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Butler, Ind.; Lura Halleck, Rensselaer, I n d . ; and Pauline Cox, Dar-
lington, Ind. We are very glad to have them really one of us, and
we feel their cooperation in every way.

Our last rush party was held Friday evening, December 9th. Three
girls were pledged Saturday afternoon, December 16th. The new
pledges are Beatrice Coombs, Crawfordsville, I n d . ; Ruth Clapper,
Mooreland, I n d . ; and Lelah Baker, Marion, Ind. We give them a
hearty welcome into Alpha O, and feel they are truly our sisters.

In the last letter the candidacy of our president, Wilkie Hughes,
was announced f o r vice-president of the junior class of the Univer-
sity. We are glad to say that she was successful and now holds the
office.

I n the next letter we hope to tell you a l l about the success
of our plans, and we want to be able to say that we really have an
Alpha O chapter house to which we may invite our sisters and
guests.

Beta Phi sends many greetings to all for a very happy and pros-
perous New Year.

V I V I A N DAY, Chapter Editor.

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ALUMNiE CHAPTER LETTERS

NEW YORK ALUMNiE

A meeting to which all alumnae living in and around New York
were invited was held on December 7th at N u chapter room for the
purpose of reorganizing the New York Alumnae Chapter. Miss Rich
came down from Boston to assist. As there seems to be no record of
the granting of a regular charter to the original group of alumnae, a
petition for a reorganized chapter was drawn up and sent to the
Executive Committee at its request. Thirteen signatures were secured
at the meeting and others by mail, later. The petition was signed by
members of Zeta, Delta, Gammat Epsilon, Sigma, Nu, and Alpha,
who now live within a specified area around New York.

The chapter is anxious to have all those visiting New York, as
well as temporary residents, send their names, addresses and length
of stay, to the secretary, so that notices of meetings may be sent
them. The January meeting will be devoted to election of officers
and amendment of by-laws.

E D I T H D I E T Z , Chapter Editor.

SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNiE

San Francisco Alumnae is growing most steadily. We have thirty-
seven active members, of whom twenty as an average appear at meet-
ings. A t our October meeting we formally greeted Mrs. Wilfred
Langelier of Iota Chapter to membership. Ruth has been here since
the opening of college—she is one of our "faculty ladies"—so we all
knew her and were happy she was to be one of us.

At this meeting after much discussion we came to the conclusion
that our charity assessment which we have been sending exclusively
to two needy women in the city through the Associated Charities,
would be of more use i f divided. Part was to go as before, and
the remainder to go toward a fund to aid any college girl who needs
a sum to tide her over a small financial difficulty. May Preuss, who
is with the Dean of Women, told us that in many cases a small
amount meant a real crisis to a girl—the point where she was to
go on or to leave. We felt that our very existence as a chapter
depended on the University, and that it was only doing our share to
help some girl have its entire benefits.

I n November we met at Emma Black's. Our business meeting
was short so we had a jolly time talking, sewing (and some of us
had a little bridge.) You see we are somewhat frivolous at times.

The December meeting was at the home of Rose Bell. I t was
a dreadfully stormy day, but sixteen of us gathered around her won-

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derful open fire and sewed. The next Saturday was to be the Alpha
O Fair at the Sigma house so we were all busy. Margaret Dudley
read us letters telling about prospects for new chapters. We were
all very excited and interested—and especially enthusiastic about
those at Wisconsin and Montana. Since that meeting we have had the
petitions and have voted on them.

We are looking forward to the New Year. We will miss our
President, Kmma Black, who is to go on a trip through the East, but
we hope you will meet her and receive San Francisco chapter's greet-
ings in person. We hope the New Year will be very successful for
Alpha O and all its members.

MARGARET W E E K S , San Francisco Alumna Editor.

PROVIDENCE ALUMNffi
Dear Sisters in A O I I :

Providence Alumnae had their first meeting of the season with
the President, Helen Rose, on Saturday, December 9th. For various
reasons there were only three of the regulars present, but' our
attendance was vastly increased by the presence of Grace Lawton
Hubbard, from New Haven (who had never been able to attend
a meeting before, as she was married soon after our initiation in
1908, and moved away) and of Muriel Wyman, from Gamma, who,
as I wrote you in my last letter, has lately taken up residence in
Providence.

With us four is a quorum so we were able to transact our business,
which consisted in reelecting the officers of last year, and voting
on the petitions for new chapters which we were told would need
our sanction.

We have no definite plans for the year, as it looks as i f our meet-
ings would not be so well attended as heretofore, but we are hoping
to hold meetings as often as it is possible to get some of us together.

I trust you all had as Merry a Christmas as I , and that the New
Year will be a very prosperous one for us as a fraternity and as
individuals.

Fraternally yours,

MAUDE E. C . C O V E L L , Secretary.

BOSTON ALUMNffi

()n October 28th our first meeting of the year was held. As we had
previously planned, this meeting was held at Packard Hall on Col-
lege H i l l ; a plan which served the double purpose of keeping us
in touch with our Alma Mater, and of giving those who are so situ-
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the other members, a chance to do so. The afternoon was devoted
to sewing, because we have decided to spend our time when we are
together more profitably this year by working for girls who need
a little sewing done. Helen Henry of Sigma was a guest, and we
were exceedingly glad to see a large number of younger alumnae,
while the older ones kept up their usual good record.

Monica Pipe, our always popular hostess, entertained the alumnae
on December 2nd at her home. The sewing was continued and plans
for further work were made, as we can in this way make our meet-
ings really of service to others besides ourselves.

Founders' Day was celebrated by the usual joint meeting given by
the active chapter to the alumnae, and although the attendance was
small, those of us who did brave the weather, were well repaid for
our courage. The meeting was held in Packard Hall, and a very
attractive place it was made by our hostesses, who had transferred part
of their furniture from the dormitories to give it a homelike atmos-
phere. The appetizing supper was made more appetizing by the
manner in which it was served, and it was fortunate for the members
of the committee that they had an ample supply, because we did
justice to the repast. Our hostesses added still more to our pleasure
by an entertainment, in which Margaret Rurhu gave "Puck's Dance"
from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Marian Jameson sang
several songs.

MARGARET T . FESSENDEN, Chapter Editor.

LOS ANGELES A L U M N A

Pausing a moment amid the rush of Christmas preparations, it
gives us quite a glow of pleasure to think that a part of our plan-
ning is for others and is done in the name of Alpha O. Of course,
when planning holiday cheer for needy ones, the first problem always
raised is that of money. We faced our problem early this year, and
as a consequence, on November 17th, held a benefit card party at the
home of Hazel Crabill, who is always so cordially willing to lend
her home and services to Los Angeles Alumnae. The prizes were
made and donated by May and Frances Chandler—a lovely and
unique work-bag of cretonne and a pair of dull blue tapestry book-
stands. After cards, we served ices and cake, then hastened to count
the shekels. Great was our joy to discover that in merely passing
a very enjoyable afternoon, we had cleared something over ten dol-
lars.

Our next meeting was held December 11th at Ella Brown's can-
ning bungalow. During the business meeting we voted fifteen dollars

($15) to buy toys for the Children's Hospital, whereupon Mildred

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Stahl offered to get $15 worth for $12. Gratefully accepting her
offer, we decided to use the other $3 for new clothes for the Associ-
ated Charities. We also voted to give two articles to the Needlework
Guild of America.

Afterwards we sewed upon flannelette petticoats, or "Gertrudes,"
and bands to be sent to a small children's orphanage, finishing about
a dozen skirts and two dozens bands. Meanwhile Mrs. Harvey Lock-
ridge told of a doll which she had made from socks. She said she had
sold already as many as she had made, with standing orders from the
big stores for as many more as she can manufacture herself—until
she gets her patent and can get more help. Isn't she clever?

With best wishes for the New Year,

ERNA T. TAYLOR, Secretary.

LINCOLN ALUMNiE

The Lincoln Alumnae met in October with Pauline Burkit Reyn-
olds and Maude Pierce Logan at the home of Maude Logan. This
was really the first time that the girls had been together for a good
visit with each other since our meeting early in the summer, for the
September meeting was our breakfast to the active chapter and rushees
at Alma Rawlings', during rush week. We were all greatly interested
in the petitions that were presented, and in looking over the material
that came with them.

I n November we had Mrs. Hennings with us, and, together with
the active chapter, honored her with a luncheon in the Garden Room
at the Lincoln Hotel. Anabel Good and Edith H a l l had charge of
this luncheon.

The active chapter had its annual Christmas tree this year on
Monday night, December 18th, and the alumnae were invited. We
always look forward to this party, as we enjoy the program given by
the freshmen and are glad of an opportunity to become better
acquainted with our active girls. This year the party was especially
enjoyable because several alumnae who were visiting in Lincoln were
present.

Our regular monthly meeting was held December 30th at the home
of Helen Harper. Eloise Harper Evans, who with her young son
is home for the holidays, was the assisting hostess. The coming con-
vention was the chief subject of discussion that afternoon. Perhaps,
if we talk convention from now until June, Zeta will have a credit-
able number of representatives. We had several visiting alumnae
with us at this meeting. The girls who were home for their vaca-
tions and met with us were Gisella Birkner, from Creston, Iowa;
Grace Gannon, from Nebraska City; Elsie Ford Piper, from the

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Wayne State Normal; and Edna Spears, from Omaha. Lila Le
Gore Richey and small son of McCook, Nebraska, spent the holi-
days with Mr. and Mrs. Le Gore and it was a great pleasure for us to
have Lila at our meeting.

A l l the girls are glad to know that Emily Trigg is home again.
Emily has spent the last two years in New York City studying com-
mercial art at the Pratt Institute. She has a position now as artist
with the Nebraska State Journal Co.

Katherine Follmer spent the holidays with her mother at Oak,
Nebraska, and Alvina Zumwinkle with her parents at Utica, Neb.

Winifred and Melvina Waters were at their home in Lincoln
during the holidays.

The Zeta girls will be interested to know that Corris Damon
Peake is now living in Mason City, Iowa, the city that was her home
before she was married and where her father and mother and sister
Edna (Mrs. Burr Keeler) live. Corris is nearer Lincoln now and
we hope that she w i l l be able to attend our banquets. Her new
address is 316 North Delaware Avenue.

To all chapters, active and alumnae, the Lincoln Alumnae wish a
most happy and successful New Year.

J A N E L O U I S E P I P E R , Chapter Editor.

CHICAGO ALUMNffi

The second meeting of the Chicago Alumnae Chapter was in the
form of ritual and the initiation of new members, held in the Rho
chapter-room. Chicago Alumnae has always been fortunate in having
representatives of several chapters on her chapter roll, and this year
is no exception.

I n addition to the alumnae from Rho and Iota, who make up the
majority of our members, we were glad to welcome Melita Skillen
and Katherine Colpitts of Epsilon. Leonora Doniat, Louise French,
Doris Wheeler, Frances McNair, and Grace Gilbert of Rho and
Edith Shultz, Katherine Maclntyre, Lottie Pollard, T, and Pearl
Ropp of Iota, were the other initiates. We are hoping that Mrs.
Williams of Upsilon will be able to be with us this year, and next
year, among the others, the Chicago girls of our new Eta Chapter.

Founders' Day was celebrated with a luncheon at Mrs. Clark's Tea-
room. Such gossiping about convention, the Wisconsin chapter—
it was not quite a reality then—approaching marriages, and the needs
of our various slum children! I f the amount of talking each one of
us did is any indication of our good time, we were all enjoying our-
selves to the f u l l .

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Since our last letter we have had two new members of our little
Alpha O family—Nettie Shute's daughter and Julia Clones' son.
Julia's son was born in far away India, and will probably be a rather
big boy before any of us will really know him. But we are looking
forward to Julia's letters, which are always f u l l of the most interest-
ing things, to become acquainted with him.

Chicago Alumna; Chapter is a member of the newly formed Chi-
cago Panhellenic Association, and was chairman of the nominating
committee. The officers elected were : Miss Pearson, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, President; Mrs. Noble, Alpha Phi, Vice-president; Miss
Lewis, Chi Omega, Secretary; Mrs. Keller, Phi Mu, Treasurer. I t
is interesting that all but one of the eighteen national Panhellenic
fraternities have individual representatives or strong alumnae chapters
in Chicago.

The Chicago Panhellenic is hoping many things—to help all the
members by exchange of ideas, to aid in the high school sorority
problem, and to assist National Panhellenic, i f possible.

J U L I A L . F U L L E R , Chapter Editor.

INDIANAPOLIS ALUMNA

In November the Indianapolis Alumnse held their meeting at the
home of Ruth Ritchie. We all gathered about a big grate fire, and
while we plied our fingers dexterously upon the shuttle and the
needle, Irene Newnam as skilfully described her trip during the past
summer to Hawaii. On her return trip across the Pacific, she met
Mr. Jack London, who was returning from the island. This experi-
ence was doubly interesting to us as our meeting occurred at the time
of M r . London's death.

For our December meeting, Irene Newman graciously entertained
us, and the spirit of good-fellowship was felt by all. Mrs. Leslie
Greeley, nee Hazel McCoy, from Yorktown, was with us and as we
thus had two brides present, we enjoyed very much their funny house-
keeping experiences.

The Indianapolis Alumnae, en masse, are very proud of two new
baby boys, but strange as it may seem, Mrs. Stewart Hostetter (Flor-
ence Irwin) is especially proud of one boy and Mrs. Henry Kreut-
zinger (Rose Whitaker) of the other. Because of the chilly, although
we would better say cold, weather in Indiana, these little fellows
haven't attended any alumnae meetings as yet.

On election night the Indianapolis Panhellenic had a pie sale
down town and realized quite a neat sum, which will be used to
increase the Scholarship Fund. Any girl, from the three high schools
here in the city, is eligible to receive this scholarship of one hundred

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dollars a year, which may be used at any university this girl chooses
to attend. A committee of four, composed of one teacher from each
high school and one member from the Panhellenic, selects the girl,
who will pay back the money loaned her at her earliest convenience
after having left the university.

The Panhellenic has four open meetings during the year at which
time some person of note speaks. During the school year, the Pan-
hellenic sends speakers to Butler College to address the girls upon
lines of work that may help these college girls to enter some pro-
fession besides that of teaching. I t hopes to be able to extend this
work, and send speakers to the other colleges throughout the state.

The Indianapolis Alumnae wish happiness and prosperity for the
year 1917 to all the chapters, both active and alumnaj, of Alpha
Omicron Pi.

L U C Y E. A L L E N , Secretary.

NEW ORLEANS ALUMN-ffi

Since Newcomb opened we have held regular meetings in the Pi
chapter-rooms on the last Friday of every month. The November
one, though, we postponed to Saturday, December 2nd, as the actives
were giving a tea that afternoon and wanted us to attend in a
body. As the girls were busy preparing for the affair we met in
Virginia Withers' classroom and devoted most of our time to making
tarlatan bags and paper caps for our Christmas tree—not for our own,
but to decorate one for the children of the S. P. C. C. Through
Leigh Moise's little girls a number of toys were added, and Dagma
Le Breton and Grace Gillean, who had charge of things, say that
the children were delighted with their gifts.

I am forgetting the tea—we enjoyed it so much, especially as some
of the out-of-town alumnae were there, having come home for the
Thanksgiving holidays.

Our December meeting was even better, as everybody came home
for Christmas. We met at the Gilleans' and everybody was so glad to
see everybody else that it was hard to get down to business. We
were glad to have Anna Many, our president, back again and Innes
Morris too (they've been visiting all autumn,) and only wish all the
girls were here to stay.

We are still planning to do something for the immigrants who
come to New Orleans in such numbers, either in passing or to locate,
and the committee reported concerning a school which has been
established to teach the English language, American ways and laws.
Several girls volunteered to attend the next session, and some planned

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to meet boats. We are feeling our way, and want to find out just
where we can help most.

A city Panhellenic is being formed in New Orleans and we prac-
tically decided to join, but a committee was appointed to attend the
next meeting to find out and discuss particulars before committing
ourselves.

Our chapter has been successfully carrying out its plans for help-
ing the active one through weekly informal gatherings—just a few
girls each time—to meet the rushees and to get better acquainted
with the actives. Newcomb Panhellenic has made a new rule for
spring pledging, but I guess the active chapter letter tells about it,
so I ' l l not repeat.

But here is an interesting bit of news. Pi has another future little
sister, Miss Dorothy Many Barker, Dorothy Safford's baby girl, born
just before Thanksgiving. And I've heard of an engagement but it
is not announced, so I can't tell.

A bright and prosperous and happy New Year to a l l !
A L I C E P. I V Y , Chapter Editor.

MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL ALUMNiE

Dear Sisters in A O I I :
Once more I send you greetings! May the New Year bring you

every happiness!
Since you last heard from us the Minneapolis Alumnae Chapter of

Alpha Omicron Pi has been trying out a plan, and at present it
seems to have succeeded. We have been trying to visit the sick in
the City Hospital of Minneapolis, having some member at the
hospital about four or five times a week. The head of the Social
Service Department says that no one can realize how much good
can be done, and how all the patients appreciate these visits; and
I can assure you that we who have made the calls are learning how
to sympathize with those less fortunate ones, and are getting fully as
much out of it as the sick.

Our last alumnae meeting was held at Laura Hartman's, and we
were entertained royally. But in one respect, the party brought sad-
ness with it, for that afternoon we learned that we were to lose from
our active work our president, Mrs. MacPhie, who has left for the
East once more. Words cannot tell how we shall miss her. She
has done so much to keep up the work of the fraternity and to enlarge
the chapter, and our regret at losing her presence with us is too great
to be expressed. Laura Hartman, the vice-president, succeeds her,
and we are all very much pleased at the election.

We all send greetings to our sisters.

B E R T H A M A R I E B R E C H E T , Chapter Editor.

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BANGOR ALUMNiE

We who live i n the far frozen North are, at present, in the throes
of a real old-fashioned Maine winter, for wild was the blizzard and
loud was the blast last Saturday, but are we not happy and looking
forward to a joyous 1917? Christmas is upon us and the whole land
is covered with white, broken only by high piles of snow thrown
from the driveways, and by the tops of fences and of sturdy little
bushes. The sleigh bells are ringing in the frosty air and bid us be
twice merry for 'tis Christmas again and we must count our blessings.
Right here I must number as one of the blessings which has come to
us as a body this fact that once again we have a name and a place
in college and fraternity life. The name is Bangor Alumnae Chap-
ter, and the place shall be what we make ourselves mean to the
active chapter, to one another, and to the world at large. On Satur-
day evening, November 18th, at the Bangor House the chapter was
installed by Miss Marion Rich, president of Boston Alumnae Chapter
and District Superintendent of the East. This was preceded by a
supper party and you all may be assured that there was so much to
talk about that we really did not need the red candles and roses to tell
us that we were among friends. The officers elected were: President,
Irene Cousins; Treasurer, Hazel Mariner Buzzell; Recording Secre-
tary, Zella Colvin; and Corresponding Secretary, Aileen Hobart.
Those present were Ida Bean Sugden; Autense Cousens Hincks, '00 :
Edith Bussell, '02; Cleora Carr, '03; Edee Gammon, '03; Frances
Webber Burke, '06; Alice Farnsworth Phillips, '08; Irene Cousins,
' 1 1 ; June Kelley, '12; Hazel Mariner Buzzell, '12; Imogene Worm-
wood, '14; Marion Jordan, '14; Mary Cousins, '14; Aileene Hobart.
'14; Zella Colvin, '16, and Doris Curier Treat, '16.

On December 2nd we met with Marion Jordan at her home in Old
Town, and several who were not able to attend the installation were
present then. A t this time I want to say that we hope whenever an
A O I I alumnae is within hailing distance of Bangor, she will surely
attend our meetings, otherwise we shall be righteously indignant and
woe be unto her when our wrath breaks forth! There was so much
to be planned and decided upon that I fear we accomplished very
little. We did draw up our by-laws, and decided that as soon as
we were in a position to do so, we would seriously undertake work of
a social or philanthropic character according to the particular needs
of this vicinity.

Our January meeting was held with Mrs. Autense Cousens Hincks
in Old Town, on January 6th. This meeting was of particular inter-
est because several girls from away were present. Then, too, every-
one, voted that Autense was an ideal hostess.

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Our alumnae news has been so well reported in the last few issues
that there is but one subject left, and to do it justice, I should need a
whole volume. This copy is to be the Mothers' number and I am
so afraid that the mothers of our chapter will be too modest to
write of their families that I , as an "A O I I auntie" feel it my duty
to tell about them. We have a host of babies in our chapter—some
we have seen and some we have not—but they all are adorable little
lads and lassies and I would suggest a grand A O I I Baby Show at
the convention, only I am sure you would have to buy so much blue
ribbon for Gamma babies that there would be no money left for
other expenses. They can talk, they can walk, they can laugh, they
can play, and they can coo and cuddle just a wee bit better than
any other babies in the world. And now Bangor Alumnae Chapter
joins in wishing you all the loveliest New Year imaginable.

A I L E E N E BROWNE HOBART, Secretary.

PORTLAND ALUMN/E

OFFICERS

President—Alice Collier, "Lambda."
Secretary and Treasurer—Caroline Paige, "Upsilon."
To DRAGMA Correspondent—Charlotte Hall, "Upsilon."
The Portland Alumnae chapter was installed December 16th at the
home of Caroline Paige, amid the first snowflakes of the season, and
the usual amount of A O I I enthusiasm. Ruth Fosdick, president
of Upsilon chapter, stopped on her way home for the Christmas
holidays and performed the ceremonies beautifully.
The Alpha O's installed were:

Alice Collier—"Lambda"
Ruby Norton Cornish—"Mu"
Sarah Brown Sweetzer—"Gamma"
Minnie Bauman Force—"Zeta"
Louise Curtice Clawson—"Lambda"
Mabel Robertson—"Sigma"
Carrie Bechen—"Upsilon"
Pearle Wenzer Mcjury—"Theta"
Caroline Paige—"Upsilon"
Theresa Hilstrom—"Upsilon"
Mabel Hilstrom—"Upsilon"
Charlotte Hall—"Upsilon"
Gladys Byham—"Upsilon"
After a delightful luncheon and talk fest we adjourned, as most
of us were a long way from home. I must not forget to tell you

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that three of us walked down to see Louise Curtice Clawson's new
baby "Betty." She is adorable, and we know that some day she
will make a charming Alpha O sister.

Christmas festivities over, Charlotte H a l l gave a luncheon in
honor of Esther Knudson, "Upsilon," a dear little A O I I from
Kansas. There active as well as alumnae girls met together for a
quiet, happy, "comfortable" time. We are looking forward to many
more of these enjoyable gatherings.

And now the Alpha O's of Portland and environs are sending
their sincere love and best wishes to every sister in this wonderful
land of ours. Best wishes for 1917 and every other New Year to
come.

C H A R L O T T E H A L L , Editor.

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A L U M N A NEWS

Pi

GENERAL

Mrs. Mendez of Kappa Chapter who has been in the city for three
months left New Orleans after the holidays.

Mrs. Bradburn (Mary Pearce) is now residing in New Orleans.
Mrs. G. P. Whittington (Mary Thomas) came on a flying trip to
New Orleans in November.
Betsey Dupre, Georgia Belle Gillean, Rosalie Dufour, Sara Bres,
Erin O'Niell, Gladys and Solidelle Renshaw, who are teaching away,
were all with us for the holidays.
We are glad to announce another patroness for Pi chapter, Mrs.
Edw. S. Moses.

OMICRON

The alumnae of Omicron chapter who live in Chattanooga had
ample opportunity in November for a display of the famous "Tennes-
see Spirit." The Tennessee football team, which missed a cham-
pionship by the narrow margin of a tied game, played twice in
Chattanooga, meeting and defeating the University of Chattanooga
and the University of the South. Hundreds of supporters of the
Orange and White invaded Chattanooga, to be enthusiastically
received and entertained by the local alumni of the state institution.

Mr. and Mrs. Burton C. Coit (Lillian Wells) enjoyed an auto-
mobile tour of New York and the New England States during the
late fall.

Mrs. James Hunt (Emma Albers) has been a thrice welcome guest
in Knoxville during the holidays.

The Christmas holidays caused an hegira among Chattanooga
Alpha's. Kathryn Wilkey went to her sister in Sanford, Florida;
Harriet Greve joined her mother in a visit to Mrs. Milton Jamagin
(Dorothy Greve) in Athens, Georgia; and Roberta and Harriette
Williams were the holiday guests of their sister in Jacksonville,
Florida.

Recently, an attempt has been made to organize more thoroughly
the alumni of the University of Tennessee in order to wield a greater
influence upon the State Legislature in behalf of our Alma Mater.
Fraternity people, above all others, should appreciate the value of
a strong alumni association, and it is to be hoped that the alumnae
of Omicron chapter, Alpha Omicron Pi, will recognize a very real
chance to prove of service to their university by lending their hearti-
est cooperation to the plan.

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KAPPA

GENERAL

Mrs. Charles Kent (Leland Lauve, K, ex-'14) visited us for a day
on her wedding trip to New York.

Mrs. Gilmer Craddock (Nan Atkinson, K, '13) is in Lynchburg
on a visit.

MARRIAGES

On Dec. 8th Elizabeth Webber, K, '12, was married to Gordon
Payne of Lynchburg, Va., and is at home now in Lynchburg.

ZETA

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Krajicek (Gertrude Mohler) of Cleve-
land, Ohio, a daughter, in August, 1916.

To Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Mitchell (Nina Troyer) of Minneapolis,
Minn., on November 17th, 1916, a daughter.

SIGMA

GENERAL

Miss Olivia Freuler will leave the middle of January for Hono-
lulu with her sister, Mrs. Emil Cykler, Lambda, where she will
probably remain a year.

Wynne Meredith Harlow has moved to Stockton, where her hus-
band's business has taken them.

Georgia Meredith will be married in the spring to Roland Bur-
rows Oliver, a diamond mining engineer of Belgian Congo, Africa.

Mary DeWitt is teaching at Miss Burke's private school for girls
in San Francisco.

Grace Weeks is doing work with the architect, Louis Christian
Mullgardt, who designed one of the beautiful courts at the Panama
Pacific Exposition.

May Preuss is assistant to the Dean of Women at the University
of California.

Kathleen Mains is to be married in February to Chesley Osborn,

'12 * She will live in Turlock, California.

Vera Georgeson is studying for her M.A. degree at Columbia.
She was President of the Associated Women Students in her senior
year at University of California.

Edith Dickinson is studying kindergarten in Miss Barnard's
Training School.

Helen Henry is Executive Secretary of the Woman's Educational
and Industrial Union of Boston, an ideal position for our efficient
He!en.

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Gertrude Davis Arnold, whose husband is Commercial Attache at
Pekin—a new position by the way and created for him—is very
happy in the possession of a daughter.

Betty Morgan Barker with her three boys returned to her home
in Chile after a visit with her home people i n Nevada City, Cali-
fornia.

BIRTHS

A daughter was born to Claire Hart Magill (Mrs. Chas. Irving)
December 7th, 1916. Her name is Jean Claire.

Claudia Massie Lawton (Mrs. Oswald G.) also has a daughter,
born December 31st, 1916. Elizabeth is her name.

THETA

BIRTHS

Mr. and Mrs. Fred O'Hair (Iva Smith) are the proud parents
of a daughter Genevieve.

Mr. and Mrs. L . O. McCleod of Browns Valley, Ind., have a son,
Vaughn Rhoderick.

GENERAL

Jane Farmer is spending the winter in Greencastle.
Ruth (Stafford) McDonald is at Bloomington and is a great help
to the new chapter established there.
Pauline Place has been in Tokio, Japan, three weeks, where she
is in school learning the language in preparation to teach.
Because of her health, Ruth Cain has resigned her position i n the
Marion High School.
Miss Forest Kyle is teaching in the High School of Greensburg,
her home town.

GAMMA

GENERAL

During Christmas vacation "Betty" Bright entertained the actives
and alumna? at her home in Bangor. We were glad to again see the
girls who are away teaching, among them Lennie Copeland, Helen
Worster, Estelle Beaupre, Antoinette Webb, Madeline Robinson.

Vera Mersereau, '18, who is now attending Simmons, was recently
in Orono to attend the Christmas party at the 2 A E house.

Helen Greeley visited the girls last week on her way to Wellesley.
Murial Colbath Wyman, '15, spent Christmas at her home in
Hampden.

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Irene Richardson Connor, '09, of Rutland, Vt., visited in Old

Town this fall.
We are very proud of the fact that "Beth" Hanly had a poem,

" M y Wish" published i n the Outlook, Dec. 27th, which received
favorable comment from the editors.

The Ladies' Home Journal w i l l soon publish an article called
"How Four Girls Discovered Maine," by Mary E. Chase.

Florence Greenleaf, '16, is visiting her sister in Connecticut.
Margaret Flint Jacobs is living at Norfolk, Va.
Mary Ellen Chase's new book, Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
will appear in early spring from the Page Co., of Boston. I t is a
sequel to her The Girl From The Big Horn Country which is
already in its fifth edition.
We have just heard that Lida Knowles Smith in some way caught
her dress on fire and was seriously burned. We are surely hoping
for her recovery.

MARRIAGES

Helen Lois Danforth, '16, to William Francis West, Wharton
School of Finance on Thursday, November 2nd, 1916. They are
living in Hartford, Conn., where Mr. West is engaged by the New
York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad.

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wright (Mildred Prentiss, '11) a
daughter, Mary Louise, December 21st, 1916.

EPSILON

BIRTHS

To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mordorf (Laura Fish, '14) a daughter,
Helen Lee in June.

GENERAL

Ethel Cornell, '14, is completing her course at Columbia as a
clinical psychologist. A great deal of her work this winter w i l l be
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Mildred Mosier, '11, has been in charge of a school in Mandalay,
Burma, for several months.

Marie Palmer Peck, '14, besides proving to be a very efficient
housekeeper, finds the work in her husband's law office very interest-
ing. Mr. Peck is of the firm Peck and Maley, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Helen La Forge, '18, is now studying in Boston, at the Simmon's
Domestic Science School.

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Eleanor Sharpe, '18, is spending this year at Wellesley. Eleanor
and Helen have motored around Boston together quite a little, and
are trying to get over their homesickness for Epsilon.

Merle Mosier, '14, is in New York at the Cornell Medical School,
working for her M . D . degree next June. Mr. Alfred Potter, to
whom her engagement was announced last year, has just returned
from the Mexican Border, where he has been doing some medical
work.

Jean Sheffer, '18, is studying music this year in New York. She
is staying at the Studio Club on Sixty-second Street.

Katharine Donlon, '14, is doing insurance work in Utica, with the
Hugh R. Jones Co.

A dinner party and shower were given in honor of Mrs. Austen
Leavens (Helen Bungart, '16) by six of the Epsilon girls at the
home of Clare Graeffe. The girls were Ethel Cornell, Merle Mosier,
Gladys Combs, Jean Sheffer, and Anne Graeffe. Mr. and Mrs.
Leavens have taken an apartment on West End Ave., New York City.

We were very glad to get a glimpse of Annie Kate Gilbert, Kappa,
and Margaret Bentley, N u Kappa, while they were in New York,
but we wish they had stayed longer.

Jessie King Peters (Mrs. Arthur C.) is now living in Cleveland,
where Mr. Peters has a position with the Packard Car Co. Their
address is 42 Bryn Mawr Road, East Cleveland, Ohio.

ENGAGEMENTS

The engagement of Helen La Forge to Joseph Ingalls Eldridge,
Harvard '07, was announced in Washington several months ago. Mr.
Eldridge is a banker and stockbroker, and we feel that it is not merely
his interest in banking, but his interest in Helen's domestic science
course which is detaining him in Boston. They are planning to be
married this spring.

RHO

GENERAL

Julia Norton Clemes, now living in Meerut, India, is the mother
of William Walter Clemes, born January 1st, 1917.

Edith Moody, a charter member of Rho, is to be married in Febru-
ary to Mr. H . S. Kenyon. Douglas, Arizona, w i l l be their home.

Margaret Wynne is taking the nurse's training at St. Luke's Hospi-
tal, Chicago.

Marguerite Symonds is to be married in May to Mr. Urban Brewer
of Chicago.

Louise Noyes is now the soprano soloist in the Episcopal Church
of Glencoe, 111.

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Vera Riebel is dividing her time this winter between Madison and
Chicago—success to her in her efforts!

Peggy Pittman has moved to Los Angeles and we hope that she
will get in touch with Los Angeles Alumnae.

The following announcement is taken from the Chicago press:
"The wedding of Miss Edna Ellsworth Betts, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Emerson Betts, to Winthrop Marquand Trask, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Trask of Wilmette, took place Saturday eve-
ning at the residence of the bride's parents, 2219 Central Street. Rev.
Clyde Lemont Hay of Rogers Park performed the ceremony at 8:30
o'clock. Mrs. Malcolm Paul Doud of Wilmette served as matron of
honor and Ralph Pettit, also of Wilmette, acted as best man for Mr.
Trask.

The bride's gown of ivory satin and tulle was trimmed with i r i -
descent beads and she carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley
and bride's roses. The veil of tulle was shirred into a close fitting
cap caught with orange blossoms and formed the train to the gown.
The matron was dressed in white satin and lace and carried an arm
bouquet of pink roses. The ribbons were stretched by Miss Leonora
Doniat and Miss Margaret Blair.

The decorations at the home were in southern smilax and roses,
the ceremony being read under a canopy of white roses.

Mr. and Mrs. Trask have gone to Asheville, N . C , on their wed-
ding trip and will be at home after January 1 at 1045 Ashland
Avenue, Wilmette.

Among the out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Ells-
worth, Miss Grace McElwain, and Mr. Robert J. Smith."

GENERAL

Mr. and Mrs. R. L . Triplett (Etta Lantz, '14) of Bluffton, Ohio,

recently made a rather extended trip through the East. They stopped

at New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and many other

places of interest.
Among our "married sisters" who spent the holidays with their

parents are Anna Hoffert K i r k (Pekin, 111.), Louise Nierstheimer
Steven (Pekin, 111.), Etta Lantz Triplett (Carlock, 111.), and Edna
Hunter Bowman (Urbana, 111.)

Mrs. Claude Hollister (Pauline Davis) of Manteno, 111., writes
that she is spending her spare time this winter in studying vocal.

TAU

ENGAGEMENTS

Helen Pierce, '17, to Walter Thorpe Munro, New York, N . Y.

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Edith Mitchell, '17, to M . Randle Toland, * K 2, Los Angeles,
California.

Phana Otta Wernicke, '17, to Richard Smith. K 2. Honolulu.

MARRIAGES

Matie Stoner, '14, to William Ebeltoft, Lake Park, Minnesota on
January 17th, 1917.

CHI

MARRIAGES

Helen Johnson, '14, was married October 21st to Mr. Floyd Alvin
T i f f t of Henderson, N . Y.

GENERAL

Edith Adams, Iantha Emmerling, Theresa Maxwell Zimmerman,
and Lora Thompson Mitchell, '13, Gertrude Jennison and Ethel
Harris, '14, Elizabeth Main, Mary Cullivan, Elizabeth French, and
Vera Ingalls, '15, and Alma Jones and Emily Tarbell, '16, came back
for the Colgate game and dance.

Florence Burkins, ex-'12, is now living in Albany, N . Y.
Gertrude Shew, '16, is teaching in Grahamsville, N . Y.
Alma Jones, '16, is working in the Endicott Public Library at
Endicott, N . Y.
Ruth Guthrie, ex-'17, is spending the winter at Lewis, N . Y.

UPSILON

GENERAL

The Portland Alumnae Association has been installed and we ex-
tend our greetings to them. Ruth Fosdick of Upsilon acted as the
installing officer.

Several Upsilon members have entered the teaching profession.
Those teaching are Gladys Byham, ex-'17, Battle Ground, Wash.;
Carrie Bechen, '14, McMinneville, Ore.; Jessie Cook, '14, Hamilton,
Wash.; Ruth (Jay, '14. Eatonville, Wash.; Charlotte Hall, ex-*17,
Washington State Blind School, Vancouver, Wash.; Lucy Heyes, '14,
Pasco, Wash.; Cornelia Jenner, ex-'18, East Seattle, Wash.; Ruth
Johnson, '15, North Yakima, Wash.; Joanne Karrer, '15, University
of Washington, Seattle, Wash.; Ruth Moir, ex-'17, Aberdeen, Wash.;
Susie Paige, '16, Brunot Hall, Spokane, Wash.; Anita Pettibone,
'15, North Bend, Wash.; Caroline Paige, '15, St. Helen's Hall,
Portland, Ore.; Edith Sifton, '16, Marysville, Wash.; Geneva Sargi-
son, ex-'15, Shelton. Wash. : Mabel Potter, '16, Friday Harbor,
Wash.; Florence Semmen. '14. Aberdeen, Wash.; Theresa Hilstrom.

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'15, Vancouver, Wash.; Mabel Hilstrom, ex-'17, Vancouver, Wash.

Esther Fleming, '14, is assistant librarian in the Seattle Public

Library.

Laura Hurd, '14, is assistant recorder at the University of Wash-

ington, Seattle, Washington.

Minnie Kraus, '15, is secretary to the Geo. Moore Investment Co.,

Seattle, Washington.

Alice McArdle, ex-'15, is secretary to the Washington State In-

surance Commission, Olympia, Washington.

Ethel Kraus, '16, is taking a postgraduate course in the Univer-

sity of Washington.
Mildred Loring, '13, is taking postgraduate work under the Sarah

Berliner Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She
received her Doctor's degree in June, 1916.

Bery D i l l , '13, is assistant editor and business manager for The
Searchlight Newspaper at Bremerton, Washington.

Ruby Clift Glockler, '14, has been assisting in the Chemistry De-
partment, University of Washington, owing to the unexpected resig-
nation of one of the instructors.

Anita Pettibone, '15, is slowly recovering from an operation for
appendicitis and attack of pneumonia. She is at her home in Seattle.

During the Christmas holidays the chapter house was hostess to
Mabel Potter, '16; Jessie Cook, '14; Edith Sifton, '16; and Susie
Paige, '16, all teachers in Washington.

Ada "Pat" Kraus, has begun her chicken ranch at last and with
all the study, plans, and advice, the girls have keen interest in this
project as well as hopes for luscious chicken dinners.

The Upsilon Alumnae hope to do some vital social service work,
though so far little has been done in any organized fashion. Several
girls who are teaching have entered into real service in their com-
munities, but we all intend to enlarge our efforts.

The Seattle girls have an alumnae chapter organized though not
yet installed. This probably will be of large membership not only
of Washington but also of California Alumnae.

We each are glad to have a share in the grand piano presented to

our chapter "by her alumnae."

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EXCHANGES

We are sorry that lack of space demands fewer good things from
the journals of our neighbors. We are, however, calling attention to
those that are given, as they have been selected especially for the
Home Number. We are also acknowledging with thanks the receipt
of the following magazines:

The Delta Chi Quarterly, the Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, the
Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta, Banta's Greek Exchange, the Garnet
and White of Alpha Chi Rho, the Palm of Alpha Tau Omega, the
Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma, the Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha, the
Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, the Phi Gamma Delta, the Mask of Kappa
Psi, the Anchora of Delta Gamma, the Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta,
the Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, Kappa Alpha Theta, the Lamp of
Delta Zeta, the Eleusis of Chi Omega, Beta Theta Pi, the Lyre of
Alpha Chi Omega, the Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, the Adelphean of
Alpha Delta Pi, the Alpha Chi Delta, the Triangle of Sigma Kappa,
the Shield of Phi Kappa Psi, the Tomahawk of Alpha Sigma Phi, the
Record of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Aglaia of Phi Mu, the Sigma
Pi Emerald, the Shield and Diamond of Pi Kappa Alpha, and the
Alpha Phi Quarterly.

The following selection is taken from Banta's Greek Exchange,
and written by R. Louise Fitch, Grand President of Delta Delta
Delta.

THE HOUSE MOTHER
The position of house mother or house chaperon is rather unique in the list
of available positions for women. Until rather recently the sentiment seemed
to favor for such a position a woman past middle age, preferably a widow
of independent means who wanted a home for her declining years. Her duties
were few, consisting largely of being in the house when men were guests at
the house. Her authority—perish the thought—she had none! Just let her
try to use a little, and she was quite apt to find her services were no longer
needed. Within the last few years the sentiment regarding this position has
changed. Sorority officers—many of them—have discovered that the best house
mothers are members of their own organizations, usually younger women who
can live more of the life of the girls with them. After a year's close study
of the position, its needs and possibilities, it is my conclusion that this is a
very much underrated and undeveloped position. A house mother should be
a college woman and preferably a member of the sorority whose chapter she
mothers. She then has a dual hold upon the girls—as the house mother and
as an older sorority advisor. She should be thoroughly familiar with all the
methods and ideals and facts regarding her own sorority, and the main facts
of all others including the methods of the National Panhellenic Congress. She
should know something of house management to be able to advise the manager,
stop "leaks" so that the manager may keep within her appropriation. She
should know how to dance and dance well, and should expect her program

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to be filled at the dances. I n that way she can know wherein the fault lies
if the dancing is not what it should be. She should know something of the
general life and ideals of the college where she is then located and where
possible she should meet the professors under whom the girls in the house take
their work. She should, of course, know the ideals of the dean of women and
help work them out through her group. The question often arises: How much
authority should a house mother have? I f she is tactful and keen of observa-
tion she does not need any specific authority. The less she apparently assumes
the better. Everything that can possibly be done through the chapter president
and thus the chapter itself should be done, the chapter thus being its own
authority. Frequent conferences between chapter president and house mother
will give the president the ideas which the house mother would like to have
carried out and by presenting these to the chapter for discussion, the chapter
apparently runs itself as I T wishes. Creating chapter sentiment is the best
possible method of enforcing chapter rules. Few girls care to persistently
defy chapter opinion. A house mother can tell when there is friction in the
house, when there are misunderstandings and can tactfully straighten out
tangles. The interesting part of her work with the girls, however, comes in
discussing their college work. Here she can often settle serious problems,
advise a girl as to her course, change her into more congenial departments, tell
her of the many fields open to women and the qualifications necessary for
holding such, in fact, disclose to her entirely new branches of study and possi-
bilities of life. She also can win the confidence of the girls and in a skillful
manner hold before a girl her pet fault in such a manner that she is willing
to discard it and will seriously try to do so. She should at all times expect
the utmost courtesy—and get it—even to the little attentions which are perhaps
unnecessary but which are the outward signs of refinement. She should dis-
tinguish carefully between doing things F O R the girls and doing things W I T H
them. The latter is the better. She should keep in reserve a good many
opinions both as house mother and chapter advisor and should give them
rarely enough to have them of much consequence when given. The hardest
part of being a house mother is the waiting to see conditions develop. She can
see ahead and realize what certain methods would mean if adopted at once.
She must learn to expect things to move slowly. Girls must try them out in
perhaps twice as much time, but th« results are far more satisfactory in the
end, for the girls then see the wisdom of the suggestions, and try them as
their own. No kind of public sentiment can be changed in a moment and the
sorority is no exception. But invariably a chapter adopts in the second semester
what it rejects in the first, and the result is obtained—more slowly to be sure,
but willingly, which is the great consideration.

It may seem that the subject of house mothers will interest but few, but many
are the applications for this position received each year. Seldom are the quali-
fications extended beyond " I am very fond of girls." The possibilities are great
for those who will study them. In fact, the work is really that of a dean of
women on a small scale. We need more women who are intelligent, cultured,
tactful, jolly, sympathetic, and young to fill just such positions.

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In this number which has for its aim better homes, the following
is appropriate. Could it happen in your house?

An unpopular young man—a poor dancer—phones a girl and invites her to
the varsity ball. She explains that she is very sorry, but she has another date
for that night and can't possibly go to the varsity ball. She closes the tele-
phone booth and tells the girls all about it, and besides she just knows that a
perfectly grand man is going to ask her to go—and now she can't accept!

Tomorrow at eight A. M. notebooks, covering a month's work in chemistry,
are due. Tonight is the informal. O f course, we can't miss the informal, but
how about the rest of it? So we just get the "stude's" notebook, which sim-
plifies matters.

A German test is on, the Herr professor leaves the classroom, and immedi-
ately from covert hiding places appear German-English dictionaries, sundry
notes, and translations.

A worried home economics student takes the disjointed waist home for
mother to straighten out.

I n history, slips are to be signed, whether or not the required number of
pages of supplementary reading have been covered during the past month.
They haven't—but we'll have more time next month and can make it up—so
we sign the slip with the good name which our ancestors have given us.

They are indeed petty misdemeanors, but they weaken the firm moral fibre
and make for bigger evils.—X ft Eleusis. Kappa Alpha Theta.

We dedicate this number
of

TO DRAGMA

to our

GREEK NEIGHBORS

and to the Neighborliness which
dwells among us!

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