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When this letter reaches you we shall all be deep in preparations chapter so near at hand. At the time that Marion Rich installed the
for the mid-year examinations. Delta wishes all her sisters the Bangor Alumna? Chapter, she also made us a visit in her capacity
best of success in the coming trials. of district superintendent. She told us of some very interesting
things the other chapters are doing, especially in their endeavors
MARGARET DURKEE, Chapter Editor. to win the sorority cup. Maybe you will think we are not interested
in social and philanthropic work, but i f you lived in such a "pover-
GAMMA, UNIVERSITY OF MAINE tyless" community you, too, would find it hard to decide in which
way you could be of most help to the community.
Elizabeth Bright, '17 Ruth Gardner, '19
Until that time we are striving as individuals to make you proud
Leola Chaplin, '17 . R u t h Jordan, '19 of us. Leola Chaplin has been elected to the honorary scholarship
fraternity Phi Kappa Phi. Joyce Cheney is to have a poem, "Pitter
A l f r e d a E l l i s , '17 Helen Simpson, '19 Patter," published in an Anthology of the Best Poems by University
Students. We envy Kappa her position as hostess, but a number
F l o r a H o w a r d , '17 F a y Smith, '19 of our girls are planning to attend convention to enjoy her hospitality
even i f we are envious. Everyone begin to get enthusiastic so that
Lillian Hunt, '17 E l l a Wheeler, '19 we may have the biggest convention ever.

Doris Savage, '17 F r a n c e s Bartlett, '20 JESSIE STURTEVANT, Chapter Editor.

Jessie Sturtevant, '17 Olive Chase, '20

Ruth Chalmers, '18 Barbara D u n n , '20

Pauline Derby, '18 R u t h Ingersoll, '20

Vera Gellerson, '18 Irene Jackson, '20

Mona M a c W i l l i a m s , '18 Bessie Mills, '20

Gladys Reed, '18 Marguerite Mills, '20

Ruth Crosby, '18 Florence M c L e o d , '20

Joyce Cheney, '19 E v e l i n e Snow, '20 EPSILON, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Kathleen Snow, '20

Dear Alpha O Sisters: Mary Albertson, '17 Calista Hoffman, '18

Greetings to you all from the girls of Gamma and best wishes Sarah Campbell, '17 Matilda Loeffler, 'l8

to you for the New Year. We introduce to you fourteen new sisters, Viola Dengler, '17 Dagmar Schmidt, '18

three of whom, Ruth Crosby, Helen Simpson, and Ruth Gardner, A n n e M a r r o w , '17 Florence Coupe, '19

Frances Rehfeld, '17 Irene Greene, '19

were initiated late in the fall, the remaining eleven at our regular Dorothy Shaw, '17 Ethel H a u s m a n , '19

initiation in January. With our new service initiation seems more Jeanette Short, '17 Helen Langdon, '19

lovely and more impressive than ever, and our banquet was certainly Margaret Conlan, '18 Mary Donlon, '20

more than successful. As usual it was held in the attractive banquet Joanna Donlon, '18 Dorothy Hieber, '20

hall at the Bangor House and besides the active girls we had a large Evelyn Hieber, '18 Mary Moore, '20

number of alumna? back, Imogene Bumps, Beulah Philbrook. Edith Cornelia Munsell, '20

Bussell, Imogene Wormwood, Hazel Mariner Buzzell, Aileene At last, rushing with its trials and tribulations is over and we are
very proud of our seven new sisters, Frances Rehfeld, Irene Greene,
Hobart, Marion Jordan, Madeline Robinson, Doris Currier Treat, Ethel Hausman (Mrs. Leon Hausman), Mary Donlon, Dorothy
Hieber, Mary Moore, and Cornelia Munsell. As college began so
Marion Estabrook. Mary Cousins, Irene Cousins, Clair Weld Durgin, late we had three weeks of hard rushing, four afternoons a week and
a big party each Saturday night. There were two periods on rush
Zella Colvin, June Kelly. Letters were read from Mary Chase days (2-4 and 4-6) but no informal calling was permitted as here-
tofore. Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Allen, two of our alumnae, kindly
(whose sister Olive we now have for a sister), Miretta Bickford, offered us the use of their homes for parties and we had a dinner
party at the Orchard Tearoom.
and Muriel Colbath Wyman; such greetings make our gathering
On November 21st, we gave a dinner for our pledges and city
seem even larger when we know so many girls are thinking of us on alumna? in the small dining-room at Risley Hall. Then, after pledge
service, we went to see the Portmanteau Theatre in Bailey H a l l , the
that night. I wonder i f you know and love Beth Hanly's The Rose large Cornell auditorium. Before starting, we received the announce-

as we of Gamma do. We plan to make it a custom to have it read

each year just before we rise to join our arms and sing our Alpha O

song.

Speaking of so many alumna? reminds me of our most important

news—namely, that we have had an alumna? chapter installed right

next door to us. in Bangor. We are so pleased to have such a