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sleds were lacking, with improvised ones made f r o m ladders and
boards and what-not. I t was great f u n to watch them. But i f
Dallas was cold, my reception there certainly wasn't. I t was
great f u n to see Margaret Bentley again and such a pleasure to
stay in Margaret Vaughan Branscomb's pretty new home, to meet
her charming mother, her splendid husband, and to love her
precious baby—even i f it did make me homesick f o r small Mar-
garet Ellen—so many, many miles away! Many of you remember
both of these girls f r o m the last two Conventions and I ' m hoping
you'll meet them both at the next one, as well as other Dallas
alumnae who surely will be there i f they can. The active chapter,
you know, are going to edit the paper and you'll all be waiting
anxioush' f o r each new issue—of that I ' m confident. The girls of
Nu Kappa chapter live in the dormitories and have a big chapter
room f o r their meetings. They have a lot of town girls, and rank
very well both in Dallas and on their own campus. For N u Kappa
they have an unusually large chapter this year—twenty-two girls,
very attractive and very well-liked by the dean.

Next on the list came Kansas City and a luncheon with the
alumnae chapter there; it seemed good to see Charlotte Hall Uhls
again, to meet members f r o m Alpha, Kappa and Phi and talk over
the fraternity affairs with girls as interested as they were. Then
Charlotte took me all around the beautiful residence sections of
K . C. and later in the afternoon, with her car filled with things
for the actives we drove over to Lawrence f o r my visit with Phi.
Phi is buying her own home which is prettily located on a hill
and isn't far from the campus. By the way, did you know that
Kansas U.'is on a hilltop? I didn't, I ' l l confess—in fact I think
that all I really knew about Kansas was her "Rock-chalk-Jay-
hawk" college yell! Such is fame! Well, anyway, the campus
is very beautiful in its natural features and as the years go by
it should have every opportunity of becoming one of the most
beautiful of American campi. O f course in coming f r o m N u
Kappa I was leaving entirely the southern atmosphere f o r one
more strictly western—and the type varies with the locality.
There are 11 national women's fraternities at K . U . which covers
only about one-third of the women. Our chapter there is as you
know rather new, but has of course been mighty fortunate in
having two alumnae of other chapters near at hand to help its