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ITEMS OF INTEREST

T HERE ARE now three active chapters of Alpha Oinicron Pi in each of
three states—Sigma, Lambda and Kappa Theta chapters in California ;
j j u , Epsilon and Chi in New York; and Omicron, N u Omicron and Kappa
Oinicron in Tennessee. Illinois and Indiana each have two active chapters,
jjho and Iota in the former and Theta and Beta Phi in Indiana. The
remaining eighteen active chapters are located in as many different states.
There are no active chapters of Alpha Omicron Pi in twenty-five states,
including Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Vir-
ginia and Wyoming. I n only two of these twenty-five states are there
alumnae chapters, at Kansas City, Missouri, and Providence, Rhode
Island, but there are alumnae resident in every state of the Union and
in all of the provinces of Canada, as well as in many foreign countries.

¥~~VR. MARGARET ALEXANDER G R A U A M , '09, of Epsilon, who is now acting
head of the Biology Department in Hunter College, New York City,,

was recently made a Fellow of the American Association for the A d -
vancement of Science.

' " p H E DISTINCTION of having traveled a greater distance to attend college
ft than any other undergraduate member of the fraternity belongs to
Dorothy and Winona Harris of Epsilon chapter, who came twelve thou-
sand miles from their home in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Ithaca,
N. Y., where they entered Cornell University as members of the class of
1928.

' T ' H E COLLEGE FRATERNITY woman is coming to the foreground in ath-
letics. A recent issue of the New York Evening Post featured in

its sports section articles concerning Helen Wills, famous tennis player,
who is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Ethel McGary, swim-
ming champion, who is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi.

' T V u i DELTA CLAIMS our only official U . S. Weather Observer. May
*• Hamilton Horton, who graduated from Birmingham-Southern last
June, has always helped her father with his work, and when she left col-
lege took up her official position as his assistant.

A WOMAN I N ANY of the professions which custom has appropriated to
the male of the species becomes accustomed to the remark, "You

certainly do not look like a doctor." or a lawyer, or an engineer, as the
case may be. I t is not entirely clear just where the individual fails in
the superficial attributes assigned to her profession, nor how she really
should look, as, for instance, a woman engineer. Should she have large