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JANUARY, 1 9 3 0 83
barberry of the winter season in contrast It's going to be a big day for us. A
o the lighter colored candles and roses of faculty tea in the afternoon and a supper
he summer. and formal ritual afterwards to celebrate
Founders' Day. And then for the three
Soon after pledging we held our fall following days we're holding a rummage
dance in honor of our new pledges. The sale, the proceeds of which we hope to
dance was a great success in spite of the use to swell our much-depleted treasury.
fact that we were called too self-con-
fident in giving our dance when there With only two weeks before Christ-
were so many other dances on the hill. mas vacation, plans are being made for
Plenty of stags made their appearance, our annual Christmas breakfast and
and our pledges were enthusiastically party. The sophomores will sing carols
aunched upon their social career. while the rest of the sisters snuggle in
their warm beds and listen. Plans are
The pledges soon after had a bridge also being made for provision of gifts
for pledges of other houses. Two girls for the Old Ladies' Home in Ithaca.
represented each other house, and our
"frosh" acquitted themselves well as We are rejoicing together in welcoming
hostesses. back to our midst Esther Nothnagle
('30), who spent last year in Paris, learn-
Outdoor and indoor sports have ing French first hand, and Helen Worden
claimed the attention of many of the ('28), who is now hostess at Willard
sisters. Edna Mullen ('31), Dorothy Straight Hall, the social center of Cornell,
Saxton ('31), and Dorothy Hvass ('33), after a year's absence as Y.W.C.A. secre-
chose hockey and played on their respec- tary at Randolph-Macon College. I t
tive class teams. Caroline Dawdy ('30), would do your heart good to hear Esther
Frances Meisse ('31), Mary Barvian rattle off French. And we sure feel
('31), and Mabel Hanson ('33), played sorry for the girls of Kappa chapter, hav-
on their class basketball teams. ing had a taste of "Sunny's" sweet dis-
position to have it greedily snatched away
Anna ("Nan") Mongel ('31), Esther again by her own jealous chapter. They
Nothnagle ('30), Molly Wilson ('31), really should be grateful for small favors
and Ruth Faber ('31), have been very though.
busy with dramatic club activities. "Nan"
has also been elected to the Columns Vesta and Barbara Rogers returned this
Board, the literary magazine, and is one fall with a beautiful Russian wolfhound,
of the two women representatives on the Boris, who certainly lives up to his aristo-
honor committee for the College of Arts cratic name. He became even a greater
and Sciences. I n addition she is work- attraction during rushing than our fam-
ing for her chapter by being Panhellenic ous "view" and generally endeared him-
delegate and study plan officer. Jeanette self to all of us by his affectionate pro-
Zingsheim ('33), has recently been elected pensity to holding hands with one and
to the Women's Glee Club. Ruth Smith all. He graces our fraternity picture for
('30), does us honor by being among the the annuals and has made himself such
fifty having the highest scholarship in the a "big dog on the hill" that boys have
Arts College. stopped the sisters on the street to ques-
tion them as to whether it was Boris or
For the past week every time a sister is not and thus to settle a bitter dispute.
seen in going to and from classes, "See
you Sunday," has been said in passing.
Rho PIas Members In All Activities
By GRETCHEN BAARSCH, Northwestern University
Last spring before school was out with the new beauty queen section. The
the Rho girls were very busy. At the elections were held in the fall, and were
annual May Day Peggy Parker was one kept secret until the book appeared. Our
of the May Queen's six attendants. This queens were Dorothy Blair and Dee
May Day court is chosen by all the Vogel. There were only seven queens
Northwestern girls, and the results of in all, and we were the only sorority to
*he elections are kept secret until the have more than one girl chosen for the
Pris appear for the procession. Another honor. Then came exams, but even they
exciting thing happened when the Sylla- did not slow us up. We had a Hang-over
bus, Northwestern yearbook, came out dance at the house, and a house party
