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term. The program is arranged and directed by a committee ATTENTION! CONVENTION!
appointed by the president of the student body, and the faculty
grants a holiday. Last year we gave The Romance of the Rose in B Y B E R N I E P. PALFREY, K, ' 1 8
pantomime with many beautiful interpretative dances interwoven
with the working out of the legend. I t is too early to give any hint Convention in June and in Virginia is the all-inspiring thought of
of what form this year's celebration will take, but it will still be every Kappa, and we want it to be the same for every Alpha O.
fresh in our minds when you come and you will be certain to hear There is hardly a reason why each one should not come, and oh, so
all about it. many reasons why you should!
I n the first real paragraph of this article I spoke of the RandolpK- Of course, you remember that we haven't always had Biennial
Macon spirit and said it could not be translated into a concrete form, Conventions meeting with the different chapters, but until 1909 had
but I was partially wrong, for some small portion of that spirit is only an annual Grand Council meeting in New York which was
being embodied in our work and plans for our Students' Building. strictly for business. Only a few, comparatively speaking, had any
When you come to our campus next June, we hope to have many work- share in this, so that our present conventions were planned as a big,
men on that campus, and to be able to show you the cornerstone of our centralizing, unifying power, which, should bring Zeta's and Pi's,
Students' Building. We are putting all our Lincoln pennies, buffalo Sigma's and Gamma's, and all of us into closer bonds of fraternity
nickles, 1 9 1 6 dimes, and anything we have left into the f u n d ; we and love. And this is our aim for the 1917 Convention! Those of
are saving tin foil, selling chocolate, thinking and talking, working you who were at the California Convention already know that Stella
and hoping for little else than our Students' Building. Stern Perry has promised us a History of Alpha Omicron Pi, to be
read at the next Convention. Every true Greek is interested in the
With this rather sketchy outline of some of the more obvious fraternity world at large, but first and last in the fraternity of his
phases of our college life in mind, I hope you will find our college, choice, and this will be an opportunity not to be passed by.
our campus, and our conversation a little more intelligible than you
would have without this article. The picture I would leave with you I t has been my good luck to become personally acquainted with a
is of a college where courage, and honor, and courtesy are held in great many of the girls from Pi Chapter, and when I think of all
high esteem; a college waiting with a warm welcome for your coming, the pleasure that these friendships have brought to me, I think about
that it may learn of you and that you, perhaps, may learn of it. how much more wonderful it will be to know my sisters from all of
the chapters. And that is what Convention will mean, along with
Kappa Chapter at Home to All the opportunity to welcome our very new'est Alpha O's.
A L P H A O's!
Many of you from the Western states perhaps have never been
Place, Lynchburg. Time, June 21-26, 1917. East, and this will be a splendid chance to combine a trip and a Con-
vention, and a beautiful excuse to visit Virginia. This fine old South-
ern state boasts all sorts of interesting and historic places—Natural
Bridge, Richmond, V. M . I . at Lexington, and others—and we are
hoping to take you to see some of them, perhaps. Nearly every one
will come via Washington so that a few days in the capital could be
most easily arranged. Is there anyone who doesn't like a jolly good
time? " A l l work and no play" is an old saying, but I believe it's
true, don't you? Of course, we will work at Convention, all the
mornings will be taken up with business sessions, but the afternoons
and evenings will lie brimming f u l l of f u n , a trip or jaunt up the
James, stunts, a reception, a banquet, and every good chance to know-
all of our celebrities and sisters and to become one with them in the
loyal spirit of Alpha Omicron Pi!
