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School of New Orleans, has written papers on subjects of A r t ;
Rochelle Gachet, A. B., is teaching mathematics in Alabama State
College for Girls, Montevallo, Ala.; Sue Gillean, A. B., received
her M . A. at Tulane University, teaches in Newcomb High School,
is president of Consumers' league in New Orleans, has written paper
on the "Investigation of Negro Schools," and is an active worker in
Newcomb Alumnae ; Anna Many, A. B., received her M . A. at Tulane
University, fellowship at Newcomb (mathematics) and is an active
worker in Y. W. C. A. and Newcomb Alumna?; she was elected Grand
Recording Secretary of A O I I at 1912 convention; Katherine Rees, A.
B., is teaching at Coker College, Hartsville, S. C.; Dorothy Safford,
A. B., is teaching in Monroe, La., and was elected Grand President
of A O I I at 1912 convention; Virginia Withers, A. B., is teaching
in Montevallo, Ala.

OTHERS

The following are those who do not teach, nor have they husband
and children to consume their time but they are busy at home with
many things which do not sound important in print: Betsey Dupre,
A. B., the last to join the alumnae ranks, expects to spend this winter
in Washington, D. C , with her brother who is a Louisiana Congress-
man ; Lucia Frierson is living in Columbus, Miss.; Alice P. Ivy, A.
B. , is Working Associate in the "Girls' Friendly Society" and is inter-
ested in several other organizations; Innis Morris, A. B., has taken
Domestic Science course at Newcomb and is I I chapter's society belle;
Mary Pierce is living in Sarasota, Fla.; Cora Spearing is a student at
the School of Music (vocal), at Newcomb—she also attends art
lectures.

OMICRON

"Do not be worried because you have not great virtues," says
Henry Ward Beecher, "only have enough of little virtues and com-
mon fidelities and you need not mourn because you are neither a
hero nor a saint." So I am allowing that to comfort me, because
Omicron's alumnee have never set the world on fire, and so far as
I know there isn't a hero or a saint in the lot of us. Like the im-
mortal Patty, we are merely "good and beautiful and bright."

Probably the only one of us to win real distinction is Dorothy
Greve Jarnigan. Besides being the wife of a distinguished young
professor at the University of Georgia, and mother of two irresis-
tible youngsters, she is a perfectly good authoress! To those of us
acquainted with her brilliant career at Tennessee, and familiar with
her clever letters, it was no surprise that Dorothy developed into a