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often makes flying visits to Menominee Falls      teresting experiences to tell us of their winte*=
and Detroit.                                      in Vienna. Homeward bound meant Indiana
                                                  for Dorothy Oodle Burger ( E x . '3D and f o p
    Again the Newbys have moved as this time      Nell Dickinson ('27), it was Colorado. Jessa-
 finds th em settled in                           mine Gray ('26) gave herself that long pronto
                                                  ised European voyage. With Pennsylvania as
    DALLAS—Helen Howard Newby ('23) has           her main objective Emma Jacobs Bergm*!
the moving business down to a science. She        ('20) bought tickets for points East. The
and Quickie and Beverly quite like their new      Burridge family (Frances Murray ('25). BnH
headquarters, and Ira is well pleased with his    and the children) and the Barretts (Mam
promotion.                                        Howlett ('23), Milton and Frederic) toow
                                                  most of their pleasure trips in small dosea
    Not often does Ruth Morey Eisesle ('25)      over the week-ends. Frances Barrett ('2J§B
write, but when she does those letters arc        was gone all summer enjoying California and
worth the waiting as they are chuck full of       Mexico. A few miles distant at Grosse Isle
news of Sally and Patsy and Lloyd. So we          Margaret Clark ('27) enjoys plenty of cool
leave PH<ENIX and hop over to                     breezes all season.

   CALIFORNIA—We take the state as a whole           After the arrival of Nancy SIR- in June;]
because our friends lived scattered about. Just   Winifred Benedict Dudley ('26) was more nil
in the nick of time Marjorie Wylie ('20)         terested in home than a vacation, but she did
arrived from Columbia to take her duties as      enjoy a few short jaunts. Among the F a | l
principal of the high school of Fullerton.       visitors we find Irene Lutz Dunham i 24)
Louise Duncan Walker's ('21) mother visited      Mary Roach ('30), Dorothy Hall Van Tuyai
her and returned with glowing accounts of         C31), Marie Edington ('31) and Ernestiffl
the grandchildren and California sunshine.       Wagner ('31). Cottages attract many f u r the
Lillian Herman Stickney ('23) sends her news     hot spell, and Helen Dye ('30) was north
via Bea Finley, but we know that "Lil" is still  again. Lorraine O'Bryan Dieterle ('23) took
librarian and busy with that and her house-      Jane and baby Martha to cooler areas. I?a-
keeping too. Lurking about in these regions      bejle Waterworth Vandeveer ('24) enjoyed!
is our Dr. Laverne Hays, who visited her         the popular Lexington, and Frances Norton!
home in E N I D after a stay of several months   Saxton ('26) tried several lakes. Elizabeth]
abroad. Laverne travelled west with an eye       Cossitt Fricker ('27) did most of her travels
to a good location in the establishment of her   ing in the winter and enjoyed her Birmingham
office.                                          home this summer. When I asked Ruth Sara
                                                 geant Harding ('20) for any exciting nety|I
   Another rather distant sister is Fay Adams    she could think only of her trip to Chicago'
Lincoln, whose husband is stationed at Hono-     and then suddenly recalled an accident in
lulu. There is also little Fay Mary, who is      which her car was burned, but she escapeoi
about eight months old.                          serious injury. That was almost too mucm
                                                 excitement! Because everyone seemed til
   A leisurely trip along the coast lands us in  travel West, Helen Maynard Hubbard ('30) J
SEATTLE—There Erma Schnauffer Tomlin-            preferred her favorite haunt Goodhart
son ('22) waves from the dock and hoists up      Gladys Hihmon Hirt ('23) started the vaca4
John Randolph to peer at us. Alary Louise        tion with a bang and moved to Mount CIem<3
Reheymer ('31) is still a confirmed Seattlite    ents. That used to be considered a distance,,]
even though her good pal Katherine Qifford       but in these days of paved roads and good:
('31) has moved to Guam, where her father        motor cars, it is merely a suburb. Bigwin
is now stationed. Not so far distant from        Inn was the choice of Doris Bessinger Howr]
Seattle, Dorothy Wylie Martin ('24) lives in     lett ('25) for her trip. Ruth McBryde HiiM
summer. She and Charles find the weeks           ('26) spent any leisure time on the golf course j
rather short as usually the week-end means a     and did visit her home folks. Dorothy Gates!
fine trip into the mountains for them.           Johnson ('29) was in Lansing for severalj
                                                 weeks. Doris Schick Johnson ('27) spent her
   Then comes the longest hop of our journey     summer in the none too pleasant adventure ofl
and we hurry by plane over vast Canadian         building up her health. Sally Knox ('29) wall
                                                 about town, having been away for several
rocks to land at GEORGIAN BAY—There              years. Enroute to Iowa, Virginia Smith
                                                 Keltz ('24) stopped in Chicago. The Lamj
we meet the Monoyhans, Betty Hayes ('25),        nings (Marjorie Kerr ('24) motored through
the two boys, and Hugh, who are having a         Wisconsin. Molly Peckham Locke ('27) vis-
splendid vacation. Earlier in the summer         ited her mother in Grand Rapids. Elizabeth
Betty spent a week in Detroit. Dorothea          Morley ('30) crossed the Border and invaded
Comfort ('21) has been at Georgian Bay for       Canadian territory for her good time. Social
three months and will return to Detroit to       work and a new position deterred all thoughts
teach.                                           of Albertina Maslin ('31) from going away.
                                                 Washington, Philadelphia, and New York
   DETROIT—That center of so much newspaper      were visited in June by Jane McBryde Preish
headlining carries quite the banner headline     ('27) and later in the summer Marian Tanner
for our news as so many of Omicron Pi's          ('23) took in the well-known, celebrated
girls make their homes here. Josephine Weiler    Broadway. At this writing Frances Sackett
Armantrout ('26) has moved in from the           Patton ('30) was visiting in Yellowstone Park.
suburbs, after a strenuous spring and summer
of illness. "Jo" vacationed a bit at Torch
Lake with the family. There Ruth Weiler
(Ex. '31) had been since early summer. Fol-
lowing their usual custom, Marjorie Weber
Bleakley ('26), Jeannette McCall ('26), Helen
Whipple ('26), and Virginia Crossman Ma-
guire ( E x . '26) spent a week in Northern
Michigan. The Maguires have no end of in-
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