockev team; Vivian Ellis, sophomore hockey team; Thetis Kemp and
Catherine Lawrence, junior soccer team; and Dorothy Clarke, senior soccer
team. Dorothy Clarke also made Varsity soccer team.
Miriam Combs, a pledge from Terre Haute, and Annabel Sproull,
Bedford, are both in Glee Club this semester. Annabel was also accom-
panist for the cantata, "The Rose Maiden" which was given in Decem-
ber by the University chorus.
Thetis Kemp. Union City, is the newly elected vice-president of the
Junior class. This new "job" is added to an already long list of activities
for Thetis. She is treasurer of both W . A. A. and W . S. G. A., is a
member of Pleiades, and is on just about every committee that comes
3 ° n f ) u e to lack of response, the Rummage Sale which Roma Anderson's
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the vacation. We have, however, fixed up a big box at the house and are
all going to fix up other boxes during mid-semester vacation to send, if
any of you have anything you aren't using now and want to get it out of
the way before spring housecleaning, just box it up and send it to Mrs.
Chas. Anderson, 647 Lincoln Street, Gary, Indiana.

Beta Phi wishes to thank Esther McClellan, of Angola, for the two
lovely love-birds and the message she sent with them to Beta Phi ffo0 r
Christmas. The last year's freshman class bought a beautiful cage r
them and they are now in the patio where they keep the goldfish com-
pany! Thanks just loads, Esther!

The freshmen were "up and at i t " this Christmastime, too. They gave
the house a lovely bridge lamp, and they gave the upperclassmen one
of the loveliest and most successful Christmas parties ever given by a
freshman class for their "superiors."

W i t h such a grand end to the old year, and such a splendid beginning
for the new, we are all very optimistic for the coining semester which will
begin very soon, now; and we're hoping that Beta Phi will "crash through"
for one of the biggest and best years ever, both in achievement and in
spirit.

VIVIAN ELLIS.

ETA—WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY

As was predicted, Eta chapter has so far indicated that it is going to
have one of the most successful years it has ever had.

Quite early in the fall we had initiation for Charlotte Tegtmeyer,
Roberta Bird and Helen Patterson.

Just a few weeks ago. before Christmas, we initiated Eleanor Bek-
kedal, Margery Stangel and Grace Poole.

We sent Jimmie Hughes and Geraldine Wright, the two girls with the
highest grades to the University Scholarship banquet. Dorothy Marsh was
one of the chairman arranging this banquet.

Lucille Goedde is District Superintendent of W. S. G. A. and a mem-
ber of the Memorial Union Drive, besides being a member of Dolphin
club and of the first Junior Swimming team and the University first team.
She is also vice-president of the Spanish club.

Edith Vaughan is a member of Badger Board.
Jimmie Hughes was chairman of the Stunt committee f o r the Y. W.
C. A. bazaar. She is also chairman of the Program committee f o r the
University Junior Prom. She was also a member of Union Memorial
Drive.
Many of our girls are going to prom and several are going with
assistant prom chairman.
Two of our greatest prides are Carol De la Hunt, our president,
and Mildred Engler, our vice-president. Mildred Engler directed a play-
given by Wisconsin Players in Union Vodvil and Carol played the lead-
ing role.
Beside giving a Christmas formal we had a Christmas "Slam" party
for the actives and pledges.
Our pledges gave a pledge tea and invited two pledges from each
sorority. The whole chapter gave a tea for Mrs. Coffin, our new chaperon.
Our only wish is that we may continue as well as we have started.

JEAN JEWELL.

ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Having just come from the fraternity room and pledging I feel
just b r i m m i n g over w i t h Alpha O to-night. I t does seem very fit-
ting to begin the new year with a dear pledge, especially one like
Martha Maxey, little sister of Mary Maxey Kirk.

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A f t e r pledging we stood a long line w i t h our arms around each
knther, swaying to songs of A O n glad to be back again at school

and very glad to be Alpha Os.
There is always something t o look f o r w a r d to—just now Alpha

Phi is awaiting a visit from our Grand President, Katrina Overall
McDonald. W e enjoyed so much the visit of Laura H u r d last year
and the intimate little talks and the inspiration she left. T o all of
u s it means drawing a little nearer to the heart of Alpha O to meet
and talk to some of the women who have made and arc making our
fraternity strong and fine. Our pledges have become so excited
over Mrs. McDonald's visit that they have asked permission to give •
a party in her honor.

The winter quarter always seems to be the most interesting of
all. There are plays, entertainments, basket-ball and so many other
things. I t is always satisfying to know the Alpha Phi is well repre-
sented in many activities, T w o of our girls Alice Barbour, a sopho-
more and Marie Bower a pledge have been elected to prominent
parts in a play to be given soon.

Next week we are giving two bridge parties as a money making
scheme, one which proved more than successful last year. As all
chapters perhaps k n o w a sorority can always use any money left
over.

In all the world there are no patronesses like ours. They are so
good to us that many times we are put to shame. A t our Founders'
Day Banquet this year they presented the chapter with a beautiful
set of dishes. I t will be a glorious feeling next year not to have to
borrow dishes during rushing.

M A R Y ALICE POWERS.

NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Since our last letter. X u Omicron has won nine wonderful
pledges. They are Frances Carter of Nashville, Tcnn., an A O n daugh-
ter, whom we are proud to claim; Daisy Tucker, Lenore Kenny and
Sarah Staley, all of Nashville; Minerva Tuttlc, a little sister of Nu
Omicron; Willie D. Halscll, Georgia Ledbetter, Helen Dodd. and
Sara Sawyer. Needless t o say, they are the best freshmen in the
world. Christmas they gave us quite a delightful surprise—a new
linoleum rug for our kitchen floor.

A week after pledge day we gave an open house for our
Freshmen.

During the Vanderbilt Semi-Centennial our Grand President.
Katrina Overall McDonald, one of our own chapter charter members,
paid us a social visit. Later in the fall Josephine Pratt also visited us.

W e celebrated Founders' Day by a banquet at the house after
which we were entertained by the Freshmen who gave several
clever stunts.

Robbie Allison, '26, has been initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. We
are also quite proud of the high grades made by our Freshmen dur-
ing the last examinations.

CAROLYN W I L L I A M S .

PHI—UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

January already, with Christmas vacation over and the semester
examinations beginning next week! Phi girls have been so busy we
can scarcely realize the days have gone.

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K. U . played the annual football game with Nebraska on Oct
24. Thirteen of our girls, including four alumnae f r o m Kansas City
went to Lincoln for the game. W h i l e there they stayed at the chap-'
ter house and attended the house dance given by Zeta chapter. The
girls who made the trip are most enthusiastic about Zeta.

W e want to introduce our new pledge, Imogene Stairs, who was
pledged just before the Christmas holidays. She is in the School of
Fine Arts and is secretary of the freshman class.

Icy Purcell, our president, was forced to resign on account of
poor health and Jessie Marie Senor was elected to fill the office.
•This caused a shift in offices, Gladys Filson being elected vice-
president.

I c y told us recently that she is to graduate at the end of this
semester. We are rather resigned to the idea of losing our seniors
in the spring, but this news was a unexpected blow.

Marie Isern's father died last November and Marie went home
for this term. We are hoping to have her back again second
semester.

Edith Adams was chosen a member of the K . U . Dramatic Club
and Gladys Filson was elected exchange editor of the University Daily
Kansan.

Athletics have been claiming a great deal of our time. Three of
our girls—Gladys Filson, Gertrude Searcy and Olive Weatherby—
were on the class hockey teams. Gladys Filson was selected a mem-
ber of the rifle team, having fired the highest score shot i n the t r y -
outs. Gladys also received her Women's Athletic Association letter
and Gertrude Searcy was initiated into W . A. A. at the meeting Dec.
9. Phi now has six girls in the association.

Alpha Sigma Nu, national honorary physical education sorority,
established a chapter at K. U . this year. Elizabeth Bolinger was
chosen a charter member of the local chapter and was initiated at
the first meeting.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, we celebrated Founders' Day w i t h a banquet
at the chapter house.

This year we gave up our regular Christmas banquet and spent
the money i n entertaining 30 poor children of Lawrence. This is
the second year we have done this and it has proved so successful
that we expect to make it an annual affair.

Phi is all excited and thrilled! W e have just received the news
that Katrina Overall McDonald is to be with us some time during
the first week of second semester.

GERTRUDE S. SEARCY.

OMEGA—MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Christmas vacation is now a thing of the past, and we have come
back to school the better for it, I hope. Everybody reported a most
happy time while home and if you could see the enthusiasm and pep
of the girls I am sure you would not doubt it. A three weeks' rest
was just what most of us needed. Now, all our thoughts are cen-
tered around just one thing, and that is—semester exams. W e are
being daily reminded of this rapidly approaching evil and we can't
even enjoy a movie without putting our conscience and sense of duty
into the background f o r a little while. I suppose now is the time to
prepare, but why ruin two perfectly good weeks? W i t h these
thoughts on my mind, I find i t hard to concentrate long enough to
write this letter but I ' l l t r y to give you some idea of what we have
been doing this semester.

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Homecoming day was celebrated in the usual way, with a tea
for the alumnae after the game and a breakfast at the Butterfly Tea
Room Sunday morning. Mary Driscol, Theta chapter, now teaching
a t College Corner, Ohio, was a visitor at that time. Helen Silver
Omicron Pi, also spent a few days with us.

y u i t e a number of last year's seniors have come back for a short
visit w i t h us. Those who are too far away f r o m O x f o r d to make the
trip easily, have remembered us in other ways. I wonder why
"food" is the obsession of every college girl?

Marcella W i l s o n visited us after Thanksgiving and attended
I the S. A . E. formal while here.

O n December 8, Founders' Day, the pledges entertained the
upperclassmen with a most delightful banquet. Besides a "royal
feast," each pledge presented her sponsor with a darling silver vanity
case, the letters A O n being engraved on i t . Then, of course, just
before the holidays the chapter gave its annual Christmas party.
There was plenty of good food and presents f o r the "poor as well
as the rich."

Earlier in the year, Mrs. Spenceley, a patroness, and at present a
member of the faculty, entertained the active members with a tea.
This Sunday, Mrs. Hadsel another patroness and the wife of Miami's
Latin professor, has invited the entire chapter to a tea at her home.
We are looking forward to it with excitement. Ordinarily, Sun-
days in O x f o r d are so dull that one feels like crawling in a hole and
not appearing until 7:30 class Monday, but this promises to be a
more cheerful week-end for all of us.

I t does not seem to me too late to mention that our delegate
and president, Irene W i l t , gave a most interesting account of the
happenings at convention last summer. We enjoyed her talk thor-
oughly. I t made us feel that these people of w h o m we hear so
much, are after all real people and not merely names—that have to
be learned at examination time especially.

And now for the activities of the chapter. Virginia Cox made
Varsity Hockey. Thelma Nickel made Volley Ball Team and
Louise Murray, my dieting roommate, made the soccer team. Mildred
Engle has been elected president of Sophomore girls and is on
the Student Senate and Athletic Board. A l W h i t e is on the Junior
Prom Committee. Several of the pledges have been prominent in
athletics. Lois K i n g and Betty Greiner are captains of Freshmen
Hockey Teams. W e are now organizing sorority basket ball teams
and the freshmen are strong for it. Last but not least, we are happy
to have near us, Hester Sroute, Iota, who is a member of the faculty
of O x f o r d College f o r Women. She attends meetings occasionally
and we are all mighty glad to have her.

BERNADETTE WINTER.

OMICRON PI—UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Lots of exciting things have happened since the last time we appeared

in print.
I n the first place, we have acquired four new sisters. They are Mary

Lawton. '28, of Traverse City; Josephnc Norton, '28. of Ann Arbor;
Lucille Tittle. '28. of Clinton; and Margaret Clark, '27, of Detroit. They
are all five girls of whom Omicron Pi is justly proud.

Just before Christmas we pledged I.eone Lee, a' freshman from
Detroit.

Founders' Day was celebrated with a luncheon at the College Club in
Detroit. Helen Howard was a most efficient charman and made it a de-

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lightful affair. Mrs. Huntington spoke to us and her simple, direct message
found its way straight into our hearts and made us all resolve to be better
AOITs. Velma Leight Carter, one of our alums, also gave a very charm-
ing talk.

Next Monday night, the 11th of January, there is going to be a Pan-
hellenic banquet f o r the purpose of bringing all the sororities on campus
closer together.

just Frances Norton, one of our grave old seniors, (but loved by all ohfonu -s
the same), was recently elected to Pi Lambda Theta, a national
orary education society.

Marjorie Miller made Wyvern, honorary Junior society.
Elizabeth Cossitt, another of our Juniors and Junior Panhellenic
delegate, was on the committee f o r the Panhellenic ball.

Helen Whipple was made chairman of the Ticket committee f o r
Masques Annual Play, and stage manager besides. Helen's efficiency as
a manager is recognized outside as well as inside the chapter.

MARJORIE WEBER.

ALPHA SIGMA—UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

"In every way, we're getting better and better," even i f we do say so
ourselves. Really, though, we can feel ourselves grow, both figuratively
and literally, and we want our sisters in Alpha O to know it.

Looking over my notes I find that the material I have is just a
conglomeration of facts, but I am afraid I shall have to put them down
as they are, or this letter will be too long.

Since the last chapter letter, we have pledged six girls. Up to Christ-
mas we had pinned the golden sheaf on Roberta Douty and I^ona Hos-
tetler, of Portland: Roberta Wilcox, of Newberg; and Ethel Gasman, of
Spokane, Wash. The term that has just begun has no formal rushing, but
what there is lasts indefinitely. So far, Marguerite H i l l , of The Dalles;
and Emma Belle Woodworth, of Newberg, are wearing the Alpha O
colors.

Vivian Eiker, '28, is not able to be back this term on account of illness,
and Marylee Andrus, '27, has not yet decided whether she will stay in
school or go home for a while. Frances Dodds, '27, came back to us after
attending the University of Washington a whole term. Mary West, '27,
is living in the house this term and taking only a few hours of college
work, as she is working in the Administration office.

Lynn Jackson, our only graduate student, brought her Alpha O sister
around Portland to be introduced to the Alpha Sigma girls who live there.
Here sister is Gladys Jackson, X i , '22.

Roberta Wilcox spoke before the delegates to the High School con-
ference that meets annually in Eugene. She is also on several Y. W .
committees.

Marylee Andrus and Helen Cantine headed two committees of the
style show given before the High School conference. Vivian Eiker, Agnes
Palmer, and Mildred Vaughan were models. Helen was on the committee
of three students to meet with the faculty to arrange for the memorial
services for our late university president. Prince L. Campbell, who passed
away last fall. Marylee was on the ticket committee for Junior Shine
Day, the proceeds of which go toward Thanksgiving boxes for the Eugene
poor.

Marian Barnes is on the Women's League executive council, and on the
hostess committee for the Women's League teas that are held every
Wednesday during the school year to encourage wide acquaintanceships on
the campus. She has also been on numerous committees to collect money
for such things as the Red Cross, and the Daily Emerald circulation.

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Agnes Palmer was chosen to represent Alpha O in Thespian, freshman
honorary society, and was elected vice-president. She has also shown
great success as president of the pledges. Catherine Dorris assisted at the
y . W. and Y. M . M i x . Georgic Davidson is on the Junior class dance
committee. She has proved a big factor in the house this year as Pledge
pother to our numerous pledges.

Carol Clark is on the senior swimming team, and Ethel Gasman and
Roma Whisnant are on the freshman team. Ethel also made the freshman
volleyball team. Henriette Hansen is now a member of the Normal A r t
Club and the Allied Arts League, and is assisting in the art department.
Jane Dudley is on the staff of the Daily Emerald, and she and Dorothy
Phillips are doing copyreading on the paper. Ruth Hansen is trying out
for the staff.

We were all very much excited when Anita Kellogg and Vernita
Saunders "made" Sculpture Club, and from what we hear, it came as a
complete surprise to them.

There are several engagements that I would like to divulge but since
the girls (yes, there are several), won't eat their apple pie under the
table at dinner, simply because they "haven't announced it yet," it would
be a shame to be too previous. However, this isn't a secret: Helen Can-
tine was bridesmaid for Dorothy Cash, '24, when she was married in Decem-
ber to Leo Munly, a Kappa Sig.

JANE DUDLEY.

XI—UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Christmas is a thing of the past now, and we are all back and prepar-
ing f o r those dreaded exams which are drawing painfully near.
X i has had as many pleasant and interesting things happen that in
order to omit none, I will put them down in chronological order.
We celebrated our Founders' Day with a delightful and well-attended
banquet here at the chapter house. Our house was decorated with holly
sent us by Paula Tooke one of our sisters in Louisiana. Holly is a
rareity in Oklahoma.
We had a Christmas Bazaar and Rummage sale in Oklahoma City.
The proceeds will go to the building fund for our new house.
Our pledges entertained us with a delightful Christmas party on De-
ember 16. Each girl received an appropriate g i f t some of which were very
funny indeed. Many lovely gifts were received for the house.
Lucille Robberson, rush captain, is planning a big rush. We have
a number of good girls signed up. Annabet, Lucilles' sister, has a new
blue studebake»- coach which she will have "on deck."
Four of our girls are not going to be in school next semester. Irene
Baird is going to be in school in Philadelphia. Tola June Harrison is
planning to go East, probably New York, to continue her study in violin.
Annabet Robberson says that she is not going to be in school next semes-
ter. W e wonder why? ! ? — She is sporting a good looking diamond.
Edna Mae Brooks is going to be married to Murl H i l l , in February. They
are going to live in Tulsa. We notice that Irene Baird is wearing a Delta
Chi pin since Frederick La Mar came down to see her from Chicago.
Annabet and Lucille Robberson made Kappa Delta Pi honorary educational
fraternity. We are very proud of these girls as it takes an A average
to make this fraternity. Tola June Harrison broadcasted over Radio Sta-
tion W N A D . Voice of Soonerland. the other dav (did you hear her?)
Genevieve Bacon is a member of the cast. "39 East." a p'ay soon to be
presented by the Blue Curtain Club. Algene Chiles has been made a
member of "Entre Nous" and will appear on the programme next time.
Man,- Beth Davies made Blue Curtain Club, honorary dramatic club.

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We are happy to tell you that we have four new pledges, Pearl Eady
Frederick, Okla., Florence McAllaster, Colgate, Okla., Elizabeth Elgin'
Tulsa, Okla., and Beatrice Cox, Shawnee, Okla.

By the way we were very much surprised last night when Norma Pen-
delton of Nu Kappa breezed in, a bride of thirty minutes. The lucky
man is Francis Light, Kappa Sigma.

GENEVIEVE BACON.

PI DELTA—UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
So many important and exciting things have happened since our last
letter that it is difficult to write of all of them.
In the first place, on October 18 we had "open house" and were
proud to have as our first guest the president of the University, Dr. Woods.
This being the only sorority house on the campus it was the first "open
house" of its kind given here.
On October 25 we celebrated the first anniversary of the installation
of DIA chapter with a birthday party. Each girl brought a present for the
house and the Washington alumnae chapter gave us four dozen of the
finest linen luncheon napkins. Now we can give regular tea-parties with
all our new gifts.
I n November we were quite honored to have two of our national offi-
cers visit us. Josephine Pratt and Rochelle Gachet came at a most oppor-
tune time and gave us some very good advice on rushing and forming of
a Panhellenic Council here at Maryland.
On Founders' Day, instead of having a banquet as had been planned
we just put our money into a fund for Christmas baskets f o r the poor.
Nevertheless, we spent the evening gathered around the piano singing our
fraternity songs.
W e feel that we had a most successful and interesting rushing season.
We were limited to three rush parties, so we gave a gypsy cabaret party
at which we gave "Esmeralda" a gypsy production originated at convention.
Next we gave a dance in Washington and we heard it said that it was
the best dance ever given by co-eds at Maryland. Our last rush party
was a supper at which Amelia Shoemaker, our district superintendent and
Marjorie MacCarthy, president of the Washington Alumnae chapter spoke
for us. But December 15 was our big day f o r on that day we pledged
thrteen wonderful girls. Our dear pledges are Mary Anderson, Ruth
Barnard, Alice Bonnet, Mildred Bonnet, Esther Burgess. Dorothy Finch,
Olyure Hammack, Phyllis Harbaugh, Mildred Hislop, Anita Peters, Betty
Phillips, Margaret Temple and Hazel Tenney.
Our pledges started their social life early by giving a tea to all other
sorority girls and their pledges, two days after pledge day. W e are now
planning to give our pledges a tea-dance to show them how much we ap-
preciated their lovely Christmas g i f t , a chest of silver.
During the holidays Grace Laleger entertained the sorority at luncheon
and cards. We had the usual good time that we have at Grace's home.
Now that the holidays are over and exams are coming we are all
going to spend the rest of the month "on the books."

ELIZABETH J. TAYLOR.

T A U DELTA—BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE

We are glad to announce a new member, Ruth H i l l Carr, a sophomore.
She, with Harriet Cottingham and Helen Hasty, an alumna, had the distinct
honor of being initiated by the Grand President on her recent visit here.

We enjoyed Mrs. McDonald's visit very much. She was kind enough to
us a beautiful picture of her two children. We have also had the privilege

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0 f knowing personally two other grand officers. Josephine Pratt, while
visiting the alumnae here came out to see us and told us of the philanthropic
work the fraternity is undertaking. She also told us very interestingly of
the history of the fraternity. Rochelle Gachet is living here in Birmingham
da n we met her at our recent auction sale and later at our Founders' Day
informal tea.

W e had some profitable fun at our auction sale at Alice Weed's home
recently. Miss Gachet, Mrs. Baskerville, one of our patronesses, Mrs.
Dudley, of Theta chapter, a newcomer to Birmingham, and several of the
alumnae were there. Betty Bethea, of Pi, made a fine auctioneer.

Helen Crain entertained the chapter at her home at a bridge party
during Xmas week. Helen has made this an annual affair and we always
enjoy it.

The "Who's Who" election of the campus was held recently and Helen
Crain was elected the best all-around co-ed and had third place in the most
popular girl election. Lois Greene was elected to second place as the most
popular girl.

Lois Greene, Helen Crain, Mary Frances Sowell, Elizabeth Logan and
Marion Ormond were nominated recently f o r the beauty contest which was
judged by Cecil B. de Mille. The results have not been published yet.

Alice Weed was elected secretary of the Sophomore class.
Rebecca Cousins, Virginia Pegwes and Mildred Mullins were initiated
recently info Chi Delta Phi honorary fraternity. The latter also was ini-
tiated into Pi Gamma M u honorary fraternity.
Ruth H i l l Carr is still receiving compliments on her acting as a leading
character in the play which the Dramatic club put on about a month ago.
Ruth H i l l Carr and Janie H i l l were delegates to the Memphis conven-
tion of Methodist Young People just after Christmas.
The Rats have finally revealed to us what they are going to give us.
They are entertaining us at a treasure hunt the 13th of January.
We are giving a rushing tea the 15th of January, also a bridge and a
theater party. Our banquet for the initiates comes about the 10th of Feb-
ruary.

MILDRED MULLINS.

KAPPA THETA—UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Kappa Theta chapter completed a most successful fall rush season with
a smartly appointed banquet on the thirty-first of October, and the f o l -
lowing Monday evening pledged twelve charming and effervescent co-eds
to the organization. Beatrice McDonald, Maxine Webb, Cornelia Christ-
mas, Elizabeth McWilliams, Frances Fuller, Mary Elizabeth Maybery,
Dorothy Battey, Margaret White. Grace Summerbel, Zelda Lafea, and two
Alpha Omicron Pi sisters. Josephine Pelletier's sister Corinne and Gloria
King's sister Florence, took the vows. Following the ceremony a midnight
supper was enjoyed at Marchetti's in Hollywood.

Several weeks later an attractive tea presented these young women to
the faculty and to the fraternal represenatatives.

Pledges entertained active members recently with a formal in the
Hollywood home of Mary Elizabeth Maybery. Several attractive features
of the evening were the presentation of an Alpha Omicron Pi engraved
loving cup by Miss Kathleen Key of film celebrity and a group of pro-
fessional dance and song numbers. M r . and Mrs. Rupert Julian and M r .
and Mrs. Adolph Menjou added their pleasing personalities to the eve-
ning's enjoyment.

Christmas seemed to come only too soon. The excitement of rushing
had not died down before an avalanche of Yuletide festivities and philan-
thropic affairs swooped down on the busy little group. Kappa Theta
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in the Sautelle Home and made an impoverished family realize that there
really was a Santa after all by giving them a Christmas dinner with all
its appropriate goodies, besides many gifts, clothes, and needed pieces of
furniture.

Previous to the holidays the girls had their usual Christmas party.
Invitation was also extended the chapter's own alumnae as well as the Los"
Angeles Alumnae. The surprise of the evening, at least to Muriel Mc-
Kinney, was the presentation of a lovely mahogany screen in appreciation
for the splendid assistance and cooperation which she has rendered in
the interests of the Los Angeles group. The chapter came in for its
share of gifts too; linen, silver, and a pretty cabinet victrola were a few
of the presents received.

As the names of the graduating members were not mentioned in my
last letter, rather than omit them altogether 1 shall take the liberty to
include them in the list of those who are to receive degrees in January.
These girls are Margaret Schlinkman, Mary Pfahler, Martha Miller, Helen
Shield. Martha Shaffer, Amber Young, Violet Amberson, Doris Cannon,
and Florence CJendennen. A number of the girls have already launched on
their teaching careers; Amber Young is teaching in San Diego and Mary
Pfahler, Martha Shaffer, and Martha Miller in the city. Lorna Orr,
Florence Swancutt, and Louise Allen did not return to the University in
the fall, and neither did Jane Lewis who surprised everyone by announcing
her marriage to Everett Stowell in the month of October.

Many club memberships, offices, and similar honors have made their
appearance with the new year. Dorothy Graham, president, has been ap-
pointed secretary to the Choral Club, Mary Elizabeth Maybery has been
selected f o r membership in the Women's Athletic Association, Corinne
Pelletier joined Bema and the Grissly staff, Jane Keenan became an officer
in the Athletic Association and has been cast as the lead in the Spring
Pageant to be presented by the Physical Education Department, Eleanore
Corwin has captivated new laurels with her terpsichorean talents, both in
the University assemblies and in the City Clubs, and the humble writer of
this letter has invaded the newspaper realm as a dramatic critic for the
Los Angeles Times.

Important collegiate affairs are the Military and Panhellenic balls
given recently in the Ambassador Hotel and Interfraternity dance to be
given at the Biltmore Hotel January twenty-sixth.

Interest is waxing exciting over the near visit of Katrina McDonald
who is to arrive in the city the thirteenth of January and spend a few
days at the Kappa Theta chapter house. Extensive plans are being
formulated for the pleasure of the honored guest, one of which will be a
charmingly appointed tea, given the fourteenth, at which the faculty and
fraternity presidents will be introduced to Mrs. McDonald.

FREEDA L ' A L L E M A N D .

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ALUMNAE CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK
Arleta Kirlin's studio apartment was the setting for our Hallowe'en
bridge party. Despite the fact that the day was rainy we had seven tables
and cleared nineteen dollars. The usual cider and wonderful homemade
doughnuts were served. The prizes were also suggestive of Hallowe'en.
As an added attraction. La Rue Crosson, very gypsylike in a gorgeous
red shawl told our past and future. We all agreed that she was a most
optimistic fortune teller. Stella George Stern Perry made her first appear-
since her automobile accident this summer. We are glad, too, to welcome
Wilkie Hughes of Beta Phi, the holder of the A O n graduate fellowship,
who is -studying Public Health Nursing at Teachers' College, Co'umbia
University this winter. Another newcomer was Barbara Porter of Iota,
who is attending a secretarial school in New York.
Our November meeting took the form of a "cosey" at Katherine Mac-
Intyre's. Much time was given to the discussion of plans for the Founders'
Day Banquet, which was held at the Hotel Martinique on the evening of
December 8. Since Gladys Terry is sending an account of the evening to
To D R A G M A . I will only pause to say that it was our biggest and most
enthusiastic banquet, not even excepting the first one.
Although the day after Christmas is not an easy time always to get
people together, a goodly number of alumnae and many of the active N u
girls met in Nu Chapter Room, 69 Washington Place f o r our December
meeting. A small group met at the Forty Two F i f t h Avenue Tearoom
for lunch before hand. We were all delighted to know that the Pan-
hellenic Ball held at the Hotel Plaza early in December had cleared
$2000.00. Plans were discussed for the Panhellenic Theatre Benefit. "The
Princess Flavia" to be held January 26th. We were glad to hear letters
read from Germaine, our French orphan, to whose support the chapter has"
been contributing since 1918. W i t h the money we had sent for her Christ-
mas pre=ent. Mile. Blanchard, Zilpah Wilde's Paris friend, had been able
to buy f o r her, material for a dress, a little f u r neckpiece, and an apron
which will also do for a dress, A t the close of the formal meeting Mrs.
Perry gave a delightful account of the Founders' Day Banquet, which she
attended in Chicago, and told us something of Rho's special customs and
traditions and of her visit to Omicron Pi chanter at Ann Arbor. The
program committee served a delicious tea. with Helen Ranlett of N u
alumnae pouring, and the active N u girls entertained us with music from
the'r "ukes" and songs.
The chanter has been working hard in the sale of Giristmas cards
and s'lk stock'ners and hones to beerin more actively the selling of the
attractive silk lingerie, which the Philanthropic Committee, under Daisy
Gam* rhainnanship is sponsoring.
We are look'ner forward in Fehruarv to the Panhellenic hincheon and
in M^rrh to the Panhellenic card part v. Tf any of you exoect to be in New
York during that time or on any fourth Saturday, do look us up!

SXLOME SCHWERTLEY BRATTON.

SAN FRANCISIO
There was no November meeting as the annual rummage sale was held
on the meeting date. The sale was held in a downtown store which we
rented for three days. The girls worked wonderfully well and we netted
a substantial fund for philanthropic work. Through this letter we wish to
thank all alumnae who sent articles to Berkeley for the sale.

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The December meeting was held at the house. The rummage sale re>
port was made and also the report of the sale of Christmas cards. This sale
was most loyally carried on entirely by Kate Foster and through her
efforts a substantial sum was added to our fund.

We were so happy to be able to vote funds for several splendid put-
poses. The first was f o r our National Philanthropic Fund. Then we
appropriated money to buy a brace for a little crippled boy at a nearby
sanitarium. Money was also voted for the Christmas dinner which we
each year give to a poor family. This year i t was greatly needed by a
family of eleven, the parents and nine children. A tree, ornaments, gro-
ceries, a barrel of toys and clothing were supplied. And lastly we especially
pleased that we are now able to assist some member of our chapter in
obtaining her college education. We hope continually to increase our
scholarship fund. Let me say to all Sigma alumnae that i f you are inter-
ested in this work any donations to this fund, large or small, will be
appreciated.

It was decided to hold the meeting for the next six months at the
homes of the members instead of the chapter house.

HARRIET FISH BACKUS.

PROVIDENCE

There is an expression in newspaper parlance which fits our case so
perfectly. I t is one of the tricks of the trade where one is paid three
cents a line (or was twenty-five years ago). I t is a trick, too, in theme-
writing, where one has a few facts which might be stretched to three hun-
dred words is properly treated. And now you know to what expression
we refer—"padding." When a chapter has done nothing, and the editor has
to write about its activities, what should said editor do in such a case?

Providence Alumnae Chapter met with Louella Darling on the tenth of
October, with very few members present and no business transacted. Our
November date fell on that of an important foot-ball contest in Brown's
new stadium, and as most of our active alumnae members felt they must
attend the game the chapter meeting was omitted. I n December our
President, Muriel Wyman, entertaind three members at her house.

This is a decidedly off winter f o r Providence Alumnae. Merle Potter
and Ethel Willis are too busy with their babies to attend our chapter
meetings, and various members have been i l l themselves, or detained by
the illness of members of their families. We're hoping for more activity
in the spring. Our Januarv meeting is to be held on Saturday with Helen
Rose.

M A U D E E. C. CORELL.

BOSTON

Our October meeting at Polly Lambert's was as usual most successful.
We had about twenty-seven girls there and several nice letters from some
who were unable to come. That was the day we voted on the petition of
Kappa Omicron. Polly's daughters helped Gladys Harrington who was
chairman of the committee.

Next several of us helped with rushing by making pies, cakes, candy,
and helping with the big dinner. The actives were so enthusiastic'about
preferential bidding although it was the first attempt and the results were
most encouraging, thirteen girls.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we journeyed down to Madeline Per-
wins's in Swampscott. I rightly say journeyed for it is some distance i f you
live in S. Easton like Doris Morse or some equally remote district but it was
well worth the good time. Very informally we celebrated Founders' Day.
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> cess- Letters were written to representatives of different chapters, in
e ,nost cases friends of the president asking them to give a very brief account
0 f the beginnings of her chapter. I n addition we tried to get representatives
from as many chapters as possible. Twelve letters f r o m as many chapters
and three living representatives responded to roll call while from two
B i e r chapters came indirect messages. We were sorry that several from
other chapters who are living in Boston could not be present. We were
especially happy to have Helen Rose from Providence come f r o m Beta
chapter. She told us about Brown and their present alumnae association.
And Polly told us most interestingly of the early days of our own chap-
Eter. Again let me say thank you to all who wrote or wired me for the
day. I wish I might reply personally to each one.
The day after Christmas was our regular meeting but it was an inop-
portune time to get very many together. We had a buffet supper at the
Massachusetts Woman's Republican Club. The private dining room is
done in red and the red candles lent themselves very appropriately to the
occasion. We are always glad to have Alice Rich Wakefield at this
meeting. A f t e r the supper we talked informally in the drawing room and
then walked across the Common which was so lovely in its Christmas garfo
and its suggestion of Old Boston.

We have received the announcement of the arrival of Stanley Dawson
Shores, Jr. to Dorothy Church Shores, Rho. Although we haven't met Mrs.
Shores yet she has promised to come out to a meeting. Her address is
416 Commercial St., East Braintree. Wista Ogle has been coming to all
our meetings and we enjoy her so much. June Kelly is still living in Nor-
wood but has been unable to get to a meeting yet this year.

We are looking forward to our next meeting with Margaret Durkee
Angell and we are always ready to learn of newcomers.

ALICE J. SPEAR.

LOS ANGELES

The past few months have been busy ones for the members of the Los
Angeles Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi. We are so delighted to
be able to act as big sisters to "our own" active Kappa Theta chapter. I n
September, we gave a formal tea to introduce them. The party was held in
the gardens of the new Women's Athletic Club, a delightful setting, and
all the girls, guests of honor and hostesses, too, looked just charming.

Our October meeting was held in Sheda Klein's lovely home in Brent-
wood. I t was an informal, chatty sort of a meeting, the kind we all
like, the main topic for discussion being Kappa Theta's rushing season.
Several of the alumnae sisters were able to help them this year by letting
them use their' homes and machines for their parties. Kappa Theta had
a very successful rushing season and pledged eleven lovely girls whom
they presented to the campus at a formal tea, given on the first of Decem-
ber. Some of the alumnae were asked to receive and pour and those of
us who were there thought their party a great success.

We had a lovely big meeting on the fifth of December at the Women's
Athletic Club. Several of the girls were hostesses. There were over
forty sisters present and many chapters were represented. Rose Gardner
Marx was the guest of honor, and we all enjoyed having her with us and
having her speak. We had a program to celebrate Founders' Day; then
we had the regular business meeting. We were delighted to learn that our
orders for Christmas cards had given the Scholarship fund about ninety dol-
lars. And although there was no devnite report from the sale of stationery
and magazine subscriptions, those sources will bring some more money f o r
the National Scholarship fund. We decided to give some linen to Kappa
Theta Chapter for a Christmas present and to make up and deliver
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all enthused and acquired almost fifteen dollars for the basket. A lovely
bowl of red roses which graced the table at the luncheon was sent with
our love to Lucilc Curtis English. She has a new little son, Williarn
Walter, born on the twenty-seventh of October. Emma Black Kevv also
has a little baby boy, Kenneth William, born on the twenty-second of
November.

We have many things planned for the months ahead; the regular
meeting in January, a benefit bridge party on the last Saturday in Febru-
ary, the rummage sale in March, regular meeting and election of officers
in April and the banquet in May. We all just love the meetings of the
Los Angeles Alumnae chapter. The girls form such a representative yet
harmonious group.

MARION BLACK WAGNER.

LINCOLN
Now that the holidays are over and we have all settled down to work
again our interests are turned to our new house. I was not going to men-
tion money or house in this letter but anyway we will have a new house
for the active girls to move into by next fall.
While we have our regular meetings once a mnoth we do not often meet
with our atcive chapter so that our birthday party on Founders/ Day
brought out a large number. We met at the chapter house f o r dinner and
had a nice evening of toasts and music. Each girl brought with her as
many pennies as she wanted to but absolutely had to bring one for each
birthday she had celebrated. As every one wanted to keep her real age
a secret almost every one brought a one dollar bill and in this way we
were able to swell a fund that I cannot mention at all in this letter.
A number of girls that are married and have moved away f r o m Lincoln
and also ones that are teaching in other towns this year were back here for
the holidays and we all enjoyed talking over the many things that have
happened in their abscences. Darleen Woodward who has been spending
the early winter months in Los Angeles attending the Schouinard School
of A r t is now at home for the rest of the school year. Her sister Dorothy
who is now Mrs. Hawley Barnard of Jackson. Michigan, spent the last
few weeks with her family here in Lincoln. Other holiday visitors here
were Mrs. Vincent Grady (Grace Gannon) of Minneapolis, Mrs. Joseph
Wishart (Lorene Bratt) of Deadwood, South Dakota, and Mrs. Allan
Wilson (Vero Erwin) from Kansas City. Missouri.

ELSIE FITZGERALD.

CHICAGO
The November meeting of the Chicago Alumnae chapter was held
at the home of Frances Urwan. After fraternity supper seven girls were
initiated—Mary Drummond. Alpha Phi. Sally Cavanaugh, Eta, Dorothy
Dickinson. Iota, Elizabeth Heidman. Rho. Dorothy Pearson, Rho, Louise
Lowry. Rho. and Eunice Marthens Gemmill. Rho.
It was our good fortune to have with us for our Founders' Day Ban-
quet, which was held at the Parkway Hotel on December 10. Stella Stern
Perry. There were representatives of twelve chapters present to gather
inspiration from Mrs. Perry's beautiful expressions of Alpha Omicon Pi
ideals.
Several teas were given in Mrs. Perry's honor: one by the Alumnae
Chapter at the home of our president, Marion Allele: one by the Active
Chanter at Charlotte Collins'; and another at the home of Marearet
Snook to introduce Mrs. Perry to our mothers. We hope that Mrs. Perry
enioved her visit with us as much as we did.
Practicallv all of our efforts at the present time are being directed
toward the accumulation of funds f o r our house.

EDITH M. BROWN.

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INDIANAPOLIS

The first monthly meeting of the year was held on Saturday after-
noon, September the 10th, at the home of Cleo Wood. The meeting was
opened with a short ritual service, followed by a business meeting. Ger-
trude Mauley was appointed general chairman of the committee on ar-
rangements for the State Luncheon and Dance to be held in February.
Fifty dollars was voted f o r national work. A new amendment was made
which read as follows: "Any girl, living in Indiana, not within the bound-
ary of another Alumnae Chapter, is eligible to membership in the Indian-
apolis Alumnae Association. Leola Scales was pleasantly surprised with
a handkerchief shower. Leola has since then left Indianapolis to join her
husband in Florida.

The October meeting was held at the home of Vivian Smith. Arrange-
ments for Founders' Day Luncheon were discussed and Geraldine Kindig
was elected chairman of the program committee. February 15th was de-
cided upon as the date for the State Luncheon and Dance to be held in
the Travertine Room of the Hotel Lincoln.

A Hallowe'en Party was enjoyed very much by several couples on the
night of October 31st at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wood. Contest
and games furnished entertainment for the evening and refreshments of
small pumpkin pies, covered with whipped cream, and coffee were served.

Our November meeting met with Gertrude Manley. A f t e r a short
business session, with a report about the music for the State Dance and
a report on arrangements for Founders' Day Luncheon, refreshments were
served to about twenty-four.

Founders' Day Luncheon was held December 5th in a private dining
room at the Columbia Club. The tables were beautifully decorated with
red roses. A very interesting ta'k on "Personel Impressions of Our
Founders" was given by Mildred MacDonald.

The girls sold Christmas Greetings again this year and realized about
seventy dollars profit. This was more than was made from our sale last
year.

On November 7th, a daughter. Margaret Helen, was born to M r . and
Mrs. John H . Waldo (Elsie Noel).

SUSAN SMITH ALLEN.

NEW ORLEANS

Our November meeting was held in the home of Mrs. Harold
Moise on Audubon St. W e were delighted to have with us some
members whom we do not often see. Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. M c L c l l a n
and Mrs. Eustis. Also we were glad to welcome back our president,
Margaret Lyon Pedrick, f r o m her honeymoon. She announced that
Miss Josephine Pratt was expected in New Orleans accompanied
by Mrs. McDonald and possibly Mrs. Marshall. Plans were made
for their entertainment and for someone to take them through the
Helen Grevenburg Memorial Clinic and the Lucy Renaud Clinic.
I t was decided that, as the active chapter was planning to give a
rummage sale and wanted to give some of the proceeds to the
Lucy Renaud Fund, we should cooperate with them in their sale
instead of giving one ourselves. This was done later in the month.

Miss Pratt and Mrs. McDonald came over and spent a day
w i t h us late in November. I n the mornine Margaret L y o n Pedrick
showed them the two clinics, they had lunch with the actives at
Newcomb, and in the afternoon Mrs. Sinclair entertained the alum-
nae and actives at a lovely tea in their honor. Miss Pratt gave us
a short talk on alumnae work which was both interesting and
instructive.

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Our December meeting, which should have been held on the'
first Wednesday, was postponed until the following Tuesday, so
it would fall on Dec. 8th. Mrs. Stanhope King was hostess. We
were delighted to have with us a visitor from the Cleveland, O.
chapter—Lucile Dvorak. Plans were made for the sending out of
a general news letter to all graduates of I I chapter not affiliated
with an alumnae chapter, making use of the letter to ask for a
small donation to the Lucy Renaud Fund. This was tried last
year with considerable success. I t was announced that the actives
had made $50.00 on the rummage sale and that they had given the
Fund $20.00. This enabled us to pay off our final indebtedness to
the Child Welfare Association and the Lucy Renaud Clinic will be
formally dedicated soon.

Our January meeting was pushed up a little and held the Mon-
day after Christmas in order to give AOIIs home for the holidays a
chance to see each other. It was held at Louise Church's and there
was an unusual attendance. The actives had been invited, too, and
most of them who live in New Orleans were present. Miss Sarah
Bres and Miss Clara Hall were there, also Rochelle Gachet and
Mrs. Turner (Evelyn Piggott) and Gladys Anne Renshaw, who
has finished her course at Chicago and is back here to teach the rest
of the year at Newcomb. Betty Bethea and Georgia Morrison, who
were here on a visit were enthusiastically wejcomed.

. But—I'm almost forgetting my few little items of real news.
Edith Bradley and Hooper Carter were quietly married on Dec. 21.
They have bought a lovely little home in Hillary St. Anna McLel-
lan Kastler has a daughter (name not vet announced), and Gertrude
Woodward Middleton, a daughter, Elizabeth Adele. The future
Alpha Os and their mothers are all doing finely. Cecelia Slack and
Stockton Estes were married in Alexandria. La.. Dec. 21, and we
regret to say they have gone to live in Mexico City.

LOUISE CHURCH.

MINNEAPOLIS

As I write this letter the Yuletide bills are pouring in, and as
you read this you will probably be worrying about vour Easter out-
fits.

Yes. the bills are coming in—and as they do I wish that I had
done A L L my Christmas shopping at the Bazaar. Yes, girls; we
had a "scrumptious" bazaar this year. I t was at the Curtis Hotel as
usual, on November 7. The few articles that remained were auc-
tioned off at the last alumnae meeting which was held in the center
of Tautown at Myrtle Abrahamson's home on Dupont. The old
Gopher pep was evident. Everybody was "brimful" of ideas—ideas
that will be fact before long if Myrtle and Irene Fraser, '23, have
anything to say.

We hope to have a Mothers' Tea during February. This affair
is for mothers of members, not members who are mothers.

We are getting more businesslike every day. Like the Business
Leagues, we are to hold weekly luncheons for alums who are em-
ployed down town and all the others who can manage to desert their
household duties and attend.

Plans are also under way for a rummage sale, which will take
place in the early fall.

The Founders' Day banquet this year was perfectly wonderful.
Again we were at the New Nicollet Hotel. Inez Downing Jayne.
Iota, made a very charming toastmistress. She likened Alpha O

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to a modern high powered motor advancing along the broad high-
way of national endeavor. The first toast was given by Edith
Goldsworthy, '15, who likened the Founders to the headlights. Then
Myrtle Abrahamson, '21 toasted the alums, as the chassis. The car
Wsoans, completed by the installation of the engine, by Winifred Elli-
'27. This engine must be a triple ten as it is surely ACTIVE.
As the Founders' headlights point the way, the pledges' gas enables
the motor to arrive at its destination. The gas was not John D.'s,
but a private grade of Margaret King's.
Forsaking her beloved Times Square and old Commons, Joanna
Colcord, '06, Gamma, told how she felt that at last she had found
the fountain of youth in Tau and Minneapolis alumnae. We think
she must have originally come from the Blarney Stone, for she
needed "no elixir of youth—she radiated it to all the girls fortunate
enough to have heard her.
After the pledges gave their "stunt"—a Spanish dance—the bal-
ance of the evening was given over to informal get-to-gether. It
gladdened the heart of ye old tyme correspondent to see that so
many of the sixty-two present were the older girls.
Since the powers that be have caused the meeting date to be
changed to the second Tuesday of the month in place of the first, we
haven't quite as much news as we might have had.
ALICE BUCKLEY GOODWIN.

BANGOR

I'm so sorry that there was no letter from Gamma in the last
To Dragma, owing to a misunderstanding in October. We held a
public bridge at Estelle Beaupres. There were ten tables and we
realized about twenty dollars. "Kay" Stewart, "Perky" Knowlton
and "Johnny" Ramsay were an efficient committee in charge.
Our November meeting was held at Marion Jordan's in Old-
town. We always enjoy our meetings there, Marion is such a won-
derful hostess.
The Founders' Day party was a huge success, in the form of a
dinner and bridge, for the Active and Alumnae chapters, at the
Penobscot Country Club. The committee in charge, Doris and Ruth
Savage and Marion Day, certainly ought to be given a vote of thanks
for carrying out, so perfectly, every detail. The eight tables were
set on the long sun porch, each table having two red tapers, these
were the only illumination. In the center of each table were scat-
tered our lovely red roses; it was perfect. Can't you just imagine
how we all loved it. After a delicious dinner we went into the card-
room and played bridge. The Active girls are so clever and attrac-
tive. I wish Ave might have more parties to which they could come.
The December meeting was at Estelle's house. The many alum-
nae, home for the holidays, were a regular Christmas present. Helen
Wooster Cleaves came in, just to say "hello," but had to leave almpst
immediately; she is going back to New York and how we are going
to miss her. She is certainly the veritable "live wire." We were
also glad to welcome Irene Cousins at this meeting, she is such a
stranger; "do come all the time Irene." "Betty" Bright visited us,
and she is all her name implies and more. Helena De^by and Lilla
and Rowene Hersey were there too. After the business meeting we
had luscious refreshments and just visited with each other.
We will all be looking forward to our next meeting, when we
go to Ruth Jordan's in Oldtown. One of the girls just expressed my
sentiments, or rather all our sentiments, the other day. She said:
"Aren't you glad that you are an AOn." CORRINE FURBUSH.

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PORTLAND

Now that the holidays are over we can settle down and do some
things that we thought about in the fall.

The date for our much delayed rummage sale has been set for
January 12 and 13, at which time we expect to increase our funds
We have all been setting aside our rummage material for the past
several months, so with good salesmanship we should make it a
huge success.

The November and December meetings have been most enjoy-
able. There were about sixteen in attendance at both meetings
We met with Carolyn Paige for the November meeting, Marion
Joneck assisting. Marion has since left us and we miss her very
much. Evelyn Norton Cornish left last month for California, we
hope only for a short stay, for we miss her and need her.

In December we were entertained by Margaret Roberts in her
attractive home. Several of the girls were busy working on attrac-
tive Christmas gifts. Mabel Hilstrom Walsh was making a gor-
geous Spanish shawl. Our Alpha Sigma girls gave a luncheon at
the Sovereign Hotel in the form of a rushing party during the
holidays. Word has just reached us of the marriage of Dorothy
Cash and her honeymoon trip through California.

Lois Callahan has a lovely little daughter, a few weeks old.
Several of our girls are enjoying ice skating this winter. Kath-
leen Heywood especially has become clever at it. It is surely delight-
ful exercise.

ORIEL CAMPBELL.

SEATTLE

We are busy planning our motion picture benefit for the bed
maintained at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, which will be
held on February 8 at the Egyptian Theatre, a new picture house
opened in the university district. The chapter will present a feature
film and a fashion show. The affair was originally planned for
January 11, but was postponed because of illness in the chapter and
because the time was not favorable for the arrangement of a fashion
show. The chapter hopes to clear most 'or all of the money needed
for the support of the bed in the year beginning October, 1926.
Eugenia Garrett Page is chairman of the committee in charge.

With the alumnae in charge, Seattle and Upsilon chapters cele-
brated Founders' Day together at the Women's University Club with
a formal banquet. Laura Hurd, one of the founders of Upsilon, was
toastmistress and in her talks gave a personal sketch of the four
Founders of Alpha Omicron Pi. Ruth Lusby made the presentation
talk of the McDonald-Skillen scholarship cup, presented by Laura
Hurd to Upsilon to be held by the junior girl making the highest
standiug for three years. Susan Scofield, last year's president of
Upsilon, was awarded the cup for the first time. Louise Benton
Oliver spoke for the trustees of Upsilon Inc., Edith Chapman Kor-
res talked for the alumnae and Myrtis White for the active chapter.
The chapters were pleased by the announcement at the banquet of
the news that the convention will be here.

Seattle alumnae will issue the quarterly news letter just before
the Orthopedic benefit, to help stimulate interest.

Alice Campbell, who has been on the staff of the Hollywood
(Calif.) Cifiacn, has returned to Seattle again and has been enthus-
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worker. Alice expects to take an advertising position in Seattle

5 ° ° Violet Krohn Burlingham was a visitor in Seattle during the holi-

.^a> irma McCormick Crook and her husband are happy over the
arrival of a son, John Charles, the latter part of November.
Minnie Kraus is expected home again shortly after a trip down
the Mississippi to New Orleans, thence to Florida, the West Indies,
through the Panama Canal to California. ' Minnie struck Miami
just at the time of the big rain, so passed on hastily to Cuba. She
enjoved New Year's Day at sea. _
Anita Pettibone, '15 (Mrs. Robert Schnebly) was a visitor in
Seattle during the book fair of Frederick and Nelson, as a guest
author. She was honor guest at one of the afternoon receptions at
the lair, and autographed copies of her book, "The Bitter Country,"-'
for patrons. After the reception she attended the home coming din-
ner at the chapter house, an annual affair at the university. Anita
is living in Spokane. She is just completing a second novel.

BERYL D. KNEEN.

KNOXVTLLE

The November meeting of the chapter was held with Omicron
in the fraternity rooms at the university, Elizabeth Kennedy Seale
presiding as the successor of Vivian Seymour. Josephine Pratt gave
us a most interesting talk on national work, with suggestions for
raising money which were very welcome.

Early in December, the active chapter entertained patronesses,
mothers and alumnae with a tea at the beautiful home of Josephine
Wallace, pledge, in Island Home Park. The December meeting, n
birthday party, was held with Louise Wiley McCleary. Young Day-
ton Sheridan, to whom the cake and candles were a perpetual source
of delight, was the life of the party. We are missing Minn Elois
Hunt and Dorothy Brown, who are spending the winter in Florida,
but are rejoiced over the presence of Llewellyn Johnson Thornton,
who is now making her home here, and the return of Mary Neal
Black, whose long sojourns in Syracuse maks us regard Chi chapter
witli feelings bordering on jealousy. Fay Morgan, too, we are glad
to have at' home, although we regret that it was illness that kept
her from filling her position with a Memphis newspaper. We under-
stand that her time is largely taken up with her young niece, Nancy
Morgan. Another addition to the cradle roll of whom we are very
proud is Anne Stewart, daughter of Jim and Billy McLemore Stew-
art, who was born on October. 23. I am sure all Omicron girls wdl
join us in extending heartfelt 'sympathy to Blossom Swift Edmunds,
whose father died in Palestine, Texas, early in December.

Among the Christmas visitors were Genevieve Roddick and her
small son from Memphis, and Grace Ware Quincy and her boy.

Tust in time for the mail comes news from far away China of
the "marriage of Lucy Morrison to Mr. Coltman. We hope this is
indicative of a prompt return to this country to live.

ELEANOR BURKE.

LYNCHBURG

The November meeting of Lynchburg Alumnae was unusually
interesting, since Mrs. Henry Blackwell entertained at her most
attractive new home on Norfolk Avenue. It was a double treat to
be there, and to hear Margaret Jones tell about Convention.