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f u l l y busy home maker and house keeper. M y eight year old son keeps me
quite busy. Aside f r o m my home duties I am active in church and club life,
and still keenly alive to all Alpha Omicron Pi's interests, and it is with the
deepest enthusiasm that I pore over the Knoxville letters in the magazine, and
now I shall look f o r w a r d w i t h eager anticipation f o r the May number that is
to tell us about the old girls. I n this connection I w i l l add that my sister,
Holmes Smith Banks, is now located i n Amarillo, Texas, the mother of one son
two years old.

Margaret Rogers Stone, Pulaski, Tenn. We are i n our own home now, and
although we are within two blocks of the business section, we have an enormous
lot, and are enjoying the advantages and experiences of both town and country
life—pigs, chickens, and our own garden. I have been married three years, and
have a two year o l d daughter. She is a perfect d a r l i n g , and looks exactly like
her daddy.

Kathleen Vaughan, Winchester, Tenn. I am well and happy and teaching
school. A combination f o r which, I am sure, I should be most t h a n k f u l . I have
had a ten dollar raise since Christmas, with a promise o f more next year. M y
pal teaches i n the same school.

Johnetta Hancock Bruce, Carneys Point, N . J. M y husband is a chemist in
the employ of the DuPont Dye Works, and we live i n the DuPont Village which
has the post office name o f Carneys Point. We have been keeping house since
last July, and we both just love i t . The little house isn't much to look at f r o m
the outside, a rubberoid bungalow, but by dint o f a little paint, and a good deal
of energy we have succeeded in making it f a i r l y cosy and comfortable w i t h i n .
But we are still hoping f o r one of the attractive bungalows up in the permanent
village. I have a "spare" bedroom, as they used to say, and would be delighted
to shelter any wandering A O IT who may venture into this part of the country,
though I w i l l advise any o f you f r o m the South to wait until July to come, f o r
we have most frozen this winter. The Delaware River has been frozen a large
part of the time, so that boats couldn't r u n , and the coldest winds I have ever
felt blow f r o m over that river. M y days are filled mostly w i t h housewifely
duties. I am putting into practice all of the household arts that Miss Turner
and Miss Croaks tried to instil into me at U . T .

Laura W . Gronig. Louisville, K y . My time is taken up mostly looking after
two sweet little kiddies. I have a little g i r l of six years, and my son is two and
a half, and you know they can keep one busy. I have been living here f o r nine
years, and like it very much.

Pauline Hobson, Washington. D . C. I have been here since January to,
w o r k i n g f o r Uncle Sam in the W a r Risk Insurance Bureau, and enjoying l i f e
in the nation's capital. We have had a peach of an alumnse chapter and lots
o f good times together, as many as f o r t } ' girls here at one time, although i t is
d w i n d l i n g fast now. Seventeen out of our twenty-six chapters were represented.
Mary Annie came about a month ago to work in the I n t e r n a l Revenue, and you
can imagine how delighted I am. We live at the same place, where there are
lots of other girls, so i t seems like being back in school.

Melba Braly, Le%visburg, Tenn. I have been at home all this year, and I
have put in good time getting ready f o r A p r i l 4, which is to be my wedding
day. I am going to marry H . K . Morton of Cincinnati, and we w i l l make our
home there.

Helen Shea, Brooklyn, N . Y . I am in t r a i n i n g school f o r nursing at St.