Page 68 - 1923 February - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 165

After the regular business of our meeting was over we discussed
our Christmas party and decided to have a tree and little inexpensive gifts
as usual. (The purpose of the party, you know, is to fill stockings for
the University Settlement House.) The girls met at the house on the
twenty-first of December, trimmed the tree, gave out their little presents
with many funny speeches and filled the stockings, but were kidnapped by
Evelyn Jeffries and taken to her home f o r refreshments.

Before the next issue our dear president, Avis Hunter, will have been
married so I know you will all join with us on the third of February in
wishing her all the joy and happiness that this world can give.

MARIAN C. LUDDEN.

DALLAS ALUMNAE
A few members of the Dallas Alumnae met in October (unavoidably
postponed from May) and elected the following officers f o r the ensuing
year: President, Lura Temple; Vice-President, Lucinda Smith Hubbell;
Secretary, Elizabeth Burgess; Treasurer, Martha Smith Burge; Editor to
To Dragma, Eleanor Manning Walker.

The next meeting was held in November with Lura Temple as
hostess. The chapter showed an increase over the year before. There
were thirteen names on the roll. The added members were for the most
part not new but regained. Martha Smith Burge is with us again after
having lived in Louisville, Ky., f o r about two years. Eugenia Moore is a
new members, however, having finished last year at Randolph Macon.
Louise Pendleton MacDonald of Durant and Maude Rasbury Courtney of
Wichita Falls, were visitors and how like old times it seemed to sit and
chat. The plans of the committee on a national philanthropic work were
presented and the members were asked to think seriously about them so
that when the discussion of the problem took place at the Founders' Day
observance their ideas would have crystalized into somewhat tangible and
feasible suggestions.

Then the Founders' Day observance! W i l l any of us ever forget it?
Margaret Vaughan Branscomb asked to entertain the active and alumnae
chapters in her lovely little home on University Place. The house was
beautifully decorated with the fraternity color predominating. A silver
basket filled with tiny Jacqueminot rosebuds and with a huge tulle bow on
the handle furnished the center-piece for the dining-room table. Red
roses in little silver vases were effectively placed. How well our founders
chose when they selected the fraternity flower! A l l the pledges, and active
alumnae girls were present—and all so radiant. Those who have had
their finger-tips on the pulse of fraternity matters since N u Kappa was
Installed felt gratified and thankful. A discussion of the National W o r k
was held and certain decisions were reached. These were sent to Kath-
erine M . Thomas immediately. And then the birthday cake! What con-
stitutes the ever-new thrill of a cake all aglow with candles! Especially
when the candles number twenty-six and each one means a year of the
life of Alpha Omicron Pi.