Page 54 - 1908 November - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 49

First of all we want to say how glad we are to greet all our
new sisters—"Here is our hand—with our heart in i t "

Our existence as Delta chapter begun April 13, 1908, when we
were initiated into A O I I . Our college year closed but a few weeks
after with commencement day, June 16, when we lost six seniors,
one of whom, Margaret Tupper, was vice-president of her class.
Several served on committees, and two of our girls, Esther Ladd and
Ethel Remele, made 4 > B K for themselves and us.

Soon after that, Alice Rich, '09, went to the convention in New
York, and brought us back most interesting accounts of our new sis-
ters to which we all listened, and when she had finished, like Oliver
Twist, we promptly asked "for more."

We had a house-party of two weeks this summer, in Maine where
we took a cottage by the sea. A good many of the girls went.
Those were gay days and gay doings—a merry ending to our year's
work. And there we all sang with a w i l l :

"Away with the tons
Of dusty old tomes,
Vive la A O I I . "

College opened this year on September 16, and found us with
sixteen active girls. Our rushing season was ushered in on September
19, by our "hoodoing" reception to the entire class of freshmen—a
custom of years, and one followed by the other two sororities.

The Pan-Hellenic rules, under which we were one season before,
gave us a month of "rushing." A l l invitations were to be sent on
October 15, and the answers received on October 17. Our season
was a triumphant one and it made us very glad to put the little
sheaf of wheat on eight splendid girls—Elinor O. Collins, Beatrice
L. Davis, Helen Harmon, Pearle Longley, Alice J. Spear, Edith M .
Vande Bogert, Edna C. Woodbury and Pauline Lamprey.

Initiation took place on Friday night, November 30, and it was a
most successful one in all things. Many of our alumnae were with
us to help celebrate. Among the alumnae who were present were
Martha Louise Atkinson, '00, Gladys Wells, '07, Mabel E. Jackson,
ex-'06, Esther V. Ladd, '08, Ethel P. Sturtevant, '07, Frida E.
Ungar, '07, Marion Rich, '07, A.M., '08, Gertrude E. Bartlett, '07,
Clara B. Russell, '04, Dorothy T. Brown, ex-'06, Josie B. Folsom,
'07, Eva Fulton, Mary A. Ingalls Lambert, '00, Mabel W. Taylor,
'05, Beatrice Fraser, Carolyn G. Fraser, '08, Emma R. Clough, ex-
'09, Blanche Jauett, '08, and Ethel M . Remele, '08. I t also gave
us much pleasure that a sister from Alpha chapter, Emma Birchenal,
was with us.

Although the year seems but begun, we are all busy and active.
Dora Thayer, Genevieve Haven and Gladys Graves, '09, are in the