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       Elaine Young was married February 22nd to Lieut. Roscoe              Natalie Thompson Morris, '14, stopped at the chapter-house in
   Bergland.                                                             June, and from Ithaca went to Hamburg and spent several weeks with
                                                                         Charlotte Sherman McCloskey.
                                                         DEATHS
                                                                            Ethel Cornell, '14, is assistant psychologist in the shell-shock
      I t is with sincerest sympathy that we record the death at three   ward in Plattsburg. Ethel's address is General Hospital No. 30,
   weeks of the baby girl of Emma Black Kew (Mrs. William). Mr.          Plattsburg Barracks, N . Y.
   and Mrs. Kew are living in Berkeley at present.
                                                                            Clare Graeffe, '15, has been doing considerable wandering this fall.
                                             THETA                       In November she visited the petitioning girls, K T Z, at Miami Uni-
                                                                         versity, and from there went to Northwestern University and spent
      Florence Foster is spending the winter in Florida.                 several days with Rho Chapter, stopping off in Chicago with Melita
      Sergeant and Mrs. Chalmer D. Day (Esther Mae Canaday, ex-'19)      and Kathleen, and next meeting Lillian McCausland at Chi Chapter,
  have a daughter, Helen Lorraine, born December 21st, 1918.             and thence to Ithaca, just in time for the last rushing party and
  Sergeant Day is overseas with Ambulance Co. No. 42. He expects         pledge day. Clare reports that the house never looked so fine, and
  to return soon.                                                        the girls are just the best and most enthusiastic bunch on the hill.

     Theta's initiation banquet table was guarded by Dan Cupid this         Anna Wright, '09, had the time of her life this f a l l , taking care
  year. Jessie Bicknell, ex-'19, of Greencastle, announced her engage-   of Glenside, Elsa, and Arthur Allen, and little Constance while Elsa
  ment to Mr. Paul Crimmens of Indianapolis.                             and Art had the "flu."

     Jessie Jones, '18, has resigned her position in Washington and has      Laura Fish Mordorff, '14, and the baby were both very i l l this
  accepted a position as librarian at Hammond, Ind.
                                                                         f a l l with pneumonia, but we are glad to hear they have entirely re-
     Maurine York-Lynch, ex-'19, is teaching at Cloverdale, Ind.
                                                                         covered.
                                          EPSILON
                                                                             Katherine Lyon Mix, '16, spent nearly two months in New York
     Recent guests at the chapter-house include Clare Graeffe, '15,      this fall, but she lias now left for Florida, where Mr. Mix is en-
 Bertha Yerke, '16, Patty Loeffler, '18, and Elinor Sharpe, ex-'19.      gaged in some government work.

     Katharine Donlon, '12, has been recently elected a director and         Helen Bungart Leavens, '16. is fortunate in having Mr. Leavens
 assistant treasurer of a large real estate concern in Utica, N . Y.     home for Christmas. Mr. Leavens enlisted in the Officers' Training
                                                                         Camp, and has been stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., but on
    Patty Loeffler, '18, is private secretary in a large bank in Phila-  account of peace the camp has been mustered out.
 delphia.
                                                                             Bertha Yerke, '16, spent a couple of days in New York in Novem-
                                                     GENERAL             ber attending a U . S. food conservation convention.

    Isabel Stone, '08, lost her father this fall, after a long, serious      Kathleen Colpitts, '16, is on a ten weeks' tour with the Redpath
illness. Epsilon sends its love and sympathy to Isabel.                  Co. Kathleen has promised to look up any Alpha O's in the towns
                                                                          they visit, so that she can number them among the audience. Kath-
    Melita Skillen, '11, is teaching in the Sen High School, Chicago's    leen remembers what f u n we all used to have when we proudly
largest and most complete school. Clare Graeffe spent several days        appeared in the box seats in our Sunday best, while Kathleen herself
with Melita and Kathleen Colpitts, stopping off on her way home           walked off with the honors as leading lady in Ithaca.
from Miami University.
                                                                             Viola Dengler, '16, is now living in New York. She and Clare
   Katherine Donlon, '12, visited the chapter during rushing this fall.   Graeffe are with the Search-Light Organization, doing research work,
K. D. also joined Lillian McCausland and Clare Graeffe at Syracuse        and can usually be found in the economics room at the F i f t h Avenue
over a week-end in November.                                              Library.

   Elna Merrick, '13, is helping Davy Hoy run the university at              Dorothy Shaw, '17, is with the Guaranty Trust Co., F i f t h Avenue
present, which makes it very nice for the active chapter, for Elna is
chaperoning them this year. It looks as though Elna will have to          Branch, in the foreign department.
come back to Ithaca next year, for the girls will never be willing to        Anne Morrow, '17, is a physiological chemist with the Equitable
give her up.
                                                                          Life Insurance Society.
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