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listeners to the description o f our new sisters and the chapter at
Bozeman. You sound very fine, Alpha Phi, and we have a particu-
lar interest in your future, since two of our members mothered you.
We hold no regular meetings in the summer but there were several
small parties. Since so many Gamma girls are teaching, our numbers
are greatly increased during the vacation period.
T h e September meeting was held at Jordans' Cottage, Lake
Pushaw, and there were twelve girls i n attendance. Edith Jordan
Lord, Ida Bean Sugden, and Florence McCloud took the crowd in
automobiles f r o m Stillwater. There was a lovely open fire, a sponson
canoe, the most "scrumptious" array of good things to eat and a
w o n d e r f u l f a l l day to make us happy. W h a t more could mortal de-
mand?
We are to have several new members i n our organization this year,
Margaret Holyoke, Estelle Beaupre, Madeline Robinson, and Doris
Savage. November 18th was the day of Bangor Alumna's installa-
tion, and the plan now is to make that date our annual initiation date
and to have some special celebration.
Wasn't it lovely to have the chance to meet Mrs. Stewart? The
actives invited us to the tea which they gave i n her honor and we
were glad to have this opportunity of meeting our Grand President.
Such a short little visit though. There must be a bigger attraction i n
the West, don't you think?
October 20th the meeting was held at Imogene Wormwood's. The
girls worked busily with their needles f o r Red Cross; and at the same
time their tongues were engaged in relating the summer's experiences
and in telling of the whereabouts of this or that girl of whom the
others had lost track. We are very much i n favor of the l i f e subscrip-
tion and hope to show you how much so by a large number o f sub-
scribers in the near future.
We are looking f o r ways and means of improvement and w i t h such
an end in view w i l l the alumnae presidents send copies of their by-
laws to the Bangor president?
Let us as individuals and as chapters show our earnestness and our
belief in our country by p u t t i n g f o r t h our best efforts in whichever
direction they may be needed.
W i t h best wishes to you a l l ,
MARGARET JUNE KEI.I.EY. President.—
PORTLAND ALUMNA
T h e gentle drops were f a l l i n g in the first rain o f the season, as
the girls gathered at Caroline Paige's f o r luncheon on Saturday.
September 9th ; and like the rain, the conversation pattered on, gently,
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unceasingly. O f course, representing, as i t d i d , the cream of univer-
sity training f r o m Maine to California, it was conducted on a trans-
cendental plane, something like this:
" W e l l , and how is yours?" " O h , I've never had the slightest
trouble!" " T w o teeth, you say?" "Yes, just beginning to pull her-
self up." Is it any wonder that the few unmarried and babyless
contigent flattened themselves in a fringe against the wall and devoted
themselves to knitting f o r the soldiers. W h y , Mabel H i l l s t r o m
almost finished the left rear side of a sweater i n one afternoon, and
if Susie Paige and Margery M i l l e r hadn't been honored guests, I ' m
afraid they wouldn't have managed to get a word i n edgewise.
We w i l l be kind enough to refrain f r o m giving you the menu o f
the lovely luncheon i n detail, because you know Mother Paige and the
g i r l s j u s t couldn't ask all of you, much as they w o u l d love t o ! H o w -
ever, there was a wonderful something that started in with crab and
ended up with green peppers that we mean to get the receipe for, or
die i n the attempt, and a tall handsome, dark-complexioned cake,
that has made us regret ever since that at the time we could not,
positively could not, indulge in a second piece, and
But, as we were saying, a f t e r luncheon the conversation gently
volplaned f r o m the rosy heights o f babyhood and meandered about
among such every-day topics as The best Way to Can Beans, and
Can a Husband Teach His Wife to Drive the Car? and What Do
You Think about Meatless Days? and Has Anyone Heard from
Charlotte Hall?
I t happens that someone has heard f r o m our Charlotte, now Mrs.
Kenneth U h l s . She is reported as b l i s s f u l l y happy somewhere i n
Kansas.
But we are not all frivolous married, or matrimonially inclined
folks, although Rose Elwood's shifting pins do make us nervous, and
A l i c e Collier w h i l e declaring that she had the time of her l i f e i n
California this summer refuses to admit that m-a-n spells beau.
(Alice, i t grieves us to suspect you of camouflage!) Some of the girls,
we are trying to tell you, have really useful careers. Tess and Mabel
Hillstrom at Vancouver, and Gladys Byham near them. Alice Collier
and Caroline Paige in Portland, Mabel Robertson at Salem and
Carrie Becken at Lewiston. Ohio, are all engaged in teaching the
young idea how to shoot, or perhaps we should say. bending the t w i g
so that the tree may incline. W e never were strong on E n g l i s h I I I ,
anyway!
A n d now with the pleasant information that we have just learned
that Mrs. Richard Smith of the University o f Minnesota is living at