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Other "alums" who were back for through Dillon on the fly, so I had a
homecoming were Harriet Nordstrum two-minute talk with them.
Kimmons, Berniece Crane, Henrietta
Moebus Bolitho, Myrtle Kuhns Schump, "Peg" Chrystal expects to start teach-
Marcclla Schneider, Edith Kuhns, and ing again this fall, after a leave of almost
Marie Moebus Jorgenson. two years because of illness.
Our bride of last October, Mary Bald- Just recently I had a letter from
win Gage, is visiting in Montana this Mayme Egan. She is at Greycraft Inn,
summer, and recently motored with her Beverly, Mass. Just then she was ex-
parents through Glacier Park. pecting Peg Conkling Donohue, who was
en route from New York to Bozeman.
One of our new brides is Dolly Tripp
Kistler, whose marriage to Dr. John Ruby Gill plans on teaching in Great
Kistler took place in Boston. They are Falls this year.
making their home in Cooperstown,
N.Y., where John is serving his interne- Elizabeth Hart has changed her type
ship. of work and is now connected with the
extension department of Montana State
Our other new bride is Marie Bower College.
Cockey, whose marriage to Charles
Thomas Cockey took place at Potomac Harriet Nordstrum Kimmons and her
Beach, Va., in May. Marie is making two children spent the summer with her
her home in Greensboro, N.C. parents at Big Timber, Mont. She ex-
pects Bob to drive up in August to get
Margarctta Johnson Barker, Helen them.
Tripp Davis, and their families spent the
summer in Butte. I believe Margaretta Mary O'Leary, one of our newest
is moving to California. "alums," is now at the Hyde Park Hotel,
Chicago, 111., where she is doing work
Blanche Border Menke, accompanied in connection with Northwestern Uni-
by her mother, Dickie, and her sister, versity. Carolyn Haley ('30), is to teach
Evelyn, vacationed at a lake near in a private girls' school at Fond du
Spokane. Lac, Wis.
Mary Stranahan Murphy and her hus- We have newcomers, too, a daughter
band spent a month in Montana visiting in July to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ralston
her parents and sight-seeing. They came (Alice Barbour), and a son, also in July,
to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Walker (Janet
Conkling).
Nu Omicron'
By X A N C I E E . GORDON
We were very proud of our repre- Vanderbilt Hospital. I t is an independ-
sentation at district convention which ent unit operating under the auspices of
took place at Camp Sequoya. The Nu Alpha Omicron Pi. We have over a
Omicrons who attended were Mary B. thousand volumes, but only half of them
Allison, alumna; representative, and are in circulation at present. However,
Martha Roden, active representative, ac- the long task of arranging and cata-
companied by Frances Ewing, Elizabeth loguing these books has gone forward
{razier, Mildred Cisco, and Margaret very well considering the extremely hot
Whitman. They all had a grand time weather and the usual summer activities.
ai>d reported the convention to be a We expect to get along more rapidly
great success. now that it is cooler and school is open-
ing. Two days out of each week, two
Our social meetings this summer have girls load our wagon with books and
consisted of bridge games held at the dif- magazines and distribute them from
erent girls' homes about every two ward to ward. This library gives us
weeks. They were attended by both our first chance for everybody to do
etives and alumna;, and everyone was really personal charity work. The
chairman of this enterprise and our most
of an opportunity to see every- faithful worker is Mary B. Allison (Ex.
°°dy else regularly. '23). We all want to thank Mary B. for
her untiring efforts.
liv .]y the thing that has really b e e n a
a common interest between actives
m Q alumna: is our Charity Library at
