Page 46 - 1923 Mayr - To Dragma

TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

Kathryn Safford, Ruby and Golda Larkin, Katherine Davis and Mary Hester.
We are more than delighted to have our chaperone of last year, Mrs. D.

A. Cox, return to us for the remainder of the year.
Initiation was held for five girls, early on the morning of March 4. I m -

mediately afterward we proceeded to Elliot's Tea Room for the Initiation
Breakfast, which we found to be a novel but delightful idea.

So—goodbye until Convention—we hops to see all of you there.
BARBARA BEESON.

DELTA—JACKSON COLLEGE

Greetings from Delta. A great many things have happened since our
last letter. On February twenty-eighth a very impressive initiation and
banyuet were held at the Hotel Vendome. Five girls were initiated—Mary
Hall, '26, Dorothy Hettinger, '26, Pauline Johnson, '26, Eleanor Prescott, '26,
Marian Russell, '24, and Madeline Snow, '26. We were more than fortunate
to have three other chapters represented on this occasion. 'Jackie-' Jackson
from Gamma. Annetta Wood from Iota, and Dorothy Gibbs from E t a all
brought greetings to Delta. I t was really quite a cosmopolitan affair!

' Our Freshmen showed their cleverness in a "stunt" which they gave
for the chapter (at the chapter's suggestion!) on the Monday night preceding
their initiation. We were much entertained and secretly proud of our verdant
Frosh. The pledging of Vivian Wight, '26, makes the number of the Fresh-
men pledges one of the largest in years.

The active chapter is making plans for a joint meeting with the Alumnae
as soon as we return from vacation. Extensive preparations are also being
made for the big Spring Formal to be held May fifth. Under the direction
of Marjorie McCarty, '24, it promises to be one of the best.

Vacation comes the eighteenth and we are ready for it. Of course we
are all planning to spend most of it studying for the Fraternity exam.

SUE O ' B R I E N , 24.

GAMMA—UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

Since our last letter we have had our wonderful banquet and initiation
dance; pledged and initiated a little sister, Kera Chaplin; and pledged Betty
Armstrong, of Galveston, Texas. It seemed so nice to look down the length
of the rose strewn tables at banquet, past the soft circles of light from
the tall red tapers, aud see the faces of so many of our alumnae. The speeches
of the pledges were as amusing as could be all except the "Response to the
Welcome," by Beulah Osgood, and that was so sincerely beautiful that it was
greeted by a moment of perfect silence, then a storm of applause.

Alpha O is doing very well in college activities. Many have signed up
for track and baseball, although it is too early to predict who will make
the teams, as the snow and ice delay practise outdoors. We had two girls
on the first team in basketball, and one on the second. Ruth Savage, tennis
manager for the coming season, is making plans for the tennis tournament,
although all the courts are little else than mires.

In scholarship. Alpha O has fairly sustained her reputation. This year, a
scholarship cup for the highest ranking of the women's fraternities will be
awarded, and we are hoping to maintain the lead which we won last spring
in being the first among all the organizations on the campus. Phi Beta Kappa
has been recently installed here and of the six student women chosen, we
can claim three, Mabel Peabody, Sarah Wiswell and Molly Perkins. We
are glad that Mabel was also elected to Phi Kappa Phi at its spring elections.

Jackie Jackson is president of the English club. Three Alpha O's were
chosen among the eight prettiest co-eds on the campus for the cast of the