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graduated last year from Montana State College and is a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The wedding will take place early in June.

M A R Y U. E G A N '22.

PHI

Gaila Jones Haack seems to be actively engaged in every club in Florence,
Kansas. She is secretary of the Library Board of the Florence Public
Library and chairman of the Finance Committee of the same. "And then I
keep house, cook, sew, go to parties and picture shows, play bridge and
five hundred, and pay all bills weekly." Can you imagine Gaila being so
systematic ?

Neva Brown is primary teacher in Kincaid, Kansas. Aside from her
regular classroom work she is tutoring a little six year old girl twice a
week, who is suffering from congenital hip dislocation. Kincaid High School
and Grade Schools gave a Minstrel Show at which Neva had full charge
of the directing and the steps. She says she doesn't want it for a life work.

Grace Stotts has put in a Journalism Department in the Bonner Springs.
Kansas. High School, and has coached five or six of their plays. We wonder
when she has time to work on the daily paper. She plans to spend the
summer in Pasadena with her sister. Better make it Convention, Grace!

All Phi alumnae extend their deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Appolonio (Helen Darby) for the loss of their baby boy. Helen plans to
spend some time this spring with her parents in Washington, Kansas, until
her health is better.

News comes from Wichita, Kansas, that Hazel Ernst Lightner is the
proud mother of a little daughter, who. of course, is to be an Alpha O. She
will be about two months old when this goes to press.

t Edna K i n g has been vacationing in Colorado and Wichita since her
graduation last spring, and expects to spend the summer in Colorado with
her sister. Her health has not been the best for some time. She writes that
Hazel Ernst Lightner, Phi, Lois Rochester, Phi, and Ruth Lane, Beta Phi,
are the only Alpha O's in Wichita at present. They meet occasionally and
are trying to do a limited amount of rushing.

Ilda Lawson is Supervisor of Art in the Nowata, Oklahoma, schools. She
teaches 5(5 classes weekly, 2 high school and 10 grade classes daily. We don't
wonder that she doesn't have time for a class among the townspeople. She
says that she really feels that she has accomplished something when she
can keep the primary youngsters from eating their paste and cutting off each
other's hair! She had an exhibit down from the K . U. Design Department,
which she explained to the High School in Chapel.

Blanche Coventry Hill is teaching Modern History, English and Psy-
chology in the Randall, Kansas, high school. She is also giving Dr. Hill a
short normal training course in cooking and general house work. We wonder
if that isn't proving more strenuous than her school duties.

Florence Klapmeyer has at last kept her word. She has long been
threatening to work but we never took her seriously. She has for one week
been Assistant Accountant to the Superior Oil Company of Kansas City with
a new desk all her own.

Jane Morgan has been promoted to General Clerk in the National Cloak
and Suit Co. of Kansas City. Now she sits out with all the other high
officials. She has intimated that this is to be her last year here. We will
hate to lose Jane from our small number.

Betty Watson is to be married this spring as soon as Paul Webster
finishes his interneship. She is teaching in Peabody, Kansas. Her mother
has been very ill in Kansas City but is now able to return to her home.
Betty has made several trips up, but the rest of us have missed her.