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Valree Lide ( A * '33), who has joined our On April 5, twenty alumna? attended Gamma

chapter and is continuing her studies in A t - Chapter's annual initiation and banquet held
lanta. I t "was a very festive occasion f o r A t - at the Bangor House, among whom were
lanta AOIT's. Ann Sale installed the officers Frances Sawyer Worcester ('27) from Jones-
port, and Frances Fuller Giddings (' 2m8i)lefsr ni
after the tea. That night Annie Stewart enter- Gardiner, who travelled the hundr ed 0 to
tained all the Alpha O's and the husbands or
dates. be with us. Frances Gidding's younger sister
Charlotte, was initiated. "Betty" Barrows'
A t our meeting on March 30 we had an "Libs" Hiliker and Grace Quarrington, all of
election of officers and the results are as f o l - '33, sent telegrams of welcome to our new-
lows: Annie Stewart Pearce ( n '24), presi- sisters. Elizabeth "Cracker" Ring ('23) wel-
dent; Edith Walthal Ford (K '30), vice presi- comed the thirteen initiates on behalf of the
dent; Valree Lide ( A * '33), secretary; [Cath- alumna? and Joyce Cheney Stevens gave a fit-
erine Kelly Du Bose (KO '28), treasurer; ting climax to the banquet with her reading
Elizabeth MacQuiston Nichols (NK '29), pub- of "The Rose."
licity director and editor to To DRAC.MA, who
will have much to tell you later about our Our sympathy is extended to Doris Savage
vital interest, colonization at Athens. We are and Ruth Savage Wiswell in the loss of their
pleased with the results of this election, and father, Charles Savage, the last of March.

wish the new officers success. We still recom-
mend selling vanilla as an easy, profitable B i r m i n g h a m A l u m n a ? E n j o y s V a r i e d
means of acquiring funds. Program
On April 4, Annie Stewart, Katherine Kelly,
Hazel Hartwcll Jenkins (A '16), Beverly Wal- By Elizabeth Morris Hackney, TA

ton and Elizabeth MacQuiston Nichols drove W E HAVE TRIED to have our meetings this
year at such times that every member
Ann Sale to Athens to inspect a local group could get to at least one meeting. We have
on the University of Georgia campus.
The Atlanta Panhellenic is giving its annual had teas, bridge parties, dinners and meetings
bridge tournament on April 28 at the Shrine at night. Our next gathering is a picnic hon-
Mosque. The money is to be used f o r a oring Tau Delta seniors. Our president. Ger-
scholarship at the University of Georgia. We trude Moore, has given us a well-balanced
are responsible f o r selling tickets f o r ten program and deserves commendation. The
tables. picnic is an annual affair and is always the
We extend our sympathy to Dorothy Grevc "big event." The alumna: like to meet the
actives and interest them in the alumna? work.
Jarnagin in the illness of her son in England.

B a n g o r A l u m n a e L e a d i n M a g a z i n e And speaking of all this is a reminder that
Gertrude, after making plans f o r the year,
Subscriptions absolutely deserted us and left her sister,
Helen, to carry them out. Gertrude had a
By Mary E. Robinson, T

- + - A T T H E JANUARY meeting of Bangor Chap- visit in Mobile and New Orleans, being there
ter, held at Eleanor Murray Archer's, we for Mardi Gras, and came back home just
felt proud to have our president read a letter in time to rush off to Washington to teach
of commendation f r o m National on our work at Arlington Hall. One of our very active
in sending in magazine subscriptions. A t that Tau Delta's of '29, Fletcher McArthur Fer-
time Bangor Chapter led the country. W i t h rebe, now of Anniston, Alabama, has been
the money f r o m this together with that raised visiting in Birmingham f o r several weeks. We
by our food sale held in December under the were glad to have her at the last meeting and
chairmanship of Estelle Beaupre, we were able hear all about her big son, John Clement, Jr.,
to nearly complete our quota f o r National and about other Tau Delta's who live in
Work. Anniston: Helen Boarchers Rae C30), an.I
Priscilla Knowlton held the February meet- Clara Pritchett Rogers Lott (Ex. '29). For :
ing. Not much business was completed because the past week we have had the pleasure of
of the absence of our president. Some dis- entertaining Mary D. Drummond and our
cussion was held on lowering dues to encour- Southern District Superintendent, Charlotte
age larger membership, as with all the AOII Kearney. Most of the entertaining was done
alumna: in Bangor and vicinity, we have only in small groups at luncheons, suppers and at
a paid membership of nineteen. different homes. The actives were hostesses
For the March meeting, we went to the at supper one night, and the alumna? enter-
home of Alice Stanley Dunham in Orono. We tained at tea, inviting members of fraternities,
voted to finish paying our National W o r k sororities and faculty at Birmingham-South-
Quota and also to continue our yearly sub- ern to meet our guests. Louise Stange, a Tau
scription to a local charity. And did the knit- Delta pledge, was initiated after the supper
ting needles fly! Bland Morrow might well party with Mary Drummond reading the ritual.
call on this chapter f o r a knitting quota f o r
her Kentuckians. We are looking forward to Our new officers have been elected and Lila
the invitation extended by Alice Phillips to Mae Cantey Thigpen is to be the president.
have the June meeting at her summer cottage Lila Mae has been one of our most active
on the coast. and most loved members and we feel sure of
a successful year with her as leader.