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BETA PHI—INDIANA UNIVERSITY ETA—UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Where is your chapter roll? Active Members
Garnet Kleven
" I n the spring"—dear Alpha O's, you all know the saying! And Elizabeth Babcock
Beta Phi lazily sends you greetings having suffered acutely for a few Hortense Bassett Lydia Lacey
days with spring fever. Even when examinations were upon us we Dorothy Bassett
yet played around. Gladys Beveridge Jennie Martin
Margaret Doe Marion McCabe
There is really little news to send to you all from Indiana Irene Folckemer
University. Karen Falk Marie Mitchell
Katherine Fleming Margaret Melaas
Of course we have had initiation and some of the pins are here Mary Fowler Clara Nehrlich
already. I t seems a long time ago—the thirty-first of January since Esther Gruenheck Marion Roth
we initiated our ten pledges. We had a beautiful impressive initiation. Marguerite Gooding Hyacinth Rowley
We began at half past five and were through in time for the banquet
at eight-thirty. We gave red roses to each initiate. I wish I might Agnes Hottel Elizabeth Sehon
describe to you the banquet table when all the girls were seated. Margaret Johnson Hermance Teschner
I am sure each girl felt that Alpha Omicron Pi was very near and Julia Johnson Helen Thompson
dear to her as she looked at all these dear friends, all her sisters, now.
After the banquet we danced and had a lovely time. Helen Turner
Mary Urschel
On the night of February 28th we gave our big dinner dance. We
gave the dance here in our own house for we have so much room. Katherine Jackson Pledges
We decorated with sweet peas and with crepe paper of sweet pea
shades. One dance we called the Alpha O special and we had the Agnes Gilbertson Mary Gregory
orchestra play the Alpha O song which was published in To DRAGMA.
I t made a wonderful dance. I t sounds well as dance music. Every- Margaret Woodruff
one had a lovely time and what made us proudest of all was the fact
that our dean of women complimented us upon what a pretty dance Dear Sisters in Alpha Omicron Pi:
it was. On February 21 we initiated four freshman pledges, Elizabeth

Indiana has been greatly disappointed because the state basketball Babcock, Hortense Bassett, Esther Gruenheck, Elizabeth Sehon.
tournament was played at Purdue. However, we feel that the score They observed silent day on Friday, not as a form of mock initiation,
is even since Bloomington High School is state champion, having but as a means of impressing upon them the seriousness of the vows
played the last game with Lafayette High School. which they were about to take. The ceremony was one of the most
impressive ones we have ever had. The following day we gave a
A l l of us are looking forward to the National Convention in June matinee dance at the house and completed the festivities of the week-
at De Pauw. We are all very eager to go and to meet a good many end with the initiation banquet Sunday noon. I t was our pleasure
of you unknown sisters. to have with us Mrs. Mary Tehon from Iota Chapter, now a member
of the faculty in the Latin Department. Rose Harloff, Elizabeth
W i l l you pardon me for the short note but I have in the last two Pruett. and Avis Peters, alumnae, were also present.
days taken night examinations beside fraternity examination tonight
so feel as though I had written all I know down on paper. We have pledged two junior girls, Mary Gregory and Margaret

As this is the last time I can write to you let me give you, every Woodruff. Elsie Brace of Rho Chapter was a house guest February
one, Beta Phi's love and good wishes. She hopes to see you all at
"Theta's House" in June. twenty-seventh.
Eta resolved to increase her personal wealth, so each girl agreed
MILDRED BEGEMAN, Chapter Editor.
to earn as much as she could f o r what we called "The Rainy Day
Fund." We have pressed clothes, sold sandwiches and cookies,
raffled off articles, and have done anything else we could to earn a
dime or two. I t has been great f u n and we hope to add new furniture
to the house with the money.

Wisconsin, along with all other colleges and universities, has been
passing through a period of readjustment following the demobiliza-