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From the Memphis Evening Appeal we learn more of Founders' Day.

One of the most important events of the week will be the annual Founders'
celebration by Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority Saturday afternoon at the Hotel
body, where a luncheon, for which elaborate plans are being made will be given.
Mrs. John W. Wilson, is president of the Alumnae Chapter and Miss Pauline
ton is president of the active chapter, which will join in the celebration, Mrs.
son bavins charge of the arrangements, assisted by Miss Minnie Lundy.
The banquet board, where the guests will be seated to enjoy the delicious lun-
on menu, will be beautifully decorated, Jacqueminot roses, the sorority flowers,
ng been chosen for the centerpiece. Their lovely deep red tone will be emphasized
he slender tapers which will burn in silver holders, caught with bows of red tulle
the cards marking the places will be roses, repeating the crimson color note.
The toast to the founders will be given by Mrs. John M . Divine of the alumnae
pter, and Mrs. YV. L. Terry also of the alumnae chapter will speak of the work of
chapter in maintaining a library in the children's ward of the General Hospital and
of the children's story hour conducted every Saturday morning by members
he alumnae and active chapters.
A clever stunt will be featured by the pledges, Kappa Omicron Chapter at South-
tern, Misses Virginia DeMuth, Carolyn McKellar, Elizabeth Hagan, Elizabeth
sley, Mary McKellar, Marth McFerrin and Emmy Lou Banks.
Sorority and chapter songs will also be enjoyed between courses.
At the conclusion of the luncheon, Miss Pauline Barton, active chapter presi-
t, will conduct a ritual meeting at the sorority house on Southwestern campus.

(founders' T)ay in J^os Angeles

By MARGARET J E A N R I T T E R

AS J A N E G R A H A M said happily, "This is what we have been look-
fc ing forward to for years"—an informal, fire-side Founders' D a y
celebration in our own home, with no wrangling with caterers
d hotel chefs, no anxiety over new evening dresses, and no frenzied
ance. In they poured, into Kappa Theta's hospitable doors, Alpha O's
m far and near, long-lost friends, and new additions to the Los Angeles
mna? family,

The long refectory tables glowed with banks of scarlet katoniaster,

California equivalent of holly, and with red candles, and were set

h small individual trays, the gift of the alumna? chapter to the K a p p a

eta House, bearing our buffet supper on each was a miniature birth-

y cake with a tiny red candle—Stella Perry's birthday candles, winking

d flickering against a background of soft shadows. With our trays we

rned a procession, two long lines, headed by the alumnae and active

esidents, Lucile and Audrey, respectively. We dispersed into the living

ms, the sun room, and the upstairs living rooms, and Stella's candles

rned throughout the house. Later we gathered in the patio, under

stars, for the tree planting, carried out by Audrey Buratti; March

^ns read the tree poem sent us from New York, as a dedication to our

n little evergreen tree. Then back to the long living room, where

fS S h i e l ( l s >D i x o n who was Kappa Theta's first president, lit the

h ° n ^ P P a Theta's own hearth—the ceremony by which, through

i " - "a e s associated with the warmth and comfort
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privacy of the fireside.