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By ISABELLA B . LYON, University of Maine d
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The active and alumnae chapters al- month and will be with us until Christ- f
ways meet together for Founders' Day mas. She attended the banquet last night. f
banquet, and this year we went through w
the formal ritual for the benefit of those On the afternoon of November 23, the P
alumna? who are unable to attend very alumnae gave a bridge for us at Joyce a
many of the meetings and who thought Steven's new home on College Avenue. la
they would like to see one again. I t was f
given at Penobscot Valley Country Club. Helen McKenny who has transferred to r
Smith College, writes that she likes it "
A telegram was read from "Tillie" there and is enjoying herself. She is to h
Sawyer ('29), and Sylvia Snowden ("29), be here for a few days before Christmas c
who have an apartment in New York holidays. Margaret Fellows, who was s
City this winter. sick at her home in Bangor during the S
last semester of last year, is back again. c
Quite the crowning announcement of t
the evening, however, was when Jeanette "Bobbie" White visits us quite often. F
Roney told us that Joyce Cheney Stevens, Once "Bobbie" came quite officially when (
active Gamma alumna has been ap- she brought the E.M.C.S. hockey team o
pointed as the new Atlantic District up to play the freshmen. "Bobbie" N
Superintendent. started hockey at E.M.C.S. this year, and a
although they lost, she should feel proud b
The last time AOII entertained at the of her charges. Alice Webster is coach- h
Club was on the evening of November ing the hockey team at M.C J. B
1 when we held an informal dance. o
Basketball has started. Hazel Park- h
Edwina Bartlett and Alice Webster hurst is captain and Kathryn (K) Jack- a
and Sybil Leach ('29), came. This al- son ('31), and Louise Washburn ('32), i
most made us believe that time was going are working out. Hazel and Muriel Free- d
backward a year and that we were a year man received their letters in hockey. Ha- Z
behind. That reminds me that Sally zel is also an efficient treasurer in t
Palmer Hammond ('27), has resumed her Y.W.C.A., and Louise Washburn is Pub- (
position at the University Library for a licity Chairman. f
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By ELIZABETH IRISH, Cornell University
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Rushing went off this year with won- As usual we gave Esmeralda, that a
derful cooperation and equanimity glorious romance, during the third period o
among the sisters, probably the effect of of rushing, and we believe that we owe M
convention which inspired Epsilon to do some of our success in our pledging to N
things more cheerfully and better in the the actresses in it, especially Frances *
year ahead of us. As a result we pledged Meisse ('31), who played the part of the P
at the end of the rushing season eleven of King of Spain so admirably, as any con- e
the best girls entering this fall. They are: ventionite can vouch for. b
Angela Donnelly, Ruth Faber, Eleanor
Faulk, Mabel Hanson, Ruth Hutchinson, Since it is during that third period only
Dorothy Hvass, Ethel Kel linger, Claire that Panhellenic allows any favors or
Lasher, Louise Rofrano, Ruth Wash- decorations, we tried to outdo ourselves.
burn, and Jeanette Zingsheim. Mabel Only one of our "grads" came back, but
Hanson is a legacy, "Sid's" sister, and she was Elinor Irish ('28), who was able
two are Southern girls. Our Alpha O to make bouquets and corsages out of
sisters from the south who were here dur- most anything since she is a professional
ing convention pleased us so much that florist and has the habit of doing that.
we decided that we'd like some in our Our tables at dinner were decorated ac-
chapter. Now with Margaret McDonagh cording to the four seasons with center-
('32), we have three, one each from pieces of flowers to fit the particular sea-
Louisiana, Florida and Georgia, who vie son. Corsages for all the guests were
with each other in exaggerating her own also in the scheme of things. The ef-
accent or in making fun of another's. fect was quite lovely with, for example,
the red candles, evergreen and red berried