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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 243

LAMBDA—STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AILEEN BROWN.

TAU—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

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

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

We've made multitudinous good resolutions, and an equal number of
ambitious plans f o r the New Year of 1926. We anticipate a hectic time
this first month with pledges to put through Probation Week, and twelve
of them to initiate. Peggy King, a very active freshman, is mixing in