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Cornelia Munsell, '20 Margaret Morrow, '21 They have been our splendid counsellors and guides and I ' m sure
Margaret Arronet, '21 Sarah Searles, '21 we'll feel like a ship without a rudder when we get back next fall.
Ruth Balcum, '21 Marie Stanbro, '21 To them, and to all Alpha O seniors who are preparing to go out
Elizabeth Ballantine, '21 Elsie Blodgett, '22 into "the wide, wide world," Epsilon wishes unlimited success and
Jean Bright, '21 Thelma Brumfield, '22 happiness.
Nellie Davenport, '21 Gertrude Lynahan, '22
Esther Ely, '21 Alice O'Neill, '22 MARY H . DONLON, Chapter Editor.
Irma Greenawalt, '21 Elizabeth Pratt, '22
. RHO—NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

So many nice things have happened this last week that Epsilon feels Margaret Areiss, '19 Phoebe Wilson, '20
quite elated. First and foremost, we are thrilled with the news that Elsie Brace, '19 Helen Brooks, *21
Betty Neely, our president and president of Y. W. C. A., had been Miette Brugnot, '19 Dorothy Brunniga, '21
elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Betty is one of the leaders in the Dorothy Kerr, '19 Geraldine Galvin, '21
university community, and a member of Mortar Board, the senior Eunice Martheus, '19 Carol Isaacs,'21
honorary society, so it is with pardonable pride that we acclaim this Helen Slaten, '19 Juanita McFarland, '21
latest honor bestowed upon her. Then, at the recent spring elections Velma Stone,'19 Helen Perkins,'21
for next year's officers, Betty Pratt was elected president of her Erna Areiss, '20 Hildegarde Reimer, '21
class, and Mary Donlon president of Student Government. Dorothy Church, '20 Kathleen Wiggington, '21
Dorothy Dalton, '20 Elma Adamek, '22
Initiation was so very long ago that we have almost forgotten the Gladys Fry, '20 Eunice Getzleman, '22
details. I t was as wonderfully impressive as ever and the banquet Marguerite Kolb, '20 Florence Kerr, '22
which followed at the Ithaca Hotel was perfect in every way. Shortly Helen Quayle, '20 Carolyn Nethercott, '22
before initiation we pledged Margaret Arronet of the class of 1921. Myrtle Swanson, '20 Erna Pabst, '22
We only wish you might all know Margaret. Her home is in Petro- Ethel Wilman, '20
grad, Russia, and she has come to America to study civil engineering
that she may be fitted to take a substantial part in the work of Dear Sisters:
construction which will be so urgent when the political situation in
Russia is adjusted. A second term of college is ending and examinations, like
threatening clouds, begin to loom up before us. As I look back,
Epsilon has the great privilege this year of having as chaperon however, it seems to have been a very busy, happy time. Since I
one of our very own alumna?, Elna Merrick, '13. Words are last wrote we have pledged two splendid new girls, Dorothy Brunniga
inadequate to express what having her with us has meant to us. Our and Eunice Getzleman. They are pledges no longer now, but active
advice to all the other chapters is, "Get an alumna chaperon." members.

We have been wearing a black band on our pins in memory of Initiation took place on Saturday, February 22nd. The elements
Mabel deForest Starkweather, '12, who died recently of pneumonia. seemed to be against us, but not even a snowstorm could dampen our
Few of us knew her, but those of us who were permitted to knew spirits. Initiation seems more impressive and inspiring to me each
her as a sister who exemplified the high ideals of Alpha O. time I hear it. We tad our banquet afterward at the Edgewater
Beach Hotel. We were fortunate in having with us girls from N u
Rumors of Convention are exciting us to the nth degree. We all Kappa, Pi, and Iota Chapters, who were in Evanston as delegates
want to go, and meet you Alpha O's from everywhere. One of our to the Y. W. C. A. Convention. The toasts after the banquet were
girls went to Boston as delegate to a conference and while there given in musical terms by the violins, saxaphones, bugles, and drums.
visited a short time with some of the Delta girls, and brought back Merva Hennings. our fraternity adviser, as the echo, told us about
glowing accounts of their charming cordiality. Even though we know the founding of Alpha O and of Rho Chapter.
we can't really all go to Convention, we're all hoping we can go and
hoping you can go too, so that we can get to know you.

By the time another letter to To DRAOMA is written, commencement
will have come and gone and with it our seniors will have left us.