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Carrie L u e l l a Woodman is interested i n society.
Annie Gilbert Woods is a home maker.
Helen Charlotte Worster is a teacher of English at Caribou,
Maine. I n 1912-13 instructor in English at University of Maine
where she obtained an M . A . degree. She is interested i n music.

EPSILON A L U M N A

The fraternity chapters at Cornell are rather smaller than the
average chapter, and consequently it takes many years to build up
a large associate membership. Epsilon w i l l be six years old this
spring and yet there are but two dozen of us alumna;. However,
we console ourselves with the reflection that good things come in
small packages and only hope that all small packages contain good
things.

As I began to think of the girls and of their work, I was very
forcibly impressed by the lack of variety in their vocations. Nearly
all are either teachers or home makers. A n d while no one of us
has yet achieved the triumphs we dreamed of i n our undergraduate
days, s t i l l some are well started on the road to fame.

For instance, Melita Skillen. '11, and Margaret Graham are teach-
ing in colleges, Melita in the English department of Okanagon Col-
lege i n British Columbia, and Margaret in the Science Department
at Teachers' College in New York City. Josephine Britton has
been i n the Wisconsin N o r m a l School at Milwaukee ever since she
took her Ph. D . degree i n 1910. A n d as usual she is very busy—
her legitimate occupation is teaching English literature but as side
lines she lectures on various subjects, particularly suffrage. W e
who know how persuasive she is marvel at the f a i l u r e of the
suffrage amendment in Wisconsin. Mattie Durrell Bodine, '11, pre-
sides w i t h much dignity over the L a t i n department in the Pennsyl-
vania State N o r m a l School at Indiana. A n d besides instilling into
the minds of the youths of Pennsylvania a due reverence f o r Ben-
nett's L a t i n Grammar, she finds time to be an active member of two
literary clubs and to take charge of one of the dormitories.

Besides these celebrities there are many lesser lights, or just
plain high school teachers. Anna Genung has the English work in
H o r n e l l H i g h School, but this is her last year o f teaching. N o , she
isn't going to be married—she intends to enter Y . W . C. A . work.
Lottie Ketcham finds the l i f e i n Southern Seminary, Buena Vista,
Va., very agreeable. What time she can spare f r o m her French
and German classes she spends on horseback in that Blue Ridge