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Hon cDoyage and 'Welcome £eniors

TW E N T Y - F I V E years ago friends and sorority sisters were bidding a "bon
voyage" to the seniors. There was the same tense feeling and tight throats
on that June day, 1905, as there is today f o r people do not alter w i t h time. But
how different a w o r l d confronted the black gowned graduate of 'OS. We wonder
how many seniors there were who looked f o r w a r d to positions as chemists, doctors,
business women, social workers. N o t many, we warrant. We suspect that the
greater share of the seniors of 1905 intended to do one of f o u r things—teach,
work f o r a higher degree, stay at home, or contract matrimony. The list is short,
isn't i t ? A n d i f they did any one of these four things, except the graduate work
we wonder how long their sorority contacts lasted. N o doubt their college friend-
ships continued, but we suspect their sorority interest waned somewhat.

For twenty-five years ago there was no alumnae organization to tie together
the years as an undergraduate and as a graduate. Then if one wandered far from
New Y o r k , New Orleans, Knoxville, Lynchburg, or Lincoln, one found no friendly
college chapter near. New Y o r k boasted the only alumnae group.

H o w different it is today! One week y o u cast your last vote in an active
chapter meeting, you travel across the continent, east or west, n o r t h or south, and
the next week you are at home among strangers, f o r you are voting in an alumnae
meeting. There is no question of the possibility of keeping up your sorority
interest and contact. Y o u may do so wherever you are. Y o u are a member, auto-
matically, of your nearest alumnae chapter.

We welcome you, seniors. We want you to enjoy life now as much as you
did as college students. Y o u have broadened your store of knowledge and ex-
perience; you have widened your circle of friends during those years, but in the
latter, y o u have been limited to your campus and the classes of your college.
Now y o u have no l i m i t — y o u w i l l find friends among the classes of thirty-three
years, f r o m schools wherever we have chapters. Again, we bid you welcome and
extend our hospitality to you!

Itycky (^Mountain Vacation, Contention ipji

TH E Executive Committee has just announced that our 1931 convention w i l l
be held at Troutdale-in-the-Pines, a spacious and comfortable summer resort
hotel nestled i n the mountains up Bear Creek Canyon, just out of Denver,
Colorado. The dates are June 21 to June 28. The Union Pacific Railroad will
serve as our official transportation.

I f you've been wanting to take a trip into Colorado's playland, wait until
next summer; then join the ranks of "conventionites." Y o u ' l l be very close to
all the points of interest in Colorado; Colorado Springs is but a few hours
away, the Garden of the Gods, Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain, Pikes
Peak, M o u n t Manitou, Boulder—they are all within reach of Evergreen, our con-
vention headquarters.

Begin to make your plans now. We'll have such a good time on the "special'
train, or you w i l l enjoy the trip by motor. The Colorado highways are splendid,
and the mountain roads are wide, winding ribbons of hard white gravel. _ I

Troutdale-in-the-Pines has a trout stream and a tiny lake at its feet; towering,
pine clad mountains tuck i t in on all sides. The accommodations are the best for
all for those who like sports or for those who prefer to play bridge on the wide,
glazed porches.

But all this is of the surroundings of our next convention. We haven't men-
tioned the good times you'll have with sorority sisters f r o m far and near, of Chi
Delta's hospitality, of the generosities of Denver alumnae, of the joy of meeting
our Founders, of the gaiety of Stunt night, of the beauty of candle-lighting, o t
the loveliness of the banquet. Need we urge a former "convention-goer" morer
We think n o t ! A n d once you've joined that group, you'll know just where
you'll spend a week of your vacation every other year.