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C O N V E N T I O N always brings to us with a greater force than we have felt
before that Alpha Omicron Pi is so truly a fraternity of friends, a fraternity
n which race, creed and locality matter not at all so long as a girl has the qualities
of our Founders and as long as she keeps before her the ideals of fine women, the
charity of a sister, love for humanity. At an Alpha O convention one finds no
ofnshness, no feeling of superiority among groups from one section of the country
or another. The soft southern vowels slip out in silvery cascades to be answered
by the rounded syllables of the New Englanders; the broad speech of the midwestern
alls ^fter the broader lines of the far westerner. The girl from the small woman's

. . I . - a strong ally in her sister from the great university. Their campus
i u may differ, but they are both alive with the same buoyant youthfulness.
L ..y place one looks there are groups of strangers, strange only because they've
never met in person before, instantly drawn together by the familiar pin each wears.
It's like a great family reunion with the Founders the only people who seem to
know everyone.

But you say convention lasts but a week and most of us can never go, so what
s the value of our fraternity after college days are over?

Have you ever moved to a large, strange city where you felt lost—you kno\d
no one except the people in your apartment house, and they're not very congenial?
Have you felt the thrill of answering the telephone to hear that an Alpha O has
read in T o DRAGMA that you've moved into her city and she'd like to have you
come to alumna; meetings? And have you gone, finding new friends by the half
dozens all in one evening? Or have you moved to a tiny town, way off in the
"sticks," you tell your friends at home, to find that an Alpha O is the wife of the
village dentist or teaches in the high school? Have you been traveling in far coun-
tries and have you found a bright shining ruby-tipped pin looking straight into your
eyes? Then you have known the value of this fraternity of friends. There can
be no greater thrill than to find a new sister-friend in a tucked-away place where
you were sure you'd be quite bored. If she wears our symbol, she is never a
Granger, for you have all the ritual and ideals of the fraternity in common. If
you are moving or traveling, keep a fraternity directory handy. You'll find friends
quickly.

But perhaps you haven't reached the married and moving or professional and
hanging class; perhaps you're still in college, an active member or perhaps you're
not even a fraternity member, you may be just a rushee. You, too, have a fact to
{ ^ P uppermost in your minds. Alpha Omicron Pi has chapters in most of the
State universities and in the finest colleges in the country. Affiliation in chapters
other than your initiating chapter is automatic. "Once you are ours, you are ours
forever." Alpha O's are alike the states over, what difference that Gamma in Maine
"jitiated you, Sigma will welcome you into chapter meeting to vote if you transfer.
y ° u will find new fraternity friends in every active chapter for Alpha Omicron Pi
s a fraternity of friends!