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There were no accidents, also no excitement! The football game was
also lacking i n excitement because i t was so uneven a match. Indiana
won 52 to 0.
There are fifteen girls i n the house this year. Every evening some
of us gather around the grate w i t h our sewing or k n i t t i n g and ukuleles
and work and sing until study hours.
T h i s coming F r i d a y we are going to give a party f o r some girls
that we like very much. We are a l l expecting to have a lovely time.
T h e weather here is grand, and the campus i n its autumn dress is
gorgeous. These snappy f a l l mornings make us want to do our very
best. A n d so under such favorable conditions we are starting this
year w i t h high hopes.
Beta P h i sends her love and best wishes to you a l l .
M I L D R E D B E G E N E A U , Chapter Editor.
ETA—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
CHAPTER ROLL
Helene Bowersox-4 Marion McCabe-2
Margaret Melaas-3
Dorothy Bassett-2 Clara Nchrlick-3
Eddina Douma-3 Avis Peters-4
Winifred Inglis-4 Margaret Pickett-4
Elizabeth Pruett-4
Karen FaUc-3 Ruth Tufts-4
Mary Fowler-2
Julia Johnson-4
Six new pledges are the proudest o f our possessions this f a l l . O u r
new house and its lovely furnishings mean a great deal but in having
these new girls we feel extremely fortunate. They are Garnet K l e -
ven, Irene Folckemer, Ruth Ingebretson, Lydia Lacey, Grace Putnam,
and Marguerite Gooding, most of them Wisconsin girls.
Garnet K l e v e n is a j u n i o r and a former student i n the school. She year. T o keep i t is what we are working for now.
is now one of the two editors of the woman's page of our daily paper,
The Cardinal, and also very prominent i n other activities. Irene
Folckemer is f r o m Rockford College and a wonderfully strong girl.
She too is a junior. R u t h Ingebretson comes f r o m Whitewater
N o r m a l . W e have to c a l l her an adult special now although she
w i l l be here f o u r years. " R e g a l " is the one adjective to apply \o
Ruth. Lydia Lacey and Grace Putnam are both freshmen f r o m
Madison H i g h School. Lydia was salutatorian of her class last year
and she is going to keep up her fine work. W e expect great things
f r o m Grace i n activities. Marguerite Gooding comes f r o m G r a f t o n
H a l l , a freshman too, and we are going to watch her do things.
M a r i o n Abele f r o m Rho was here w i t h us d u r i n g rushing. N o t Mary Danielson, '18
only did we enjoy her visit, but appreciate to the utmost her many
h e l p f u l suggestions and h a r d work. M r s . Dormer, an A O IT alumna
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f r o m De Pauw, who now lives in Milwaukee, was also here f o r a
few days and presented Eta with a lovely mahogany hall table and
mirror. I t really is our most elegant possession, and we want you
all to know how much we really appreciate Mrs. Dormer's g i f t .
Our new house is i n the center of the f r a t e r n i t y neighborhood. C h i
Omega is the only sorority near us. They are right up the street.
N e x t door and right across and behind us are the A l p h a Delt's. C h i
Psi's, Sigma Nu's, Alpha T a u Omicron's, Psi U's, Theta Delt's, Phi
Gam's, and Delta Kappa Epsilon's. Even i f the breezes are pretty
stiff in the winter time because we are at the lake f r o n t , we love i t .
I t was great f u n selecting the f u r n i t u r e . H o w we ever got i t we
do not know. I t just came. We even have a wonderful baby grand
piano and an elegant davenport. O u r color scheme is fundamentally
old blue, with now and then a dash of old rose, which harmonizes
splendidly w i t h the mahogany. W e a l l came back a week before
college started to make our own draperies and the like. We worked
hard, but i t was worth it.
Mary Fowler won the silver loving-cup in the track meet last
spring. We are mighty proud of her for i t . Several of our girls
have made swimming honors and various teams. They are going out
strong f o r bowling this year. Intersorority games commence very
soon. W e were not i n the contest last year. O u r first game is w i t h
Kappa Kappa Gamma and although they won last year, we expect
to put up a stiff fight.
But the great news is still unrevealed. Eta leads in scholarship
at Wisconsin. We made the highest average of any fraternity or
sorority i n c l u d i n g the social and professional ones. T h e competition
f o r this honor is very keen here. Kappa A l p h a Theta held it last
The great liberty loan campaign has just closed. O u r girls have
taken out $1,200 in bonds. Conservation is our motto this year. I f
our plans materialize, every Saturday afternoon we are all going to
work and donate the money to a common liberty loan f u n d . Some
of the girls have work caring f o r children, others are advertising f o r
department stores, and so on. A l l our parties w i l l only be i n f o r m a l
little dances at the house.
Fraternally, Editor.
E L I Z A B E T H P R U E T T , Chapter
ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE
CHAPTER ROLL
Martha Johnson, '18 Irene Abrahamson, '18
Ruby Hodgskiss, 'l8 Myrtle Kuhns, '18
Alice McCone, '18