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the like. We also have special war courses in home economics and i n GAMMA—UNIVERSITY O F MAINE
nursing. Almost every girl is taking one or more of these courses.
A l l are contributing their spare time to the doing of volunteer work. Dear A O I I Sisters:
Again we are back at college after an unusually long vacation—
Together with war work, change, and everything, we are striving
to keep up our traditions. Regular class meetings, university meet- which, nevertheless, sped away all too fast for most of us. On our
ings, the freshman rally, all are taking place as usual. Here it is retur^i to the campus, we found ourselves in the midst of changed
very pleasant to relate that one of Sigma's girls, Catherine Cox, has conditions. As you probably know, the University of Maine has been
been unanimously elected vice-president of the junior class. I t is used all summer as a technical camp for men in the service. We are
our aim still to be a college, even though we are a military camp. Yet told that contingents will continue to train here throughout the
over all the campus there hangs a fine spirit of devotion, a sense of college year. Besides, there are about eight hundred men in the
dedication to a great cause. This cause, to which we formally de- S. A. T . C. and a large naval section on the campus.
dicated ourselves in our first university meeting, is the winning of
the war. There are all sorts of new rules and regulations for the girls to
follow, and it seems strange to be under so many restrictions. We
E S T H E R C A R D W E L L , '20. are allowed on just certain parts of the campus, and can go out just
one evening during the week—fraternity night. We are now in
THETA—DE PAUW UNIVERSITY quarantine, and have been since college opened. No one seems to
know just when we will be allowed to go off the campus again.
Dear Sisters:
Since school did not begin until October 3rd, and has now been A t our first fraternity meeting, we seemed decidedly small in
number without our last year's seniors and six of our other girls who
closed again until the twentieth or later, we have had no regularly fra- are not back this year. However, we have a large entering class of
ternity meeting. Spike had just begun, when our parties were can- splendid girls from whom to choose our fraternity sisters of '22.
celled and now nothing can be done until after the twentieth, so I am I t is going to be rather a hard task, we think, since so many of them
sorry to say, that our chapter letter for November really is no chapter are the kind of girls we want.
letter at all.
Five of our '18 girls have entered the teaching profession this
With best wishes to all, year—Gladys Reed is one of the faculty of Bangor High School;
Mona McWilliams is teaching at Plainsfield, N . J.; Ruth Crosby
WlLHELMINA HEDDE. teaches Domestic Science at Gardiner, Maine; Ruth Chalmers is at
Berlin High School, Berlin, N . H . ; and Helen Stinchfield is at Dan-
DELTA—JACKSON COLLEGE forth, Maine.
Owing to the epidemic of Spanish influenza, the opening of college Four of our girls have transferred to other schools. Prudence
has been several times postponed; but we now hope to be back on Wadsworth, '21, has gone to a domestic science school in Rochester,
the hill very soon. N . Y . ; Sarah Stewart, '21, is attending Radcliffe College; Ethel
Packard, '21, has entered an art school in Boston. Helen White, '20,
Just a word about our senior sisters who graduated last June. is training at a private hospital in Arlington, Mass.
Margo Durkee, whose home is near the campus, and Elizabeth
Sargent, we hope to see frequently this year. Betty is planning to Just before the closing of college last May, three of the girls an-
take a postgraduate course. Kennetha Ware and Madeleine Perkins nounced their engagements: Helen White, '20, to Ralph Carlton
are both employed as chemists. Wentworth, '18, a member of Sigma N u fraternity; Sarah Stewart,
'21, to Charles Truman Corey, '19, a member of Phi Eta Kappa
Tufts will be a war college this year with an S. A. T. C. and a Fraternity; and Dorothy Smith, '21, to Clyde Victor Vining, '21, a
Naval Unit. We shall miss some of our finest professors who have member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
gone into war work; and very few of the former men students will
be back. During the summer the following marriages took place: Evelyn
Winship, '15, to Thomas Elton Harmon; Emma Perry, '16, to
College will indeed be a changed place, and we girls of Alpha William Means of Machias. Maine; Vera Gellerson, '18, to Albert
Omicron Pi, who are going back, must work harder than ever for Robinson, '16, a member of Theta Chi Fraternity. The last named
our college and our country.
M A R Y A. G R A N T , Chapter Editor.
