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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 197

GLIMPSES OF CHAPTERS

MERVA D. HENNINGS

H o w I would like to make all of you see the chapters I've
visited as I have seen them—and yet how well I realize just
what an undertaking that is! Each chapter i n the list has heard
me tell of the preceding visits and each time after I have finished
I have wondered just how well I had succeeded i n getting across
to them the varying personalities of the many girls which make
up active AOIT, and the like and unlike characteristics of the
various chapters which make both f o r uniformity of type and
ideals and yet give the pleasing variations which any group must
have to make it a truly "all-round" group. First of all I want
to tell you how much I liked all the chapters and how very much
I liked the individual girls—it seems to me that I have come home
with a lot of new friendships which have given me a new fund
of inspiration and joy for the years to come. Everywhere I was
met with the most cordial goodwill, with the most earnest desire
to cooperate with me in every way possible, and with the realiza-
tion that all the efforts and criticisms of the National Officers are
not personal but are the result of an earnest desire to help us
build above our weaknesses to the f u l l strength that should be
ours, as chapters and as a national organization.

Omega was the first chapter I inspected—Miami is as you
know a small university but one that abounds in college spirit—
everywhere I was struck with the cordial goodwill of the students
one toward another and of the prevailing fine spirit of democracy.
There are six women's fraternities at Miami, Delta Gamma just
having installed a chapter there. The other groups were most
cordial to me, sending me candy and flowers and in every way
possible making my stay in O x f o r d a happy one. Due to the
unfortunate time of my visit—I was there in the midst of exam-
inations—I did not meet as many of the other girls as I could
have wished but i f all the girls at Miami are like our Omega
chapter, Miami is indeed fortunate in her student body. Dean
Hamilton I found most pleasant, anxious to cooperate in every
way with the fraternities and help build up the groups to the