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144 TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI
And we're talking Convention, Convention. So along with the
wish for a bright and successful New Year that Pi sends to every
active and alumna member of A O I I , she also wishes that 1917
will bring with it the realization of the best A O I I convention ever.
Mn RED RENSHAW, '17, Chapter Editor.
NU, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Elizabeth Jane Monroe Dorothy Kenyon
Frances Walters Edna Rapallo
Helen Williams Sarah Donegan
Florence Haag Mary Peaks
Dear Sisters i n Alpha O:
Nu's regular editor is very i l l in the hospital with typhoid, so I
am undertaking to be an unworthy substitute for this number. I
am glad to say that I believe the danger is past and that she is
starting her recovery, but she is yet too i l l to see anyone.
Nu Chapter has been rather active during the recent campaign.
One of our alumna;, Helen Hoy Greeley, was on the Hughes
Special, while Elizabeth Moss and Virginia Mollenhauer have been
campaigning for Wilson: So no matter which side the victory was
on, we were sure of being included in it.
We are also represented among the war sufferers. Helen Ranlett
has been doing work among the refugees i n Amiens, France. Mable
Witte is delivering lectures on law in the Brooklyn Institute this
winter. Helen Potter is engaged i n revising a book on corporation
law. A new firm has been formed consisting of Jessie Ashley.
Adelma Burd, and Helen Potter.
Cecile Iselin is continuing in the office of Mr. Escher. He acts
as counsel for the Swiss Consulate. Dorothy Kenyon was also
asked to remain with her firm when the f a l l term opened. I had
better explain to those members of Alpha O who are not following
the legal profession that firm means a law firm, and these positions
mean law clerkships. I t is quite a coveted honor for a girl to get
into a good firm and be asked to stay, as the legal profession is still
quite conservative about women.
Hoping that your next letter may be written by the regular
editor,
Yours i n Alpha O,
ELIZABETH A. SMART.
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OMICRON, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
Margaret Conover, Grad. M a r i a n Swain, '19
W i s t a Braly, '17 Kathleen V a u g h a n , '19
Katherine Johnson, '17 Sadie Ramsey, '19
M a r y D . Houston, '18 Martha L o u Jones, '19
Dorothy Nolan, '18 L y n n M c N u t i , '19
Sue Bryant, '19 Lida Moore, Spec.
Louise Wiley, Grad. Josephine Johnson, Spec.
Elizabeth Kennedy, '19
Omicron's February letter must always begin with a list of pledges.
This time is no exception, and, as usual, in spite of the Editor's
criticisms, they are the "best ever." Here they are—Margaret
McAnulty, Eleanor Burke, Julia Rather, Elizabeth Tarpley, and
Iva Hobson. I n our next letter I hope they will be wearing the
A O I I pin instead of "the sheaf." They are as loyal now as any
full-fledged Alpha O's could be.
Since pledges are disposed of, I will now tell about our football
season just closed, because it is one of the most successful in our
history. To tell the whole story in a sentence—we beat Vanderbilt.
That is our big game, and a victory means a great season whatever
else might happen. But this year we were victorious in all games
but one, and that was a tie. So we think our boys are worthy of the
biggest " T " obtainable. There is much talk of a large new athletic
field which, i f it is constructed, will fill a long standing need.
Before the Christmas holidays the Y. M . C. A. is going to give
a Mid-winter Carnival with "big acts" and "side shows." They
hope to give such an exhibition as would make Ringling Brothers
proud. The Y. W. C. A., not to be outdone, is also to be in the
limelight, though in a slightly different way. We are to give a
group of tableaux on the Christmas Story with suitable readings
and songs.
The Christmas spirit has possessed most U . T.-ers these days.
Everyone is counting the days, hours, and even minutes until time
for home-going. And to think—when we read this in To DRAGMA
we shall have come back, and. what is more, we shall be in the
midst of examinations. Why do such terrible experiences always
come after the most delightful?
Speaking of delightful experiences makes all of us Omicrons
remember our alumna? home-coming, when most of our last year
girls and some more besides were with us for Thanksgiving. I t
was wonderful to have them with us again, but we didn't get to tell
them nearly all we wanted to, for we could only sit and gaze at
them. Then there were parties, of course—one of the very loveliest
being the freshman luncheon which they prepared and served them-