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country. Ethel Davis is teaching at home i n B r a d f o r d and i f
credence can be placed in her own story, she hasn't an interest i n the
w o r l d besides L a t i n . She doesn't even "have to be a suffragette,
because she voted i n Colorado." A n d there is our dear M i l d r e d
Mosier, who is conducting the young people of Peekskill through
the mazes of the English language. By the way, have a l l you girls
heard of the surprise party Mildred gave the chapter this summer?
She presented us w i t h two dozen silver spoons and various other
pieces of silver.

W i t h Mabel de Forest i t is a case of "three times and out". Last
year she devoted herself to business, this year to teaching and the
position she takes next year w i l l no doubt be more permanent. O u r
p r i m and precise Marian Darville is Preceptress of the Wyoming
( N . Y . ) H i g h School where she has inspired the students w i t h a
love of a l l things mathematical. Both of our newest alumna?, E l n a
Merrick and Agnes Dobbins, are teaching history, the one i n Homer
and the other i n Pawling. Last, but by no means least of our
teachers, comes Loraine Sherman, who is instructing i n Chemistry
and Biology at St. Margaret's School in Buffalo. A n d Loraine, by
the way, serves as a good means of transition f r o m the teachers to
the home makers f o r she is i n a stage just between the two.

Mrs. Schmidt is still i n Ithaca, to the great j o y o f the active
chapter, whose f i r m f r i e n d and loyal adviser she is. Elsa Guerdrum
A l l e n , a f t e r a t r i p around the w o r l d , has returned to Ithaca and
finds time to attend a l l chapter meetings and to act as chaperone f o r
the girls. A l t h o u g h A n n a A l l e n W r i g h t , '09, does not instruct i n
the University this year, her zeal in the pursuit of scientific subjects
has by no means flagged. T h i s p o w e r f u l triumvirate is always ready
to assist the active chapter i n its trials and tribulations and to re-
joice with it i n its pleasures and triumphs.

Mrs. Duggar is greatly missed f r o m this Ithaca circle of alumnae,
but we know that she has carried Alpha's name and fame w i t h her to
St. Louis. Mary Turnbull Wanamaker, ex-'13, and Catherine Allen
Sharpe, '10, are both living in Buffalo. Little Ruth Marian Sharpe
is already looked upon as a prospective A l p h a Omicron.

A n d now I have come to the miscellaneous ones, those poor be-
nighted beings who are neither teachers nor home makers. Mary
Fitch may be teaching this year but she hasn't told any of us about
it. B u t we do know that she d i d nothing but rest last year. I t
sounds incredible, but I believe it is true. T h a t devotee of a l l things
Grecian, Isabel Stone, has descended f r o m her pedestal and is
wasting her talents on "mere business." This vexes her classical