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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 187

Everything went off according to schedule, with none of the
scrambling I had been warned to expect at an installation. As
Memphis Alumnae had picked with the greatest care and
thought the girls who petitioned for Kappa Omicron chapter,
so they planned the details of the installation. By noon every-
thing was checked, and there was nothing to do, so Linda and
I took a nap, then dressed for the Panhellenic tea at South-
western.

Perhaps this is as good a place as any f o r me to give my
impression of the college. To the conventional mind, a wholly
new college seems a bit odd; we will permit an occasional new
building on campus as expansion becomes imperative, but an
entire new plant comes with something of a shock. A n d yet why
not? I tried to visualize Southwestern as it will be twenty-five
years f r o m now and found it an attractive vision. The builders
are planning well. The present buildings are all placed with
preference to the whole and the natural beauties of the campus.

Friday was somewhat strenuous. Linda invited her family
out f o r dinner, her mother to start right after lunch, but told her
husband that he would be expected to drive us to the banquet
as it was too difficult to drive in gold slippers. Her family,
worthy of other A . O. Pi families departed as requested, but
only next door to be available i f needed. Mamie Baskerville and
1 initiated the seven charter members, then after I had installed
the chapter, Alary Annie I.andy Jones pledged three girls. Mamie
stayed and dressed with us, an adventure such as I have not had
in many a long year, for Mamie. Linda and I dressed all over
the house, with most of our sentences unfinished. Dinner at
the Peabody was a great success, thirty-four, representing
Alpha, Omicron, Kappa, N u Omicron, Beta Phi and Kappa
Omicron chapters sat down at an oval table, beautifully decorat-
ed with Alpha roses. Elise Paxton Keebler was toast mistress,
weaving as did the Fates of old, golden threads f o r Alpha Omi-
cron Pi. The first thread, the Founders, was drawn by Mamie
Baskerville; the next, the golden garment, the charities of A . O.
Pi. was my thread; the weavers, the national ofhecrs, Lida Belle
Brame Goyer's, and the newest threads. Kappa Omicron. Sadie
Ramsey's. Mary Annie Jones and Polly Gilfillan made the re-