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8 To DRAGMJ

And what is convention without a hanquet? to Virginia Webb ( T A ) . To DRAGMA prize!
The Mayflower Hotel was the setting, Pinck- went to Lorraine Jones McNallv ( N ) f o r t h l
ney Estes Glantzherg, i n f o r m a l l y assisted by best article; to Mabel W . Ownbey ( N O ) f 0 l
M a r y Dee Drummond, was the toastmistress; the best active chapter contributions; to M i a
K a t h r y n liremer Matson, "The Forward dred E. Williams ( A l l ) for her poem, " B f H
Look," Edith Huntington Anderson, "The Poplars," and to Wanda McCandless ( N ) f o |
Practical Side of Fraternity Life," and Stella her poem, "Dust." Pi Delta won the prize f o l
G. S. Perry, "Beacons," toasted the large the best exhibit. Honorable mention f o r g o o j
gathering. A tense moment came before the w o r k as editors went to M a r i o n M o i s e ( I I ) J
presentation of awards and prizes. T a u re- New Orleans, and Dorothy Bogen Farringtom
r r i v t d the Jessie Wallace Hughan Service Cup ( A ) , f o r Lambda notes.
for its splendid contributions to the fraternity,
the University of Minnesota and to the city A greeting to Alpha Omicron Pi wa«
of Minneapolis. Its record of unselfishness brought in person by Nellie Tayloe Ross, thfi
includes a g i f t of $50, o r d i n a r i l y used f o r director of the Mint. There were many greet!
Homecoming decorations, given last year to ings f r o m other sororities and f r o m past offiJ
the Minneapolis Community Chest, $50 given cers of the sorority.
to A O n National Social Service W o r k ; Christ-
mas boxes packed f o r the Kentucky hill peo- Rho Chapter at Northwestern, proposing tq
ple; Red Cross sewing; the use o f the recrea- entertain at a lake resort in Wisconsin, an<|
tion room of their house to any organization Pi, the oldest active chapter, invited the
in need o f rooms. Besides these, the chapter sorority to have the next convention witH
maintained a high scholarship and its members each o f them. Neither invitation has been
took an outstanding part in campus affairs. accepted thus far.

A Service Ring was given to Fay Morgan Why not put a dime a day away f o r nexfi
( 0 ) f o r her unselfish devotion to the frater- convention expenses? It is the most stimulat-
nity and to N u Omicron. The Lillian Mc- ing, thoroughly enjoyable way we know tq
Quillan McCausland Fellowship was granted spend a week's vacation. I f you were thereJ
you'll want to go again, if you weren't, yotl
missed a g l o r i o u s week o f fine w o r k and p l a y j

M r s . M e y e r is the Founder o f B a r n a r d College and the Senior Trustee.
She has been a leader in educational, civic and artistic fields a l l o f her l i f e
She was interested in our group of Founders during their college days at
Barnard, and her greeting to convention comes upon the occasion of our non-
member Fellowship being awarded to a Barnard graduate. Dr. Alfred
Meyer, her husband, is a distinguished physician, h a v i n g done splendid w o r k

in the field o f tuberculosis cure and c o n t r o l .

Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Stella, dear, and Members of Alpha Omicron P i :

I SUPPOSE the question uppermost in all your minds at the moment i s :
H A S T H E COLLEGE woman a special place, a special duty to perform today? I
should be the last person to wish the College woman of today to h a r k back to the
grave seriousness w i t h w h i c h she took herself f o r t y o r fifty years ago when her
numbers were counted i n dozens rather than thousands. I rejoice that she has
learned f r o m her brother to take her education in her regular stride. Yet it is well
to remind her that in a s w i f t l y changing world there is more need than ever o f
the balanced judgment that comes f r o m a study of the Past, and of the wisdom
that grows out o f weighing the value of current thought against the best through-
out the Ages.
B U T T H E COLLEGE woman can give the full measure of her contribution only i f
she is w a t c h f u l not to permit her long v i e w o f civilization to d r y up her enthu-
siasm, to devitalize her hope, t o quench her j o y i n adventure, or i n any sense to
lessen her keen interest in the living, pressing problems of her own day.