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        Omicron Pi Member                                                       Executive Committee Announces
                Wins Car                                                                      Convention

                                                                            —  -+- T H E NEXT national convention will be held
                                                                                     in Chicago in 1935 with Rho and Chicago

                                                                               Alumnae Giapters as hostesses. The location
                                                                               was chosen by the majority of members. The
                                                                               exact location and dates will be announced in
                                                                               October.

                                                                                  Authors and other creators, please send your
                                                                               handiwork to Mrs. Perry instead of the Cen-
                                                                               tral Office as was formerly announced. Mrs.
                                                                               Perry uses them in her historical exhibits at
                                                                               convention.

                                                                                  Ruth Holten ( T ) sends a good suggestion
                                                                               which we hasten to print in May so that each
                                                                               reader will have an opportunity to render
                                                                               service before alumna? personals are collected
                                                                               for the fall issue. Ruth suggests that each of
                                                                               you, scattered as you are about the globe, send
                                                                               a note about yourself together with your ad-
                                                                               dress to your chapter correspondent. It won't
                                                                               take but a penny postal card and a minute for
                                                                               you to do it and think of the joy each of you
                                                                               will have reading about all your classmates
                                                                               when fall comes 'round.

 -+- C A N YOU IMAGINE the thrill Alda Weber                                          Indiana U Prom Queen
       (Oil) experienced in Cleveland, when she                                         Is Alpha Omicron Pi

 heard it broadcast over the radio that she                                    -4- Miss L E L A SCOTT (B<f>) of Griffith, queen
 had won a Ford Tudor Sedan. Her telephone                                           of the 1934 Junior Prom at Indiana Uni-
 began to buzz as her friends called to say
 how happy they were for her.                                                  versity, will be presented to the dancers at
                                                                               11 o'clock tonight at the gala social event of
    The last of January, the Higbee Store con-                                 the year at the university. Miss Scott, with
ducted a contest and awarded three Fords                                       Robert Cook of Bloomington, president of the
daily for the entire month to the person who                                   junior class, will lead the grand march of the
answered, in fifty words, in the best manner,                                  danqe immediately following the presentation.
about the performance of the car.                                              The dance will start at 10 o'clock tonight in
                                                                               Alumni hall of the Union building. Approxi-
   Alda is employed during the daytime and                                     mately 450 couples will attend the affair, Ben
during her absence the day after she won the                                   Siebenthal of Bloomington, Prom chairman,
car it was delivered to her door, a tank full                                  stated Thursday.—Bloomington (Ind.) Star.
of gas, in an escort of eleven tooting Fords.
She had kind neighbors who cared for her
prize.

   Never before has Alda Weber owned or
operated a car. She hadn't ever entered a
contest and she now claims—"it is only the
beginning." Can you blame her?—By Alice
IVessels Burlingame, OIL

-+- " T H R E E CORNERED MOON," a comedy farce

      by Gertrude Contonogy, will be presented
by the Penn State Players in Schwab audito-
rium on Saturday, May 12, as a part of the
Mothers' Day Program and will be under the
direction of Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingth, of
the department of English Literature. Enid A.
Stage ( E A '35) has been cast for the leading
role with Wickliffe W. Crider ('36) playing
opposite her.—Penn State Collegian.

Mary Louise Fox Squyres, Xi '26, the first president
of Xi Chapter, is now retiring as president of the
Oklahoma Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veterans of For-
eign Wars. During her time as president, she has in-
stalled eight new units of the auxiliary in the state.
The work of the organization is educational, patriotic,
and fraternal. Mary Louise's particular interest,
however, lies in the hospital work. She recently has
been appointed Color Bearer for the national

                               organisation.
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