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TO DRAGMA OF ALPHA OMICRON PI

CONVENTION IMPRESSIONS

You SEE, Betty hardly gave me time to catch my breath f r o m
my trip before she asked me to write something in the way
of my impressions of convention, Tau Delta's first convention.
Well, to make a long story short, I really didn't know whether I
could, not being talented in that line. But I got such a wonderful
vision of fraternity life and so many more things, that I ' m only
too willing to tell them.

To begin with, I was ignorant of all that was to come. But
one thing I kept on my mind and that was meeting the Founders.
You know, my girls said they wanted a f u l l description of each
of them and I think I was pretty f u l l of descriptions when I
arrived home. But honestly the Founders came up, to just what
I had imagined, every one fine, in spirit, character and looks.
But Stella George Stern Perry should have had snow white hair.
Please don't laugh. But as she was a complete brunette I decided
my imagination was not as good as it should have been. The
Founders are dear.

But as I started back home on my long trip alone things ran
through my mind that happened at convention. A n d my lasting
impressions are the loveliness of the Founders, the congeniality of
the whole convention and an insight into the wonderful National
W o r k of the fraternity.

To know the Grand Officers of my fraternity, to be able to
describe and talk of our Founders, to realize you have sisters all
over the states who will sympathize and rejoice with you, to know
that at any time, in trouble or joy we can turn to our capable and
able president; these things show me the greatness of our dear
fraternity.

You can't imagine the change of feeling I had after convention.
Before I went to that ideal place of meeting I felt as though the
nineteen-twenty-five and twenty-six years at Birmingham would
be the most difficult years Tau Delta chapter would ever have. I
felt that Alpha O was so new to us that we would hardly be able
to function as we should. But after convention my mind was
free of worry, but f u l l of ideas to take to my girls; ideas to
strengthen all of us in every phase of work which we shall under-
take these next two years.