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neighbors. We are out of "fraternity row" and among our sister America or France. A n d we f o u n d , instead, a community, sobered
Greeks at last.
and steadied by the changed conditions and filled w i t h a new k i n d

We have w i t h us at T a i l M a r y E l l e n Chase and Azalea L i n f i e l d . of enthusiasm, a new feeling of loyalty and helpfulness that sur-

Azalea we have adopted as our own w i t h an expression o f condolence passes f a r the o l d college spirit we loved to praise.

to the A l p h a Phi Chapter i n their loss. M a r y E l l e n as the editor o f T h e work of the Red Cross and war relief has entered every

this publication needs no f u r t h e r introduction. We are genuinely activity. Even the big, jolly, middy party that Women's League gives

proud of her, and talk of her recently published book with just the the freshmen each f a l l featured this year attractive booths, f r o m

proper ( ? ) shade of braggadocio. K n o w i n g M a r y E l l e n you w i l l which t r i m little white-gowned nurses gave out bundles and bundles

pardon us. We are very g r a t e f u l to the University of Minnesota f o r of grey yarn, and knitting needles by the hundreds, or instructed

possessing an English Department which could attract her to T a u . would-be helpers i n other kinds of work to be done f o r the soldiers.

Lest you suspect me o f t r y i n g to soothe our editor's anxiety as to I t was Red Cross work that furnished our dean of women her topic

whether my letter w o u l d be late as usual, E l l cease this eulogy. B u t , i n the biggest Y . W . C . A . meeting Syracuse has had this year; i t was

as Galileo said, " i t is true, anyway." the economy war is teaching that induced the women of the university

War time at Minnesota has occasioned decided changes i n the social to give up f o r the present a l l i n f o r m a l living-center dances, and to

atmosphere. Formal parties, o f course, are taboo. Everyone knits approve the plans for the simplification to a remarkable extent of the

for the Red Cross with utmost zeal. War service for university senior ball that has always been the big social event of the year. Our

women, organized through the Minnesota Division of the Women's f o o t b a l l games this f a l l have been played w i t h soldiers and attended

Committee of the Council of National Defense, will predominate by them i n splendid f a s h i o n ; our chapter social service has taken the

over less serious activities. T a u Chapter has pledged itself to co- f o r m of the support o f one o f the Armenian babies the war has

operate i n these activities to the utmost o f the abilities of each of brought to the point of starvation; even rushing parties have become

its individual members. intermingled now and then with Red Cross ideas, and international-

W i t h our very best good wishes to you a l l . ism, and the costumes o f other peoples—for which helps the rushing

M U R I E L F A I R B A N K S , Chapter Editor. committee is very g r a t e f u l , and indeed the whole chapter as w e l l , as

we think o f the ten clear girls who have pledged themselves to uphold

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY the standards of Alpha Omicron Pi.

CHAPTER ROLL We are so sorry, dear sisters, that some of us d i d not meet some of

Mary Adams, '19 Reva Snyder, '19 you, as we had hoped to do last June, and we send to you, over the
Greta Ames, '19 Ethel Williams, '20
Lillian Battenfeld, '18 Mildred Wright, '20 country, the love of Chi Chapter, to which we add the wish, most
Irene Becker, '19 Elisabeth Zinimer, '20
Frances Carter, '18 sincere, that convention may b r i n g us together at Kappa's home
Eleanor Cullivan, '20 Pledges
Ethel Farrington, '18 before the year has finished.
Florence Hughes, '18 Greta Coe, '21
Nora Knight, '20 Kathlyn Gilcher, '20 F R A N C E S C A R T E R , Chapter Editor.
Ina Miller, '19 Marion Jones, '21
Clarita Moore, '19 Esther Koon, '20 ALUMN/E NEWS
Laura Moore, '19 Margaret Kreisel, '21
Bertha Muckey, '18 Ruth Maloney, '21 GENERAL
Edith Rauch, '18 Gertrude Marks, '21
Gertrude Maxson, '20 Tess Maxwell Zimmerman, '13, visited us for a day or two before starting
Marcia Rosbrook, '21 for Mississippi to join her husband, whom she hopes to accompany to England
Edna Williams, '21 or France or wherever the war may call for one more doctor.

A tremendous amount of fortitude and optimism we needed this All our seniors of last year are teaching in the schools of New York or
f a l l to b r i n g us back i n good spirits to a college we expected to find New Jersey.
saddened by a w o r l d calamity, and weakened by the loss o f its many
professors and students who are wearing khaki now somewhere i n MARRIAGES

Martha Sargent, '15, to Ralph Sheals, S. U . '17, June, 1917. They are living
in Sandy Creek, N . Y.

M . Ruth Guthrie ex-'17, to Wynne B. Woodruff, 2 B '17, September 5th
And Ruth, too, has followed the example of so many of our married sisters,
and gone away from Syracuse to live.