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w i t h a five day ocean trip to New York. Guess in whom she is
interested in New York.

Marie Andrews, assistant dean in the North Carolina College for
Women, is spending her Christmas vacation with Mrs. Josephine
Andrews Thoman, Sarasota, Florida.

Marion Arthur is studying this year at the Central Institute
for the Deaf, St. Louis, Missouri.

SABRA ANDREWS.

MEMPHIS
The big thing has happened since our last letter. There is a fully
installed chapter of Alpha O in our city now. Everything was just
perfect. We had the services at Linda Terry's home on the after-
noon of November 20. Josephine Pratt and Mamie Baskerville
initiated; Grace Gilfillan, Minnie Lundy, Katherine Kelley, Cather-
ine Underwood, Elizabeth Laughlin, Dorothy Vanden and Mary
Frances Young. Mary Annie Jones pledged: Martha Ambrose, Vir-
ginia Winklemann and Marguerite Pride.
That night we had a big banquet at the Peabody Hotel. There
were several toasts and the new members gave a playlet and sang
some songs which they had arranged for the occasion. There were
many visitors who were old college friends of ours; we all felt that
it was a gala time for us. Grace Gilfillan, the new president, read
the telegrams, which simply poured in from coast to coast.
The local Panhellenic (at Southwestern) gave a tea in honor of
our visitors. We, ourselves, gave a tea at Elizabeth Clinton's to
introduce the new chapter to the college and the alumnae of other
fraternities in the city.
Josephine Pratt—"Joe," as we learned to call her—won her
way to all our hearts. Stud IHT south again, please.
Ruby Toombs Turnbull, our ex-president, has a new son. We
are sorry he can't be an A O n some day.
Elizabeth Christrup, from Omicron, gave a box party during the
holidays for the girls who were home from colleges.
Now that Kappa Omicron is established and the holidays are
over, we are promising to settle down to serious work. The next
letter, we hope, will tell you something about our charity work.

SADIE RICE RAMSEY.

MIAMI VALLEY
When one considers that faculty folk regard Homecoming with
just about as much enthusiasm as sales people regard the Christmas
rush, then one will also realize how very nice it was to have all the
girls back when we say so ourselves. What wouldn't wc all do to
hear about this sister's newest masculine interest, that one's newest
baby, and that one's plans for post graduate work. When we lost
Esther Fowler Schmalz to the Ann Arbor chapter, we felt that we
had lost our only other-than-Omega alumna. Now, in a sense, Ann
Arbor has repaid us by having Helena Silver of Omicron Pi here
near us this winter. Martha Jane Hitchner of our own Omega has
also been staying out at Brookville (in between her many trips about
these parts), and we reuned with vim and vigor in her case. Mary
Driscoll from DePauw is teaching in College Corner this year, and
that means she has but five miles to come to visit us Oxford folk;
we arc hoping she will come again.
Martha Jane Jaques motored us down to the Hamilton meeting
with Pearl Ayres in December. We two and Ruth Swearingen