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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 173

PLEDGES

Mary Adams, '19 Gertrude Kay, '18
Ethel Farrington, '19 Florence Lawther, '19
Gertrude Johnson, '19 Reva Snyder, '19

Chi's greetings to all.

Three new pledges we introduce to you—three full-fledged sisters
when you read these lines—Florence Lawther, '19, of Syracuse, Ethel
Farrington, '19, of Pulaski, and Gertrude Johnson, '19, of Saranac
Lake. We are sure that you will love them even as much as we do.
A l l our pledges have been showing their fraternity spirit in the splen-
did manner in which they came out for practice for the chapter
basketball team and played in our fast and snappy game against the
Kappa Kappa Gamma team in the inter-living-center series. And we
wish that you could have seen the clever farce that these same pledges
produced on pledges' stunt night. Little did we realize the dramatic
talent among our Freshmen!

Fourteen of our big sisters returned for the annual Colgate-
Syracuse football game, and helped us celebrate the "burying of the
Colgate hoo-doo" (the score was 38-0, you remember) at the alumnie
reunion at the chapter house that evening. I t was the first meeting
between some of us, and right gladly we sealed our friendships. Per-
haps we can best say here how much we enjoy our alumnae returning
to us and dropping in for a week-end as several often do. We only
wish that more of our sisters would frequently visit the chapter home.

The Sigma Kappa girls, our across-the-street neighbors, enter-
tained for us in a spooky and mysterious manner on Hallowe'en. We
had such a jolly evening and enjoyed meeting them all. They gave
us further opportunity to become acquainted with them when they
accepted our invitation for a later evening. When we gathered
around the fireplace and confessed the most appalling sin that each
had committed—real or unreal—the last bit of ice between us was
broken.

Our Christmas gayeties were varied. Friday afternoon before
college closed we had a big Christmas tree and a supper for a group
of youngsters from the slums. Bright, cheery little chaps they were,
and the girls were such capable little things. None of the toys or
games evoked quite as much enthusiasm on their part as the serving
°f the strawberry ice and the bringing in of the huge birthday cake
with its pink candles aflame in honor of Sadie, our fun-loving Junior.

On that same evening we had our own Christmas party, a gift-
party for the chapter house. Our Sophomores endeavoring to outdo
the Freshman stunt program, presented an eight part vaudeville show.
The impersonations of famous characters by the Sophomore Sisters