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ALPHA PHI—MONTANA STATE COLLEGE

Pledges

Orill Campbell, '23, Choteau Harriet Nordstrum, '23, Big Timber

Marie Moebus, '23, Butte Bess Phillips, '23, Glasgow

Virginia Walker, '23, Bozeman.

We Alpha Phis are just reveling in the few days of sunshine and m i l d
weather that followed one of the worst cold spells we have ever experienced
here. For almost a week the thermometer registered about ten below zero at
the warmest and i t was at thirty-two one m o r n i n g and thirty-six another, when
we all had eight o'clocks. Evalyn Border froze her ears, but I believe there
were "no other casualties."

Because of the very cold weather and the critical f u e l situation, college
closed a week early and you can imagine the wild rush of final examinations (we
run on the quarter system and this is the end of the first quarter) a week before
we had expected them. We have received no report upon our grades as yet,
but Alpha Phi Chapter has always headed the list at Montana State College,
and I know we w i l l rank well this time.

The M . S. C. dramatic club has just been reorganized, w i t h an 2 A E f o r
president, Helen Tripp, '21, for vice-president, and Dorothy Ann Holland, '22,
as secretary-treasurer. Most of our girls are active in Y . W . C. A . work, and
the Y . W . vice-president, art and publicity chairman, treasurer, and music
chairman are Alpha O's. We are well represented also i n the Treble Clef
Club, the Choral Club, the Secretarial, A r t , and Home Economics Clubs.

Recently the women of the college formed a Women's League, the member-
ship including every regularly enrolled college girl. The "inner circle" of the
league is the Women's Council, composed of ten representatives elected by
ballot by the college girls. T w o of the three Women's League offices are held
by Alpha O's and we have four members i n the Council. So you can seen we
are busy w i t h other things besides our lessons.

Every year our Dean of Women, Una B. Herrick, conducts a Vocational
Congress for high school girls here. The Congress lasts about three days, and
the meetings consist of a series of addresses upon possible occupations f o r
women. I t is very interesting and helpful. This year our chief speaker was
Miss Bennett of Chicago—"the Miss Bennett" about whom you have all heard,
I am sure. I t is a rare treat to hear Miss Bennett and she always inspires us.
The preparations f o r the Congress are in charge of college girls, the work
being divided into fifteen parts, f o u r of which were in charge of Alpha O's—
entertainment, finance, housing, and music.

A n inter-fraternity tea was given f o r the Congress delegates by the four
girls' fraternities. Our inter-fraternity relations here are very friendly. The
other three organizations are at present all locals, though two are trying for
Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi. We four, with the four men's fraternities, have
a local inter-fraternity council and have a few simple rules to guide us. For
instance, a new organization w i l l not be recognized as a f r a t e r n i t y until i t has
been organized, and announced as such, f o r one year. The rushing rules are
simple. No limitation is put upon summer rushing, but during college rushing
is limited to the regular fraternity functions and individual rushing. There
is to be no pledging until the end of the first quarter hereafter.

Just a bit about our holidays. Most of the girls have gone home, and
many of our alumni have stopped to see us en route home f o r vacation. W e
are presenting the chapter house w i t h a floor lamp instead o f exchanging i n d i -
vidual gifts this Christmas.

M I N N I E - E L L E N MARQUIS, '20, Chapter Editor.