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will be inherited every year until she posite. Now spring is coming to our
is grown up. We think it is fun hav- lovely campus we wish sometimes that
ing part ownership in a baby. we were starting all over again. A stu-
dent said to me, " I hate to sound sen-
Margaret Rourke has been elected timental, but I always feel a bit sad
toast mistress for the Senior banquet when I walk across the campus by the
which is to be held April 23. chapel at sunset and know that this is
the last spring I shall be here." Most of
Our spring formal is to be April 26, us know that same sadness. There is
at the Bellevue Country Club in Melrose. so much to look forward to, but we
This is the first time we have been able are leaving the environment in which
to have it "off Hill." Prudence Mac- we have lived for four years, our friends
Kissock is chairman of the committee will scatter, soon everything will be
in charge of it. strange. There is one great bond that
will always hold us to Jackson, Delta
We hear the remark from all sides, chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi.
"Won't I be glad when school closes."
The Seniors, however, feel just the op-
Gamma Gives Tea for Patronesses
By ISABELLA B . L Y O N , University of Maine
Dorothy Marie Scott has been elected Roney, our president, had a wonderful
our new president. We are lucky to box for her birthday and invited us in.
have her for she is capable, dependable
and in addition possesses tact and diplo- The formal initiation banquet took
macy. place at the Bangor House on Thurs-
day, April 3, and on Friday of that week,
We of Gamma are very happy to an- we gave a formal dance at the Country
nounce the pledging and initiating of Club.
nine new members, and as it has been
whispered the nine of '33. They are: On the afternoon of April 12 the ac-
Caroline Averill, Elizabeth Barrows, tives gave a tea for the patronesses and
Evelyn Gleason, Elizabeth Hillicker, the alumnae. This event which usually
Margaret Humphreys, Jean Kennedy, comes earlier in the year was postponed
Lucile Nason, Violet Peterson, and Grace until now in order that the alumnaa
Quarrington. Although Panhellenic might meet the new girls.
limited us to one party, rushing was
very delightful. The party was sup- A great sorrow to Gamma comes with
plemented by feeds, bridge at the Chalet, the resignation of Helen Danforth West,
snow-shoeing and everything else. our alumna adviser. A prolonged illness
is the cause. Beulah Osgood, as in-
Then came pledging with an informal structor in the home economics de-
supper at Balentine. Or rather, Jeanette partment, has been elected to fill her
place.
Epsilon Wins Intramural Basketball Cup
By E L I Z A B E T H I R I S H , Cornell University
Elections for next year's officers are for having 800 points to her credit. Re-
over, and Caroline Dawdy ('30), presi- cently also Catherine was elected to
dent of W.S.G.A. this year, has con- Omicron Nu, honorary home economics
ducted her last mass meeting. May next society.
year's president do it as graciously and
as efficiently as Caroline has. Epsilon But that is not all that happened at
Was very fortunate in the results of the that meeting, for AOII received a cup
elections, for Frances Meisse ('31), was for the championship in intramural bas-
elected president of the Women's Ath- ketball in which all the sororities and
letic Association and Catherine Blewer dormitories participate. The cup has
('31), chairman of activities. Both were been given for five preceding years, and
elected to Mortar Board at the same Epsilon has won it three. Last year
meeting and Frances received her " C " we lost by a defeat in the last game so
the team played with a vengeance this
