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and answered our questions concerning some of the best known GAMMA, UNIVERSITY O F MAINE
restaurants which were not represented. We entertained that same
evening a childhood friend of Mrs. Neal's. a little lady only forty- Greetings to you, everyone, from all the Gamma girls up here in the
four inches tall. pine-tree state. We hope you're all having as happy and successful
a year as we are here at Maine.
Mid-year examinations kept us busy, and were followed by a few
days of vacation. Delta felt quite delighted with the result of her Alpha O is being unusually well represented in the active life on
efforts, especially as we compared so favorably with the standing of our university campus this year. Betty Bright, our chapter president,
the other sororities in college. besides being elected to <I> K 4> has been made secretary of the newly
established Maine chapter of the national biology fraternity, Phi
At our last meeting before the mid-year period, our president Sigma. Joyce Cheney, '19, has begun to make a name for herself in
resigned. Helen had been such a fine officer that we all wanted her the literary world by having several of her poems accepted. Barbara
to continue, but she felt that she was not strong enough to carry this Dunn, '20, was chosen by the Maine Masque to play one of the roles
work with her college activities, so we were forced to let her go. in its play this year—the first time a woman has ever been given a
But, of course, just having Helen in the chapter to give advice is a place i n their cast. The girls of the university are planning to give
great help to the new president. A Midsummer Night's Dream in May, and our girls are well repre-
sented in the cast of this production. Also, we are busy helping to
Mrs. Davies, our Dean of Women, gave us a very interesting talk sew for the Red Cross, an auxiliary branch of that society having been
one evening on the life at Cambridge about twenty years ago. Women organized here under the direction of Marian Estabrooke, A O n, '12.
had not long been admitted to the university, and were looked upon We have a representative on the board of the university paper, The
by the people as fitting themselves either for teachers, or some other Campus, this year. You can see that we're all working hard to up-
professional work. A girl never attended the university and then hold the name and honor of Alpha O here at Maine.
went into society, or private life. Beside this Mrs. Davies showed us
pictures of the town, and the beautiful buildings. Such surroundings The chief social event of this spring for us is to be our dance—the
as are found in the English universities seem to us to be too distracting one big one which we give each year. The plans have not all been
to be conducive to intensive study. perfected yet, but we do know that instead of having a strictly formal
affair as usual we are to have a "white flannel dance." Doesn't that
The evening that we enjoyed the most, however, was our second sound attractive and quite appropriate for the last of May?
initiation which we held a week ago. After mid-years we pledged
Katheryne Snow, a transfer from Wellesley, who had just decided I n February, we were glad to hear that a chapter of A A A had
to finish her course at Jackson. Marion Bennett had not been able been granted to a local at Maine. This makes three nationals and
to be initiated before, so we had two new sisters to take into our fold. with a total of 160 girls there ought soon to be other sororities in
That evening we had planned to entertain a number of our alumna? existence. Why shouldn't a larger proportion of girls enjoy the
after the initiation with a little spread. Unfortunately we had a pleasures and benefits of sorority life?
terrible snow storm all day, and all that evening, so only four were
able to be present. However, those who were there enjoyed it. I We await anxiously the arrival of our To DRAGMA to hear what
know, and gave a hearty welcome to our new sisters. you girls are all doing, and we plan to send one or more delegates to
Convention so that we may get personally acquainted.
Marion Rich, our district superintendent, has just returned from
visiting Chi and Epsilon. We were glad to hear what the girls were Yours in Alpha O,
doing, and she brought us many helpful suggestions. We are hoping J E S S I E M . STURTEVANT, Chapter Editor.
to see many of those sisters at Convention.
ALUMN/L NEWS
With love to all the sisters from Delta,
MARGARET D U R K E E , Chapter Editor. The following press notice is taken from the Searsport column of the
Bangor Daily News:
Searsport has reason to be proud of being the home of Miss Joanna C .
Colcord, superintendent of district work of the New York Charity Organization
Society. This young woman is the daughter of the late Capt. Lincoln A.
Colcord and Mrs. Lincoln A. Colcord, of Searsport, and the sister of Lincoln
