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Y. H \ C. A.—President, Laura Fish, A O I I ; Vice-president, Natalie
Thompson, A 0 I I ; Treasurer, Helen Carmalt, K A 9 ; Recording Secretary,
Evelyn Thorpe, K K T ; Chairman Membership Committee, Natalie Thomp-
son, A O I I ; Chairman, Bible Study Committee, Bernice Spencer, A A A ;
Chairman Mission Study Committee, Grace Laing, Non.; Chairman Religious
Meetings Committee, Katherine Roese, Non.; Chairman Social Committee,
Mary Doty, A * ; Chairman Extension Committee, Marion Potts, Non.;
Chairman Information Committee, Jean Holmes, K A G ; Chairman Finance
Committee, Florence Faulhaber, A

Student Government— President, Ruth Bayer, K A 9 ; Vice-president, Bernice
Spencer, A A A ; Senior Member, Ruth Bayer, K A 9 ; Census Taker, Louise
Boutecue, K A 9 ; Junior Members, Ruth Darville, A T; Selma Snyder, A * ;
Lucy Park, K K P. Sophomore Members—Helen Carmalt, K A 9 ; Helen Van
Keuren, Non.

Sports and Pastimes—President, Selma Snyder, A <I>; Vice-president, -Sarah

Barclay, Non.; Treasurer, Lois Chamberlin, A Z ; Secretary, Helen Van Keu-

ren, Non.; Manager Basket ball, Alma Witchelus, Non.; Manager Tennis,

Rose Boochever, Non.; Manager Crew, E l s a Cornell, A * ; Field Hockey,

Helen Weideman, Non. Somerset Y—President, Merle Mosier, A G I I .

Class Presidents—Senior President, E v a Haigh, K K P ; Junior President,
Lucy Park, K K P ; Sophomore President, Margaret McClenahan, K A 9 ;
Freshman President, Mary Larkin, Non.

Merry Christmas! all our sisters! That is certainly the spirit
with which everything is permeated tonight. Our hard week of
examinations is over tomorrow—and our holidays hegin. Indeed,
judging by the number of girls who have already left, and the noise
that the rest of us are making, it might be judged that they had al-
ready begun. The spirit of restraint is gone; the Christmas spirit
reigns.

Under the new rushing system this year, we had four parties—and
they surely were jolly ones this year. The expense for all of them
was limited by Pan-Hellenic to fifty dollars, and our rushing com-
mittee managed things so well that we had just about ten cents to
spare. We began with a picnic in one of our gorges at night, with
Japanese lanterns and an especially attractive camp fire—since our
old Elsa Guerdrum, now Mrs. Allen, was here to help us build it.
Our next party was a very home-like affair, which we who live in
large dormitories know how to appreciate. We secured the model
apartment of the Home Economics Building, which is model in every
respect, and had a rattling good time, especially when we threw open
the doors between the drawing room and dining room, and re-
vealed a real table, with a real table cloth, and real dishes—deco-
rated with the most adorable, i f somewhat immodest, Kewpies, that
simply could not "make their eyes behave." Our third party was
a theatre party, at the time one of the rare good shows came to
Ithaca. I t was a very good thing that some of us had to give up the