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the past tense with me. A fraternity was

part of college, and ended with college.

It was too bad, but you just couldn't

help it.
Well, Fate took a hand in my affairs,

and with the swiftness that Fate so often
uses, I was propelled not very gently,
but, oh, so firmly, right back into my
sorority. I must have a conscience or
a sense of duty somewhere, for after a
while I started" to attend alumnae meet-
ings. Can you imagine how it feels to be
surrounded by people, wearing your pin,
not a single one of them as old in fra-
ternity affairs as yourself, and you not
knowing what it is all about? Girls telling
the names of officers, and new chapters,
and important fraternity events, and you
trying to guess what they are? I can
tell you it isn't very pleasant. I had been
out of touch so long with all that was
being done that I was nothing but a
stranger, and all I had in common with
these interested and interesting sisters
of mine was a little pin! And I even
had a hard time finding that! Small
wonder I have safely kept my old sorority
emblem through all these years. I t was
put away too well to be lost.

What I thought about as I left that
first meeting would take too long to tell.
But it was all very unflattering to me.
Obviously the organization which I had
promised would be mine forever had done
splendid things in spite of my lack of
interest. But how well had I done? I
had lost contact with most of the friends
who had taken me into a loving sister-
hood. I had failed to make the new
friends who come to us later, when we
realize that sorority life does not end

with college life. I couldn't even talk intelligently about my own chapter,
n ° t to mention national affairs. And I , while an undergrad, never failed
to talk about fraternity spirit and fraternity loyalty.