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THE INSTALLATION OF THE KNOXVILLE ALUMNiE
CHAPTER

CHAPTER ROLL

Emma Albers Hunt (Mrs. J . O.) I.ucretia Jordan Bickley (Mrs.

Alice Hayes Graf (Mrs. J. R.) W. E.)

Alice Calhoun Cox (Mrs. H . M . ) Helen Kennedy

Blossom Swift Edmunds (Mrs. Minn Elois Hunt

C. H.) Elizabeth Ayres

Ailcey Kyle Pert (Mrs. A. S.) Ellen Converse

Louise Wiley Margaret Conover

Aubrey Faulkner

2tyia page ta oXmn I t has been my unusual good fortune to take part in more than one
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installation just now, and while I am no less enthusiastic over this
of
Knoxville Alumna; Chapter than over N u Omicron, still there is not
Slattmt Snmm JRarMt
of so much of interest to the fraternity at large to relate.

<£amma (Uljaptpr, 1911 After a struggle to keep our girls from teaching or marrying and

leaving town, we got together the required number and sent in a

petition last spring. During the summer we were so scattered that

it was impossible to organize, so from various near-by spots I carried

on the necessary correspondence, occasionally calling up somebody

for an opinion. Early in September we had a meeting and planned

the date of installation and our Red Cross work. I n the meantime

She left us in June, 1917, and she carried with our ranks were recruited to fourteen instead of eight with Emma

her that personality which while she was in col- Albers Hunt, Alicey Kyle Pert, Blossom Swift Edmunds, Alice Cal-

lege made her known as "the girl who lauuhs houn Cox, and Elizabeth Ayres.

a lot." 6 On October 13th (it is plain we are not superstitious), Martha

Lou Jones installed the chapter in Omicron's fraternity room. I n

I discovered that Death was perfection, completion, the afternoon Minn Elois Hunt had a tea for the active chapter and
fulfillment—nothing lost.—TAGORE.
the "fish," at which the alumnae assisted. From there we went to the

dear " H i l l , " and with visitors and actives had twenty-eight there for

a glorious reunion.

We have planned for the present to have our formal meetings with

the active chapter on the first Monday in the month. On the other

Mondays we meet for Red Cross work. We began our sewing at my

house at once, and beside some odd garments and our individual knit-

ting for the soldiers and French orphans, we are making the com-

plete outfit for one patient.

Three girls are away temporarily teaching, and Laura Swift Mayo,

(Mrs. Priestly Jernigan) has gone away to live. But we who are

here hope to accomplish much, beside being a moral support for the

active chapter, and keeping alive in our hearts our love for the frater-

nity and the memory of the benefits and inspirations it has given

'T 0 U S LUCRETIA JORDAN B I C K L E Y , O, '08.