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Delta Phi Becomes Our Baby Chapter

Front row, left to right: Mrs. C. B. Elliott, Dean; Eulee Lide, president of Delta Phi; Anne Nichols,
Secretary; Ann Sale, District Superintendent; Edna Reed Whaley (Pi); Julia Acree Thomson (Kappa).
Side tables, right to left: Emma Watson, Maude Charles, Edna Louise Lent, Margaret Niggcl, Shirley
Bailey, Edith Walthall Ford (Kapba), Carolyn Smith, Ruth Carter, Cornelia Dowling, Margaret Estes,
Gertrude McDonald, Ellen LaBorJe, Hazel Hartwell Jenkins (Lambda), Emma Fritsche Garnsey (Psi),

Helen Camp (Omicron).

By ANN ANDERSON SALE, Kappa

-f- T H E MOMENT THAT I met Anne Jeter Saturday morning the Pledge Services were
Nichols in Richmond, f r o m a purely per- held in the English Room of the Columbia
Hotel. Before Julia Acree Thomson (K' 25),
sonal point of view, the installation o f Delta Anne Nichols and myself, twelve girls pledged
Phi Chapter was a complete success. W e had themselves to become members of Alpha Omi-
been together o n l y once since o u r g r a d u a t i o n cron Pi, and were invested with the gold sheaf
f r o m Randolph-Macon, so to be going o f f to- of wheat. A t three o'clock that afternoon,
gether on fraternity business was almost too seven of them presented themselves f o r initia-
good to be true. tion, and the installation of their chapter.

We arrived in Columbia, South Carolina, T o me this service was nothing short of
early Friday morning, and were met by Eulee thrilling. I n addition to the beauty of the
Lide, the president of the petitioning group, ritual and the sweet seriousness of the ini-
and Ellen LaBorde, its secretary. A t the hotel tiates as they became members o f our f r a -
we had lovely rooms, overlooking on one side ternity, there was the joy of having members
beautiful old T r i n i t y Church and on the other of Alpha Omicron Pi from many chapters
the State Capitol Building. I t was hard f o r present. Those alumnae who live in Columbia,
us to take our eyes away f r o m the great live Mrs. Marcellus Whaley (Edna Reed, n ) , Mrs.
oak trees and palmettos across the w a y as we Ehrlich Thomson (Julia Acree, K '25), Mrs.
checked up on the materials that had been Richard Gaillard (K '22), were there; Ann
sent ahead o f us f r o m Central Office. Wagner, the president of Omicron Chapter,
and Helen Camp (O) came f r o m Knoxville;
Ellen L a B o r d e took us to lunch at her home while from Atlanta arrived four members of
where ,ye were delighted to meet her m o t h e r their alumnae chapter, Mrs. E. Fay Pearce
and father. I n the afternoon we called on (Annie Stuart Ellis, H ) , Mrs. Charles T.
Mrs. Elliott, the Dean of Women of the U n i - Garnsey ( E m m a Fritsche, * ) , M r s . S. P.
versity of South Carolina, who told us about Jenkins (Hazel Hartwell, A) and Mrs. Allan
the fraternity situation on the campus. She Ford (Edith Walthall, K).
;has been m o s t h e l p f u l i n g e t t i n g o u r g r o u p
organized and welcomed Alpha Omicron Pi In the Crystal Room of the hotel, the ban-
heartily to the University. quet was held. Each one of us was presented
with a corsage by the girls of Delta Phi, mak-
Fraternity examinations were given at the ing us feel, as J u l i a T h o m s o n said, " I f ray
hotel on Friday night, and plans were made husband could o n l y see me n o w ! " T h e toast
for the installation the next day. Anne and scheme was that of the Red Rose, each girl
I got in touch with some alumnae in town and
were delighted with their enthusiasm.

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