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ACTIVE CHAPTER LETTERS

ALPHA, BARNARD COLLEGE

Elizabeth Tompkins Jones, 'i2 Margaret Kutner, '12
Hester Rusk, '12 Esther Burgess, '13
Maria Diaz de Villalvilla, '13 Viola Turck, 13

I f you should meet an Alpha just now, she would immediately be-

gin to discuss the new fraternity apartment. We have recently ac-

quired two more rooms so that we now have a seven room apartment,

and there will be ample space and a hearty welcome for visitors

from other chapters.

On May twelfth we gave a tea to the faculty and Pan-Hellenic

Association. As usual everything threatened to go wrong, but when

we were on the verge of a collapse, things suddenly smoothed them-

selves out, and the party went off without a hitch. We had many

more of the faculty than usually turn out for teas, a fact that made

us duly proud. As soon as the tea was over, we began to plan our

house party. Edith Dietz and L u Sillcox went down ahead of us to

make the arrangements, and on July 1st, fourteen of us with Mrs.

Sillcox, a maid, our trusty cameras and many suitcases, arrived at

Lord's Point, Conn. We had a cottage on the Sound, about twenty

feet from the water and ten minutes' walk from a farm which pro-

vided us with six quarts of milk daily. The ten days of our stay

were f u l l of excitement and fun, much of which is recorded in our

kodak pictures, and all of which is eternally impressed on our mem-

ories. We clammed, crabbed, rowed, swam and laughed all day long,

and in the evening we sang College and Alpha songs until we became

sleepy and sentimental, and adjourned to our beds to tell stories and

finally to sleep until awakened by Mildred's giggle.

We opened this year's festivities by a domino dance on the

evening of September fifteenth. We had such a thoroughly good time

puzzling our partners while we were masked that we hope to have

another dance like it soon, or else a fancy dress ball. We send

greetings and best wishes to all of you and hope that when you

come to New York you will visit us in our new home.

Any Alpha Omicron Pi girl who comes to town can and will be

gladly received in the fraternity apartment, 557 West 124 Street.

We would like to tell of our new patroness (and our only one)

Mrs. Juliana Haskell—a member of the German Department of

Barnard (Barnard 1904—Ph. D . of Columbia 1908, member of

$ B K.) We are very proud of Mrs. Haskell and very much

in love with her, for besides being very brilliant, she is very human.

We feel that she did us a great honor when she consented last spring

to be our patroness.