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ACTIVE CHAPTER LETTERS are anxiously awaiting the moment when they shall be real A O n's,
and each of whom we know will be an honor to our fraternity. We
This is the first time in the present Editor's experience with are all so busy with the preparations for their initiation which will
To Dragma that a chapter letter has been missing. Upsilon is take place next week that we have hardly had time to think of the
the fore-warned offender. Three communications have been freshmen, though we have quite a long list of "possibilities" to be
addressed to the Upsiloh Chapter Editor without reply or considered. According to local Panhellenic rules, rushing this year
result. Will the chapter please see that a change in Chapter will be greatly modified, for there are to be no parties of any kind and
Editor is made? all rushing is to be done strictly on the campus. This is such a
radical change that all the fraternities are anxiously awaiting the
PI—H. SOPHIE NEWCOMB MEMORIAL COLLEGE result.
Magda Chalaron, '18 CHAPTER ROLL We are glad to have with us this year three of our last year's
Helen Grevemberg, '19 s e n i o r s — R i e t t a Garland, who has a fellowship in physics, and Jean
Anna McLellan, '19 H i l l and Mary Raymond, who are taking postgraduate courses. Of
Evelyn Pigott, '19 the four others, Mary Summer has a position with the Times-
Fay .Morgan, '20 Picayune, and Kathleen O'Niell is teaching in Columbia, Louisiana.
Lessie Madison is teaching English at the Lake Charles High School,
PLEDGES and Mildred Renshaw is head of the French Department there.
Truly we may be proud of our newest alumnae!
Corinne Chalaron, '20 Ruth Kastler, '20
Pi sends greetings to all active and alumna; chapters and best
Marjorie Fell, '20 Ophelia Perkins, '20 wishes for a most successful year.
Ellen Jett, '20 Mary Renand, '20
Fraternally,
Louise Withers, '20 A N N A M C L E L L A N , Chapter Editor.
College opened on September 24th, and right glad we all were
to be back, though our joy was slightly overshadowed by the thought
that this was to be our last year at "old Newcomb," for the new ALUMNA NEWS
buildings on Broadway are fast nearing completion and the predic- Lake Charles, L a . , numbers this year among its teachers seventeen New-
tions are that they will be ready for occupation next September. comb graduates. In this group there are almost enough A O I P s to form
After the scramble of getting not only ourselves but the freshmen an alumna; chapter of their own. The following are teaching in the high
safely registered, came the time-honored custom of "marching into school.
chapel," when the new seniors donned their caps and gowns officially Lessie Madison, '17 Sara Bres, '16
for the first time. Pi is represented by only one senior this year, Mildred Renshaw, '17 Margaret Foules, '14
but we are all as proud of Magda as i f she were a whole regiment, Clara Hall, »i6 Betsy Dupre, '13
and actives and pledges (to say nothing of alumna?) attended the Kathleen O'Neill, '17, is assistant principal in the high school at Columbia,
exercises in a body. Following this was the first student body meet- La.
Delie Bancroft, '15, who for two years formed one of the Lake Charles
ing of the year, and in the afternoon the reception given annually contingent, is teaching in the high school at Hot Springs, Ark., her home
by the old students to the new. At this last occasion speeches of town.
welcome were made by the various class presidents, and Pi was justly Grace Gillean, '16, is teaching in the high school at Morgan City, L a .
proud of Ruth Kastler who spoke for the sophomores. Georgia Belle Gillean, '14, now recovered from her injury of last spring,
The Big Sister movement at Newcomb seems to have come to stay, is teaching in the high school at Bastrop, L a .
Gladys Renshaw, '14, has returned to the high school at Monroe, L a .
and big and little sisters are agreed that it is a very good thing. Each Solidelle Renshaw, '16, is teaching again in the high school at Franklin, L a .
upperclassman has the particular care of a freshman, and it is Erin O'Neill, '16, will remain at home this year with her family in Franklin,
her duty to keep her charge out of all difficulties, and make her feel La.
that there is someone interested in her at all times. Lillian Fortier, '17, is teaching in the high school at Honna, L a . , where
Pi Chapter at the present moment is smaller than it has been for she taught for the session 1916-1917.
several years, numbering only five actives. But before this is in Among the New Orleans alumna pursuing graduate courses at Tulane
print we shall have added to our number seven fine girls, all of whom 1917-1918, Mary Raymond, '17, is working for an M.S. in biology, and the
following are fellows at Newcomb:
