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to contribute an amount sufficient to cover, at fifteen cents a copy,
the magazines mailed to the non-subscribers of that chapter. This
money has been considered and credited as a first contribution to-
wards National Alumna; Work. There was no limiting of what a
chapter might give, but we asked, i f possible, that the chapter re-
place i n our "National Fund" the amount used f r o m it to care f o r
that chapter's non-subscribers. I n this way we still have something
to b u i l d on, when our national work has been chosen, and we begin
in the establishment of it.

The chapters have responded splendidly to this method of getting
back i n touch with their alumme, and beginning national alumna3,
work. The following table will tell that. Some of the chapters
have not been heard f r o m at the "final date" when this report had
to be sent i n , because our plans d i d not reach them u n t i l too late
to be attended to before the early closing o f the colleges f o r the
holidays. I n addition to the amounts indicated in the table, we wish
to report ten dollars sent by M r s . P u l l i n g as T o D R A G M A ' S contri-
bution.

COMMITTEE ON A L U M N A W O R K

Chairman—Rochelle Gachet, Pi

Govt. Hotels, Bldg. P-Q, Washington, D. C .

N . A t l a n t i c D i s t r i c t — M r s . A r t h u r W . Miner, Delta, 21 A r l i n g t o n

St., Pittsfield, Mass.

N . E. Central District—Zella Colvin, Gamma, Christian College,

Columbia, Mo.

N. W. Central District—Mrs. K. Uhls, Upsilon, Uhls Sanitarium,

Overland Park, Kansas.

Southern District—Shirley M c D a v i t t , Kappa, 1515 N . State St.,

Jackson, Miss.

Pacific District—Mrs. W . B. Esterly, Sigma, 244 Alvarado Road,

Berkeley, Cal.

Tn a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and im-
becile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

R . W . EMERSON, Conduct of Life.

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ALUMNA FORUM

(The Alumnrc Committee wishes discussion and has entered the Forum
for that purpose.)

T N T H E November T o D R A G M A Americanization was suggested
A as our national philanthropic work. I t seems to me that the plan
is open to several objections. One is that I think that Americaniza-
tion is no longer adapted to private foundations. The federal gov-
ernment has taken this work up, and is now making huge appro-
priations f o r i t , and there seems to be a complete and vast program
arranged f o r as can be seen f r o m a perusal of Americanization, a
paper published by the Department of the Interior. I do not deny
the need for Americanization work, but I do not think, it is the work
f o r A O Pi. W e should lose our identity i n the vastness of the
project. Perhaps, though, I do not know enough about the subject
to make these criticisms.

I like the scholarship plan rather better, but of course that could
be done locally, and is being done more or less, by the alumna?
chapters. The chief objection to its being our national work is that
i t w o u l d be of benefit purely to ourselves rather than to the w o r l d
at large.

Lest I be accused o f destructive criticism only let me suggest
something. I wonder how many of you have read Dr. Chapin's
article i n the November American Magazine, entitled " F i n d i n g Ba-
bies f o r Folks to Adopt." Perhaps there is something that could
be worked up into a plan f o r us. W o r k w i t h little children is
surely a woman's office, and I am sure that n o t h i n g could be finer
than f o r us to devote our efforts to helping these little unfortunates
find their places i n society.

E L I Z A B E T H H I E S T A N D , Rho '12

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Number Number Per cent
of Non- contributed
of subscribers of amount
Alumnae requested

N. ATLANTIC DISTRICT n 62
95 102
Alumnae of Nu Chapter 153 89 50
Nu 45
139 35 106
Alumnae of Delta Chapter 0 100
Delta and Boston Alumnae 75
61 50 153
Alumnae of Gamma Chapter 11 81 100
Gamma and Bangor Alumnae 54
84 9 166
Epsilon 118 9 100
Alumnae of Chi Chapter 76
20 106
Chi 12 17
Alumnae of Psi Chapter 62 100
147 36 100
Psi and Philadelphia Alumnae 27 24 277
94 13
SOUTHERN DISTRICT 43
98 133 65
Alumnae of Pi Chapter 44 35 100
Pi and New Orleans Alumnae 9 100
174 6 100
Alumnae of Kappa Chapter 63
Kappa and Lynchburg Alumnae 24 107
17
Alumnae of Omicron Chapter....
Omicron and Knoxville Alumnae 160

Alumnae of Nu Kappa Chapter...
Nu Kappa and Dallas Alumnae

Alumnae of Nu Omicron Chapter.
Nu Omicron

N . E. CENTRAL DISTRICT

Alumnae of Theta Chapter
Theta and Indianapolis Alumnae

Alumnae of Eta Chapter
Eta

Alumnae of Iota Chapter
Iota

Alumnae of Beta Phi Chapter....
Beta Phi

Alumnae of Rho Chapter
Rho and Chicago Alumnae

Alumnae of Omega Chapter
Omega

N. W. CENTRAL DISTRICT

Alumnae of Zeta Chapter
Zeta and Lincoln Alumnae

Alumnae of Tau Chapter
Tau and Minneapolis Alumnae

Alumnae of Alpha Phi Chapter...
Alpha Phi

Alumnae of Phi Chapter
Phi

PACIFIC DISTRICT

Alumnae of Sigma Chapter
Sigma and San Francisco Alum-
nae

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Number Number
Alumnae of Non-
subscribers
Alumnae of Lambda Chapter... 87
Lambda and Los Angeles Alum- 81 68
nae
86 61
Alumnae of Upsilon Chapter.. .
Upsilon, Puget Sound Alumnae 12 82
and Portland Alumnae
73 2
INACTIVE CHAPTERS 154 62
140 97
Alumnae of Alpha Chapter
New York and Washington 75 90
Alumnae
61 55
Alumnae of Beta Chapter 35
Providence Alumnae 12 0

N. ATLANTIC DISTRICT 84 51
118 82
Alumnae of Nu Chapter 55
Nu 77 9
20
Alumnae of Delta Chapter 10
Delta 13
Boston Alumnae 146 106
27
Alumnae of Gamma Chapter 96 17
Gamma 64
Bangor Alumnae

Alumnae of Epsilon Chapter
Epsilon

Alumnae of Chi Chapter
Chi

Alumnae of Psi Chapter
Psi
Philadelphia Alumnae

SOUTHERN DISTRICT

Alumnae of Pi Chapter
Pi
New Orleans Alumnae

Alumnae of Kappa Chapter
Kappa
Lynchburg Alumnae

Alumnae of Omicron Chapter
Omicron
Knoxville Alumnae

Alumnae of Nu Kappa Chapter...
Nu Kappa
Dallas Alumnae

Alumnae of Nu Omicron Chapter.
Nu Omicron

N . E. CENTRAL DISTRICT

Alumnae of Theta Chapter
Theta
Indianapolis Alumnae

Alumnae of Eta Chapter
Eta

Alumnae of Iota Chapter
Iota

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Number Number
of Non-
of subscribers
Alumnae
36
Alumnae of Beta Phi Chapter... 43 24
Beta Phi 98
44 13
Alumnae of Rho Chapter 175 134
Rho 64 36
24
Chicago Alumnae 17 o
Alumnae of Omega Chapter 160 6
ss 106
Omega 882 69
63
N . W. CENTRAL DISTRICT so
1! 83
Alumnae of Zeta Chapter 1
Zeta
Lincoln Alumnae

Alumnae of Tau Chapte
Tau
Minneapolis Alumnae

Alumnae of Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi

Alumnae of Phi Chapter
Phi

PACIFIC DISTRICT

Alumnae of Sigma Chapter
Sigma
San Francisco Alumnae

Alumnae of Lambda Chapter
Lambda
Los Angeles Alumnae

Alumnae of Upsilon Chapter.. . .
Upsilon
Puget Sound Alumnae
Portland Alumnae

INACTIVE CHAPTERS

Alumnae of Alpha Chapter
New York Alumnae
Washington Alumnae

Alumnae of Beta Chapter
Providence Alumnae

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ADDITIONAL LIFE SUBSCRIBERS

Julia Fuller Crane, Rho Mabel Gastfield, Rho
Lottie Ketcham, Epsilon Mrs. Floyd Rawlings, Zeta
Mary W. Sutton, Theta Ellen Joliffe, Upsilon
Elizabeth Main, Chi Helen Rowe, Delta
Stella Dueringer, Rho Alice Rich Wakefield, Delta
Mary Lindsey, Omega Fannie Butterfield, Kappa
Geneva Sargison, Upsilon Goldie Halquist Buehler, Rho
Mrs. Martin Burke, Gamma Edith Huntington, Beta Phi
Madeline Jeffers, Delta ' Charlotte Hall Uhls, Upsilon
Hertha Bray, Delta Eva E. Gibbons, Zeta
Blanche Hooper, Delta Ella S. Thomas, Kappa

BUSY A L P H A OMICRON PI SISTERS

M A R Y D O N L O N , Epsilon '20, one o f the two women Law
students i n the senior class at Cornell is the first woman to
be E d i t o r - i n - C h i e f of the Cornell Law Journal.

Edna Merrick, Epsilon '13, is now at the Women's Educational
and Industrial Union at 264 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

A "Voters' School" for women is opened at the headquarters of
Philip J. McCook at the Manhattan Hotel under the direction of
Miss Margaret M . Burnett, vice-chairman of women's committee.
Miss Burnett has a staff of assistants on hand w i t h plenty of sample
ballots to explain to the new voter how to vote. Margaret Burnett
is an A l p h a 0 sister, N u ' 0 1 .

Miss Elizabeth Harrison, N u '19, daughter of Benjamin Harri-
son, the twenty-third president, is probably the youngest woman
lawyer i n this country. She has just been admitted to the Indiana
bar. She w i l l take up special work at Columbia before opening an
office in Indianapolis.

Stella Stern Perry is still i n New York City. She is busy w i t h a
novel and a scenario for a photo-play. Her address, while in New
York, is Hotel Collingwood.

The value of the dollar is social and is created by society.

R . W . EMERSON, Conduct of Life.

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EDITORIALS

TT H E E D I T O R ' S C H R I S T M A S G I F T
H E E d i t o r wishes to say just a word about one of the pleasures
of her Christmas season. Besides preparing f o r the festivities,
there were many details concerning the magazine coming to her and
sometimes i t seemed as though the hours were too short. As she
sat down to her desk o n the twenty-ninth of December and recorded
her letters, it was one of her very best g i f t s to find that not one
single active chapter letter was late. I t pays to t r y to be on time.
Let us a l l make a N e w Year's resolution to be on time w i t h a l l T o
DRAGMA material in nineteen hundred twenty.

T H E ASSISTANT EDITOR

T T H A S seemed wise to change the title o f E d i t o r o f Chapter
A Letters to Assistant Editor. Miss Hiestand already has done
a great deal of valuable work f o r the magazine and the new title
more completely covers her duties. She is to have charge of the
western correspondence, as assigned geographically i n the Septem-
ber issue.

"Betty" needs no introduction to A l p h a O's, but the E d i t o r
wishes to say that she feels very fortunate and greatly relieved to
have such a splendid co-worker on the staff.

FRATERNITY FINANCES

I T H A S been a pleasure to compile this issue and f r o m the vari-
ous chapter reports o n finances and chapter house conditions, i t
should not only bring pleasure but many valuable suggestions to
the chapters. Is i t too much to desire that each chapter of this
f r a t e r n i t y have a budget system? W h y not r u n our f r a t e r n i t y fi-
nances in a true businesslike manner? I t is such a satisfaction to
know that there is a reserve account, no matter how small. A l -
though not all chapters were heard from, yet the reports here printed
show that each chapter strives to meet its obligations.

It was planned to have articles by the members of the Finance
Committee f o r this issue but the chairman has been i l l and the
committee has not had enough information and experience on the
subject yet.

T H E N E W KANSAS CITY ALUMN.C CHAPTER

A N O T H E R strong link has been added to our chain o f alumna:
chapters. T o the group of sisters who care to be of great serv-
ice in the Kansas territory, all Alpha Omicron Pi greets you and

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trusts you w i l l help to make the bonds of good-fellowship in the
world about you, greater and of a higher purpose.

APPRECIATION

W E W E R E fortunate this month to have two articles written
by prominent business men and we appreciate their interest in
our attempt to learn more about chapter finances.

JT H E C O N T E N T S O F A F R A T E R N I T Y M A G A Z I N E
U S T what should our fraternity magazine contain? This is a
much argued question and yet, i f a certain standard be agreed
upon, the contents always w i l l differ according to the demands of
the readers and more especially on type of material contributed.
Very o f t e n , criticisms are many and severe as to the Editor's choice.
Is it really the Editor's choice which appears on the pages of the
magazine? Since there is no paid contributor and contributors are
busy with other thoughts than writing f o r a certain prominence,
the E d i t o r can not be too severe. She tries to suggest interesting
topics and gives an outline of the form desired, with the thought
in m i n d , that the article may be the feature of the next issue and
the person w r i t i n g the article may show such ability as to encourage
her to f o l l o w the literary career. However, what actually does
happen is this. T h e request is sent f o r the article, a long wait
follows, only to be concluded by a hasty note which explains that
"the Editor's letter was sent to an old address and as i t is too late
now, she is very sorry because she w o u l d love to do something f o r
the magazine." Why did not that person take a few more minutes
and instead of writing that note, and write the article or why did
the Editor have the old address?

What we want, girls i n A l p h a Omicron Pi, is more real enthusi-
asm, and ready-to-work spirit for the magazine. W i t h over four
thousand pairs of eyes and that many educated brains and fingers,
T o D R A G M A should have at least twenty splendid contributions f o r
each issue. I f you have any topic on your mind and you think i t
should be an interest to your sisters i n A l p h a Omicron P i or to
other Greek-letter sisters, write it down while the idea is fresh and
offer i t to your magazine. I t may not appear i n the next issue but
if you have made your point clear and interesting, it w i l l appear
during that year and you w i l l have done a service and surely w i l l be
greatly repaid.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Chapter Secretaries—Notice. We are printing a new Directory
in September—let us make an effort to have A L L addresses correct,
both on the chapter cards and on the cards in the Grand Secretary's
office. Make it a point to send out cards to a l l your alumna? early
in March, and ask f o r a l l changes i n addresses like this:

Old Address.
Present Address.
Address by Sept. 1, 1920.
The inquiry should be sent to the members w i t h attached return
card, which should be already stamped and addressed to the chapter
secretary.

Active Chapter E d i t o r s : For the May issue, send i n an article
about your favorite senior and also send her picture. I t costs a
great deal to have pictures i n the magazine and yet they are very
interesting and make us better acquainted. T h e Editor wishes very
much that the active chapters bear the expense of the plates for this
May issue. More definite i n f o r m a t i o n w i l l be sent to you later
about this matter. B u t please see that a 2\2l/2 head and shoulder
picture be taken o f your senior, very soon. T h e same arrangement
and size o f pictures w i l l be used as appeared i n M a y , 1918, issue.

Alumnae Assistant E d i t o r s : Send your notes to the E d i t o r as
assigned to you i n the Geographical Division plan given i n the Sep-
tember issue, page 40.

Committee Chairmen: I f you have any notices for the magazine
w i l l you k i n d l y w o r d them exactly as you wish them to appear?

Active and Alumnae Members: Is there anything more discourag-
ing than to have an important letter returned because o f your f a i l u r e
to send i t to the right address; and even more so, when it is not
your f a u l t ? N o w is the time to see that your chapter or the Grand
Secretary has your last and correct address. Don't wait f o r your
chapter to send you a postal f o r this inquiry. I f you have changed
your name, your address or your occupation since nineteen hundred
seventeen, take a postal and address i t either to your chapter secre-
tary or to the Grand Secretary and tell all about yourself. The more
news you give, the better. I f you belong to an alumnae chapter,
name the chapter.

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The New Constitutions: The revised constitutions are kept by
the Grand Secretary. A l l you have to do is to ask f o r one, i f you
want one. Each member should own the constitution of her fra-
ternity.

The Fraternity History: (Extract from Mrs. Perry's last let-
ter.) " I have been expecting to go to Los Angeles, where my notes
are. M y publishers have ordered a novel and want it right away.
I promise, the Fates permitting, surely, to have the history i n the
next issue. I send these l i t t l e f u g i t i v e thoughts."

We a l l congratulate M r s . Perry on her recent successes w i t h her
literary work. W h e n the history does appear i n the next issue, i t
w i l l be a great treat and reward f o r our long wait.— E D I T O R .

Alumnae Assistant and Alumnae Chapter E d i t o r s : I t seems there
has been some confusion over the terms "Alumna? Chapter E d i t o r
and Alumna? Assistant E d i t o r . " T h e A l u m n a ' Chapter E d i t o r (see
Constitution A r t . V I , Sec. 3) is chosen by the alumna? chapter to
write the chapter letter. I n some cases the President or Secretary
now writes the letter. T h e Alumna? Assistant E d i t o r (see By-Laws
A r t . V , Sec. 2 j . ) is chosen by the active chapter f r o m among its
alumna? and it is her duty to keep i n touch w i t h the associate mem-
bers and to write complete notes.

I n the cases, where the active chapter has an alumnae chapter
near the Alumna? Assistant Editor and Alumna? Chapter Editor may
be the same person. T h e arrangement w o u l d assist the work of the
editorial staff.

When Sending Checks for Subscriptions: The Minneapolis
banks charge exchange on checks, so i f you are sending a check
to cover T o D R A G M A subscription, the Business Manager requests
that you add exchange. Three cents w i l l be sufficient on a l l checks.
I t seems a small sum but m u l t i p l i e d by the number of checks we
receive a year amounts to more money than the treasury can afford
to lose.

Subscribers! I f you change your address notify the business
Manager at once. D o not wait u n t i l you f a i l to receive one or two

copies of T o D R A G M A .

I f you find a pink expiration blank i n your copy of the magazine
please send your renewal at once to the Business Manager, Carolyn
F. Pulling, 100 Malcolm Ave., Minneapolis, M i n n .

The Business Manager reports that we have at least one l i f e
subscriber f r o m every chapter except Psi.

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ACTIVE CHAPTER LETTERS

PI—H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB COLLEGE

Susie Briggs, '21 Pledges
Alice Chapman, '23
Amanda Miller, '23
Elizabeth Kastler, '23 Meyer Morgan, '23
Ginevra Washburn, '23

New Member

Beulah Brown, '22
There are no chapter houses at Newcomb, we haven't even fraternity rooms,
such as we once enjoyed. Fortunately, Margaret Lyan lives across the street
from college and we have her house our meeting place.

The new rushing system went into effect for the first time this year and
proved very satisfactory. Pledge Day was on the eleventh and Pi was
fortunate to get four girls. Since that day, we have pledged three who
could not be bid on the original Pledge Day. One of the latter members is
Beulah Brown, '22, who has since been initiated.

We celebrated Founders' Day with an informal party at Margaret's. The
feature of the afternoon was our usual birthday cake, with a large A 0 IT on
it made of red candies.

Since then, Pi, with all the rest of Newcomb College, has been striving
with might and main to assist in raising enough money to send the Y. W. C . A.
delegate to Des Moines.

A very thrilling day, which will long be remembered, was the one when
the lately-returned Newcomb Unit came up to college and talked of the work
done in France.

LUCY RENAUD, '20, Chapter Editor.

NU—NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

We are at last settled in our room after our summer upheaval, and have
resumed the even tenor of our ways again. We gave the first tea for new
members and are happy to report that there were many present who gave
promise of being good fraternity material. Five of them accepted our invi-
tation to join the chapter and are to be initiated the first week of the new year.

We are very proud of the fact that three of our members have recently
passed the Bar examinations. They are Angeline Bennett, Helen Walker,
and Elizabeth Harrison. Miss Bennett has been admitted to the New York
Bar and Miss Harrison to the Indiana Bar.

Since a great many of our members are engaged in business during the
day and come to school at night, we do not have as many social affairs to
report as the other chapters.

CATHERINE SOMMER, '20, Chapter Editor.

OMICRON—UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Mary Neal Black Pledges
Elizabeth Clinton
Marion Logue
Ola Hancock Willia McLemore
Margaret Smith
Mary Horner

New Member

Grace McDougall

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After a most strenuous rushing season we feel fully repaid and are glad to
introduce to you our seven new pledges.

II. T.'s football season was a grand success considering the fact that we
had only one old man on the team. We won three games, lost three and tied
three. Our greatest accomplishment we think was in tieing "Vandy," our
worst enemy, 3-3. We hope to do even better than this in basketball.

Girls athletics are beginning to be given a prominent place on the " H i l l "
and we hope that several A 0 LTs will make the various teams. This year
the girls had charge of the biggest and most successful mass meeting ever
held at "Old U. T." and the men all agreed that in the future everything of
the sort will be left to the girls to manage.

We have been indeed glad to catch a few hasty glimpses of some of our
old girls, though it makes us sad to think they are no longer with us. Grace
Ware Quincey, who now lives in West Virginia was here for a few days.
Elizabeth Kennedy spent a few week-ends here when she found enough spare
moments. Helen Shea is with us now on a short furlough, having come from
Brooklyn where she has been in training as a nurse. We hope that Lynn
McNutt will soon be back and make a report as to how she enjoys teaching.

In January we hope to put alongside our many cups a new one, the scholar-
ship cup, just recently offered by a member of the faculty to the sorority with
the highest scholarship.

Now let me tell you something wonderful. Out of four girls to make Phi
Kappa Phi, our honorary fraternity, only two were fraternity girls and one
was Eleanor Burke, our chapter secretary. We are all so proud of her that
we hardly know" what to do.

LUCY S. MORGAN, '21, Chapter Editor.

KAPPA—RANDOLPH MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE

We all knew that Elizabeth Butterfield would never be an old maid, but
we did not know that we were meeting the lucky man when she introduced
us to Mr. Don W. Buttler, a few weeks ago. We were thoroughly convinced,
however, upon finding the hurriedly scribbled note, on November 24, saying
that they had gone to Washington to be married. They are at home now at
202 East St., Pittsfield, Mass., and while Kappa misses Elizabeth dreadfully
we are wishing her just all the happiness in the world.

When college opened this fall there were only four juniors in the fra-
ternity but we are unusually proud to say that there are five now, since Mary
Bailey Ragland is the fifth. She was bid on advanced-standing pledge day
and was initiated the night of November 22. With initiation and Elizabeth's
wedding in one week we had our hands rather full and were just a bit excited.

Perhaps you know that the student body of Randolph-Macon, with the aid
of the faculty, is supporting and educating two Serbian girls. This is their
first year here and naturally they have aroused a great deal of interest among
the students. They are exceedingly bright and attractive and learn so rapidly
that we are ashamed of our ignorance. Not a word of English did they know
when they arrived and now, I am told, their vocabularies number between
seven hundred and a thousand words. Our chapter and the Phi Mu Chapter
here have agreed to clothe one of them, we pay for and make her clothes and
really they are not half bad. One of the matrons supervises our work and
tells just what the girls need and how they wish their things made.

It was so good to have Helen Scott, Hex Hardy, and Anna Taylor back for
Thanksgiving. It seemed almost like "old times" to have them here and to

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have Helen Hardy down at the house to talk to us in her wonderful way. We
wish more of the old girls could have come, they are always most welcome.

I can not appear indifferent any longer by not mentioning i t : Kappa owns
a Kurtzman baby-grand. We have planned, plotted, schemed, and longed for
one for ages, it seems, but until now have been forced to rent a tuneless con-
cert grand which was so enormous that it almost crowded us out of the living-
room. We hope that our neighbors in The Pines like to hear our new one as
much as we do, for it is played constantly and some of us are only amateur
pianists, we are told.

We are working to have a complete list of alumnae subscribers in the
March issue, and hope that we as well as all the other chapters will be
successful in this effort.

JULIA BLYTHE W H I T E , Chapter Editor.

ZETA—UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

On the fifteenth of November, Nebraska University celebrated the annual
home-coming day. A great many of our alumna; came back at that time as
well as five active girls from the Kansas chapter, since the game was a
Kansas-Nebraska game. The girls were accompanied by Mrs. Uhls of Wash-
ington and Kansas chapters, who spent several days with us.

Because of the lack of coal, the University was forced to run on a short-
ened schedule for several weeks and all social functions were called off for
the time. Now, although the ban has been lifted, the shorter schedule has
been retained, but social activities have been resumed with great zeal.

Our chaperon, Mrs. Herrington, who suffers from a broken ankle, left for
her home at Wakefield, Nebraska, and will probably be unable to be with us
again this year. Miss Martha Walton, a Lincoln alumna, is taking her place,
however.

The evening of December 16, we had our annual Christmas party at the
house. The freshmen gave an exceptionally clever slunl in form of a circus
and sang an original song, the words and music of which was composed by
Jean How. We had our tree on which was a funny gift for each of us, dis-
tributed by one of the girls, dressed as Santa Claus. The following evening
we gave a Mother Goose playlet at the Orthopedic Hospital and presented
the children with toys and apples.

Last Sunday morning our house caught fire because of defective wiring.
Owing to its early discovery and the quick action of the fire department, the
damage was not so great as it might have been. Two of the rooms on the
third floor were destroyed and several pieces of furniture, rugs, and a few
dresses were entirely ruined by the chemical used. The damage has already
been partly repaired and the work will be fully completed during the Christ-
mas vacation. All but three of the girls are continuing to stay at the house.

WINIFRED CI.ARK, '22, Chapter Editor.

SIGMA—UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

This semester, which is now nearing its close, was started with an increas-
ing amount of spirit, which continued throughout the entire term. Not only
in the way of social entertainments and activities did Sigma Chapter excel,
but also in campus activities. Our seventeen freshmen who were initiated are
proving to be all that was hoped of them; we could not have chosen a better
freshman class. They greatly enjoyed their semi-annual Intersorority dance
which was held the early part of the college year.

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On November 14 we held our formal tea and dance. This was one of
the sensations of the campus and was a wonderful success. Two days were
spent in suitably decorating so as to give the effect of an early winter party.
Autumn leaves and fall flowers were used to great advantage and when
finished, everyone was satisfied as to the appearance of the chapter house.

One of our big days was that of the Stanford-California football game.
Many of the girls of Sigma were entertained royally by the sisters of Lambda
and again realized the feeling of sisterhood in Alpha O. We also held a
bazaar on December 6. Some very attractive things were on display and we
cleared about three hundred dollars.

The number of members this semester is very large and makes it nec-
essary for many of us to live outside the house. This, in one respect, is a
disadvantage; yet we are making the best of it and are planning on making
1920 a year of increased zest and spirit in all college activities.

MYRTH G L E N N , '22, Chapter Editor.

THETA—DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

Again it is Christmas lime! We can scarcely realize that it has been
nearly eight months since we Thetas entertained so many of you at the Con-
vention. How we wish you might all come back again, and be with us awhile!

Theta is having a two weeks' Christmas vacation this year, because of the
shortage of coal. We are all glad to have a longer vacation.

I wish you could see our freshmen! They are such wonderful girls! Just
now they are preparing a Christmas party for the upperclassmen. We haven't
any idea what it will be like, but judging from the fir tree on the back porch,
the mysterious signs and looks which the pledges give each other, and the
locked room upstairs, we think the party will be quite lovely. And we can
scarcely wait for it.

Have I said before that Theta Chapter is supporting a family here in town?
The family is composed of three children, their mother, and their grand-
mother. The children are just darling and their mother is so nice. Few of
us have met their grandmother. On the night before we went home for
Thanksgiving vacation, we filled a large basket with things to eat, and some
things Mrs. Heymer needed for the house, and took them to "our family."
They were certainly glad to have them, and their appreciation made us
doubly anxious to help them.

Last night we were made very happy by Mary Hester's consenting to be
an A O I I she is a very sweet girl and we are very glad to have her for
our sister.

We initiated four girls about three weeks ago. Two were our twins. I
guess I haven't mentioned our twins, the Betz sisters. We are certainly proud
of them. They are such pretty girls and ihey look, act, talk and dress exactly
alike. We are very happy to know that "the A O I I twins" are two of the
most popular girls on the campus.

MARGARET LOUISE WOOD, '22, Chapter Editor.

DELTA—JACKSON COLLEGE

Lorea Jameson, '21 Pledges

Betty Beatie, '22 Sally Clark, '23
Kay Smith, '22
Caroline Conant, '23
Mary Arnold, '23 Dorothy Hilton, '23
Beatrice Bishop, '23
Adele Russell, '23
Doris Weston, '23

Lorea and Mary are "little sisters." *

148 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

Tonight we initiate the three upperclassmen. You see Kay Smith is repre-
senting the sophomore class at the I . C. S. A . Convention at Des Moines,
Iowa, and we want her to be a real sister before she starts f o r the West—
where she's sure to meet many of our girls. The freshmen remain pledges
until mid-years, which isn't far away at a l l .

I can't refrain f r o m putting in just a little about rushing. I t was so
successful. O f course we had the usual theater parties, teas, candy pulls,
Pi(e) parties, etc., but the very best date of the season is always the "Hoo-
dang." This year i t took the f o r m of a house party at Gladys Bryant's in
Braintree. A little local custom o f having the new members give a play
.helped out wonderfully. The sophomores weren't initiated until the early
spring, as they chose the night of the party to present "Coats and Petticoats,"
a most charming little sketch. The sun porch, opening on the living-room
provided a very effective background for our entertainers. "Rookie" was
the hero of the evening with a Y D uniform and her usual spontaneous wit.

We introduced our ten pledges to our alumna? and. friends at a dance given
for them last week. Instead of a formal reception we introduced them by
naming a dance f o r each pledge, also for our guests f r o m Omega and Gamma
Chapters. It proved a most successful affair. "Dede" Arnold is back with
us after three weeks spent in the hospital and a f e w more at home. Dede's
whist table at the dance was a very popular substitute with her partners.

Everything is " T u f t s Endowment" now. We're having a foundation drive.
Everyone gives all she can and pledges as much as she dares. W i t h a
placard on every tree and all sorts of incentives to swell the f u n d scattered
promiscuously around the campus, it's a rash proposition. A l l of our girls
have pledged themselves to the limit.

We've had the most novel and interesting literary meetings this month.
Instead of the usual discussion, Peggy's and Winnie's daddy—Prof. Neal,
who has been in I t a l y with the "Y"—gave us an i n f o r m a l illustrated talk on
his life there. Another time we had Blanche Hooper, A '04, tell our pledges
and ourselves about those first years when Alpha O at Jackson was A A 2
and later A Z . I t was most interesting, you can imagine. A n d that same
night Marion, our president, told us what one of the founders o f A 0 I I told
at convention—about the day the three girls went behind the book cases
in the library at Barnard and solemnly swore each other into what is now
our Alpha O.

Jackson athletics are well represented by our girls. Seven played on varsity
hockey. The basketball season is approaching and we expect to have as
many of our girls represent Jackson on varsity basketball. Dot Cunningham
is president of the Athletic Association and we hear there is a very good
schedule planned.

Next Thursday, just before the Christmas recess begins, the A l l Around
Club (every girl in Jackson belongs) is giving a Christmas party to Italian
children f r o m the Italian Mission. We have all sorts of surprises planned
for them. It's just this sort of thing that shows the spirit o f the college—
every individual and every organization has a chance to cooperate. As we
have said, "Strong College Feeling!"

E D N A J. W A R D W E I . L , '21, Chapter Editor.

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 149

GAMMA—UNIVERSITY O F MAINE

Pledges

Virginia Averill Marie Hodgdon

Catherine Cary Lois Man tor

V i r g i n i a Chase Mabel Peabody

Nadean Gellerson Mary Perkins

Helen Harrigan Gladys Willey

Rowene Hersey Sarah Wiswell

These are the names of the girls Gamma pledged on December 8. They

are twelve of the most attractive and most talented girls in college. We con-

sider ourselves very fortunate.

You who have lived in a house entirely made up of Alpha O girls know
the wonderful spirit which prevails. This is Gamma's first experience. U n t i l
this f a l l , it has been the custom f o r the girls to live in the two large dormi-
tories. The one night a week that we met was scarcely time enough to become
intimately associated. There was always a feeling of rivalry that existed
among the girls of the two houses. L i v i n g together we have learned to really
know and appreciate each other. The spirit is very different—everyone works
heart and soul for Alpha O.

Fortune seems to have favored Gamma this year. Several weeks ago we
received an interesting communication f r o m Omega Chapter at Miami Uni-
versity concerning their former patroness, Mrs. Rider. When M r . Rider
came to the University of Maine f r o m Miami as athletic trainer we did not
realize we were to find in his w i f e a charming patroness. Mrs. Rider, her-
self a college woman, having graduated from a small Western college, under-
stands the problems which may confront a student and can sympathize with
the girls. Although we do not see as much of Mrs. Rider as we wish we
might, owing to the hurried and busy l i f e of college, we have been quite
captivated by her attractive and pleasing personality.

The sophomore and junior girls are very busy these days making the
necessary arrangements f o r the initiation banquet and dance to be held Janu-
ary 16 and 17. I feel certain that all the girls, with the exception of our
initiates perhaps, are looking f o r w a r d to the night when so many o f the
alumna? return to renew pleasant acquaintances and to welcome the new girls
into Alpha Omicron Pi.

Eveline Foster Snow has announced her engagement to M r . H u g o S. Cross.
P A U L I N E E . M I I . I . E R , '21, Chapter Editor.

EPSILON—CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Betty Algeo Pledges
Catherine Campion Helen Gsand
Elizabeth Doty Agnes Hines
Florence Foster Karen Jensenius
Edith Gill Amalia Shoemaker
Alice Green Dorothea Trebing
Alice von Roeder

Betty Warner

It was indeed a blow to Epsilon to read in To DRAGMA " N o letter" and
we are still conjecturing as to where it can be. However i t was quite evident
that i t d i d not reach its destination, so perhaps you w i l l be a little kind to
us i f our letter appears too long. The most natural t h i n g in the world would
be to begin talking about Christmas, especially with the wonderful Christmas

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weather we are having ( i t is ten degrees below zero) but I must nobly refrain
and go back to the time before the snowflakes came. When we returned in
the f a l l , we were very much depleted i n number but not in spirit. I n addition
tot the five splendid seniors who l e f t us in the spring, three others were unable
to r e t u r n : Thelma Brumfield because o f illness, H e d w i g Boyer and Esther
Ely, both of whom accepted positions. I t isn't really the truth to say our
seniors left us because two of them are with us again, H i l d a Greenawalt as
the w i f e of an instructor in veterinary and Betty Neely as gymnasium instruc-
tor. Betty is also chaperoning a freshman house. We are indeed fortunate
this year in having as our chaperon Anne Morrow, one of our '17 girls who is
very charming. This plan of having an alumna is heartily indorsed by Epsi-
lon. We are not, however, the only house on the H i l l w i t h an A O P chaperon.
Delta Delta Delta has Cecilia Bates f r o m Theta Chapter and we have already
claimed her as our own.

O f course, the b i g event of the f a l l was rushing, which was even more
hectic and j o y f u l than ever before. Fortune favored us f r o m the outset by
sending Helen X . H e n r y to be with us the first few days. D u r i n g her short
visit, we have come to know her and to love her as the other chapters do, who
have had the privilege before. We have had a very successful rushing season,
with such an auspicious beginning and we are indeed glad to introduce to you
our thirteen newest A O P's. We are really very proud of them. Rushing
this year was even harder than in previous years. There were three weeks of
intensive rushing with engagements every day during the first week. We had
two very successful parties and several dinner engagements, which were an
entirely new addition to the rushing program.

Speaking of dinner, I had almost forgotten to tell you of our wonderful
new dining-room, of which we are inordinately proud. T o you who are accus-
tomed to eating in your own house, i t may seem prosaic, but to us it is
unalloyed bliss not to have to stand in line for hours f o r our meals.

Many and varied have been the events which in the past few months have
kept us busy socially: parties, pledge day, teas and dances. We celebrated
Founders' Day by g i v i n g a tea to our alumna: and freshmen so that they
might become better acquainted. On Saturday before our Christmas vacation,
we gave a party to the children at the Social Service House at the Inlet. We
had about seventy-five children and we enjoyed the party as much i f not more
than they. We needed all our girls to keep peace among the boys and to see
that they all had at least one and not more than five ice cream cones. The
pledges came to stay all night with us, as our Christmas party was to be the
next m o r n i n g and they wanted to be there when Santa Claus came. The
House was decorated f o r Christmas and we had a lovely Christmas tree, small
but very select. That we really never grow up in heart, was certainly evi-
denced the next morning by the interest displayed i n opening the stockings.
Then Santa Claus came in and in his pack was a ten-cent present with an
appropriate verse f o r everyone. We certainly do love our Christmas parties.

Epsilon has been busy in college affairs this f a l l . Three of the members
of the junior basketball team, which is also the champion team, are A 0 P's
and we are also represented on the others. I n hockey, which is the other fall
sport we have able representations. I can't stop to tell you about all the
activities but I feel i t incumbent upon me to tell that M a r y Donlon, who was
chapter editor last year, is president of the student government, the highest
honor that can be conferred and is also the editor-in-chief of the Law Quar-
terly. Betty Pratt is president of the sophomore class. I n dramatics, too, we
have not been idle.

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI . 1 5 1

Examinations w i l l soon be coming after we return, but we are not letting
thoughts of these coming events cast their shadows on the joys of Christmas
vacation.

Epsilon sends her best wishes f o r a successful and happy New Year to all
A l p h a O's wherever they are.

E L I Z A B E T H B A I . I . A N T I N E , '21, Chapter Editor.

RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

New Members New Pledges
Meta Myers, '22 Jean Thompson, '23

Marion MacKay, '22 Katherine Graham, '23

Grace Deegan, '22 Mildred Cress, '23

Rho has not calmed down much since "rushing." College functions and

sorority affairs keep every one of us rushing most o f the time. We like i t

though, and our plans f o r 1920 show that Rho has an increasingly active part

to play.

On November 17th we initiated three of our pledges: Meta Myers, '22,
Marion MacKay, '22, and Grace Deegan, '22. We were so glad to have Mar-

guerite Norris, '20, of Theta as our guest at that time.

We are so proud of our ten pledges and wish that you all might know them.
They entertained us at a Children's Costume party where Rho's "stately"
seniors could not be distinguished f r o m the freshmen.

Our dance at the Woman's Club was an affair which we enjoyed immensely.
We are planning on "staging" another informal, January 17th. The girls of
the chapter took advantage o f the first snowfall and enjoyed a sleighride last
Wednesday night, with a treat at Theobold's afterward.

Rho girls are the most prominent on the Daily Northwestern staff. We
secured the loving cup f o r getting the largest number of subscriptions for the
paper. On Home-coming day Rho distinguished herself by the Alpha Omicron

Pi float which was in the parade of college organizations. We were awarded

second place in the contest.

On Recognition Day five of our girls received honorable mention f o r their
scholastic record, Dorothy Bruniga having a straight " A " average.

Two Rho girls received recognition f r o m their respective classes by being
elected f o r the following positions: Dorothy Bruniga, secretary of the Junior
class; W i n i f r e d Wilson, social chairman of the freshman class and member of
the freshman commission of Y . W . C. A . Marguerite Kolb, '20, was made

charter member of the Commerce Sorority.

We are having a Christmas party this week f o r fifteen children f r o m the
settlement. We are anticipating some real excitement. The chapter has also
made the necessary provision for g i v i n g a Christmas dinner to a poor family

in Chicago.

We were all having so much f u n together that we hated to have Carol
Isaacs, '20, leave us. She is to be married to Cecil Lewis on Christmas day.

We serenaded her one evening and showered her with g i f t s and Alpha Omi-
cron Pi good wishes.

M Y R T L E SWANSON, '20, Chapter Editor.

LAMBDA—STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Esther Tully, Modesto, Cal. Julia Hert, Colton, Cal.
Olga Siebert, Long Beach, Cal. Katherine Chace, Lincoln, Neb.
Doris Bailey, Palo Alto Florence Pixley, Orange, Cal.

152 TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

W i t h our rushing season well over, and six charming pledges to our credit,
who w i l l this Thursday become loyal members of Alpha Omicron Pi, the inter-
lude between that time and the "cramming" sessions which are now beginning
has been filled with good things f o r Lambda Chapter.

The pleasant news that we ranked second in scholarship among the sorori-
ties on the campus greeted us upon our return to college, October i , and we
went at our work with renewed interest. One of our girls, Lenell Garvin, ' i q ,
from Los Angeles, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Another, Marguerite
Roberts, '20, also f r o m Los Angeles, has been chosen Business Manager of the
Campus daily, and is the first woman to hold that honor.

Three others are intensely interested in journalism, while still three more
of the chapter members are becoming prominent i n Y . W . C. A . work. We
feel i n our house that the best way of showing our loyalty to our fraternity
and to our chapter, is to interest ourselves in campus activities and in athletics.

Perhaps you may have heard of our latest venture in entertaining; I refer to
our "Aviation Tea," the first event of the sort held anywhere i n the United
States, to the best o f our knowledge. A former Stanford man was piloting a
passenger airplane on the campus, and we conceived the novel idea of giving
a tea f o r our freshmen and entertaining them by taking them up in this air-
plane. So, one sunny afternoon, in mid-November, we carried out our plan,
and not only the freshmen, but the girls in the house as well went for short
flights, and were thrilled by daring stunts. The San Francisco newspaper
men were all there, and we saw ourselves in all the papers the next day.

There has been a great deal of discussion at Stanford lately, relative to the
housing of the sororities in university dormitories, and, of course, much oppo-
sition on the part of the sororities, who fear that this is but the first step to
depriving us of our charters. So, Lambda Chapter has taken the lead here,
and called all the Panhellenic members of the ten nationals represented on the
campus together, and are trying to avoid having the quarter rushing system,
which we feel is the first step in the direction of k i l l i n g the chapters here.

We still have our little French orphan to take care of, and this Christmas
we are sending him a box of toys, and goodies, to gladden his poor war-
stricken heart. We also send him money from time to time.

We were visited on October 2 by Miss Laura H u r d , District Superin-
tendent of the Pacific Division, and although she only stayed with us a few
hours, we felt her interest in us, and were glad to have had the opportunity of
meeting her.

The early rains have set i n , and the Thanksgiving recess was spoiled f o r
many o f us on account of this dismal drizzle. But California weather is as
near perfect as any can be, and it w i l l only be a short time until we bask in the
sunlight again.

F L O R E N C E V . H O C K I N G , '22, Chapter Editor.

IOTA—UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

Helen Moore, '20 New Members
Barbara Porter, '21
Elizabeth Brown, '23
Thelma Fridlin, '33 Kathryn Hughes, '22
Frances Grove, '23 Pledges
Dorothy H u l l , '23 Minette Koch, '33
Lillian Lucas, '23
Hester Srout, '23
Evelyn Wissmath, '23

TO DRAG MA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 153

So busy! I ' m wondering i f the lime w i l l ever come when there are not a
million and one things to be done the week before Christmas. School closed
for the holidays rather abruptly this year on account o f coal shortage. Stu-
dents were sent home in installments, about one thousand a day beginning
Sunday, December 7. So all Iota is enjoying nearly f o u r weeks' vacation.

Let's see—last time I wrote i t was before pledge day. A t the end of
rushing season we pledged eleven girls—the pick of the campus we believe—
and with good reason, too.

What a glorious time we had d u r i n g Home-coming time! I ' m sure every
alumna that was here w i l l agree with me. Seeing all the old girls—and new,
revisiting old campus scenes—it l e f t nothing to be desired; not even in football
when we beat Chicago. We gave a reception that Saturday night at the chap-
ter house f o r all our home-comers. I t was a most enjoyable affair.

We have had several social functions, first among which was the Hallowe'en
party given by Mrs. Van Deeman in honor o f the pledges. I t was a regular
Hallowe'en too—with witches, black cats, wishing well, and even a fortune-
teller. We had such a good time. November 14 we had our first dance at
the chapter house and on T h a n k s g i v i n g evening there was a dinner and dance
for all " l e f t overs." On November 22 we initiated three of our pledges,
Helen Moore, Barbara Porter, and Kathryn Hughes, senior, junior, and
sophomore resectively. We are j u s t l y proud of these new wearers o f our pin.

Our unexpected vacation cut out several affairs which we had planned, the
annual freshman Christmas party and a bazaar for the house f u n d . We are
so anxious to add to our b u i l d i n g f u n d and our alumna; were so loyal and
h e l p f u l in planning the bazaar f o r us that i t was with great reluctance we
were forced to give up the plan.

"Alpha Omicron Pi Leads in Scholarship"—these were the headlines which
confronted us one m o r n i n g as we sat down to breakfast and the Daily Illini.
Yes, we are rather proud of it and hope we can maintain our place there.

Iota alumna:-, you are all cordially invited and urged to come back f o r
initiation. We have planned i t f o r the second week of February. Do t r y to
come.

Soon we w i l l be starting on a New Year that w i l l be what we make i t — i n
these times of reconstruction and social unrest. T h r o u g h i t all may we keep
in mind our standards and ideals which our fraternity sets f o r us and make
iq20 a spendid year f o r Alpha O.

L I L A SHEPPARD, '20, Chapter Editor.

TAU—UNIVERSITY O F MINNESOTA

Pledges

Gladys Turner Jane Olin

Musette Graham Edna Schlamp

Katherine Bramer Blanche Meade

Irene Nogel

Both alumna? and actives have been very busy with their needles, posters,

and plans f o r the great A O P Bazaar which was held last Saturday (Novem-

ber eleventh) at the Leamington Hotel. We cleared one hundred and forty

dollars. Louise France proved her skill both as an artist and organizer in

relation to the Bazaar.

As our first chapter letter was due before Minnesota had opened f o r the f a l l

quarter, I shall attempt to give a kaleidoscopic view of our activities. We are

indeed proud of our pledges.

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The house is unusually attractive this year with its fourteen peppy occu-
pants, not to mention our august chaperon, Mary Danielson. A new Sonora is
our latest acquisition, and is welcome with opened arms by the several girls
cursed with ability to play the piano; f o r they, too, may now join in the
impromptu, after-dinner dancing. We were honored with a visit from Betty
Hiestand of Rho chapter, who presented us with a new record f o r our victrola.

Aside f r o m our most successful Hallowe'en dance, T a u has, as yet, not
adjusted itself to the routine of school l i f e to the extent of entertaining at any
large parties. A series of dinner-dances is looming up in the near future,
however, and with the Bazaar, Tau's social season w i l l be on i n earnest. Teas
have been the most dominant f o r m of entertaining thus far, and every week-
has found a bevy of people at the chapter house to chat and drink a cup of
the popular beverage. These teas have been f o r our mothers and fathers f o r
"open-house" after the football games. A n d Tau is especially proud of the
last "open house" on Home-coming Day, despite the fact that Illinois carried
off the honors; and we can not decide whether this is due to the delicious
football doughnuts which captivated the boys, or to the silver loving cup, pre-
sented to the chapter as a reward f o r selling more Home-coming buttons than
any other sorority.

And another fact of which Tau is justly proud is our high rank in scholar-
ship. Kappa Alpha Theta ranks first with T a u of Alpha Omicron Pi as
close second. Mary Ellen Chase has again added to the glory of both T a u
and the University by w r i t i n g another story, accepted by Harpers. We are
confident that prospects f o r T a u are brighter than ever before.

L i LA K L I N E , '20, Chapter Editor.

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Gertrude Maxson, '21 New Members
Ruth L . Walker, '21 Oma Rosbrook, '20
Genevieve Canfield, '21

Pledges

Doris L . Knapp, '23 M i l d r e d Reese, '23

Marjorie Townsend, '22 Dorothy Barry, '23

Ruth Young, '23 Leonilda Durieux, '23

Beatrice Baron, '23 Ruth Sidney, '23

Mary Lutz, '23 Esther Koon, '22

Lorraine Brett, '23

We have done no rushing since the first o f November, but we have had

plenty of parties all the same, and our quota of dances. The university

administration allows fraternities only three dances each semester—two ten

o'clock dances and one eleven o'clock. We were obliged to rent a hall down-

town in which to hold our eleven o'clock dance because our house, although

it is quite large, is not large enough to hold seventy people. You see our

alumna; still dance.

We initiated four girls November 24. The rest of the pledges w i l l probably
be initiated the last of February or the first o f March. They certainly are
fine. They come down every Sunday afternoon f o r tea and every Friday
night for pledges' meeting. They have a president and a secretary of their
own. A few weeks ago their president gave them an examination on the
Chapter Roll, etc., and the lowest mark was 98 per cent.

We celebrated Founders' Day by having a more or less f o r m a l dinner f o r
our city alumna; and our pledges. There were forty-three of us present.

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Each of the alumna?, the president, and a representative f r o m each class made
a little speech.

December 19 was Chi's fifth birthday and we had a birthday party. When
the cake with the five lighted candles was brought i n everybody was told to
make a wish. Betty blew out only two candles. D o you suppose we w i l l have
to wait three whole years for that new chapter house? I am sure everyone
wished f o r a new house. As i t was so near Christmas we decided to have
our Christmas party the same evening. Everybody had contributed ten cents
and a committee used the money to buy f u n n y g i f t s . Some of them were
exceedingly appropriate. Our pledges made the house a present of a tea table.

Sadie Campbell, '17, was married here December 19. We were not invited
to the wedding but we all kissed the bride and threw rice after the taxicab.

Before I close I must tell you that Miss Sibley, the enemy of late hours,
"feeds," and untidy rooms, called here last week and said that we had one of
the "best-ordered" houses on the campus.

MARION K N A P P , '24, Chapter Editor.

UPSILON—UNIVERSITY O F WASHINGTON

Pledges

Edith Chapman Elizabeth Metlea

Quarterly examinations are just over. They have been such a miserable

strain on our dispositions! Christmas vacations are certainly appreciated

after examination time. The house is desolate for most of the girls have gone

home f o r their vacation period.

We gave our two freshmen a cabaret dinner-party, at one of the hotels down

town. M i l d r e d L o r i n g and Laura H u r d related some amusing anecdotes of

the old college days.

Margaret Caughey, '22, is to be back with us this next quarter. She has

been nursing a broken leg f o r the last few months. Eugenia Garrett and

Eloise E b r i g h t are both back with us. Eugenia has been made a member of

an honorary pre-medic f r a t e r n i t y . Hazel Britton was w i t h us f o r a day when

she came f r o m f r o m Spokane to attend the Varsity Ball. Helen W h i t i n g is

teaching school this year but plans to be back w i t h us next year.

Helen Fosdick is one of the hard workers f o r the Y . W . C. A . and is on

the second cabinet Mary Burnside is on the senior social committee and

Francis Dibble is doing a great deal of " A L L - U " committee work. Helen

M o r f o r d is on Junior Prom and also a member o f Junior Vaudeville com-

mittee. Helen Bogardus is secretary of the Women's League.

The Washington football team nearly won the coast championship. We

were tied with Oregon and the judges decided in their favor.

Marjorie, Miller, '18, announced her marriage to M r . Howard Millar re-

cently. They are l i v i n g in Vancouver, B. C.

We send our most sincere wishes to all chapters that the New Year may

bring great joys to all A 0 P's.

M A R G U E R I T E S C H O F I E L D , '22, Chapter Editor.

NU KAPPA—SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Anne D . Corrigan, '21 Pledges
Lillian Brown, '22 Mildred Pendleton, '23
Irene Pendleton, '23 Lucille Bradford, '23
Lucille Pepple, '23

Kate Hammons, '23

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Southern Methodist University has started out the fifth and greatest year
of her career, and N u Kappa is keeping up with her university in this spirit
of progress and improvement. This rushing season—the most exciting yet f o r
us—ended with great success. We pinned the red ribbons on seven o f the most
worth while, most lovable girls i n the university.

Two little sisters, Kate Hammons and Irene Pendleton, and Mildred Pendle-
ton, a little cousin, Lucille Bradford, and Lucille Pepple are our freshmen.
Lillian Brown, sophomore, and Annie D . Corrigan, junior, complete the list.

Already the new Alpha O pledges are known in university activities. W i t h
Kate Hammons as freshman representative on Honor Council; Lucille Brad-
f o r d and Mildred Pendleton recognized at once f o r their splendid scholarship;
Irene Pendleton and her v i o l i n ; Lucille Pepple, most popular rushee in school;
Lilliam Brown whom everybody loved at once, and Annie D . Corrigan—well,
her pledging was a real triumph f o r N u Kappa—it looked as though (and it is
proving daily to be) that N u Kappa's pledges meant to fill a splendid place in
the university's history.

Many instances o f our university's improvement cannot be passed over, f o r
they are very far-reaching. Change was obvious at beginning of f a l l term—
for weren't there two new deans, one o f whom, Miss Murphy, we were very
fortunate in kidnapping from Berkeley and Sigma? We have two new
Rhodes scholars on our faculty, making three in all. Our two applicants for
Rhodes' Scholarships were chosen above all other men in Texas universities
and colleges.

At present our rushing rules are "up in the air." Panhellenic met, and
made new rules, but these were not thought adequate, so the faculty is now
taking up the question and w i l l report later on results.

We have moved to our beautiful new fraternity room, furnished in lovely
wicker and dainty rose curtains. This room has been the scene of much song and
feasting d u r i n g the last three months, d u r i n g which we have been so happy
to have as visitors, Frances M a j o r , Kappa, visiting Eleanor Manning, Kappa,
of Dallas; Louise Pendleton, Margaret Vaughn, and Mary Emily Barton, N u
Kappa. The most enjoyable occasion took place on Founders' Day. Grouped
around a big birthday cake on which twenty-two red candles gleamed, were
our old and new girls, singing a "Toast to the best on earth," and our favorite,
"Dear Alpha O, you know we love you." That experience was unique in its
impressive happiness and deep feeling.

At last we have a room in which we can care f o r our big, happy family.
B E R N I C E P E N D L E T O N , '20, Chapter Editor.

BETA PHI—INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Mary Scifres New Pledges
Helen Thompson Oneta Ulingworth
Virginia Hogan

We've just returned from Thanksgiving vacation, which lasted from

Wednesday noon until Monday morning, and now we're all looking forward to
Christmas vacation, when we get two whole weeks.

Saturday afternoon, November 15, f r o m three to five we gave a faculty tea
at the house. I t was a beautiful day and practically all the faculty came. We

received many compliments on our house and our girls, and we believe that it
was a splendid success.

On Saturday, November 22, I . U . played the final football game of the
season here, with Syracuse University. I t was a w o n d e r f u l game, and I n -

diana won with a score 12-6.

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The latter part o f October, we gave a dinner-dance at our house. The

house was decorated with Hallowe'en effects, lots o f jack-o'-lanterns w i t h
A O I I cut on them. We had dinner at little tables for two couples, and it
was all so pretty! Just now we're busy planning a Christmas dance, to be
held in our house December 12. The night of December 13, the Women's

Panhellenic is giving a big dance in the Student B u i l d i n g . Incidentally, we
are to have classes that Saturday. That is unusual f o r us, but we must hold
classes two Saturdays in order to get our long Christmas vacation. We think

it's worth it.

Several of our girls are accomplishing things in athletics. One of our
pledges w i l l make the soccer team, another the hockey team. M a r y Fletcher,
'21, made the varsity swimming team and Mildred Douglass, '21, made the

varsity baseball team. A n d we surely are glad to be t h i r d in scholarship among
the sororities on the campus this year.

Since our last letter, we have f o u r new pledges: Mary Scifres of Little
York ( M a r y is a niece o f Avaline K i n d i g Scifres of Rho Chapter) ; Helen

Thompson o f Greensburg (Helen is taking the pre-medic course) ; Oneta U l -
ingworth o f Bloomington (Oneta is on the faculty at the H i g h School and is
taking f u l l work in the university) and V i r g i n i a Hogan of Bedford, who is

strong in dramatics.

A l l the girls of Beta Phi seem to be getting married. Recently Juva
Covalt, '17, was married to Curtis Richards. Mildred Maxwell, ex-'22, is now
Mrs. Ray Townsend. On November 1 Ruth Carnes, ex-'22, was married to

H a r o l d Ulackmun, and October 29 H i l d r e d Oliver, ex-'20, was married to

Raymond Nichols. H E L E N D E V I T T , '22, Chapter Editor.

ETA—WISCONSIN

The year is passing quickly f o r Eta. College seems busier and studies seem
harder than ever before and Eta has no time to be idle. Vacation time is
coming soon and the students at Wisconsin are rejoicing because the faculty
and beard of regents have set vacation f o r December 17 instead of December
23, as originally planned. A petition by the railroad officials strengthened by
one sent in by the students brought about this result.

Just yesterday Eta tried to b r i n g some Christmas cheer and happiness into
the world by entertaining thirty poor children at a bob ride and an ice cream
party at the house. We gave out candy and presents and had our tree lighted.
Our Christmas dance was held last week-end. A real freezing northland was
the scene of action. Cotton icicles sprinkled w i t h artificial snow hung around
the bookcases and between the doors. F i r tree branches lent realism but a
stuffed w i l d cat and a stuffed fox guarded the campfire and made the most
realistic touch of all.

Eta's girls are well represented i n college affairs this year. One of its
members is president of Wisconsin's chapter of Theta Sigma Phi and another
g i r l has recently been initiated into Theta Sigma Phi. One o f the new initiates
and a new g i r l this year at Wisconsin has already been elected into one of the
leading women's dramatic societies. This organization just produced Behind
a Watteau Picture, in which two o f our girls took leading parts. One senior
in the house is w o r k i n g as women's editor o f Wisconsin's daily university paper
and one of the younger girls is on the advertising staff o f the same. About a
half dozen are w o r k i n g on this year's yearbook, the Badger.

Eta's resolution f o r the coming year is to redouble her support of university
activities. She wishes the best possible success to all her sisters i n A O P i .

MARION R O T H , '21, Chapter Editor

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ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Pledges

Orill Campbell, '23, Choteau Harriet Nordstrum, '23, Big Timber

Marie Moebus, '23, Butte Bess Phillips, '23, Glasgow

Virginia Walker, '23, Bozeman.

We Alpha Phis are just reveling in the few days of sunshine and m i l d
weather that followed one of the worst cold spells we have ever experienced
here. For almost a week the thermometer registered about ten below zero at
the warmest and i t was at thirty-two one m o r n i n g and thirty-six another, when
we all had eight o'clocks. Evalyn Border froze her ears, but I believe there
were "no other casualties."

Because of the very cold weather and the critical f u e l situation, college
closed a week early and you can imagine the wild rush of final examinations (we
run on the quarter system and this is the end of the first quarter) a week before
we had expected them. We have received no report upon our grades as yet,
but Alpha Phi Chapter has always headed the list at Montana State College,
and I know we w i l l rank well this time.

The M . S. C. dramatic club has just been reorganized, w i t h an 2 A E f o r
president, Helen Tripp, '21, for vice-president, and Dorothy Ann Holland, '22,
as secretary-treasurer. Most of our girls are active in Y . W . C. A . work, and
the Y . W . vice-president, art and publicity chairman, treasurer, and music
chairman are Alpha O's. We are well represented also i n the Treble Clef
Club, the Choral Club, the Secretarial, A r t , and Home Economics Clubs.

Recently the women of the college formed a Women's League, the member-
ship including every regularly enrolled college girl. The "inner circle" of the
league is the Women's Council, composed of ten representatives elected by
ballot by the college girls. T w o of the three Women's League offices are held
by Alpha O's and we have four members i n the Council. So you can seen we
are busy w i t h other things besides our lessons.

Every year our Dean of Women, Una B. Herrick, conducts a Vocational
Congress for high school girls here. The Congress lasts about three days, and
the meetings consist of a series of addresses upon possible occupations f o r
women. I t is very interesting and helpful. This year our chief speaker was
Miss Bennett of Chicago—"the Miss Bennett" about whom you have all heard,
I am sure. I t is a rare treat to hear Miss Bennett and she always inspires us.
The preparations f o r the Congress are in charge of college girls, the work
being divided into fifteen parts, f o u r of which were in charge of Alpha O's—
entertainment, finance, housing, and music.

A n inter-fraternity tea was given f o r the Congress delegates by the four
girls' fraternities. Our inter-fraternity relations here are very friendly. The
other three organizations are at present all locals, though two are trying for
Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi. We four, with the four men's fraternities, have
a local inter-fraternity council and have a few simple rules to guide us. For
instance, a new organization w i l l not be recognized as a f r a t e r n i t y until i t has
been organized, and announced as such, f o r one year. The rushing rules are
simple. No limitation is put upon summer rushing, but during college rushing
is limited to the regular fraternity functions and individual rushing. There
is to be no pledging until the end of the first quarter hereafter.

Just a bit about our holidays. Most of the girls have gone home, and
many of our alumni have stopped to see us en route home f o r vacation. W e
are presenting the chapter house w i t h a floor lamp instead o f exchanging i n d i -
vidual gifts this Christmas.

M I N N I E - E L L E N MARQUIS, '20, Chapter Editor.

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NU OMICRON—VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Mary B. Allison, '23 Pledges
Virginia Martin, '23 Bessie Beasley, '23
Sarah Hopkins, '23 Katherine Ormes, '23
Helen Hopkins, 23 Margaret McCay, '23
Margaret H i l l , '23 Nell Fain, '23
Margaret Beauchamp, '23 Matjie Carter, '21
Ruth Stalnaker, '22

The last time I wrote a chapter letter college had not started. This time
three months of this year have gone, work all finished and examinations now.

W i t h only seven old girls back, N u Omicron thinks that so f a r we have
had a rather successful year, pledging ten freshmen, one j u n i o r , and one
sophomore who comes to us f r o m Canada.

Work has been unusually hard this last quarter and due to that fact plus a
faculty r u l i n g , we have had only one social function since rushing season—a
dance given by our freshmen. Needless to say that i t rained f o r N u Omicron
never has a party unless it rains, but that didn't keep i t from being a good
party. I t is part o f our ambition to get the reputation f o r original things
and although we are somewhat at a distance f r o m that goal we are advancing
and will have that to report at a later date.

I must not fail to note the fact that Viola Phillipp, '20, was initiated into
Phi Beta Kappa a few weeks ago. She is the first f r o m this chapter, although
in the last two years of our turbulent existence we have had several Magna Cum
Laude girls. The best part of it is that she made it in three years.

Just at the present moment N u Omicron has no engagements to announce.
Perhaps, however, we will have soon. Alpha Phi with her list o f summer
brides seems to be t r y i n g to usurp our reputation, but never shall that happen.

So, with all sorts o f Ne,w Year's resolution, N u Omicron closes with best
wishes and hopes f o r 1920 to all other A O TVs.

F L O R E N C E T Y L E R , '21, Chapter Editor.

PSI—UNIVERSITY O F PENNSYLVANIA

When I read in the November number of T o DRAGMA the letters from
chapters whose rushing had been happily completed, I sighed and all of Psi
joined me, f o r rushing at Pennsylvania is still on the tapis and I know you
fortunate Alpha O's w i l l sympathize when I tell you that i t lasts f r o m about
October 1 to January 6. T h i s harassing condition, however, w i l l be somewhat
relieved next year as our rushing season w i l l be very much shorter.

Aside f r o m luncheons, teas, dances, and being eternally pleasant to fresh-
men, campus affairs have been bustling. The co-eds have started a campaign
to raise money for a much-needed club-house. Each girls buys a brick (ten
dollars) and endeavors to sell as many as possible to interested outsiders.

We are sending ten girls to the Student Volunteer Convention in Des
Moines and the fraternities are r u n n i n g a theatre benefit this week to assist
in raising the money to cover our representatives' expenses. Naturally, every
g i r l envies the fortunate ten their t r i p , but some of us feel that i f we once got
out there we might forget all about coming back. You see we Easterners have
heard must of the fascination of the West.

We celebrated Founders' Day with the Philadelphia A l u m n a Chapter, and
a wonderful time we had. Our dignified alumna amazed us by t u r n i n g out as
a very proficient orchestra. Curtain rods, dishpans, combs, and various other

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implements contributed to the racket. O f course, we had to retaliate, and our
impromptu efforts were much appreciated.

Christmas week is a busy time f o r Alpha Omicron Pis every where, but we
feel as i f nobody really could have as much to do as we. We had a tree and
we presented ten-cent g i f t s to one another. The house received a real present
and we did not forget our children at the Settlement House. Each of us filled
two stockings and the Alumna; Chapter gave a party to seventy little tots.

In our next letter I hope to be able to introduce to you a fine group o f
recent initiates, and until then please wish us luck.

C. L A R U E CROSSON, ' a i , Chapter Editor.

PHI—UNIVERSITY O F KANSAS

Pledges

Ida Logue, '22 Blanche Potts, '23

Everyone in Phi has the holiday spirit despite the fact that the coal shortage,

a blizzard, no dances, and only two shows a week make some of us exclaim,
"What's the use o f going to college anyway?" K . U . is the only college open
in the state, all the others have had to close, but we have coal and have sent

one hundred men to' the coal fields in answer to Governor Allen's call f o r
college men to work the deserted mines. One o f the trains going to the coal
fields was derailed by the miners, but none of our "strike breakers" were i n -
jured. Does all this seem rather irrelevant? I f you could only heard some o f

the girls t r y i n g to console themselves by reading Milton—"they also serve who
only stand and wait!"

When K . U . played Nebraska five of our girls visited Zeta chapter. They
had a wonderful time—even i f K . U . did lose the game—and enjoyed meeting

the Zeta girls.

One Sunday not long ago we found the dining-room doors mysteriously
closed at dinner-time and then noticing the place-cards on the tables we began to

guess whose birthday it was—but i t d i d not take us long to discoved one of
those familiar little versifications about cupid and roses and—yes, Bernice
Kuhn, '22, and Russell Davis, Sigma Chi. Surprised? We were literally
dumfounded.

We have two more pledges to add to the six who were mentioned i n the
November issue, I d a Logue, '22, a g i r l we are all going to love, and Blanche
Potts, '23, who is a wonderful violinist and concert master of, the orchestra.

Fortunate, in the most enveloping sense of the word, is Phi in having as

her chaperon, Mother Hoffman. Patient, kind, considerate, gentle-mannered,
and capable always. N o r does she f a i l to share whole-heartedly in our f r i v o l i -
lies and pleasures.

We were overjoyed when the sorority grades were averaged and it was

found that Alpha 0 stood second in scholarship on the H i l l . Editor.
J A C Q U E L I N E G I L M O R E , '22, Chapter

OMEGA—MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Lura Grant, '21 New Members
Marguerite Wust, '21

New Pledges

Bernice Shuey, '23 Martha Jacques, '23

I t is our custom to give the freshmen complete charge o f our Christmas

party. The one this year was unusually clever and attractive. Besides our

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party we had planned a Christmas tea, but due to the coal shortage we were
forced to postpone i t .

We wish to introduce you to some new sisters. Since the last letter, we
have initiated two girls, L u r a Grant and Marguerite Wust. Both of these
girls are juniors and valuable additions to Omega. Also we have two new
pledges of whom we are very proud, Bernice Shuey and Martha Jacques.

Omega was very much surprised to receive a letter today telling us of the
marriage of Mildred Burcaw, ex-'2l, to M r . Marshall Smith.

I n October the Liberal A r t s Club sent a delegate to a convention at Cleve-
land and Clarissa Scott was chosen.

Iota, we are glad to have E r m i n a Smith Price so near to us. She was mar-
ried on Thanksgiving day and is now l i v i n g in Cincinnati. She has already
spent one week-end with us and we hope she w i l l come often.

G R A C E W I L L I S , '21, Chapter Editor.

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
R. W . E M E R S O N , Conduct of Life.

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ALUMNA CHAPTER LETTERS

(Los Angelos Alunmae letter arrived eighteen days late and therefore sub-
ject to the fine.)

NEW YORK A L U M N A

There is one circumstance that invariably accompanies the meetings of the
New York Alumna:—it rains. Sometimes it pours, depositing pools of water
among the torn-up slates on the roof of New York University, thus rendering
dangerous our path to the N u chapter rooms; and sometimes it merely driz-
zles, enveloping the square in a thick gray mist, softening the lights, and
d i m m i n g the outlines of the arch so that i t stands shadow-like at the entrance.
But always i t rains—October, November, December; I suppose also January,
February, March, and so on to the end of the calendar. The New Y o r k
Alumnre, however, are brave spirits, and nothing daunted by wet and weather,
they sally f o r t h to dinner at Aunt Clemmie's, leaving umbrellas dripping in
the hallway and slimy goloshes strewing the floor. (Perhaps this is one of the
reasons w h y those inhospitable doors are now closed against us.)

The October meeting was delightfully informal—of course, our meetings
are always i n f o r m a l , but this one was especially. Piloting one another
through puddles and slates and kegs of nails on a roof invites a certain
friendliness of spirit. I n place of the usual appointed speaker, Miss Henry
and M r s . Perry discussed certain phases of convention. Miss H e n r y explained
various points concerning constitutional amendments, and Mrs. Perry described
the historical exhibit and outlined her plans for the history of the fraternity.
As we all eagerly begged f o r i t , she also told us the story of how A 0 I I was
founded at Barnard. I wonder i f all the chapters know one fact that w i l l go
down i n our history; namely, that the $2,050 sent by A 0 I I f o r the rehabilita-
ting of a town in the Chateau Thierry region was the largest sum sent abroad
by any woman's fraternity. I t is amazing, when one stops to think, how
rapidly our fraternity has grown f r o m its unpretentious beginning at Barnard
to an organization whose interests are world-wide and whose influence is felt
on two continents.

At the November meeting Miss Rembaugh gave us a spirited narrative of
her campaign for judge, revealing many bits of information not exploited by
the New Y o r k newspapers. Though she was not successful as a candidate, she
received an unusually high percentage of votes. That fact is significant.

The New York Alumnre is at present facing a difficult question. Where
shall we meet to dine? Aunt Clernmie declares vociferously that we drive
away her regular customers f o r weeks; and our old resort, the Green Witch,
refuses to reserve tables. For the December meeting, as i t f e l l on the night
after Founders' Day and as we wanted to celebrate the occasion, we had a
picnic supper in the N u chapter rooms. Were i t not so much trouble, this
would be an agreeable way out o f the difficulty; but salad and sandwiches and
creamed oysters are a weariness to the flesh i f you have to prepare them—
hence we must seek some other solution.

Our December meeting was a decided success. M r s . Perry spoke again o f
the f o u n d i n g of the f r a t e r n i t y and of her hopes and ideals f o r the future. I t
is a joy to have M r s . Perry w i t h us and an immense satisfaction to realize
that we can have her f o r the year. Several of the Alpha girls were there on
this night, and Anna Many of Pi, who was passing through New York on
her way home f r o m Trieste, where she has been w i t h the Y . M . C. A . , came

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in f o r awhile. O f course we sang to M r s . Perry and to the Alphas and to
Anna Many.

We are fast becoming, by the way, a singing chapter. We sing to every-
body and to everything, and after the business of the evening is over, we sit
around on the floor and sing. I f we do not know the songs, Clare Graeff
teaches them to us, while M a r y Sumner plunks her guitar in the hope that we
might possibly strike the right key and stay there. We improve with every
practice, however, as Clare w i l l tell you. Last time our efforts were long and
loud. We rehearsed every song in the songbook until we suddenly found
ourselves in the midst o f —

"It's always f a i r weather when we Alphas get together."
Then the rap-tap-tap o f the rain on the roof stirred someone to move that we
banish that song f r o m our repertoire.

For the coming year we have several projects on hand. One is the Ashley
Memorial. I t is Nu's wish—and we are anxious to help Nu—to establish a
scholarship in the New Y o r k University law school as a memorial to Jessie
Ashley's father, Dean Ashley, who f o r so long a time served the university.
Another is the care of our little French orphan, Germaine; and still another
is the f u r t h e r i n g o f the work of the executive council in its efforts to keep alive
the interest in the fraternity of every A 0 IT—that is, to make our fraternity
entirely and intensely national.

The New York A l u m n a extends to all the chapters its greetings and hearti-
est wishes f o r the New Year.

THEODORA D . S U M N E R , Pi '14, Chapter Secretary.

(The Editor wishes to congratulate the New York Chapter upon this very fine letter.)

SAN F R A N C I S C O A L U M N / E

Alumnae of the Bay Cities continue to meet regularly on the first Saturday
of each month f o r a brief business session followed by an hour's gossip over
tea and sewing. A t the December meeting, held at the active chapter house,
we hemmed table napkins for the "House" and planned the chapter's Christ-
mas g i v i n g . We are providing a Christmas dinner w i t h toys and g i f t s f o r the
children of a family of six. Then in conjunction with the sixteen other groups
that f o r m the local Alumnae Panhellenic, we are assisting in arranging a
Christmas party f o r some two hundred poor children.

The members of the Hillside Club have most generously granted the use
of the club-house and the wonderful tree to be decorated f o r their own chil-
dren f o r one afternoon of Christmas week and Panhellenic is providing auto-
mobiles to gather up the children, toys, entertainers, and "goodies" to eat.

F L O R E N C E E . W E E K S , Sigma '09, Alumna Assistant Business Manager.

PROVIDENCE ALUMN2E

Best wishes to everybody f o r a very happy New Year. When you read
this the New Year w i l l be well on its way and let us hope it w i l l be just brim
f u l l of good things f o r us a l l . We feel very proud that our new Grand Presi-
dent belongs especially to us and we know she is going to be one big inspira-
tion to every chapter in A O I I .

We have had our meetings regularly since October, although I have been able
to be at only one as my small daughter keeps me at home most of the time.
We celebrated Founders' Day by a luncheon and a good time together. We
all live so f a r apart that we rarely all get together f o r a meeting but we are
t r y i n g to help a little i n solving the various problems of the fraternity by

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careful thought and discussion each time. We hope to tell you more about it
in the near future.

M U R I E L C. W Y M A . N , Gamma '15, Chapter Secretary

B O S T O N ALUMN-ffi

Boston Alumna; have had three meetings since the last letter: one at the
Cranford I n n in Cambridge, one at Rena Greenwood's, in Medford, and one
at the Elizabeth-Peabody House in Boston.

In spite of this fact, there really is not a great deal of news to write.
Our meeting i n Cambridge was not the success—from one point of view—
that we hope. There were a large number there, and we enjoyed the meeting,
but the I n n itself disappointed us. I t proved to be a more expensive proposi-
tion than we thought.

The November meeting was at Rena's. I was not present at that meeting,
but f r o m all reports, i t was an unusually good meeting. Everyone has called
it "an a w f u l l y good time," so I guess they must have sewed, talked, and eaten
mostly. That is what usually constitutes a good time, with the Boston girls.

Our Christmas meeting was held in town at the Elizabeth-Peabody House,
where we have held a number of our Christmas meetings. The T u f t s Alumna;
meeting preceded i t , so a number of people came who are not often able to
be w i t h us.

The Peabody House has a model apartment of f o u r rooms i n which our
meeting was held. The kitchen is well-fitted, the pantry f u l l y equipped, and
even the dining-room was well stocked. We had the privilege of fixing our own
eat, too, which cut expenses f o r us. We are t r y i n g our best here to lower costs
of our meetings, but success is f u g i t i v e . Boston is not the place to find suc-
cess in that line in this day and age, we are firmly convinced.

Since our last letter, T u f t s has started a campaign f o r funds. Acting
President Cousens is doing a big work f o r the college in this respect, and
the alumna; and students are backing him up in the drive. The new "Chem
Lab" is to be begun in the spring, and the salaries of the professors are to
be raised.

Best wishes to all A l p h a O f o r a happy and prosperous New Year.
H . MARION J A M E S O N , '17, Alumna Assistant Editor.

LOS A N G E L E S A L U M N A

H a v i n g discontinued our meetings through the summer months, we began
our meetings this last September with f u l l attendance at the home of our
president, Jess McKenna. We had with us two visiting Alpha O's, both f r o m
Lambda, Alice Moore and Grace Dickover. Business was almost forgotten
in the excitement of exchanging summer trips and experiences.

The October meeting was held at Erna Taylor's home and as a pleasant
surprise, three or four new Alpha O residents of Los Angeles appeared, all
promising to come regularly. We now can boast of about twenty-five girls
as members of the Los Angeles Chapter. We welcome these new girls and
want all Alpha O's to know that i f you are in Los Angeles either temporarily
or permanently, do make i t known. We want you to come and meet us a l l .

The great question before this meeting was as to what we should do f o r
Christmas charity work. We have always distributed baskets to the poor but
as this is taken care of by so many other organizations we wanted to do
something more needed and of more lasting benefit. This matter was left
open to investigation and decided upon at the next meeting, held at the home

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of Frances Chandler Kilpatrick. We decided to collect our usual Christmas
donations, buy material and make garments f o r the L . A . Maternity Home.
This would keep our fingers as well as our tongues busy at the meetings and
our efforts go toward an absolutely worthy cause.

We planned to give a Christmas party between Christmas and New Year's
but the idea had to be given up because so many girls had l e f t town f o r the
holidays.

Two days before Thanksgiving, a son was born to May Chandler Goodan.
I f the new baby is anything like his sister Ruth, he is "some boy."

Los Angeles Alumna; wish you all a most happy and prosperous New Year.
E V A D I C K O V E R F E R G U S O N , Chapter Editor.

LINCOLN A L U M N A

The meetings of the Lincoln Alumna; Association did not start until in
the early winter so consequently there was little news until after the girls
had met and talked our plans f o r the winter.

The summer months were devoted to starting a f u n d to be used in purchas-
ing new f u r n i t u r e f o r the chapter house and also to creating a permanent
f u n d as a nucleus f o r a lot f u n d . Zeta Chapter hopes to own its own home
some day and is now making plans f o r the f u t u r e . Viola Gray and Elsie
Fitzgerald were asked to take charge of collecting the money. Letters were
sent to all Alpha O's f r o m the University of Nebraska chapter and the re-
sponses f r o m the requests f o r money were very liberal.

The furniture, which was bought in Omaha and Lincoln by Viola, Elsie,
Lucile Mauck and Belle Cook o f the active chapter and Stella Stevens H a r r i -
son and Blanche Woodruff Potter of Omaha, was all in place when the rush-
ing parties started the t h i r d week i n September.

The alumnae chapter was hostess f o r one of the parties d u r i n g the rushing
season. A dinner and cotillion was given at the home of Lourene Bratt.

Saturday afternoon, December 27, Helen Eckles Hoppe and Gisela Birk-
ner entertained the alumnae girls w i t h a tea at the home of Helen Hoppe.
Twenty girls called d u r i n g the afternoon, among whom was Jeanette Adams
of Eagle, and Elsie Piper of Wayne who were i n Lincoln f o r the holidays.

Elna Nissen was married Wednesday afternoon, December 3, to Adolph
Kroigard. The marriage took place very quietly at the Church of the Holy
T r i n i t y in Lincoln. M r . and Mrs. K r o i g a r d l e f t immediately after the cere-
mony f o r the East f r o m where they sailed f o r Denmark f o r their honeymoon.
They w i l l be at home after March 1 i n New York City.

The annual Christmas party, followed by a Christmas tree, was held as
formerly at the chapter house. The alumna; were guests and the usual good
time was enjoyed.

H E L E N FITZGERALD, Alumna Assistant Editor.

CHICAGO ALUMNAE

Since Melita took advantage of us in the last letter, by remarking about the
Rho girls, I might get even with her this time by telling you how she is rep-
resenting Epsilon. Her enthusiasm f o r Alpha O is a great help to the
Alumna; Chapter. As I heard one of our members say: "She is a person
who lives up to our fraternity motto."

The chapter has had four lively meetings this f a l l , and a couple of parties
besides, all well attended.

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The December meeting with Esther Vincent was an initiation of new mem-
bers, of which there were seven: Vera Alderson, Eta, '17; Louis Hoffman,
Rho, '17; Alice Jane Wilson, Rho, '17; Kate Blum, Rho, '18; Helen Slaten,
Rho, ' i q ; Edith Brown, Rho, ' I Q ; Dorothy Kerr, Rho, '19. We were glad to
receive these members and there are a number of others whom we hope to
take in soon.

There were f o u r chapters represented at this meeting, Eta, Rho, Iota, and
Epsilon. We had one bride of the past month, Goldie Halquist Buehler.
No alumna can afford to be absent, as she w i l l miss much news of present
and former members. We would like to congratulate Marie V . Swanson
(Mrs. A . E.) on the birth of a son. We were glad to hear that Betty Hiestand
is recovering so rapidly f r o m her hospital experience, though still unable to
be w i t h us. She has been missed this f a l l . Mabel Gastfield has been i l l with
diptheria. Melita tells us her cousin Katherine Colpitts is w i t h the Ralph
Dunbar Company in the cast of the Chocolate Soldier. Success to you Katherine.

About twelve alumna are reported to have attended the Chicago Panhellenic
luncheon at the Edgewater Beach Hotel on November 22. Zona Gale was the
guest o f honor and gave an interesting address.

A surprise shower f o r Doris Wheeler was held November 18 at the home
of Lenora D. Braun.

The next meeting w i l l be January 3, with Julia Fuller Crane, 1823 Wesley
Avenue, Evanston. A n y Alpha O's i n Chicago or passing through the city
remember the first Saturday of the month. You w i l l always be welcome with
us.

G E R A I . D I N E K I N D I G . Rho, '14, Chapter Editor.

I N D I A N A P O L I S ALUMNffi

Indianapolis A l u m n a Club had its Christmas party at the home of Helen
Baney. A n d i t was such a lovely party we could scarcely drag ourselves
away when evening came. The feature of the afternoon was the g i f t grab
bag. O f course there was a twenty-five cent limit, but Kentucky moonshiners
could never more ingeniously evade rules than d i d the donors o f those gifts.
The unfortunate members who d i d not know about the grab bag were per-
mitted to put in an I . O. U . and draw gifts anyway. They promised to
redeem their I . O. U . before Christmas.

Bernice Canaday f r o m Theta Chapter was a welcome guest. She told us all
about the freshmen and the Christmas party f o r poor children which is an an-
nual event for the girls of the college. We talked of National A l u m a W o r k
and found there was so much to be learned as yet that we can only assure
the committee of our eagerness to be put to work.

Since our last letter the Indiana State Teachers' Association met in Indian-
apolis. Thursday o f that week the club had a picnic supper for the Alpha
Omicron Pi's who are teaching in the state. About forty were there and we
learned more about teaching English than was ever practiced on us. That
evening we had a letter f r o m Celia Bates who is at Ithaca i n connection w i t h
the Agricultural College of the University of Pennsylvania and incidentally
chaperons the T r i Deltas of Cornell.

Early in November was De Pauw's Old Glory Day and home-coming. Sev-
eral of our girls were down then and now they talk so f a m i l i a r l y of the
active girls they make all of us envy them. We are going to go down as
soon as we can to see who is l i v i n g i n our old room.

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The November meeting at the apartment of R u t h Ritchie Jones was a
delightful affair. Esther Day particularly enjoyed the new grand piano.
Further details are lacking f o r the editor is an irrepressible football fan and
had to see De Pauw play her ancient rival. She lost a l l her dignity and hung
on the fence rooting i n an unspeakable manner. A n d she thought the active
girls she saw j o l l y good sisters.

Best wishes f o r the happiest New Year that Alphas ever had.

A N N E W H I T E , Theta, '18.

NEW ORLEANS ALUMNffi

I t seems strange that when these lines now being written w i l l appear i n
print, the Christmas festivities w i l l be among pleasures that are passed. Here
in New Orleans we are looking f o r w a r d to the promised reunion w i t h many
of our girls who w i l l return f r o m their various places of occupation for the
Christmas vacation.

We have been fortunate enough to have experienced already some of the
joys o f such meetings, f o r this f a l l has brought us visits f r o m Rochelle Gachet
and f r o m Delie Bancroft, both o f whom we welcomed from the botton of
our hearts—Rochelle with her news of the Washington A l u m n a and her i n -
teresting talk of the f r a t e r n i t y as a whole, and Delie f u l l of enthusiasm over
her new work with the Y . W . C. A . , f o r which she has, at least temporarily,
cast teaching aside. Then, too, we rejoice at being able to have w i t h us again
Clevie Dupre McNees, and we hope that this time she w i l l stay with us
permanently, for we surely missed her when the war, that great changer of
plans, called her and her husband out of town.

Besides welcoming the return o f these former I I girls, the New Orleans
A l u m n a Chapter has accounted itself happy in greeting two Omicron girls—
Wista Brayley Ogle, and Mary Annie Landy. We had hoped to keep Wista
as a member, but now we hear that she has l e f t New Orleans, so we all feel
the loss o f a most interesting and interested worker, and are hoping that some
day circumstances w i l l permit her to return to our city and to attend our
meetings.

( We have had such nice meetings, even i f we do have a hard time discover-
ing days and hours at which frantically busy A O IPs can be free to attend.
On one occasion we had tea a f t e r the business session for the actives and
pledges, both of whom we alumna are very fond and proud, of course this
was an excellent opportunity f o r us to know each other better. I t was then
that we received news o f " K a t " O'Neill's very sudden wedding, an event
which has shared interest only with one other important occurrence—the
birth o f our dear little twin girls, Jane Lee and Joy to Jennie Snyder Savage.

R O S A L I E E . D U F O U R , Pi, '15, Alum/uz Assistant Editor.

MINNEAPOLIS ALUMN-ffi

The season of snow, snappy weather and red noses has arrived. We
Minnesota alumna have been busy w i t h many things as all good alumna
should, but have overlooked many as all good alumna shouldn't. Our No-
vember meeting was held at the home of E d i t h Goldsworthy. Anyone who
knows Edith knows the warm hospitality that radiates f r o m her. After a
short business session, the time was given to "gossiping" and eating. The
wonderful "feed" still lingers in our minds—delicious escalloped oysters,
pumpkin pie, etc., not to mention heaps of chestnuts roasted i n a crackling
grate fire.

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Several of the alumnce were seen at "Open House" after the Minnesota-
Illinois game. Elsa Feldhammer Johnson, Gertrude and Stedy Swanson, Ger-
trude Folkenhagen, Margaret Taarud, Edith Goldsworthy, and Ruth Buckley
were sandwiched in amid the mob that thronged the house. H a d I not known
that only fifty thousand attended the game, and later, the "Open House," I ' d
had sworn that the entire population o f Minnesota and St. Paul was present.
No bargain counter, exhibiting a sign o f "Take me home f o r $1.39" c o u l d
have produced a greater crowd. A n d the active chapter is to be complimented
upon the ease w i t h which i t handled things.

We held a special meeting at the chapter house to sew f o r the Christmas
bazaar. A goodly number was represented and the amount o f work that was
finished up, showed that needles, as well as tongues had been busy. The
bazaar was held at the Leamington the latter part of November. The alumnae
chapter served tea to the passing throng. I f one was clever in passing, one
succeeded in getting an extra serving. We were glad to greet many of the
alumna f r o m out of town who had returned f o r the Thanksgiving holidays.
Alma Boehme, Emily Esswein, Eleanor Willitts, Lillian H u f f , and Doris Loff
Schlamppe were among those whom we do not see very often.

Our Founders' Day banquet was held at the Leamington this year, and
was an unusually inspiring affair. I ' m sure that everyone who was there,
left with a clearer cut vision of what the true ideals of our fraternity are.
M a r y Danielson of Alpha Phi acted as toastmistress, and several alumna:
of different chapters responded to toasts. M a r y Chase of Gamma spoke on
"Fraternity Ideals"; Mrs. Pulling of Delta on "Always P u l l i n g " ; and Mrs.
Jayne of Iota on " A s Y o u Like I t . " The latter was one of the most i m -
pressive benedictions that I have ever had the privilege of listening to. The
deep silence that filled the room after she had finished, attested to the depth
to which her words had sunk. As someone said afterwards, "There was
nothing more to be said."

A n d here's hoping that the New Year w i l l be rich in blessings and filled

with happiness to every single Alpha O. Editor.
MARGARET WOOD, Tau, '16, Alumna Assistant

BANGOR ALUMNffi

We are not having as large an attendance this year as we wish. Several
of our very loyal members have moved away and f o r some reason the new
girls are not appearing very regularly. We are glad Hazel Mariner Buzzell,
Louise Bartlett, and Betty M i l l s are to be w i t h us.

Our October meeting was with Marion Jordon in Old Town and we had a
most delightful time. We were very happy in having our last year's presi-
dent, Imogene Wormwood Ingalls with us. She expected to leave soon f o r
her new home in Buffalo, so we shall not see her as often as we had hoped.
Another interesting visitor that day was Aileene Hobart Libbey's little son.
We all said he was the best behaved baby we ever saw. We decided we would
keep up our work f o r the Seacoast Mission by sending a barrel of w a r m
clothing.

Now that the active chapter is really i n a house by itself and there is a
prospect that they may build next year, we want to help them all we possibly
can. A t the November meeting at Mildred W r i g h t ' s home, we made plans
f o r a most attractive money-making scheme. Claire Weld D u r g i n was a wel-
come guest that day.

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T h i s has been a popular season f o r weddings. I n October Gladys Reed
was married to M r . Neal M e r r i l l , a Maine Phi Gamma Delta. We all at-
tended the wedding in A l l Soul's Church. I t was such a pretty a f f a i r ! They
are to live i n Webb City, Missouri. We certainly hate to have Gladys go so
far away. Margaret Holyoke was also married in October to M r . H . K .
Adams, a Phi Kappa Sigma, at the university. They are l i v i n g in Portland.
Then early in November, Ella Wheeler, '19, was married to M r . Frank Har-
mon, '17. They are to make their home in Lynn, Mass.

Ruth Chalmers has been in the hospital recently f o r an operation on her
throat, but is better now. Lennie Copeland

We all feel very sorry for Helen Danforth West and
who have both lost their mothers within a short while.

M I L D R E D P R E N T I S S W R I G H T , ' I I , Chapter Editor.

PORTLAND ALUMNA

We wish all our Alpha O sisters a most happy New Year!
We have only had one meeting since our last letter, as we never have a
December meeting, so there really is very little to tell you this time. Our
November meeting was held with Nellie McKinley and even i f there were
only a few there we had a very good time and i t does seem good to get to-
gether again. We were introduced to Nellie's two adorable baby boys and
each one of us older folks wished f o r two just like them. We are hoping
the attendance at our meetings w i l l be better in the New Year, and I am
sure each member w i l l make a New Year's resolution to do her part and
stand by our f a i t h f u l president. Caroline never fails us but I ' m afraid we
fail her too often.

We have some news though. Tess Hilstrom has listened to her B i l l y , at
last, and one day in November she became Mrs. W i l l i a m C. Bates. They
are very happy, i f Billy's smiles are any indication, and are very snug at
Franklin Court i n Vancouver. Even the chapter editor decided to share the
editorial burden and now spells her last name Mill-ar instead of Mill-er.

MARGERY M . M I L L A R , '18, Chapter Editor.

PUGET SOUND ALUMNA

D u r i n g the summer months i t seemed rather difficult to maintain very
much chapter spirit, but nevertheless, the members o f the Puget Sound
A l u t n n x Chapter were able to keep in touch with each other to quite an extent.

A t one time we spent a most delightful afternoon at the home of Minnie
Kraus. This meeting was in the early part o f the summer and a short time
after Commencement. Although to those who were graduated in June, i t
seemed strange to be invited to an alumna: chapter meeting, still i t was a
wonderful feeling to know that a place was waiting f o r you and that you
could still go on with A 0 IT work.

Then later in the summer Mrs. Brown invited the chapter to her home
for Sunday afternoon tea. A n d needless to say we all enjoyed i t very much
and enjoyed seeing all the sisters again.

I n October we met at the Northhold I n n f o r lunch. This was indeed an
interesting meeting for Maria Marchildon (Upsilon's delegate to Convention)
told us all about her w o n d e r f u l time while there. We are all so enthusiastic
about Convention that I am sure some of us w i l l save our pennies and dimes
for individual "Convention f u n d s " which w i l l serve to take us to the next
Convention.

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A n d so i t is that with these and other meetings, together with our Thanks-
giving slumber party, we are t r y i n g to build up our alumna; and help our
active chapter.

L O U I S E D O W B E N T O N , Upsilon, '19, Chapter Editor.

KNOXVILLE ALUMNiE

Our first meeting was held the last o f October at the home of Lucretia
Bickley. Emma Albers Hunt was elected President and Margaret Conover,
Treasurer. I t was suggested at this meeting that we write to all our alumnae,
asking them each to give us a dollar to be used f o r the f r a t e r n i t y room,
which is badly in need of repair. Quite a number have responded, but not a l l .
I n my next letter, I hope to tell you fully all about our room, and what
changes we have been able to make. We are doing all we can to help our
active chapter. Nearly a l l of us have teas and parties d u r i n g the rushing
season.

We postponed our December meeting until the eighteenth and so had with
us Laura Mayo Jernigen, who has come to spend the holidays with homefolks,
and Helen Kennedy, who is doing Home Demonstration work in Selma,
Alabama. I am glad to say that every member was present, even though i t
was so near Christmas.

Our main business at this next meeting was to subscribe money, which
was asked of the active chapter, f o r sending the magazine to every member
of A 0 I I . This is a splendid idea, and as we have such an interesting maga-
zine, there must result many new subscriptions.

A reception was given Thanksgiving afternoon at the St. Johns Orphanage,
which was a memorable one as there was held at this time the dedicatory
service of the Edith Caulkins Memorial dormitory, refurnished and decorated
by friends and patients of D r . Caulkins, i n appreciation of his 31 years of
free service as house physician of the orphanage, d u r i n g which time he has
never lost a little patient through death. The memorial dormitory has been
done in a scheme o f yellows and browns, the walls being painted i n nastur-
tiums. The rugs are i n a blending tone as is also the dark wood work. The
windows are draped i n white w i t h flowered cretonne hangings.

Omicron sends all love and best wishes f o r a happy New Year.

A I L C Y K Y L E P E E T , '10, Chapter Editor.

LYNCHBURG ALUMNiE

We have had four enthusiastic anil well attended meetings since w r i t i n g
our last letter to you. Lizzie Webber Payne has been i n Texarkana all the
while, but she is home again now and at our last meeting we hope our circle
of A l p h a O's w i l l be complete.

One of our objects this year has been to keep in closer touch with the
active chapter. We go to their meetings whenever possible and try to have
a representative f r o m the active chapter at ours. I n November we all had
supper together at the house—we certainly enjoyed the girls and they seemed
to enjoy the house eats we served.

A l l ten of us are Kappa Alumna; and we have been actively interested
in the Smith Memorial this fall. Every Randolph-Macon girl knows all
about the Smith Memorial, but f o r the benefit of those who do not, I w i l l
say that it is a much-needed building to be erected by the students and alumna;
to provide offices, etc., f o r their various activities. This has long been a dream
with us and now that i t is about to become a realization we are w i l d with

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delight. Judging f r o m the success we have had thus far, we w i l l certainly
be able to lay the cornerstone in June. The campaign opened i n Lynchburg
with a very enthusiastic rally at which Laura Radford Yates's children
played a prominent part. We made a contribution through our chapter aside
f r o m our individual pledges, and by Christmas we'll be "over the top."

D u r i n g the f a l l , several of Kappa's alumnae have come back to visit.
Helen H a r d y and Anna Taylor were here about Thanksgiving, H i l d a Gleaves
came to see her grandmother and Ella Thomas spent several days with
Frances Allen. We do have the best time reminiscencing together! We just
wish f o r more opportunities to meet with more A l p h a O's.

E L I Z A B E T H B R Y A N W I L L I A M S , '15, Chapter President.

WASHINGTON ALUMNiE

The Christmas season finds us greatly reduced in numbers but still much
alive; Margaret Durkee Angel has moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to our great
disappointment, and a number of the other girls have gone back to college.
Katherine Brown sprang a surprise on us by "up and m a r r y i n ' " without
giving us a word o f warning, and her husband, M r . Lewis Murphy, was unkind
enough to take her way out to Oklahoma City to live. Our letters f r o m the
girls who have left us, however, are f u l l of most interesting accounts of what
they are doing f o r the fraternity elsewhere, which compensates somewhat f o r
the loss of them.

I t was our great pleasure to spend an evening with Mrs. McCausland and
Mrs. MacPhie while they were here attending the Panhellenic and Editors'
Conference. We all had supper together at the Government Hotel and then
spent a cozy evening i n the Y . W . C. A. House nearby. Needless to say,
we went home that evening f u l l y convinced that no fraternity at the confer-
ence had better representatives. Lucy Somerville of the New Y o r k Alumnae
Chapter and Ella Thomas, both old Kappa girls, dropped in on us at our
November meeting.

We celebrated Founders' Day by holding a ritual meeting in Rochelle's
room over at the Government Hotel, and though we were few i n numbers we
made up for it by the wealth o f loyalty and love in our hearts for dear old
Alpha.

We are hoping that all old members of the Washington Chapter who have
not already done so w i l l send i n their pictures and data f o r the Scrap Book.

When giving gifts to your old Alpha O friends, follow our example and
send them a year's subscription to T o DRAGMA ! You couldn't give them a
finer present!

R E B E C C A B. L A M A R , '16, Chapter Editor.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNiE

The work of the year is now i n f u l l swing and we are as busy as bees.
We find time, however, to get to meetings once each month, and never weary
of reviewing our "good old college days." Our meetings are held in Psi's
house and take us right back to the campus. A t the first meeting, Avis sur-
prised us by serving "eats." Our second meeting was held with Psi Chapter.
We all had supper together at the chapter house (Violet and Ruth are
surely wonderful managers) and then, moving to the chapter room, a ritual
meeting was held by the combined groups. I t surely made our hearts beat
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of December the actives and alumn i once more joined hands in a j o l l y
Founders' Day celebration. The talent of the evening was furnished by the
active girls and never d i d an audiencei enjoy a show more than we did that
night. This week the Alumna? Club is holding a special meeting at the home
of Katherine Thomas. Our chief business at that time w i l l be to fill stockings
for the poor kiddies of the College Settlement House. We are giving a
Christmas party f o r these tots on December 27 and I am sure we are looking
f o r w a r d to their f u n as much as they are. A t our November meeting the f o l -
lowing girls were welcomed into the c l u b : Ruth Cotton, Psi, '19; Mary
Glowacki, Psi, '19; Irene Green, Epsilon, ' I Q ; Mrs. Oliver Wright, Epsilon,
'19; and Eleanor Neely, Epsilon, '19. We were delighted to have Evelyn
H a r r i s Jefferies w i t h us again after her long absence.

Do any of you Alpha O's ever get to Philadelphia? I f you do, won't you
run i n to see us and j o i n us at our meetings? We'd love to meet our sisters,
one and a l l .

C E C E L I A G. G E R S O N , Psi, '17, Chapter Editor.

DALLAS ALUMNJE

The Dallas Alumnae has been devoting most o f her time the last two
months to the numerous campaigns that have been going on here. Dallas has
had the honor of witnessing one of the most successful drives in the United
States since the close o f the war. The Y . W . C . A . launched a campaign,
which was to last f o r two weeks, f o r one hundred thousand dollars. I n less
than ten days, they had reached their quota, with four thousand dollars over.
Other drives in which we helped were the Red Cross, and the Greater Medical
Campaign.

We are all so glad to have Eleanor M a n n i n g ( K '19) w i t h us this year.
Mrs. J. B. Hubbell ( L u c i n d a Smith, N K, '17) has returned f r o m New Y o r k
and is w i t h us again.

M A U D E M . R A S B U R Y , '19, Alumna' Assistant Editor.

K A N S A S ALUMN-ffi

(Welcome Kansas Alumn* to our midst. The editor was more than pleased to
receive the following telegram and accepts it as your first chapter letter.)

Greater Kansas Alumnae Chapter installation conducted December seventh

by Phi Chapter. The following officers were elected.
President, Charlotte Uhls (Mrs. Kenneth B.), Upsilon, ex-'i7.

Vice-President, Maude Waters (Mrs. A. R.), Kappa, ex-'n.

Treasurer, Edith Phenecie, Phi, '18.

Secretary and Chapter Editor, Julia Anna Smith, Kappa, '15.

The other members initiated were Clarice Gardner, Grace Stotts, Helen

Gallagher, Mary Rose, Kathryn Ninx, Anne Curdy, and Mrs. Blair.

C H A R L O T T E U H L S , '17, Chapter President.

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ALUMNA NOTES

(No Notes from Omicron, Eta, Phi.)

PI

GENERAL

Mary Raymond, '17, is studying medicine at Tulane University.
Magda Chalaron, '18, is teaching at one o f the New Orleans private schools.
Gladys A n n Renshaw, '14, is teaching at the University of Oklahoma.
Rietta Garland, '17, lives at 251 3rd St., Niagara Falls, N . Y .

MARRIAGES

M a r j o r i e Fell married Lee A . Wallace, November 6, i n N o r f o l k .

Kathlyn O'Neill, '17, was married to Tobin McSweeny, recently.

R O S A L I E E . D U F O U R , '15, Alumna Assistant Editor.

NU

GENERAL

Helen A r t h u r is general manager of Neighborhood Play House, 466 Grand

St., New York City.
Helen Henry ( 2 ) has a position in New York City with the Near East

Relief. Her address is 430 W . 119 St., New Y o r k City.

Helen Shipman ( A ) is w o r k i n g with the Guaranty Trust of New York

City.
Caroline Piper D o r r ( P ) is now living in New Rochelle, New York, and

has joined the New York Alumn;e Chapter.

BIRTHS

Alice Smith Thompson ( A ) , has a daughter, born in August in Buffalo,

New York.

KAPPA

To M r . and Mrs. Frank Bane (Greyson Hoofnagle, '12), a daughter on

November I f .

E L I Z A B E T H B . W I L L I A M S , '15, Alumna Assistant Editor.

ZETA

GENERAL

Gisela Birkner who is teaching in Sioux City, la., spent the holidays w i t h
her family in Lincoln.

Annie Jones Rosborough and her husband spent the holidays with relatives
in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and f r o m there went to New York and Philadelphia
for brief visits.

A daughter was born i n October to F.dna Hathaway Hess who is now

living in Hebron, Neb.
Edna Spears who underwent a very serious operation at the Mayo Hospital

in Rochester, M i n n . , is greatly improved though i t w i l l be a number of months
before she w i l l be able to resume her teaching i n Omaha.

Martha Walton acted as house chaperon f o r the two weeks preceding the
Christmas holidays d u r i n g the absence because of illness of Mrs. H a r r i n g t o n .

Essebel Rohman Pritchard of Kenosha, Wis., spent the holidays and the
greater part of January with her family in Lincoln.

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Anabel Good Paine, her husband and little four months' old son, Franklin,
of Clinton, la., spent the holidays at the home in Lincoln of Anabel's father,
Judge B. F . Good.

F i r n a Kean is teaching in Scotts B l u f f , Neb., this year. She spent the
holidays in Lincoln. Editor.

Helen VVherli is teaching i n a little suburb o f Clinton, l a .
H E L E N FITZGERALD, Alumna Assistant

SIGMA

GENERAL

Gladys Courtian Britton, '10, has returned to Berkeley after a year and
a half in the Orient.

Rose von Schmidt Bell, '09, and her f a m i l y are home once more f o l l o w i n g
a year's absence i n Washington and New York.

Lucille Kistler Wagy, '11, with her family is l i v i n g in Washington, D . C.
V i r a Georgeson, '18, is an enthusiastic representative in California of the
World Book Co.

ENGAGEMENTS

Grace Yale Weeks, '12, to Stafford McLean Jory, 'ia.

MARRIAGES 12 i n New

Olive Cutter, '11, to Captain W m . Francis Towle on October
York. Her address is 205 Parkside Ave., Brooklyn, N . Y .

Dorothy Weeks, '19, to Mr. Coin E. Perin on November 21.

To BIRTHS
To
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Justin Moore (Evelyn Bancroft, ex-'i3), a daughter.
M r . and Mrs. Robert Tyson (Roberts Boyd, '09), in September, a daugh-

To M r . and Mrs. Peter Yuill (Ruth Carson, ex-'16), in November, a
daughter.

To Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Howard (Frances Corlett, '16), in November, a
daughter.

To D r . and Mrs. Oscar Bailey (Pearl Pierce, ex-'14), July 17, a son.
F L O R E N C E E . W E E K S , '09, Alumna- Assistant Business Manager.

THETA

GENERAL

Celia Bates, '12, is assistant editor in the publication office of the New
York State College o f Agriculture at Cornell University. Celia is spending
her spare time chaperoning at the Delta Delta Delta home.

Mary Bicknell, '19, is an assistant in the Department o f Zoology at the
University of Kansas. D r . Bennett Allen of cousin o f Lacy Allen, is head
of the department.

Jess Couchman Diggs, ' i o ( M r s . J o h n ) is l i v i n g i n Indianapolis. H e r hus-
band has recently returned f r o m France where he was for nearly two years,
seeing that the water was pure which the boys had to drink. He is now an
Indiana State Chemist.

Cora, '07, and Flora Frazier, '10, are l i v i n g at 305 S. Seventh St.,
Muskogee, Oklahoma. Cora is head o f the Latin department of the high
school there while Flora is teaching in the English department.

Wilhemina Hedde, '19, is teaching in Crookston, Minnesota.

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Melva Hendrix, ex-'19, is teaching Domestic Science in the Crawfordsville,
Indiana, schools.

Edith Heuring, '09, continues here work in the Gary high school.
Florence Jones, '14, received her Master's Degree i n English at Columbia
last summer and is now teaching in the Arsenal Technical high school of
Indianapolis.
Ruby Jones, '12, is teaching i n the Knox, Indiana, high school.
Fern Thompson Jordan, '12 ( M r s . Parker) is l i v i n g at 106 Cortland
Highland Park, Detroit, Michigan. Her husband is doing Y. M . C. A . work
there.
Mary Kibele, ex-'i8, has received her degree f r o m Chicago University
and is now teaching in the Muncie, Indiana, high school.
Agnes Lakin, '19, and Nelle Leachman, '14, are teaching i n the high school
at Amo, Indiana.
Helen Lange, '19, is teaching i n the high school at Vevay, Indiana, which
is one of the oldest towns of the state. Eggleston wrote The Hoosier School-
master there.

Lucille Lockman, ex-'19, is teaching piano in the Metropolitan School of
Music in Indianapolis.

N i n a Maple, '14, teaches i n Gary.
Pearl Maze, '08, teaches i n the Bloomington, Indiana, high school.
Estelle Montgomery, '10, teaches mathematics in the high school at Day-
tona, Florida.
Anna Stafford teaches in West Lafayette, Indiana, and chaperons the girls
of Chi Omega of Purdue.
Ruth, Little, '19, is teaching in the high school at Garrett, Indiana.
Clara Dilts, '16, is teaching French in the high school at Boswell, Indiana.
Frances Kelly, '17, continues her work i n the English department of the
Winamac, Indiana, high school.
Esther Conaday Day, ex-'19, has moved to her own home at 3323 Robson
St., Indianapolis. Helen Lorraine is getting to be a more w o n d e r f u l young-
ster every day.
N o t h i n g concrete has yet been accomplished in Theta's home buying com-
paign; however, plans are still being worked out. The committee is very
h o p e f u l ; yet under present conditions as we all know such a project is nec-
essarily slow.

ENGAGEMENTS

Agnes L . Lakin, '19, to Clay A. Phillips. M r . Phillips was formerly in
government work at Washington, D. C , but is now practicing law in Terre
Haute. He is a graduate of the Indiana Law School.

MARRIAGES

Maro Back, ex-'14, who later graduated from Ohio Wesleyan is married
to J. H . Merriman. They live at Craigville, Indiana, and are both teaching
there.

Ethel Pike, ex-'i8, to Harold Mayhugh, September 4 at Francesville, Indi-
ana, where they are now living.

Vera Gretchen Kelley to Roy Brey December 10 at Greencastle, Indiana.
Mr. Bray is a member of the Acacia Fraternity and a graduate of Purdue
University. They will live on a farm near Monrovia.

Maybelle Hedde, ex-'2i, to William Van Arsdel. Mr. and Mrs. Van Arsdel
are living in Indianapolis.

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BIRTHS

To M r . and Mrs. C . C . Forrest (Edna McClure, '17) a baby girl, Mary
Carolyn, who died at birth, December 14.

To Mary Baker Ruffing, ex-'22, a baby g i r l , Rosemary Emaline.
E D N A M C C L U R E FORREST, '17, Alumna Assistant Editor.

DELTA

Although not an alumna: note, we announce the engagement of Eleanor
P. Richardson, a Jackson College Delta, '22, to M r . Daniel Prescott, Tufts,
'20. Miss Richardson whose home is i n Methuen is a resident of Knight
House. M r . Prescott was a member of the T u f t s Ambulance Unit and is a
member of Delta Tau Delta.

Edith Johnson, ex-'i4, has announced her engagement to M r . Ronald
Donald of Andover, Massachusetts.

Mr. and Mrs. W i l l i a m Maubsby are l i v i n g at 656 S. Govenor St., Iowa
City. Iowa.

GAMMA

GENERAL

Grace Sawyer Benson, '16, is l i v i n g in Evanston, Illinois.
Helen Stinchfield, '19, is teaching in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Polly Mansur, '19, is, one o f our young teachers at the Bangor high school.
Mary Cousins, '14, has taken Irene's position at Bangor high school and
Irene is teaching in Maiden, Mass.
Imogene Wormwood Ingalls is now located at 712 Augustus Place, Niagara
Falls, New York.
Mona McWilliams, '18, is teaching in a private school in New York City.
Ruth Chalmers, '18, is teaching in Berlin, New Hampshire.
June Kelly is office manager f o r the Plimpton Publishing Co., Norwood,
Massachusetts.

MARRIAGES

Gladys Reed, '18, was married October 8 to C. Neil Merrill, '18.
Margaret Holyoke, '15, was married October 14 to H a r o l d Adams, '14, of
Portland, Maine.
Ella Wheeler, '19, was married in November to Frank Harmon of Lynn,
Massachusetts.
Peggy Cheeney and James Totman were married in New York recently.

BIRTHS

Frances Longee Smith of Winterport has a young son, born December 24.
M A D E L I N E ROBINSON, ' I 6 , Alumna Assistant Editor.

EPSILON

GENERAL

Mattie Bodine, ' i l , spent Thanksgiving in Boston with Elna Merrick and
Ethel Cornell.

MARRIED

Margaret Conlon, '18, to Clarence Romeyn Liddle, at Johnstown, New
York, on the eighth of October.

BIRTHS

To M r . and Mrs. A r t h u r C. Peters (Jessie K i n g , '16), a son, A r t h u r
K i n g , on the seventeenth of October. The Peters' are now living in Charles-
ton, West Virginia.

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OCCUPATIONS

Elna Merrick, '13, is in Boston acting as vocational advisor w i t h the
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS

Mrs. Philip Wood (Betty Outterson, '17), 517 Union St., Hudson, New
York.

Dorothy Shaw, '17, I I West 10th St., New York City.
C L A R E G R A E F F E , E, '15, Alumna Assistant Editor.

RHO

GENERAL

Caroline Power, '12, has been elected to the Authors' Club of Oklahoma

City, Oklahoma.
Louise H o f f m a n , '17, is teaching Spanish at Libertyville, 111.
Barbara Menaid Fletcher is doing child welfare work at: Albert Lee, Minn*

sota.
Edith Brown, '19, is with the Goodrich Rubber Co., Chicago.
Elizabeth Recht, '18, is teaching at Wheaton Academy, Wheaton, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H . Bliss (Hazel Whitmore) are visiting in Coggon, Iowa.

As soon as M r . Bliss' healtH is improved.they w i l l return to Evanston.
We regret to learn of the death of M r . A . H . Hollen, father of Cora Hollen,

ex-'15, which occurred during the summer. We wish to extend Cora our
deepest sympathy and love.

ENGAGEMENTS

Merl Anderson, ' u , has announced her engagement to M r . Dudley S. Brain-

ard, of Fairmont, Minn.
Jane Kennedy, '18, is engaged to Merideth May, an Alpha O brother.

MARRIAGES

Ruth Herberger Muckian, '16, was married November 30 to M r . Herbert

B. Wussaw at Minneapolis, Minnesota. M r . and Mrs. Wussaw are l i v i n g at

St. Agatha Apartments, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dorothy Maltby, '18, was married November I to Philip Danielson. They

are l i v i n g in Evanston.

Goldie Halquist, '20, was married October 11 to Albert C. Buehler, a

Kappa Sigma from Illinois University.

Carol Isaacs, '21, was married Christmas Day to Cecil Lewis. They will

live in Thompson, Iowa.

Kathryn Brown, '18, was recently married to M r . W . Louis M u r p h y at

Washington, D . C. They now live at 523 W . T w e l f t h Street, Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma.

BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Swanson (Marie Vick, ' n ) announce the birth

of a son, Arthur Vick, November 26.

Born on October 26, to M r . and Mrs. Horace Kenyon ( E d i t h Moody, '11),

twin boys, James and Philip.

Mr. and Mrs. John Cowan (Leonore Thompson, '13) announce the birth

of a daughter, Rita Jeanette, October 25, at Devil's Lake, North Dakota.

To M r . and Mrs. R. L . Dunham (Dora Johnson, '12) was born a son,

Lewis Edward, on December 10, 1918. Editor.
DORIS W H E E L E R , '17, Alumna Assistant

178 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

LAMBDA

GENERAL

Ruth Chandler, '19, is attending Wellesley this year. She is continuing
her work in physical training, and is enjoying many new experiences in an
eastern college.

MARRIAGES

Marion Gilbert, '18, was married to A l f r e d H . Coleman, Jr., October 6 in
E l Paso, Texas. They are l i v i n g in Morenci, Arizona. M r . Coleman, who
was recently discharged f r o m the service, is a Delta Upsilon.

Irene Cuneo, '14, was married in San Mateo on August 27 to Americo
Cuneo of Chicago. Irene has always been a popular member of Alpha O and
a frequent visitor at the chapter house. We hated to see her move to Chicago.

ENGAGEMENTS

Carmelite Waldo, '20, recently announced her engagement to M r . H a r r y
Webb of Los Angeles. They w i l l be married the first of next year.

Vera Thomas, '19, and N e i l Petree were married at San Rafael on May
24. Though they were the best of friends in college, they rather surprised us
by this sudden marriage. M r . Petree who is a Delta T a u Delta, is very
prominent i n journalistic societies. He served overseas with the Stanford
Ambulance U n i t in the Balkans, and as a pilot in the American Aviation
Service.

M A R G U E R I T E O D E N H E I M E R , '18, Alumna Assistant Editor.

IOTA

GENERAL

M a r y Putnam, '19, is teaching at W i l m o t , S. D .
Mabel Wallace, '13, has recovered f r o m a severe illness and has returned
to her teaching at Harrison H i g h .
Hazel Alkire, '12, is i n the faculty of the Springfield H i g h School.
Helen Whitney, '13, is teaching in Chicago.
M a r y Catherine Williams, ex-'i8, has been e n j o y i n g an extended visit i n
Florida.
Maude Bacon Nolte, ex-'12, and children visited her parents i n Cham-
paign this f a l l . Maude came to rushing parties and f o r m a l dinner.
Emma Dewitt, 'ii, is teaching at Valley City, N o r t h Dakota. A recent
lllini told of the organization of an I l l i n i Club at that place and Emma's
election as Secretary.
Eva Goodmann M i l l e r , ex-'i6, is nicely located at 2002 N . Bronson Ave.,
Hollywood, Cal.
Barbara Crow Dennison, '09, came f o r Home-coming and visited A d a
Paisley before returning to her home in Lawrenceville, 111.
Cora Lane Wiedmann, '13, and husband motored f r o m their home as Ypsi-
lanti, Michigan, to see the Illinois-Michigan game. They spent two weeks
with relatives and friends in Danville and Champaign.
Bess Nuckolls Barnett, '09, and daughter visited with Urbana relatives
during October and November.
M i l d r e d Harley MacDonald, '11, and E l v a Pease Pettigrew, '09, spent the
last week of October in Urbana.
Nelle Erskine Benjamin, '13, is spending the winter i n Chicago. Nelle
dropped in f o r Home-coming, but surprised Ethel Watts more than the rest
of us, when they happened to meet in a Chicago station. They finished the

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trip to Champaign together and after H . C. Ethel went to Indianapolis to see
Jana Wiley Rowland.

Jana Wiley Rowland is very happy and busy with her little family—James,
aged three, and baby, Helen Elizabeth.

Leola Goodmann Scales, '14, is l i v i n g at 4139 Graceland Ave., Indianapolis,
which by the way, is only a couple of blocks f r o m Jana's. Needless to say,
both were happily surprised when they discovered they were to be "neigh-
bors" and are having many good times together.

Ora Williams was a recent visitor at the chapter house.
Esther Van Doren is attending Smith this year.
Lucile Gibson, ex-'22, is not enrolled in the university this year, but is
putting Household Economics to a practical test in her home.
Lora Henion Sutherland, Grad., and little son are here f r o m California
to visit relatives.

Annetta Stephens Shute, '10, visited her parents this f a l l . Janet is as dear
as ever, and the little brother is truly a Better Baby.

Elsie Noel, '19, has accepted a position i n the high school at Tuscola. I t is
fine to have her so near.

Frances Trost, '13, Bertha Stein, '18, Ethel Brooks, '16, May Brady, '19,
Elaine Burhman, '17, Hazel Stephens, '19, Beatrice Levy, '19, and Elsie Noel,
'19, attended the H i g h School Conference in November.

Marie LeSauliner, ex-'20, w i l l be i n Chicago this winter and may be ad-
dressed at 1442 E. 59th St.

Mary Caldwell, '17, has returned f r o m the South. Mary and her mother suf-
fered the loss of their wardrobes in a fire on the plantation.

A l l of us who know Inez Sampson, ex-'15, have always wished to hear her
(and see her, too) play the harp. Anna H o f f e r t K i r k , '15, had that wish and
had i t come true. I t came about when Anna quite unexpectedly f o u n d herself
in Inez' home town w i t h time enough to run down to her home. T o be sure,
Inez was surprised, but quickly recovered her well known calm, and played so
d e l i g h t f u l l y . T w o weeks later, Inez came to Home-coming and stayed over
to visit Anna.

Lottie Pollard, ex-'i5, was among the Home-comers.
Soon after pledging, one Sunday evening found Iota pledges, Mrs. Van
Deeman, and Helen Scott of Omega Chapter (the latter being Secretary of
Y. W . C. A . at the U . o f I . ) the guests of resident alumna assisted by Bess,
Nettie, Hazel, Elaine, and Leola, who happened to be i n Champaign then.
There weren't enough chairs for so many, but comfy cushions and a glowing
fire always give just the right atmosphere f o r g r o w i n g nearer and dearer.
And so, the alumna learned to know their new sisters-to-be and they knew that
Iota had chosen well. There, too, around Anna's fireside the pledges first
learned of the Convention just held, of the f o u n d i n g of Alpha as told by Mrs.
Perry, and of the many distinguished women i n our Fraternity.

Home-coming, this year, was the best in I l l i n o i s ' history, and i t was the
largest in Iota's experience. There were many of our charter members back.
How these girls d i d enjoy seeing each other after l o n g years, and meeting the
actives. The chapter abandoned the usual banquet, giving a tea f o r the
alumna instead. This proved to be a happy innovation; f o r i t permitted
much more visiting and gayety. Reminiscences were plentiful amid the laugh-
ter of the "old girls" and the enlightenment of the younger members. Every
one enjoyed the pledges' songs, the various readings, and solos as we all took
just pride i n Iota's strength and talent. Those gathered there that evening

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were—Bess Barnett, '09, Barbara C. Dennison, '09, E l v a Pease Pettigrew, '09,
Annetta S. Shute, '10, M i l d r e d H . MacDonald, '11, Margaret G . Ebert, e x - l l ,
Louise Niersteimer Steven, '12, M a r y Bruner Tehon, '12, Nelle Erskine Ben-
j a m i n , '13, Leola G . Scales, '14, Lottie, Inez, Ethel, and Anna of '15, Grace D .
Finfrock, ex-'i6, Elaine Burhman, Mate Giddings, Minnie Phillips, Alta W.
Fowler, Gladys Saffell, and Velma Bamesberger, all of '17, A i l een Hunter, '18,
Helen Brauns, Elsie, Marion, Hazel, Ruth Holman, Beatrice Levy, and Doro-
thy Dunn, all of '19, Lucile Gibson, ex-'22, and Helen Scott of Omega.

It is with regret that we write of the death of R u t h Percival' sister, Olive.
Many of our older alumna} w i l l remember her as a college f r i e n d , while the
younger alumns will remember her many kindnesses to them.

ENGAGEMENTS

Nellie Hedgcock, '16, to Melvin P. Roske, University of Wisconsin.
Frances Fowler, '19, to Robert Brown, I I K A .
Ermina Smith, ex-21, to Chester Price of Lawrenceville.

A N N A HOFFERT K I R K , '15, Alumme Assistant Editor.
(The Editor wishes to congratulate Iota on her capable Assistant Alumna; Editor.
The notes are so complete and in splendid order.)

TAU

GENERAL

Marguerite Gillette Harless, '17, flitted through Minneapolis on her way
to her parents' home for the holidays.

Cassie Spencer, '14, is t a k i n g advanced work at Columbia University, New
York City.

Florence Brande, '17, is expected home f r o m Chicago f o r the Christmas
holidays.

Leta Nelson, '18, is still playing leading lady with the Morrosco Company in
Civilian Clothes.

June Weimer, '15, is teaching English in a private school in Weiser, Idaho.
She states that her f a m i l y have about decided to locate in California, so Minne-
sota may not see her very soon.

Viola Miner Neutson, although busy with darning, cooking, etc., not to
mention a youngster who demands much of "Mother's time" is trying to
start a community nursery and playroom in connection with a new hotel.
She also suggests that Alpha O through National Panhellenic use its influence
toward putting Jeanette Rankins' maternity bill through Congress. " I t is
something f o r college women to push, f o r it w i l l help mothers and babies as
well as pigs and cattle—the latter get government funds to prevent disease—
so should the tiny ones."

Helen Pierce Munro, '17, is busy and happy f u r n i s h i n g her new home in
Tuckahoe, N . Y .

Jennie Schober Raenisch, '18, in far-off Calgary is rapidly learning to drink
tea hourly as all true Canadians do. We're devoutly t h a n k f u l that she didn't
go to Japan.

Muriel Fairbanks Stuart, '18, writes of an adorable baby "whose ears sit
close up to his dome, quite unlike the babies featured i n the Sunday supple-
ments."

M a r y Danielson of A l p h a Phi Chapter has been appointed chairman of the
Vocational Guidance Committee. She is serving on the Student Vocational
Committee at Minnesota, also.

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MARRIAGES They are mak-

Marguerite Gillette, '17, to Seth P. Harless, July 25, 1919.
ing their home in Stanley, Wisconsin.

BIRTHS Assistant Editor.

Mrs. D . C. Mitchell—a boy.
Muriel Fairbanks Stuart—a boy.

MARGARET J. WOOD, ' I 6 , Alumna?

CHI

GENERAL

Lora Thompson Mitchell, '13, is l i v i n g in Utica now, where her husband
has opened an office as a skin specialist.

Ruth and Betty managed to leave Oriskany long enough to pay a de-
l i g h t f u l visit to M i l d r e d Hover, '15, down in Rosella, New Jersey.

Berth3 Muckey, '18, has been attending a business college this winter, when
she has not been visiting in Washington.

Tess M . Zimmerman, '13, is another recruit f o r the Utica alumnae, since
Dr. Zimmerman is now practicing i n that city.

MARRIAGES Mr.

Sadie Campbell, '17, was married December 18 to Franklin W i l l i a m s .
and Mrs. Williams w i l l spend the winter in the South.

BIRTHS

Chi's last baby spoon went to the home of E d i t h Smith Hausner, '14. Edith

Ilausner, '17, proud Auntie, insists that i t is now owned by the "sweetest baby

in the country."

FRANCES CARTER, '18, Alumna! Assistant Editor.

UPSILON

GENERAL find:

Among our girls there are some who are teaching and among these we
Anne Seeley, '19, at Foster, Washington.
Ruth Gay, '14.

Marguerite Uhler, ex-'17, at Highlands.
Ellen Jolliffe, '17, at Monroe, Washington.
M i l d r e d Jeans, '17.

Then some of us are i n the business world :
Dorothy Hudson, '19, Seattle Public L i b r a r y .
Helen Kohler, '19, Bankers' L i f e Insurance Co.
Harriet Seeley, '18, Seattle Public L i b r a r y .
I r m a McCormick, '17, Manager of the Bon Marche Tea Room.
Helen Nelthorpe, ex-16, bank.
Katie Verd, ex-'17, bank.
Una Weaver, ex-'18, University of Washington Recorder's Office.
Cornelia Jenner, ex-'16, bank.
Virgina Moseley, ex-'17.
Laura H u r d , '14.
Minnie Krause, University of Washington Extension Division.
Ada Kraus, '16, Dietitian at Lakeview Sanatorium.
Beryl D i l l , '13, Editor of Pacific Naval Monthly.

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Also there are a few o f us who are studying and these few are:
Anita Pettibone, '14, Prince School o f Store Service, Boston, Mass.
Jessie Jolliffe, ex'18. Minor Hospital.
Louise Benton, '19, studying and teaching violin.

MARRIAGES Assistant Editor.

Jacqueline Wood to Roland Kraus.
Pearl Lipscombe to George Parsons.
Hope Moore to Lawrence Koltz.

LOUISE D . B E N T O N , '19, Alumna

NU KAPPA

BIRTHS

I have three "bits" o f news to tell you—the b i r t h of a son to Leland Lawie
Dexter ( K '17) the latter part of October; in November, a son to Erma Baker

Patton ( N K '19) ; and a son to Zora Samuell M c N e i l l ( N K '20), December 8.

M A U D E M . RASBURY, '19, Alumna Assistant Editor.

BETA PHI

GENERAL

Beta Phi alumnae who are school marms had a lovely treat when they went
to the Teachers' Association in Indianapolis, October 29-30. We attended a
supper at Mrs. Benny's where we met not only our sisters from Beta Phi, but
also those f r o m Theta. You can imagine how we all talked at the same time.
Everyone asked everyone else i f she had heard f r o m so-and-so, and what she
was doing, etc., and the eats we had, oh, m y !

Saturday, November 1, was the Notre Dame-Indiana game at Indianapolis.
That day was supposed to be a sort of get-together reunion or home-coming,
but the weather-man was against us. H o w it did r a i n ! The Beta Phi girls
were planning to have a luncheon at Ayres Tea Room. When we met, there
were four of us—Edith Huntington, Nelle Prall, Bernice Coffing, and Beatrice
Coombs. You all know how we can talk, so you can imagine how we enjoyed
ourselves.

MARRIAGES

The road for Beta Phi alumnae seems to be leading to the altar. Just no-
tice these:

On October 29, H i l d r e d Oliver, ex-'2i, was married to Raymond Nichols at
her home in M t . Vernon. They have gone to M r . Nichols' home i n Brown-
ing, Missouri, to live.

Mabel Lewis, ex-'20, and Paul Heifield were married at F r a n k f o r t on Octo-
ber 22, and are l i v i n g in F r a n k f o r t .

Doris Shumaker, ex-'19, was married to D r . Roscoe Conkiing Bratten at A u -
burn, Indiana, on August 7. They are now l i v i n g i n Galion, Ohio, where D r .
Bratten is a prosperous dentist.

Faye Bryan, ex-'i8, was married to L . T . Allis last summer. Her address
now is 942 N . Keystone, Indianapolis, Indiana.

On November 1 occurred the wedding of Ruth Carner, ex-'2i, to Harold C.
Blackmun o f Buchanan, Michigan. They are now l i v i n g at 2909 H i g h l a n d
Place, Indianapolis, Indiana.

BEATRICE COOMBS, '19, Alumna Assistant Editor.

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ALPHA PHI

GENERAL

Mr. and Mrs. T . A . Carlson ( M a r y Kretlow, '17) are attending the univer-
sity of Utah, where M r . Carlson has a fellowship. They spent the holidays in
Helena, Montana.

Helen T r i p p , '21, has been initiated into Phi Upsilon Omicron, the hon-
orary home economics national.

ENGAGEMENTS

M a r y C u r l , '21, to C r a i g I n g r a m , brother of our own Doris Ingrain, '19.
Blanche Borden, '18, to Thomas Minkey of Glendine, Montana.

MARRIAGES

E r m a Lessel, '16, is now Mrs. A . Raymond Collins. She was married to
Dr. Collins October 15 at Butte, Montana, and they w i l l make their home in
Hardin, Montana.

Martha Johnson, '18, and John Haynes were married on Christmas day.
They have gone to California for a stay o f two months.

R U T H NOBLE D A W S O N , '17, Alumna Assistant Editor.

NU OMICRON

GENERAL

One of the most important "happenings" f o r N u Omicron alumnae was
Katrina Overall McDonald's visit home d u r i n g the Christinas holidays. I t was
chapter and her many friends atoned i n a measure f o r this. The night she
mighty hard to leave " C " so soon, but we hope her hearty welcome by the
arrived the bridal party including Natalie Overall, '20, and M a r y D . Houston,
'18, met her at the t r a i n and then had a short reunion at the home of one of
the bridesmaids. On New Year's Day, Mrs. Overall entertained w i t h a tea
for her and Mary D. Houston.

M a r y D . has been leading quite a gay l i f e this season. She had a b i g dance
at the Nashville Golf and Country Club, and has had many affairs given in
her honor. She has been elected to the Girls' Cotillion Club, the leading social
organization f o r girls i n the city. She has tried to remember her fraternity's
ideals, however, and has been w o r k i n g every Wednesday in the Girls' Civic
Welfare League. Garments are made there f o r the poor of the town and help
rendered i n every way possible. Christmas fifteen hundred children were
made happy who otherwise would have had no Santa Claus had i t not been
for the league.

lone Blair Goodpasture, ex-'20, is l i v i n g in Nashville now. We are indeed
glad to have her back w i t h us. Soon we hope to have enough "stationary"
alumnae to f o r m a Nashville Chapter. We have f o u r chapters represented in
Nashville now—Omicron, N u Omicron, Pi, and Kappa.

PSI

GENERAL

Beatrice Barrington is wintering i n Florida w i t h her parents.
Ruth Cotton was appointed accountant by the University of Pennsylvania
Alumnae Association to serve d u r i n g its drive to raise money f o r a Girls' Club
House on the campus.