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K. U . played the annual football game with Nebraska on Oct
24. Thirteen of our girls, including four alumnae f r o m Kansas City
went to Lincoln for the game. W h i l e there they stayed at the chap-'
ter house and attended the house dance given by Zeta chapter. The
girls who made the trip are most enthusiastic about Zeta.

W e want to introduce our new pledge, Imogene Stairs, who was
pledged just before the Christmas holidays. She is in the School of
Fine Arts and is secretary of the freshman class.

Icy Purcell, our president, was forced to resign on account of
poor health and Jessie Marie Senor was elected to fill the office.
•This caused a shift in offices, Gladys Filson being elected vice-
president.

I c y told us recently that she is to graduate at the end of this
semester. We are rather resigned to the idea of losing our seniors
in the spring, but this news was a unexpected blow.

Marie Isern's father died last November and Marie went home
for this term. We are hoping to have her back again second
semester.

Edith Adams was chosen a member of the K . U . Dramatic Club
and Gladys Filson was elected exchange editor of the University Daily
Kansan.

Athletics have been claiming a great deal of our time. Three of
our girls—Gladys Filson, Gertrude Searcy and Olive Weatherby—
were on the class hockey teams. Gladys Filson was selected a mem-
ber of the rifle team, having fired the highest score shot i n the t r y -
outs. Gladys also received her Women's Athletic Association letter
and Gertrude Searcy was initiated into W . A. A. at the meeting Dec.
9. Phi now has six girls in the association.

Alpha Sigma Nu, national honorary physical education sorority,
established a chapter at K. U . this year. Elizabeth Bolinger was
chosen a charter member of the local chapter and was initiated at
the first meeting.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, we celebrated Founders' Day w i t h a banquet
at the chapter house.

This year we gave up our regular Christmas banquet and spent
the money i n entertaining 30 poor children of Lawrence. This is
the second year we have done this and it has proved so successful
that we expect to make it an annual affair.

Phi is all excited and thrilled! W e have just received the news
that Katrina Overall McDonald is to be with us some time during
the first week of second semester.

GERTRUDE S. SEARCY.

OMEGA—MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Christmas vacation is now a thing of the past, and we have come
back to school the better for it, I hope. Everybody reported a most
happy time while home and if you could see the enthusiasm and pep
of the girls I am sure you would not doubt it. A three weeks' rest
was just what most of us needed. Now, all our thoughts are cen-
tered around just one thing, and that is—semester exams. W e are
being daily reminded of this rapidly approaching evil and we can't
even enjoy a movie without putting our conscience and sense of duty
into the background f o r a little while. I suppose now is the time to
prepare, but why ruin two perfectly good weeks? W i t h these
thoughts on my mind, I find i t hard to concentrate long enough to
write this letter but I ' l l t r y to give you some idea of what we have
been doing this semester.