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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI 11

KAPPA THETA'S INSTALLATION

Y OUR EDITOR has offered five pages and an opportunity to pre-
sent to you "everything that was a part of Kappa Theta's
installation." Thinking back over those two days I am once more
irked by the limitations of the written word. H o w to put on
paper a thing whose essence is largely of the spirit! Fortunately,
though we may not all have been charter members of a chapter, or
present at an installation, the experience of initiation is common
to every one of us, and I am asking you to read into this all that
it does not say.

The ceremony was set f o r Saturday, May 23rd, at one o'clock,
and on the day before, I arrived at Los Angeles and lunched with
Muriel McKinney. Muriel was at that time president of Los
Angeles Alumnae and had been guide, philosopher and friend to
Kappa Theta during its months of preparation. W e made some
necessary purchases and then went out to the chapter house, where
the center of the stage was held by M r . Balfour's representative.
These gentlemen who travel in the vanguard of an installation are
apparently of the stuff f r o m which heroes are made. M r . X with
his display of pins had spent the day there; had interviewed each
girl; advised her; admired the pin of her choice; taken her order,
only to have it cancelled and to begin all over again. For the
choosing of one's pin is a very special thing. They are all so
beautiful, and just as one's mind is made up i n comes a sister
with an entirely different idea—oh, we sympathized with the girls
and so did M r . X , but he was on the verge o f losing his mind
when the orders were completed.

Meanwhile Muriel and I were having thrills of our own. Huge
boxes were waiting to be unpacked, and there were very small
insured ones to examine—gowns and all the equipment f o r initia-
tion from Zeta, Phi, X i , Lambda and Sigma, and pins from Phi
and Beta, generously lent to the new chapter. There were flowers
to admire, with their congratulations from other organizations,
and letters and telegrams to open that had already begun to come
in from all over the country. I don't know of a thing that makes
a group on the eve of installation feel the national as much as
these messages f r o m us all—New York and Oklahoma, Montana,
Texas and the rest—even a gleeful wire f r o m "Your twin at Birm-
ingham-Southern."