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our most enjoyable celebrations of the event. Helen Pierce, Mrs.
Trafford Jayne, Iota, Leta Nelson, and Florence Brande responded
with toasts to Tau, to the freshmen, and lastly, to our founders.
Then, next in order on the social calendar, came the "Christmas
Bazaar" for which we planned and worked with unabated zeal and
after which we gleefully counted the returns! The house was
decorated with all that goes with Christmas: red ribbons, candles,
green boughs, and holly wreaths, and a Christmas tree. The dining-
room was converted into a Christmas teashop where demure, white-
gowned maids served one with tea (or coffee) and cakes and smiles
at an absurd price. The "Den" would not have been recognized
by its own patrons, for it had become a dark, berugged and betapes-
tried place where two speculative, keen-eyed young women read one's
palm—for a dime! Thanks to the generosity of our alumnfe, the
needlework booth brought us splendid returns. After all the candle
wax had been removed, and all the pine needles swept up, we agreed
with one accord that it had been "a success."
I must not forget the Christmas tree party which we gave for
thirty irresistible, but fearfully unhygienic youngsters with unpro-
nounceable names. This is an annual event with us, but one which
has not become monotonous.
What else? Miss Morton, our chaperon, entertained the senior
girls at a dinner and theatre party on Friday evening, January 10th.
Although it is not supposed to be socially chronicled, on that same
evening the underclassmen entertained themselves at a less formal
but more hilarious affair. The details were suppressed, but there
is a vague rumor to the effect that the costumes were decidedly
unique!
And we are cramming—cramming for finals in order to main-
tain the standard we established in scholarship this year, and i f
possible, to raise it. Our new year's resolutions are—but I will
tell you of them later. Perhaps that will be "the wisest way."
With best wishes to all,
M U R I E L FAIRBANKS, Chapter Editor.
CHI, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
M a r y A d a m s , 'ig Ethel Farrington, '18
Greta Ames, '19 Florence Hughes, '18
Lillian Battenfeld, 'l8 E d n a Hausner, '17
Irene Becker, '19 Leta McClear, '17
C l a r a Bell, '8 Ruth Melvin, '17
Sadie Campbell, '17 Bertha Muckey, '18
Frances Carter, '18 Edith R a u c h , '18
R u t h Dibben, '17 Helen Schrack, '17
'19
Reva Snyder,
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PLEDGES
Eleanor Cullivan, '20 I n a Miller, '20
Marjorie K i r k , '20 Marion Mount, '20
N o r a Knight, '20 E t h e l W i l l i a m s , '20
E s t h e r K o o n , '20 Elizabeth Zimmer, '20
Holiday greetings—for Christmas, when this is written, and
Easter, when it is read—to all our chapters, old and new, and the
heartiest of welcomes to those so recently added to our roll.
Just now, within a month or two of the time when our pledges
are to become sisters, seems especially opportune for introducing to
you the eight splendid girls that make up Chi's freshman class—
Nora Knight of Redby, Minnesota; Marion Mount of Red Bank,
New Jersey; Elizabeth Zimmer of Constableville, New York; Ina
Miller of Clinton, New York; and Eleanor Cullivan, Marjorie
Kirk, Esther Koon, and Ethel Williams, of Syracuse. Right pleased
we are with the enthusiasm and ability they are showing in their
work for the college—Nora as vice-president of her class and chief
executive of freshman organization, Marjorie as captain of freshman
basketball and of freshman swimming, and the others all as loyal
workers in the many activities and organizations on the H i l l , strong
for Syracuse and for Alpha Omicron Pi.
And we are keeping them busy in the fraternity too, for we are
doing our best to see to it that when they have finished their lessons
in Banta's Greek Exchange and the Sorority Handbook and the
other things left for their study during their weekly chapter meet-
ings, they shall be at no loss for material with which to fill the big
Alpha O stuntbook that is in their charge, and that contains memen-
tos of all our little jollifications, and of our "ten o'clocks," and of
our Christmas party, and of the long-remembered Colgate reunion
and dance, and of the joyous celebration we held on Founders' Day.
Many good times we have had among ourselves this year, many eve-
nings for the stuntbook to commemorate, despite the general crowd-
ing and the hurrying that has resulted from the late opening of
college and the consequent disarrangement of the usual schedule of
happenings all over the H i l l .
But you must not think for a minute that Syracuse has let anything
be crowded out or spoiled by lack of time. The sophomore-freshman
Reception lost not a whit of its sport because it took place two months
late, the big Women's League party was a splendid success, the
junior-freshman romp was as jolly as ever, and the Y. W. C. A.
supper, held immediately after the annual Recognition Service for
new members, rivaled the men's athletic dinners in numbers, and
far outstripped them, we think, in everything else. The Big Sister