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Oathout, Twins, Helen W h i t i n g and Ruth Johnson often get together f o r little
meetings and visits. We were so sorry to learn that Ruth has been very i l l
with pneumonia. However, she is improving and w i l l , we hope, soon be quite
strong.

Some of the girls have started to make plans f o r next year. Esther ( I m p y )
Knudson is now teaching in Delphos, Kansas, but is planning to go East next
year in order to attend a girls' school. Then Nellie McCall, who as you know,
is teaching in Chelan, Wash., is hoping that she may go to the Panama zone
next year. Nellie said that she had seen M a r y McGinnis and that Mary was
soon to go to Portland, Oregon.

Marge Miller M i l l a r seems to be as successful in her duties as a housekeeper
as she was as chapter president. I n fact she says: " H o w a r d thinks I ' m a fine
cook."

Yes, and Alice McArdle ( M r s . James Price, J r . ) is the proud possessor of a
little son, born on March 4. M r . and Mrs. Price are l i v i n g at 981 Broad Street,
Trenton, New Jersey.

Can you imagine H i l d a Hendrickson as a teacher? Well that is what she is
doing. A t Mayville Normal School, N o r t h Dakota, she is, as she says, " E n -
gaged in d r i l l i n g the natives f o r a Minstrel Show." I wonder i f she got any of
her experience at the A 0 I I house?

Laura H u r d just had a lovely letter f r o m M i l d r e d L o r i n g . As I said, she
is in New York. Perhaps you would like to hear a little part of her letter. I t
was her pleasure to attend a meeting of the New York Alumnae Chapter. A t
this meeting there were two of the founders of Alpha 0 . She says, "We had
dinner at the Rogues' Tavern at Greenwich Village. There were about twenty-
four of us. From there we proceeded to the Law Building of the New York
University, which also is i n the village. We took the elevator up to the roof
and walked out to a little hump growing right out of the top which proved to
be the N u chapter room—the cunningest spot surrounded with glass, so that
you could look out over the city." Then she told us quite a lot about this
"cunningest spot."

But the very nicest thing was this: "We had our meeting and sang Alpha O
songs. . . . The spirit was wonderful and I felt at home as I have not felt
since leaving the dear old chapter house."

This gives you just a little idea of what some of the girls are doing and in
order to know more and to see some of them you must be sure to come to
Senior Breakfast.

LOUISE Dow B E N T O N , Upsilon '19, Chapter Editor.

KNOXVILLE ALUMNiE

Last f a l l , we wrote to all the Omicron alumnx' asking them each to give us
a dollar to be used f o r refurnishing the f r a t e r n i t y room. Several girls have
written since that the first they heard about i t was through the alumnae letter i n
To DRAGMA. We tried to reach everybody, and i f you haven't already sent
your dollar, it isn't too late yet. The " F i s h " tried to economize by painting the
walls and floor, but gave it up as a bad job, and called in a regular painter. The
walls are light yellow, and floor painted darker to harmonize. The window
seats and benches have been upholstered i n deep blue denim, window hangings
of the same material with a valence of cretonne in blues, yellows, and browns—
the pillows match the cretonne. Margaret Smith's brother made a floor lamp
for us, and Alice Graf is making a parchment shade f o r i t . Alice is also making