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Thirty-four members of the seven chapters of the southern district of Alpha
Omicron Pi national sorority are meeting in convention June 20-25 at Camp
Sequoya on Sycamore Lake. Mrs. Maud W. Boggess is the director of the camp.
Kappa chapter of the sorority at Randolph-Macon College is the hostess chapter.
Mrs. George B. Baskervill of Birmingham, southern district superintendent, is
in charge of the meetings, Mrs. W. L . Terry of Memphis is the acting almuna? dis-
trict superintendent. Both Mrs. Baskervill and Mrs. Terry are members from
the chapter at Randolph-Macon College at Lynchburg, Va.

The mornings at the camp are devoted to business sessions while the afternoons
arc given over to canoeing, swimming, horseback riding, and other sports. On
Sunday evening the girls were entertained with a picnic supper on the banks of
Lake Sycamore. This was followed by a formal initiation service held by Mrs.
Baskervill for two pledges to the sorority, Mary Allie Taylor from the South-
western chapter and Marguerite Collens from the Randolph-Macon chapter.

Stunt night is always a feature of- convention, and this was staged on Monday
night in the camp recreation hall. The chapter of the University of Tennessee
presented to the convention a new son<; written by one of their members entitled,
"The Sweetheart of A O Pi". The other chapters each gave a cleverly planned
skit. Another charming custom of the convention was the after-dinner "sings"
on the lake.

The final event of convention will be a formal banquet on Tuesday night.
Rebecca Wright of Mobile. Ala., the president of the hostess chapter, will be
toastmistress. The toasts will be given in the form of a radio broadcast, and the
girls from the various chapters will toast the national organization, the southern
chapters, the alumna?, the initiates, and Mrs. Baskervill. Suitable decorations will
be arranged by the decoration committee in charge of Beverly Wilson of New
Orleans. Those who will serve on her committee are Kllen Goodman of Memphis
and Edith Walthall of Atlanta. The place cards will be in the shape of loud
speakers each broadcasting a girl's name. At the banquet a prize will be given
by Mrs. Baskervill to the chapter which has the greatest representation in propor-
tion to the distance they have travelled to Bristol. (Kappa Omicron won the
prize, a pair of AOI1 book ends such as Birmingham alumna: chapter gives for
wedding presents.)

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