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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 241

and women, and in it is our campus theater. I t is very beautiful and we
are so glad we have it while we are here at school. For the opening
there was much celebration and one of the greatest plays ever presented
by the Cornell Dramatic Club in which Joe Buecking played the leading
role, was given. Frances Eagan presented a very interesting character
in it also and Betty Michael and Muriel Drummond played minor parts.
Mud Drummond, Betty Michael and Joe Buecking have been in other
presentations this fall and Eagan has been coaching a play. Pi Baker,
Corinne Messing, M i d Leeming and Helen Worden have been proping
Dramatic Club plays.

Speaking of the Willard Straight, Frances Eagan is one of the two
women on the board of directors.

Among all the events of the fall, we found time to observe Founders'
Day. We had a special candle lighting service adapted from Convention,
and heard very entertaining sketches of the lives of the Four Founders.
I t was such an enjoyable observance of Founders' Day.

This Christmas we had a more enjoyable time than ever by giving a
Christmas party f o r the children in the children's home. Sally Johnson
managed the party, which we had Saturday afternoon, with unusual
skill. That we really never grow up in heart was shown that afternoon,
for we had as much f u n as the children. The pledges all stayed with us
that evening and as is the usual custom, Sunday morning the sophomores
awakened us with Christmas carols. We all then had a nice picnic
breakfast in the living-room in front of the fireplace and were so happy
to be altogether. Many thanks are due Winona Harris f o r helping to
make this party such a success.

Even with these two parties our Christmas wasn't over, for Monday
night, just before fraternity meeting, Professor Baker, Pi's father and
head of the drawing department, came with a very mysterious looking
package. When the mystery was known, the contents of the package
turned out to be a beautiful painting of Professor Baker's of a lovely
hillside near Ithaca. Now, our living-room doesn't seem like the same
place. We never will be able to show him how much we appreciate it.

Now after all this happy news, we have a sad part. "Maddie" Koby,
one of our best all around sisters, is graduating in February. She is
contemplating going into a hospital in New York as student dietitian for
six months but we are hoping that she may be able to locate a position
here that will please her as much, so she won't have to leave us. We
just can't imagine what we'll do without her.

L. DALE DAVIS.

RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
The two most important events that have happened here since the last
letter are initiation and our Founders' Day banquet. On December 10
we initiated eight girls: Carol Anger, Virginia Funkhouser, Josephine
Hahn, Dorothy Hills and Margaret Wolf of Chicago. Dorothy Leggett
of Evanston, Kathryn Kendrick of Buffalo, N . Y., and Eleanor Wallace
of New Jersey. We were all very proud and happy to see these girls be-
come full-fledged A O n s and feel confident that they will make the finest
kind of oarsmen f o r our Rho-boat. Virginia Funkhouser started in
with a bang, or rather a splash, by being chosen a member of Daughters
of Neptune, an organization made up of the university's star mermaids.
She was also a member of the sophomore tennis team, which made her
a member of W . A . A. Virginia attended William and Mary College
last year. We're mighty glad she changed her mind last fall and came
to Northwestern. Carol Anger was on the junior soccer team this fall,