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That reminds us; we mustn't forget
our pledges. They are: Marian Ahlman,
Eleanore King, Mildred Young, Lucy
McCabe, Louise Moor, Ruth Edwards,
Frances Crosby, Alice Brown, Mary
()micron Pi Members Active in Scores of Societies
By B E T T Y H E M E N G E R , University of Michigan
Five of our pledges have just become
new initiates, so that we are left w i t h
ten interested pledges who are attempt-
ing splendidly to keep close on the heels
of those five who have just been ad-
vanced from their ranks. They are Fay
Adams, East Towas; Priscilla Anderson,
Bay City; Ruth Birdseve, Detroit; Eliza-
beth Hatch, Washington, D.C.; Ruth
Kimberley, Detroit; Helen Lutz, Ann
Arbor; Jean Mitchell, Lakewood, Ohio;
Dorothy Skeman, Detroit; Mae Stuart,
Lakewood, Ohio; Eleanor Welsh, Port
Huron. The latest initiates are Ruth
Weiler, Detroit; Judith Wilkinson, Lake-
side, Michigan; Thelma Shaw, Detroit;
Grace Swartz, Detroit, and Ginevra
Ginn, Huntington, West Virginia.
Our pledge formal was held in Novem-
ber at the chapter house. A number of
our Detroit alumna? were present f o r the
affair, and it brilliantly managed to side- zine, Inlander, and manager of the senior
step that traditional masculine expres-
sion that "sorority parties are such dull
affairs." W h y , even the president's es-
cort managed to look a bit cheerful that
night, and we were all so relieved to note
that as he meandered d o w n the walk at
12 :30, after he had helped to lock up, he
forgot to whistle his usual tune, " I ' m
Just Somebody's Handy M a n . "
The day of the Harvard-Michigan
game, November 9, was set as Michigan's
homecoming and a great number of our
"alums" were w i t h us f o r the week-end. Maslen, intramural hockey manager,
Our last year's president, Cynthia Haw-
kins, accompanied by Betty Parker ('29),
drove all the way from Claiborne, Mary-
land to join the festivities. Betty started the Junior Girls' Play, member of the
from Tampa, Florida, before meeting
Cynthia f o r the rest of the journey.
Founders' Day was one of our big-
gest successes of the season. Seventy-
three alumnae, actives and pledges met
at the new Women's League Building, in
a private dining room, for luncheon and
listened to several enjoyable talks. I t
made i t very nice to have t w o alumnee
chapters represented, Detroit and Ann
Arbor, not to mention girls from all over
the state w h o came back f o r the day.
Collins, Roberta Bayman, Dorothy K
Gallagher, Elizabeth Johnson, Char- m
lotte Mathews, Mary Kepler, Katherine p
Frew, Gertrude Bryant, and Mildred P
Walker. C
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After the luncheon we all went at the M
chapter house where a most entertaining o
stunt was presented by the pledges. A f - l
terwards, w i t h the girls seated about M
clubbily on the floor, we sang Alpha
0 songs and a few of the popular old S
Michigan melodies. I n spite of the joy g
that belonged to Omicron Pi's during C
this reunion with old friends and new, B
we also were united by a vaster feeling T
of allegiance in realizing that Alpha O's V
all over the country were, at the same k
time, paying tribute to those four women G
who threw us the lighted torch of sister- ia
hood. E
We have been represented in activities o
extensively this year, even by our pledges. th
Several of our outstanding activities and P
their representatives are Frances Sarkett, o
president of Black Quill, a literary so- p
ciety; drama editor of the literary maga- o
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basketball team; Betty Hemenger, treas- P
urer of Theta Sigma Phi, chairman of a
the committee on housing for the High B
School Press Convention, and a member d
of the Senior Promenade committee; h
M a r y Louise Behymer, Daily Staff, Wo- jn
men's editor of the Freshman handbook, b
chairman of publicity for the Women's s
League bazaar, member of Wyvern, 8_ g
Junior honor society, on the social com-
mittee of the League, an advisor during lo
Freshman week in the fall, member of a
political science honorary club; Albertina o
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chairman of the League House commit- o
tee, member of W y v e r n ; Kathleen Clif-
ford, Wyvern, chairman of properties ot c
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Cercle Francais and the Circolo Italiano. so
and librarian of the Michigan League; l
R u t h Van T u y l , Wyvern, assistant chair-
man of the Junior Girls' Play, member
of the Judiciarv Council; Ernestene Wag-
ner, vice president of the Junior Liter-
ary Class, program committee of tn
PanheUenic b a l l ; Jean Boswell, member
of Black Quill and the A r t Club; Loe
Cossitt, member of the Sociedad
panica, and the Circola Italiano;