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-+- SIXTEEN YEARS ago a local sorority called were getting along splendidly under the care
Beta Gamma was granted a charter by a of Mrs. Hoffman, their housemother.

national sorority and was installed May 4, The next year was a happy one, full of
1918, as Phi Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi. gaiety, activity and success. This was the year
when all the colleges in the state except K. U.
The active members of the sorority at this were closed at Christmas time because of the
time included: Pattie Hart, Edith Phenecie, severe blizzard and a shortage of coal. K. TJ.
Mary E . Rose, Carroll McDowell, Orva Solt, sent one hundred men out to work in the
Betty Watson, Bartell Uncapher, Ruth Ewing, deserted mines, and our sisters, that is, some
Florence Klapmeyer, Jane Morgan, Marjorie of them, had a v« ry difficult time consoling
Kidwell. These girls lived in the house that themselves while their friends were gone.
the EAE's vacated when they built their new
one, and since it was such a good location Although the girls were sorry to lose
they were well pleased. Mother Hoffman, they wen (blighted to have
as their new housemother, Mrs. J . D. Ritchey
The following fall they pledged three girls, of Kansas City. Uush week was very suc-
Clarice Gardner, Bernice Kuhn and Neva cessful as usual and the girls were looking
Brown. There were others whom they con- forward to a great year. They were very
sidered, but they wanted to be very careful busy with such activities as athletics and
the first few years to take only the most Scholarship. They also gave a Christmas ban-
capable and attractive girls. During the course quet and spent the money in entertaining
of the year they were successful in pledging thirty poor children of Lawrence. This was
several other girls, and they felt that they so successful that they decided to make it an
annual affair, and it ha- been given ever since
that time.

Sixteen Years of Phi History P

Phi's house at the University of Kansas has been home fo, •eral college generations. [h
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