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"Elsie Ford was a charter member of Zeta and has always been an active, PHILANTHROPIC QUOTAS
loyal and enthusiastic Alpha O. The fact that for many years she was not living
in Lincoln in no way lessened her enthusiasm. She always called at the house
when in the city and has only missed one annual banquet since her initiation.
For fourteen years she was on the Faculty of the Nebraska State Teachers Col-
lege at Wayne, Nebraska, as head of the Latin Department and later as Dean of
Women also. During and since that time Zeta has pledged many splendid girls from
Wayne. Elsie Ford has been Alumna; Chairman of Zeta's Scholarship Committee
for five years and this year Zeta received a silver basket for fourth place in the
scholarship rank of twenty-one sororities.

"As District Alumna Superintendent of the Mid-Western District we know
that Elsie Ford will do the same superior work which she has always done, and
those under her direction will love to work with her."

Louise Church ( A ) , is very sure her career is too usual to speak Chairmen Vlan ^Alumnae Qontacts
about. Thus she sums it up. " I was born in New Orleans, went through
the public schools and entered Newcomb College very young and very ALUMN7E support means strength of spirit, finances, and friends.
scared, studied hard and played a little. Since graduation in 1924, I have Every undergraduate chapter knows what tremendous help its
taught in private schools in New Orleans, and this year I am librarian alumnae sisters are. And so the fraternity realizes that in its alum-
at one of the high schools in the city." She doesn't tell about being in pa? lies the strength of the future. An alumna lost means a weak rung
Science Club, Glee Club and Cercle Franchise, about winning the chapter •n this long ladder of ours.
scholarship cup in 1924; about serving Pi as secretary and the alumna?
chapter in every office except treasurer. Any one besides herself will tell In every fraternity disinterested alumna? are problems. These people
you that she is quiet and unassuming, but so responsible and wise as nave taken a vow, and yet four years or less later finds them putting
well as charming in appearance and personality. away their pins and forgetting that they have joined our group or an-
other for life. Business, housekeeping or pleasures swallow them.
Helen Cantine (AS), introduces Roma Whisnant:
At the Troutdale convention Alpha Omicron Pi decided to try a
"A tall, well-poised, strikingly attractive person is Roma Whisnant, the new experiment for two years. For years the alumnae organization has
new Alumna; Superintendent for the Pacific District. From the time she entered been under the supervision of the Grand Vice President and the Alum-
the University of Oregon as a freshman, perhaps because of two years' business jj* Superintendents. The latter received reports from alumnae chapters
experience following high school, her interests have followed the lines of busi- Within their districts, and their contact with these organized groups has
ness methods and group organization.
fairly close.
"An apprenticeship in fraternity service her sophomore year, when she acted
as chapter treasurer and secretary, resulted in her election the following year But what of the alumna without the bounds of alumnae chapters?
as president of Alpha Sigma. Not only did Roma fill this office very ably, but unce a year she has been visited by the member-at-large letter sent
she managed at the same time to be prominent in W.A.A. and Woman ? League rom the Central Office. Once a year, given that she has not moved or
affairs and to fill a part-time position as secretary to the Dean of the School of
Physical Education. , arried without leaving her address, she has had a fleeting glimpse of
e r fraternity. I f she is a subscriber to To DRAGMA, she has had a
"Her senior year, at the critical time when a new house was being financedi littl C r vision four times a year besides the letter. But she has had very
Roma served as treasurer of Alpha Sigma corporation. Phi Chi Theta, business
honorary, elected her as president, and awarded her the Phi Chi Theta key for e close range or personal appeal from her fraternity.
scholarship, activities and character. . n $ k £ n e w experiment creates the office of State Chairman of Alum-
chant P ^ 0 1 1 w m < have as her duties the strengthening of alumnae
"Since graduation Roma has been working in Seattle and Portland in bota
of which cities she has participated actively in alumna; chapter affairs. Her present Pters, the organization of new ones where numbers warrant, and the
work keeps her in touch with the ever-changing aspects of the west coast lumber
business.

"Generosity, enthusiasm and a gay willingness of spirit are outstanding traits
in Roma, traits which characterized her as an undergraduate and which wui
endear her now to those she meets in the new role she is to play."

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