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42 TO PRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

GAMMA. UNIVERSITY OF MAINE
From the beautiful Maine campus in the "Pine Tree State" to all
her sisters in Alpha Omicron Pi, Gamma sends her heartiest greetings.
I t certainly does seem good to be back on the dear old campus,
ready for the work and jolly good times of another happy college
year.

By graduation last spring we expected to lose four of our best
and strongest girls, Mildred Prentiss, Florence Brown, Margaret
McManus and Irene Cousins. We are delighted to say that we
shall not lose all four for Margaret could not bear to tear herself
away from us and is returning for a year of post-graduate work.
We feel highly honored because Florence Brown and Mildred Pren-
tiss made the honorary society of Phi Kappa Phi. You may be
sure Gamma is proud of her girls.

We are now beginning the year with eighteen active members
in our chapter. There is an unusually large number of girls in the
entering class this fall, and certainly some splendid material from
which to choose our new members. We are already looking forward
to our rushing party and when our next letter goes to To DRAGMA
we w i l l be able to tell you all about it, and perhaps we will know
by then, who our new sisters are to be.

Mrs. Aley, our president's wife again gave us the use of the large
room on the top floor of her house. You may be sure we were de-
lighted for we had come to regard the beautiful, cozy room as our
own private property. A t our second meeting of the year we pledged
Alice Whitten '14. Alice is one of the best and dearest girls in
college and Gamma is certainly proud to have her as a member.
We celebrated initiation by a little, informal banquet in our chapter
room. Nearly all of our senior girls were back and it seemed quite
like the good old times of our freshman days as we sat on the floor
and feasted by candle-light. You certainly would have envied
us i f you could have seen us sitting in a circle eating sandwiches
and candy, telling stories and singing A O I I songs. How we did
enjoy Marion's "divinity" and all the rest of the good things!

Gamma chapter recently learned that a great honor had come to
one of her alumnae. Lennie P. Copeland '04 has been awarded a
fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the only
woman to have won a fellowship in mathematics and Gamma has
every reason to be proud of her.