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ITEMS OF INTEREST

T F YOU LOOK on page 422 of the October number of Scribners magazine
you will find Mary Ellen Chase's latest story, Garments of Praise. Mary

graduated in 1909 from the University of Maine and is a member of
Gamma chapter. After graduation she taught for several years, then she
went to Bozeman, Montana, for her health. She taught in the Bozeman
high school and helped organize and install Alpha Phi chapter. Two
juvenile books, mountain stories for girls, are the result of her stay in
the West. In 1917 she came to be University of Minnesota to teach in
the English department and to work towards her M. A. She was chaperon
at the Tau chapter house for three years. Not a few of us remember those
frequent evenings before the fireplace, with Mary reading aloud out of
some one's favorite book. During this time To DRAGMA was published under
her editorship. In 1922 Mary received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from the University of Minnesota, and the next year was made Assistant
Professor of English at that institution, an achievement indeed for a
woman in a large university. During the last few years her stories have
frequently been printed in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Pictorial
Revieiv. A new book is shortly to be released by the Atlantic Monthly
Press. Alpha Omicron Pi has every reason to be proud of Mary's achieve-
ments as a teacher and as a writer.

A NOTHER NEW BOOK to be added to our Alpha O library is Barbara of
Telegraph Hill, by Stella George Stern Perry. A story for girls, Mrs.

Perry's latest book tells of a little girl who was separated from her parents
in the San Francisco Earthquake, of her subsequent life and the final solu-
tion of the mystery of her birth. Older readers as well as younger, will
enjoy the story, a simple and charming bit of narrative. Barbara of Tele-
graph Hill is dedicated to Janet and Georgia Mullan, daughters of Helen
St. Clair Mullan.

Mrs. Perry is a well known writer of fiction. Some of her best known
books are Palmetto, Come Home, The Kind Adventure, and Girl's Nest.

T I 7 E HAVE ANOTHER WRITER in our midst, this one a song writer. Mar-
» » garet Penn White, of Psi and Washington Alumnae, has recently

written a song, Blue Bonnet, which has been having considerable popularity.
Blue Bonnet was sung for the first time over the radio and broadcast from
station W E A F in New York. So tune in for Blue Bonnet, the latest song
hit by an Alpha O.

TT> URTHER ATHLETIC HONORS of Ethel McGary, Nu, are recounted in this
* clipping from the Netv York Daily News.

Miss Ethel McGary, Captain of the New York University swimming
team, not yet eighteen years of age, is the holder of more swimming record^
than any one woman has held heretofore. During the first part of August.