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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 137

A O I I initiation will he held soon. We can hardly wait to bring these
adorable girls into the active chapter. We are so sorry to lose our Alumni
Advisor, Mrs. Harvie Branscomb, who has moved to Duke University.
We wish her great happiness and success in her new home.

During rush season in O.U., Ethel Mae Whitaker and Norma Pendleton
visited Xi chapter. They report a delightful time with these ''younger
sisters." Olive Mae Hamer from Xi is with Nu Kappa this year and we
are indeed pleased to have her with us.

NUMA ABLOVICH.

BETA PHI—UNIVERSITY O F INDIANA
September with its tinge of sadness at leaving home and its gay ex-
citement of "going away to school," and new clothes and new people, has
left us a little sobered; and now we're wondering what has happened to
us during those first four turbulent weeks of school which wasn't really
real school at all.
First of all, we must relay the glad news that we have a "just-as-good-
as-new" home in which to live. Mrs. Chase, our very capable house-
mother, superintended its refurnishing and redecoration during the sum-
mer. Now it is considered one of the most charming houses on the campus
and we all love it.
With such a home as a background, rush, with all its darling parties
(planned by Judy Jenkins, our rush captain) was a great success. We now
now have nineteen new pledges of which we are inordinately proud. They
are: Katheryn Hoadley, Katherine Blough, and Daisy Hinkle of Bloom-
ington ; Loretta Hulman, Miriam Combs, and Georgia Bopp of Terre

Haute; Thora Johnson, Gary; Ellen Stott, Frankfort; Mary Elizabeth

Johnson, Indianapolis; Edna Sheets, Indianapolis; Pearl Koegel, Fort
Wayne; Bernice Coffin, Monticello; Ruby Linley, Union City; Mabel
Brown, Summitville ; Sarah Barron, Angola ; Jean Katherine Green, Pekin ;
Gail Glen, New Albany; Mildred Bodine, Covington; Maude Arther, Craw-
fordsville.

On Saturday morning. September 19th. seven pledges from hst se-
mester were initiated into our fraternity and are now at last in full fel-
lowship in A O n . These girls are: Marjorie Llecker and Roma Anderson
of Gary; Dorothy Bennett, Fort Wayne; Charlotte Shaw, Bloomington;
Peg Coombs, Crawfordsville; Ethel Mae Mobley, Summittville; and
Catherine Goss of Detroit. Mich.

Dorothy Clarke, '26, was mysteriously invited to Dean Wells' home
last week and came home wearing Mortar Board pledge ribbons. There
was general rejoicing and Dorothy richly deserved her new honor.

Our first house dance is to be November 7. We can hardly wait
to have all the campus discover how lovely our house is.

Last Sunday afternoon, Beta Phi launched a new idea. It was the
giving of afternoon teas for the pledges, who are not able to move in. It
was a complete success and we're beginning to feel that we know our new
girls. A glowing grate fire and soft lights and a common purpose in
the hearts of forty-five girls is very inducive to good fellowship.

VIVIAN ELLIS.
ETA—UNIVERSITY O F WISCONSIN
From all indications Eta chapter is going to enjoy one of the most
successful years in its history. To start the year off, we pledged eleven
darling girls. Since there will be only three graduating seniors in June
we feel that this number is splendid.
Our house is entirely redecorated which gives a new brightness to
all the rooms. The down-stairs was redecorated also; the woodwork
was painted in old ivory and mahogany which lightens the whole aspect.