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TAU—UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

We've been the very busiest sort this last part of 1925. First of all
and best of all, in retrospect, is convention. We had just the most joy-
ous sort of merry times with you all, and Tau girls have not yet finished
ecstacising. We wish Minnesota could become the annual playground of
Alpha O for then we should have you ever and ever so often.

After the usual fall rushing upheaval we proudly proclaim the results
as the most splendid collection of enthusiasm, pep, and personality ever
known. Our new pledges are, Grace Hagland, a sister. Alice Gates, an-
other sister, Margaret Lange, another sister—you see we were thrice
blessed this year, Margaret King. Helen Kask, Margaret Mclntyre, Helen
McCartney, Evangeline Nary, Marguerite Lentner, Elizabeth Hostetter,
and Carmen F razee. Dorothy Miller has come back from foreign parts
to repledge AOn, and Eleanor Bellaire, Esther Michaelis, Alice Laskey,
and Hazel Hitchcock swell the list to fifteen pledges. Alva Prouty is our
new initiate.

The girls are prominent in campus activities. Lulu Hanson was
elected Vice-President of the Senior girl's organization, Cap and Gown,
and Kathryn Haven has just been appointed to the Y.W.C.A. Sophomore
Commission. Margaret Dresler made Masquers, the dramatic club, and
Hazel Hitchcock has been elected Vice-President of the Aquatic League.
Alice Lasky, Eleanor Bellaire, and Catherine Pratt are members of the
Aquatic League. Dorothy Womrath is on the Senior Advisory Council,
and Peggy King has been appointed on the All-University Homecoming
Committee.

We have a charming new housemother, Mrs. Alice Whitten, with whom
all the girls have fallen in love. Just recently we gave an All-University
tea to introduce her to the campus and to honor Joanna Carver Colcord,
who has come into our midst. Besides being the Executive Secretary of the
Minneapolis Family Welfare League she is a member of the Sociology fac-
ulty at the university. Mary Ellen Chase was with us in the receiving line
so we were doubly honored that day.

With the football season has come a whirl of social events. Open
Houses, Pledge party, and Bazaar dance. We are wonderfully pleased
with the reputation we have won, that of being the most hospitable hostess-
es on the campus.

MARY VIRGINIA GOODMAN.

CHI—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Chi is very glad to announce the pledging of Alice Foote, '27, and the
initiation of Alice and Mary Brill, '28. This year we are welcoming into
Chi. five lovely pledges, Thelma Casey, Westfield, N. J . ; Marion Sin-
clair, Boston, Mass.; Elizabeth Sadelmyer, Syracuse, N. Y . ; Jean Lock-
wood, Hartwick, N. Y . , and Grace Stowell, Syracuse, N. Y.

Chi alumnae who were with us for rushing are, Esther Baker, '22,
Helen Howalt. '25, Esther Hill, 20, Nora Knight King, '21, Emily Tar-
bell, '16, and Jessie Lewis Rice, 24.

Chi is glowing in the reports of convention which Cordelia Vance
brings us. She makes us wish that we might have gone too. and met our
sisters from each chapter.

There are many events of importance which happened before convention.

Helen Lutz, '27. was made assistant business manager of the Daily

Orange and of the Phoenix.
Carol Kendall, '27, was made associate editor of our year book. The

Onondagan.
Mary Harper, '27, was elected to Sigma Upsilon Alpha, the honorary

architectural fraternity; Mary was then elected secretary of this society.