Page 26 - 1911 February - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 97

GAMMA, UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

With the passing of finals (and can you find me a girl who does
not breathe a long, long sigh of relief?) our minds are coming back
to the other important things of the college world. As perhaps you
may know, we do not pledge our new girls here at "Maine" until
after the midyear exams, but before you read this we shall have
pledged and initiated our new sisters in A O I I .

Just after the Christmas vacation we held our rush party which
everybody voted the jolliest kind of a good time and certainly our
freshmen enjoyed it. As a result of our inspecting and rushing we
have chosen and are to initiate six splendid freshmen, Louise Bart-
lett, Estelle Beaupre, Mary Cousins, Marian Jordan, Luzetta Sterns,
and Ruth Stinchfield. Besides these we are to initiate Frances Went-
worth Cutler a graduate of Vassar who is taking work for an ad-
vanced degree from "Maine." We feel very happy over our new
sisters to be.

The plans for initiation and banquet are well along and we hope
to have many of our old girls with us. The initiation, on the 10th,
is to be followed by a banquet at the Bangor House the same even-
ing. On the evening of the 11th we are to have our annual sorority
dance which is the most important social function of our sorority
during the college year.

Little Dan Cupid has been up to his old tricks again and just be-
fore Christmas one of our senior girls showed us a Sigma Alpha
Epsilon pin beside her A O IT pin. It was no very sudden shock be-
cause "Bert" has been a big brother to all the co-eds with a very
special interest in one ever since his freshman day away back in 1907.

And now there is another thing that we girls are so delighted and
enthusiastic about that it was just clear, sheer willpower that kept
me from telling about it the very first thing; but now it will come
out. We have a fraternity room! We have told you what dear, lovely
times we had at Mrs. Balentine's and how sweet and "motherly" she
has always been to her A O I I sisters. Everything was perfectly ideal
until Mrs. Balentine moved to the University Inn and we felt, oh, so
homeless. It seemed doubly hard after the good times we had been
having.

In the midst of our perplexity Mrs. Aley, the wife of our new
President, came to our aid and she has given us the use of a large
quaint room on the top floor of their house. It is long and large,
low-ceiled and has a tower window at one end. The whole place
is absolutely perfect, plenty of room and entirely away from every-
body. Do you wonder that we are happy.

When our minds and hearts are filled with the new thoughts, and
new hopes, which come naturally with the initiation season; when