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Knapp attended the Student Volunteer Convention at Albany in Anna Ruth Henry, Yakima Wash., Dolores Neil, Seattle, Wash.,
and Pearl Thompson, Seattle, Wash.
February and brought us back some wonderful messages. And just
But I must stop the statistics and tell you about our new war
before Marion went she delighted us all by carrying off first honors in baby and how we got him. We decided that we would all feel more
as i f he were really ours i f we worked a bit for him. So in order
the sophomore women's speaking contest. to raise the necessary amount to support him f o r a year we gave a
dollar party. Everyone earned a dollar and at a jolly spread where
Chi sends her best wishes to all. we all sat on the floor and ate picnic fare, we clinked our dollars in
I N A M . M I L L E R , Chapter Editor. a heap and each girl told in poetry how she had wrested a dollar
from the "cru-el woild" of finance. The methods were many. Maria
UPSILON—UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON and Helen set up a beauty parlor, shampoos and manicures half
price to deserving A O ITs. Helen Fosdick, garbed in a discarded
Louise Benton, '19 Alice Campbell, '21 auto veil, many beads, and very little else, and seated in a dimly
Anne Seeley, '19 Helen Morford, '21 lighted room on a regular Cleopatra divan, went into a trance every
Helen Koller, '19 Helen Bogardus, '21 evening from seven o'clock to eight and told fortunes while a heathen
Dorothy Hudson, '19 Doris Moore, '21 Buddah blew forth clouds of real Chinese incense. I for one testify
Beth McCausland, '20 Helen Whiting, '22 that it was surely worth a dime. Needless to say that Helen earned
Mary Burnside, '20 Marguerite Schofield, '22 her dollar the first night. Some of the other girls cared for children,
Maria Marchildon, '20 Elizabeth Love, '22 washed windows, and did other odd jobs but it was heaps of f u n and
Hazel Britton, '20 Ester Davies, '22 now our Belgian baby is really ours f o r a year.
Violet Krohn, '20 Estelle Wheeler, '22
Helen Fosdick, '21 Lois Wiley, '22 We are planning a birthday party for our house. I t is to be on
March 17th. We have been in our house for almost six years and
Pledges think it high time we gave the dear old place a real birthday party,
with a cake n' everything. So a list of needed gifts has been posted
Pearl Thompson, '20 Francis Dibble, '20 from which to select one best fitted to one's purse, and from hints
Dolores Neill, '22 Alice Dibble, '20 and plans that I have heard our old house is going to be very happy
Margaret Caughey, '22 Anna Ruth Henry, '22 on March 17th, with a new wringer in the laundry, some much needed
kitchen utensils, and lots of things I'm not supposed to tell about yet.
On January 19th, we initiated seven pledges: Helen Whiting,
Marguerite Schofield, Elizabeth Love, Ester Davies, Estelle I n the way of social affairs this quarter, we have given three pretty
Wheeler, and Lois Wiley. The initiation was very beautiful and the dansants and a ten-thirty dancing party. I t seems so good to
impressive, and we had a lovely banquet to end a perfect day. have the men back from France. Social affairs are noticeably
increasing.
I must tell you a little bit about our "Reign of terror" when ten
frisky freshmen moved into the house for a week to learn how to be Our girls have been doing big things on the campus this quarter.
obedient Alpha O's. The house was a grim and dismal prison, the Anne Seeley was elected to Tolo Club, which is the senior women's
upperclassmen were cruel wardens, and the pledges were convicts and honorary society, and was also on the varsity ball committee. Maria
were known and addressed by their numbers only, which were hung Marchildon made the junior basketball team and Violet Krohn made
on placards around their necks. I should like to take time and space Masque and Quill (literature, dramatics, and music) and has a
to go into detail concerning the prison regime, the punishments, such prominent part in the spring opera.
as scrubbing the back stairs and cleaning the laundry, the rockpile
(which meant cleaning and polishing the million and one tiny panes In closing we want to thank Tau for the "Pie" song. We sing it
of glass in our colonial doors) and the tortures of entertaining the every evening when desert is brought in, and are getting it well
blase and stony-hearted wardens with stunts, but suffice it to say that learned to sing at rushing dinners.
our house was a shining example of cleanliness at the end of the
week and seven persistently smiling and good-natured initiates were With love to Alpha O,
voted the best sports ever.
H A Z E L BRITTON, Chapter Editor.
We have five new pledges now and we expect to initiate them next
quarter. They are Francis and Alice Dibble, of Berkeley, Cal.,