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Psi's rushing season is f o r the first three weeks of November and the
alumnae always give them one party. Last year, we had supper at the
house after the Penn-State game, and after supper we had the "Candle
Light" service, which girls who were at the Convention at Whittle Springs
will remember. I t was so successful, I believe we are going to use the
same idea again this year in our party.

MARGARET MILES.

DALLAS ALUMNAE
This summer the Texas sun broke all records and to attend a meeting
was to ruin a complexion. Nevertheless the Dallas alumnae held their
regular sessions. The chief thing accomplished was a glorious amount
of small talk but occasionally between the filling of the lemonade glasses
or in a lull in the conversation a glimmer of formal business did emerge.
Most tangible of all such perhaps was the rushing party planned at leisure
during the summer and executed with great eclat at the Lakewood Country
Club on an exciting afternoon just before another trembling freshman
class made its great decisions.
At the September meeting, the chapter heard the report on our first
Rummage Sale held in Little Mexico several months earlier. We voted
to divide the proceeds between the National W o r k Fund and our own
scholarship fund. The sale had been a success financially and educa-
tionally. We learned that at rummage sales in that section of the city
you have to have on hand two detectives for every saleswoman and that
no small Mexican must be allowed to leave the premises without careful
scrutiny of the extent and character of the bulge to his pockets. We
also found that men's things sell much better than women's—which is
sad news for husbands. Armed with all this knowledge and encouraged
by our success we are holding another rummage sale shortly. Then there
is to be a bazaar just before Christmas. Subscriptions to magazines and
orders for stationery are being taken by a most efficient committee. A n -
other committee is investigating the mysteries and profits of the Christmas
Card business. A bridge benefit is on the boards though the date has not
been set. Our plan is to continue the division of funds mentioned above,
between the National W o r k Fund and our local scholarship fund.
The September meeting was at the home of Lucile Pepple and every-
body caught up on the personal news. Lucile Bradford Whiteman and Maud
Rasbury Courtenay are back in Dallas again to everybody's delight. Mar-
garet Vaughan Branscomb is back after an absence of a year bringing
with her a new baby. On the other hand Margaret Thomas tells us that
she will be away in Austin f o r most of the winter. Louise Pendleton Mc-
Donald has a little son, born in July, named Malcom Eldridge. Louise
Wadsworth Zeek was made to tell the story of her drive from Boulder,
Colorado, to Dallas, accompanied only by her two year old son Stephen.
She says she was careful never to get a puncture except when a young
and gallant gentleman was at hand to change the tire.
The Dallas Alumnae chapter is a very live and very enthusiastic in-
stitution. Within a few years we have grown from a davenport full to
a very large room f u l l . But most of us are f r o m Nu Kappa or Kappa
chapters and we are especially anxious to get in touch with sisters living
in Dallas who are from other chapters.
"No more till next time."

MARGARET VAUGHAN BRANSCOMB.

KANSAS CITY ALUMNAE
This is to be a "long distance" letter as I have been away f r o m
Kansas City for about six weeks, having been called to Lawrence,
Kansas, by the death of my sister, so I know you will all forgive me i f I
fail to recount any of the AOIT news from our Kansas City alumnae
chapter.