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Winifred Waters, 'io, is teaching English and Latin in the high school at
Lyons, Neb.

Mrs. Frederick Beaumont visited at the home of Mrs. Burnham of Nor-
folk for a few days at Thanksgiving time.

Breta Diehl, '13, of Stratton, visited for a number of days with Alpha
O sisters in Lincoln and Omaha, the first of November.

Mrs. Ralph Weissmiller, '12, (Janet Ramey) has moved from Bruning, Neb.,
to Kansas City, Missouri.

Miss Martha Walton is visiting in Lincoln the guest of Miss Helen and
Elsie Fitzgerald.

SIGMA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Alice de Veuve, '15 Gertrude Schiels, '17

Ruth Brownlie, '16 Helen Slaughter, '17
Frances Corlett, '16 Marie Butler, '18
Elizabeth Elliot, '16 Ella Crawford, '18

Vira Georgeson, '16 Christine Finnell, '18
Kathleen Mains, '16 Bernice Hubbard, '18

May Preuss, '16 Marguerite Neely, '18
Marion Bachman, '17 Elsa Oberdeener, '18
Helen Clowes, '17 Thelma Donovan, '19
Gladys Goeggel, '17 Margaret Forsyth, '19
Kathryn Hubbard, '17 Lucile Graham, '19
Ethel Moroney, '17 Helen Schiels, '19
Rosalinda Olcese, '17 Dorothy Weeks, '19

Now that Christmas and the Old Year are well behind us and a
promising new semester right ahead, we are all working mightily to
bring new members into Sigma chapter—girls who seem to us to in-
carnate those qualities which love embraces as a whole—the one
quality f o r which our founders hoped each A O I I might stand no
matter what the type might be. Things do look favorable with our
seven Freshmen of last semester taking an active interest, to each older
girl's delight. We have a new system at present. Bids are written
and sent out a week after registration day. Even last semester we
tried new rushing tactics on our own score. Once a week we held
informal teas after classes. The plan worked splendidly, for all the
stiff constraint of rushing was done away with, allowing in its place
natural, happy friendships.

We gave our fair on November 14th, the money going to the Sigma
house fund. Booths were arranged around the room with articles of
all sorts and sizes. We took in several hundred dollars, and so felt,
quite repaid for the weeks before spent in needlework.

On December 12th we celebrated Founders' Day somewhat dif-
ferently from former occasions. We trimmed a plump, green, fra-
grant tree with gifts for each one of the sisters—each girl buying
one present and giving it to a committee. When the afternoon's fun