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The Ji ighest Tribute of <All—3\(u Wins

Jessie Wallace Jfughan Qup

By W I N I F R E D N . C A T E R S O N , Nu

A X D therefore i t is m y great pleasure to present the Jessie Wallace
Hughan cup to N u chapter." Something to that effect were the

words of M r s . Perry who was presenting the cup at the banquet which
closed the National Convention of 1929 at Ithaca, New York. The
N u chapter girls, sitting at a table directly in front of the speaker, were,
to be frank, stunned. Our delegate stepped up and received the cup.
When she returned to her seat, she placed i t on the table before her and
she and the other girls looked at i t and at each other speechlessly.

N u chapter has had many capable girls at its helm over the long period
of its existence. These will all agree that it has had none more efficient
than ex-president Rosemary Holahan. When we retrospect on her ad-
ministration, we wonder that we were surprised to f i n d that N u had
merited the Jessie Wallace Hughan cup. T o begin w i t h , there was a
stronger fraternal spirit among the girls which led to heartier co-opera-
tion. Rosemary initiated intersorority relations among the sororities of
Washington Square College. Under her chairmanship, two intersorority
dances were given, the first on board the S.S. Majestic, the second at the
Westchester B-iltmore Country Club, and the proceeds were shared with
the Judson Memorial Health Center to buy milk for undernourished
children.

At the instigation of Mrs. Collins, our alumna adviser, action was
taken in the Panhellenic Congress of Washington Square College to pro-
hibit the drinking of liquor at sorority functions. The inability of guests at
some of the functions to refrain from intemperance made it unfortunately
necessary to bring the matter to an issue. The result of persistence was a
ruling forbidding the use of intoxicating liquors at sorority affairs w i t h
the further stipulation that anyone noticeably under its influence would
be asked to leave.

But the outstanding accomplishment of the year was clearing a long-
standing accumulation of debts amounting to over $400 and leaving the
treasury ahead by $200 or $300. The New York Alumna? co-operated
with the active chapter in discharging this debt by giving a benefit theater
party while Rosemary gave us a lesson i n economy. A n d yet we were able
to move into living quarters where we have space to accommodate a
few resident students.

There is a girl who is not Nu's by initiation, but to us, she embodies in
flesh every ideal of Alpha Omicron Pi. I t was through the inspiration and
help of Alice Cullnane, then Assistant Registrar that N u became as
one in Alpha O spirit. T o you who live and eat in one house that may
not mean much, but to us who live at great distances f r o m New Y o r k
University and who must ever hurry away and back again, it meant in-