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to meet boats. We are feeling our way, and want to find out just
where we can help most.
A city Panhellenic is being formed in New Orleans and we prac-
tically decided to join, but a committee was appointed to attend the
next meeting to find out and discuss particulars before committing
ourselves.
Our chapter has been successfully carrying out its plans for help-
ing the active one through weekly informal gatherings—just a few
girls each time—to meet the rushees and to get better acquainted
with the actives. Newcomb Panhellenic has made a new rule for
spring pledging, but I guess the active chapter letter tells about it.
so I ' l l not repeat.
But here is an interesting bit of news. Pi has another future little
sister, Miss Dorothy Many Barker, Dorothy Safford's baby girl, born
just before Thanksgiving. And I've heard of an engagement but it
is not announced, so I can't tell.
A bright and prosperous and happy New Year to a l l !
ALICE P. IVY, Chapter Editor. Irene Cousins; Treasurer, Hazel Mariner Buzzell; Recording Secre-
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL A L U M N A
Dear Sisters in A O I I :
Once more I send you greetings! May the New Year bring you
every happiness!
Since you last heard from us the Minneapolis Alumnae Chapter of
Alpha Omicron Pi has been trying out a plan, and at present it
seems to have succeeded. We have been trying to visit the sick in
the City Hospital of Minneapolis, having some member at the
hospital about four or five times a week. The head of the Social
Service Department says that no one can realize how much good
can be done, and how all the patients appreciate these visits; and
I can assure you that we who have made the calls are learning how
to sympathize with those less fortunate ones, and are getting fully as
much out of it as the sick. #
Our last alumnae meeting was held at Laura Hartman's, and we
were entertained royally. But in one respect, the party brought sad-
ness with it, for that afternoon we learned that we were to lose from
our active work our president, Mrs. MacPhie, who has left for the
East once more. Words cannot tell how we shall miss her. She
has done so much to keep up the work of the fraternity and to enlarge
the chapter, and our regret at losing her presence with us is too great
to be expressed. Laura Hartman, the vice-president, succeeds her,
and we are all very much pleased at the election.
We all send greetings to our sisters.
BERTHA M A R I E BRECHET, Chapter Editor.
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BANGOR ALUMNffi
We who live in the far frozen North are, at present, m the throes
of a real old-fashioned Maine winter, for wild was the blizzard and
loud was the blast last Saturday, but are we not happy and looking
forward to a joyous 1917? Christmas is upon us and the whole land
is covered with white, broken only by high piles of snow thrown
from the driveways, and by the tops of fences and of sturdy little
bushes. The sleigh bells are ringing in the frosty air and bid us be
twice merry for 'tis Christmas again and we must count our blessings.
Right here I must number as one of the blessings which has come to
us as a body this fact that once again we have a name and a place
in college and fraternity life. The name is Bangor Alumnae Chap-
ter, and the place shall be what we make ourselves mean to the
active chapter, to one another, and to the world at large. On Satur-
day evening, November 18th, at the Bangor House the chapter was
installed by Miss Marion Rich, president of Boston Alumnae Chapter
and District Superintendent of the East. This was preceded by a
supper party and you all may be assured that there was so much to
talk about that Ave really did not need the red candles and roses to tell
us that we were among friends. The officers elected were: President,
tary, Zella Colvin; and Corresponding Secretary, Aileen Hobart.
Those present were Ida Bean Sugden; Autense Cousens Hincks, '00;
Edith Bussell, '02; Cleora Carr, '03; Edee Gammon, '03; Frances
Webber Burke, '06; Alice Farnsworth Phillips, '08; Irene Cousins.
' 1 1 ; June Kelley, '12; Hazel Mariner Buzzell, '12; Imogene Worm-
wood, '14; Marion Jordan, '14; Mary Cousins, '14; Aileene Hobart.
'14; Zella Colvin, '16, and Doris Curier Treat, '16.
On December 2nd we met with Marion Jordan at her home in Old
Town, and several who were not able to attend the installation were
present then. A t this time I want to say that we hope whenever an
A O n alumnae is within hailing distance of Bangor, she will surely
attend our meetings, otherwise we shall be righteously indignant and
woe be unto her when our wrath breaks forth! There was so much
to be planned and decided upon that I fear we accomplished very
little. We did draw up our by-laws, and decided that as soon as
we were in a position to do so, we would seriously undertake work of
a social or philanthropic character according to the particular needs
of this vicinity.
Our January meeting was held with Mrs. Autense Cousens Hincks
in Old Town, on January 6th. This meeting was of particular inter-
est because several girls from away were present. Then, too, every-
one, voted that Autense was an ideal hostess.